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Echoes of a Native Land

Author : Serge Schmemann
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307766314
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Echoes of a Native Land written by Serge Schmemann and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-03-23 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the lives of his Russian forebears, Serge Schmemann, Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent for the New York Times, tells a remarkable story that spans the past two hundred years of Russian history. First, he draws on a family archive rich in pictorial as well as documentary treasure to bring us into the prerevolutionary life of the village of Sergiyevskoye (now called Koltsovo), where the spacious estate of his mother's family was the seat of a manor house as vast and imposing as a grand hotel. In this village, on this estate--ringed with orchards, traversed by endless paths through linden groves, overseen by a towering brick church, and bordered by a sparkling-clear river--we live through the cycle of a year: the springtime mud, summertime card parties, winter nights of music and good talk in a haven safe from the bitter cold and ever-present snow. Family recollections of life a century ago summon up an aura of devotion to tsar and church. The unjust, benevolent, complicated, and ultimately doomed relationship between master and peasants--leading to growing unrest, then to civil war--is subtly captured. Diary entries record the social breakdown step by step: grievances going unresolved, the government foundering, the status quo of rural life overcome by revolutionary fervor. Soon we see the estate brutally collectivized, the church torn apart brick by brick, the manor house burned to the ground. Some of the family are killed in the fighting; others escape into exile; one writes to his kin for the last time from the Gulag. The Soviet era is experienced as a time of privation, suffering, and lost illusions. The Nazi occupation inspires valorous resistance, but at great cost. Eventually all that remains of Sergiyevskoye is an impoverished collective. Without idealizing the tsarist past or wholly damning the regime that followed, Schmemann searches for a lost heritage as he shows how Communism thwarted aspiration and initiative. Above all, however, his book provides for us a deeply felt evocation of the long-ago life of a corner of Russia that is even now movingly beautiful despite the ravages of history and time.

Echoes of a native land

Author : Serge Schmemann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9785738001918
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Echoes of a native land written by Serge Schmemann and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Native Echoes

Author : Kent Nerburn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780980004618
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Native Echoes written by Kent Nerburn and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Native echoes is a quiet, thoguhtful, profound book about the power of the land to shpae our spirits. Using the traditions of storytelling that he learned from his time living and working among Native American peoples, author Kent Nerburn takes us into a world where an old pine tree evokes the spirit of his father, a fresh snowfall descends like "a prayer shawl donned upon the land", and the dark presence of a buffalo reveals a wildness in nature that cannot be contained.

Native Echoes

Author : Kent Nerburn
Publisher : Wolf Nor Dog Books
ISBN 13 : 9780980004601
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Native Echoes written by Kent Nerburn and published by Wolf Nor Dog Books. This book was released on 2017-04-25 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the grandeur of the Great Plains to the solitude of the northern woods, from the intensity of a summer storm to the quiet redemption of a fresh blanket of snow, Kent Nerburn's Native Echoes pays homage to the power of the land to shape our hearts and spirits. An Ojibwe elder once counseled Nerburn to "always teach by stories, because stories lodge deep in the heart.'' Using skills learned from Native storytellers as well as a deep reverence for the world's spiritual traditions, Nerburn takes us to an Ojibwe burial, down lonely winter roads, and into landscapes where trees have presence and the earth is made alive by the mystical power of water and light. Native Echoes is a stark, poetic work that honors both Native American traditions and our western way of thinking and believing. NAPRA Review calls it a ''beautiful book that will touch not only those who find Spirit in Native American paths, but anyone who has felt the presence of something powerful beyond the known.''

Your Native Land, Your Life

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (926 download)

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Download or read book Your Native Land, Your Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ancient Echoes

Author : Patricia Martin
Publisher : Great Quotations
ISBN 13 : 9781562450359
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Ancient Echoes written by Patricia Martin and published by Great Quotations. This book was released on 1993-12-12 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rich, oral tradition of Native American wisdom is captured in this moving collection of tribal voices from time past.

A Stranger in Her Native Land

Author : Joan T. Mark
Publisher : Bison Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book A Stranger in Her Native Land written by Joan T. Mark and published by Bison Books. This book was released on 1988 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Called "Her Majesty" because of her resemblance to Queen Victoria and known as "the measuring woman" among the Indians whose land allotments she administered, Alice Fletcher (1838–1923) commanded respect from both friend and foe. She was the foremost woman anthropologist in the United States in the nineteenth century and instrumental in the adoption of the policy of severalty that dominated Indian affairs in the 1880s. This is the full and intimate story of a woman who, as she grew in understanding of Indian ways, came to recognize that she was the one who was alien, a stranger in her native land. Joan Mark recreates the long and active life of Alice Fletcher from diaries, correspondence, and other records, placing her achievements for the first time in a feminist perspective. Sustained by a sense of mission, Alice Fletcher challenged her society's definition of what women could be and do.

Lasting Echoes

Author : Joseph Bruchac
Publisher : HarperTrophy
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Lasting Echoes written by Joseph Bruchac and published by HarperTrophy. This book was released on 1999-10-31 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the history of Native Americans, with a sampling of exerpts from their own accounts of their experiences.

