Mountain Tales
Author | : Saumya Roy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2022-06-02 |
Genre | : Marginality, Social |
ISBN | : 9781788165372 |
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Author | : Saumya Roy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2022-06-02 |
Genre | : Marginality, Social |
ISBN | : 9781788165372 |
Author | : Olivia Beaumont |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 58 |
Release | : 2016-04-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780692462614 |
A beautifully illustrated collection of short stories and fables. Unlikely animal heroes come to life when they meet impossible giant radishes, and a fantastical Cloud Palace. Olivia Beaumont gives an Old World flourish to her luminous paintings and her stories.
Author | : Edgar Allan Poe |
Publisher | : Modernista |
Total Pages | : 15 |
Release | : 2024-07-16 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9181080999 |
»A Tale of the Ragged Mountains« is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, originally published in 1844. EDGAR ALLAN POE was born in Boston in 1809. After brief stints in academia and the military, he began working as a literary critic and author. He made his debut with the novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket in 1838, but it was in his short stories that Poe's peculiar style truly flourished. He died in Baltimore in 1849.
Author | : Randy Russell |
Publisher | : Blair |
Total Pages | : 122 |
Release | : 2022-07-19 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781949467987 |
In this collection, Randy Russell and his wife, Janet Barnett, present eighteen samples of western North Carolina folklore.
Author | : Henry W. Shoemaker |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 518 |
Release | : 1912 |
Genre | : Bald Eagle Mountain (Pa.) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Greg Sarris |
Publisher | : Heyday.ORIM |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2017-10-10 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1597144231 |
Inspired by Native American creation tales, these sixteen interconnected stories tell the origin of California’s Sonoma Mountain. In the tradition of Calvino’s Italian Folktales, Greg Sarris, author of the award-winning novel Grand Avenue, turns his attention to his ancestral homeland of Sonoma Mountain in Northern California. In sixteen interconnected original stories, the twin crows Question Woman and Answer Woman take us through a world unlike yet oddly reminiscent of our own: one which blooms bright with poppies, lupines, and clover; one in which Water Bug kidnaps an entire creek; in which songs have the power to enchant; in which Rain is a beautiful woman who keeps people’s memories in stones. Inspired by traditional Coast Miwok and Southern Pomo creation tales, these stories are timeless in their wisdom and beauty, and because of this timelessness their messages are vital and immediate. The figures in these stories ponder the meaning of leadership, of their place within the landscape and their community. In these stories we find a model for how we can all come home again. At once timeless and contemporary, How a Mountain Was Made is equally at home in modern letters as the ancient story cycle. Sarris infuses his stories with a prose stylist’s creativity and inventiveness, moving American Indian literature in an emergent direction. This edition features a reader’s guide that provides thoughtful jumping-off points for discussion. Praise for How a Mountain Was Made “These are charming and wise stories, simply told, to be enjoyed by young and old alike—stories need us if they are to come forth and have life too.” —Kirkus Reviews “Stunning. . . . Neither an arid anthropological text nor another pseudo-Indian as-told-to fabrication. Instead, Sarris has breathed new life into these ancient Northern California tales and legends, lending them a subtle, light-hearted voice and vision.” —Scott Lankford, Los Angeles Review of Books“/I>/DESC> indigenous fiction;native american fiction;indigenous;native american;short stories;short fiction;folk tales;legends;mythology;myth;creation stories;nature;environment;place;sonoma mountain;california FIC059000 FICTION / Indigenous FIC029000 FICTION / Short Stories FIC010000 FICTION / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology FIC077000 FICTION / Nature & the Environment 9781597142533 Brother and the Dancer Keenan Norris
Author | : Grenville Goodwin |
Publisher | : University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 1994-03 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0816514518 |
These 57 tales (with seven variants) gathered between 1931 and 1936 include major cycles dealing with Creation and Coyote, minor tales, and additional stories derived from Spanish and Mexican tradition. The tales are of two classes: holy tales said by some to expalin the origin of ceremonies and holy powers, and tales which have to do with the creation of the earth, the emergence, the flood, the slaying of monsters, and the origin of customs. As Goodwin was the first anthropologist to work with the White Mountain Apache, his insights remain a primary souce on this people.
Author | : Orville Hicks |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781933251653 |
"Orville Hicks has enthralled audiences beyond the porches of Beech Mountain, North Carolina, for more than two decades. Jack Tales and Mountain Yarns captures the voice of the master storyteller in more than twenty transcribed stories, paired with lively pencil sketches. Having grown up in a hollow, he knows the mountain setting and his clever character Jack"--Provided by publisher.
Author | : Lamar Underwood |
Publisher | : Globe Pequot |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Adventure and adventurers |
ISBN | : 9781592284238 |
Classic stories about the adventurers who explored and settled the West.
Author | : Saumya Roy |
Publisher | : Astra Publishing House |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2021-09-07 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 166260095X |
*One of NPR's "Books We Love 2021"* "'I came to see the mountains as an outpouring of our modern lives,' Roy writes, 'of the endless chase for our desires to fill us.' Readers of Behind the Beautiful Forevers will be drawn to this harrowing portrait." —Publishers Weekly "Castaway Mountain deserves every accolade. A stunning achievement." —Kiran Desai, Booker Prize Winner, author of Inheritance of Loss. All of Mumbai’s possessions and memories come to die at the Deonar garbage mountains. Towering at the outskirts of the city, the mountains are covered in a faint smog from trash fires. Over time, as wealth brought Bollywood knock offs, fast food and plastics to Mumbaikars, a small, forgotten community of migrants and rag-pickers came to live at the mountains’ edge, making a living by re-using, recycling and re-selling. Among them is Farzana Ali Shaikh, a tall, adventurous girl who soon becomes one of the best pickers in her community. Over time, her family starts to fret about Farzana’s obsessive relationship to the garbage. Like so many in her community, Farzana, made increasingly sick by the trash mountains, is caught up in the thrill of discovery—because among the broken glass, crushed cans, or even the occasional dead baby, there’s a lingering chance that she will find a treasure to lift her family’s fortunes. As Farzana enters adulthood, her way of life becomes more precarious. Mumbai is pitched as a modern city, emblematic of the future of India, forcing officials to reckon with closing the dumping grounds, which would leave the waste pickers more vulnerable than ever. In a narrative instilled with superstition and magical realism, Saumya Roy crafts a modern parable exploring the consequences of urban overconsumption. A moving testament to the impact of fickle desires, Castaway Mountain reveals that when you own nothing, you know where true value lies: in family, community and love. Interior map illustration copyright (c) Jake Coolidge