We Were Vagabonds

Author : June Harman Betts
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781438933733

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We Were Vagabonds by June Harman Betts Pdf

From the Heart; America and 9-11' is a collecton of candid emotions, thoughts, and reflections on America's most tragic day. It is an honest and revealing look into the heart and mind of everyday Americans as their nation was being viciously attacked. How did they react? What were they thinking and what were they feeling? From Ground Zero survivors to selfless volunteers to shocked mothers and fathers separated from their loved ones, this is a book about their experiences and their concerns. It is also a testament to their faith, their strength, and their courage. How has 9-11 changed your life? If you've ever wondered what other people experienced that terrible day and how they coped with tragedy in the days and weeks to follow 'From the Heart' will give you answers and more. No doubt there are lessons to be learned from this tragic day. Who better to learn from than those who lived through it just like you?

Author : Michael Barry
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1541178130

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Vagabonds in France by Michael Barry Pdf

"Vagabonds in France" is a lighthearted book about an unexpected travel adventure to France. Find out how life threw a lemon at us with losing our home, and our attempt to make lemonade. Putting all our furniture in storage, we left everything behind to experience an adventure of a lifetime. With no mortgage or rent to pay, we left with no return date or home to come back to. Exploring for 9 weeks, we traveled from Florida (Tampa and Key West), to Portugal (Funchal, Madeira), to Spain (Malaga, Cartagena, and Barcelona), to the C�te d'Azur in the south of France (Antibes, Nice, Eze, St. Paul de Vence), to Provence (Arles, Avignon), then a month in Paris. Come with my wife and me and see this country's amazing beauty, along with all the humorous cultural differences and "what the hell" moments you'll get a kick out of. Climb mountains, descend into the Paris Metro, dodge pickpockets, endure nasty weather and illness, and witness the flood of the century with us. Experience some wonderful and not-so-wonderful people. Chuckle with me as we live among the French and try to learn their ways and language. Then make it back home to an empty rental home we found online. Readers say they feel like they are right there with us on the journey, and laugh out loud, especially from the "Bathroom Reports". This book, with its 75 photograph illustrations, is available now on Amazon in both paperback (black and white illustrations) and Kindle (color illustrations)!

Author : Linda Lee Koenig
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 083863124X

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The Vagabonds, America's Oldest Little Theater by Linda Lee Koenig Pdf

Tracing the sixty-four year career of Baltimore's Vagabond Players, this study of the longest-lasting of the little theaters examines the influence and participation of figures such as H. L. Mencken, Mildred Natwick, and Zelda Fitzgerald.

Author : Eloghosa Osunde
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593330043

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Vagabonds! by Eloghosa Osunde Pdf

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORKER LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE AND THE VCU CABELL FIRST NOVELIST AWARD “If you read one debut novel in 2022, this should be it.” —Los Angeles Times In the bustling streets and cloistered homes of Lagos, a cast of vivid characters—some haunted, some defiant—navigate danger, demons, and love in a quest to lead true lives. As in Nigeria, vagabonds are those whose existence is literally outlawed: the queer, the poor, the displaced, the footloose and rogue spirits. They are those who inhabit transient spaces, who make their paths and move invisibly, who embrace apparitions, old vengeances and alternative realities. Eloghosa Osunde's brave, fiercely inventive novel traces a wild array of characters for whom life itself is a form of resistance: a driver for a debauched politician with the power to command life and death; a legendary fashion designer who gives birth to a grown daughter; a lesbian couple whose tender relationship sheds unexpected light on their experience with underground sex work; a wife and mother who attends a secret spiritual gathering that shifts her world. As their lives intertwine—in bustling markets and underground clubs, churches and hotel rooms—vagabonds are seized and challenged by spirits who command the city's dark energy. Whether running from danger, meeting with secret lovers, finding their identities, or vanquishing their shadowselves, Osunde's characters confront and support one another, before converging for the once-in-a-lifetime gathering that gives the book its unexpectedly joyous conclusion. Blending unvarnished realism with myth and fantasy, Vagabonds! is a vital work of imagination that takes us deep inside the hearts, minds, and bodies of a people in duress—and in triumph.