Lasting Echoes

Author : Joseph Bruchac
Publisher : Turtleback Books
ISBN 13 : 9780613218825
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (188 download)

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Download or read book Lasting Echoes written by Joseph Bruchac and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using the compelling testimony of more than 100 Native Americans, Bruchac tells the histories of seven generations of Indians, starting with the arrival of the Europeans. A powerful testament to the endurance of a people who have witnessed a painful period of history.--Publishers Weekly.

A Land Remembered

Author : Patrick D Smith
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1561645826
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (616 download)

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Download or read book A Land Remembered written by Patrick D Smith and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Land Remembered has become Florida's favorite novel. Now this Student Edition in two volumes makes this rich, rugged story of the American pioneer spirit more accessible to young readers. Patrick Smith tells of three generations of the MacIveys, a Florida family battling the hardships of the frontier. The story opens in 1858, when Tobias and Emma MacIvey arrive in the Florida wilderness with their son, Zech, to start a new life, and ends in 1968 with Solomon MacIvey, who realizes that his wealth has not been worth the cost to the land. Between is a sweeping story rich in Florida history with a cast of memorable characters who battle wild animals, rustlers, Confederate deserters, mosquitoes, starvation, hurricanes, and freezes to carve a kingdom out of the Florida swamp. In this volume, meet young Zech MacIvey, who learns to ride like the wind through the Florida scrub on Ishmael, his marshtackie horse, his dogs, Nip and Tuck, at this side. His parents, Tobias and Emma, scratch a living from the land, gathering wild cows from the swamp and herding them across the state to market. Zech learns the ways of the land from the Seminoles, with whom his life becomes entwined as he grows into manhood. Next in series > > See all of the books in this series

Scenes in My Native Land

Author : Lydia Howard Sigourney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Scenes in My Native Land written by Lydia Howard Sigourney and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Land of Echoes

Author : Daniel Hecht
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1582344736
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (823 download)

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Download or read book Land of Echoes written by Daniel Hecht and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2005-02-07 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parapsychologist Cree Black is called in to work with Tommy Keeday, a student at a school for gifted Navajo teens, after he falls victim to an illness with terrifying symptoms, which his family believes are caused by a hostile spirit.

Echoes of Glory

Author : Robert Flynn
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 0875654746
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (756 download)

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Download or read book Echoes of Glory written by Robert Flynn and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2009-04-01 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Flynn's new novel, Echoes of Glory centers on a fictitious Texas county that embraces its legends, but not its actual history. Set in the Reagan era, the novel exposes shared myths as lies and the truth, lacking all comfort. In his inimitable style Flynn paints a portrait of the denizens of the county who tacitly embrace the legend as all too human and all too frail. Overshadowed by the accomplishments of adjacent Doss County, Mills County clings to its legends—the legendary Mills brothers. One brother had died at the Alamo, one at Goliad, three had fought at San Jacinto. The three survivors marched into the center of Texas bringing with them stories of heroism and acorns from the San Jacinto battlefield. According to tradition, they planted an oak tree for each hero who had died at the Alamo. Then there was Timpson Smith, sole survivor of Second Platoon of Marine reserves, who had prevented the North Korean army from driving U.S. and U.N. forces into the sea. To honor their memory the county erected a monument, "Second to None," topped with the heroic figure of Timpson Smith. But there is a less heroic side of Mills County. When Deputy Sheriff Larry Maddin decides to run against Sheriff and Local Hero Timpson Smith, and a drama professor at the university announces that he will write a play depicting the true story of Second Platoon, many fear the dark underside of Mills County will be exposed.

Changes in the Land

Author : William Cronon
Publisher : Hill and Wang
ISBN 13 : 142992828X
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Changes in the Land written by William Cronon and published by Hill and Wang. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book that launched environmental history, William Cronon's Changes in the Land, now revised and updated. Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize In this landmark work of environmental history, William Cronon offers an original and profound explanation of the effects European colonists' sense of property and their pursuit of capitalism had upon the ecosystems of New England. Reissued here with an updated afterword by the author and a new preface by the distinguished colonialist John Demos, Changes in the Land, provides a brilliant inter-disciplinary interpretation of how land and people influence one another. With its chilling closing line, "The people of plenty were a people of waste," Cronon's enduring and thought-provoking book is ethno-ecological history at its best.

Mountain Echoes

Author : C.E. Murphy
Publisher : LUNA
ISBN 13 : 0373803516
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (738 download)

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Download or read book Mountain Echoes written by C.E. Murphy and published by LUNA. This book was released on 2013-02-26 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joanne Walker has survived an encounter with the Master at great personal cost, but now her father is missing--stolen from the timeline. She must finally return to North Carolina to find him--and to meet Aidan, the son she left behind long ago.

Our Native Land

Author : William Edwin Darrow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Our Native Land written by William Edwin Darrow and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Scenes in My Native Land

Author : L. H. Sigourney
Publisher : Wentworth Press
ISBN 13 : 9780530790299
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Scenes in My Native Land written by L. H. Sigourney and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2019-03-11 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.