At a Bend in a Mexican River - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook At a Bend in a Mexican River write by George Miksch Sutton. This book was released on 1972. At a Bend in a Mexican River available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
A Bend in the River
A Bend in the River - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Bend in the River write by V. S. Naipaul. This book was released on 2018-08-21. A Bend in the River available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the "brilliant novel" (The New York Times) V.S. Naipaul takes us deeply into the life of one man — an Indian who, uprooted by the bloody tides of Third World history, has come to live in an isolated town at the bend of a great river in a newly independent African nation. Naipaul gives us the most convincing and disturbing vision yet of what happens in a place caught between the dangerously alluring modern world and its own tenacious past and traditions.
From Presidio to the Pecos River
From Presidio to the Pecos River - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook From Presidio to the Pecos River write by Orville B. Shelburne, Jr.. This book was released on 2020-10-08. From Presidio to the Pecos River available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The 1848 treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo that ended the Mexican-American War described a boundary between the two countries that was to be ascertained by a joint boundary commission effort. The section of the boundary along the Rio Grande from Presidio to the mouth of the Pecos River was arguably the most challenging, and it was surveyed by two American parties, one led by civilian surveyor M. T. W. Chandler in 1852, and the second led by Lieutenant Nathaniel Michler in 1853. Our understanding of these two surveys across the greater Big Bend has long been limited to the official reports and maps housed in the National Archives and never widely published. The discovery by Orville B. Shelburne of the journal kept by Dr. Charles C. Parry, surgeon-botanist-geologist for the 1852 party, has dramatically enriched the story by giving us a firsthand view of the Chandler boundary survey as it unfolded. Parry’s journal forms the basis of From Presidio to the Pecos River, which documents the day-to-day working of the survey teams. The story Shelburne tells is one of scientific exploration under duress—surveyors stranded in towering canyons overnight without food or shelter; piloting inflatable rubber boats down wild rivers; rising to the challenges of a profoundly remote area, including the possibility of Indian attack. Shelburne’s comparison of the original boundary maps with their modern counterparts reveals the limitations of terrain and equipment on the survey teams. Shelburne's book provides a window on the adventure, near disaster, and true accomplishment of the surveyors’ work in documenting the course of the Rio Grande across the Big Bend region.
The Line Becomes a River
The Line Becomes a River - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Line Becomes a River write by Francisco Cantú. This book was released on 2018-02-06. The Line Becomes a River available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. NAMED A TOP 10 BOOK OF 2018 BY NPR and THE WASHINGTON POST WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE IN CURRENT INTEREST FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE NONFICTION AWARD The instant New York Times bestseller, "A must-read for anyone who thinks 'build a wall' is the answer to anything." --Esquire For Francisco Cantú, the border is in the blood: his mother, a park ranger and daughter of a Mexican immigrant, raised him in the scrublands of the Southwest. Driven to understand the hard realities of the landscape he loves, Cantú joins the Border Patrol. He and his partners learn to track other humans under blistering sun and through frigid nights. They haul in the dead and deliver to detention those they find alive. Plagued by a growing awareness of his complicity in a dehumanizing enterprise, he abandons the Patrol for civilian life. But when an immigrant friend travels to Mexico to visit his dying mother and does not return, Cantú discovers that the border has migrated with him, and now he must know the full extent of the violence it wreaks, on both sides of the line.
General Technical Report RM.
General Technical Report RM. - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook General Technical Report RM. write by . This book was released on 1977. General Technical Report RM. available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
