Way More West

Author : Edward Dorn
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2007-04-03
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0143038699

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Way More West by Edward Dorn Pdf

An essential anthology of an innovative American poet Edward Dorn was not only one of America’s finest poets but a rare critical intelligence and commentator. He was a student of Charles Olson, who helped him to see the American West as a site for his quest for self-knowledge; at the core of his work is a deep sense of place and the people who occupy it, underpinned by a wry ironic dissent. It was Dorn’s comic-epic masterpiece, Gunslinger, which began appearing in 1968 and had already become an underground classic by the time it was published in its entirety in 1974, that established his reputation in the wider world. This new volume brings together poems from Dorn’s entire career, including previously uncollected work.

Author : Edward Dorn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : American poetry
ISBN : UCSC:32106002100938

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Selected Poems by Edward Dorn Pdf

Author : Elliott West
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 0826316530

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The Way to the West by Elliott West Pdf

Elegantly assembles the environmental, social, cultural, political, and economic history of the Great Plains in the 19th century.

Author : Alfred Bertram Guthrie (Jr.)
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0618154620

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The Way West by Alfred Bertram Guthrie (Jr.) Pdf

An enormously entertaining classic, THE WAY WEST brings to life the adventure of the western passage and the pioneer spirit. The sequel to THE BIG SKY, this celebrated novel charts a frontiersman's return to the untamed West in 1846. Dick Summers, as pilot of a wagon train, guides a group of settlers on the difficult journey from Missouri to Oregon. In sensitive but unsentimental prose, Guthrie illuminates the harsh trials and resounding triumphs of pioneer life. With THE WAY WEST, he pays homage to the grandeur of the western wilderness, its stark and beautiful scenery, and its extraordinary people.

Author : Steve Sheinkin
Publisher : Flash Point
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2010-07-06
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781429964968

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Which Way to the Wild West? by Steve Sheinkin Pdf

History--with the good bits put back. Discover the drama, discoveries, dirty deeds and derring-do that won the American West. With a storyteller's voice and attention to the details that make history real and interesting, Steve Sheinkin's Which Way to the Wild West? delivers America's greatest adventure. From the Louisiana Purchase (remember: if you're negotiating a treaty for your country, play it cool.) to the gold rush (there were only three ways to get to California--all of them bad) to the life of the cowboy, the Indian wars, and the everyday happenings that defined living on the frontier.

Author : Robert Aitken
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035123327

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The West Highland Way by Robert Aitken Pdf

Opened in 1980, the West Highland way was Scotland's first long distance walking route. This text is a companion guide for those taking the walk from Glasgow to Fort William and provides Ordinance Survey maps. It has been revised to incorporate changes in the character of the route over the years.

Author : Hershell H. Nixon
Publisher : Texas Tech University Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0896725081

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The Long Way West by Hershell H. Nixon Pdf

Follows the adventures of seventeen-year-old George Wend as he leaves home in Philadelphia to go to Oregon in the mid-1800s.

Author : Bradley Chermside
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1091863342

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The Only Way Is West by Bradley Chermside Pdf

'An inspiring, uplifting, heartfelt and funny memoir that made me howl with laughter throughout. A wonderful read.' - Kevin Hand, BBC London. You're in Greece and are given a e20 note with an email address scribbled on it. What would you do: 1. Spend it? 2. Slip the suspect counterfeit bill into an enemy's birthday card? 3. Send an email, hoping it will lead to you finding everlasting love? Brad, a hopeless romantic, chose the latter. Two years later, his love life remains a disaster and his career is misfiring. As he's about to walk Spain's fabled Camino de Santiago to ponder some profound life changes, Brad receives a reply. Incredibly, it's from a woman who lives on the 1000-year-old pilgrim path, far away from where the money first crossed his palm. She invites him to sleep... 'on her house'. Hiking nine hundred kilometres on the Road to Santiago to a blind date with the mystery e20 woman, he discovers the utopia of his fantasies, befriends a Hungarian who speaks English in song titles and has his raison d'être revealed to him by a barefoot Mayan mystic. Will he meet his happily-ever-after too? Buy this pacy, exuberant, laugh-out-loud travelogue laced with tips for fellow pilgrims to find out...

Author : Tim Bird,Alex Marshall
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780300154580

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Afghanistan by Tim Bird,Alex Marshall Pdf

Examines why the West has failed to achieve its objectives in Afghanistan, discussing the country's drug trade, political corruption, troubled relations with Pakistan, and harsh terrain, and the lessons about nation building that can be learned from the experience.

