Running on the Red Dust

Author: Colin Thomas
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 76

Book Description
Foreword, by Olympic athlete, Zane Robertson. East African runners have always inspired me; that's why I came to Kenya as a teenager. To be the best running version of myself, I had to live and train with the best, and absorb what is useful from the surroundings. When I stand on the start line, ready to race against Kenyans, I don't fear them. I consider myself to be partly one of them. One thing is for sure- Kenyans know how to run. This book captures the Kenyan running phenomenon in an experiential and realistic way. How they train, how they live, what they eat and even how they think. It explains the struggles, hardships and hard work that it takes to reach the top. Packed with training tips, this book will help every runner assess their own training and improve their running.Colin has made many visits to Iten and spent time helping a number of athletes. When he is here in Iten, he lives the proper way with us locals. That's the best way to learn about the Kenyan way of life. Running on the Red Dust reminds me of great memories from over the years and I am sure it will inspire and educate you to improve your running and learn about life in Kenya.

Red Dust

Author: John DeBevec
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595001122
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 268

Book Description
Red Dust is a daring work of the imagination. Set against the powerful backdrop of the Mesabi Iron Range in Minnesota, author John De Bevec weaves a vibrant, moving saga of immigrants in the new land of America. Range life becomes alive. Hockey stars are born. Deftly intertwining two families lives it is spiced with exciting sports, feasting, and touched with tragedy. De Bevec creates an unforgettable novel, rich with literary grace and memorable characterizations. A great American read!

Red Dust

Author: Gillian Slovo
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393041484
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 356

Book Description
"Perhaps the most important piece of fiction yet to emerge from the new South Africa." "San Francisco Chronicle "

Red Dust Road

Author: Jackie Kay
Publisher: Atlas and Company
ISBN: 1935633341
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 305

Book Description
Originally published: London: Picador, 2010.

Red Dust

Author: Ma Jian
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0307427412
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 403

Book Description
In 1983, at the age of thirty, dissident artist Ma Jian finds himself divorced by his wife, separated from his daughter, betrayed by his girlfriend, facing arrest for “Spiritual Pollution,” and severely disillusioned with the confines of life in Beijing. So with little more than a change of clothes and two bars of soap, Ma takes off to immerse himself in the remotest parts of China. His journey would last three years and take him through smog-choked cities and mountain villages, from scenes of barbarity to havens of tranquility. Remarkably written and subtly moving, the result is an insight into the teeming contradictions of China that only a man who was both insider and outsider in his own country could have written.

Red Dust

Author: Paul McAuley
Publisher: Gateway
ISBN: 0575088389
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 307

Book Description
Mars, 600 years in the future, is dying. Five hundred years after the Chinese conquered the Red Planet, the great work of terraforming is failing. The human-machine Consensus of Earth had persuaded the AI Emperor to follow the Golden Path into a vast virtual reality universe, leaving behind an ungoverned planet swept by hunger riots and the beginnings of civil war. Enter Wei Lee, a lowly itinerant agricultural technician: rock 'n' roll fan, dupe, holy fool - and unlikely Messiah. After stumbling on an anarchist pilot hiding near the wreckage of her spacecraft, he's drawn into a revolutionary plot that has been spinning for decades. With the help of a ghost, the broadcasts of the King of the Cats, a Yankee yak herder, and a little Girl God, Lee travels across the badlands, swampy waterways and vast dust seas to a showdown at the summit of the biggest volcano in the Solar System. Not even the God-like Consensus can predict the outcome of his struggle to define his own destiny . . . Epic in scope, Red Dust's spectacular, fast-paced story brilliantly brings to life the planet that has captured our imagination like no other.

Years of Red Dust

Author: Qiu Xiaolong
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9781429942614
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240

Book Description
Published originally in the pages of Le Monde, this collection of linked short stories by Qiu Xiaolong has already been a major bestseller in France (Cite de la Poussiere Rouge) and Germany (Das Tor zur Roten Gasse), where it and the author was the subject of a major television documentary. The stories in Years of Red Dust trace the changes in modern China over fifty years—from the early days of the Communist revolution in 1949 to the modernization movement of the late nineties—all from the perspective of one small street in Shanghai, Red Dust Lane. From the early optimism at the end of the Chinese Civil War, through the brutality and upheaval of the Cultural Revolution, to the death of Mao, the pro-democracy movement and the riots in Tiananmen Square—history, on both an epic and personal scale, unfolds through the bulletins posted and the lives lived in this one lane, this one corner of Shanghai.

Out of the Dust (Scholastic Gold)

Author: Karen Hesse
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545517125
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 254

Book Description
Acclaimed author Karen Hesse's Newbery Medal-winning novel-in-verse explores the life of fourteen-year-old Billie Jo growing up in the dust bowls of Oklahoma. Out of the Dust joins the Scholastic Gold line, which features award-winning and beloved novels. Includes exclusive bonus content!"Dust piles up like snow across the prairie. . . ."A terrible accident has transformed Billie Jo's life, scarring her inside and out. Her mother is gone. Her father can't talk about it. And the one thing that might make her feel better -- playing the piano -- is impossible with her wounded hands.To make matters worse, dust storms are devastating the family farm and all the farms nearby. While others flee from the dust bowl, Billie Jo is left to find peace in the bleak landscape of Oklahoma -- and in the surprising landscape of her own heart.

The Red Dust

Author: Murray Leinster
Publisher: The Floating Press
ISBN: 1776591119
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 84

Book Description
Murray Leinster's science-fiction novella "The Red Dust" is a sequel to his previous story, "The Mad Planet." In the future, humans are no longer running things on Earth. Instead, a race of giant insects has taken over, forcing subservient humans to regress to a primitive state. But a new danger is on the horizon that could mean the end for everyone.

The Century

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 996

Book Description