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Born Mya Than on 23 May 1929 in Myaing, Pakokku Township, Magway Division, Myanmar, he was the eldest of seven children to Paw Tint and his wife Hlaing.. Mya Than Tint entered Rangoon University in 1948, the year Burma gained independence from Great Britain, and received a degree in philosophy, political science and English literature in 1954.
Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination is a book by British writer Robert Macfarlane published in 2003 about the history of human fascination with mountains. The book takes its title from a line by the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins and combines history with first-person narrative. He considers why people are drawn to mountains despite ...
He wrote about that journey in his book The Other Side of the Mountain: An Escape to the Amazon, which is entertaining and informative on several levels. [ 2 ] High Conquest was the first of nine books for the J.B. Lippincott Company, coming out in 1941, followed by The White Tower, River of The Sun, Windom's Way, and Banner in the Sky , a 1955 ...
In my review of “Intermezzo,” I called it “kaleidoscopically beautiful and intimately human.” ‘Catalina’ by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio "Catalina" by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
In 2024, the New York Times ranked the book #23 of the best 100 books of the 21st century. [9] "The Bear Came Over the Mountain" features as the closing piece in the 2008 short story collection, My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead: Great Love Stories, from Chekhov to Munro, edited by novelist Jeffrey Eugenides. Two of the stories were adapted into films.
Audible has a 30-day free trial available right now. Prologue. This book tells a story that will not happen again, because the state I lived in for thirty-five years ceased to exist in 1990. If it ...
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Publishers Weekly said it "provid[es] clear information on the heritage, history and fascination this mountain creates". [2] A review in a local Washington State newspaper said it was "the first book I've seen that gives you a sense of The Mountain's [Mount Rainier's] geologic history, natural history, political history, climbing history and ...