Down from the Mountain

Author: Bryce Andrews
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 132897247X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 293

Book Description
The story of a grizzly bear named Millie: her life, death, and cubs, and what they reveal about the changing character of the American West. An "ode to wildness and wilderness" (Outside Magazine), Down from the Mountain tells the story of one grizzly in the changing Montana landscape. Millie was cunning, a fiercely protective mother to her cubs. But raising those cubs in the mountains was hard, as the climate warmed and people crowded the valleys. There were obvious dangers, like poachers, and subtle ones, like the corn field that drew her into sure trouble. That trouble is where award-winning writer, farmer, and conservationist Bryce Andrews's story intersects with Millie’s. In this "welcome and impressive work" he shows how this drama is "the core of a major problem in the rural American West—the disagreement between large predatory animals and invasive modern settlers”—an entangled collision where the shrinking wilds force human and bear into ever closer proximity (Barry Lopez). “Andrews’s wonderful Down from the Mountain is deeply informed by personal experience and made all the stronger by his compassion and measured thoughts . . . Welcome and impressive work.”—Barry Lopez

Down from the Mountain

Author: Elizabeth Fixmer
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
ISBN: 0807583715
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 222

Book Description
Fourteen year-old Eva tries to be a good disciple of Righteous Path, a polygamy cult in Colorado, but her forays into the "heathen world" cause her to question all she knows. Eva wants to be a good disciple of Righteous Path. She grew up knowing that she's among the chosen few to be saved from Armageddon. Lately, though, being saved feels awfully treacherous. Ever since they moved to the compound in Colorado, their food supplies have dwindled while their leader, Ezekiel, has stockpiled weapons. The only money comes from the jewelry Eva makes and sells in town—a purpose she'll serve until she becomes one of Ezekiel's wives. But a college student named Trevor and the other "heathens" she meets on her trips beyond the compound are far different from what she's been led to believe. Now Eva doesn't know which is more dangerous—the outside world or Reverend Ezekiel's plans.

Down, Down the Mountain

Author: Ellis Credle
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural exhibitions
Languages : en
Pages : 56

Book Description
The adventures of two children as they travel to town to sell the turnips they grew.

Go Down the Mountain

Author: Meredith Battle
Publisher: Mascot Books
ISBN: 9781643070131
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 224

Book Description
"Bee Livingston is a nervy, teenage beauty whose beloved father's sudden death in a snake charming accident has left her alone with her abusive mother. Her one salvation is Miles, the big-city photographer who promises escape and a life full of the adventure she craves. But when Bee is caught in a dangerous cat-and-mouse game with a government man who takes her family's land and won't stop until he claims her too, it may be Torch, the boy she grew up with on the mountain, who becomes the man she needs. Based on the true story of the hundreds of families who were forced from their Blue Ridge Mountain homes to make way for Shenandoah National Park in the 1930s, Go Down the Mountain is a tale of dispossession, coming of age, and love."

Sailing Down the Mountain

Author: Ben Harrison
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780615985305
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 436

Book Description
Ben and Helen Harrison set aside their comfortable life in San Francisco to go to Costa Rica and build a 38-foot sailboat. They had never built a boat before. Then, they had to get it down to mountainside to the water. And from there sail to Key West where they now live. It was a dauntless task and a challenge that put their marriage, their sanity, and their very lives on the line. A real-life adventure that will make you feel like you've got a berth on La Dulce Mujer Pintada, the Sweet Painted Lady.

The World Religions Reader

Author: Gwilym Beckerlegge
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415247498
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 524

Book Description
Gathers together material on six of the world's most influential faiths, with readings drawn from a broad range of historical and contemporary sources.

Outing

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 752

Book Description

Down from the Mountain

Author: Barbara Gale
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1459232755
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 252

Book Description
BEAUTY AND THE RANGER The surprise of his life awaited David Hartwell at the top of the Montana mountain: besides a sprawling mansion, he’d also inherited his late father’s ward. Beautiful, enticing Ellen Candler didn’t flee at the sight of his scarred face. Because she couldn’t see it. Although she was blind, Ellen had never given up hope of one day recovering her sight. But she didn’t need her eyes to tell her this overpoweringly masculine forest ranger was running away from something. While he was coaxing her down from her sheltered mountain existence, Ellen was secretly waging her own campaign of seduction to turn her reluctant guardian into a loving mate…for life.

Down, Down the Mountain

Author: Ellis Credle
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural exhibitions
Languages : en
Pages : 56

Book Description
The adventures of two children as they travel to town to sell the turnips they grew.

The Upside Down Mountain

Author: Mags MacKean
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
ISBN: 1785351729
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 198

Book Description
What happens when you seem to have it all - enough money, health and success - but happiness remains elusive? The Upside Down Mountain forsakes the summit for the journey downhill, penetrating the hidden depths of darkness and discomfort most people live to avoid. This descent through the wild landscapes of the Pyrenees, the Amazon, Tibet and Egypt reveals how to navigate troubled times and create a new story for ourselves and the world: inspiring us to become the change we seek. Archetypal guardians become familiar allies at the thresholds of descent - pointing the way to deepening and lasting transformation. The narrative reads as an adventure yarn, and inspirational memoir, with implicit signposts for fellow explorers determined to lead a fulfilling life.