Woods and Waters, Or, The Saranacs and Racquet
Author : Alfred Billings Street
Publisher :
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 14,93 MB
Release : 1860
Category : Adirondack Mountains (N.Y.)
ISBN :
Author : Alfred Billings Street
Publisher :
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 14,93 MB
Release : 1860
Category : Adirondack Mountains (N.Y.)
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Author : Laurie Apgar Chandler
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 24,91 MB
Release : 2020-08
Category :
ISBN : 9781633812314
Author : Simone Snaith
Publisher : Holiday House
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 36,45 MB
Release : 2019-04-02
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0823441938
Emeline's quiet village has three important rules: Don't look at the shadows. Don't cross the river. And don't enter the forest. An illustrated fantasy filled with beauty and power, Between the Water and the Woods sweeps you into a world where forests are hungry; knights fight with whips; the king is dying; and a peasant girl's magic will decide the future of the realm . . . When Emeline's little brother breaks all three of their village's rules, she is forced to use her family's forbidden magic to rescue him from the dark things he awakens, the Ithin. Now that the Ithin are afoot in the land, she must, by law, travel to the royal court and warn the king. But the only way she and her family can make the journey to the capital is with the protection of a sour magister and a handsome, whip-wielding Lash Knight. Will Emeline survive in a city where conspiracies swirl like smoke and her magic is all but outlawed? Seven full-page black-and-white illustrations accompany Between the Water and the Woods, a lush, fairy-tale-style fantasy perfect for readers of Karen Cushman and Shannon Hale.
Author : Patrick Leigh Fermor
Publisher : John Murray
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 50,68 MB
Release : 2010-10-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 184854524X
The acclaimed travel writer's youthful journey - as an 18-year-old - across 1930s Europe by foot began in A Time of Gifts, which covered the author's exacting journey from the Lowlands as far as Hungary. Picking up from the very spot on a bridge across the Danube where his readers last saw him, we travel on with him across the great Hungarian Plain on horseback, and over the Romanian border to Transylvania. The trip was an exploration of a continent which was already showing signs of the holocaust which was to come. Although frequently praised for his lyrical writing, Fermor's account also provides a coherent understanding of the dramatic events then unfolding in Middle Europe. But the delight remains in travelling with him in his picaresque journey past remote castles, mountain villages, monasteries and towering ranges.
Author : Alfred Billings Street
Publisher : University of Michigan Library
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 11,94 MB
Release : 1860
Category : History
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Author : Nick Hunt
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 11,18 MB
Release : 2014-03-20
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1857889533
Nick Hunt pays homage to Patrick Leigh Fermor by walking the same route across Europe in this "glorious book."
Author : Douglas Wood
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 15,81 MB
Release : 2017-04-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1452954860
Wait, young Douglas’s grandfather says as the bobber twitches on the surface of Little Lake. Be patient. And so begins an encounter with the promise and wonder of nature that will last a lifetime. Deep Woods, Wild Waters traces the winding path that carried Douglas Wood from one wonder to the next, through a landscape of rocks, woods, and waters, with stops along the way for questions and reflections that link human nature to the larger mysteries of the natural world. Like life itself, the author’s way is not linear. One landmark leads back to a favorite campsite, another prompts him to consider the “gospel of rocks,” another launches him into the wilderness beyond the stars—a contemplation of time and space and humanity’s place in all of it. The creator of thirty-four books, including the classic Old Turtle, and an expert woodsman and wilderness canoe guide, Wood brings all his storytelling and bushwhacking skills to bear as he takes us hurtling down wild rapids, crossing stormy lakes, or simply navigating the treacherous currents and twisty trails of everyday life. A warm, generous, and knowing guide, Wood maps a journey that, as he says, “anyone can take, through a landscape anyone can know.” Turning the pages, hiking the portages, running the rapids, or scanning the wild country from high promontory, he invites us to say, in a soul-satisfying moment of recognition, “I know that place.”
Author : Lorraine M. Duvall
Publisher :
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 11,35 MB
Release : 2016-10-18
Category :
ISBN : 9781939216502
An inspiring collection of canoe journeys, packed with bits of regional history and environmental concern. As she flows through the Adirondacks, Duvall guides readers towards a fuller appreciation of water and a need for deepened advocacy; "water" evolves into a sacred entity.
Author : Marcus LiBrizzi
Publisher : Down East Books
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 21,32 MB
Release : 2007-09-04
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0892728248
Forgotten somewhere between Bar Harbor, Maine, and New Brunswick, Canada, lies the most remote and mysterious section of the Eastern Seaboard. It is a region rich in stark beauty—and supernatural lore. The harsh landscape, with its rocky seaside cliffs and thundering surf and miles of dark, mysterious forest farther inland, lends itself to the ghost story. Overlaying the ghost tales gathered in this book is a sense of unspeakable horror and malice.
Author : Erica Waters
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 38,18 MB
Release : 2020-07-14
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0062894242
Sawkill Girls meets The Hazel Wood in this lush and eerie debut, where the boundary between reality and nightmares is as thin as the veil between the living and the dead. If I could have a fiddle made of Daddy’s bones, I’d play it. I’d learn all the secrets he kept. Shady Grove inherited her father’s ability to call ghosts from the grave with his fiddle, but she also knows the fiddle’s tunes bring nothing but trouble and darkness. But when her brother is accused of murder, she can’t let the dead keep their secrets. In order to clear his name, she’s going to have to make those ghosts sing. Family secrets, a gorgeously resonant LGBTQ love triangle, and just the right amount of creepiness make this young adult debut a haunting and hopeful story about facing everything that haunts us in the dark.