River Don
Title | River Don PDF eBook |
Author | Elizabeth Reeve |
Publisher | Amberley Publishing Limited |
Total Pages | 207 |
Release | 2015-02-15 |
Genre | Photography |
ISBN | 1445638851 |
This fascinating journey along the River Don invites readers to explore the history and folklore of the one of Britain’s most beautiful and enchanting rivers.
And Quiet Flows the Don
Title | And Quiet Flows the Don PDF eBook |
Author | Михаил Александрович Шолохов |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 696 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Soviet Union |
ISBN |
Our Time on the River
Title | Our Time on the River PDF eBook |
Author | Don Brown |
Publisher | HarperCollins |
Total Pages | 147 |
Release | 2003-04-21 |
Genre | Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | 0547348673 |
1968. Steve’s older brother has just broken the news that he’s quit college to enlist in the army. Before David departs for Vietnam in September, their father decides to send the brothers on a canoe trip down the Susquehanna River. Steve knows that David isn’t happy about the plan, and he’s not looking forward to being trapped with his swaggering, tough-guy brother either. “Look out for each other!” is the last thing they hear Dad shout as they round a bend out of sight, David in the rear, controlling the canoe. At first narrow and quiet as a stream, the river soon grows wider and more complicated, carrying the boys through gritty small-town America on a journey that pushes their adversarial relationship into new territory. There is no map or guide for this trip: just two brothers going forward, navigating the twists and turns of the river, learning to fight for each other. In this lyrical first novel, Don Brown tells the powerful story of two brothers coming of age in a challenging time.
Reclaiming the Don
Title | Reclaiming the Don PDF eBook |
Author | Jennifer L. Bonnell |
Publisher | University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | 312 |
Release | 2014-01-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1442612258 |
With Reclaiming the Don, Jennifer L. Bonnell unearths the missing story of the relationship between the river, the valley, and the city, from the establishment of the town of York in the 1790s to the construction of the Don Valley Parkway in the 1960s.
To the River
Title | To the River PDF eBook |
Author | Don Gillmor |
Publisher | Random House Canada |
Total Pages | 304 |
Release | 2018-12-31 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0345814681 |
WINNER OF THE GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD FOR NON-FICTION An eloquent and haunting exploration of suicide in which one of Canada's most gifted writers attempts to understand why his brother took his own life. Which leads him to another powerful question: Why are boomers killing themselves at a far greater rate than the Silent Generation before them or the generations that have followed? In the spring of 2006, Don Gillmor travelled to Whitehorse to reconstruct the last days of his brother, David, whose truck and cowboy hat were found at the edge of the Yukon River just outside of town the previous December. David's family, his second wife, and his friends had different theories about his disappearance. Some thought David had run away; some thought he'd met with foul play; but most believed that David, a talented musician who at the age of 48 was about to give up the night life for a day job, had intentionally walked into the water. Just as Don was about to paddle the river looking for traces, David's body was found, six months after he'd gone into the river. And Don's canoe trip turned into an act of remembrance and mourning. At least David could now be laid to rest. But there was no rest for his survivors. As his brother writes, "When people die of suicide, one of the things they leave behind is suicide itself. It becomes a country. At first I was a visitor, but eventually I became a citizen." In this tender, probing, surprising work, Don Gillmor brings back news from that country for all of us who wonder why people kill themselves. And why, for the first time, it's not the teenaged or the elderly who have the highest suicide rate, but the middle aged. Especially men.
Don't Throw Away Your Stick Till You Cross the River
Title | Don't Throw Away Your Stick Till You Cross the River PDF eBook |
Author | Vincent Beach |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2010-12-14 |
Genre | Immigrants |
ISBN | 9781589850767 |
Vincent Beach has crossed many rivers, beginning in 1944 when he left his rural Jamaican home and enlisted in the Royal Air Force. He dreamed of becoming a jazz musician and without any musical background, bought an old clarinet and began to practice. He emigrated to the United States and, with little education and even less money, joined the United States Air Force and completed a 22-year career as a military bandsman. In his autobiography Vincent shares the intimate details of his inspiring life. An ordinary man by his own description he has experienced a lot-from war, to racism, to love found, lost, and rediscovered, to the birth of his children, and the tragic deaths of two of them from Lupus. Vincent's heartwarming story will engender hope and optimism in readers everywhere. Book jacket.
Don't Push the River: (it Flows by Itself)
Title | Don't Push the River: (it Flows by Itself) PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 268 |
Release | 1970 |
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