A Journey in the Back Country in the Winter of 1853-4
Title | A Journey in the Back Country in the Winter of 1853-4 PDF eBook |
Author | Frederick Law Olmsted |
Publisher | |
Pages | 300 |
Release | 1907 |
Genre | Cotton growing |
ISBN |
Breaking Into the Backcountry
Title | Breaking Into the Backcountry PDF eBook |
Author | Steve Edwards |
Publisher | U of Nebraska Press |
Pages | 189 |
Release | 2010-10-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 080323418X |
Well aware of what could go wrong living two hours from town with no electricity and no neighbors, Edwards was surprised by what could go right. In prose that is by turns lyrical, introspective, and funny, Breaking into the Backcountry is the story of what he discovered: that alone, in a wild place, each day is a challenge and a gift. Whether chronicling the pleasures of a day-long fishing trip, his first encounter with a black bear, a lightning storm and the threat of fire, the beauty of a steelhead, the attacks of 9/11, or a silence so profound that a black-tailed deer chewing grass outside his window could wake him from sleep, Edwards's careful evocation of the river canyon and its effect on him testifies to the enduring power of wilderness to transform a life.
A Journey in the Back Country
Title | A Journey in the Back Country PDF eBook |
Author | Frederick Law Olmsted |
Publisher | |
Pages | 544 |
Release | 1860 |
Genre | Cotton growing |
ISBN |
A Journey in the Back Country
Title | A Journey in the Back Country PDF eBook |
Author | Frederick Law Olmsted |
Publisher | |
Pages | 516 |
Release | 1860 |
Genre | Cotton growing |
ISBN |
The Back Country
Title | The Back Country PDF eBook |
Author | Gary Snyder |
Publisher | New Directions Publishing |
Pages | 164 |
Release | 1971-01-17 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 0811222802 |
“A reaffirmation of a back country of the spirit."—Kirkus Reviews This collection is made up of four sections: "Far West"—poems of the Western mountain country where, as a young man. Gary Snyder worked as a logger and forest ranger; "Far East"—poems written between 1956 and 1964 in Japan where he studied Zen at the monastery in Kyoto; "Kali"—poems inspired by a visit to India and his reading of Indian religious texts, particularly those of Shivaism and Tibetan Buddhism; and "Back"—poems done on his return to this country in 1964 which look again at our West with the eyes of India and Japan. The book concludes with a group of translations of the Japanese poet Miyazawa Kenji (1896-1933), with whose work Snyder feels a close affinity. The title, The Back Country, has three major associations; wilderness. the "backward" countries, and the “back country" of the mind with its levels of being in the unconscious.
Journey in the Back Country. (vol. 1)
Title | Journey in the Back Country. (vol. 1) PDF eBook |
Author | Frederick Law Olmsted |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1907 |
Genre | Cotton growing |
ISBN |
High Uintas Backcountry
Title | High Uintas Backcountry PDF eBook |
Author | Jeffrey Probst |
Publisher | |
Pages | 303 |
Release | 1996-12 |
Genre | Hiking |
ISBN | 9780965587129 |