Spirit Of A Mountain Wolf

Author : Rosanne Hawke
Publisher : Enslow Publishing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1623240379
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spirit of a Mountain Wolf written by Rosanne Hawke and published by Enslow Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fourteen-year-old Razaq Khan lives in the Pakistani tribal area of Kala Dhaka, Black Mountain. When an earthquake devastates his family home, Razaq's dying father tells him to travel to his uncle Javaid. A man preying on orphans lures Razaq to the city with the promise of finding his uncle, but it is not long before Razaq realizes he has not been helped at all, he has been sold into slavery. Losing hope while in captivity, Razaq meets Tahira, a young girl suffering just like him. Razaq feels a surge of something newûlove. Author Rosanne Hawke delivers a heart-wrenching story about friendship and sacrifice and the power of the human spirit, a mountain wolf's spirit, to overcome sexual exploitation, the most harrowing of circumstances.

Author : Rosanne Hawke
Publisher : Enslow Publishing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1623240336
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spirit of a Mountain Wolf written by Rosanne Hawke and published by Enslow Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fourteen-year-old Razaq Khan lives in the Pakistani tribal area of Kala Dhaka, Black Mountain. When an earthquake devastates his family home, Razaq's dying father tells him to travel to his uncle Javaid. A man preying on orphans lures Razaq to the city with the promise of finding his uncle, but it is not long before Razaq realizes he has not been helped at all, he has been sold into slavery. Losing hope while in captivity, Razaq meets Tahira, a young girl suffering just like him. Razaq feels a surge of something newûlove. Author Rosanne Hawke delivers a heart-wrenching story about friendship and sacrifice and the power of the human spirit, a mountain wolf's spirit, to overcome sexual exploitation, the most harrowing of circumstances.

Author : Gudrun Pflüger
Publisher : Rocky Mountain Books Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781771601276
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wolf Spirit written by Gudrun Pflüger and published by Rocky Mountain Books Incorporated. This book was released on 2015 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I really believe the encounter with the wolves in the wilderness was a powerful medication. They gave me strength." -- Gudrun Pflüger, in USA Today In 2005, elite marathon mountain runner and cross-country skier Gudrun Pflüger spent five weeks tracking and studying elusive coastal wolves by foot, kayak and sailboat along the rugged Pacific Coast of western Canada. Her daring and adventurous work as a field biologist eventually formed the basis for the Smithsonian Channel documentary A Woman Among Wolves. In the period between the completion of her research and the premier of this first documentary film, Pflüger was diagnosed with an aggressive brain cancer and told she had eighteen months to live. Eventually surgeons removed a tumour the size of a golf ball, and Pflüger underwent protracted chemotherapy and additional, non-conventional therapies in order to combat what some expected was an inevitable and all too common fate. During her prolonged and arduous recovery, she took the wolf - a true "endurance athlete" - as a model and re-immersed herself in what she hoped would be the restorative mountain environments of the British Columbia and Alberta backcountry in order to focus her traumatized mind and body on a path toward self-healing. Her difficult and reflective return to studying wolves in Canada led to another Smithsonian Channel documentary, Running With Wolves. It also included an event that defied the odds and astounded her doctors: after gruelling rounds of cancer treatment Gudrun became a mother, giving birth to a son, Conrad, in 2009. Through an intensely personal and emotional, yet rigorously scientific connection with the wolves she studies and the glorious landscape that surrounded her during this remarkable journey, Gudrun Pflüger tells an absorbing story of the transformative and healing power of nature, motherhood and one woman's goal to save the wolves she admires and bring her own threatened body and mind back to health.

Author : Brett L. Walker
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295989939
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lost Wolves of Japan written by Brett L. Walker and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2009-11-23 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many Japanese once revered the wolf as Oguchi no Magami, or Large-Mouthed Pure God, but as Japan began its modern transformation wolves lost their otherworldly status and became noxious animals that needed to be killed. By 1905 they had disappeared from the country. In this spirited and absorbing narrative, Brett Walker takes a deep look at the scientific, cultural, and environmental dimensions of wolf extinction in Japan and tracks changing attitudes toward nature through Japan's long history. Grain farmers once worshiped wolves at shrines and left food offerings near their dens, beseeching the elusive canine to protect their crops from the sharp hooves and voracious appetites of wild boars and deer. Talismans and charms adorned with images of wolves protected against fire, disease, and other calamities and brought fertility to agrarian communities and to couples hoping to have children. The Ainu people believed that they were born from the union of a wolflike creature and a goddess. In the eighteenth century, wolves were seen as rabid man-killers in many parts of Japan. Highly ritualized wolf hunts were instigated to cleanse the landscape of what many considered as demons. By the nineteenth century, however, the destruction of wolves had become decidedly unceremonious, as seen on the island of Hokkaido. Through poisoning, hired hunters, and a bounty system, one of the archipelago's largest carnivores was systematically erased. The story of wolf extinction exposes the underside of Japan's modernization. Certain wolf scientists still camp out in Japan to listen for any trace of the elusive canines. The quiet they experience reminds us of the profound silence that awaits all humanity when, as the Japanese priest Kenko taught almost seven centuries ago, we "look on fellow sentient creatures without feeling compassion."