Author : Thomas John Larson,Thomas Larson
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2005-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780595344925

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The Vagabonds by Thomas John Larson,Thomas Larson Pdf

In September of 1937, Eagle Scout Tom Larson put a packsack on his back and set out to see the world. After two years at the University of Minnesota, he hitchhiked westward from his hometown of Aitkin, Minnesota. Eight months later as a seaman on a west coast oil tanker, he'd saved $250 dollars. After riding on freight cars and hitchhiking, he arrived in New York City. Luckily he was able to work passage on a Danish freighter to Antwerp, Belgium. Then on his bicycle "Napoleon" he traveled through Belgium and Holland and thence through England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland. Across the North Sea to Norway he cycled through Denmark, Sweden, and Finland, the three Baltic states into Poland and Nazi Germany. In Paris he met his friend, Eagle Scout Edwin Woolverton, of Albert Lea, Minnesota. After wild and hilarious adventures in France and Belgium, they crossed the Mediterranean to Algeria. They took refuge in the youth hostel in Sidi Bou Said, Tunesia. From there their vagabond travels took them to Sardinia, Italy, Switzerland, and back into Germany. Back in Paris they mingled with refugees before making one last journey into West German bordertowns and Holland. War threatened at any day. Luckily in late March of 1939, they worked their way home on a Norwegian freighter through a great North Atlantic storm to New York, just four months before the Nazis invaded Poland and began WWII. On December 7th, 1941, Tom ended up in the Battle of Pearl Harbor. Edwin Woolverton served on numerous merchant ships during the war. They survived on a shoe-string budget, good luck, oatmeal and Scout hospitality.

Author : Kristin O'Brassill-Kulfan
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781479845255

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Vagrants and Vagabonds by Kristin O'Brassill-Kulfan Pdf

The riveting story of control over the mobility of poor migrants, and how their movements shaped current perceptions of class and status in the United States Vagrants. Vagabonds. Hoboes. Identified by myriad names, the homeless and geographically mobile have been with us since the earliest periods of recorded history. In the early days of the United States, these poor migrants – consisting of everyone from work-seekers to runaway slaves – populated the roads and streets of major cities and towns. These individuals were a part of a social class whose geographical movements broke settlement laws, penal codes, and welfare policies. This book documents their travels and experiences across the Atlantic world, excavating their life stories from the records of criminal justice systems and relief organizations. Vagrants and Vagabonds examines the subsistence activities of the mobile poor, from migration to wage labor to petty theft, and how local and state municipal authorities criminalized these activities, prompting extensive punishment. Kristin O’Brassill-Kulfan examines the intertwined legal constructions, experiences, and responses to these so-called “vagrants,” arguing that we can glean important insights about poverty and class in this period by paying careful attention to mobility. This book charts why and how the itinerant poor were subject to imprisonment and forced migration, and considers the relationship between race and the right to movement and residence in the antebellum US. Ultimately, Vagrants and Vagabonds argues that poor migrants, the laws designed to curtail their movements, and the people charged with managing them, were central to shaping everything from the role of the state to contemporary conceptions of community to class and labor status, the spread of disease, and punishment in the early American republic.

Author : Hao Jingfang
Publisher : Gallery / Saga Press
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781534422094

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Vagabonds by Hao Jingfang Pdf

A century after the Martian war of independence, a group of kids are sent to Earth as delegates from Mars, but when they return home, they are caught between the two worlds, unable to reconcile the beauty and culture of Mars with their experiences on Earth in this “thoughtful debut” (Kirkus Reviews) from Hugo Award–winning author Hao Jingfang. This “masterful narrative” (Booklist, starred review) is set on Earth in the wake of a second civil war…not between two factions in one nation, but two factions in one solar system: Mars and Earth. In an attempt to repair increasing tensions, the colonies of Mars send a group of young people to live on Earth to help reconcile humanity. But the group finds itself with no real home, no friends, and fractured allegiances as they struggle to find a sense of community and identity trapped between two worlds.

Author : Richard Le Gallienne
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-31
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9791041983964

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October Vagabonds by Richard Le Gallienne Pdf

"October Vagabonds" is a novel written by Richard Le Gallienne, a British author and poet. The book, published in 1912, is a work of fiction that captures the essence of autumn in England. Richard Le Gallienne, known for his lyrical and romantic writing style, uses "October Vagabonds" to explore themes of love, nature, and the transient beauty of life. The novel is celebrated for its poetic prose and its ability to evoke the atmosphere of the autumn season. Le Gallienne's vivid descriptions and introspective musings contribute to the novel's charm, making it a favorite among readers who appreciate the beauty of language and the nuances of the changing seasons.

