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Author : Giuseppe Verdi
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 8 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)
Download or read book Home to Our Mountains written by Giuseppe Verdi and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Elder
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674748880
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)
Download or read book Reading the Mountains of Home written by John Elder and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Small farms once occupied the heights that John Elder calls home, but now only a few cellar holes and tumbled stone walls remain among the dense stands of maple, beech, and hemlocks on these Vermont hills. Reading the Mountains of Homeis a journey into these verdant reaches where in the last century humans tried their hand and where bear and moose now find shelter. As John Elder is our guide, so Robert Frost is Elder's companion, his great poem "Directive" seeing us through a landscape in which nature and literature, loss and recovery, are inextricably joined. Over the course of a year, Elder takes us on his hikes through the forested uplands between South Mountain and North Mountain, reflecting on the forces of nature, from the descent of the glaciers to the rush of the New Haven River, that shaped a plateau for his village of Bristol; and on the human will that denuded and farmed and abandoned the mountains so many years ago. His forays wind through the flinty relics of nineteenth-century homesteads and Abenaki settlements, leading to meditations on both human failure and the possibility for deeper communion with the land and others. An exploration of the body and soul of a place, an interpretive map of its natural and literary life, Reading the Mountains of Home strikes a moving balance between the pressures of civilization and the attraction of wilderness. It is a beautiful work of nature writing in which human nature finds its place, where the reader is invited to follow the last line of Frost's "Directive," to "Drink and be whole again beyond confusion."
Author : Celia Lottridge
Publisher : Groundwood Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1554981905
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)
Download or read book Home is Beyond the Mountains written by Celia Lottridge and published by Groundwood Books Ltd. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the IODE Violet Downey Book Award Samira is only nine years old when the Turkish army invades northwestern Persia in 1918, and she and her parents, brother and baby sister are driven from their tiny village. Taking only what they can carry, they flee into the mountains, but the journey is so difficult that only Samira and her older brother, Benyamin, survive. When Samira finally arrives in a refugee camp, it is her friendship with another orphan, Anna, that pulls her out of her sadness. And when the two girls are given a toddler named Elias to care for, they form a new kind of family. Over the years the children are shunted from one refugee camp to another, from Persia to Iraq and back again, and finally end up in an orphanage, where it seems that they will live out their childhood. Then a new orphanage director arrives -- Susan Shedd, a woman whose authority and energy Samira has never seen before. And Samira’s respect turns to amazement when Miss Shedd decides that she will take the three hundred children back to their home villages to make new lives for themselves. It will be a journey of three hundred miles, through the mountains, and it will be made on foot.
Author : Victor Talking Machine Company
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)
Download or read book Victor Records written by Victor Talking Machine Company and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Spilsbury
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1508145636
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)
Download or read book At Home in the Mountains written by Richard Spilsbury and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life exists everywhere—even at the top of a mountain! This title introduces readers to the world of mountain biomes, exploring the plants, animals, and insects that make this habitat unique. Written to support elementary life science curricula, the text illustrates how each creature in a biome plays an important role in an ecosystem’s survival. Readers learn about the relationships between creatures in a habitat and how human intervention can upset the balance. Fact boxes offer informative facts about adaptation, while a simple globe map identifies where in the world mountain biomes are found. Readers are sure to delight in the detailed color photographs that accompany this high-interest title!
Author : Friedrich von Flotow
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 6 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)
Download or read book Over Mountains, Through the Valley written by Friedrich von Flotow and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)
Download or read book Catalog of Victor Records written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Brian O. K. Reeves
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)
Download or read book "Our Mountains are Our Pillows" written by Brian O. K. Reeves and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Guy Carawan
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820318825
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)
Download or read book Voices from the Mountains written by Guy Carawan and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rich mosaic of photographs, words, and songs, Voices from the Mountains tells the turbulent story of the Appalachian South in the twentieth century. Focusing on the abuses of the coal industry and the grassroots struggle against mine owners that began in the 1960s, Guy and Candie Carawan have gathered quotations from a variety of sources; words and music to more than fifty ballads and songs, laments and satires, hymns and protests; and more than one hundred and fifty photographs of longtime Appalachian residents, their homes, their countryside, the mines they work in, and the labor battles they have fought. The "voices" that speak out in these pages range from the mountain people themselves to such well-known artists as Jean Ritchie, Hazel Dickens, Harriet Simpson Arnow, and Wendell Berry. Together they tell of the damage wrought by strip mining and the empty promises of land reclamation; the search for work and a new life in the North; the welfare rights, labor, antipoverty, and black lung movements; early days in the mines; disasters and negligence in the coal industry; and protest and change in the coal fields. Dignity and despair, poverty and perseverance, tradition and change--Voices from the Mountains eloquently conveys the complex panorama of modern Appalachian life.
Author : Christopher Morris
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317094603
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)
Download or read book Modernism and the Cult of Mountains: Music, Opera, Cinema written by Christopher Morris and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adopting and transforming the Romantic fascination with mountains, modernism in the German-speaking lands claimed the Alps as a space both of resistance and of escape. This new 'cult of mountains' reacted to the symptoms and alienating forces associated with modern culture, defining and reinforcing models of subjectivity based on renewed wholeness and an aggressive attitude to physical and mental health. The arts were critical to this project, none more so than music, which occupied a similar space in Austro-German culture: autonomous, pure, sublime. In Modernism and the Cult of Mountains opera serves as a nexus, shedding light on the circulation of contesting ideas about politics, nature, technology and aesthetics. Morris investigates operatic representations of the high mountains in German modernism, showing how the liminal quality of the landscape forms the backdrop for opera's reflexive engagement with the identity and limits of its constituent media, not least music. This operatic reflexivity, in which the very question of music's identity is repeatedly restaged, invites consideration of musical encounters with mountains in other genres, and Morris shows how these issues resonate in Strauss's Alpine Symphony and in the Bergfilm (mountain film). By using music and the ideology of mountains to illuminate aspects of each other, Morris makes an original and valuable contribution to the critical study of modernism.
