High Country

Author : Nevada Barr
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101133880
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book High Country written by Nevada Barr and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-02-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's fall in the Sierra Mountains, and Anna Pigeon is slinging hash in Yosemite National Park's historic Ahwahnee Hotel. Four young people, all seasonal park employees, have disappeared, and two weeks of work by crack search-and-rescue teams have failed to turn up a single clue; investigators are unsure as to whether the four went AWOL for reasons of their own - or died in the park. Needing an out-of-park ranger to work undercover, Anna is detailed to dining room duty; but after a week of waiting tables, she knows the missing employees are only the first indication of a sickness threatening the park. Her twenty-something roommates give up their party-girl ways and panic; her new restaurant colleagues regard her with suspicion and fear. Yet when Anna's life if threatened and her temporary supervisor turns a deaf ear, she follows the scent of evil, taking a solo hike up a snowy trial to the high country, seeking answers. What awaits her is a nightmare of death and greed - and perhaps her final adventure.

Author : Jason Mark
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 1610915801
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Satellites in the High Country written by Jason Mark and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Satellites in the High Country, journalist and adventurer Jason Mark travels beyond the bright lights and certainties of our cities to seek wildness wherever it survives. In California's Point Reyes National Seashore, a battle over oyster farming and designated wilderness pits former allies against one another, as locals wonder whether wilderness should be untouched, farmed, or something in between. In Washington's Cascade Mountains, a modern-day wild woman and her students learn to tan hides and start fires without matches, attempting to connect with a primal past out of reach for the rest of society. And in Colorado's High Country, dark skies and clear air reveal a breathtaking expanse of stars, flawed only by the arc of a satellite passing--beauty interrupted by the traffic of a million conversations. These expeditions to the edges of civilization's grid show us that, although our notions of pristine nature may be shattering, the mystery of the wild still exists--and in fact, it is more crucial than ever.

Author : Pam Houston
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393285499
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country written by Pam Houston and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2019-01-29 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "How do we become who we are in the world? We ask the world to teach us." On her 120-acre homestead high in the Colorado Rockies, beloved writer Pam Houston learns what it means to care for a piece of land and the creatures on it. Elk calves and bluebirds mark the changing seasons, winter temperatures drop to 35 below, and lightning sparks a 110,000-acre wildfire, threatening her century-old barn and all its inhabitants. Through her travels from the Gulf of Mexico to Alaska, she explores what ties her to the earth, the ranch most of all. Alongside her devoted Irish wolfhounds and a spirited troupe of horses, donkeys, and Icelandic sheep, the ranch becomes Houston’s sanctuary, a place where she discovers how the natural world has mothered and healed her after a childhood of horrific parental abuse and neglect. In essays as lucid and invigorating as mountain air, Deep Creek delivers Houston’s most profound meditations yet on how "to live simultaneously inside the wonder and the grief…to love the damaged world and do what I can to help it thrive."

Author : Louisa Ward Arps
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781555661335
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book High Country Names written by Louisa Ward Arps and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jillian Hart
Publisher : Love Inspired
ISBN 13 : 9781335007568
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book High Country Bride and a Man Most Worthy written by Jillian Hart and published by Love Inspired. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: High country bride. "Evicted from her home, widow Joanna Nelson and her two children had nowhere to turn. Still bearing the pain of his own loss, Aidan McKaslin offered her refuge on his ranch. It was an arrangement that benefited them both. He sheltered her family while she brought faith and a woman's touch back into his world. Could this be the second chance at happiness they both deserve?"--Back cover.

Author : Margaret Maron
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0446507393
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book High Country Fall written by Margaret Maron and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2007-07-31 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With friends and family over-reacting to her announcement that she plans to marry Sheriff's Deputy Dwight Bryant, Judge Deborah Knott gratefully seizes the opportunity to put a five-hour drive between herself and Colleton County when the Chief District Court Judge offers her a week on the bench in Cedar Gap. It is early autumn, leaves are turning, and summer residents are preparing to close up their mountain "cabins" (palatial houses perched atop the most desirable locations) and return to their winter homes in Florida. But Deborah's peaceful break is disrupted when one Floridian is found murdered. He won't be going home, and Deborah won't be either - until she tracks down the killer.

Author : Nevada Barr
Publisher : Headline
ISBN 13 : 1472202198
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book High Country written by Nevada Barr and published by Headline. This book was released on 2013-06-06 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It?s fall in the Sierra Mountains, and Anna Pigeon is slinging hash in Yosemite National Park?s historic Ahwahnee Hotel. Four young people, all seasonal park employees, have disappeared, and two weeks of work by crack search-and-rescue teams have failed to turn up a single clue; investigators are unsure as to whether the four went AWOL for reasons of their own ? or died in the park. Needing an out-of-park ranger to work undercover, Anna is detailed to dining room duty; but after a week of waiting tables, she knows the missing employees are only the first indication of a sickness threatening the park. Her twenty-something roommates give up their party-girl ways and panic; her new restaurant colleagues regard her with suspicion and fear. Yet when Anna?s life is threatened and her temporary supervisor turns a deaf ear, she follows the scent of evil, taking a solo hike up a snowy trail to the high country, seeking answers. What awaits her is a nightmare of death and greed ? and perhaps her final adventure

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Angeles High Country written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Melanie Shellenbarger
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816599335
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book High Country Summers written by Melanie Shellenbarger and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: High Country Summers considers the emergence of the “summer home” in Colorado’s Rocky Mountains as both an architectural and a cultural phenomenon. It offers a welcome new perspective on an often-overlooked dwelling and lifestyle. Writing with affection and insight, Melanie Shellenbarger shows that Colorado’s early summer homes were not only enjoyed by the privileged and wealthy but crossed boundaries of class, race, and gender. They offered their inhabitants recreational and leisure experiences as well as opportunities for individual re-invention—and they helped shape both the cultural landscapes of the American West and our ideas about it. Shellenbarger focuses on four areas along the Front Range: Rocky Mountain National Park and its easterly gateway town, Estes Park; “recreation residences” in lands managed by the US Forest Service; Lincoln Hills, one of only a few African-American summer home resorts in the United States; and the foothills west of Denver that drew Front Range urbanites, including Denver’s social elite. From cottages to manor houses, the summer dwellings she examines were home to governors and government clerks; extended families and single women; business magnates and Methodist ministers; African-American building contractors and innkeepers; shop owners and tradespeople. By returning annually, Shellenbarger shows, they created communities characterized by distinctive forms of kinship. High Country Summers goes beyond history and architecture to examine the importance of these early summer homes as meaningful sanctuaries in the lives of their owners and residents. These homes, which embody both the dwelling (the house itself) and dwelling (the act of summering there), resonate across time and place, harkening back to ancient villas and forward to the present day.

Author : Robert Nott
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
ISBN 13 : 0826366090
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ride the High Country written by Robert Nott and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2024-03-01 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Director Sam Peckinpah was just starting out when MGM released Ride the High Country in 1962. He was a new kind of director: young, brash, and in a hurry to help the Western "grow up" by treating it with adult themes. Ride the High Country was something new and different, a changing Western to match a changing West. Stars Randolph Scott and Joel McCrea were old hands at this sort of thing. Ride the High Country gave the two veteran actors one last job to do and a chance to go out with some dignity. Ride the High Country helped the genre mature and adapt to turbulent, changing times. It launched Peckinpah's career by invoking the themes of honor, loyalty, and compromised ideals, the destruction of the West and its heroes, and the difficulty of doing right in an unjust world--themes developed to their pinnacle in Peckinpah's later masterpiece, The Wild Bunch.