The Open Road

Author : Jean Giono
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781681375106

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The Open Road by Jean Giono Pdf

A nomad and a swindler embark on an eccentric road trip in this picaresque, philosophical novel by the author of The Man Who Planted Trees. The south of France, 1950: A solitary vagabond walks through the villages, towns, valleys, and foothills of the region between northern Provence and the Alps. He picks up work along the way and spends the winter as the custodian of a walnut-oil mill. He also picks up a problematic companion: a cardsharp and con man, whom he calls “the Artist.” The action moves from place to place, and episode to episode, in truly picaresque fashion. Everything is told in the first person, present tense, by the vagabond narrator, who goes unnamed. He himself is a curious combination of qualities—poetic, resentful, cynical, compassionate, flirtatious, and self-absorbed. While The Open Road can be read as loosely strung entertainment, interspersed with caustic reflections, it can also be interpreted as a projection of the relationship of author, art, and audience. But it is ultimately an exploration of the tensions and boundaries between affection and commitment, and of the competing needs for solitude, independence, and human bonds. As always in Jean Giono, the language is rich in natural imagery and as ruggedly idiomatic as it is lyrical.

Author : David Campany
Publisher : Aperture
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1597112402

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After the end of World War II, the American road trip began appearing prominently in literature, music, movies, and photography. Many photographers embarked on trips across the U.S. in order to create work, including Robert Frank, whose seminal 1955 road trip resulted in The Americans. However, he was preceded by Edward Weston, who traveled across the country taking pictures to illustrate Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass; Henri Cartier-Bresson, whose 1947 trip through the American South and into the West was published in the early 1950s in Harper's Bazaar; and Ed Ruscha, whose road trips between Los Angeles and Oklahoma later became Twentysix Gasoline Stations. Hundreds of photographers have continued the tradition of the photographic road trip on down to the present, from Stephen Shore to Taiyo Onorato and Nico Krebs. The Open Road considers the photographic road trip as a genre in and of itself, and presents the story of photographers for whom the American road is muse. The book features David Campany's introduction to the genre and eighteen chapters presented chronologically, each exploring one American road trip in depth through a portfolio of images and informative texts, highlighting some of the most important bodies of work made on the road from The Americans to present day.

Author : Sarah A. Seo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674980860

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Policing the Open Road by Sarah A. Seo Pdf

Policing the Open Road examines how the rise of the car, that symbol of American personal freedom, inadvertently led to ever more intrusive policing--with disastrous consequences for racial equality in our criminal justice system. When Americans think of freedom, they often picture the open road. Yet nowhere are we more likely to encounter the long arm of the law than in our cars. Sarah Seo reveals how the rise of the automobile transformed American freedom in radical ways, leading us to accept--and expect--pervasive police power. As Policing the Open Road makes clear, this expectation has had far-reaching political and legal consequences.--

Author : Emery Lord
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-15
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780802736116

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Open Road Summer by Emery Lord Pdf

Sarah Dessen gets a road trip twist in Emery Lord's debut novel, a summer story of love and true friendship. "A fabulously entertaining story of friendship, healing, and love." --Elizabeth Eulberg, author of Better Off Friends and Revenge of the Girl with the Great Personality After breaking up with her bad-news boyfriend, Reagan O'Neill is ready to leave her rebellious ways behind. . . and her best friend, country superstar Lilah Montgomery, is nursing a broken heart of her own. Fortunately, Lilah's 24-city tour is about to kick off, offering a perfect opportunity for a girls-only summer of break-up ballads and healing hearts. But when Matt Finch joins the tour as its opening act, his boy-next-door charm proves difficult for Reagan to resist, despite her vow to live a drama-free existence. This summer, Reagan and Lilah will navigate the ups and downs of fame and friendship as they come to see that giving your heart to the right person is always a risk worth taking. A fresh voice in contemporary romance, Emery Lord's gorgeous writing hits all the right notes.

Author : Pico Iyer
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2008-03-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780307268655

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • For Buddhists and non-Buddhists alike, “an exceptionally intimate portrait” (Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love) of the Dalai Lama—one of the most singular figures of our time. For over three decades, Pico Iyer, one of our most cherished travel writers, has been a friend to the Dalai Lama. Over these years through intimate conversations, he has come to know him in a way that few can claim. Here he paints an unprecedented portrait of the Dalai Lama, explaining his work and ideas about politics, science, technology, and religion. The Open Road illuminates the hidden life and the daily challenges of this global icon.

Author : TW Neal
Publisher : Neal Enterprises INC
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780989688390

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Open Road by TW Neal Pdf

Fans of Cheryl Strayed’s Wild, Bill Bryson’s A Walk in the Woods, and Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat, Pray, Love will enjoy author Toby Neal’s road trip travel memoir of self-discovery as she and her husband journey through the National Parks! I had a dream to live a “normal” life and I attained it; but along the way, I lost myself. My story began in Freckled: a Memoir of Growing up Wild in Hawaii, but it continued after I married the man of my dreams, completed my education with multiple degrees, had a successful career, and raised two beautiful children. I sacrificed to get to where I was. Though I didn’t regret anything, flat on my back in the doctor’s office on the cusp of my fiftieth birthday, my health was crumbling. I no longer recognized myself. I turned my head and saw a calendar on the wall: Bryce Canyon National Park in Utah beckoned me with its mysterious sandstone hoodoos. A road trip traveling through the National Parks was just what I needed to rediscover the girl I’d been; it could help me turn a corner into my new career as a writer, and my husband would enjoy a chance to photograph the natural wonders we saw. Sometimes, a twelve-thousand-mile road trip is also a personal quest. An absorbing travel narrative about defining and facing the limitations and opportunities of midlife.An absorbing travel narrative about defining and facing the limitations and opportunities of midlife. —Kirkus Reviews

