The Lower River

The Lower River
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Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages : 361
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ISBN-10 : 9780547746500
ISBN-13 : 0547746504
Rating : 4/5 (00 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Lower River by : Paul Theroux

Download or read book The Lower River written by Paul Theroux and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2012 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A taut, tense, darkly suspenseful novel about a man who flees to Africa after his marriage falls apart, only to be caught up in a precarious situation in a seemingly benign village.

Birds of the Lower Colorado River Valley

Birds of the Lower Colorado River Valley
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Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Total Pages : 448
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ISBN-10 : 0816511748
ISBN-13 : 9780816511747
Rating : 4/5 (48 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Birds of the Lower Colorado River Valley by : Kenneth V. Rosenberg

Download or read book Birds of the Lower Colorado River Valley written by Kenneth V. Rosenberg and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the status, distribution, ecology, migration and vagrancy, food habits, and breeding biology of birds found in this area, and also suggests accessible areas for bird watching

River of Life, Channel of Death

River of Life, Channel of Death
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 338
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ISBN-10 : MINN:31951D017963886
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (86 Downloads)

Book Synopsis River of Life, Channel of Death by : Keith Petersen

Download or read book River of Life, Channel of Death written by Keith Petersen and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "As hip and breathless as William Gibson, but spiced with dark humor and the horrible realisation that Noon knows of what he writes....Vurtis passionate, distinctive, demanding and enthralling--first-time novelist Noon has started with a bang."--The London Times.

The People of the River

The People of the River
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Publisher : UNC Press Books
Total Pages : 243
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ISBN-10 : 9781469643250
ISBN-13 : 1469643251
Rating : 4/5 (50 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The People of the River by : Oscar de la Torre

Download or read book The People of the River written by Oscar de la Torre and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2018-08-17 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this history of the black peasants of Amazonia, Oscar de la Torre focuses on the experience of African-descended people navigating the transition from slavery to freedom. He draws on social and environmental history to connect them intimately to the natural landscape and to Indigenous peoples. Relying on this world as a repository for traditions, discourses, and strategies that they retrieved especially in moments of conflict, Afro-Brazilians fought for autonomous communities and developed a vibrant ethnic identity that supported their struggles over labor, land, and citizenship. Prior to abolition, enslaved and escaped blacks found in the tropical forest a source for tools, weapons, and trade--but it was also a cultural storehouse within which they shaped their stories and records of confrontations with slaveowners and state authorities. After abolition, the black peasants' knowledge of local environments continued to be key to their aspirations, allowing them to maintain relationships with powerful patrons and to participate in the protest cycle that led Getulio Vargas to the presidency of Brazil in 1930. In commonly referring to themselves by such names as "sons of the river," black Amazonians melded their agro-ecological traditions with their emergent identity as political stakeholders.

Iron River

Iron River
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Publisher : Cinco Puntos Press
Total Pages : 159
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ISBN-10 : 9781941026953
ISBN-13 : 1941026958
Rating : 4/5 (53 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Iron River by : Daniel Acosta

Download or read book Iron River written by Daniel Acosta and published by Cinco Puntos Press. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2019 Paterson Prize winner Skipping Stones Book Award Kirkus Reviews' Best YA Historical Fiction of 2018 A river runs through young Manny Maldonado Jr.’s life, heart and imagination. Sometimes at night it even shoots through his brain like a bullet. But this river isn’t water, it’s iron—the tracks and trains of the Southern Pacific railroad that pass along his tight-knit neighborhood in the San Gabriel valley just ten miles east of L.A. The iron river is everything to Man-on-Fire, Man for short to his friends, Little Man to his uncles and cousins. He watches it, he waits for it, he plays nears its tracks, he listens for the weight of its currents (strong currents flowing east pulling two hundred boxcars, light current going west with less than fifty cars), he whiles away long summer days throwing rocks and bricks at it with his friends Danny, Marco and Little. They line up cans and bottles in mock battles to try to throw it off track. But nothing derails the iron river, and nothing stops the stinking cop Turk from trying to pin a hobo’s murder on the four young boys.

A House by the River

A House by the River
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Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1880000482
ISBN-13 : 9781880000489
Rating : 4/5 (82 Downloads)

Book Synopsis A House by the River by : William Miller

Download or read book A House by the River written by William Miller and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrated by Cornelius Van Wright and Ying-Hwa Hu Belinda doesn't like the house by the river and, when a dramatic storm approaches, wishes she lived on higher ground in the town. If only her father was alive, she thinks, then she'd feel saver. But what Belinda discovers through the long night is that her house is made from more than wood and brick - it is fortified by the family. An unforgettable story of love and courage. Full colour illustrations thoughout. Ages 4 - 9.

Our "Downriver" River

Our
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 144
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015071310992
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (92 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Our "Downriver" River by : Rockne P. Smith

Download or read book Our "Downriver" River written by Rockne P. Smith and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: