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Reading the Mountains of Home
Author | : John Elder |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780674748880 |
Small farms once occupied the heights that John Elder calls home, but now only a few cellar holes and tumbled stone walls remain among the dense stands of maple, beech, and hemlocks on these Vermont hills. Reading the Mountains of Homeis a journey into these verdant reaches where in the last century humans tried their hand and where bear and moose now find shelter. As John Elder is our guide, so Robert Frost is Elder's companion, his great poem "Directive" seeing us through a landscape in which nature and literature, loss and recovery, are inextricably joined. Over the course of a year, Elder takes us on his hikes through the forested uplands between South Mountain and North Mountain, reflecting on the forces of nature, from the descent of the glaciers to the rush of the New Haven River, that shaped a plateau for his village of Bristol; and on the human will that denuded and farmed and abandoned the mountains so many years ago. His forays wind through the flinty relics of nineteenth-century homesteads and Abenaki settlements, leading to meditations on both human failure and the possibility for deeper communion with the land and others. An exploration of the body and soul of a place, an interpretive map of its natural and literary life, Reading the Mountains of Home strikes a moving balance between the pressures of civilization and the attraction of wilderness. It is a beautiful work of nature writing in which human nature finds its place, where the reader is invited to follow the last line of Frost's "Directive," to "Drink and be whole again beyond confusion."
Home Is Beyond the Mountains
Author | : Celia Barker Lottridge |
Publisher | : Groundwood Books Ltd |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2010-04-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1554981905 |
Finalist for the IODE Violet Downey Book Award Samira is only nine years old when the Turkish army invades northwestern Persia in 1918, and she and her parents, brother and baby sister are driven from their tiny village. Taking only what they can carry, they flee into the mountains, but the journey is so difficult that only Samira and her older brother, Benyamin, survive. When Samira finally arrives in a refugee camp, it is her friendship with another orphan, Anna, that pulls her out of her sadness. And when the two girls are given a toddler named Elias to care for, they form a new kind of family. Over the years the children are shunted from one refugee camp to another, from Persia to Iraq and back again, and finally end up in an orphanage, where it seems that they will live out their childhood. Then a new orphanage director arrives -- Susan Shedd, a woman whose authority and energy Samira has never seen before. And Samira’s respect turns to amazement when Miss Shedd decides that she will take the three hundred children back to their home villages to make new lives for themselves. It will be a journey of three hundred miles, through the mountains, and it will be made on foot.
Home to Medicine Mountain
Author | : Chiori Santiago |
Publisher | : Turtleback Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2002-09 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781417617159 |
Two young Maidu Indian brothers sent to live at a government-run Indian residential school in California in the 1930s find a way to escape and return home for the summer
When I Was Young in the Mountains
Author | : Cynthia Rylant |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 33 |
Release | : 1993-01-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0140548750 |
Caldecott Honor Book! "An evocative remembrance of the simple pleasures in country living; splashing in the swimming hole, taking baths in the kitchen, sharing family times, each is eloquently portrayed here in both the misty-hued scenes and in the poetic text." -Association for Childhood Education International
REIMAGINING OUR MOUNTAINS
Author | : Hemant Niroula |
Publisher | : Notion Press |
Total Pages | : 63 |
Release | : 2024-08-14 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
In the heart of the Himalayas lies a land of profound beauty and complex challenges. ‘Reimagining Our Mountains’ is a thought-provoking collection of essays that delves into the unique socio-economic and cultural tapestry of Sikkim, Kalimpong, and Darjeeling. Through the lens of history, prophecy, economics, childcare, politics, and the environment, this booklet unravels the intricate balance between tradition and modernity, offering a roadmap for sustainable and inclusive development. Each essay is a mosaic piece in the larger picture of mountain life from the author’s local insights and lived experiences. ‘Reimagining Our Mountains’ confronts these challenges head-on, proposing simple, attainable solutions that resonate with the global quest for harmony. This is a must-read for anyone interested in the future of our planet’s precious highland regions and the communities that steward them.
At Home in the Mountains
Author | : Richard Spilsbury |
Publisher | : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc |
Total Pages | : 34 |
Release | : 2015-12-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1508145660 |
Life exists everywhere—even at the top of a mountain! This title introduces readers to the world of mountain biomes, exploring the plants, animals, and insects that make this habitat unique. Written to support elementary life science curricula, the text illustrates how each creature in a biome plays an important role in an ecosystem’s survival. Readers learn about the relationships between creatures in a habitat and how human intervention can upset the balance. Fact boxes offer informative facts about adaptation, while a simple globe map identifies where in the world mountain biomes are found. Readers are sure to delight in the detailed color photographs that accompany this high-interest title!
Between the Mountain and the Sky
Author | : Maggie Doyne |
Publisher | : Harper Horizon |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2022-03-22 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0785240292 |
Between the Mountain and the Sky shows us the goodness that is possible when a single person--regardless of age--takes action to help another and, in the process, changes the lives of hundreds. Maggie’s story begins in suburban New Jersey, in a comfortable middle-class family that supports her decision to travel the world during a gap year before starting college. During her travels, the trajectory of her life alters when she has a surprise encounter with a Nepali girl breaking rocks in a quarry. Maggie decides to invest her life savings of five thousand dollars to buy a piece of land and open a children’s home in Nepal. That home becomes Kopila Valley Children’s Home, and eventually, the nonprofit Maggie launches, the BlinkNow Foundation, also starts the Kopila Valley School, which provides tuition-free education for more than four hundred students. Maggie and BlinkNow’s work have been recognized around the world for their innovative, sustainable work. However, this book isn’t a how-to for fledging philanthropists or nonprofit founders--it’s a coming-of-age story about a young woman suspended between two worlds, as well as the love, loss, healing, and hope she experiences along the way. And Maggie’s inspiring, intimate tale shows readers an important truth: the power to change the world exists within all of us.