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The Wild Upriver and Other Stories

Author : James McVey
Publisher : Arbutus Press
ISBN 13 : 9780976610403
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book The Wild Upriver and Other Stories written by James McVey and published by Arbutus Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Wild Upriver and Other Stories, 13 literary short stories cover three years in the life a young man whose world is changing as fast as he is, both threatened by civilization. Jack Young must create a path to adulthood from a wilderness cabin, through the woods and dunes, down the river, and out on the waters of Lake Michigan, where smooth glass can turn unforgiving waves in minutes. Jack is often alone, even with others, but a keen observer both of himself and the world around him. James McVey's first published book introduces an accomplished writer with rare economy of style who works confidently in simple declarative sentences.

Upriver and Downstream

Author : New York Times
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307498514
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Upriver and Downstream written by New York Times and published by Crown. This book was released on 2009-02-04 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Upriver and Downstream gathers seventy columns about fishing—from freshwater to saltwater, from small ponds to the Great Lakes, from the Pacific Northwest to post-Soviet Russia—written for the “Outdoors” column of the New York Times. Contributors include such celebrated names as Nick Lyons, Thomas McGuane, Nelson Bryant, Peter Kaminsky, Ernest Schweibert, and Robert H. Boyle. Short, evocative, informative, and entertaining, here are pieces about fly-fishing for wild brook trout, bait-fishing for striped bass, casting into tailwaters, or angling in midwinter. The settings range from Hudson River piers to the Florida Everglades, from Iceland to the Amazon, and the fish include everything from the common sunfish to the esoteric paddlefish. These engaging essays remind us of what fishing is all about: companionship and solitude, challenge and relaxation, nature and technology, from coast-to-coast to around the globe. Rich with the particulars of water, light, and air, as well as a keen awareness of, as Verlyn Klinkenborg puts it in his introduction, “what is happening out there—in the deep, in the shallows, at the end of the line,” these reflections and recollections beautifully capture the natural world and one of life’s most challenging, perennial pursuits.

They Called Us River Rats

Author : Macon Fry
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496833090
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book They Called Us River Rats written by Macon Fry and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They Called Us River Rats: The Last Batture Settlement of New Orleans is the previously untold story of perhaps the oldest outsider settlement in America, an invisible community on the annually flooded shores of the Mississippi River. This community exists in the place between the normal high and low water line of the Mississippi River, a zone known in Louisiana as the batture. For the better part of two centuries, batture dwellers such as Macon Fry have raised shantyboats on stilts, built water-adapted homes, foraged, fished, and survived using the skills a river teaches. Until now the stories of this way of life have existed only in the memories of those who have lived here. Beginning in 2000, Fry set about recording the stories of all the old batture dwellers he could find: maritime workers, willow furniture makers, fishermen, artists, and river shrimpers. Along the way, Fry uncovered fascinating tales of fortune tellers, faith healers, and wild bird trappers who defiantly lived on the river. They Called Us River Rats also explores the troubled relationship between people inside the levees, the often-reviled batture folks, and the river itself. It traces the struggle between batture folks and city authorities, the commercial interests that claimed the river, and Louisiana’s most powerful politicians. These conflicts have ended in legal battles, displacement, incarceration, and even lynching. Today Fry is among the senior generation of “River Rats” living in a vestigial colony of twelve “camps” on New Orleans’s river batture, a fragment of a settlement that once stretched nearly six miles and numbered hundreds of homes. It is the last riparian settlement on the Lower Mississippi and a contrarian, independent life outside urban zoning, planning, and flood protection. This book is for everyone who ever felt the pull of the Mississippi River or saw its towering levees and wondered who could live on the other side.

