Against the Tides: Reshaping Landscape and Community in Canada`s Maritime Marshlands, Ronald Rudin
Автор: Turgenev, Ivan Название: Rudin ISBN: 1847492266 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781847492265 Издательство: Bloomsbury Рейтинг: Цена: 997.00 р. 1424.00-30% Наличие на складе: Есть (1 шт.) Описание: Rudin, Turgenev`s first novel, is a subtle examination of human weakness which foreshadows many of the themes in the author`s later work, with its lead character personifying the type of the "superfluous man" which came to dominate much of the literature of nineteenth-century Russia.
For four centuries, dykes turned salt marsh into arable land in the Bay of Fundy region of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. But by the 1940s, the aging dykes were in poor repair. Against the Tides is the never-before-told story of the Maritime Marshland Rehabilitation Administration, a federal agency created in 1948 to reshape the landscape. Agency engineers sometimes borrowed from long-standing dykeland practices, but they also disregarded local conditions in building tidal dams that compromised some of the region’s rivers. This vivid account of a distinctive landscape and its occupants reveals the push–pull of local and expert knowledge and the role of the postwar state.
Автор: Ivan Turgenev,Richard Freeborn Название: Rudin ISBN: 0140443045 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780140443042 Издательство: Random House (USA) Рейтинг: Цена: 1287.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: A social novel that is a sort of introduction to those that follow, because it refers to the epoch anterior to that when the social and political movements began.
Автор: Rudin Marcia R. Название: Flower Toward the Sun ISBN: 1548064041 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781548064044 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 2585.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In 1905,
Rebecca leaves her Jewish shtetl in the Ukraine to join her fianc , Samuel, in Milwaukee. Ingrid leaves her orphanage in Norway to become the Picture Bride of Lars, a widowed Norwegian farmer in North Dakota.
But as Rebecca and Ingrid are processed together at Ellis Island, officials put them on the wrong trains and each is sent to the other's final destination.
Lars takes Rebecca to his farm and promises to help her find her way back to Samuel. Samuel convinces his family to take Ingrid in until they can locate Rebecca and return her to Lars.
Alone in a strange country and unable to speak English, Ingrid and Rebecca struggle against conflicting religions and cultures. It is hatred at first sight for the feisty Ingrid and Samuel and his Jewish family. Lars does not understand Rebecca's traditional Jewish practices. Both women attempt to escape to find their promised new lives in America, but fail and reluctantly return to their alien environments to build new lives.
After nearly a year, Samuel and Ingrid journey to the isolated farm in North Dakota, but the love that has blossomed between Lars and Rebecca threatens to destroy everything.
