Author: Eça de QueirósPublisher:
ISBN: 9780835794800
Category : Portugal
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
The City & the Mountains
Author: Eça de QueirósPublisher:
ISBN: 9780835794800
Category : Portugal
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Making Mountains
Author: David StradlingPublisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295989890
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
For over two hundred years, the Catskill Mountains have been repeatedly and dramatically transformed by New York City. In Making Mountains, David Stradling shows the transformation of the Catskills landscape as a collaborative process, one in which local and urban hands, capital, and ideas have come together to reshape the mountains and the communities therein. This collaboration has had environmental, economic, and cultural consequences. Early on, the Catskills were an important source of natural resources. Later, when New York City needed to expand its water supply, engineers helped direct the city toward the Catskills, claiming that the mountains offered the purest and most cost-effective waters. By the 1960s, New York had created the great reservoir and aqueduct system in the mountains that now supplies the city with 90 percent of its water. The Catskills also served as a critical space in which the nation's ideas about nature evolved. Stradling describes the great influence writers and artists had upon urban residents - especially the painters of the Hudson River School, whose ideal landscapes created expectations about how rural America should appear. By the mid-1800s, urban residents had turned the Catskills into an important vacation ground, and by the late 1800s, the Catskills had become one of the premiere resort regions in the nation. In the mid-twentieth century, the older Catskill resort region was in steep decline, but the Jewish "Borscht Belt" in the southern Catskills was thriving. The automobile revitalized mountain tourism and residence, and increased the threat of suburbanization of the historic landscape. Throughout each of these significant incarnations, urban and rural residents worked in a rough collaboration, though not without conflict, to reshape the mountains and American ideas about rural landscapes and nature.
Out of the Mountains
Author: David KilcullenPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190230967
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Analyzes four megatrends—population growth, urbanization, coastal life and connectedness-and concludes that future conflict is increasingly likely to occur in sprawling coastal cities; in underdeveloped regions of the Middle East, Africa, Latin America and Asia; and in highly networked, connected settings, in a book that also looks at gangs, cartels and warlords.
The Mountains Next Door
Author: Janice Emily BowersPublisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816546991
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
A charming natural history (inclined to botany) of the Rincon Mountains of SE Arizona. But the location is not carefully specified.
From the Mountains to the Cities
Author: Mark A. NathanPublisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824876156
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
At the start of the twentieth century, the Korean Buddhist tradition was arguably at the lowest point in its 1,500-year history in the peninsula. Discriminatory policies and punitive measures imposed on the monastic community during the Chosŏn dynasty (1392–1910) had severely weakened Buddhist institutions. Prior to 1895, monastics were prohibited by law from freely entering major cities and remained isolated in the mountains where most of the surviving temples and monasteries were located. In the coming decades, profound changes in Korean society and politics would present the Buddhist community with new opportunities to pursue meaningful reform. The central pillar of these reform efforts was p’ogyo, the active propagation of Korean Buddhist teachings and practices, which subsequently became a driving force behind the revitalization of Buddhism in twentieth-century Korea. From the Mountains to the Cities traces p’ogyo from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first century. While advocates stressed the traditional roots and historical precedents of the practice, they also viewed p’ogyo as an effective method for the transformation of Korean Buddhism into a modern religion—a strategy that proved remarkably resilient as a response to rapidly changing social, political, and legal environments. As an organizational goal, the concerted effort to propagate Buddhism conferred legitimacy and legal recognition on Buddhist temples and institutions, enabled the Buddhist community to compete with religious rivals (especially Christian missionaries), and ultimately provided a vehicle for transforming a “mountain-Buddhism” tradition, as it was pejoratively called, into a more accessible and socially active religion with greater lay participation and a visible presence in the cities. Ambitious and meticulously researched, From the Mountains to the Cities will find a ready audience among researchers and scholars of Korean history and religion, modern Buddhist reform movements in Asia, and those interested in religious missions and proselytization more generally.
