Winter Pasture
One Woman's Journey with China's Kazakh Herders
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Li Juan
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Li Juan and her mother own a small convenience store in the Altai Mountains in Northwestern China, where she writes about her life among grasslands and snowy peaks. To her neighbors' surprise, Li decides to join a family of Kazakh herders as they take their 30 boisterous camels, 500 sheep, and over 100 cattle and horses to pasture for the winter.
The so-called "winter pasture" occurs in a remote region that stretches from the Ulungur River to the Heavenly Mountains. As she journeys across the vast, seemingly endless sand dunes, she helps herd sheep, rides horses, chases after camels, builds an underground home using manure, gathers snow for water, and more.
With a keen eye for the understated elegance of the natural world, and a healthy dose of self-deprecating humor, Li vividly captures both the extraordinary hardships and the ordinary preoccupations of the day-to-day of the men and women struggling to get by in this desolate landscape. Her companions include Cuma, the often drunk but mostly responsible father; his teenage daughter, Kama, who feels the burden of the world on her shoulders and dreams of going to college; his reticent wife, a paragon of decorum against all odds, who is simply known as "sister-in-law".
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- Duración: 1 h y 26 m
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It is a hot summer in rural Ireland. A child is taken by her father to live with relatives on a farm, not knowing when or if she will be brought home again. In the Kinsellas' house, she finds an affection and warmth she has not known and slowly, in their care, begins to blossom. But there is something unspoken in this new household—where everything is so well tended to—and this summer must soon come to an end.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A story that will stay with me a long time
- De CTKG en 11-01-22
De: Claire Keegan
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The Farmer's Son
- Calving Season on a Family Farm
- De: John Connell
- Narrado por: Alan Smyth
- Duración: 7 h y 56 m
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Farming has been in John Connell's family for generations, but he never intended to follow in his father's footsteps. Until, one winter, after more than a decade away, he finds himself back on the farm. Connell records the hypnotic rhythm of the farming day - cleaning the barns, caring for the herd, tending to sickly lambs, helping the cows give birth. Alongside the routine events, there are the unforeseen moments when things go wrong: when a calf fails to thrive, when a sheep goes missing, when an argument between father and son erupts and things are said that cannot be unsaid.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful.
- De Kindle Customer en 05-22-19
De: John Connell
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Letters of a Woman Homesteader
- De: Elinore Pruitt Stewart
- Narrado por: Gwen Hughes
- Duración: 5 h y 4 m
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Letters of a Woman Homesteader is a frontier classic by Elinore Pruitt Stewart, a widowed young mother who accepted an offer to assist with a ranch in Wyoming. In Stewart's delightful collection of letters, she describes her homesteading experiences to her former employer, Mrs. Coney.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Every woman in the US should read this book.
- De Dolly Jane Prenzel en 03-17-15
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All the Way to the Tigers
- De: Mary Morris
- Narrado por: Susan Bennett
- Duración: 6 h y 32 m
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In February 2008 a casual afternoon of ice skating derailed the trip of a lifetime. Mary Morris was on the verge of a well-earned sabbatical, but instead she endured three months in a wheelchair, two surgeries, and extensive rehabilitation. On Easter Sunday, when she was supposed to be in Morocco, Morris was instead lying on the sofa reading Death in Venice, casting her eyes over these words again and again: "He would go on a journey. Not far. Not all the way to the tigers." Disaster shifted to possibility and Morris made a decision.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful Memoir
- De Janet G. Zinn en 07-05-21
De: Mary Morris
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The Hearts of Horses
- A Novel
- De: Molly Gloss
- Narrado por: Renée Raudman
- Duración: 9 h y 23 m
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The irresistible tale of 19-year-old Martha Lessen, a female horse whisperer trying to make a go of it in a man's world. It was thought that the only way to break a horse was to buck the wild out of it, and broken ribs and tough falls just went with the job. But over several long, hard winter months, many of the townsfolk in this remote county of eastern Oregon witness Martha's way of talking in low, sweet tones to horses believed beyond repair---and getting miraculous, almost immediate results.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Simple, Honest, Wonderful
