The Barren Grounds

Author : David A. Robertson
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0735266115
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Barren Grounds written by David A. Robertson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narnia meets traditional Indigenous stories of the sky and constellations in an epic middle grade fantasy series from award-winning author David Robertson. Morgan and Eli, two Indigenous children forced away from their families and communities, are brought together in a foster home in Winnipeg, Manitoba. They each feel disconnected, from their culture and each other, and struggle to fit in at school and at their new home -- until they find a secret place, walled off in an unfinished attic bedroom. A portal opens to another reality, Askí, bringing them onto frozen, barren grounds, where they meet Ochek (Fisher). The only hunter supporting his starving community, Misewa, Ochek welcomes the human children, teaching them traditional ways to survive. But as the need for food becomes desperate, they embark on a dangerous mission. Accompanied by Arik, a sassy Squirrel they catch stealing from the trapline, they try to save Misewa before the icy grip of winter freezes everything -- including them.

Author : David A. Robertson
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 073526614X
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great Bear written by David A. Robertson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this second book in the Narnia-inspired Indigenous middle-grade fantasy series, Eli and Morgan journey once more to Misewa, travelling back in time. Back at home after their first adventure in the Barren Grounds, Eli and Morgan each struggle with personal issues: Eli is being bullied at school, and tries to hide it from Morgan, while Morgan has to make an important decision about her birth mother. They turn to the place where they know they can learn the most, and make the journey to Misewa to visit their animal friends. This time they travel back in time and meet a young fisher that might just be their lost friend. But they discover that the village is once again in peril, and they must dig deep within themselves to find the strength to protect their beloved friends. Can they carry this strength back home to face their own challenges?

Author : Skip Pessl
Publisher : Dartmouth College Press
ISBN 13 : 1611685338
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Barren Grounds written by Skip Pessl and published by Dartmouth College Press. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1955 Arthur Moffatt led an expedition consisting of young college students and recent graduates to the Inuit lands of Nunavut, Canada, to follow the path of the 1893 Tyrrell expedition and to film and photograph the group's progress. The expedition, a 900-mile epic journey across the Barren Lands of Arctic Canada, has stirred controversy and criticism for over fifty years. The trip has been variously described as "the pioneering venture in modern recreational canoe travel" and as "an excellent example of how not to conduct a canoe trip." Delays took their toll on the adventurers, exhausted by the seemingly endless paddling through unknown rivers and lakes, the trek across the windswept tundra, and torment by voracious insects. Threatened with diminishing food reserves and increasingly harsh weather, the members of the expedition were forced to travel with greater speed and less caution, and ultimately a fatal mistake was made. Two of the canoes capsized, dumping four men into the frigid waters. Moffatt, the leader, died of exposure. It took the survivors ten days of arduous travel with minimum food and equipment to reach the safety of theÊHudson's Bay Company post. Barren Grounds features passages from the journals of two young Moffatt party members and excerpts about the 1893 expedition of Joseph Burr Tyrrell, along with entries from the journal of Art Moffatt himself. Part cautionary tale, part nail-biting adventure, the book will appeal to outdoorsmen and armchair adventurers alike.

Author : Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
Publisher : Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Page & Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Barren Ground written by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow and published by Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Page & Company. This book was released on 1925 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of thirty years in the life of a rural Virginia woman, Dorinda Oakley who is an intelligent, independent and vibrant young lady who is trying find herself and her purpose in life by moving to New York after a love disillusion.

Author : Warburton Mayer Pike
Publisher : London ; New York : Macmillan and Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Barren Ground of Northern Canada written by Warburton Mayer Pike and published by London ; New York : Macmillan and Company. This book was released on 1892 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of a journey in 1889 to the desert region of Canada between Hudson Bay and the Arctic Sea, in order to find and study the musk-ox and its Indian hunters.

Author : David A. Robertson
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 1443457779
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Water written by David A. Robertson and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Globe and Mail Top 100 Book of the Year A Quill & Quire Book of the Year A CBC Books Nonfiction Book of the Year A Maclean’s 20 Books You Need to Read this Winter “An instant classic that demands to be read with your heart open and with a perspective widened to allow in a whole new understanding of family, identity and love.” —Cherie Dimaline In this bestselling memoir, a son who grew up away from his Indigenous culture takes his Cree father on a trip to the family trapline and finds that revisiting the past not only heals old wounds but creates a new future The son of a Cree father and a white mother, David A. Robertson grew up with virtually no awareness of his Indigenous roots. His father, Dulas—or Don, as he became known—lived on the trapline in the bush in Manitoba, only to be transplanted permanently to a house on the reserve, where he couldn’t speak his language, Swampy Cree, in school with his friends unless in secret. David’s mother, Beverly, grew up in a small Manitoba town that had no Indigenous people until Don arrived as the new United Church minister. They married and had three sons, whom they raised unconnected to their Indigenous history. David grew up without his father’s teachings or any knowledge of his early experiences. All he had was “blood memory”: the pieces of his identity ingrained in the fabric of his DNA, pieces that he has spent a lifetime putting together. It has been the journey of a young man becoming closer to who he is, who his father is and who they are together, culminating in a trip back to the trapline to reclaim their connection to the land. Black Water is a memoir about intergenerational trauma and healing, about connection and about how Don’s life informed David’s own. Facing up to a story nearly erased by the designs of history, father and son journey together back to the trapline at Black Water and through the past to create a new future.

Author : Ellen Glasgow
Publisher : Bailey Press
ISBN 13 : 1447412222
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Barren Ground written by Ellen Glasgow and published by Bailey Press. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Warburton Pike
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Barren Ground of Northern Canada written by Warburton Pike and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of a journey in 1889 to the desert region of Canada between Hudson Bay and the Arctic Sea, in order to find and study the musk-ox and its Indian hunters.

Author : Caspar Whitney
Publisher : New York : Harper
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Snow-shoes to the Barren Grounds written by Caspar Whitney and published by New York : Harper. This book was released on 1896 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ellen Glasgow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Barren Ground written by Ellen Glasgow and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: