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

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.

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Languages : en
Pages : 752

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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.

The Last Trip Down the Mountain

Author: Mike Holst
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1462013511
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 145

Book Description
FOR BART MOUNTAIN CLIMBING WAS A WAY OF LIFE. His money and his living on the edge attitude had taken him all over the mountain climbing world. Bart and his friend Thurwood had been a climbing team for more years then they could remember and they seemed inseparable. Then Cassie came into Barts life and they fell in love, and Bart got this ultimatum from his soon to be bride. Pick Thurwood and climbing or me. However, there was one more mountain to climb before he could willingly put his axe and crampons away and marry Cassie. There would be one last climb for Bart and Thurwood and the mountain was Alaskas Denali. Its the beast on the edges of the Arctic Circle and one of the most formidable peaks Bart or any climber has ever encountered. You only get to the top, if the mountain lets you. The mountain seemed to be giving them permission to climb and then took it back. A spring storm came up and battered them almost into submission and all the while Cassie was waiting at the bottom.

Thunder Rolling Down the Mountain

Author: Agnieszka Biskup
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1429654724
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 18

Book Description
"In graphic novel format, explores the battles and hardships faced by Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce when they were forced to leave their homelands"--Provided by publisher.

What the Good Book Didn't Say

Author: J. Stephen Lang
Publisher: Citadel Press
ISBN: 9780806524603
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 340

Book Description
When it comes to the Bible, you have no idea what you don't really know. For ages, misconceptions about what it supposedly says and signifies have been passed down, repeated, and taken as Gospel. Now, for true believers and skeptics alike, Christian author J. Stephen Lang dispels common misunderstandings, shatters the inventions of modern translator, and corrects misguided assumptions by going to the source: the Bible itself.

Xu Xiake's Travels 徐霞客游记

Author: Xu Xiake
Publisher: DeepLogic
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
“Xu Xiake's Travels” (徐霞客游记) is a Chinese travelogue book, written in the 17th century. The book has 22 sections. It consists mainly of essays describing the travels of the Ming dynasty geographer Xu Xiake. Over 34 years, Xu produced more than 600,000 words, including works such as "Guizhou tour diary" and "Yunnan tour diary". This book offers detailed descriptions of geography, hydrology, geology, plants and other phenomena. It is also respected for its literary qualities and for its historicity.