Faraway Places

Author : Herb Pohl
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2007-05-11
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781770706279

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The Lure of Faraway Places by Herb Pohl Pdf

The Lure of Faraway Places is the publication canoeist Herb Pohl (1930-2006) did not live to see published. But Pohl's words and images provide a unique portrait of Canada by one who was happiest when travelling our northern waterways alone. Austrian-born Herb Pohl died at the mouth of the Michipcoten River on July 17, 2006. He is remembered as "Canada's most remarkable solo traveller." While mourning their loss, Herb Pohl's friends found, to their surprise and delight, a manuscript of wilderness writings on his desk in his lakeside apartment in Burlington, Ontario. He had hoped one day to publish his work as a book. With help and commentary from best-selling canoe author and editor James Raffan, Natural Heritage is proud to present that book, Herb's book, The Lure of Faraway Places. "There's nothing like it in canoeing literature," says Raffan. "It's part journal, part memoir, part wilderness philosophy and part tips and tricks of the most pragmatic kind written about parts of the country most of us will never see by the most committed and ambitious solo canoeist in Canadian history."

Author : Tom Spanbauer
Publisher : Hawthorne Books
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780983850458

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Faraway Places by Tom Spanbauer Pdf

During a fateful summer, 13-year-old Jake Weber witnesses the brutal murder of a Native American woman by the town banker. Jake's parents forbid him to speak of the killing or name its perpetrator, even as the woman's African American lover stands falsely accused. The crime and what follows it forever alter Jake's view of his parents and the world around him. Faraway Places won widespread praise for its vivid narrative and incantatory style, and Spanbauer displays singular skill in inhabiting the mind of a troubled adolescent boy.

Author : Michael Burleigh
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101638033

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Small Wars, Faraway Places by Michael Burleigh Pdf

A sweeping history of the Cold War’s many “hot” wars born in the last gasps of empire The Cold War reigns in popular imagination as a period of tension between the two post-World War II superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, without direct conflict. Drawing from new archival research, prize-winning historian Michael Burleigh gives new meaning to the seminal decades of 1945 to 1965 by examining the many, largely forgotten, “hot” wars fought around the world. As once-great Western colonial empires collapsed, counter-insurgencies campaigns raged in the Philippines, the Congo, Iran, and other faraway places. Dozens of new nations struggled into existence, the legacies of which are still felt today. Placing these vicious struggles alongside the period-defining United States and Soviet standoffs in Korea, Vietnam, and Cuba, Burleigh swerves from Algeria to Kenya, to Vietnam and Kashmir, interspersing top-level diplomatic negotiations with portraits of the charismatic local leaders. The result is a dazzling work of history, a searing analysis of the legacy of imperialism and a reminder of just how the United States became the world’s great enforcer.

Author : Guy A. Sibilla
Publisher : Archway Publishing
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-16
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781480846937

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Boarding Passes to Faraway Places by Guy A. Sibilla Pdf

This entertaining and engaging collection of travelogues offers road warriors and arm chair travelers alike stories from distant, isolated locales in a loop encircling the world. Sibilla describes his chance meeting with the President of Guatemala who choppered into a jungle LZ next to his mules, the surreal morning he awoke in Rangoon on his birthday, living in a Tibetan Buddhist Monastery in Uttar Pradesh, India, sleeping among the moai of Rapa Nui (Easter Island), and many other stories of relentless adventuring. From the Indian subcontinent to the Middle East, from Africa to Central America and finally across the vast Pacific Ocean, this collection of stories illustrates that, as Robert Louis Stevenson suggested, the great affair of travel is to move. With an acute eye for detail and an irrepressible sense of wonderment, the narratives here reflect the thrill that comes from arriving at a destination without a plan, from wandering at the suggestion of strangers and the feeling of exuberance you experience when you let go and allow the path to choose you.

