The Wild Years

Author : Jay S Jacobs
Publisher : ECW Press
Page : 581 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781554902613

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Wild Years by Jay S Jacobs Pdf

Legend. Bum. Genius. Con Man. Devoted husband and father. Myth. Storyteller. Inspiration. Drunk. Visionary. Tom Waits is all of these things. Waits is the lifeline between the great Beat poets and today's rock & roll heroes. He's old enough to be your dad and cool enough to be your hero. One of the few truly original musicians recording today, he's also the rare singer who can actually act, and he has put together a respectable body of work in movies. Wild Years: The Music and Myth of Tom Waits retraces the long road that Waits has traveled and explores the music that made him a legend. Jay S. Jacobs looks at the towering myth that Waits has created for himself. Jay S. Jacobs follows the fate of one of America's pre-eminent artists, a very private man whose career embodies a quirky array of fulfillment and loss, beauty and strangeness. This revised and updated edition includes a new chapter, with insight on Waits' career in the 21st century thus far, as well as the most complete discography available in print. Tom's Wild Years ' a poignant, revealing celebration of the man and all his myths.

Author : Ernest Hemingway
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Reportage literature, American
ISBN : STANFORD:36105002440001

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The Wild Years by Ernest Hemingway Pdf

Author : Rüdiger Safranski
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0674792769

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Schopenhauer and the Wild Years of Philosophy by Rüdiger Safranski Pdf

With equal attention to both the life and work of his subject, Safranski places the visionary skeptic in the context of philosophical predecessors and contemporaries like Kant, Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel, and explores the sources of Schopenhauer's profound alienation from their "secularized religion of reason."

Author : Jen Benson
Publisher : Aurum Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780711267305

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The Wild Year by Jen Benson Pdf

Author and long-distance runner Jen Benson decided to live in a tent for a year with her husband Sim and their children to escape the stress, pressures and mounting debt of their old lives, and this is her account of that year spent in the wilderness of Britain

Author : Donald Barr Chidsey
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781479449941

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The Wild Years by Donald Barr Chidsey Pdf

On the pleasure boats of the Old Mississippi, passions ran high when men gambled for the favors of beautiful women -- and renegades carried off girls along with other loot. Disguised as a notorious outlaw, hot-blooded Dave Macdonough invaded the river rogues' hideout in a reckless attempt to destroy them. But his mission became an act of persona! vengeance when he met the lovely swamp water girl who was their captive mistress.

Author : Fiona Danks,Jo Schofield
Publisher : White Lion Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-03
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780711240179

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The Wild Year Book by Fiona Danks,Jo Schofield Pdf

Adventures, games and crafts to get you outdoors all the year round. Playing outdoors should be an essential part of growing up; developing your imagination, keeping fit and letting the wild world weave its magic spell on you. In The Wild Year Book, Fiona and Jo have selected 70 of their favourite activities to help you enjoy spending time outdoors, season by season. Perhaps you'll want to play camouflage games in Spring and make enormous bubbles in the summer, challenge your friends to a foraging bake-off in the autumn, or create ice mobiles in the winter. With this book you will never be short of inspiration! Over 100,000 copies sold of Fiona and Jo's Going Wild series.

Author : Dwight Worker
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1493702777

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The Wild Years by Dwight Worker Pdf

These are a series of autobiographical stories about coming of age, the civil rights and anti-war movements. While leaving to Canada with false IDs, the author stopped by northern New Mexico, looking for peace and safety. He found a very different world, filled with surreal dropouts living more wild and dangerously than he would ever have dreamed. With no law to turn to, he had to deal with these outlaws on his own. What had he gotten himself into?

Author : Jon Krakauer
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307476869

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Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer Pdf

