Author : Bob Stevens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : History
ISBN : 0816889503
There I was ...
Bob Stevens
There I Was
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And There I Was Volume VIII
DH Koester
Author : DH Koester
Publisher : Outskirts Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-18
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781478710165
And There I Was Volume VIII by DH Koester Pdf
The eight journey of nine in the And There I Was series-Ethiopia, cradle of all mankind-took place in 2004. Come along and recount the incredible history of a country older than time itself-a country of orphaned children steeped in Christianity. Trek the Simiens, a geological creation that surpasses even the imagination of God, where the lion-like baboon presides. Travel to an island monastery on Lake Tana where the Arc of the Covenant once resided and hold council with a priest who has spent his entire life studying the origins and meaning of Christianity-a man perhaps more knowledgeable than any other who serves as custodian of an underground vault of parchment texts predating Christ. Witness local women performing the world's most seductive dance, the Iskista, and see incredible churches hewn out of the earth's bedrock in Lalibela, the Jerusalem of Africa. Meet the children of Ethiopia and have them guide you by the hand to the headwaters of the Nile. Share sugar cane and song with the raincloud Dorze people and roam the shores and waters of Lake Chomo amongst the largest crocodiles in the world. Chew "qat," sample "tej" or honey wine, the nectar of the Gods and gorge on "injera" made from the national grain, "teff."
And There I Was Volume I
DH Koester
Author : DH Koester
Publisher : Outskirts Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781432779467
And There I Was Volume I by DH Koester Pdf
It was 1988 - the maiden voyage and the first of nine journeys in the "And There I Was" series. Witness the grandeur of the Incan Empire and their predecessors and the greed and inhumanity of their Spanish conquerors. Experience the breathtaking geography of Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia - the steaming jungles, the coastal deserts, the majestic Andes and the desolate moonscape that is the Altiplano - and the people who live there. Chew coca leaves, drink pisco and climb to mysterious mountaintop ruins. Raft the wild Urubamba and listen to the haunting sounds of the Andean panpipes. Encounter the usual suspects in a succession of eccentric gringos, bathe in Atahualpa's bath and march all night through village streets with ragtag Quechua bands. See the Pope in La Paz, climb an active volcano, experience near death in the Amazon and visit communities of escaped African slaves on the Ecuadorian coast. Sleep as guests of island residents on Lake Titicaca, visit the city that gave birth to the Sendero Luminosa, dodge landslides and take a forced march through the Bolivian jungle without water. Finally, wonder at stone statues of the world community of man carved two thousand years in the past. DH Koester has been a farmhand, aerospace engineer, atomic physicist, vagabond, materials engineer, professional photographer, artist, furniture maker, writer and hobo. He holds degrees in both Physics and Mathematics and though a citizen of the United States, spent seven years in the Canadian North.
There I was
Collier Schorr
Author : Collier Schorr
Publisher : Steidl
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Automobiles in art
ISBN : 3865216161
There I was by Collier Schorr Pdf
There I Was marks a shift in medium and a conceptual departure for Collier Schorr. She is best known for her photographic studies of a real and imagined town in southern Germany, works which tease the accepted artifice of photography to forge an appropriated remembrance of German histories. Schorr found drawing a more acute medium to describe events that took place in the neighbourhoods of her childhood, specifically the muscle car counter culture of the 1960s in Long Island and Queens, NY. This history is related through the short but spectacular life of charismatic 19 year-old drag car racer Charlie Astoria Chas Synder and his 67 Ko-Motion Corvette. At the age of four Schorr accompanied her father, an automotive photographer and journalist, to a local race track where she watched Astoria Chas work on his car. A subsequent article followed, with the now eerie headline While Astoria Chas is doing his thing in Vietnam his friends are racing his L-88. By the time the article was published, Charlie Snyder had died in action in Vietnam. There I Was is Snyder's story and Schorrs dilemma. He was there, she was not. The project examines the role of the photograph as proof of the photographer's presence, territory and view, and the difficulty of representing any past without the theatricality of re-staging it. Based entirely on photography, the book engages with the medium and simultaneously challenges the role of the photograph as document of the past. Using a collision of source materials for the drawings, beginning with her fathers images and Snyders own snapshots taken in Vietnam, Schorr then draws from professional reportage pictures, so as to describe, literally sketch out, one monumental trip from Queens to Vietnam and back. These drawings are contrasted by reproductions of vintage car magazine articles and Schorrs own photograph portraits. There I Was is a complex and multi-faceted look at escape, culture, dreams and mortality, conjuring up an expressionistic portrait of the dichotomies of the late 1960s in a fractured wartime America.
