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Author : Richmond Pearson Hobson
Release : 1951
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Grass Beyond the Mountains by : Richmond Pearson Hobson
Download or read book Grass Beyond the Mountains written by Richmond Pearson Hobson. This book was released on 1951. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a colourful view of cattle ranching in central B.C.
Author : Richmond P. Hobson
Release : 2012-09-25
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 142/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy by : Richmond P. Hobson
Download or read book Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy written by Richmond P. Hobson. This book was released on 2012-09-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A true adventure story of a man who built a four-million acre cattle empire in the remote ranges of the British Columbia Interior.
Author : Deanna Raybourn
Release : 2017-07-17
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 963/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A Spear of Summer Grass by : Deanna Raybourn
Download or read book A Spear of Summer Grass written by Deanna Raybourn. This book was released on 2017-07-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death, divorce, and scandal send an American socialite to Kenya for a journey of discovery in this historical novel by a New York Times–bestselling author. Paris, 1923 The daughter of a scandalous mother, Delilah Drummond is already notorious, even among Paris society. But her latest scandal is big enough to make even her oft-married mother blanch. Delilah is exiled to Kenya and her favorite stepfather's savanna manor house until gossip subsides. Fairlight is the crumbling, sun-bleached skeleton of a faded African dream, a world where dissolute expats are bolstered by gin and jazz records, cigarettes and safaris. As mistress of this wasted estate, Delilah falls into the decadent pleasures of society. Against the frivolity of her peers, Ryder White stands in sharp contrast. As foreign to Delilah as Africa, Ryder becomes her guide to the complex beauty of this unknown world. Giraffes, buffalo, lions and elephants roam the shores of Lake Wanyama amid swirls of red dust. Here, life is lush and teeming—yet fleeting and often cheap. Amidst the wonders—and dangers—of Africa, Delilah awakes to a land out of all proportion: extremes of heat, darkness, beauty and joy that cut to her very heart. Only when this sacred place is profaned by bloodshed does Delilah discover what is truly worth fighting for—and what she can no longer live without. Praise for A Spear of Summer Grass “An exotic journey of redemption.” —Kirkus Reviews “Rayburn’s breezy, straightforward style is a nice counterpoint to the complexity of her heroine.” —Publishers Weekly
Author : Richmond P. Hobson
Release : 1978-01-01
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 716/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Rancher Takes a Wife by : Richmond P. Hobson
Download or read book The Rancher Takes a Wife written by Richmond P. Hobson. This book was released on 1978-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Told with wit and wisdom, this is Hobson's tale of bringing his city-bred interior-decorator bride to the harsh life of the British Columbia Interior.
Author : James D. Houston
Release : 2007-12-18
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 82X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Snow Mountain Passage by : James D. Houston
Download or read book Snow Mountain Passage written by James D. Houston. This book was released on 2007-12-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Snow Mountain Passage is a powerful retelling of the most dramatic of our pioneer stories—the ordeal of the Donner Party, with its cast of young and old risking all, its imprisoning snows, its rumors of cannibalism. James Houston takes us inside this central American myth in a compelling new way that only a novelist can achieve. The people whose dreams, courage, terror, ingenuity, and fate we share are James Frazier Reed, one of the leaders of the Donner Party, and his wife and four children—in particular his eight-year-old daughter, Patty. From the moment we meet Reed—proud, headstrong, yet a devoted husband and father—traveling with his family in the "Palace Car," a huge, specially built covered wagon transporting the Reeds in grand style, the stage is set for trouble. And as they journey across the country, thrilling to new sights and new friends, coping with outbursts of conflict and constant danger, trouble comes. It comes in the fateful choice of a wrong route, which causes the group to arrive at the foot of the Sierra Nevada too late to cross into the promised land before the snows block the way. It comes in the sudden fight between Reed and a drover—a fight that exiles Reed from the others, sending him solo over the mountains ahead of the storms. We follow Reed during the next five months as he travels around northern California, trying desperately to find means and men to rescue his family. And through the amazingly imagined "Trail Notes" of Patty Reed, who recollects late in life her experiences as a child, we also follow the main group, progressively stranded and starving on the Nevada side of the Sierras. Snow Mountain Passage is an extraordinary tale of pride and redemption. What happens—who dies, who survives, and why—is brilliantly, grippingly told.
