Mr. MEYERS: His previous book to this was Across the River and Into the Trees, which was the first book he published after World War Two.
The primary school counts 430 students and 17 teachers, grapples with classic problems of rural schools in many parts of the world from overcrowding and lack of clean water to difficulty in growing much-needed shade trees and river overflows in the rainy season.
Boarding a vessel on the Nile is to peel back millennia and slow down to river speed as ancient temples, oxcarts and palm trees pass by, unaltered since Pharaohs ruled the roost.
The idea of waking up in the morning, hearing a river and looking up at pine trees rang an ancient and clear bell in me.
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In the capital, Apia, homes were flattened and the Vaisigano River burst its banks, washing away cars, trees and other debris.
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Instead, they decided to pay farmers and ranchers to plant trees along the banks of the river, and that helped to cool the water at a fraction of the cost.
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For an hour the kob course under the plane, almost like a river, flowing across the broken soil and around the trees.
That day I walked away from the waiting women, into the trees and towards the water: the same river that further on curled around the houses, so the village lay within its embrace like a woman in the crook of her lover's arm.
Sheltered and hidden away at a bend in the river, shaded by trees, stands a yurt in one of the most beautiful locations in a country of beautiful locations.
The flow of the river, made constant by careful management to please consumers, did not suit the handsome river red gum trees along its banks, which thrive on drought and flood.
The highway and rail project is slicing through the Mzymta River watershed, felling hundreds of mature trees.
Chill with the howler monkeys and exotic butterflies while ziplining through the rainforest trees, or zoom down a river on a white-water raft.
Impressionists favor the clear light of midafternoon, and instead of focusing on panoramic views, they concentrate on the quality of natural light reflected on specific surfaces a single copse of trees, a short span of running river, a group of village houses and rooftops.
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Ash trees are about 4 percent of the state's forests, and 80 percent of the state's 45 million ash trees are found west of the Connecticut River.
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