Between Heaven and Earth

Name: Between Heaven and Earth
Brand: Findaway
Availability: InStock
Author: Eric Walters
ISBN: 9781459809130

Author: Eric Walters

Series: Seven #1

Narrator: Bret Amundsen

Unabridged: 5 hr 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Orca Book Publishers

Published: 10/01/2014

Categories: Children's Fiction, Sports Stories, Regional Stories

Synopsis

DJ is David McLean's eldest grandson, so it stands to reason that he be the one to scatter his beloved grandfather's ashes. At least that's how DJ sees it. He's always been the best at everything—sports, school, looking after his fatherless family—so climbing Kilimanjaro is just another thing he'll accomplish almost effortlessly. Or so he thinks, until he arrives in Tanzania and everything starts to go wrong. He's detained at immigration, he gets robbed, his climbing group includes an old lady and he gets stuck with the first ever female porter. Forced to go polepole (slowly), DJ finds out the hard way that youth, fitness level and drive have nothing to do with success on the mountain—or in life.

DJ's adventures start in Jungle Land, part of The Seven Prequels and continue in Sleeper, part of The Seven Sequels.

About Eric Walters

Eric Walters has written nearly 100 children's books, which have been translated into thirteen languages and won over 125 awards. He was named to the Order of Canada in 2014 for his contribution as an author of literature for children and young adults. Walters also runs The Creation of Hope, a charity providing care for orphans in the Mbooni District of Kenya.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Charles

The structure of Chinese writing is fascinating, albeit very difficult for western eyes. Constructed from pictograms, the characters are based on reduced representations of the objects they depict. They have changed significantly over time, becoming more simple in structure. This book follows the m......more

Goodreads review by Peter

At the end of one of my Chinese language lessons, my current tutor loaned me this book. This is a compact book on the history of Chinese writing. The Chinese writing language is based on pictograms, not an alphabet. The book covers how pictograms (i.e., characters) have been developed, starting with......more

Goodreads review by Helmut

Knapper Überblick über die Geschichte der chinesischen Schrift Von der jiaguwen, der Orakelknochen-Schrift, über die xiaozhuan der Qin-Dynastie und den heutigen Zeichen bereits recht ähnlichen lishu der Han-Dynastie, bis hin zu verschiedenen Kalligrafiestilen werden in diesem dünnen Band die untersch......more

Goodreads review by Carolyn

Maybe something was lost in translation... this slim volume by Chinese-French calligrapher Shi Bo is rather shallow but I can recommend it for all the examples differentiating styles.......more