Author: Jesse StuartPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Using the loopholes in the welfare system, a Kentucky family abandons its former state of poverty and begins a new life.
The Land Beyond the River
Author: Jesse StuartPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Using the loopholes in the welfare system, a Kentucky family abandons its former state of poverty and begins a new life.
Land Beyond the River
Author: Monica WhitlockPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 146687239X
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Along the banks of the river once called Oxus lie the heartlands of Central Asia: Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. Catapulted into the news by events in Afghanistan, just across the water, these strategically important, intriguing and beautiful countries remain almost completely unknown to the outside world. In this book, Monica Whitlock goes far beyond the headlines. Using eyewitness accounts, unpublished letters and firsthand reporting, she enters into the lives of the Central Asians and reveals a dramatic and moving human story unfolding over three generations. There is Muhammadjan, called 'Hindustani', a diligent seminary student in the holy city of Bukhara until the 1917 revolution tore up the old order. Exiled to Siberia as a shepherd and then conscripted into the Red Army, he survived to become the inspiration for a new generation of clerics. Henrika was one of tens of thousands of Poles who walked and rode through Central Asia on their way to a new life in Iran, where she lives to this day. Then there were the proud Pioneer children who grew up in the certainty that the Soviet Union would last forever, only to find themselves in a new world that they had never imagined. In Central Asia, the extraordinary is commonplace and there is not a family without a remarkable story to tell. Land Beyond the River is both a chronicle of a century and a clear-eyed, authoritative view of contemporary events.
Beyond the River
Author: Ann HagedornPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0684870665
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Traces the story of John Rankin and the heroes of the Ripley, Ohio, line of the Underground Railroad, identifying the pre-Civil War conflicts between abolitionists and slave chasers along the Ohio River banks.
Land Beyond the River
Author: Loften MitchellPublisher: Pioneer Drama Service, Inc.
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
When the television production of Roots exploded on the educational scene, it brought about a tremendous interest in the history of Blacks in America. This play offers a different look at the same struggle for freedom. It is based on the true story of the integration movement in education. Although rich in gentle humor, the play builds to a violent and frightening climax. This outstanding play was selected by the Houghton Mifflin Company as part of their Afro-American Literature series.
Little Ernest, Or, The Land Beyond the River
Author: A Land Beyond the River
Author: Loften MitchellThe Lost Panoramas
Author: Richard CahanPublisher:
ISBN: 9780978545000
Category : Automobile industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
With more than 150 never-before-published duotone images, taken between 1892 and 1930, this collection explores the history of the Chicago River and the impact its reversal had on the watershed all the way to the Mississippi River. Offering the most complete description available of the river reversal, the stories told here provide a better understanding as to how it was done and why it was necessary, as well as how the water from the Chicago River is treated. The photographs were pulled from a glass plate photo collection taken by the Sanitary District of Chicago.
The Land Beyond the Forest
Author: Emily GerardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Romanies
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Beyond the River Yei
Author: Binyavanga WainainaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African trypanosomiasis
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Goodbye to a River
Author: John GravesPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307773353
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
In the 1950s, a series of dams was proposed along the Brazos River in north-central Texas. For John Graves, this project meant that if the stream’s regimen was thus changed, the beautiful and sometimes brutal surrounding countryside would also change, as would the lives of the people whose rugged ancestors had eked out an existence there. Graves therefore decided to visit that stretch of the river, which he had known intimately as a youth. Goodbye to a River is his account of that farewell canoe voyage. As he braves rapids and fatigue and the fickle autumn weather, he muses upon old blood feuds of the region and violent skirmishes with native tribes, and retells wild stories of courage and cowardice and deceit that shaped both the river’s people and the land during frontier times and later. Nearly half a century after its initial publication, Goodbye to a River is a true American classic, a vivid narrative about an exciting journey and a powerful tribute to a vanishing way of life and its ever-changing natural environment.