Backlands

Author : Michael McGarrity
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0451471660
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Backlands written by Michael McGarrity and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the New York Times bestselling Hard Country, Michael McGarrity gave readers “an expansive, lyrical period Western in the tradition of A. B. Guthrie Jr. and Larry McMurtry” (Hampton Sides). Now McGarrity continues his richly authentic epic of life on the last vestiges of the twentieth-century American frontier. Scarred by the loss of an older brother he idolized, estranged from a father he barely knows, and deeply troubled by the failing health of a mother he adores, young Matthew Kerney is suddenly and irrevocably forced to set aside his childhood and take on responsibilities far beyond his years. When the world spirals into the Great Depression and drought settles like a plague over the nation, Matt must abandon his own dreams to salvage the Kerney ranch. Plunged into a deep trough of dark family secrets, hidden crimes, broken promises, and lies, Matt must struggle to survive on the unforgiving, sun-blasted Tularosa Basin.

Author : Euclides da Cunha
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101460857
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Backlands written by Euclides da Cunha and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-05-25 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An important new translation of a fundamental work of Brazilian literature Written by a former army lieutenant, civil engineer, and journalist, Backlands is Euclides da Cunha's vivid and poignant portrayal of Brazil's infamous War of Canudos. The deadliest civil war in Brazilian history, the conflict during the 1890s was between the government and the village of Canudos in the northeastern state of Bahia, which had been settled by 30,000 followers of the religious zealot Antonio Conselheiro. Far from just an objective retelling, da Cunha's story shows both the significance of this event and the complexities of Brazilian society. Published here in a new translation by Elizabeth Lowe, and featuring an introduction by one of the foremost scholars of Latin America, this is sure to remain one of the best chronicles of war ever penned.

Author : Euclides da Cunha
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226124452
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rebellion in the Backlands written by Euclides da Cunha and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-01-15 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Euclides da Cunha's classic account of the brutal campaigns against religious mystic Antonio Conselheiro has been called the Bible of Brazilian nationality. "Euclides da Cunha went on the campaigns [against Conselheiro] as a journalist and what he returned with and published in 1902 is still unsurpassed in Latin American literature. Cunha is a talent as grand, spacious, entangled with knowledge, curiosity, and bafflement as the country itself. . . . On every page there is a heart of idea, speculation, dramatic observation that tells of a creative mission undertaken, the identity of the nation, and also the creation of a pure and eloquent prose style."—Elizabeth Hardwick, Bartleby in Manhattan

Author : Michael Roy
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1789694884
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pits and Boots: Excavation of Medieval and Post-medieval Backlands under the Bon Accord Centre, Aberdeen written by Michael Roy and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2021-05-13 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excavations in 2007-8, ahead of an extension to the Bon Accord Centre in Aberdeen, uncovered backlands that would have formed part of the industrial quarter of the medieval town. The excavation charts the changing nature of the area, from an industrial zone in the medieval period, to horticultural and domestic spaces in post-medieval times.

Author : Milton Tosto
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739109861
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Meaning of Liberalism in Brazil written by Milton Tosto and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Meaning of Liberalism in Brazil explores the consequences of globalization in emerging-market economies using Brazil as a case study. This well-researched and thought provoking book elaborates a new interpretation of Brazilian society by showing the relationship between political thought and economics, as well as how the two disciplines can interact, working together to shape a nation. Milton Tosto Jr. carefully traces the meaning of liberalism throughout Brazilian history, explaining liberalism's birth and collapse, and ultimately offers reasons why the new liberal institutions of Brazil have an excellent chance of prospering. Anyone interested in economics, political theory, or Latin American studies will find this unique and insightful volume helpful.

Author : Victoria Shorr
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393246035
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Backlands: A Novel written by Victoria Shorr and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2015-05-11 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this Bonnie and Clyde story of love and betrayal, a band of outlaws fight for control of the brutal Brazilian outback. Set in the sparse frontier settlements of northeastern Brazil—a dry, forbidding, and wild region the size of Texas, known locally as the Sertão—Backlands tells the true story of a group of nomadic outlaws who reigned over the area from about 1922 until 1938. Taking from the rich, admired—and feared—by the poor, they were led by the famously charismatic bandit Lampião. The gang maintained their influence by fighting off all the police and soldiers the region could muster. A one-eyed goat rancher who first set out to avenge his father's murder in a lawless land, Lampião proved to be too good a leader, fighter, and strategist to ever return home again. By 1925 he commanded the biggest gang of outlaws in Brazil. Known to this day as a "prince," Lampião had everything: brains, money, power, charisma, and luck. Everything but love, until he met Maria Bonita. "You teach me to make lace, and I'll teach you to make love"—this was the song the bandits marched to, across the vast open reaches of their starkly beautiful backlands, and it was Maria Bonita who made it come true. She was stuck in a loveless marriage when she met Lampião, but she rode off with him, becoming "Queen of the Bandits." Together the couple—still celebrated folk heroes—would become the country's most wanted figures, protecting their extraordinary freedom through cunning. Victoria Shorr's stunning literary debut tells Maria's story, her narrative of the intense freedoms, terrors, and sorrows of this chosen life, the end of which is clear to her all along. With the federal government in Rio mobilizing against the bandits, Backlands describes the epic final days of Lampião’s "fatal month," July on the River of Disorder, as the gang struggles to summon their good star to save them one more time.

Author : Michael McGarrity
Publisher : Dutton
ISBN 13 : 0451417143
Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hard Country written by Michael McGarrity and published by Dutton. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the deaths of his wife and brother, John Kerney gives up his West Texas ranch and heads south in search of a new home. Soon Kerney is offered work trailing cattle to the New Mexico Territory--a job that will forever change his life.

Author : João Guimarães Rosa
Publisher : New York : Knopf
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Devil to Pay in the Backlands written by João Guimarães Rosa and published by New York : Knopf. This book was released on 1963 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NOVEL OF NORTHERN BRAZIL BY ONE OF THE LEADING BRAZILIAN AUTHORS.

Author : Euclides da Cunha
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 614 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rebellion in the Backlands (Os Sertões) written by Euclides da Cunha and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Selden Rodman
Publisher : Old Greenwich, Conn. : Devin-Adair Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Genius in the Backlands written by Selden Rodman and published by Old Greenwich, Conn. : Devin-Adair Company. This book was released on 1977 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: