[PDF] The Mountain School eBook

Author : Greg Alder
Publisher : Greg Alder
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 14,33 MB
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 0988682206

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The Kingdom of Lesotho is a mountainous enclave in southern Africa, and like mountain zones throughout the world it is isolated, steeped in tradition, and home to few outsiders. The people, known as Basotho, are respected in the area as the only tribe never to be defeated by European colonizers. Greg Alder arrives in Tsoeneng in 2003 as the village's first foreign resident since 1966. Back then, the Canadian priest who had been living there was robbed and murdered in his quarters. Set up as a Peace Corps teacher at the village's secondary school, Alder finds himself incompetent in so many unexpected ways. How do you keep warm in this place where it snows but there is no electricity? How do you feed yourself where there are no grocery stores let alone restaurants? Tsoeneng is a world apart from his home in America, but Alder persists in adapting. He learns to grow food, he learns to speak the strange local language, and he makes enough friends such that he is eventually invited to participate in initiation rites. Yet even as he seems accepted into the Tsoeneng fold, he sees how much of an outsider he will always remain-and perhaps want to remain. The Mountain School is insightful and candid, at times accepting and at times rebellious. It is the ultimate tale of the transplant.

Author : Ellen Cooney
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 50,70 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0544236157

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A novel of a young woman who, despite knowing nothing about animals, signs herself up for dog training school at The Sanctuary, where she discovers that rescue can find even the most hopeless among us and that friends come in all shapes, sizes, and breeds

Author : Tal Birdsey
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 21,80 MB
Release : 2021-10-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781732854017

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Tal Birdsey's Hearts of the Mountain: Adolescents, a Teacher, and a Living School sketches an utterly unique entity: an independent and virtual one-room middle school in the Green Mountains of Vermont. Hearts of the Mountain takes a deep look into an intimate, wild, and unpredictable year of learning, in and out of the classroom, with a diverse collection of funny, profound, troubled, and hopeful adolescents.

Author : Melville Davisson Post
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 48,1 MB
Release : 2017-05-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8075833031

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This carefully edited collection of adventure novels has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Melville Davisson Post (1869-1930) was an American author, born in West Virginia. He wrote novels about the life in mountains and lives of man who, like him, have spent many years of their lives among them. These novels are intertwined with philosophy, and Biblical allegories. Although his name is not immediately familiar to those outside of specialist circles many collections of detective fiction include works by him. Post's best-known character is the mystery solving, justice dispensing West Virginian backwoodsman, Uncle Abner. Post also wrote number of stories about Randolph Mason, a brusque New York lawyer who is highly skilled at turning legal loopholes and technicalities to his clients' advantage. Post's other recurring characters include Sir Henry Marquis of Scotland Yard, the French policeman Monsieur Jonquelle and the Virginia lawyer Colonel Braxton. Table of Contents: Dwellers in the Hills The Gilded Chair The Mountain School-Teacher

Author : Melville Davisson Post
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 47,19 MB
Release : 2016-05-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 802686493X

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This carefully crafted ebook: "DWELLERS IN THE HILLS + THE GILDED CHAIR + THE MOUNTAIN SCHOOL-TEACHER (3 Adventure Novels in One Volume)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Melville Davisson Post (1869-1930) was an American author, born in West Virginia. He wrote novels about the life in mountains and lives of man who, like him, have spent many years of their lives among them. These novels are intertwined with philosophy, and Biblical allegories. Although his name is not immediately familiar to those outside of specialist circles many collections of detective fiction include works by him. Post's best-known character is the mystery solving, justice dispensing West Virginian backwoodsman, Uncle Abner. Post also wrote number of stories about Randolph Mason, a brusque New York lawyer who is highly skilled at turning legal loopholes and technicalities to his clients' advantage. Post's other recurring characters include Sir Henry Marquis of Scotland Yard, the French policeman Monsieur Jonquelle and the Virginia lawyer Colonel Braxton. Table of Contents: Dwellers in the Hills The Gilded Chair The Mountain School-Teacher

Author : Jennifer W. Dickey
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 33,81 MB
Release : 2013-09-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 1625846711

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At the dawn of the twentieth century, Martha Berry had a vision that a residential school for young men and women with limited educational opportunities would help break the cycle of poverty that pervaded the rural South. She began an educational experiment in northwest Georgia that unfolded during her lifetime and continues into the twenty-first century. This book tells the story of a part of that school--the high school that existed on the Mountain Campus at Berry for more than six decades. For the students who were educated there, the school was transformative. As one alumnus explained, the school had about it an "intangible magic." Join author and Berry Academy alumna Jennifer Dickey as she captures the spirit of that school that today lives on in the "head, heart and hands" of its graduates.

Author : Melville Davisson
Publisher : Audubon Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 13,60 MB
Release : 2009-04
Category :
ISBN : 9781444619409

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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Author : Melville Davisson Post
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 48,90 MB
Release : 2016-09-20
Category :
ISBN : 9781537750545

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The Mountain School-Teacher