There She Was
Amy Argetsinger
Author : Amy Argetsinger
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781982123406
There She Was by Amy Argetsinger Pdf
A Washington Post style editor’s fascinating and irresistible look back on the Miss America pageant as it approaches its 100th anniversary. The sash. The tears. The glittering crown. And of course, that soaring song. For all its pomp and kitsch, the Miss America pageant is indelibly written into the American story of the past century. From its giddy origins as a summer’s-end tourist draw in Prohibition-era Atlantic City, it blossomed into a televised extravaganza that drew tens of millions of viewers in its heyday and was once considered the highest honor that a young woman could achieve. For two years, Washington Post reporter and editor Amy Argetsinger visited pageants and interviewed former winners and contestants to unveil the hidden world of this iconic institution. There She Was spotlights how the pageant survived decades of social and cultural change, collided with a women’s liberation movement that sought to abolish it, and redefined itself alongside evolving ideas about feminism. For its superstars—Phyllis George, Vanessa Williams, Gretchen Carlson—and for those who never became household names, Miss America was a platform for women to exercise their ambitions and learn brutal lessons about the culture of fame. Spirited and revelatory, There She Was charts the evolution of the American woman, from the Miss America catapulted into advocacy after she was exposed as a survivor of domestic violence to the one who used her crown to launch a congressional campaign; from a 1930s winner who ran away on the night of her crowning to a present-day rock guitarist carving out her place in this world. Argetsinger dissects the scandals and financial turmoil that have repeatedly threatened to kill the pageant—and highlights the unexpected sisterhood of Miss Americas fighting to keep it alive.
Book Was There
Andrew Piper
Author : Andrew Piper
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226922898
Book Was There by Andrew Piper Pdf
Andrew Piper grew up liking books and loving computers. While occasionally burying his nose in books, he was going to computer camp, programming his Radio Shack TRS-80, and playing Pong. His eventual love of reading made him a historian of the book and a connoisseur of print, but as a card-carrying member of the first digital generation—and the father of two digital natives—he understands that we live in electronic times. Book Was There is Piper’s surprising and always entertaining essay on reading in an e-reader world. Much ink has been spilled lamenting or championing the decline of printed books, but Piper shows that the rich history of reading itself offers unexpected clues to what lies in store for books, print or digital. From medieval manuscript books to today’s playable media and interactive urban fictions, Piper explores the manifold ways that physical media have shaped how we read, while also observing his own children as they face the struggles and triumphs of learning to read. In doing so, he uncovers the intimate connections we develop with our reading materials—how we hold them, look at them, share them, play with them, and even where we read them—and shows how reading is interwoven with our experiences in life. Piper reveals that reading’s many identities, past and present, on page and on screen, are the key to helping us understand the kind of reading we care about and how new technologies will—and will not—change old habits. Contending that our experience of reading belies naive generalizations about the future of books, Book Was There is an elegantly argued and thoroughly up-to-date tribute to the endurance of books in our ever-evolving digital world.
I Was There
Hans Peter Richter
Author : Hans Peter Richter
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Germany
ISBN : 0606021701
I Was There by Hans Peter Richter Pdf
A young German boy narrates his experiences in the Hitler youth movement during the early years of the Third Reich.
I Was Born There, I Was Born Here
Mur?d Bargh?th?
Author : Mur?d Bargh?th?
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781408822470
I Was Born There, I Was Born Here by Mur?d Bargh?th? Pdf
A moving and revelatory Palestinian memoir by the author of I Saw Ramallah.
Pink Floyd: I Was There
Richard Houghton
Author : Richard Houghton
Publisher : This Day In Music Books
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781787590540
Pink Floyd: I Was There by Richard Houghton Pdf
Pink Floyd are one of the most commercially successful and influential rock bands of all time. They have sold more than 250 million records worldwide, including 75 million certified units in the United States, and 37.9 million albums sold in the US since 1993. This book is based on fans, friends and colleagues memories of the band from their earliest days in Cambridge through the on stage pyrotechnics of Dark Side and through to the massive stage events like The Wall. Includes new insights into the band with Syd Barrett.
