In the late summer of 1630, 23-year old Li Bing writes the provincial level imperial examinations, the first step towards entering the Chinese civil service. He is tormented by a dream of 18 red-crowned cranes, and as he awaits his exam results he seeks out insights from those around him to help him understand his dream. In the end, he learns more than he imagined.

Political intrique between two officials has the potential to upset the plans of two young people to get married, before the young scholar has to set out for the imperial capital. In the process, he learns more about his heritage from his grandfather, and a dark secret comes to light.

A Narrative of Colonel Robert Campbell's Experiences in the Rocky Mountain Fur Trade from 1825 to 1835 is an interesting memoir from the time of booming fur trade out of Missouri and farther west.

“A very good read. The author describes the gradual erosion of the principles and values the US was founded upon. You may not agree with all the views in the book, but there’s no denying that it is spot on. Certainly, worth your time. Highly recommend.”

In Beijing, Li Bing continues his quest to enter the imperial civil service.

Bing travels from Hangzhou to Beijing along the Grand Canal to sit the metropolitan level civil service examinations. He plans to stop at Kaifeng to learn more about his heritage. The voyage is full of surprises.

You are There: Restoring Churches, People, and Places is a pastoral conversation about creation care. It is a pastoral voice shepherding Christian people in Christian churches towards discipleship that is all the way down to the dirt. In it you will find a pastor with time to talk with you and walk with you so that the fruit of the redemption earned by Jesus' life, death, and resurrection will make a real and substantial difference in your very own backyard. This book is not actually about...

Before Alaska became a mining bonanza, it was a scenic bonanza, a place larger in the American imagination than in its actual borders. Prior to the great Klondike Gold Rush of 1897, thousands of scenic adventurers journeyed along the Inside Passage, the nearly thousand-mile sea-lane that snakes up the Pacific coast from Puget Sound to Icy Strait. Both the famous—including wilderness advocate John Muir, landscape painter Albert Bierstadt, and photographers Eadweard Muybridge and Edward Curt...

Before Alaska became a mining bonanza, it was a scenic bonanza, a place larger in the American imagination than in its actual borders. Prior to the great Klondike Gold Rush of 1897, thousands of scenic adventurers journeyed along the Inside Passage, the nearly thousand-mile sea-lane that snakes up the Pacific coast from Puget Sound to Icy Strait. Both the famous—including wilderness advocate John Muir, landscape painter Albert Bierstadt, and photographers Eadweard Muybridge and Edward Curt...

Despite the restrictions on their work and actions, the economists of the Soviet period produced a great deal of bold and important work. With the erosion of the old Stalinist controls, economists in the Soviet Union themselves became very interested in the history of their profession, not least in order to find authentic voices that might offer reinforcement or counterpoint to the policy analyses and recommendations with which policy makers in the transition countries are today being bomb...

From 1836...These first-person accounts of a trapper's life in the Rockies were letters written by Robert Campbell to his brother. They were first published as a serial in the National Atlas and Tuesday Morning Mail (Philadelphia), Nov 1 - Dec 6, 1836 giving eastern Americans a view onto the wild mountains of the West..The five letters present an authentic look at the wild frontier of that time period of the early 1800's, and tell much of the bloody...

"His book will not fail to please all who are interested in the mysteries of African Exploration, and the problem of African civilization." - The Living Age, 1861"He neither rejected Western culture as alien, nor considered assimilation into indigenous cultures practical. Aspects of Western culture that were useful had to be harnessed for the benefit of Africa." -R J M Blackett, Beating Against the Barriers.It is proper to state that Robert...