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1 online resource (xvi, 190 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes index. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
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Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Summary |
Lucy Fischer-West knows the power of birthplace and of borders and rivers. Her memoir begins with the story of her parents, one reared in Germany, the other in Mexico, and how they found each other on the Texas-Mexico border. Fischer-West's own journeys take her from her birth in the Hudson River Valley; to her upbringing on both sides of the Rio Grande; across the Atlantic to Scotland and then France; and finally to India's River Ganges, halfway around the world from the El Paso barrio where she grew up. Hers is an ordinary life made extraordinary by its path and by the people who, having touched and enriched her life, stay with her, as nurturing to her spirit as the rivers that help her mark time. By focusing not on the conflicts of border life but rather on everyday experiences made rich by her appreciation of them, Fischer-West honors her rivers and the people who travel them, cross them, live on their banks, and bathe in their waters. Her story touches on the emotions that bind us to others: anger, sorrow, equanimity, exuberance, and serenity. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Fischer-West, Lucy, 1949-
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Fischer-West, Lucy, 1949- |
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El Paso (Tex.) -- Biography.
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Ciudad Juárez (Mexico) -- Biography.
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Electronic books.
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Biographies.
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Academic theses.
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Academic theses.
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Autobiographies.
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Autobiographies.
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Print version: Fischer-West, Lucy, 1949- Child of many rivers. Lubbock : Texas Tech University Press, ©2005 0896725561 (DLC) 2005008806 (OCoLC)58919702 |
| ISBN |
1423762797 (electronic book) |
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9781423762799 (electronic book) |
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1281093173 |
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9781281093172 |
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0896725561 (Cloth) |
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9780896725560 |
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