Велма Уоллис0.0 Book Description Based on an Athabascan Indian legend passed along for many generations from mothers to daughters of the upper Yukon River Valley in Alaska, this is the suspenseful, shocking, ultimately inspirational tale of two old women
Барбара Дж. Скот0.0 “Barbara Scot gives us the Nepal she saw, touched, visited with a feminist’s respect for difference. Hers is a tale of sharing, and we are privileged to see through her eyes, understand through her exquisite sensibility.”—Margaret Randall
“This provocative book deserves attention from anyone interested in cross-cultural communication and the complex issues of development work.”—Yoga Journal
“Scot’s year in Nepal was extraordinary. What she discovered about herself, about Nepal and the Nepalis themselves is beautifully told.”—Seattle Times
“While Scot never sugarcoats the hardships, she fulfills two of the travel writer’s most important tasks: evoking a deep sense of place and instilling in readers a desire to go there.”—Booklist
The Violet Shyness of Their Eyes is a moving account of a Western woman’s transformative sojourn in Nepal. Barbara Scot demonstrates insight into cultural difference while confronting the complex issues of development work and the status of women in Nepal. In vivid descriptions of mountain climbs, moving stories of the Nepalis and the retelling of her personal memories, Scot challenges readers with women’s global struggles while nurturing a deep empathy and respect for the Nepali people. Scot updates her travels in this revised edition.
Barbara J. Scot is an avid climber, hiker and naturalist. She is the author of Prairie Reunion (Farrar, Strauss & Giroux), which received a New York Times Notable Book citation, and The Stations of Still Creek (Sierra Club Books). She lives on a houseboat near Portland, Oregon.
Иван Дойг0.0 Ivan Doig grew up with only a vague memory of his mother, Berneta, who died on his sixth birthday. Then he discovered a cache of her letters--and through them, a spunky, passionate, can-do woman as at home in the saddle as behind a sewing machine, and as in love with language as Doig would prove to be. In this moving prequel to his acclaimed memoir This House of Sky, Doig brings to life his childhood before his mother's death and the family's journey from the Montana mountains to the Arizona desert and back again. He eloquently captures the texture of the American West during and after World War II, the fortune of a family, and one woman's indomitable spirit.
Пит Фромм0.0 Winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Book Award, Indian Creek Chronicles is Pete Fromm's account of seven winter months spent alone in a tent in Idaho guarding salmon eggs and coming face to face with the blunt realities of life as a contemporary mountain man. A gripping story of adventure and a modern-day Walden, this contemporary classic established Fromm as one of the West's premier voices.
Карлос А. Швантес0.0 Remembering the trains that ran by his boyhood home, Carlos Schwantes says, "Never once did it occur to me to ponder whether we lived on the right or wrong side of the tracks. I only felt fortunate to have a front-row seat." Out of his lifelong fascination, blended with a historian's insight, he has fashioned a pathbreaking photohistory that shows the impact of the railroads on everyday life in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Montana.
The desert expanses were so great and the forests so dense in the Pacific Northwest that until the railroads scrawled their signatures across the land, it was doomed to remain an array of scattered, isolated settlements. But with the arrival of the twin ribbons of steel came enormous and lasting social and economic changes. Farmers in the Palouse had access to eastern markets for their grain; larger quantities of logs and ore arrived at distant mills and smelters; Willamette Valley fruit growers and orchardists found new consumers; Mount Rainier, Glacier National Park, Crater Lake, and Idaho's scenic spots became destinations for eager tourists; cities had links to the East. Railroad Signatures across the Pacific Northwest describes how the railroads fostered settlement, promoted tourism and economic growth, and helped to create the region's character.
Carlos Schwantes chronicles the complex and sometimes stormy history of the major railroads--the Northern Pacific, the Great Northern, the Union Pacific, and the Milwaukee--and also shows the role of smaller railroads such as the Sumpter Valley and the Idaho and Washington Northern. He includes portraits of the railroad titans--Henry Villard, James J. Hill, and E. H. Harriman--whose egos, ambitions, and competitiveness shaped the railroads that in turn shaped the region. The engaging and authoritative text and illustrations bring to life the experiences of both railroad passengers and workers.
The book includes more than 200 photographs, most previously unpublished, that document the trains, towns, people, and landscape of the Northwest. The exuberant posters and brochures that the railroads published in order to lure settlers and tourists to the region are reproduced in color.
Том Джонс0.0 Thom Jones made his literary debut in The New Yorker in 1991. Within six months his stories appeared in Harper's, Esquire, Mirabella, Story, Buzz, and in The New Yorker twice more. "The Pugilist at Rest" - the title story from this stunning collection - took first place in Prize Stories 1993: The O. Henry Awards and was selected for inclusion in Best American Short Stories 1992. He is a writer of astonishing talent. Jones's stories - whether set in the combat zones of Vietnam or the brittle social and intellectual milieu of an elite New England college, whether recounting the poignant last battles of an alcoholic ex-fighter or the hallucinatory visions of an American wandering lost in Bombay in the aftermath of an epileptic fugue - are fueled by an almost brutal vision of the human condition, in a world without mercy or redemption. Physically battered, soul-sick, and morally exhausted, Jones's characters are yet unable to concede defeat: his stories are infused with the improbable grace of the spirit that ought to collapse, but cannot. For in these extraordinary pieces of fiction, it is not goodness that finally redeems us, but the heart's illogical resilience, and the ennobling tenacity with which we cling to each other and to our lives. The publication of The Pugilist at Rest is a major literary event, heralding the arrival of an electrifying new voice in American fiction, and a writer of magnificent depth and range. With these eleven stories, Thom Jones takes his place among the ranks of this country's most important authors.
"A writer of rare vision and poetic eloquence."
--Robert Michael Pyle, New York Times Book Review
"Haines has always written with a beautiful ear. His early work distinguished itself by combining lucid images from the natural world with a dreamy inwardness. An imagination of solitude inhabited a solitary landscape; if the sensibility relished an ascetic purity, the body presented itself in the mouth's pleasure of vowel and in the eye's exactness. The later work ... retains these qualities-- sense and imagination-- while it adds more of the world and more of Haines' rigorous intelligence. He writes with a hard instrument on a hard surface, making no disposable verses."
--Donald Hall, The Nation
"His poems require concentration, rereading, and knowledge beyond what they impart, but the extra effort is richly, religiously rewarded."
--Ray Olson, Booklist
"If one views Haines' poetic development as a journey from the specific geography of the Alaskan wilderness to the uncharted places of the spirit, then that journey is now complete."
--Dana Gioia
Born in Norfolk, Virginia in 1924, John Haines studied at the National Art School, the American University, and the Hans Hoffmann School of Fine Art. He homesteaded in Alaska for over twenty years. He is the author of several major collections of poetry; a collection of reviews, essays, interviews, and autobiography, Living Off the Country (University of Michigan Press, 1981); and a memoir, The Stars, the Snow, the Fire (Graywolf Press, 1989). He has received numerous awards, including two Guggenheim Fellowships, a National Endowment for theArts Fellowship, the Alaska Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts, and most recently a Western State Arts Federation Lifetime Achievement Award and a Lenore Marshall/The Nation poetry prize for New Poems 1980-1988 (Story Line Press, 1990). He is currently a freelance writer and teacher and still spends part of each year in Alaska.
