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At Lake Nipigon, Ontario, a First Nation boy carves a wooden model of an “Indian” in a canoe. On its side he roughly carves the words "Please put me back in the water. I am Paddle-to-the-Sea" and sets it free to travel the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean. The story follows the progress of the little wooden canoe and paddler on their journey.
Guide to the Lakes, more fully A Guide through the District of the Lakes, William Wordsworth's travellers' guidebook to England's Lake District, has been studied by scholars both for its relationship to his Romantic poetry and as an early influence on 19th-century geography. Originally written because Wordsworth needed money, the first version ...
To the Lake (Russian: Эпидемия, lit. ' Epidemic ') is a Russian post-apocalyptic thriller television series launched on the Premier platform on 14 November 2019. [2] Its first season is based on Vongozero, a novel by Russian author Yana Vagner. [3] Netflix acquired the first season and released it internationally on 8 October 2020.
Once More to the Lake" is an essay first published in Harper's Magazine in 1941 by author E. B. White. It chronicles his pilgrimage back to a lakefront resort, Belgrade Lakes, Maine, that he visited as a child. [1] In "Once More to the Lake," White revisits his ideal boyhood vacation spot.
[7] [8] The music video, released after Bradbury's death, is dedicated to him and shows a young boy and girl wandering through an African veldt and witnessing several plot points from the story including vultures, screams, and a lion eating a carcass implied to be one of the parents due to glasses. The original title of the story, "The World ...
Swallows and Amazons is a children's adventure novel by English author Arthur Ransome first published on 21 July 1930 by Jonathan Cape. [1] Set in the summer of 1929 in the Lake District, the book introduces the main characters of John, Susan, Titty and Roger Walker (Swallows); as well as their mother, Mary; and their baby sister, Bridget (nicknamed Vicky).
The book opens in 1870 on the wild border between Texas and Indian Territory, where a 10-year-old girl has been released after four years of captivity. Kiowa raiders had killed her family and taken her hostage, eventually raising her as one of their own with the Kiowa name Cicada .
Housekeeping is a 1980 novel by Marilynne Robinson.The novel was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and awarded the PEN/Hemingway Award for best first novel.. In 2003, Guardian Unlimited named Housekeeping one of the 100 greatest novels of all time, [1] describing the book as "Haunting, poetic story, drowned in water and light, about three generations of women."