[PDF] Listening To The Wind eBook

Author : Tim Robinson
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 48,36 MB
Release : 2007-06-19
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0141900717

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The first volume in Tim Robinson's phenomenal Connemara Trilogy - which Robert Macfarlane has called 'One of the most remarkable non-fiction projects undertaken in English'. In its landscape, history and folklore, Connemara is a singular region: ill-defined geographically, and yet unmistakably a place apart from the rest of Ireland. Tim Robinson, who established himself as Ireland's most brilliant living non-fiction writer with the two-volume Stones of Aran, moved from Aran to Connemara nearly twenty years ago. This book is the result of his extraordinary engagement with the mountains, bogs and shorelines of the region, and with its folklore and its often terrible history: a work as beautiful and surprising as the place it attempts to describe. Chosen as a book of the year by Iain Sinclair, Robert Macfarlane and Colm Tóibín 'One of the greatest writers of lands ... No one has disentangled the tales the stones of Ireland have to tell so deftly and retold them so beautifully' Fintan O'Toole 'Dazzling ... an indubitable classic' Giles Foden, Condé Nast Traveller 'He is that rarest of phenomena, a scientist and an artist, and his method is to combine scientific rigour with artistic reverie in a seamless blend that both informs and delights' John Banville 'One of contemporary Ireland's finest literary stylists' Joseph O'Connor, Guardian

Author : Tim Robinson
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 46,96 MB
Release : 2008-09-25
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0141889721

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The second volume in Tim Robinson's phenomenal Connemara Trilogy - which Robert Macfarlane has called 'One of the most remarkable non-fiction projects undertaken in English'. The first volume of Tim Robinson's Connemara trilogy, Listening to the Wind, covered Robinson's home territory of Roundstone and environs. The Last Pool of Darkness moves into wilder territory: the fjords, cliffs, hills and islands of north-west Connemara, a place that Wittgenstein, who lived on his own in a cottage there for a time, called 'the last pool of darkness in Europe'. Again combining his polymathic knowledge of Connemara's natural history, human history, folklore and topography with his own unsurpassable artistry as a writer, Tim Robinson has produced another classic. A native of Yorkshire, Tim Robinson moved to the Aran Islands in 1972. His books include the celebrated two-volume Stones of Aran. Since 1984 he has lived in Roundstone, Connemara. 'A masterpiece of travel and topographical writing and a miraculous, vivid and engrossing meditation on landscape and history and the sacred mood of places' Colm Tóibín, Irish Times

Author : Greg Mortenson
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 18,97 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Picture books for children
ISBN : 9780545289405

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Greg Mortenson stumbled, lost and delirious, into a remote Himalayan village after a failed climb up K2. The villagers saved his life, and he vowed to return and build them a school. The remarkable story of his promise kept is now perfect for reading aloud. Told in the voice of Korphe's children, this story illuminates the humanity and culture of a relevant and distant part of the world in gorgeous collage, while sharing a riveting example of how one person can change thousands of lives.

Author : Judith Duerek
Publisher : New World Library
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 49,10 MB
Release : 2011-02-09
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 157731994X

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Companion to the beloved bestselling classic Circle of Stones, I Sit Listening to the Wind invites women everywhere to tap into the powers of interiority, regain the sacred, and create communities of support — in the process reimagining and remaking the modern world. Without coming to terms and seeking balance with their masculine side, Judith Duerk says, women can never reach the full potential of their feminine side. For those seeking balance between the masculine urge to do and the feminine desire to be, Duerk’s mixture of prose, poetry, and reflective questions creates a model for integration. Includes a reading group guide.

Author : Sonia Antaki
Publisher : One Elm Books
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 50,22 MB
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 194715916X

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Abandoned by her white father, thirteen-year-old Red Dove faces another lean winter with her Lakota family on the Great Plains. Willful and proud, she is presented with a stark choice: leave her people to live in the white world, or stay and watch them starve. Red Dove begins a journey to find her place in the world and discovers that her greatest power comes from within herself.

Author : Roger Thunderhands Gilbert
Publisher :
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 25,97 MB
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781615931491

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Imagine sitting around a campfire listening to a wise elder speak wisdom so deep that each short tale could be life changing. Listen to the Wind, Speak from the Heart, tells these kind of stories. Roger Thunderhands Gilbert writes from the heart, passing on the wisdom of his Spirit self in plain, understandable, and passionate language. Thunderhands’s integration of Native American, Taoist, and many other wisdom traditions blend seamlessly, illuminating everything from Earth changes, Hopi and Mayan prophecies, ancient star ancestors, global political climate and protests, technology, food and water crisis and other issues. Thunderhands’s stories are full of light and hope, teaching of love and life, and of the responsibility to the self, the planet, and all people. Combining shamanistic and Eastern knowledge, healing techniques, and practices, this book delivers an important synthesis of insights for today's global culture. Winner 2013 COVR award - Gold

Author : Steve Roden
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,16 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Folk music
ISBN : 9780981734248

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Dust-to-Digital presents 150 music-related vernacular photographs paired with 51 songs, field recordings and sound effets on two compact discs. Spanning the lat 1800s to 1955, all of the materials used for this set come from the collection of acclaimed visual/sound artist Steve Roden.

Author : Rainbow Rowell
Publisher : Wednesday Books
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 12,27 MB
Release : 2021-07-06
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1250254345

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New York Times bestselling author Rainbow Rowell's epic fantasy, the Simon Snow trilogy, concludes with Any Way the Wind Blows. In Carry On, Simon Snow and his friends realized that everything they thought they understood about the world might be wrong. And in Wayward Son, they wondered whether everything they understood about themselves might be wrong. Now, Simon and Baz and Penelope and Agatha must decide how to move forward. For Simon, that means choosing whether he still wants to be part of the World of Mages — and if he doesn't, what does that mean for his relationship with Baz? Meanwhile Baz is bouncing between two family crises and not finding any time to talk to anyone about his newfound vampire knowledge. Penelope would love to help, but she's smuggled an American Normal into London, and now she isn't sure what to do with him. And Agatha? Well, Agatha Wellbelove has had enough. Any Way the Wind Blows takes the gang back to England, back to Watford, and back to their families for their longest and most emotionally wrenching adventure yet. This book is a finale. It tells secrets and answers questions and lays ghosts to rest. The Simon Snow Trilogy was conceived as a book about Chosen One stories; Any Way the Wind Blows is an ending about endings—about catharsis and closure, and how we choose to move on from the traumas and triumphs that try to define us.

Author : Russ Ramsey
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 36,41 MB
Release : 2022-03-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0310129737

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How do art and faith intersect? How does art help us see our own lives more clearly? What can we understand about God and humanity by looking at the lives of artists? Striving for beauty, art also reveals what is broken. It presents us with the tremendous struggles and longings common to the human experience. And it says a lot about our Creator too. Great works of art can speak to the soul in a unique way. Rembrandt Is in the Wind is an invitation to discover some of the world's most celebrated artists and works and how each of them illuminates something about God, people, and the purpose of life. Part art history, part biblical study, part philosophy, and part analysis of the human experience, this book is nonetheless all story. From Michelangelo to Vincent van Gogh to Edward Hopper, the lives of the artists in this book illustrate the struggle of living in this world and point to the beauty of the redemption available to us in Christ. Each story is different. Some conclude with resounding triumph while others end in struggle. But all of them raise important questions about humanity's hunger and capacity for glory, and all of them teach us to love and see beauty. "The artists featured in these pages—artists who devoted their lives and work to what is good, true, and beautiful—remind us that we can, and should, do the same." —Karen Swallow Prior, author of On Reading Well