The Meaning of Rivers

Author : T. S. McMillin
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 158729978X
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (872 download)

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Download or read book The Meaning of Rivers written by T. S. McMillin and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the continental United States, rivers serve to connect state to state, interior with exterior, the past to the present, but they also divide places and peoples from one another. These connections and divisions have given rise to a diverse body of literature that explores American nature, ranging from travel accounts of seventeenth-century Puritan colonists to magazine articles by twenty-first-century enthusiasts of extreme sports. Using pivotal American writings to determine both what literature can tell us about rivers and, conversely, how rivers help us think about the nature of literature, The Meaning of Rivers introduces readers to the rich world of flowing water and some of the different ways in which American writers have used rivers to understand the world through which these waters flow. Embracing a hybrid, essayistic form—part literary theory, part cultural history, and part fieldwork—The Meaning of Rivers connects the humanities to other disciplines and scholarly work to the land. Whether developing a theory of palindromes or reading works of American literature as varied as Henry David Thoreau's A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers and James Dickey’s Deliverance, McMillin urges readers toward a transcendental retracing of their own interpretive encounters. The nature of texts and the nature of “nature” require diverse and versatile interpretation; interpretation requires not only depth and concentration but also imaginative thinking, broad-mindedness, and engaged connection-making. By taking us upstream as well as down, McMillin draws attention to the potential of rivers for improving our sense of place and time.

Into the Wild

Author : Jon Krakauer
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307476863
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Into the Wild written by Jon Krakauer and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2009-09-22 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. Four months later, his decomposed body was found by a moose hunter. This is the unforgettable story of how Christopher Johnson McCandless came to die. "It may be nonfiction, but Into the Wild is a mystery of the highest order." —Entertainment Weekly McCandess had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for himself. Not long after, he was dead. Into the Wild is the mesmerizing, heartbreaking tale of an enigmatic young man who goes missing in the wild and whose story captured the world’s attention. Immediately after graduating from college in 1991, McCandless had roamed through the West and Southwest on a vision quest like those made by his heroes Jack London and John Muir. In the Mojave Desert he abandoned his car, stripped it of its license plates, and burned all of his cash. He would give himself a new name, Alexander Supertramp, and, unencumbered by money and belongings, he would be free to wallow in the raw, unfiltered experiences that nature presented. Craving a blank spot on the map, McCandless simply threw the maps away. Leaving behind his desperate parents and sister, he vanished into the wild. Jon Krakauer constructs a clarifying prism through which he reassembles the disquieting facts of McCandless's short life. Admitting an interest that borders on obsession, he searches for the clues to the drives and desires that propelled McCandless. When McCandless's innocent mistakes turn out to be irreversible and fatal, he becomes the stuff of tabloid headlines and is dismissed for his naiveté, pretensions, and hubris. He is said to have had a death wish but wanting to die is a very different thing from being compelled to look over the edge. Krakauer brings McCandless's uncompromising pilgrimage out of the shadows, and the peril, adversity, and renunciation sought by this enigmatic young man are illuminated with a rare understanding—and not an ounce of sentimentality. Into the Wild is a tour de force. The power and luminosity of Jon Krakauer's stoytelling blaze through every page.

Great Lakes and Midwest Catalog

Author : Partners Book Distributing
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Great Lakes and Midwest Catalog written by Partners Book Distributing and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

That Dark and Bloody River

Author : Allan W. Eckert
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0307790460
Total Pages : 880 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book That Dark and Bloody River written by Allan W. Eckert and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2011-03-30 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An award-winning author chronicles the settling of the Ohio River Valley, home to the defiant Shawnee Indians, who vow to defend their land against the seemingly unstoppable. They came on foot and by horseback, in wagons and on rafts, singly and by the score, restless, adventurous, enterprising, relentless, seeking a foothold on the future. European immigrants and American colonists, settlers and speculators, soldiers and missionaries, fugitives from justice and from despair—pioneers all, in the great and inexorable westward expansion defined at its heart by the majestic flow of the Ohio River. This is their story, a chronicle of monumental dimension, of resounding drama and impact set during a pivotal era in our history: the birth and growth of a nation. Drawing on a wealth of research, both scholarly and anecdotal—including letters, diaries, and journals of the era—Allan W. Eckert has delivered a landmark of historical authenticity, unprecedented in scope and detail.

Down the American River and Other Stories

Author : Rose Graubart Ignatow
Publisher : Copper Beach Books
ISBN 13 : 9780914278276
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (782 download)

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Download or read book Down the American River and Other Stories written by Rose Graubart Ignatow and published by Copper Beach Books. This book was released on 1979 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Djinn Falls in Love and Other Stories

Author : Neil Gaiman
Publisher : Solaris
ISBN 13 : 1786180480
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (861 download)

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Download or read book The Djinn Falls in Love and Other Stories written by Neil Gaiman and published by Solaris. This book was released on 2017-03-09 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Call of the Wild and Other Stories

Author : Jack London
Publisher : Morristown, N.J. : Silver Burdett
ISBN 13 : 9780382034343
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (343 download)

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Download or read book The Call of the Wild and Other Stories written by Jack London and published by Morristown, N.J. : Silver Burdett. This book was released on 1981 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study guide by John Creasy for The call of the wild and other stories: p. [G1]-G42.

Midamerica

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Midamerica written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Life of the Longhouse

Author : Peter Metcalf
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 052111098X
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (211 download)

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Download or read book The Life of the Longhouse written by Peter Metcalf and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The remarkable longhouses of Borneo remain mysterious. This book describes life within them, and puts them in their historical and ethnographic context.

People of the Morning Star

Author : W. Michael Gear
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1466832290
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book People of the Morning Star written by W. Michael Gear and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning archaeologists and New York Times and USA Today bestselling authors W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear begin the stunning saga of the North American equivalent of ancient Rome in People of the Morning Star. The city of Cahokia, at its height, covered more than six square miles around what is now St. Louis and included structures more than ten stories high. Cahokian warriors and traders roamed from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico. What force on earth would motivate hundreds of thousands of people to pick up, move hundreds of miles, and once plopped down amidst a polyglot of strangers, build an incredible city? A religious miracle: the Cahokians believed that the divine hero Morning Star had been resurrected in the flesh. But not all is fine and stable in glorious Cahokia. To the astonishment of the ruling clan, an attempt is made on the living god's life. Now it is up to Morning Star's aunt, Matron Blue Heron, to keep it quiet until she can uncover the plot and bring the culprits to justice. If she fails, Cahokia will be torn asunder in warfare, rage, and blood as civil war consumes them all. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The Night Train at Deoli and Other Stories

Author : Ruskin Bond
Publisher : Penguin Books India
ISBN 13 : 9780140116151
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book The Night Train at Deoli and Other Stories written by Ruskin Bond and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 1988 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of short stories on small town life by one of India's novelists.

Over by the River and Other Stories

Author : William Maxwell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Over by the River and Other Stories written by William Maxwell and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Leelanau Visitors Guide

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Leelanau Visitors Guide written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Snakes in the Grass and Other Short Stories, Including Grasshopper Creek

Author : Mike R Dunbar
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1728371066
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (283 download)

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Download or read book Snakes in the Grass and Other Short Stories, Including Grasshopper Creek written by Mike R Dunbar and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of 9 short stories and novellas, including “Snakes in the Grass” and “Grasshopper Creek”, is written in such detail and strength the reader will become immersed in each story and stretch their imagination, running wild as they are taken on a journey from the dismal swamps of the Florida Everglades, where Skeeter Fontain transitions from a poacher of wild animals to becoming instrumental in saving them, to the mountains of Grasshopper Greek, Montana, where the love of a young couple flourishes as their common love of horses takes them in divergent paths. The reader will travel to the plains of Oklahoma during the harsh times of the ‘Dust Bowl’ and feel the heartache suffered by so many, to the heart of North Korea where, years after the Korean conflict, an army corpsman secretly returns to save a fellow soldier, and into the wilds of the Canadian wilderness trying to understand a strange bond between a man and wolf. These incredible stories are filled with intriguing and interesting characters, will reach readers of all ages, teaching important values, morals, and lessons of life all can cherish.