The Last Empty Places

Author : Peter Stark
Publisher : Mountaineers Books
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023-02-07
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781680516432

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The Last Empty Places by Peter Stark Pdf

". . . intriguing, both a solid refresher on our savage colonial history and a smart rumination on what it means to get lost. ― Outside First time in paperback, ebook, and audio editions Part travel adventure, part history, part exploration Features four specific "blank spots" from across the country and delves into our human relationships with place In The Last Empty Places, bestselling author Peter Stark takes the reader to four of the most remote, wild, and unpopulated areas of the United States outside of Alaska and mainly not part of protected wilderness: the rivers and forests of Northern Maine; the rugged, unpopulated region of Western Pennsylvania that lies only a short distance from the East’s big cities; the haunting canyons of Central New Mexico; and the vast, arid basins of Southeast Oregon. Stark discovers that the places he visits are only "blank" in terms of a lack of recorded history. In fact, each place holds layers of history, meaning, and intrinsic value and is far from being blank. He also finds that each region has played an important role in shaping our American idea of wilderness through the influential "natural philosophers" who visited these places and wrote about their experiences--Henry David Thoreau, William Bartram, John Muir, and Aldo Leopold. It’s a fascinating look at the value of nature, the ways humans use and approach it, and what it means to seek out empty places in today’s world.

Author : SA Laybourn
Publisher : Totally Entwined Group (USA+CAD)
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781786510778

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Empty Places by SA Laybourn Pdf

The world has its empty places, and so does the heart. Ellie Freeman, a low-level federal employee, is stuck in a dead-end desert town that no longer feels like home. What makes things worse are the threatening phone calls she's been getting. When Duncan Harris, a British journalist, stops by to interview her for a series he's writing, Ellie feels something close to hope that there's still good to be salvaged from her life. But before that hope can be fulfilled, Ellie is kidnapped. When Duncan finds out what has happened to Ellie, he throws his journalist's neutrality out of the window and heads off to find her. What he discovers is a cult led by a deluded but charismatic leader. Somehow, he has to get Ellie out of his clutches and he'll do whatever it takes. When the cult leader raises the stakes, the mission becomes very personal indeed.

Author : Constance Sorenson,Ron Lavin
Publisher : CSS Publishing
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780788017889

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Empty Spaces, Empty Places by Constance Sorenson,Ron Lavin Pdf

"Empty Spaces, Empty Places" revisits the manger, cross and tomb through interviews with the innkeeper's wife, the Centurion and Mary Magdalene. By remembering the stories of Jesus' birth, death and resurrection, believers see the lives He touched then and continues to touch today.

Author : Kathy Cannon Wiechman
Publisher : Boyds Mills Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781629795607

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Empty Places by Kathy Cannon Wiechman Pdf

It is 1932, in Harlan County, Kentucky. Times are tough in the mining community, especially for thirteen-year-old Adabel Cutler's family. As they fight to survive, Adabel has to figure out her own identity while dealing with her volatile father, her dutiful sister, her defiant brother, and her mother's disappearance, which she can't seem to remember. This is a beautifully written and deeply felt coming-of-age novel by the acclaimed author of Like a River. Includes an author's note, bibliography, and archival images.

Author : Apostle Wanda N. Williams
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009-04-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1462820220

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Destiny in Empty Places by Apostle Wanda N. Williams Pdf

For I know the plans that I have for you, declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not harm you, plans to give you hope, and a future. Then you will call upon me, and I will listen to you, you will seek me, with all your heart. (Jeremiah 29:1113) Destiny in Empty Places is a book that is a result of every man and womans journey, a journey many lives follow every day, going through life just merely existing. The average life is lived trying to seek out and fulfill a purpose, looking for meaning and seeking an understanding of the broken pieces in their lives. The average life in humanity is also void for years and years without a single purpose. One never knows where his or her absolute destiny lies. We spend a lifetime fulfilling either our parents dreams or that which we think we should be. We have even convinced ourselves that our chosen purpose is clearly what we were created to be. If one would go beyond their past and look beyond their natural essence, back to their spiritual essence, one would then find purpose for his or her own life. This book, Destiny in Empty Places, challenges every traveler on the road of destiny. Your road to destiny is predetermined but not by you who travels it. This simply means that God has given you a destiny that is predetermined. Whether or not you will travel or find that road of destiny will be up to your wisdom, knowledge, and understanding of God, of who he is, and your purpose in destiny. According to statistical research, there are approximately 6,670,985,957 people in the world who live their lives from day to day without purpose, plan, or form. Purpose is the intent that is set up for us as an object or an end to attain; the intention at the end; a resolution, determination, the action in course of execution. People have arrived at a place in life where it looks like they are not accomplishing anything. Their lives are spent as if they are traveling in a circle. People are seeking out randomly, striving to fill the void in their lives, leaving them discouraged and vacillated into an empty place. This emptiness is only on the surface of the face of the deep. At your choice lies your destiny.

