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| Author | : Rick Bass |
| Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| Total Pages | : 260 |
| Release | : 2009-07 |
| Genre | : 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 |
| Total Pages | : 204 |
| Release | : 2011-12-09 |
| Genre | : 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 |
| Total Pages | : 322 |
| Release | : 2021-04-27 |
| Genre | : 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 | : Joel Nakamura |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2015 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 9780991410569 |
The American West has always been a place of adventure and natural beauty. With its wide-open spaces and sense of freedom, it's a place of enduring dreams and new ideas. Open the cover of this beautiful book and accept award-winning artist Joel Nakamura's invitation to Go West! Come along and join his colorful cast of characters to explore the magic that abounds in the lands west of the Mississippi. Come along and explore the frontier of the imagination! Come along and dream big! Come alongand roam free . . . GO WEST! A perfect bedtime read, and a delight to the eye, this colorful picture book will enthrall your little ones with its unique vision of life in the West!
| Author | : David Quantick |
| Publisher | : Unbound Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 233 |
| Release | : 2019-01-24 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1912618710 |
GO WEST is a novel about Charlie Bread, self-styled Antiques Whisperer and forgery hunter. When Charlie is sent on the trail of a mysterious document that may have been written by the inventor of Peter Pan, his life becomes a road movie full of pursuit and intrigue, soundtracked by old John Peel shows, the beautiful Penelope, and a game of high road hide-and-seek all across the West Country. In a world where nothing is what it seems, Bread has to find out the truth – before the truth finds him out. Go West is the second novel by David Quantick, Emmy-winning writer (Veep, The Thick Of It) and author of The Mule (“A Da Vinci Code with laughs – The Independent, “ingenious, likable, funny and above all entertaining” –Spectator, “accomplished and witty highbrow farce” – Sunday Times)
| Author | : Maxim Loskutoff |
| Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
| Total Pages | : 133 |
| Release | : 2018-05-08 |
| Genre | : 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 | : Alexander Anievas |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 386 |
| Release | : 2015 |
| Genre | : 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 | : Jared Rubin |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 297 |
| Release | : 2017-02-16 |
| Genre | : 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 | : Alison Baker |
| Publisher | : Chronicle Books (CA) |
| Total Pages | : 204 |
| Release | : 1993 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : |
A slightly off-kilter world with eccentric and appealing characters.
| Author | : Rick Bass |
| Publisher | : HarperCollins |
| Total Pages | : 211 |
| Release | : 1997-09-15 |
| Genre | : 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.
