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River-Horse

Author : William Least Heat-Moon
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0140298606
Total Pages : 529 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book River-Horse written by William Least Heat-Moon and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2001-04-01 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of Blue Highways and PrairyErth "takes us on a lifetime voyage full of imagery, insight and appreciation." --Cleveland Plain Dealer In his most ambitious journey ever, William Least Heat-Moon sets off aboard a small boat named Nikawa ("river horse" in Osage) from the Atlantic at New York Harbor in hopes of entering the Pacific near Astoria, Oregon. He and his companion, Pilotis, struggle to cover some 5,000 watery miles, often following in the wakes of our most famous explorers, from Henry Hudson to Lewis and Clark. En route, the voyagers confront massive floods, dangerous weather, and their own doubts about whether they can complete the trip. But the hard days yield incomparable pleasures: generous strangers, landscapes untouched since Sacajawea saw them, riverscapes flowing with a lively past, and the growing belief that efforts to protect our lands and waters are beginning to pay off. Teeming with humanity, humor, and high adventure, River-Horse is an unsentimental and original arteriogram of our nation at the millennium.

Hippo

Author : Natalie Lunis
Publisher : Bearport Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1617722758
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book Hippo written by Natalie Lunis and published by Bearport Publishing. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes how hippos communicate with each other and how the sounds they make help them survive, and discusses their habitat, diet, and behavior.

The Horse of the River

Author : Sari Cooper
Publisher : Harbour Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1550178784
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book The Horse of the River written by Sari Cooper and published by Harbour Publishing. This book was released on 2019-09-07 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve-year-old Gillian had never been so scared as the bus wound its way toward Canyon Falls summer camp. She had been dreaming about a horseback riding experience like this for years, but now that she was actually on her way, she was terrified. She had never been away from her family, never mind for a whole month. Would she make friends? Would she be able to keep up with the other girls’ riding? When Gillian finds herself paired with Beauty, a beautiful silver-gray mare, the negative voice in her head eases up. But then her fears begin to come true. Snobby Katrina causes an accident that injures Beauty and another rider, Gillian’s best friend. Gillian ends up atop the Beast, a horse even the camp counsellors struggle to control. Things only get worse when the Beast leaps into a river with Gillian still in the saddle. Gillian finds herself alone in the wilderness, far from help and facing challenges she never imagined even in her worst nightmares. Will the skills she has learned be enough to save her?

The Hippopotamus

Author : Christine Denis-Huot
Publisher : Turtleback Books
ISBN 13 : 9780785757931
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (579 download)

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Download or read book The Hippopotamus written by Christine Denis-Huot and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With many colorful photos and helpful text, this book presents a look at the hippopotamus -- from physical description to how they live to how they raise their young. Also gives a discussion of their genealogical roots, and endangered status in the world environment.

The Outside of a Horse

Author : Ginny Rorby
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101429445
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book The Outside of a Horse written by Ginny Rorby and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-05-13 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hannah Gale starts volunteering at a horse stable because she needs a place to escape. Her father has returned from the Iraq war as an amputee with posttraumatic stress disorder, and his nightmares rock the household. At the stable, Hannah comes to love Jack, Super Dee, and Indy; helps bring a rescued mare back from the brink; and witnesses the birth of the filly who steals her heart. Hannah learns more than she ever imagined about horse training, abuse, and rescues, as well as her own capacity for hope. Physical therapy with horses could be the answer to her fatherÕs prayers, if only she can get him to try.

PrairyErth

Author : William Least Heat-Moon
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0547527470
Total Pages : 637 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book PrairyErth written by William Least Heat-Moon and published by HMH. This book was released on 2014-03-11 with total page 637 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This New York Times bestseller by the author of Blue Highways is “a majestic survey of land and time and people in a single county of the Kansas plains” (Hungry Mind Review). William Least Heat-Moon travels by car and on foot into the core of our continent, focusing on the landscape and history of Chase County—a sparsely populated tallgrass prairie in the Flint Hills of central Kansas—exploring its land, plants, animals, and people until this small place feels as large as the universe. Called a “modern-day Walden” by the Chicago Sun-Times, PrairyErth is a journey through a place, through time, and into the human mind from the acclaimed author of Here, There, Elsewhere: Stories from the Road. “A sense of the American grain that will give [PrairyErth] a permanent place in the literature of our country.” —Paul Theroux, The New York Times

Blue Highways

Author : William Least Heat-Moon
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316218545
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book Blue Highways written by William Least Heat-Moon and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2012-04-03 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed as a masterpiece of American travel writing, Blue Highways is an unforgettable journey along our nation's backroads. William Least Heat-Moon set out with little more than the need to put home behind him and a sense of curiosity about "those little towns that get on the map -- if they get on at all -- only because some cartographer has a blank space to fill: Remote, Oregon; Simplicity, Virginia; New Freedom, Pennsylvania; New Hope, Tennessee; Why, Arizona; Whynot, Mississippi." His adventures, his discoveries, and his recollections of the extraordinary people he encountered along the way amount to a revelation of the true American experience.