Author : Kathy Cannon Wiechman
Publisher : Astra Publishing House
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781629794518

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Empty Places by Kathy Cannon Wiechman Pdf

It is 1932, in Harlan County, Kentucky. Times are tough in the mining community, especially for thirteen-year-old Adabel Cutler's family. As they fight to survive, Adabel has to figure out her own identity while dealing with her volatile father, her dutiful sister, her defiant brother, and her mother's disappearance, which she can't seem to remember. This is a beautifully written and deeply felt coming-of-age novel by the acclaimed author of Like a River. Includes an author's note, bibliography, and archival images.

Author : Susan Burton
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780812982725

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Empty by Susan Burton Pdf

An editor at This American Life reveals the searing story of the secret binge-eating that dominated her adolescence and shapes her still. “Her tale of compulsion and healing is candid and powerful.”—People NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY MARIE CLAIRE For almost thirty years, Susan Burton hid her obsession with food and the secret life of compulsive eating and starving that dominated her adolescence. This is the relentlessly honest, fiercely intelligent story of living with both anorexia and binge-eating disorder, moving past her shame, and learning to tell her secret. When Burton was thirteen, her stable life in suburban Michigan was turned upside down by her parents’ abrupt divorce, and she moved to Colorado with her mother and sister. She seized on this move west as an adventure and an opportunity to reinvent herself from middle-school nerd to popular teenage girl. But in the fallout from her parents’ breakup, an inherited fixation on thinness went from “peculiarity to pathology.” Susan entered into a painful cycle of anorexia and binge eating that formed a subterranean layer to her sunny life. She went from success to success—she went to Yale, scored a dream job at a magazine right out of college, and married her college boyfriend. But in college the compulsive eating got worse—she’d binge, swear it would be the last time, and then, hours later, do it again—and after she graduated she descended into anorexia, her attempt to “quit food.” Binge eating is more prevalent than anorexia or bulimia, but there is less research and little storytelling to help us understand it. In tart, soulful prose Susan Burton strikes a blow for the importance of this kind of narrative and tells an exhilarating story of longing, compulsion and hard-earned self-revelation.

Author : Todd Henry
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781101600627

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Die Empty by Todd Henry Pdf

Most of us live with the stubborn idea that we'll always have tomorrow. But sooner or later all of our tomorrows will run out. Each day that you postpone the hard work and succumb to the clutter that chokes creativity, discipline, and innovation will result in a net deficit to the world, to your company, and to yourself. Die Empty is a tool for individuals and companies that aren't willing to put off their best work. Todd Henry explains the forces that keep people in stagnation and introduces a three-part process for tapping into your passion: Excavate: Find the bedrock of your work to discover what drives you. Cultivate: Learn how to develop the curiosity, humility, and persistence that save you from getting stuck in ruts. Resonate: Learn how your unique brilliance can inspire others. Henry shows how to find and sustain your passion and curiosity, even in tough times.

Author : Roger Chapman,James Ciment
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1200 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317473510

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Culture Wars by Roger Chapman,James Ciment Pdf

The term "culture wars" refers to the political and sociological polarisation that has characterised American society the past several decades. This new edition provides an enlightening and comprehensive A-to-Z ready reference, now with supporting primary documents, on major topics of contemporary importance for students, teachers, and the general reader. It aims to promote understanding and clarification on pertinent topics that too often are not adequately explained or discussed in a balanced context. With approximately 640 entries plus more than 120 primary documents supporting both sides of key issues, this is a unique and defining work, indispensable to informed discussions of the most timely and critical issues facing America today.

