Are you looking for read ebook online? Search for your book and save it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Download Sharing Fencelines PDF full book. Access full book title Sharing Fencelines by Carolyn Dufurrena. Download full books in PDF and EPUB format.
Author: Carolyn Dufurrena Publisher: ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 388
Book Description
An ex-geologist school teacher/rancher, a biographer and poet, and a painter and illustrator have in common their environmental concerns, abodes along the Nevada-California border, and their feminine gender. Each presents a narrative reflecting on experiences in the Great Basin, thus contributing to the literature about the rural West, and women's experiences in particular.
Author: Carolyn Dufurrena Publisher: ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 388
Book Description
An ex-geologist school teacher/rancher, a biographer and poet, and a painter and illustrator have in common their environmental concerns, abodes along the Nevada-California border, and their feminine gender. Each presents a narrative reflecting on experiences in the Great Basin, thus contributing to the literature about the rural West, and women's experiences in particular.
Author: Rebecca Forgash Publisher: Cornell University Press ISBN: 1501750429 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 238
Book Description
Intimacy Across the Fencelines examines intimacy in the form of sexual encounters, dating, marriage, and family that involve US service members and local residents. Rebecca Forgash analyzes the stories of individual US service members and their Okinawan spouses and family members against the backdrop of Okinawan history, political and economic entanglements with Japan and the United States, and a longstanding anti-base movement. The narratives highlight the simultaneously repressive and creative power of military "fencelines," sites of symbolic negotiation and struggle involving gender, race, and class that divide the social landscape in communities that host US bases. Intimacy Across the Fencelines anchors the global US military complex and US-Japan security alliance in intimate everyday experiences and emotions, illuminating important aspects of the lived experiences of war and imperialism.
Author: Laird Christensen Publisher: University of Nevada Press ISBN: 0874177510 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 303
Book Description
The sixteen essays in this anthology describe the practice of teaching about place, with the goal of inspiring educators as well as other readers to discover the value of close investigation of their own places. The contributors discuss places from the desert river canyons of the American West, to the bayous of Texas, to wildlife refuges on the Atlantic Coast, to New England’s forests and river, and back to the wildland-urban interface in suburban Southern California. These essays reveal broader lessons about the possibilities and limitations that come with teaching about place and inhabiting our own places outside the classroom. Contributors include: Ann Zwinger, Bradley John Monsma, SueEllen Campbell, Terrell Dixon, and John Elder.
Author: Mark E. Hillenbrand Publisher: FriesenPress ISBN: 152553601X Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 214
Book Description
The family farm was a place to learn values, work ethic, and develop character. For Author Mark Hillenbrand, it was a place where happy childhood memories were created and discipline and routine were important. Deeply rooted in the hard work of planting and harvesting, raising cattle and chickens, and maintaining the property and machinery, is a sense of responsibility and belonging. His father instilled in him— with words but mostly by example—the importance of cultivating a deep respect and sense of stewardship of the land and its creatures. From Mark’s first time driving a tractor at age ten, to tree planting as a young man, to assisting his father during his last harvest, the farm provided life lessons that bound the family together and extend to the next generation. At once nostalgic and realistic, Fields and Fencelines is a collection of stories that appeals to a simpler, holistic approach to life and reveals the insight and wisdom gained from growing up on a family farm.
Author: Linda M. Hasselstrom Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN: 9780618219209 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 342
Book Description
The grassroots publishing sensation that began with "Leaning Into the Wind" continues in this second volume of women's writing from the heart of the American West.
Author: Cheryll Glotfelty Publisher: University of Nevada Press ISBN: 0874170125 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 831
Book Description
Over 200 writings about Nevada with selections from Native American tales to contemporary writings on urban experience and environmental concerns. The state of Nevada embodies paradox and contradiction—home to one of the fastest-growing cities in the nation and to isolated ranches scattered across a sparsely populated backcountry. Nevada is a place where the lust for sudden wealth has prompted both wild mining booms and glittering casinos, and where forbidding atomic test sites coexist with alluring tourist meccas. The variety and distinctiveness of Nevada’s landscape and peoples have inspired writers from the beginning of immigrant contact with the region. This contact has produced abundant literary wealth that includes the rich oral traditions of Native American peoples and an amazing spectrum of contemporary voices. Literary Nevada is the first comprehensive literary anthology of Nevada. It contains over 200 selections ranging from traditional Native American tales, explorers’ and emigrants’ accounts, and writing from the Comstock Lode and other mining boomtowns, as well as compelling fiction, poetry, and essays from throughout the state’s history. There is work by well-known Nevada writers such as Sarah Winnemucca, Mark Twain, and Robert Laxalt, by established and emerging writers from all parts of the state, and by some nonresident authors whose work illuminates important facets of the Nevada experience. The book includes cowboy poetry, travel writing, accounts of nuclear Nevada, narratives about rural life and urban life in Las Vegas and Reno, poetry and fiction from the state’s best contemporary writers, and accounts of the special beauty of wild Nevada’s mountains and deserts. Editor Cheryll Glotfelty provides insightful introductions to each section and author. The book also includes a photo gallery of selected Nevada writers and a generous list of suggested further readings. Nevada has inspired an exceptionally rich panorama of fine writing and a dazzling array of literary voices. The selections in Literary Nevada will engage and delight readers while revealing the complex and exciting diversity of the state’s history, people, and life.
Author: Vernon L. Blythe Publisher: Author House ISBN: 1456744755 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 62
Book Description
If youre lucky enough to have many blessings in your life; to travel to other states and environments; to have a variety of jobs; great children; and a good education, then youre privileged to observe some of the many circumstances of the world and experience life as others do. If you are further blessed to be able to express yourself and your experiences through writing, then you may have made the world a better place and opened its wonders to some of those who have yet to see and experience those conditions. And so it is with this book of poems. Fence Lines is a collection of lifes observations in humor, nature, children, technology and barriers Fence Lines real or imagined.
Author: Michael S. Green Publisher: University of Nevada Press ISBN: 0874179742 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 566
Book Description
Nevada: A History of the Silver State has been named a CHOICE Outstanding Title. Michael S. Green, a leading Nevada historian, provides a detailed survey of the Silver State’s past, from the arrival of the early European explorers, to the predominance of mining in the 1800s, to the rise of world-class tourism in the twentieth century, and to more recent attempts to diversify the economy. Of the numerous themes central to Green’s analysis of Nevada’s history, luck plays a significant role in the state’s growth. The miners and gamblers who first visited the state all bet on luck. Today, the biggest contributor to Nevada’s tourist economy, gaming, still relies on that same belief in luck. Nevada’s financial system has generally been based on a “one industry” economy, first mining and, more recently, gaming. Green delves deeply into the limitations of this structure, while also exploring the theme of exploitation of the land and the overuse of the state’s natural resources. Green covers many more aspects of the Silver State’s narrative, including the dominance of one region of the state over another, political forces and corruption, and the citizens’ often tumultuous relationship with the federal government. The book will appeal to scholars, students, and other readers interested in Nevada history.
Author: Carolyn Dufurrena
Author: Carolyn Dufurrena
Author: Rebecca Forgash
Author: Laird Christensen
Author: Mark E. Hillenbrand
Author: Linda M. Hasselstrom
Author: Cheryll Glotfelty
Author: Vernon L. Blythe
Author: Michael S. Green
Author: 
Author: Creative Nonfiction Foundation (U.S.)