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Lasso the Wind

Author : Timothy Egan
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 37,36 MB
Release : 2009-09-23
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0307557308

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A New York Times Notable Book of the Year Winner of the Mountains and Plains Book Seller's Association Award "Sprawling in scope. . . . Mr. Egan uses the past powerfully to explain and give dimension to the present." --The New York Times "Fine reportage . . . honed and polished until it reads more like literature than journalism." --Los Angeles Times "They have tried to tame it, shave it, fence it, cut it, dam it, drain it, nuke it, poison it, pave it, and subdivide it," writes Timothy Egan of the West; still, "this region's hold on the American character has never seemed stronger." In this colorful and revealing journey through the eleven states west of the 100th meridian, Egan, a third-generation westerner, evokes a lovely and troubled country where land is religion and the holy war between preservers and possessors never ends. Egan leads us on an unconventional, freewheeling tour: from America's oldest continuously inhabited community, the Ancoma Pueblo in New Mexico, to the high kitsch of Lake Havasu City, Arizona, where London Bridge has been painstakingly rebuilt stone by stone; from the fragile beauty of Idaho's Bitterroot Range to the gross excess of Las Vegas, a city built as though in defiance of its arid environment. In a unique blend of travel writing, historical reflection, and passionate polemic, Egan has produced a moving study of the West: how it became what it is, and where it is going. "The writing is simply wonderful. From the opening paragraph, Egan seduces the reader. . . . Entertaining, thought provoking." --The Arizona Daily Star Weekly "A western breeziness and love of open spaces shines through Lasso the Wind. . . . The writing is simple and evocative." --The Economist

The Good Rain

Author : Timothy Egan
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 18,58 MB
Release : 2011-05-18
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0307794717

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A fantastic book! Timothy Egan describes his journeys in the Pacific Northwest through visits to salmon fisheries, redwood forests and the manicured English gardens of Vancouver. Here is a blend of history, anthropology and politics.

The Worst Hard Time

Author : Timothy Egan
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 33,74 MB
Release : 2006-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0547347774

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In a tour de force of historical reportage, Timothy Egan’s National Book Award–winning story rescues an iconic chapter of American history from the shadows. The dust storms that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since. Following a dozen families and their communities through the rise and fall of the region, Timothy Egan tells of their desperate attempts to carry on through blinding black dust blizzards, crop failure, and the death of loved ones. Brilliantly capturing the terrifying drama of catastrophe, he does equal justice to the human characters who become his heroes, “the stoic, long-suffering men and women whose lives he opens up with urgency and respect” (New York Times). In an era that promises ever-greater natural disasters, The Worst Hard Time is “arguably the best nonfiction book yet” (Austin Statesman Journal) on the greatest environmental disaster ever to be visited upon our land and a powerful reminder about the dangers of trifling with nature. This e-book includes a sample chapter of THE IMMORTAL IRISHMAN.

Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher

Author : Timothy Egan
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 22,28 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0618969020

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Edward Curtis was charismatic, handsome, a passionate mountaineer, and a famous photographer, the Annie Leibovitz of his time. He moved in rarefied circles, a friend to presidents, vaudevill stars, leading thinkers. And he was thirty-two years old in 1900 when he gave it all up to pursue his Great Idea: to capture on film the continent's original inhabitants before the old ways disappeared.

The Big Burn

Author : Timothy Egan
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 43,79 MB
Release : 2009-10-19
Category : History
ISBN : 0547416865

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National Book Award–winner Timothy Egan turns his historian's eye to the largest-ever forest fire in America and offers an epic, cautionary tale for our time. On the afternoon of August 20, 1910, a battering ram of wind moved through the drought-stricken national forests of Washington, Idaho, and Montana, whipping the hundreds of small blazes burning across the forest floor into a roaring inferno that jumped from treetop to ridge as it raged, destroying towns and timber in the blink of an eye. Forest rangers had assembled nearly ten thousand men to fight the fires, but no living person had seen anything like those flames, and neither the rangers nor anyone else knew how to subdue them. Egan recreates the struggles of the overmatched rangers against the implacable fire with unstoppable dramatic force, and the larger story of outsized president Teddy Roosevelt and his chief forester, Gifford Pinchot, that follows is equally resonant. Pioneering the notion of conservation, Roosevelt and Pinchot did nothing less than create the idea of public land as our national treasure, owned by every citizen. Even as TR's national forests were smoldering they were saved: The heroism shown by his rangers turned public opinion permanently in favor of the forests, though it changed the mission of the forest service in ways we can still witness today. This e-book includes a sample chapter of SHORT NIGHTS OF THE SHADOW CATCHER.

The Winemaker's Daughter

Author : Timothy Egan
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 21,93 MB
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307429636

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Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times national correspondent Timothy Egan turns to fiction with The Winemaker's Daughter, a lyrical and gripping novel about the harsh realities and ecological challenges of turning water into wine. When Brunella Cartolano visits her father on the family vineyard in the basin of the Cascade Mountains, she's shocked by the devastation caused by a four-year drought. Passionate about the Pacific Northwest ecology, Brunella, a cultural impact analyst, is embroiled in a battle to save the Seattle waterfront from redevelopment and to preserve a fisherman's livelihood. But when a tragedy among fire-jumpers results from a failure of the water supply–her brother Niccolo is among those lost--Brunella finds herself with another mission: to find out who is sabotaging the area's water supply. Joining forces with a Native American Forest Ranger, she discovers deep rifts rooted in the region's complicated history, and tries to save her father's vineyard from drying up for good . . . even as violence and corruption erupt around her.

The Wind People

Author : Marion Zimmer Bradley
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 27 pages
File Size : 27,56 MB
Release : 2016-03-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1682999653

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Sometimes she had walked for days at a time in that dream; she would wake to find food that she could not remember gathering. Somehow, pervasive, the dream voices had taken over; the whispering winds had been full of voices and even hands. She had fallen ill and lain for days sick and delirious, and had heard a voice which hardly seemed to be her own, saying that if she died the wind voices would care for Robin.

The Path of the Wind

Author : James A. Misko
Publisher : Square One Publishers, Inc.
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 11,36 MB
Release : 2017-03-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0757054447

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GOLD/1ST PLACE AWARD WINNER, 2018 FEATHERED QUILL BOOK AWARDS (ADULT FICTION category) NAUTILUS BOOK AWARD WINNER 2018 - BEST FICTION PNWA NANCY PEARL CONTEST FINALIST (LITERARY/MAINSTREAM FICTION category) Miles Foster is a newly minted teacher who dreams of getting a teaching job in the highly respected and financially stable Portland, Oregon school system where everything is available, and where he and his wife call home. But the only opening for his talents is in a remote lumber mill town in central Oregon, two hundred miles away. It is a poor school with forty students, and is controlled by a jealous superintendent and school board who tolerate no thinking outside the box and who conspire to destroy his teaching career. Miles must find a way to educate students who have been passed along regardless of what they learned, and defeat the damaging control of the school board and superintendent without losing his marriage or his job, or both.

The Way the Wind Blows

Author : Roderick J. McIntosh
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 10,86 MB
Release : 2012-07-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 0231528809

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-- Robert W. Harms, Yale University

Lasso the Wind

Author : George Elliott Clarke
Publisher : Nimbus Pub Limited
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 44,62 MB
Release : 2014-03-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781771080507

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Offers a collection of poems on nature, imprisonment, and the joys and sorrows of growing up.