Author: Giuseppe VerdiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
Home to Our Mountains
Author: Giuseppe VerdiReading the Mountains of Home
Author: John ElderPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674748880
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Small farms once occupied the heights that John Elder calls home, but now only a few cellar holes and tumbled stone walls remain among the dense stands of maple, beech, and hemlocks on these Vermont hills. Reading the Mountains of Homeis a journey into these verdant reaches where in the last century humans tried their hand and where bear and moose now find shelter. As John Elder is our guide, so Robert Frost is Elder's companion, his great poem "Directive" seeing us through a landscape in which nature and literature, loss and recovery, are inextricably joined. Over the course of a year, Elder takes us on his hikes through the forested uplands between South Mountain and North Mountain, reflecting on the forces of nature, from the descent of the glaciers to the rush of the New Haven River, that shaped a plateau for his village of Bristol; and on the human will that denuded and farmed and abandoned the mountains so many years ago. His forays wind through the flinty relics of nineteenth-century homesteads and Abenaki settlements, leading to meditations on both human failure and the possibility for deeper communion with the land and others. An exploration of the body and soul of a place, an interpretive map of its natural and literary life, Reading the Mountains of Home strikes a moving balance between the pressures of civilization and the attraction of wilderness. It is a beautiful work of nature writing in which human nature finds its place, where the reader is invited to follow the last line of Frost's "Directive," to "Drink and be whole again beyond confusion."
Home is Beyond the Mountains
Author: Celia LottridgePublisher: Groundwood Books Ltd
ISBN: 1554981905
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Finalist for the IODE Violet Downey Book Award Samira is only nine years old when the Turkish army invades northwestern Persia in 1918, and she and her parents, brother and baby sister are driven from their tiny village. Taking only what they can carry, they flee into the mountains, but the journey is so difficult that only Samira and her older brother, Benyamin, survive. When Samira finally arrives in a refugee camp, it is her friendship with another orphan, Anna, that pulls her out of her sadness. And when the two girls are given a toddler named Elias to care for, they form a new kind of family. Over the years the children are shunted from one refugee camp to another, from Persia to Iraq and back again, and finally end up in an orphanage, where it seems that they will live out their childhood. Then a new orphanage director arrives -- Susan Shedd, a woman whose authority and energy Samira has never seen before. And Samira’s respect turns to amazement when Miss Shedd decides that she will take the three hundred children back to their home villages to make new lives for themselves. It will be a journey of three hundred miles, through the mountains, and it will be made on foot.
Victor Records
Author: Victor Talking Machine CompanyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Home to Medicine Mountain
Author: Chiori SantiagoPublisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9781417617159
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Two young Maidu Indian brothers sent to live at a government-run Indian residential school in California in the 1930s find a way to escape and return home for the summer
At Home in the Mountains
Author: Richard SpilsburyPublisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN: 1508145636
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Life exists everywhere—even at the top of a mountain! This title introduces readers to the world of mountain biomes, exploring the plants, animals, and insects that make this habitat unique. Written to support elementary life science curricula, the text illustrates how each creature in a biome plays an important role in an ecosystem’s survival. Readers learn about the relationships between creatures in a habitat and how human intervention can upset the balance. Fact boxes offer informative facts about adaptation, while a simple globe map identifies where in the world mountain biomes are found. Readers are sure to delight in the detailed color photographs that accompany this high-interest title!
Over Mountains, Through the Valley
Author: Friedrich von FlotowCatalog of Victor Records
Author: "Our Mountains are Our Pillows"
Author: Brian O. K. ReevesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Glacier National Park (Mont.)
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
When I Was Young in the Mountains
Author: Cynthia RylantPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0140548750
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 33
Book Description
Caldecott Honor Book! "An evocative remembrance of the simple pleasures in country living; splashing in the swimming hole, taking baths in the kitchen, sharing family times, each is eloquently portrayed here in both the misty-hued scenes and in the poetic text." -Association for Childhood Education International