Results for "Rout, Katharina"

The final installment in the saga of the shepherd boy first introduced in The Blue Sky and The Gray Earth, weaving the timeless tale of a boy on the cusp of manhood with the story of a people on the threshold. Dshurukuwaa has been sent to school in a provincial capital after being taken from his h... Read More about The White Mountain

Taken from his ancestral home--and haunted by the recent onset of visions--the adolescent Dshurukawaa reunites with his siblings at a boarding school, where his brother also serves as principal. There he attempts to mediate the pull of spirituality and pragmatism, old ways and new, but quickly comes... Read More about The Gray Earth

This powerful, sweeping novel continues the saga of Dshurukawaa, the Tuvan shepherd boy introduced in The Blue Sky. Torn between the onset of visions and pressure from his family to attend a state boarding school, the adolescent attempts to mediate the pull of spirituality and pragmatism, old ways a... Read More about The Gray Earth

A boy's nomadic life in Mongolia is under threat in a novel that "captures the mountains, valleys and steppes in all their surpassing beauty and brutality" (Minneapolis Star-Tribune). In the high Altai Mountains of northern Mongolia, a young shepherd boy comes of age, tending his family's flocks on ... Read More about The Blue Sky (Seedbank #4)

The only metric that tracks how much nature we have - and how much nature we use Ecological Footprint accounting, first introduced in the 1990s and continuously developed, continues to be the only metric that compares overall human demand on nature with what our planet can renew -- its biocapacity -... Read More about Ecological Footprint: Managing Our Biocapacity Budget

In the Altai Mountains of northern Mongolia, the nomadic Tuvan people’s ancient way of life is colliding with the pervasive influence of modernity. For the young shepherd boy Dshurukuwaa, the confrontation comes in stages. First his older siblings leave the family yurt to attend a distant boarding s... Read More about The Blue Sky