Author : Mark W. Holdren
Publisher : Powell Hill Press
ISBN 13 : 9780976064800
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spirit Wolf written by Mark W. Holdren and published by Powell Hill Press. This book was released on 2009-11-30 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The haunting call of a phantom white wolf leads a nine-year-old blind boy on a mystic mountain journey. A grizzled woodsman, a Mohawk holy man, and an angelic wanderer open Jason Quinn's eyes to a wilderness world only he can see. Spirit Wolf reaches its thundering climax Christmas Day when the call of the wild embraces Jason with its irresistible magic.

Author : Richard P. Reading
Publisher : Fulcrum Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Awakening Spirits written by Richard P. Reading and published by Fulcrum Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How and why we should save wolves in the Southern Rockies.

Author : Aaron T. Wolf
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 1610916174
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Spirit of Dialogue written by Aaron T. Wolf and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2017-09-14 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over more than twenty years as a mediator, Aaron T. Wolf has learned that successful conflict resolution is shaped by complicated dynamics--from how comfortable the meeting room is to the participants' deepest senses of self. Bridging seemingly intractable issues means addressing multiple layers of needs. Wolf's approach may be surprising to Westerners who are accustomed to separating rationality from spirituality and science from religion. The Spirit of Dialogue draws lessons from a diversity of faith traditions to transform conflict, from identifying the root cause of anger to aligning with an energy beyond oneself--what Christians call grace--to the true listening practiced by Buddhist monks. Whether atheist or fundamentalist, Muslim or Jewish, Quaker or Hindu, any reader involved in difficult dialogue will find concrete steps towards a meeting of souls.

Author : Diane Holliday
Publisher : Wisconsin Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 0870205404
Total Pages : 87 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mountain Wolf Woman written by Diane Holliday and published by Wisconsin Historical Society. This book was released on 2013-12-03 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the seasons of the year as a backdrop, author Diane Holliday describes what life was like for a Ho-Chunk girl who lived in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Central to the story is the movement of Mountain Wolf Woman and her family in and around Wisconsin. Like many Ho-Chunk people in the mid-1800s, Mountain Wolf Woman's family was displaced to Nebraska by the U.S. government. They later returned to Wisconsin but continued to relocate throughout the state as the seasons changed to gather and hunt food. Based on her own autobiography as told to anthropologist Nancy Lurie, Mountain Wolf Woman's words are used throughout the book to capture her feelings and memories during childhood. Author Holliday draws young readers into this Badger Biographies series book by asking them to think about how the lives of their ancestors and how their lives today compare to the way Mountain Wolf Woman lived over a hundred years ago.

Author : Mountain Wolf Woman
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472061099
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mountain Wolf Woman, Sister of Crashing Thunder written by Mountain Wolf Woman and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1961 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic ethnography of continuing importance

Author : Elizabeth A. Johnson
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1472903757
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ask the Beasts: Darwin and the God of Love written by Elizabeth A. Johnson and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-01-16 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For millennia plant and animal species have received little sustained attention as subjects of Christian theology and ethics in their own right. Focused on the human dilemma of sin and redemptive grace, theology has considered the doctrine of creation to be mainly an overture to the main drama of human being`s relationship to God. What value does the natural world have within the framework of religious belief? The crisis of biodiversity in our day, when species are going extinct at more than 1,000 times the natural rate, renders this question acutely important. Standard perspectives need to be realigned; theology needs to look out of the window, so to speak as well as in the mirror. Ask the Beasts: Darwin and the God of Love leads to the conclusion that love of the natural world is an intrinsic element of faith in God and that far from being an add-on, ecological care is at the centre of moral life.