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Author | : Susan Froderberg |
Publisher | : Little, Brown |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 2010-12-09 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0316126853 |
Katherine is 17, living alone in the beautiful, desolate landscape of southern Arizona. Her mother is feckless, her father busy with his new family. Meeting Son, the scion of a local rancher, seems like deliverance. They marry and live as a family in his parents' venerable adobe house, but it soon becomes clear that Son is a man who, as his father says, has a "young heart near withered beneath the breastbone." Katherine must find her own way during a dangerous months-long drought, when everything seems to be disintegrating around her. Susan Froderberg's incantatory language -- and her deep knowledge of both the complexities of a small, deeply-rooted place and the human heart -- make Old Border Road soar.
Author | : Susan Froderberg |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 2014-06-05 |
Genre | : FICTION |
ISBN | : 9780316174220 |
Impulsively marrying the son of a local rancher to escape her divorced parents, seventeen-year-old Katherine goes to live in her new husband's Arizona desert adobe house but is rapidly disenchanted by his cold heart, a situation that is further tested bya dangerous drought.
Author | : Kate Harris |
Publisher | : Knopf Canada |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2018-01-30 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 034581679X |
NATIONAL BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE RBC TAYLOR PRIZE WINNER OF THE EDNA STAEBLER AWARD FOR CREATIVE NON-FICTION "Every day on a bike trip is like the one before--but it is also completely different, or perhaps you are different, woken up in new ways by the mile." As a teenager, Kate Harris realized that the career she most craved--that of a generalist explorer, equal parts swashbuckler and philosopher--had gone extinct. From her small-town home in Ontario, it seemed as if Marco Polo, Magellan and their like had long ago mapped the whole earth. So she vowed to become a scientist and go to Mars. To pass the time before she could launch into outer space, Kate set off by bicycle down a short section of the fabled Silk Road with her childhood friend Mel Yule, then settled down to study at Oxford and MIT. Eventually the truth dawned on her: an explorer, in any day and age, is by definition the kind of person who refuses to live between the lines. And Harris had soared most fully out of bounds right here on Earth, travelling a bygone trading route on her bicycle. So she quit the laboratory and hit the Silk Road again with Mel, this time determined to bike it from the beginning to end. Like Rebecca Solnit and Pico Iyer before her, Kate Harris offers a travel narrative at once exuberant and meditative, wry and rapturous. Weaving adventure and deep reflection with the history of science and exploration, Lands of Lost Borders explores the nature of limits and the wildness of a world that, like the self and like the stars, can never be fully mapped.
Author | : John Veitch |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 762 |
Release | : 1878 |
Genre | : Borders Region (Scotland) |
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Author | : John Veitch |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 1893 |
Genre | : Scottish poetry |
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Author | : Luis Alberto Urrea |
Publisher | : Back Bay Books |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2008-11-16 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 031604928X |
This important book from a Pulitzer Prize finalist follows the brutal journey a group of men take to cross the Mexican border: "the single most compelling, lucid, and lyrical contemporary account of the absurdity of U.S. border policy" (The Atlantic). In May 2001, a group of men attempted to cross the Mexican border into the desert of southern Arizona, through the deadliest region of the continent, the "Devil's Highway." Three years later, Luis Alberto Urrea wrote about what happened to them. The result was a national bestseller, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, a "book of the year" in multiple newspapers, and a work proclaimed as a modern American classic.
Author | : D. Seth Horton |
Publisher | : Ohio University Press |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0804011060 |
The beauty and barrenness of the southwestern landscape naturallylends itself to the art of storytellers. It is a land of heat and dryness, aland of spirits, a land that is misunderstood by those living along thecoasts. New Stories from the Southwest presents nineteen short stories that appeared in North American periodicals between January and December 2006. Though many of these stories vary by aesthetics, tone, voice, and almost any other craft category one might wish to use, they are nevertheless bound together by at least one factor, which is that the landscape of the region plays a key role in their narratives. They each evoke and explore what it means to exist in thisunique corner of the country. Selected by editor D. Seth Horton, the former fiction editor for the Sonora Review, from a wide cross-section of journals and magazines, and with a foreword by noted writer Ray Gonzalez, New Stories from the Southwest presents a generous sampling of the best of contemporary fiction situated in this often overlooked area of the country. Swallow Press is particularly pleased to publish this wide-ranging collection of stories from both new and established writers. Contributors to New Stories from the Southwest are: - Alan Cheuse - Matt Clark - Lorien Crow - Kathleen De Azvedo - Alan Elyshevitz - Marcela Fuentes - Dennis Fulgoni - Ray Gonzalez - Anna Green - Donald Lucio Hurd - Toni Jensen - Charles Kemnitz - Elmo Lum - Tom McWhorter - S. G. Miller - Peter Rock - Alicita Rodriguez - John Tait - Patrick Tobin - Valery Varble
Author | : Cathy Wurzer |
Publisher | : Minnesota Historical Society |
Total Pages | : 154 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780873516266 |
In this companion book to a new Twin Cities Public Television documentary also called "Tales of the Road" (airing in November 2008), Wurzer unearths stories about Highway 61, spotlighting famous and fascinating locations, many of them little remembered today.
Author | : James Lennox |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 1885 |
Genre | : Borders Region (Scotland) |
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Author | : Southern Rhodesia. Geological Survey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 634 |
Release | : 1913 |
Genre | : Geology |
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