Snow Nomad

Author: Alan Dennis
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1039108008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 220

Book Description
From bombs to bombillas, Snow Nomad: An Avalanche Memoir, chronicles the fifty seasons author Alan Dennis worked in the avalanche patch, travelling between Canada, New Zealand, Scotland and Argentina. This unconventional journey on an undulating career path is one riddled with wit and wisdom he gained when plying his trade at ski resorts, mining camps, highway operations, film sets and beyond. Dennis introspectively recalls the times when he was in over his head, but learned to rely on his training, intuition and, perhaps most of all, luck. Snow Nomad is a humble and heartfelt tribute to his family, friends and colleagues (and sometimes even foes) with who he shared these decades, whether shooting artillery in Canada’s remote reaches, scrambling up a summit in the Scottish Highlands or bunking in a mining camp in Argentina’s Andes.

Nomads of the Borneo Rainforest

Author: Bernard Sellato
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 9780824815660
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 316

Book Description
The Punan societies of Borneo, traditionally nomadic rainforest hunters and gatherers, have undergone a transformation over the past centuries. As downriver farming peoples expanded upstream and their cultures and technologies diffused, the Punan gradually abandoned their nomadic existence for a more sedentary life of trade-related activities and subsistence agriculture. But the culture that has emerged from these changes is still based on the enduring ideological premises of nomadism. This study, historical in perspective, examines the many factors-ecological, economic, commercial, political, social, cultural, and ideological-that have played a part in this continuing transformation. Foreword by Georges Condominas.

Beyond the Green Myth

Author: Peter G. Sercombe
Publisher: NIAS Press
ISBN: 8776940187
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400

Book Description
This is the first comprehensive picture of the nomadic and formerly nomadic hunting-gathering groups of the Borneo tropical rain forest, totaling about 20,000 people.

Female Nomad and Friends

Author: Rita Golden Gelman
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0307588017
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 354

Book Description
In 1987, Rita, newly divorced, set out to live her dream. She sold all her possessions and became a nomad. She wrote a book about her ongoing journey and, in 2001, insisted on putting her personal e-mail address in the last chapter—against all advice. It turned out to be a fortuitous decision. She has met thousands of readers, stayed in their homes, and sat around kitchen tables sharing stories and food and laughter. In this essay collection, Gelman includes her own further adventures, as well as those of writers and readers telling tales of the shared humanity they experienced in their travels. The stories are funny and sad, poignant and tender, familiar and bizarre. They will make you laugh and cry and maybe even send you off on your own adventure. Also included are fabulous international recipes such as vegetarian dolmades (stuffed grape leaves), chiles en nogada (stuffed poblano chiles topped with a white cream sauce with walnuts and a sprinkle of pomegranate seeds), and ho mok (an extraordinary fish-coconut custard from Thailand). Happy reading—and bon appétit, selamat makan, buen provecho!

Going Down River Road

Author: Meja Mwangi
Publisher: HM Books Intl.
ISBN: 0982012632
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 177

Book Description
Ben is a man on the move - in bars, in night clubs and in seedy pubs down Nairobi's River Road, where he meets Wini, a single mother trying to make it in the big city. They live together as man and wife until Wini escapes abroad with her employer leaving him the burden of bringing up her baby son. When Ben joins up with Ocholla, his bar-crawling, construction-site friend, life goes from strange to bizarre. Mwangi's treatment of the serious situation makes and unforgettable impact. MEJA MWANGI, the acclaimed author of "Going Down River Road," "The Cockroach Dance" and "Kill Me Quick," is an eclectic writer whose fascination with stories has created such varied works as "Bush Doctor," "Crossroads," "Carcase for Hounds," "Rafiki" and "Christmas Without Tusker" among others.

The Journal of a Sporting Nomad

Author: J. T. Studley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hunting
Languages : en
Pages : 414

Book Description

Trail of an Intellectual Nomad

Author: Brian Morris
Publisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 9996080315
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 732

Book Description
Leaving school at fifteen, Brian Morris has had a and varied career in Malawi, before becoming a university teacher. Now Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at Goldsmiths College, University of London, he is the author of numerous articles and books on anthropology, religion and symbolism, hunter gatherer societies, concepts of the individual and radical politics. His most recent books are Homage to Peasant Smallholders (Luviri Press 2022) and Anthropology and Dialectical Naturalism (Black Rose 2022). After writing much about Anthropology, Brian Morris finally shares about his life. While in his youth the academic future seemed very dim, an all consuming interest in nature was already there. The author does not only share the formative experiences in Malawi and India, but he also shares his intellectual development to become a Dialectical Anthropologist. His travel and research experiences are fascinating, and it is amazing how much fits into one life.

Downriver

Author: Iain Sinclair
Publisher: ePenguin
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 552

Book Description
The Thames runs through Downriver like an open wound, draining the pain and filth of London and its mercurial inhabitants. Commissioned to document the shifting embankments of failed industry and rampant property speculation, a film crew of magpie scavengers, high-rent low life, broken criminals and reborn lunatics pick over the river's detritus. They examine the wound, hoping to expose the cause of the city's affliction . . .

Doomstalker

Author: Glen Cook
Publisher: Start Publishing LLC
ISBN: 1627933077
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 257

Book Description
The world grows colder with each passing year, the longer winters and ever-deepening snows awaking ancient fears within the Dengan Packstead, fears of invasion by armed and desperate nomads, attack by the witchlike and mysterious Silth, able to kill with their minds alone, and of the Grauken, that desperate time when intellect gives way to buried cannibalistic instinct, when meth feeds upon meth. For Marika, a young pup of the Packstead, loyal to pack and family, times are dark indeed, for against these foes, the Packstead cannot prevail. But awakening within Marika is a power unmatched in all the world, a legendary power that may not just save her world, but allow her to grasp the stars themselves. From Glen Cook, author of the Black Company and Dread Empire novels. The first book in the Darkwar series.

Downriver Nomad

Author: Rob Hutchings
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780473588342
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 384

Book Description
Triathlete and marathon swimmer, Rob Hutchings takes us on a whirlwind journey from triathlons and his first marathon swim in his home country of Canada, to Ironman competitions across the pond. Then Down Under to Australia and New Zealand where he embarked on marathon adventures off the beaten track, on land and in the water, which led to his biggest challenge - an unprecedented attempt at swimming the turbulent 256 km Clutha River. In Downriver Nomad, Rob shares his story of adventures and adversities not only in the water, on the race-course and off the beaten track, but also his struggles with an alcoholic father and his own unsuccessful path to fatherhood. His is a story of humour, heartbreak and challenges that will inspire the absolute beginner in adventure sports to the seasoned endurance athlete. Join Rob on his nomadic adventures in triathlon, marathon swimming and adventure sports, packed with hairpin bends, whirlpools, rock dodging and white-water rapids.