I was There when it Happened
Marshall Grant,Chris Zar
Author : Marshall Grant,Chris Zar
Publisher : Cumberland House Publishing
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1581825102
I was There when it Happened by Marshall Grant,Chris Zar Pdf
Beginning with Grant and guitarist Luther Perkins's initial introductions to Johnny Cash and the jam sessions that followed, readers will marvel at how their musical inabilities drove these three men to musical greatness. From Grant's humorous story of placing adhesive tape on his bass to learn the notes prior to landing their Sun Records recording contract and witnessing Johnny write I Walk the Line, to his experience of playing with Cash at Folsom Prison, readers are taken backstage into Cash's inner circle.
Last Lecture
Perfection Learning Corporation
Author : Perfection Learning Corporation
Publisher : Turtleback
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1663608199
Last Lecture by Perfection Learning Corporation Pdf
I Was Told There'd Be Cake
Sloane Crosley
Author : Sloane Crosley
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2008-04-01
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781101147474
I Was Told There'd Be Cake by Sloane Crosley Pdf
Hailed by David Sedaris as "perfectly, relentlessly funny" and by Colson Whitehead as "sardonic without being cruel, tender without being sentimental," from the author of the new collection Look Alive Out There. Wry, hilarious, and profoundly genuine, this debut collection of literary essays is a celebration of fallibility and haplessness in all their glory. From despoiling an exhibit at the Natural History Museum to provoking the ire of her first boss to siccing the cops on her mysterious neighbor, Crosley can do no right despite the best of intentions -- or perhaps because of them. Together, these essays create a startlingly funny and revealing portrait of a complex and utterly recognizable character who aims for the stars but hits the ceiling, and the inimitable city that has helped shape who she is. I Was Told There'd Be Cake introduces a strikingly original voice, chronicling the struggles and unexpected beauty of modern urban life.
Wish I Was There
Emily Lloyd
Author : Emily Lloyd
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1459682262
Wish I Was There by Emily Lloyd Pdf
When Emily Lloyd burst onto the movie scene as a teenager she was hailed as the next Marilyn Monroe. Her stunning performance as precocious Lynda Mansell in David Leland's bitter - sweet comedy - drama ''Wish You Were Here'' thrust her into the spotlight, won her a BAFTA nomination, an Evening Standard Best Actress Award and a National Society of Critics Award and cemented the film's reputation as a British classic. Hollywood beckoned and Emily landed high profile roles alongside A - listers including Bruce Willis and starred with Brad Pitt in Robert Redford's Oscar - winning epic ''A River Runs Through It.'' Yet behind the corkscrew curls and cheeky grin that seduced Tinseltown, Emily was confronting a debilitating mental disorder that threatened to destroy her. Now, in her searingly honest autobiography, Emily describes the incredible highs and agonising lows she experienced through a tumultuous acting career. Packed with fascinating, star - laden anecdotes, starting insights into movie making and moving personal revelations, With I Was There is part celebrity memoir, part examination into the difficulties of combating mental illness while being in the public eye.
There Was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Book
Jomike Tejido
Author : Jomike Tejido
Publisher : jimmy patterson
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780316493024
There Was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Book by Jomike Tejido Pdf
The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs meets There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly in this clever, irreverent update of our most beloved children's classics. The little old woman who lives in a book has lost her children! But instead of sitting around and waiting for them to show up, in a refreshingly empowering, feminist take on the classic tale, she departs on a mission to find her kids herself--even if it means popping into every other fairy tale and nursery rhyme in town! She'll enlist the help of Humpty Dumpty, Jack and his beanstalk, Princess Beauty, the Three Bears, and more familiar characters in her quest to rescue her kids. This silly, irreverent picture book is a clever jaunt through our most beloved children's stories--and it's sure to become the next modern day classic.
There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed Some Books!
Lucille Colandro
Author : Lucille Colandro
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780545512701
There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed Some Books! by Lucille Colandro Pdf
There was an old lady who's ready for school!That lovely old lady has returned just in time for the first day of school. Now she's swallowing items to make the very best of her first day back. And just in time for the bus... With rhyming text and funny illustrations, this lively version of the classic song will appeal to young readers with every turn of the page--a fun story for the first day of school!