Reading the Mountains of Home - 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 Reading the Mountains of Home write by John Elder. This book was released on 1998. Reading the Mountains of Home available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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
Home Is Beyond the Mountains - 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 Home Is Beyond the Mountains write by Celia Barker Lottridge. This book was released on 2010-04-01. Home Is Beyond the Mountains available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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
Home to Medicine Mountain - 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 Home to Medicine Mountain write by Chiori Santiago. This book was released on 2002-09. Home to Medicine Mountain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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
My Side of the Mountain
My Side of the Mountain - 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 My Side of the Mountain write by Jean Craighead George. This book was released on 2001-05-21. My Side of the Mountain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Should appeal to all rugged individualists who dream of escape to the forest."—The New York Times Book Review Sam Gribley is terribly unhappy living in New York City with his family, so he runs away to the Catskill Mountains to live in the woods—all by himself. With only a penknife, a ball of cord, forty dollars, and some flint and steel, he intends to survive on his own. Sam learns about courage, danger, and independence during his year in the wilderness, a year that changes his life forever. “An extraordinary book . . . It will be read year after year.” —The Horn Book
When I Was Young in the Mountains
When I Was Young in the Mountains - 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 When I Was Young in the Mountains write by Cynthia Rylant. This book was released on 1993-01-01. When I Was Young in the Mountains available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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
