Author : Rick Bass
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 21,18 MB
Release : 2009-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780547237718
The author discusses the attraction he feels to the landscape of the Yaak Valley in extreme, northwest Montana where he has lived for twenty-one years, and meditates on what drew him to the place, the challenges he faced moving and adjusting to life in a climate very different than he had known before, and how the place has changed him.
Author : Laurie Wagner Buyer
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 36,29 MB
Release : 2011-12-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0806183454
As a young college student in the early 1970s, Laurie Wagner had never camped out, never gone hiking, and never lived without electricity or indoor plumbing. Yet she walked away from these comforts and headed for the wildest reaches of Montana to live with a man she had not met in person. When I Came West is Laurie Wagner Buyer’s account of her terrifying and exhilarating years in Montana as she changes from a girl too squeamish to touch a dead mouse to a toughened frontierswoman unafraid to butcher a domestic animal. Living in a cabin far away from family and friends, with the nearest neighbor four miles away, Laurie finds herself caught up in two love affairs: one with the volatile Vietnam vet Bill and one with the untamed West—even as she recognizes, in the words of one neighbor, “It is plumb foolishness to love something that cannot love you back.” While her relationship with Bill grows precarious, Laurie forges a lasting relationship with her surroundings: the rivers, the wildlife, and the people who inhabit such remote corners. Peeling away the romance of escaping to the wilderness, When I Came West reveals the brutality and bounty of a world far removed from modern urban life.
Author : William W. Johnstone
Publisher : Kensington Publishing Corporation
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 13,60 MB
Release : 2021-04-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1496734491
"One nation on the brink of war. Two families in search of peace. Twenty-seven wagons on an epic cross-country journey as bold as America itself..."--Page 4 of cover.
Author : Alexander Anievas
Publisher :
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 23,67 MB
Release : 2015
Category : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
ISBN : 9781783713240
Mainstream historical accounts of the development of capitalism describe a process which is fundamentally European - a system that was born in the mills and factories of England or under the guillotines of the French Revolution. In this groundbreaking book, a very different story is told. How the West Came to Rule offers a unique interdisciplinary and international historical account of the origins of capitalism. It argues that contrary to the dominant wisdom, capitalism's origins should not be understood as a development confined to the geographically and culturally sealed borders of Europe, but the outcome of a wider array of global processes in which non-European societies played a decisive role. Through an outline of the uneven histories of Mongolian expansion, New World discoveries, Ottoman-Habsburg rivalry, the development of the Asian colonies and bourgeois revolutions, Alexander Anievas and Kerem Nisancioglu provide an account of how these diverse events and processes came together to produce capitalism.
Author : Maxim Loskutoff
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 31,83 MB
Release : 2018-05-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0393635597
An NPR Best Book of 2018 "Devastating.…Grows increasingly bizarre and haunting until it’s left an indelible mark." —Janet Maslin, New York Times In an isolated region of Idaho, Montana, and eastern Oregon, an armed occupation of a wildlife refuge escalates into civil war. Against this backdrop, Maxim Loskutoff shatters the myths of the West: a lonesome trapper falls in love with a bear; a newly married woman hatches a plot to murder a tree; and an unemployed millworker joins a militia after returning home. Written with “blade-sharp prose” (Electric Literature), the twelve stories in this debut collection expose the simmering rage and resentments of small-town America “with extraordinary eloquence and compassion” (National Book Review).
Author : Betsy Byars
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 39,43 MB
Release : 1986-10-29
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780060208844
A funny introduction to pioneer life, perfect for classrooms and homeschoolers The Golly Sisters are heading west. They’ve got new dresses and the best show on either side of the Mississippi. But can they keep their act together long enough to get this show on the road? Find out in this hilarious tale of the old west! The Golly Sisters Go West by Newbery medalist Betsy Byars is a Level Three I Can Read, which means it contains a complex plot and challenging vocabulary—just right for the newly independent reader. As Carol Hurst's BooksInTheClassroom site comments: "Byars has the ability to construct believable, often loveable characters who face some of life's greatest hurdles. Her humor is visible everywhere as is her empathy with the difficulties faced by many children. She writes for many ages and her easy to read books are wonderful fare."
Author : Jared Rubin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 48,13 MB
Release : 2017-02-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 110703681X
This book seeks to explain the political and religious factors leading to the economic reversal of fortunes between Europe and the Middle East.
Author : Antonio J. Munoz
Publisher :
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 50,94 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN :
A study of East European and Middle Eastern Collaboration with Nazi Germany in World War II.Hundreds of color, b&w photos, diagrams, tables, charts, line drawings, etc.
Author : Rick Bass
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 38,80 MB
Release : 1997-09-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0547349351
The Yaak Valley of northwestern Montana is one of the last great wild places in the United States, a land of black bears and grizzlies, wolves and coyotes, bald and golden eagles, wolverine, lynx, marten, fisher, elk, and even a handful of humans. It is a land of magic, but its magic may not be enough to save it from the forces threatening it now. The Yaak does have one trick up its sleeve, though: a writer to give it voice. In Winter Rick Bass portrayed the wonder of living in the valley. In The Book of Yaak he captures the soul of the valley itself, and he shows how, if places like the Yaak are lost, we too are lost. Rick Bass has never been a writer to hold back, but The Book of Yaak is his most passionate book yet, a dramatic narrative of a man fighting to defend the place he loves.
Author : Andy Mckettrick
Publisher :
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 19,48 MB
Release : 2021-05-13
Category :
ISBN :
What springs to mind when you think of Spain? Lying around the pool, Karaoke bars with a pint for a Euro and a cheap full English breakfast? I know that for some people, that sounds like the dream holiday. Me? I'd rather stab pencils in my eyes whilst listening to Susan Boyle's greatest hits! What you should be doing is jumping in your van and heading for La Costa Verde. Enjoy Cantabrian stews and a hundred different cheeses. Try traditional cider and a glass of Rioja in a medieval village. Stroll along one of the beautiful deserted beaches or hike through the Picos de Europa. That's what springs to mind when I think of Spain! In this book, through experience, I'll attempt to tell you everything you need to know about visiting Northern Spain in a motorhome. So, forget mini-England. Forget Benidorm and Torremolinos. Next time you arrive in Spain, don't go south, Go West! You won't regret it! Andy