Author : Laura Driscoll,Kenneth Grahame
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1402732945

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The Open Road by Laura Driscoll,Kenneth Grahame Pdf

Happy young passengers will join the continuing adventures of Mole, Rat, and Toad as they hit the road in Toad’s brand new, brightly colored cart. It has all the comforts of home, and Toad loves it very much. But as they make their way, a honking vehicle even better, newer, and faster than a cart comes along!

Author : Bert Levy
Publisher : St Martins Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 031218624X

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The Last Open Road by Bert Levy Pdf

A year out of high school in the early 1950s, New Jersey mechanic Buddy Palumbo falls in love with two things at once: race car driving with its speed and adventure, and his boss' niece, Miss Julie Finzio

Author : The American Poetry & Literacy Project
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-29
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780486110295

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Songs for the Open Road by The American Poetry & Literacy Project Pdf

More than 80 poems by 50 American and British masters celebrate real and metaphorical journeys. Poems by Whitman, Byron, Millay, Sandburg, Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Shelley, Tennyson, Yeats, many others.

Author : Phil Patton
Publisher : Touchstone Books
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : 0671639951

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Open Road by Phil Patton Pdf

Author : Edward Verrall Lucas
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1016806604

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The Open Road by Edward Verrall Lucas Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Stuti Changle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9387328465

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ON THE OPEN ROAD by Stuti Changle Pdf

Myra wishes to break free of her cubicle. Kabir wonders what life would be to build on his own. Sandy drops out of college to work on the next big start-up idea. Ramy inspires millions of his generation on his travel blog - on the open road. The story revolves around the lives of these restless and dreamy 20-somethings as they battle their inner demons and the societal taboos to live life on their terms. The journey entails undying friendship, love and loss, happiness and depression, fear and conquest, dreaming and achieving. Will they be able to embark on the hard yet empowering journey to start-up a company? Or succumb to the hardships on their road to freedom? Somewhere between right and wrong, past and future, there lies now. Don’t let it go. For now, often leads to a new road.

Author : Matthew B. Crawford
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-09
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780062741981

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Why We Drive by Matthew B. Crawford Pdf

A brilliant and defiant celebration of driving as a unique pathway of human freedom, by "one of the most influential thinkers of our time" (Sunday Times) "Why We Drive weaves philosophers, thinkers, and scientific research with shade-tree mechanics and racers to defend our right to independence, making the case that freedom of motion is essential to who we are as a species. ... We hope you'll read it." —Road & Track Once we were drivers, the open road alive with autonomy, adventure, danger, trust, and speed. Today we are as likely to be in the back seat of an Uber as behind the wheel ourselves. Tech giants are hurling us toward a shiny, happy “self-driving” future, selling utopia but equally keen to advertise to a captive audience strapped into another expensive device. Are we destined, then, to become passengers, not drivers? Why We Drive reveals that much more may be at stake than we might think. Ten years ago, in the New York Times-bestselling Shop Class as Soulcraft, philosopher-mechanic Matthew B. Crawford—a University of Chicago PhD who owned his own motorcycle shop—made a revolutionary case for manual labor, one that ran headlong against the pretentions of white-collar office work. Now, using driving as a window through which to view the broader changes wrought by technology on all aspects of contemporary life, Crawford investigates the driver’s seat as one of the few remaining domains of skill, exploration, play—and freedom. Blending philosophy and hands-on storytelling, Crawford grounds the narrative in his own experience in the garage and behind the wheel, recounting his decade-long restoration of a vintage Volkswagen as well as his journeys to thriving automotive subcultures across the country. Crawford leads us on an irreverent but deeply considered inquiry into the power of faceless bureaucracies, the importance of questioning mindless rules, and the battle for democratic self-determination against the surveillance capitalists. A meditation on the competence of ordinary people, Why We Drive explores the genius of our everyday practices on the road, the rewards of “folk engineering,” and the existential value of occasionally being scared shitless. Witty and ingenious throughout, Why We Drive is a rebellious and daring celebration of the irrepressible human spirit.

Author : Paul Weston, Jo Stafford
Publisher : BearManor Media
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2024-04-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Song of the Open Road: An Autobiography and Other Writings by Paul Weston, Jo Stafford Pdf

Song of the Open Road: An Autobiography and Other Writings is the personal memoir of Paul Weston and Jo Stafford. Told through a collection of letters, supplementary manuscripts, and a previously unpublished autobiography, the book reveals the inner circle and rise-to-stardom of two of the most dominating musical figures in pre-rock 'n' roll America. Edited by Keith Pawlak.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Automobiles
ISBN : 8861300669

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Legends of the Open Road by Anonim Pdf

This catalogue illustrates the creative life of the most prestigious European and American car manufacturers and their models, from the end of the 1940s to the present day.