Author : Hayley Long
Publisher : Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-13
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781471406270

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The Nearest Faraway Place by Hayley Long Pdf

A powerfully told story of the love between two brothers in the aftermath of a family tragedy Griff and Dylan are driving into Manhattan with their parents when the worst happens. There is a terrible car accident and Dylan and Griff1s parents are killed. The boys are suddenly orphans with nowhere to go, until a kind aunt and uncle give them a new home in Wales. Now Dylan and Griff have everything they need love, a happy home and a future. But Dylan is worried about Griff: whether he is OK, whether he is coping with his grief. He doesn't seem to want to speak about it or really acknowledge the loss of their parents. But Dylan needs to be even braver than Griff, because there is something very important he needs to face up to before he can move on. The heartbreaking new novel from award-winning author Hayley Long Winner of the Mal Peet Children's Book Award at the 2017 East Anglian Book Awards, the Tir na n-Og Award (English language) 2018, the Staffordshire Libraries YTF2018 (Young Teen Fiction) Book Award and the Young Jury Prize 2020 (Flanders). Nominated for the Carnegie Medal 2018 Shortlisted for the Brilliant Book Award 2019, the Warwickshire Secondary Books Award 2019, the Stockport Children's Book Award 2018, the Hillingdon Secondary Book of the Year 2018 and the Dudley Teen Book Awards 2018

Author : Teow Lim Goh
Publisher : Diode Editions
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781939728456

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Faraway Places by Teow Lim Goh Pdf

Faraway Places resides in the spaces between the wild and the tamed, from orchid gardens and immense seas to caged birds and high alpine landscapes. It resists narrative and instead inhabits the residues of experience. It may be a private dictionary: “Those / who know the lore can use them / to find their way / in the world.” Haunted and searching, these poems navigate the distances between light and shadow, secrets and silence.

Author : Michael Burleigh
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230771505

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Small Wars, Far Away Places by Michael Burleigh Pdf

The collapse of Western colonial empires in the twenty years after the Second World War led to a series of vicious struggles for power - in Africa, Asia and the Middle East - whose bloody consequences haunt us still. Acclaimed historian Michael Burleigh's brilliant analytic skills and clear eye for common themes underpins this powerful account of those conflicts. He takes us on a historical journey from Algeria to Cuba, from Malaysia to Palestine, and from Kenya to Vietnam and, in so doing, he reframes mid-twentieth-century history by forcing us to look away from the Cold War to the hot wars that continue to afflict us. The result is a dazzling work of history, which examines the death of colonialism with passion, insight and genuine understanding of what it feels like to be caught in the middle of realpolitik.

Author : Albert Trajstman
Publisher : Hybrid Publishers
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781925282573

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Faraway Places by Albert Trajstman Pdf

Faraway Places is a collection of three novellas that goes to dark and dingy places that the faint-hearted might wish are truly faraway. But are they? Not when you take a crazed trip with an odd-ball who dreams of a faraway place, while all the while he is on a slow-burn to insanity. Maybe he can solve the problem of living in a caravan alongside a garbage tip with a foul-mouthed significant other and a companion dog. That's not an easy problem to solve when you lack initiative. Perhaps the frozen wastelands of pre-revolutionary Russia are a change of location, but still you'll find that it's that kind of faraway place where many bizarre things could be possible: dogheaded people might exist, a nasty con-man can become a tsar and, if you want to save your skin, there are people you should avoid. If that’s not enough, then waiting to be solved is the provenance of two mysterious trunks and their contents in the basement of St Petersburg's Hermitage. Finally, a misconstruction about a killing on an isolated farm in a British colony in 1815 leads to disastrous consequences. Decent men can commit abominable acts and criminals can be decent. In this faraway place, it's brutal times all round - brutal times for the original native inhabitants, for settlers and their women, and for the convicts and child convicts. A gripping read.