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. Four months later, his decomposed body was found by a moose hunter. This is the unforgettable story of how Christopher Johnson McCandless came to die. "It may be nonfiction, but Into the Wild is a mystery of the highest order." —Entertainment Weekly McCandess had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for himself. Not long after, he was dead. Into the Wild is the mesmerizing, heartbreaking tale of an enigmatic young man who goes missing in the wild and whose story captured the world’s attention. Immediately after graduating from college in 1991, McCandless had roamed through the West and Southwest on a vision quest like those made by his heroes Jack London and John Muir. In the Mojave Desert he abandoned his car, stripped it of its license plates, and burned all of his cash. He would give himself a new name, Alexander Supertramp, and, unencumbered by money and belongings, he would be free to wallow in the raw, unfiltered experiences that nature presented. Craving a blank spot on the map, McCandless simply threw the maps away. Leaving behind his desperate parents and sister, he vanished into the wild. Jon Krakauer constructs a clarifying prism through which he reassembles the disquieting facts of McCandless's short life. Admitting an interest that borders on obsession, he searches for the clues to the drives and desires that propelled McCandless. When McCandless's innocent mistakes turn out to be irreversible and fatal, he becomes the stuff of tabloid headlines and is dismissed for his naiveté, pretensions, and hubris. He is said to have had a death wish but wanting to die is a very different thing from being compelled to look over the edge. Krakauer brings McCandless's uncompromising pilgrimage out of the shadows, and the peril, adversity, and renunciation sought by this enigmatic young man are illuminated with a rare understanding—and not an ounce of sentimentality. Into the Wild is a tour de force. The power and luminosity of Jon Krakauer's stoytelling blaze through every page.

Author : Ruth Symons
Publisher : Templar Publishing
Page : 63 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-08
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781787413887

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A Year in the Wild by Ruth Symons Pdf

Take a journey through the seasons in this beautiful book, made entirely from hand-pressed plants. Artist Helen Ahpornsiri transforms petals, leaves and seeds into bounding hares, swooping swallows and fluttering butterflies. Turn the page to watch flowers unfold, see birds take flight or peek inside animal homes. Marvel at the magic of each moment and rediscover the wonders of a year in the wild . . .

Author : Juan Villoro
Publisher : Restless Books
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-14
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781632061485

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The Wild Book by Juan Villoro Pdf

“We walked toward the part of the library where the air smelled as if it had been interred for years….. Finally, we got to the hallway where the wooden floor was the creakiest, and we sensed a strange whiff of excitement and fear. It smelled like a creature from a bygone time. It smelled like a dragon.” Thirteen-year-old Juan’s favorite things in the world are koalas, eating roast chicken, and the summer-time. This summer, though, is off to a terrible start. First, Juan’s parents separate and his dad goes to Paris. Then, as if that wasn’t horrible enough, Juan is sent away to his strange Uncle Tito’s house for the entire break! Uncle Tito is really odd: he has zigzag eyebrows; drinks ten cups of smoky tea a day; and lives inside a huge, mysterious library. One day, while Juan is exploring the library, he notices something inexplicable and rushes to tell Uncle Tito. “The books moved!” His uncle drinks all his tea in one gulp and, sputtering, lets his nephew in on a secret: Juan is a Princeps Reader––which means books respond magically to him––and he’s the only person capable of finding the elusive, never-before-read Wild Book. Juan teams up with his new friend Catalina and his little sister, and together they delve through books that scuttle from one shelf to the next, topple over unexpectedly, or even disappear altogether to find The Wild Book and discover its secret. But will they find it before the wicked, story-stealing Pirate Book does?

Author : Kate Wickers
Publisher : Aurum Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780711267176

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Shape of a Boy by Kate Wickers Pdf

Shape of a Boy is a hilarious memoir of one family's travels across the world, filled with funny anecdotes from exotic locations.

Author : Patricia Hermes
Publisher : Scholastic Paperbacks
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0439370558

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The Wild Year by Patricia Hermes Pdf

In this book, Joshua's diary comes to an end with stories of life in Oregon, his sister lost in the woods, and Joshua starting school. Simultaneous.

Author : Cheryl Strayed
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1838959548

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Wild by Cheryl Strayed Pdf

'One of the best books I've read in the last five or ten years... Wild is angry, brave, sad, self-knowing, redemptive, raw, compelling, and brilliantly written, and I think it's destined to be loved by a lot of people, men and women, for a very long time.' Nick Hornby

Author : Hayden Herrera
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781982105297

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Upper Bohemia by Hayden Herrera Pdf

"A coming-of-age memoir by the daughter of privileged, artistic, hard-drinking, bohemian parents, set against a backdrop of 1950s New York, Cape Cod, and Mexico"--

Author : Anke Fesel,Chris Keller
Publisher : Die Gestalten Verlag-DGV
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Artist colonies
ISBN : 3899555287

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Berlin Wonderland by Anke Fesel,Chris Keller Pdf

Shortly after the Wall came down, subcultures boomed in Berlin's Mitte district. The compelling photography in this book brings an almost forgotten era back to life and shows just how much the city has changed since then. The striking photography in Berli