The Footloose American

Author : Brian Kevin
Publisher : Crown
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-20
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780770436377

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The Footloose American by Brian Kevin Pdf

An adventure-filled and thought-provoking travelogue along Hunter S. Thompson's forgotten route through South America In 1963, twenty-five-year-old Hunter S. Thompson completed a yearlong journey across South America, filing a series of dispatches for an upstart paper called the National Observer. It was here, on the front lines of the Cold War, that this then-unknown reporter began making a name for himself. The Hunter S. Thompson who would become America's iconic "gonzo journalist" was born in the streets of Rio, the mountains of Peru, and the black market outposts of Colombia. In The Footloose American, Brian Kevin traverses the continent with Thompson's ghost as his guide, offering a ground-level exploration of twenty-first-century South American culture, politics, and ecology. By contrasting the author's own thrilling, transformative experiences along the Hunter S. Thompson Trail with those that Thompson describes in his letters and lost Observer stories, The Footloose American is at once a gripping personal journey and a thought-provoking study of culture and place.

Author : Clive Scott Chisholm
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2009-05-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0803224311

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Following the Wrong God Home by Clive Scott Chisholm Pdf

Clive Scott Chisholm wryly describes himself as a ?fugitive from the American Dream.? A displaced Canadian and a legally ?registered alien,? Chisholm set out from his home in upstate New York in 1985 to discover the origins of that dream. In Following the Wrong God Home, he recounts his personal odyssey, describing the people he encountered and the unforgettable stories they told. Chisholm?s solo journey on foot from the Missouri River to Salt Lake City retraced the 1,100-mile trek of nineteenth-century Mormon pioneers. In this account, he juxtaposes that Mormon search for the dream of ?community? against the modern search for the American dream of ?individuality,? muses over how much and how little things have changed in the century-and-a-half since 1847, and creates a narrative informed by the American dreamers he came across from Omaha to Salt Lake City.

Author : Hunter S. Thompson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2003-11-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780743250450

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The Great Shark Hunt by Hunter S. Thompson Pdf

The first volume of the Gonzo papers shows the brilliant, ranting observations and cultural commentary of Thompson at his best.

Author : Lucas Tromly
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000929416

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Travel Writing and Re-Enactment by Lucas Tromly Pdf

Travel Writing and Re-Enactment: Echotourism explores the popular subgenre of travel narratives that re-enact historically prominent journeys. Drawing on philosopher Walter Benjamin, this monograph reads such re-enactments as quests for aura in which travellers seek to capture a sense of distinction and historical profundity. Travel Writing and Re-Enactment frames the re-enactment of past journeys in a number of contexts, including Benjamin’s writing on mechanical reproduction, Judith Butler’s work on gender performance, and postmodern parody. Echotourist journeys are surprisingly contingent and precarious, and force travellers to navigate historical changes involving empire, gender, and travel practice in densely performative ways. Through close readings of contemporary travel narratives, this monograph considers the legacies of Lord Byron, Charles Darwin, Graham Greene, Mary Kingsley, and Ernest Shackleton, among others. Travel Writing and Re-Enactment examines the way literary re-enactment expresses, and sometimes confounds, the desire to find meaning through travel in the contemporary world.

Author : George R. Urban
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300069219

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Radio Free Europe and the Pursuit of Democracy by George R. Urban Pdf

A leading expert on East and Central European and Soviet affairs, George R. Urban offers an insider's perspective on the history of Radio Free Europe by drawing on his service during the 1960s and his term as overall director in the 1980s. In vivid detail, Urban describes how the Radios promoted the cause of liberal democracy and the free market economy for more than four decades and stood up against the Soviet system, with its clandestine offshoots and fifth columns in all the countries of the West. Urban contends that a second opponent was less visible but more powerful: influential members of the American and West European Left who believed that the Soviet superpower should not be thwarted. The author explores the often controversial strategies and tactics employed by the staff and administrators of the Radios, sheds light on their role in the tragic 1956 Hungarian Revolution, examines the ideas and convictions of key figures, and reveals how communism was intellectually unmasked in a psychological contest that also made possible reconciliation between nations and individuals.