The River Horse

Author : Abie Longstaff
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1782951903
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (829 download)

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Download or read book The River Horse written by Abie Longstaff and published by Random House. This book was released on 2015-12-31 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book 2 in the 6-part Magic Potions Shop series from the creators of the bestselling Fairytale Hairdresser, Abie Longstaff & Lauren Beard. Tibben is the potions apprentice, and helps Grandpa make spells to sell in their shop. Along with Wizz, a magical creature with a special gift for finding things, they set off on adventures to help the creatures of Arthwen. When the Water Sprites of Lake Sapphire start to feel poorly, it's up to Tibben and Wizz to find out what's making the enchanted waters of the kingdom dirty âe" can they solve the mystery? This is the second of Tibben's adventures in Arthwen, following book 1: The Young Apprentice. This series is perfect for building reading confidence, whether reading aloud or alone.

Horse Crazy

Author : Sarah Maslin Nir
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501196243
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Horse Crazy written by Sarah Maslin Nir and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ONE OF USA TODAY'S “20 SUMMER BOOKS YOU WON'T WANT TO MISS” In the bestselling tradition of works by such authors as Susan Orlean and Mary Roach, a New York Times reporter and Pulitzer Prize finalist explores why so many people—including herself—are obsessed with horses. It may surprise you to learn that there are over seven million horses in America—even more than when they were the only means of transportation—and nearly two million horse owners. Acclaimed journalist and avid equestrian Sarah Maslin Nir is one of them; she began riding horses when she was just two years old and hasn’t stopped since. Horse Crazy is a fascinating, funny, and moving love letter to these graceful animals and the people who—like her—are obsessed with them. It is also a coming-of-age story of Nir growing up an outsider within the world’s most elite inner circles, and finding her true north in horses. Nir takes readers into the lesser-known corners of the riding world and profiles some of its most captivating figures. We meet Monty Roberts, the California trainer whose prowess earned him the nickname “the man who listens to horses,” and his pet deer; George and Ann Blair, who at their riding academy on a tiny island in Manhattan’s Harlem River seek to resurrect the erased legacy of the African American cowboy; and Francesca Kelly, whose love for an Indian nobleman shaped her life’s mission: to protect an endangered Indian breed of horse and bring them to America. Woven into these compelling character studies, Nir shares her own moving personal narrative. She details her father’s harrowing tale of surviving the Holocaust, and describes an enchanted but deeply lonely upbringing in Manhattan, where horses became her family. She found them even in the middle of the city, in a stable disguised in an old townhouse and in Central Park, when she chased down truants as an auxiliary mounted patrol officer. And she speaks candidly of how horses have helped her overcome heartbreak and loss. Infused with heart and wit, and with each chapter named after a horse Nir has loved, Horse Crazy is an unforgettable blend of beautifully written memoir and first-rate reporting.

Three-Legged Horse

Author : Cheng Ch'ing-wen
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231500074
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Three-Legged Horse written by Cheng Ch'ing-wen and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1999-02-05 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here are twelve moving short stories about Taiwan and its people by one of the island's most popular writers, Cheng Ch'ing-wen. Focusing primarily on village life and the effects of modernization on Taiwan in the postwar years, Cheng is one of the most respected of the island's "nativist" writers, yet this is his first book to be translated into English. This anthology represents the best of his fictional efforts across a forty-year span and encompasses his major themes: the tensions between men and women, parents and children, city and village, tradition and modernity. Taken individually, each story presents a moving portrait of paralysis, frustration, or self-realization. Together, they weave a complex tapestry of life in a rapidly changing country. Cheng Ch'ing-wen's stories tell of men grappling with their fears and frustrations, from "The River Suite," in which a ferryman-championed throughout his small town for twice saving a drowning person-lacks the courage to confess his love to a young woman before she dies, to "Spring Rain," in which a man struggles to come to terms with his seemingly rootless life as both an orphaned child and an infertile husband. Here too are illustrations of the changing place of women in Taiwan, as they take on more powerful roles and awaken to a sense of their own sexuality: a woman forcibly separated from her husband by her jealous mother-in-law walks for hours through the night to see him on his birthday, only to turn back and go straight home before her absence is noticed; a disappointed young female scholar with a deformed hand comes to realize--after many painful rejections--that loneliness is not reason enough to become intimate with a man. And generations clash in "Thunder God's Gonna Getcha," as a mother's cruelty is repaid years later by a son's coldness. Death reverberates throughout these stories as characters recall deceased spouses, lovers, relatives, and friends in vivid detail. The focus, however, is not on the dead but on the living. In the title story, an old man carves exquisite lame horses as both a penance for having terrorized a town as a police officer during the Japanese occupation of Taiwan in World War II and a memorial to his deceased wife, who was nobler and more courageous than he. This book is a kind of gallery of three-legged horses: portraits of people maimed and transformed-for better or worse-by the suffering that life brings.

Here, There, Elsewhere

Author : William Least Heat-Moon
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316225010
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book Here, There, Elsewhere written by William Least Heat-Moon and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2013-01-08 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the acclaimed author of Blue Highways, PrairyErth, and Roads to Quoz, a dazzling collection of travel tales from the road. Here, There, Elsewhere draws together for the first time William Least Heat-Moon's greatest short-form travel writing. Personally selected by the writer, these pieces take us from Japan, England, Italy, and Mexico to Long Island, Oregon, Arizona, from small towns to big cities, ocean shores and inland mysteries. Including Heat-Moon's reflections on writing these pieces, Here, There, Elsewhere is much more than the usual collection of amber; it is a coupled summation of craft and memory. A perfect treasury of prose and provocation for readers old and new, Heat-Moon's most recent work reveals his absolute mastery across pages many and few.

Children of the Horse

Author : Amanda Cockrell
Publisher : Avon
ISBN 13 : 9780380795505
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (955 download)

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Download or read book Children of the Horse written by Amanda Cockrell and published by Avon. This book was released on 2000-03-07 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As descendants of the legendary Horse Bringers, Blue Jay and his bold sister Dances are chosen to journey westward in a quest to find horses. Along with Spotted Colt, son of the chief of the Dry River people, and his friend Mud Turtle, they travel to the Cities-in-the-West, where the young warriors will encounter a world vastly different from their own. In the cities, people live in boxes year round, while men take more pride in their weaving then in being warriors. And no one wants to talk about the horses. Then a strange group of pale, foreign men make their way among the settlements, asking questions about hidden cities of gold. In their hands are heavy sticks that breathe fire strong enough to kill, and they too have the magic to ride horses -- horses that come from some other source than the Horse Bringers' legacy. With Coyote the trickster for a guide, their mythic adventure will take these children of the plains across the boundary between life and death itself before they are able to confront the danger that threatens to engulf them all.

Colorado, the Flying Horse

Author : Suzanne M. Malpass
Publisher : Mascot Books
ISBN 13 : 9781620862766
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (627 download)

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Download or read book Colorado, the Flying Horse written by Suzanne M. Malpass and published by Mascot Books. This book was released on 2013-06-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 5th grade reading level.

Wild Horse Valley

Author : Wilbur C. Tuttle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Wild Horse Valley written by Wilbur C. Tuttle and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Tonto County's idea of a joke was the election of former vaudevillian Henry Conroy as sheriff. But when a cowboy was killed by a ghostly blonde angel and the millionaire Beloits were robbed, the citizens stopped thinking that the sheriff's clowning was funny. But the event that really touched off the fireworks was an attempt by outlaws to kidnap the sheriff. Henry Conroy rammed into six-gun action with amazing results."--Publisher.

Horse Sweat and Powder Smoke

Author : Stanley S. McGowen
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1623495970
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (234 download)

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Download or read book Horse Sweat and Powder Smoke written by Stanley S. McGowen and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2017-11-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The itensity of the hard fought Red River campaign comes alive in McGowen’s well-turned words. Based upon meticulous research in Confederate Army records, letters, diaries, published memoirs, and relevant secondary materials, Horse Sweat and Powder Smoke sheds valuable light on a long-neglected aspect of the Civil War in the West, and it will be a welcome addition to the shelves of scholars and other Civil War enthusiasts.”—Journal of Southern History “Horse Sweat and Powder Smoke is a fascinating history of one of the Civil War’s most interesting and colorful regiments.”—Library Booknotes “Readers will find McGowen’s book engrossing and thought-provoking, a stimulating study of large questions in microcosm.”—Southwestern Historical Quarterly “McGowen’s style is clear . . . a fine book.”—The Civil War News

I Rode the Red Horse

Author : Barbara Libby
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781581500967
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book I Rode the Red Horse written by Barbara Libby and published by . This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the story of Secretariat's victory in the 1973 Belmont Stakes, the last of the three races in the Triple Crown, from the point of view of the winning jockey, Ron Turcotte.

My Little Pony Tails of Equestria: the Bestiary of Equestria

Author : Shinobi Ent., Incorporated
Publisher : Shinobi 7
ISBN 13 : 9781626926257
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book My Little Pony Tails of Equestria: the Bestiary of Equestria written by Shinobi Ent., Incorporated and published by Shinobi 7. This book was released on 2018-08-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The perfect visual guide to all the creatures andcharacters players can experience in My Little Pony - Tails of Equestria: TheStorytelling Game. This 128 page hardcoverbook contains all the creatures of Equestria from My Little Pony: Friendship isMagic! Within these full-color pages, players will also discover how to createtheir own critters for the storytelling game, new player races, and ponies ofEquestria, as well as new Talents & Quirks to use when playing Tails ofEquestria. CONTENTS *1 Full Color Hardcover Book (128pages) HIGHLIGHTS * New Creatures & Characters * New Player Races * New Talents &Quirks