Books with title The Mountains of Quilt

Bright Star was one of the many Cherokee who lived in the mountains. He was soon to be called Brave Eagle, for doing an amazing feat that no other Indian boy had ever been able to do. The paint horse ran across the plains with the speed of an antelope. Swift Otter promised himself that one day this beautiful dream horse would be his. Little Fawn sat happily kicking her small brown feet up and down in the bubbling mountain stream. On her mother's shoulders hung a hemp baket full of freshly picked wild blackberries glistening in the morning sun. Their ancestors had fought long and hard to be able to keep these beloved mountains that they cherished with all of their hearts.

This interactive book introduces diverse mountain worlds to young readers. Draw your way through peaks and valleys, glaciers and caves. Find out what grows where, and how mountain people live, the food they eat, the clothes they wear, the music they listen to, their customs and festivals, stories and beliefs, and about mountain sports. Learn to make useful maps and plan for hiking trips. Acquire hands-on knowledge about surviving in some of the harshest terrains in the world. As you sketch, solve puzzles and guess answers to intriguing questions, you will find yourself wandering through some of the most astonishing landscapes in the world.

From the author of Snow Falling on Cedars comes this best-selling novel about a dying man’s final journey through a landscape that has always sustained him and provided him with hope and challenges. When he discovers that he has terminal cancer, retired heart surgeon Ben Givens refuses to simply sit back and wait. Instead he takes his two beloved dogs and goes on a last hunt, determined to end his life on his own terms. But as the people he meets and the memories over which he lingers remind him of the mystery of life’s endurance, his trek into the American West becomes much more than a final journey.