- De Julie W. Capell en 11-08-09
De: Molly Gloss
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The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted
- De: Robert Hillman
- Narrado por: Daniel Lapaine
- Duración: 9 h y 26 m
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It is 1968 in rural Australia and lonely Tom Hope can't make heads or tails of Hannah Babel. Newly arrived from Hungary, Hannah is unlike anyone he's ever met - she's passionate, artistic, and fiercely determined to open sleepy Hometown's first bookshop. Despite the fact that Tom has only read only one book in his life, the two soon discover an astonishing spark. Recently abandoned by an unfaithful wife - and still missing her sweet son, Peter - Tom dares to believe that he might make Hannah happy.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Listener beware
- De Little old lady from Iowa en 06-11-23
De: Robert Hillman
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Black Sheep, White Crow and Other Windmill Tales
- Stories from Navajo Country
- De: Jim Kristofic
- Narrado por: Jim Kristofic
- Duración: 2 h y 58 m
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When Kameron moves to his grandma’s sheep camp on the Navajo Reservation, he leaves behind his cell phone reception and his friends. The young boy’s world becomes even stranger when Kameron takes the sheep out to the local windmill and meets an old storyteller. As the seasons turn, the old man weaves eight tales that teach the deeper story of the Diné country and the Diné people.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I love it
- De jaynell en 06-13-21
De: Jim Kristofic
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Claiming Ground
- De: Laura Bell
- Narrado por: Laurie Birmingham
- Duración: 7 h y 46 m
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A transcendent memoir from an author of rare talent, Laura Bell’s Claiming Ground recounts Bell’s time living mostly alone in the hills of Wyoming, where she herded sheep and cattle and battled isolation. A journey to the heart of self, Bell’s work sparkles with shimmering prose and remarkable insight.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful writing
- De Rand Hall en 11-01-16
De: Laura Bell
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Independent People
- De: Halldór Laxness
- Narrado por: Michael Page
- Duración: 20 h y 56 m
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This magnificent novel - which secured for its author the 1955 Nobel Prize in Literature - is now available to contemporary American audiences. Although it is set in the early 20th century, it recalls both Iceland's medieval epics and such classics as Sigrid Undset's Kristin Lavransdatter. And if Bjartur of Summerhouses, the book's protagonist, is an ordinary sheep farmer, his flinty determination to achieve independence is genuinely heroic and, at the same time, terrifying and bleakly comic.
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2 out of 5 stars
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I am so confused about this introduction
- De George M en 09-10-18
De: Halldór Laxness
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The Meadow
- De: James Galvin
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 6 h y 29 m
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In short vignettes, Galvin gives us a deeply personal portrait of the people who lived in a mountain meadow along the Colorado-Wyoming border over its hundred-year history. His portraits illuminate the Western character and evolve a sense of place like no other.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Reading the Meadow is almost like reading a poem..
- De Shelby Stephens en 04-30-12
De: James Galvin
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Painting the Light
- A Novel
- De: Sally Cabot Gunning
- Narrado por: Eva Kaminsky
- Duración: 10 h y 25 m
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Martha’s Vineyard, 1898. In her first life, Ida Russell had been a painter. Five years ago, she had confidently walked the halls of Boston’s renowned Museum School, enrolling in art courses that were once deemed “unthinkable” for women to take and showing a budding talent for watercolors. But no more. Ida Russell is now Ida Pease, resident of a seaside farm on Vineyard Haven and wife to Ezra, a once-charming man who has become an inattentive and altogether unreliable husband.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Slow the narrator to speed 8 and it’s beautifully read
- De Storytellersrus en 04-21-22
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Novice Dragoneer
- Dragoneer Academy, Book 1
- De: E. E. Knight
- Narrado por: Nicole Poole
- Duración: 16 h y 14 m
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Fourteen-year-old Ileth grew up in an orphanage, and thanks to her stutter was never thought to be destined for much beyond kitchen work and cleaning. But she's dreamed of serving with the dragons ever since a childhood meeting with a glittering silver dragon and its female dragoneer. For years she waits, and as soon as she is old enough to join, Ileth runs away to become a novice dragoneer at the ancient human-dragon fortress of the Serpentine.