Author : Michael Brownlow,Mike Brownlow
Publisher : Handprint Books
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : PSU:000046939524

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Way Out West-- with a Baby! by Michael Brownlow,Mike Brownlow Pdf

The roughest, rudest cowpokes on the range are poleaxed and hog-tied over their latest predicament-taking care of a baby lost in the wilderness. Don, Deke, and Dom (the meanest of them all) have to figure out how to feed and change the poor tyke ("Aw shucks ... she's sprung a leak!"). This lushly illustrated tale bubbles with good humour.

Author : Ben Ehrenreich
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780698148192

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The Way to the Spring by Ben Ehrenreich Pdf

From an award-winning journalist, a brave and necessary immersion into the everyday struggles of Palestinian life Over the past three years, American writer Ben Ehrenreich has been traveling to and living in the West Bank, staying with Palestinian families in its largest cities and its smallest villages. Along the way he has written major stories for American outlets, including a remarkable New York Times Magazine cover story. Now comes the powerful new work that has always been his ultimate goal, The Way to the Spring. We are familiar with brave journalists who travel to bleak or war-torn places on a mission to listen and understand, to gather the stories of people suffering from extremes of oppression and want: Katherine Boo, Ryszard Kapuściński, Ted Conover, and Philip Gourevitch among them. Palestine is, by any measure, whatever one's politics, one such place. Ruled by the Israeli military, set upon and harassed constantly by Israeli settlers who admit unapologetically to wanting to drive them from the land, forced to negotiate an ever more elaborate and more suffocating series of fences, checkpoints, and barriers that have sundered home from field, home from home, this is a population whose living conditions are unique, and indeed hard to imagine. In a great act of bravery, empathy and understanding, Ben Ehrenreich, by placing us in the footsteps of ordinary Palestinians and telling their story with surpassing literary power and grace, makes it impossible for us to turn away.

Author : James A. Crutchfield
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2006-05-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 076530452X

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The Way West by James A. Crutchfield Pdf

The history of America is, at its core, the story of the American West. In this new volume from the Western Writers of America, readers are taken deep into the true stories that helped America form its identity, and the people that embodied its essence. James A. Crutchfield, a long-time WWA Secretary-Treasurer and seasoned historian, has assembled a remarkable cadre of contributors in The Way West. Included are winners of the Owen Wister Award, given for lifetime achievement in literature on the West: * David Dary explores the network of trails that lead explorers West * Bill Gulick recalls the Steamboat days of the Pacific Northwest * Leon Claire Metz goes deep into John Wesley Hardin's world * Robert M. Utley shows us the true faces of the Texas Rangers * Dale L. Walker takes us on a tour of the final resting places of forty of the West's most celebrated figures. The Way West covers many of the now obscure individuals and long-lost tales of our storied past and gives new insights into famous characters and events of this legendary era. So join the Western Writers of America on a journey back in time and lose yourself in the colorful history of the American West.

Author : Jane Stern,Michael Stern
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015033107205

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Way Out West by Jane Stern,Michael Stern Pdf

A look at the popular culture of the West, including movie cowboys, western clothes, rodeo, the Indian image, food, and animals.

Author : Ronald Turnbull
Publisher : Cicerone Press Limited
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-04
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781849653510

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Not the West Highland Way by Ronald Turnbull Pdf

The West Highland Way is one of the finest of Britain's long-distance paths. It passes through six separate mountain ranges, from the tall elegant cone of Ben Lomond and the crag towers of grim Glen Coe to the seductive Mamores. But it doesn't go onto those enticing Stobs and Bens. NOT The West Highland Way makes the most of the surrounding area, taking in sights that the linear Way doesn't allow. With mountain alternatives to all but one of the West Highland Way's nine standard stages, this guidebook takes you on a higher and wilder journey. By taking the best of what the standard Way has to offer and adding in all its diversions away from the linear paths, and get to the heart of what makes the West Highland Way so great. It crosses Ben Lomond and Beinn Dorain, the charming Campsie Fells and the mighty Mamores, while the crossing of the Black Mount from Inveroran to Glen Coe represents the best pub-to-pub to be found in Britain.

Author : Ian Bailey
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1979582769

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The West Cork Way by Ian Bailey Pdf

The West Cork Way is a collection of poems and ballads reflecting aspects of life in West Cork and throughout Ireland. The poems range in subject matter from the the fishing industry on the West coast of Ireland, the agriculture marts of the West and farming barley in County Waterford. The author, English born Ian Bailey, lives and works in West Cork close to the Mizen Head.