At The Mountains Of Madness
Author: H.P. LovecraftPublisher: Prabhat Prakashan
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 111
Book Description
Embark on a chilling expedition to the icy heart of Antarctica with "At The Mountains Of Madness" by H.P. Lovecraft. In this classic tale of cosmic horror, Lovecraft transports readers to the desolate and unforgiving landscape of the Antarctic continent, where an ill-fated scientific expedition uncovers ancient and otherworldly secrets. Are you ready to journey into the unknown and confront the eldritch horrors lurking in the frozen depths? In "At The Mountains Of Madness," Lovecraft weaves a tale of terror and suspense as the expedition team ventures deeper into the icy wilderness, encountering inexplicable phenomena and encountering creatures beyond human comprehension. As the mysteries of Antarctica unravel, the characters grapple with their own sanity and the implications of their discoveries. But here's the real question: Will you dare to follow in the footsteps of the doomed expedition and uncover the truth hidden beneath the Antarctic ice? Are you prepared to confront the cosmic horrors that lie dormant in the depths of the Earth? Experience the spine-tingling thrills of Lovecraftian horror. Lose yourself in the eerie atmosphere and mind-bending terror of "At The Mountains Of Madness." Don't miss your chance to delve into one of H.P. Lovecraft's most iconic works. Purchase your copy of "At The Mountains Of Madness" today and prepare to be haunted by the chilling visions of the Antarctic wasteland.
The city of the Saints : and across the Rocky mountains to California
Author: Sir Richard Francis BurtonPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN:
Category : Latter Day Saints
Languages : en
Pages : 748
Book Description
Towns of the Sandia Mountains
Author: Mike SmithPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738548524
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Despite their seemingly impenetrable western facade, the Sandia Mountains of central New Mexico have been home to humankind for millennia. Ancient cultures ventured into these peaks for the creeks, game, and shelter. The Spanish established protective outposts along the canyons and intermarried with local tribes. Civil War soldiers passed through en route to their infamous battle at Glorieta Pass. Navajos marched around the mountains' southern end after the confinement that ended their Long Walk. Anglo settlers cleared the hilly land and built cabins. And tuberculosis patients moved up into primitive resorts, hoping that the mountains' abundant sunshine and fresh air would help them heal. Today the tiny resorts and traditional hamlets of the Sandias are established villages and communitiesAa-Carnuel, Tijeras, San Antonio, Cedar Crest, Sandia Park, San Antonito, Placitas, and othersAa-and the rough dirt roads that once saw the passing of ox carts are highways and even an interstate. The area's history lives on, however, in crumbling adobe walls, bits of rust, fading memories, and in this photographic retrospective.
The Mountains of Mumbai
Author: Labanya GhoshPublisher: Karadi Tales Picturebooks
ISBN: 9788193654293
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
A young girl from Mumbai, India, is determined to show her friend from picturesque Ladakh that big cities have mountains too.
Woman Running in the Mountains
Author: Yuko TsushimaPublisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1681375974
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Set in 1970s Japan, this tender and poetic novel about a young, single mother struggling to find her place in the world is an early triumph by a modern Japanese master. Alone at dawn, in the heat of midsummer, a young woman named Takiko Odaka departs on foot for the hospital to give birth to a baby boy. Her pregnancy, the result of a brief affair with a married man, is a source of sorrow and shame to her abusive parents. For Takiko, however, it is a cause for reverie. Her baby, she imagines, will be hers and hers alone, a challenge that she also hopes will free her. Takiko’s first year as a mother is filled with the intense bodily pleasures and pains that come from caring for a newborn. At first she seeks refuge in the company of other women—in the hospital, in her son’s nursery—but as the baby grows, her life becomes less circumscribed as she explores Tokyo, then ventures beyond the city into the countryside, toward a mountain that captures her imagination and desire for a wilder freedom.