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Author : James Greenwood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : London (England)
ISBN : UOM:39015021915981
Author : James Greenwood
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : History
ISBN : 1021901458
Step into the darker side of Victorian London with James Greenwood as your guide. From slums to opium dens, he exposes the seedy underbelly of the city that many preferred to overlook. But along with the grit and grime, there is also hope and humanity in these pages. This is a must-read for anyone interested in the social history of London during this time. 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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0371491460
Author : James Greenwood (novelist.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : London (England)
ISBN : OCLC:4668788
Greenwood pioneered investigative journalism and adopted disguises to personally experience life in the rough streets of Victorian London. This work is one of a series in which he presents his observations of the poor disguised as one of them. Historian, E. A. Freeman (1823-1892) described him as "the most celebrated exponent of mid-Victorian complete participation" in the experience of the poor. Charles Dickens and others may have interviewed the poor, but Greenwood became "one of the crowd" and so provided a model for successors like Jack London, Mary Higgs, and George Orwell. --Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2014.
Author : Helen Babbs
Publisher : Timber Press
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-09
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781604693195
Helen Babbs is a self-proclaimed city girl who lives on the second floor of a flat in a chaotic corner of London. An urge to find more green in the city and a stronger connection to the natural world leads her to create her first garden, an organic edible garden on her rooftop. This year-long adventure is the story behind My Garden, the City and Me. The journey begins in the dark of winter, where Babbs finds herself at a seed swap on a February morning, seduced more by packaging than by any true understanding of the plants. As the year progresses, Babbs revels in failures, like waking up bleary eyed and stomping on her seed starts, and triumphs like her summer-ending dinner party made with homegrown produce. Along the way she discovers “that I like gardening in my pajamas and that growing something from seed, watching it develop and then eating its fruits is truly joyful. I’ve daydreamed out there and entertained out there. It’s the force behind new friendships that I’ve forged. The garden has opened my eyes to a whole new side of London and urban living.” My Garden, the City and Me is a lyrical narrative about a twenty-something in search for a bit of wild in her city. The journey is charming, honest, and steeped in the lore of London, a city equally known for its gardens and its grit. In the end Babbs has achieved a new perspective on what it means to live green in the city she loves.
Author : Jon Krakauer
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307476869
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 : Christopher Golden,Tim Lebbon
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780062069764
The world knows Jack London as awriter who lived his own thrilling,real-life adventures. But there areparts of his life that have remainedhidden for many years, things even he couldn’tset down in writing. Terrifying, mysterious,bizarre, and magical —these are the SecretJourneys of Jack London. We meet Jack at age seventeen, followingthousands of men and women into the YukonTerritory in search of gold. For Jack, the journeyholds the promise of another kind of fortune:challenge and adventure. But what he finds inthe wild north is something far more sinisterthan he could have ever imagined: kidnappingand slavery, the murderous nature of desperatemen, and, amidst it all, supernatural beasts ofthe wilderness that prey upon the weakness inmen’s hearts. Jack’s survival will depend on hisability to quell the demons within himself asmuch as those without. Acclaimed authors Christopher Goldenand Tim Lebbon, along with illustrator GregRuth, have crafted a masterful tale bothclassic and contemporary, a gripping originalstory of the paranormal in the tradition ofthe great Jack London.
Author : Earle Labor
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781466863163
A revelatory look at the life of the great American author—and how it shaped his most beloved works Jack London was born a working class, fatherless Californian in 1876. In his youth, he was a boundlessly energetic adventurer on the bustling West Coast—an oyster pirate, a hobo, a sailor, and a prospector by turns. He spent his brief life rapidly accumulating the experiences that would inform his acclaimed bestselling books The Call of theWild, White Fang, and The Sea-Wolf. The bare outlines of his story suggest a classic rags-to-riches tale, but London the man was plagued by contradictions. He chronicled nature at its most savage, but wept helplessly at the deaths of his favorite animals. At his peak the highest paid writer in the United States, he was nevertheless forced to work under constant pressure for money. An irrepressibly optimistic crusader for social justice and a lover of humanity, he was also subject to spells of bitter invective, especially as his health declined. Branded by shortsighted critics as little more than a hack who produced a couple of memorable dog stories, he left behind a voluminous literary legacy, much of it ripe for rediscovery. In Jack London: An American Life, the noted Jack London scholar Earle Labor explores the brilliant and complicated novelist lost behind the myth—at once a hard-living globe-trotter and a man alive with ideas, whose passion for seeking new worlds to explore never waned until the day he died. Returning London to his proper place in the American pantheon, Labor resurrects a major American novelist in his full fire and glory.
Author : Edward B. Barbier,Timothy M. Swanson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-18
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781000698985
Originally published in 1992 Economics for the Wilds argues that an economics that properly values the resources of the wilds offers the best long-term security for their future. Most of the world’s wilds have, in fact, always been utilized by local societies who have managed their resources sustainably, and one important guarantee for their preservation is therefore the continued participation of those communities and an adequate reward to them for their management. The book looks at the complexity and global nature of the issues, at the application of economics to the wilds and at the policies for their conservation and sustainable management which then result. It also examines specific forms of utilization of wild species and habitats, both sustainable and unsustainable, and including community-based development, tourism, the use of rainforest products, poaching and the impact of conservation on wildlife use. The book concludes that a comprehensive utilization strategy for wild resources is needed to ensure their continued existence and the continued flow of benefits from them.
Author : James Greenwood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : London (England)
ISBN : HARVARD:32044011466620
Author : Timothy M. Swanson,Edward Barbier
Publisher : Earthscan
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1853831247
A collection of interrelated essays arguing that the best way to ensure the conservation of the wilds is an economic structure that fully values their resources. The book stresses a need for a sustainable utilization strategy of wild species and habitats.
Author : Charl. Manby Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1857
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10281875
Author : William Henry Giles Kingston
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783385505896
Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
Author : William Howitt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1855
Category : Adventure stories
ISBN : HARVARD:HN5GF9
Author : Robert Michael Ballantyne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1857
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015011001156
