The Land of Gold Or
Author | : Walter Colton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 476 |
Release | : 1860 |
Genre | : California |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Walter Colton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 476 |
Release | : 1860 |
Genre | : California |
ISBN | : |
Author | : C Pam Zhang |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2020-04-07 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0525537228 |
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR A WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR ONE OF NPR'S BEST BOOKS OF 2020 LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST FOR THE 2020 CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE WINNER OF THE ROSENTHAL FAMILY FOUNDATION AWARD, FROM THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND LETTERS A NATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION "5 UNDER 35" HONOREE NATIONAL BESTSELLER “Belongs on a shelf all of its own.” —NPR “Outstanding.” —The Washington Post “Revolutionary . . . A visionary addition to American literature.” —Star Tribune An electric debut novel set against the twilight of the American gold rush, two siblings are on the run in an unforgiving landscape—trying not just to survive but to find a home. Ba dies in the night; Ma is already gone. Newly orphaned children of immigrants, Lucy and Sam are suddenly alone in a land that refutes their existence. Fleeing the threats of their western mining town, they set off to bury their father in the only way that will set them free from their past. Along the way, they encounter giant buffalo bones, tiger paw prints, and the specters of a ravaged landscape as well as family secrets, sibling rivalry, and glimpses of a different kind of future. Both epic and intimate, blending Chinese symbolism and reimagined history with fiercely original language and storytelling, How Much of These Hills Is Gold is a haunting adventure story, an unforgettable sibling story, and the announcement of a stunning new voice in literature. On a broad level, it explores race in an expanding country and the question of where immigrants are allowed to belong. But page by page, it’s about the memories that bind and divide families, and the yearning for home.
Author | : Walter Colton |
Publisher | : Good Press |
Total Pages | : 311 |
Release | : 2023-07-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
"The land of gold; or, Three years in California" by Walter Colton. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Author | : Madeleine Fairbairn |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2020-07-15 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1501750097 |
Fields of Gold critically examines the history, ideas, and political struggles surrounding the financialization of farmland. In particular, Madeleine Fairbairn focuses on developments in two of the most popular investment locations, the US and Brazil, looking at the implications of financiers' acquisition of land and control over resources for rural livelihoods and economic justice. At the heart of Fields of Gold is a tension between efforts to transform farmland into a new financial asset class, and land's physical and social properties, which frequently obstruct that transformation. But what makes the book unique among the growing body of work on the global land grab is Fairbairn's interest in those acquiring land, rather than those affected by land acquisitions. Fairbairn's work sheds ethnographic light on the actors and relationships—from Iowa to Manhattan to São Paulo—that have helped to turn land into an attractive financial asset class. Thanks to generous funding from UC Santa Cruz, the ebook editions of this book are available as Open Access volumes from Cornell Open (cornellpress.cornell.edu/cornell-open) and other repositories.
Author | : Martha Martin |
Publisher | : Alaska Vanessa Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Cancer |
ISBN | : 9780940055001 |
Share the triumph and fear of a woman -- alone, injured, and pregnant -- stranded on a remote Alaska island in winter. Her husband fails to return from a trip, leaving her to survive a winter and give birth at their cabin, alone. This true story is hard to put down.
Author | : Judith M. Bovensiepen |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 219 |
Release | : 2018-08-06 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1501725920 |
In the village of Funar, located in the central highlands of Timor-Leste, the disturbing events of the twenty-four-year-long Indonesian occupation are rarely articulated in narratives of suffering. Instead, the highlanders emphasize the significance of their return to the sacred land of the ancestors, a place where "gold" is abundant and life is thought to originate. On one hand, this collective amnesia is due to villagers' exclusion from contemporary nation-building processes, which bestow recognition only on those who actively participated in the resistance struggle against Indonesia. On the other hand, the cultural revival and the privileging of the ancestral landscape and traditions over narratives of suffering derive from a particular understanding of how human subjects are constituted. Before life and after death, humans and the land are composed of the same substance; only during life are they separated. To recover from the forced dislocation the highlanders experienced under the Indonesian occupation, they thus seek to reestablish a mythical, primordial unity with the land by reinvigorating ancestral practices. Never leaving out of sight the intense political and emotional dilemmas imposed by the past on people’s daily lives, The Land of Gold seeks to go beyond prevailing theories of postconflict reconstruction that prioritize human relationships. Instead, it explores the significance of people’s affective and ritual engagement with the environment and with their ancestors as survivors come to terms with the disruptive events of the past.
Author | : Abraham Isaac Kook |
Publisher | : Chanan Morrison |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9657108926 |
Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook (1865-1935), the celebrated first Chief Rabbi of pre-state Israel, is recognized as being among the most important Jewish thinkers of all times. He was a prominent rabbinical authority and active public leader, but at the same time, a deeply religious mystic. Gold from the Land of Israel uses a clear, succinct style to grant the reader a window into his original and creative insights.
Author | : Philip Koslow |
Publisher | : Chelsea House Pub |
Total Pages | : 63 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780791031261 |
Discusses the settlement of West Africa, the spread of Islam, the establishment of the gold trade, and the rise, civilization, and fall of the Soninke states known as Ghana
Author | : Joy Masoff |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Mali |
ISBN | : 9780972715607 |
The story of Mali, as seen through the eyes of a griot, a teller of stories and singer of history.
Author | : Hinton Rowan Helper |
Publisher | : Good Press |
Total Pages | : 182 |
Release | : 2023-07-10 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : |
"The land of gold; reality versus fiction" by Hinton Rowan Helper. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.