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Author: Charles Kingsley
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Languages : en
Pages : 52
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Author: Philip Connors
Publisher: Cinco Puntos Press
ISBN: 1941026923
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 169
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Southwest Book Award, BRLA Notable Book, Sigurd Olson Nature Writing Award Amazon Book Review Best Nonfiction of 2018 2018 Publisher's Weekly Best Books of the Year, Nonfiction 2018 Southwest Books of the Year Outside Magazine Pick for Best Adventure Books of the Season NPR Summer Reading List Pick From one of the last fire lookouts in America comes this sequel to the award-winning Fire Season—a story of calamity and resilience in the world’s first Wilderness. A dozen years into his dream job keeping watch over the Gila Wilderness of New Mexico, Philip Connors bore witness to the wildfire he had always feared: a conflagration that forced him off his mountain by helicopter, and changed forever the forest and watershed he loved. It was merely one of many transformations that arrived in quick succession, not just fire and flood but illness, divorce, the death of a fellow lookout in a freak accident, and a tragic plane crash that rocked the community he called home. At its core an elegy for a friend he cherished like a brother, A Song for the River opens into celebration of a landscape redolent with meaning—and the river that runs through it. Connors channels the voices of the voiceless in a praise song of great urgency, and makes a plea to save a vital piece of our natural and cultural heritage: the wild Gila River, whose waters are threatened by a potential dam. Brimming with vivid characters and beautiful evocations of the landscape, A Song for the River carries the story of the Gila Wilderness forward to the present precarious moment, and manages to find green shoots everywhere sprouting from the ash. Its argument on behalf of things wild and free could not be more timely, and its goal is nothing less than permanent protection for that rarest of things in the American West, a free-flowing river—the sinuous and gorgeous Gila. It must not perish.
Author: Joy Cowley
Publisher:
ISBN: 177657253X
Category : JUVENILE FICTION
Languages : en
Pages : 19
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Author: Craig Lesley
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312244910
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322
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Danny Kachiah is an Oregonian Nez Perce drifter who is eager to learn the traditional ways and pass them on to his son, Jack. After the death of his wife, Danny joins forces with an old River Indian, and comes face to face with ghosts from his past.
Author: Gill Lewis
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 1800901143
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 63
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A project to re-introduce beavers brings a town together against a common threat, in this touching tale from master storyteller Gill Lewis.
Author: Charles Kingsley
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Languages : en
Pages : 52
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Author: Charles Kingsley
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
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Author: Craig Lesley
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Category : Book clubs (Discussion groups).
Languages : en
Pages : 307
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Author: Suchen Christine Lim
Publisher: Aurora Metro Publications Ltd.
ISBN: 1906582572
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 250
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Voted Best Indie Book by Kirkus Reviews and awarded a prestigious Blue Star. Ping, an American citizen, returns to Singapore after many years and sees a country transformed by prosperity. Gone are the boatmen and hawkers who once lived along the crowded riverside and in their place rise the gleaming towers of the financial district. Her childhood growing up among the river people had been very different, and leaving her first love Weng, a musician, for America, had been devastating. Now that she is back in Singapore, can she face her former lover and reveal the secret that has separated them for many years? Reviews: “Lim’s affecting, lushly textured historical novel... A fine, deeply felt saga of lives caught up in progress that’s as heartbreaking as it is hopeful.” Kirkus, 5 * Blue Star Review "The River’s Song is a startling work of brilliance that leaves the reader spellbound." kitaab.org “...just as the best novels should be but so rarely are: like immersion in a vivid dream. I couldn’t decide whether to read it slowly in order to savour every word, or to race along, mesmerised by Lim’s dazzling story-telling.” Jill Dawson, British author of The Great Lover, (Richard and Judy’s Bookclub) “...a winning coming of age novel that bridges the years and countries. Here is the buoyancy of sentences and a testimony of resilience.” Krys Lee, award-winning Korean author of The Drifting House “...powerful, deep and moving – draws you in and pulls you along irresistibly. Its heartfelt swell will carry you away to a place of passion and resonant conviction.” Kevin MacNeil, Scottish author of the best-selling The Stornoway Way “A touching story that retrieves Singapore’s fast disappearing past and gives its famous river the depth and colour of a people’s history, and a wonderful rendition of the pipa, on the page, as mother and daughter play their songs from the heart.” Romesh Gunasekera author of Reef, shortlisted for the Booker Prize Singapore Literature Prize Winner and South East Asia Write Award winner Suchen Christine Lim is one of Singapore’s most distinguished writers. In 1992, her third novel, Fistful of Colours, was awarded the Inaugural Singapore Literature Prize. A Bit Of Earth (2000), her fourth novel, and her popular short-story collection, The Lies That Build A Marriage (2007) were later shortlisted for the same prize. Awarded a Fulbright grant in 1997, she is a Fellow of the International Writers Program, University of Iowa, and the first Singapore writer honoured as the university’s International Writer-in-Residence in 2000. A regular guest at Writers' Festivals in Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Australia, and UK she has also held writing residencies in Myanmar, the Philippines, South Korea and at the University of Western Australia in Perth. In 2011, she was the Visiting Fellow in Creative Writing at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. In 2012, she won the South East Asia Write Award. In the UK, she has regularly been writer-in- residence at the Arvon Foundation and has tutored at Moniack Mhor in Scotland.
Author: Philip Connors
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781941026908
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 246
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Wilderness and the river that runs through open his heart: his mountain burns, friends die, and he falls in love.
Author: Alison Morgan
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Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 116
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The daily life of the birds who live near the river is filled with joy and challenge.