Author : William Nester
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780806188133

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George Rogers Clark by William Nester Pdf

George Rogers Clark (1752–1818) led four victorious campaigns against the Indians and British in the Ohio Valley during the American Revolution, but his most astonishing coup was recapturing Fort Sackville in 1779, when he was only twenty-six. For eighteen days, in the dead of winter, Clark and his troops marched through bone-chilling nights to reach the fort. With a deft mix of guile and violence, Clark led his men to triumph, without losing a single soldier. Although historians have ranked him among the greatest rebel commanders, Clark’s name is all but forgotten today. William R. Nester resurrects the story of Clark’s triumphs and his downfall in this, the first full biography of the man in more than fifty years. Nester attributes Clark’s successes to his drive and daring, good luck, charisma, and intellect. Born of a distinguished Virginia family, Clark wielded an acute understanding of human nature, both as a commander and as a diplomat. His interest in the natural world was an inspiration to lifelong friend Thomas Jefferson, who asked him in 1784 to lead a cross-country expedition to the Pacific and back. Clark turned Jefferson down. Two decades later, his youngest brother, William, would become the Clark celebrated as a member of the Corps of Discovery. By the beginning of the nineteenth century, though, George Rogers Clark may not have been fit to command any expedition. After the revolution, he raged against the government and pledged fealty to other nations, leading to his arrest under the Sedition Act. The inner demons that fueled Clark’s anger also drove him to excessive drinking. He died at the age of sixty-five, bitter, crippled, and alcoholic. He was, Nester shows, a self-destructive hero: a volatile, multidimensional man whose glorying in war ultimately engaged him in conflicts far removed from the battlefield and against himself.

Author : William R. Nester
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781498565967

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The Struggle for Power in Colonial America, 1607–1776 by William R. Nester Pdf

This study provides a broad examination of the overlapping conflicts and power struggles among the indigenous population, colonists, and other European peoples that shaped the American colonies. The author analyzes the origins, development, and outcomes of such conflicts and their various cultural and political impacts.

Author : Max Lerner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Electronic
ISBN : RUTGERS:39030007719422

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American as a civilization by Max Lerner Pdf

Author : George Michael
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Current Events
ISBN : UOM:39015063328085

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The Enemy of My Enemy by George Michael Pdf

In the violent world of radical extremists, "the enemy of my enemy is my friend." This study reveals how that precept plays out in the unexpected bonding between militant Islam and the extreme right in America and Europe. It provides an insightful and sane look at the possibilities for collaboration between these groups.

Author : Hope Cooke
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011-12-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439904862

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Seeing New York by Hope Cooke Pdf

An off-the-beaten bath tour of New York that transcends the usual guide book.

Author : William Least Heat-Moon
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780826274427

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O America by William Least Heat-Moon Pdf

In 1848 an English physician, Nathaniel Trennant, accepts an offer to serve as doctor on a ship carrying immigrants to America. When arriving in Baltimore, Trennant stumbles onto its slave market and witnesses the horrors of human bondage. One night in a boardinghouse he discovers under his bed a runaway slave. Disturbed and angered by the selling of human lives, he offers to help the young man escape, a criminal action that will put the fugitive slave and physician into flight from both the law and opportunistic slave hunters. Traveling by foot, horse, stage, canal boat, and steamer, Nathaniel and Nicodemus explore the backcountry and forge a deep friendship as they encounter a host of memorable characters who reveal the nature of the American experiment, one still in its early stages but already under the stress of social injustices and economic inequities.

Author : Leon Samson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1932
Category : History
ISBN : UCBK:B000980891

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The American Mind by Leon Samson Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1034 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The American Pagent by Anonim Pdf

Author : Steven Rinella
Publisher : Random House
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-04
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780679645283

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Meat Eater by Steven Rinella Pdf

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author and host of Netflix’s MeatEater comes “a unique and valuable alternate view of where our food comes from” (Anthony Bourdain). “Revelatory . . . With every chapter, you get a history lesson, a hunting lesson, a nature lesson, and a cooking lesson. . . . Meat Eater offers an overabundance to savor.”—The New York Times Book Review Meat Eater chronicles Steven Rinella’s lifelong relationship with nature and hunting through the lens of ten hunts, beginning when he was an aspiring mountain man at age ten and ending as a thirty-seven-year-old Brooklyn father who hunts in the remotest corners of North America. He tells of having a struggling career as a fur trapper just as fur prices were falling; of a dalliance with catch-and-release steelhead fishing; of canoeing in the Missouri Breaks in search of mule deer just as the Missouri River was freezing up one November; and of hunting the elusive Dall sheep in the glaciated mountains of Alaska. A thrilling storyteller, Rinella grapples with themes such as the role of the hunter in shaping America, the vanishing frontier, the ethics of killing, and the disappearance of the hunter himself as consumers lose their connection with the way their food finds its way to their tables. The result is a loving portrait of a way of life that is part of who we are—as humans and as Americans.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : United States
ISBN : UVA:X030052263

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American Spirit by Anonim Pdf