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3 out of 5 stars
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She’s 14yrs old
- De Alex D. en 10-23-21
De: E. E. Knight
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Rough Magic
- Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race
- De: Lara Prior-Palmer
- Narrado por: Henrietta Meire
- Duración: 7 h y 37 m
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At the age of 19, Lara Prior-Palmer discovered a website devoted to "the world's longest, toughest horse race" - an annual competition of endurance and skill that involves dozens of riders racing a series of 25 wild ponies across 1,000 kilometers of Mongolian grassland. On a whim, she decided to enter the race. Riders often spend years preparing to compete in the Mongol Derby, and many fail to finish. Rough Magic captures the extraordinary story of one young woman who forged ahead, against all odds, to become the first female winner of this breathtaking race.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Interesting Story - Self Absorbed Author
- De Chris en 06-11-19
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Deep Creek
- Finding Hope in the High Country
- De: Pam Houston
- Narrado por: Pam Houston
- Duración: 10 h y 5 m
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On her 120-acre homestead high in the Colorado Rockies, beloved writer Pam Houston learns what it means to care for a piece of land and the creatures on it. Elk calves and bluebirds mark the changing seasons, winter temperatures drop to 35 below, and lightning sparks a 110,000-acre wildfire, threatening her century-old barn and all its inhabitants. Through her travels from the Gulf of Mexico to Alaska, she explores what ties her to the Earth, the ranch most of all.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The most beautiful book I’ve ever read
- De KFratt en 04-26-19
De: Pam Houston
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The Yorkshire Shepherdess
- De: Amanda Owen
- Narrado por: Anne Dover
- Duración: 10 h y 10 m
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Amanda Owen has been seen by millions on ITV's The Dales, living a life that has almost gone in today's modern world, a life ruled by the seasons and her animals. She is a farmer's wife and shepherdess, living alongside her husband, Clive, and seven children at Ravenseat, a 2,000 acre sheep hill farm at the head of Swaledale in North Yorkshire. It's a challenging life but one she loves.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I want to go and have cream tea and meet all the animals and the shepherdess herself
- De luvs aussies en 05-30-19
De: Amanda Owen
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The Shepherd's Life
- Modern Dispatches from an Ancient Landscape
- De: James Rebanks
- Narrado por: Bryan Dick
- Duración: 7 h y 34 m
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Some people's lives are entirely their own creations. James Rebanks' isn't. He's the first son of a shepherd who was the first son of a shepherd himself; his family have lived and worked in the Lake District of Northern England for generations, further back than recorded history. It's a part of the world known mainly for its romantic descriptions by Wordsworth and the much-loved illustrated children's books of Beatrix Potter. But James' world is quite different. His way of life is ordered by the seasons and the work they demand.
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2 out of 5 stars
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The Author Wears His Life As A Heavy Mantle
- De Sara en 12-06-15
De: James Rebanks
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Beautiful Joe
- De: Margaret Marshall Saunders
- Narrado por: John Michaels
- Duración: 8 h y 13 m
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First published in 1893 as a children's book to encourage the humane treatment of animals, Beautiful Joe has taken it's place along with Black Beauty, becoming a favorite of several generations of youngsters. Beautiful Joe narrates the story of his mutilation at the hands of a cruel master and the love he finds in the home of a caring family full of kids and animals.
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5 out of 5 stars
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My Appeeciation
- De Linda Niebanck en 04-28-17
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Winter Pasture
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- Dangg
- 06-01-23
I am incredibly happy with this.
As someone who is alittle bit obsessed with Nomadic empires and warriors of the steppe and their lifestyles. I am incredibly happy i found this this book, though its not about mongol military strategies or the huns effect on the Roman empire. it gives so much information on the way of life of nomadic pastoralists. I really really really enjoy the details of animals husbandry, the routines, hardships and emotions. I appreciate her so much for this.
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- 02-22-25
delightful, funny, & heart-warming
i absolutely love 'winter pasture' and li juan!!! i'm so grateful for everyone on xhs who recommended this book. the essay format makes it endlessly re-readable too - can't wait to read "my altai".
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