Author : Canada. Dairy and cold storage branch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 924 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Cold storage
ISBN : PSU:000053185488

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Report of the Dairy and Cold Storage Commissioner ... by Canada. Dairy and cold storage branch Pdf

Author : Canada. Dairy and Cold Storage Commissioner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1014 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Cold storage
ISBN : UCAL:B3247024

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Annual Report of the Dairy Commissioner for the Dominion of Canada by Canada. Dairy and Cold Storage Commissioner Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Bee culture
ISBN : CORNELL:31924065070082

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Bee-keeper's Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Peter Stark
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780062218315

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Astoria by Peter Stark Pdf

In the tradition of The Lost City of Z and Skeletons in the Zahara, Astoria is the thrilling, true-adventure tale of the 1810 Astor Expedition, an epic, now forgotten, three-year journey to forge an American empire on the Pacific Coast. Peter Stark offers a harrowing saga in which a band of explorers battled nature, starvation, and madness to establish the first American settlement in the Pacific Northwest and opened up what would become the Oregon trail, permanently altering the nation's landscape and its global standing. Six years after Lewis and Clark's began their journey to the Pacific Northwest, two of the Eastern establishment's leading figures, John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson, turned their sights to founding a colony akin to Jamestown on the West Coast and transforming the nation into a Pacific trading power. Author and correspondent for Outside magazine Peter Stark recreates this pivotal moment in American history for the first time for modern readers, drawing on original source material to tell the amazing true story of the Astor Expedition. Unfolding over the course of three years, from 1810 to 1813, Astoria is a tale of high adventure and incredible hardship in the wilderness and at sea. Of the more than one hundred-forty members of the two advance parties that reached the West Coast—one crossing the Rockies, the other rounding Cape Horn—nearly half perished by violence. Others went mad. Within one year, the expedition successfully established Fort Astoria, a trading post on the Columbia River. Though the colony would be short-lived, it opened provincial American eyes to the potential of the Western coast and its founders helped blaze the Oregon Trail.

Author : Jode Jurgensen,John Ellsworth
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-04
Category : Missing children
ISBN : 1521006237

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The Empty Place at the Table by Jode Jurgensen,John Ellsworth Pdf

From USA TODAY Bestselling Author John EllsworthIt was just a quick sandwich in the hospital cafeteria...But when she returned to her daughter's room...Whatever happened to Melissa's daughter is anyone's guess. The police seal the hospital doors; a search proceeds but the four-year-old is nowhere to be found The girl is gone, vanished without a ransom note, without a body being found, without a trace. The detectives believe she has most likely been sold into human trafficking. No matter, Melissa is determined. She is also very, very bright, a woman who refuses to give up, a woman who knows what motherhood means. She journeys to Mexico in search of her missing child. She confronts the Tijuana Cartel. Do they have her daughter? Twelve years have passed by and she no longer has any idea what the little girl even looks like.Then...two unmistakable eyes peer out at her from a passing van. But was it Melissa's daughter? Watch one desperate woman and one lost child try to reach across time and connect. A story to please you to the very end.A psychological thriller you'll want to read in one sitting...

Author : Philip Caputo
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2002-02-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780375725111

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Horn of Africa by Philip Caputo Pdf

When Vietnam veteran and foreign correspondent Charlie Gage is recruited by the shadowy Thomas Colfax to assist with something called Operation Atropos, he has no idea he is about to be enlisted for guerilla warfare in northeast Africa. Once he realizes he’s a mercenary, however, he is not at all concerned. Ever since his young secretary was killed by a grenade at their bureau office in Beirut a couple of years before, he has lost all volition. Which is why he so readily capitulates not only to Colfax, but also, and more dangerously so, to every command of Jeremy Nordstrand, the mystical megalomaniac determined to achieve greatness on their seemingly suicidal mission. Set in the forsaken yet exotic deserts of Ethiopia, Horn of Africa is a vividly detailed and masterfully plotted novel chronicling a broken man’s struggle for salvation and inner freedom in the midst of a broken nation’s fight for stability and peace.