Book Description
The author describes his experiences living among the Iban, and recounts his attempts to understand their culture.
Author : Andro Linklater
Publisher : Atlantic Monthly Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 13,61 MB
Release : 1994-01-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780871134776
The author describes his experiences living among the Iban, and recounts his attempts to understand their culture.
Author : Margaux Meganck
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 40,69 MB
Release : 2022-03-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0593301943
An inviting and inventive classic-in-the-making about learning to have compassion for every living thing, gorgeously illustrated by a rising star in the picture book world. Wild creatures come in all shapes and sizes. They can be playful or loud or smelly or curious or cute—just like kids! People Are Wild turns the tables and asks what animals think of us. We may not always see eye to eye, but the more we understand each other, the better we’re able to live in harmony. Readers who loved They All Saw a Cat or Don't Let Them Disappear will appreciate this unique perspective on the animal kingdom.
Author : Douglas Cazaux Sackman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 24,93 MB
Release : 2010-01-19
Category : History
ISBN : 0199742502
When Ishi, "the last wild Indian," came out of hiding in August 1911, he was quickly whisked away by train to San Francisco to meet Alfred Kroeber, one of the fathers of American anthropology. When Kroeber and Ishi came face to face, it was a momentous event, not only for each man but also for the cultures they represented. Each stood on the brink--one was in danger of losing something vital while the other was in danger of disappearing altogether. Ishi was a survivor, and he viewed the bright lights of the big city with a mixture of awe and bemusement. What surprised everyone is how handily he adapted himself to the modern city while maintaining his sense of self and his culture. Kroeber was professionally trained to document Ishi's culture and his civilization. What he didn't count on was how deeply working with the man would lead him to question his own profession and his civilization--how it would rekindle a wildness of his own. Although Ishi's story has been told before in film and fiction, Wild Men is the first book to focus on the depth of Ishi and Kroeber's friendship. Exploring what their intertwined stories tell us about Indian survival in modern America and about America's fascination with the wild, this text is an ideal supplement for courses on Native American history, the U.S. West, and the history of California.
Author : Thomas Vennum
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 41,37 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN : 9780873512268
Explores in detail the technology of harvesting and processing the grain, the important place of wild rice in Ojibway ceremony and legend, including the rich social life of the traditional rice camps, and the volatile issues of treaty rights. Wild rice has always been essential to life in the Upper Midwest and neighboring Canada. In this far-reaching book, Thomas Vennum Jr. uses travelers' narratives, historical and ethnological accounts, scientific data, historical and contemporary photographs and sketches, his own field work, and the words of Native people to examine the importance of this wild food to the Ojibway people. He details the technology of harvesting and processing, from seventeenth-century reports though modern mechanization. He explains the important place of wild rice in Ojibway ceremony and legend and depicts the rich social life of the traditional rice camps. And he reviews the volatile issues of treaty rights and litigations involving Indian problems in maintaining this traditional resource. A staple of the Ojibway diet and economy for centuries, wild rice has now become a gourmet food. With twentieth-century agricultural technology and paddy cultivation, white growers have virtually removed this important source of income from Indigenous hands. Nevertheless, the Ojibway continue to harvest and process rice each year. It remains a vital part of their social, cultural, and religious life.
Author : Jastin A. Michael
Publisher : Penerbit Adab
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 36,74 MB
Release :
Category : Education
ISBN : 6238718420
Judul : The Call Of The Wild People Of Borneo The Dayaks Lundayeh of the Krayan Penulis : Jastin A. Michael Ukuran : 14,5 x 21 cm Tebal : 258 Halaman Cover : Soft Cover No. ISBN : 978-623-8718-42-9 No. E-ISBN : 978-623-8718-43-6 (PDF) SINOPSIS This book was published in a long process and story. there is a kind of push from within, a calling, which continues to tickle the author. in such a way, so that in the end it can “become flesh” of course, this is all by the intervention of the Almighty, the author of the true book of life. eyewitnesses to the events of Mr. Isu’s (Presswood) first arrival on the Sesayap, many have passed away. there are even some who are still alive but due to old age many are senile so they can no longer remember things. I began to collect information related to the historical writings from 2014 to 2023. however, I still realized that the information was still lacking. thanks be to God, through a pen friendship with a retired former Indonesian C & MA mission president, together living in the USA, Rev.Jim Kendall and Mrs.Sharon his wife, provided a link to a pioneer newsletter (The Pionner). Belonging to C & MA (Christian And Missionary Alliance). from volume 1928 to volume 1995. “The Pioneer” was written by Dr. R.A Jaffray and his publishing partner, helping the author to put together the accelerated writing of the book. What is said passes, but what is written lasts forever, and so this book immortalizes the long story of the human journey.
Author : Melissa Belle
Publisher : Autumn Ink Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,46 MB
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 194630705X
She never thought she'd see him again...A second chance sports romance in the bestselling Wild Men series by USA Today Bestselling author Melissa Belle. Sky Colton Wild isn’t just the famous football player everyone sees on their television screen. I met Colton one summer vacation when we lined up on opposite sides of a flag football field. He was the cocky kid with clear blue eyes and a constant smirk. When he picked me up over his shoulder and ran with me the length of the field, I wanted to hate him. But somehow we were the last two left around the campfire that night. We talked for hours under the stars. And when he kissed me, I didn’t want him to stop. The next morning, I left. I thought I’d never see him again. And for ten years, I didn’t. Colton Sky Rosewood was the one that got away, the fiery redhead with a temper to match. It felt like way more than a teenage crush, but what did I know back then? I tried everything to find her, but it was like she’d disappeared into the ethers. Ten years later, I’m out for my morning beach run and I crash into…Sky Rosewood, just before she gets knocked out by an errant wave. I try to be a gentleman and give her mouth to mouth, but she comes to and tells me off, her temper still intact. And so is my crush. Except now Sky’s a woman. A beautiful woman. I’ve got my second chance with the woman I never forgot, and there’s no way I’m letting her get away again. Turns out I shouldn’t have been so cocky…
Author : Charles M. Peters
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 46,2 MB
Release : 2018-02-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 0300235526
Drawn from ecologist Charles M. Peters’s thirty†‘five years of fieldwork around the globe, these absorbing stories argue that the best solutions for sustainably managing tropical forests come from the people who live in them. As Peters says, “Local people know a lot about managing tropical forests, and they are much better at it than we are.” With the aim of showing policy makers, conservation advocates, and others the potential benefits of giving communities a more prominent conservation role, Peters offers readers fascinating backstories of positive forest interactions. He provides examples such as the Kenyah Dayak people of Indonesia, who manage subsistence orchards and are perhaps the world’s most gifted foresters, and communities in Mexico that sustainably harvest agave for mescal and demonstrate a near†‘heroic commitment to good practices. No forest is pristine, and Peters’s work shows that communities have been doing skillful, subtle forest management throughout the tropics for several hundred years.
Author : Rocky McElveen
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 16,25 MB
Release : 2007-09-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1418578436
In Wild Men, Wild Alaska professional hunting and fishing guide and outfitter Rocky McElveen tells the stories of his own adventures as well as those of some of his well-known clients. The book takes readers directly into the Alaskan bush, and shares the intense challenges of a majestic wilderness that pushes a man to his limits.
Author : Juan Villoro
Publisher : Restless Books
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 24,59 MB
Release : 2017-11-14
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1632061481
“We walked toward the part of the library where the air smelled as if it had been interred for years….. Finally, we got to the hallway where the wooden floor was the creakiest, and we sensed a strange whiff of excitement and fear. It smelled like a creature from a bygone time. It smelled like a dragon.” Thirteen-year-old Juan’s favorite things in the world are koalas, eating roast chicken, and the summer-time. This summer, though, is off to a terrible start. First, Juan’s parents separate and his dad goes to Paris. Then, as if that wasn’t horrible enough, Juan is sent away to his strange Uncle Tito’s house for the entire break! Uncle Tito is really odd: he has zigzag eyebrows; drinks ten cups of smoky tea a day; and lives inside a huge, mysterious library. One day, while Juan is exploring the library, he notices something inexplicable and rushes to tell Uncle Tito. “The books moved!” His uncle drinks all his tea in one gulp and, sputtering, lets his nephew in on a secret: Juan is a Princeps Reader––which means books respond magically to him––and he’s the only person capable of finding the elusive, never-before-read Wild Book. Juan teams up with his new friend Catalina and his little sister, and together they delve through books that scuttle from one shelf to the next, topple over unexpectedly, or even disappear altogether to find The Wild Book and discover its secret. But will they find it before the wicked, story-stealing Pirate Book does?
Author : Jon Mooallem
Publisher : Penguin Books
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 23,47 MB
Release : 2014-05-27
Category : History
ISBN : 0143125370
"Wild Ones is a tour through our environmental moment and the eccentric cultural history of people and wild animals in America that inflects it. With propulsive curiosity and searing wit, and without that easy moralizing and nature worship of environmental journalism's older guard, [Jon] Mooallem merges reportage, science, and history into a humane and endearing meditation on what it means to live in, and bring life into, a broken world."--Back cover.