Journey Of The Wild Geese

Korean immigrants and their experiences in the United States from 1903-1941.

Mary Oliver is one of America's best-loved poets, the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Her luminous poetry celebrates nature and beauty, love and the spirit, silence and wonder, extending the visionary American tradition of Whitman, Emerson, Frost and Emily Dickinson. Her extraordinary poetry is nourished by her intimate knowledge and minute daily observation of the New England coast, its woods and ponds, its birds and animals, plants and trees.

In order to save her sick grandmother, Truzjka embarks on a fanciful journey to find the answer to the question of where the wild geese go.

Wild Geese Calling by Stewart Edward White is a touching novel that portrays the struggle and allure of life in the American wilderness. White's evocative description of nature and his deep understanding of human nature make this a rich and compelling story of survival and self-discovery.

A cataclysmic solar storm causes the most devastating calamity in human history. All modern machines and electronics are suddenly ruined and inoperable, crashing civilization into the dark ages. The fabric of modern society unravels in mere days as the complex network of communication, transportation, and food distribution is permanently destroyed. Panic ensues as food shortages and hunger overtake the major population centers. Riots, looting, and anarchy begin in the inner cities, but soon spread to the suburbs. With the worst winter on record hitting the eastern United States, it soon becomes clear that in just a few months most everyone will be dead. Even before the solar storm disaster struck, Adam Reynolds was a broken man, falling deep into the dark abyss of alcoholism. As a former Green Beret, he had seen enough war and suffering for a lifetime. At the time of the solar storm, he was living as a recluse in the woods of Maryland, forty miles north of Washington, D.C. At first, he felt as though he could ride out the coming famine and anarchy by relying on his well-stocked liquor cabinet and food supply. But circumstances compel Adam to pack what he can carry and to start a trek to flee the onslaught of hundreds of thousands of starving refugees. Adam's journey turns out to be cathartic as he goes through intense alcoholic withdrawals and fighting for his life against vicious survivors.While the effects of the solar storm were killing most of the planet, it had saved Adam from drinking himself to death. With each passing day his strength and hardiness increased. As his metamorphous continued Adam approached the point of turning feral. Then Adam comes upon a band of brutal survivors chasing a lone Amish woman in the woods of Pennsylvania with evil intentions. Returning to his spirit of humanity, Adam intervenes and saves her. In saving this young woman he now has a traveling companion. Together Adam and Rebecca will face the worst of nature and the worst of human nature.

The story begins in Cuba when Julian Hamilton, aged eighty and after a life as a famous writer, is confronted with Victoria, his daughter, whose existence he was unaware of. Julian has been spending his retirement and final days of a life that began with the conflicting dilemma he experienced as a young student after leaving Princeton University, USAa conflict that people have between their belief in themselves and their emotional lives. For the writer and painter, it is a greater burden and more onerous than the many people who have to decide whether to sacrifice ambition for a sense of responsibility toward love and family life. After Princeton, Julian gets married but soon finds that following lifes normal format impairs the necessary dedication to evolve as a writer. Fearful of the emotional restrictions that come with full commitment, he leaves his wife to follow the romantic dream of coup de foudre or love at first sight. He meets Rebecca serendipitously, who gives him the necessary inspiration, and they go traveling on an ancient Triumph Speed Twin motorbike, heading towards Morocco with no sense of responsibility. Things go wrong, which fractures their passionate relationship, leaving them in a state of despair. Rebecca is raped and becomes pregnant, and Julian goes into a monastery to make a clean break in order to establish a balanced perspective of the situation. They separate, and Rebecca is left facing a lifetime of unhappiness. The book contains romance, suspense, tragedy, travel, and some thriller action of rape, murder, and sex. The doomed lovers final curtain falls in Barcelona when Julian chooses his art over lovesomething he lives to regret. The novel will present some readers with the unsolvable question as to which path should be taken!