This book is a must read for anyone traveling to, or volunteering in, Africa, especially in the beautiful country of Tanzania. It includes maps, colored photos, as well as useful information about African and Tanzanian culture, written with humor from the author's personal experience.
Take a journey through China with the author, from Beijing in the east to central Xian, Chengdu, and Chongqing, and from Lhasa, Tibet in the west, down the Yangtze River to the port city of Shanghai. China still has its own set of problems. Yet the bulk of the Chinese people have more money and more freedom than ever before. They are polite to Americans and try to emulate our culture and characteristics while striving to surpass us in every way. They are happy, peaceful, and markedly proud of their country and leaders. Theirs is a country of superlatives: the biggest central square in the world, the largest and best imperial palace complex, the world's largest dam, and the world's largest and longest manmade structure--the Great Wall. Enjoy the colorful photos and adventure.
THE DAYES of WYOMING is a historic novel featuring horse trainer, Bertha and mountain man, Charlie Daye. Their adventures take place during the late 1800s to early 1900s in northern Wyoming, from Johnson County, east of the Bighorns, to Yellowstone, west of the Continental Divide. This was an exciting time of change in Wyoming: Wyoming Territory was admitted into the Union; the end of the trappers' rendezvous precipitated a decline in the fur trade and mountain men; Wyoming's Civil War took place east of the Bighorns in Johnson County; with Yellowstone recently declared a national park, Cody became a thriving community as its eastern entrance; and work began on the Shoshone Dam, later known as the Buffalo Bill Dam and Reservoir. Hundreds of thousands of bison no longer dotted the Wyoming landscape and their disappearance was soon followed by the extinction of wolves and severely diminished herds of wild mustangs. Bertha and Charlie Daye experienced it all, and more . . . from guiding eastern guests into remote mountain paradises, rounding up wild horses, and riding in thrilling overland horse races, to adopting children who traveled west on one of the famous Orphan Trains.
In August 1928, Annie and Henry Kenoyer decided it was in the best interest of their family to move to Maine from their home in Iowa with their ten children, ages one to seventeen. They were a migrant family, having already moved twenty-six times throughout South Dakota and Iowa, but this 1400-mile trip, in two1920s vehicles, would prove a challenge to them all . . . not the least of their concerns were food (or lack of it) and places to camp for the night, out in the open, vulnerable to all weather conditions. This is a true story told from the perspective of eight-year-old Ruth Elizabeth Kenoyer, the seventh of the ten Kenoyer children.
Children and horse lovers of all ages can read with pleasure as Mookie tells his own story about being born in the wild and running free, as many would like to be able to do. He tells of his family structure and herd etiquette, as well as the hardships his family incurs during winters and in times of drought. Filled with adventures from romping carefree with his friends and befriending a Bighorn lamb to startling a rattlesnake and encountering a mountain lion, Mookie keeps the reader wondering what is going to happen on the next page
In August 1928, Annie and Henry Kenoyer decided it was in the best interest of their family to move to Maine from their home in Iowa with their ten children, ages one to seventeen. They were a migrant family, having already moved twenty-six times throughout South Dakota and Iowa, but this 1400-mile trip, in two1920s vehicles, would prove a challenge to them all . . . not the least of their concerns were food (or lack of it) and places to camp for the night, out in the open, vulnerable to all weather conditions. This is a true story told from the perspective of eight-year-old Ruth Elizabeth Kenoyer, the seventh of the ten Kenoyer children.
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