Author : Mark Murton,Margaret Conway
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1675252920

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Faraway Places by Mark Murton,Margaret Conway Pdf

This wonderfully written memoir is one for the generations. It is a travelogue, prose-illustrated by our mom, who - seventy years ago - launched like one of Robert Goddard's rockets from dusty New Mexico to the ends of the earth. This is not a life history, as it ends abruptly at the entry to the Arkansas crucible of 1966. Undocumented are five subsequent decades encompassing adventure, heartbreak, healing & happiness - in other words, life! Her professional and personal accomplishments from the 1970's forward prove out the often-unrecognized talent she brought to her marriage and family. We all would love a better peek into Mom's solitary travels to Nepal, to Australia, to everywhere. But more significant than where she traveled, or what she did there, is that she traveled, impelled genetically by the Conway wanderlust & by her upbringing. People travel to seek or to escape. Mom is a seeker, industrious, optimistic and still painting her world in vivid broad strokes. "The play's the thing," said Hamlet. For Mom, the road is the thing, and the telling of that tale is what makes this such a great memoir story.

Author : Karl R. Zimmermann
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010-06-22
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780253001498

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Little Trains to Faraway Places by Karl R. Zimmermann Pdf

Narrow-gauge railroading conjures images of marginal track, wooden coaches, and antique steam locomotives. Yet consider the extraordinarily glamorous and comfortable South African Blue Train and Australia's Queenslander as well as the electrified network of meter-gauge mountain railways in Switzerland that run with a precision similar to that of the country's famed timepieces. Often used to penetrate the most challenging and breathtaking terrain that larger trains are unable to reach, narrow-gauge railways offer even the most seasoned of travelers an experience to remember. Karl Zimmermann, railroad author and accomplished photographer, chronicles his journeys aboard these rarest of trains. Individual chapters weave history and travelogue, complemented by more than 100 color illustrations. The result is a spirited tribute to the world's most charismatic railways.

Author : Jamie Boss
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9798369400609

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Short Stories of Growing up in Milford and Other Faraway Places by Jamie Boss Pdf

This memoir is about alternative paths of viewing life. How the creative mind can set its own course. How youthful adventure can grow into something others may find terrifying. How youth can be fortunate to survive the folly of its own nature. How consequences are learned by practical experiences. How practical experiences become the most efficient teacher. Having led an unconventional childhood, I was always captivated by unusual circumstances during my formative years. I grew up viewing life differently. To me, dangerous was adventurous. A challenge was something that required action. I sought creativity where others sought common place. The word “trite” was not in my vocabulary. Creative inspiration pushed me towards my life’s goals. As I grew older, it was my love of unusual experiences that developed my mindset. I listened carefully to the advice those over 60 offered. I questioned what others ignored. I chose the direction of my life based on fulfillment rather than wealth. This memoir was written out of pure joy. Part adventure, part insight of the human condition, and part foolhardy examples of youth; This book will reveal a colorful perspective on life. Happy reading.

Author : Ione Skye
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-13
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781466870079

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My Yiddish Vacation by Ione Skye Pdf

Whenever Ruth and Sammy visit their grandparents, they get to brush up on their Yiddish. This Jewish language, a blend of German and Hebrew, is full of words that are fun to say: words like shvitz (sweat), feh! ("It stinks!"), and schmaltz (fat). Ruth and Sammy look forward to spending time with relatives. As Ruth would say, until they arrive at their grandparent's house, they are on shpilkes (pins and needles)! Actress Ione Skye drew upon her childhood experiences in this story of family ties, cultural exploration, and adventures under the sunshine.

Author : Jill Davis
Publisher : Viking Juvenile
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Authors
ISBN : 0670036161

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Open Your Eyes by Jill Davis Pdf

A collection of memoirs and stories about a variety of travel experiences that changed the lives of such well-known writers as Lois Lowry, Suzie Morgenstern, and Harry Mazer.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : David McKay Company
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Nature
ISBN : WISC:89034765982

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Stalking the Faraway Places by Anonim Pdf

An account of a nature writer's two-year odyssey, crisscrossing North America to search out new places and ways to live off the land.

Author : Richard Comely,Jocelyn Smyth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Children's questions and answers
ISBN : 0717225631

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Questions Kids Ask about Faraway Places by Richard Comely,Jocelyn Smyth Pdf