Author : Kahende, M. G. N.
Publisher : East African Educational Publishers
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789966564344

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David Livingstone: The Wayward Vagabond in Africa by Kahende, M. G. N. Pdf

David Livingstone: The Wayward Vagabond in Africa is an expression of doubt about the raîson d’etre concerning the 19th Century explorers and missionaries in Africa. Led by David Livingstone, the Scottish explorer and missionary, they are said to have come to civilise “backward” Africans, which the author creatively re-imagines, arguing that it is far from the truth. Instead, their actions gave impetus to colonialism proper. In this book the omniscient narrator, Everywhere, is God’s special envoy mandated to witness history with far-reaching consequences for humanity. His investigation is to help nail David Livingstone on Judgment Day, much the same way St Peter chronicles events in the Book of Life. Read about how, Everywhere, the spirit rides on wind, walks on water, enters into his characters’ stream of consciousness and even discerns how they interpret the world around them. The novel retraces Livingstone’s early life, from his deprived childhood in Blantyre, Scotland; his ideological evolution and training in London and his dramatic sojourn in Monomotapa kingdom, which he half-believes is his destiny. The satirical tone in the novel aptly captures that delusional aspect of Livingstone’s “God-ordained” mission to the world.

Author : Jeff Guinn
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781501159312

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The Vagabonds by Jeff Guinn Pdf

A “fascinating slice of rarely considered American history” (Booklist)—the story of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison—whose annual summer sojourns introduced the road trip to our culture and made the automobile an essential part of modern life. In 1914 Henry Ford and naturalist John Burroughs visited Thomas Edison in Florida and toured the Everglades. The following year Ford, Edison, and tire maker Harvey Firestone joined together on a summer camping trip and decided to call themselves the Vagabonds. They would continue their summer road trips until 1925, when they announced that their fame made it too difficult for them to carry on. Although the Vagabonds traveled with an entourage of chefs, butlers, and others, this elite fraternity also had a serious purpose: to examine the conditions of America’s roadways and improve the practicality of automobile travel. Cars were unreliable and the roads were even worse. But newspaper coverage of these trips was extensive, and as cars and roads improved, the summer trip by automobile soon became a desired element of American life. The Vagabonds is “a portrait of America’s burgeoning love affair with the automobile” (NPR) but it also sheds light on the important relationship between the older Edison and the younger Ford, who once worked for the famous inventor. The road trips made the automobile ubiquitous and magnified Ford’s reputation, even as Edison’s diminished. The automobile would transform the American landscape, the American economy, and the American way of life and Guinn brings this seminal moment in history to vivid life.

Author : Colin Dann
Publisher : Random House
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-30
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781446480793

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King Of The Vagabonds by Colin Dann Pdf

'Don't stray into the Quartermile Field. Any animal with sense avoids the spot,' warns Sammy's mother. But Sammy is curious - about the Field, and about his father, the fierce, wild father he's never met. Then one day Sammy discovers that his father has returned. And determined to track him down, Sammy sets off towards the strange, wild land of Quatermile Field - and into a very different and dangerous world . . .

Author : Anthony J. Vallone
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-26
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781588344656

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Air Vagabonds by Anthony J. Vallone Pdf

Air Vagabonds is the story of the amazing, true (mis)adventures of a band of rogues piloting aircraft alone into exotic and deadly destinations. In the late 1970s and through the 1980s the demand for light aircraft eclipsed anything seen before or since. This created the need for a small air force of pilots—ferry pilots—willing to fly thousands of planes to clients in every corner of the globe. Long-range solo flying is not for everyone, and it attracted a cast of eccentric, unforgettable mavericks who flew from one misadventure to the next, battling storms, desert winds, aircraft malfunctions, primitive navigational aids, loneliness, chemical imbalances, and dangerous Third World politics. Some carried on international scams and love affairs, some were lost at sea, some imprisoned by African despots. They’re all here, described with humor and high drama by one of their own, a survivor with phenomenal recall, a knack for distinguishing character from bluster, and a great ear for dialogue and aviation lore.

Author : Owen Clayton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009348034

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Vagabonds, Tramps, and Hobos by Owen Clayton Pdf

This book explores the diversity of meanings that accrue around the terms 'hobo', 'tramp', and 'vagabond'.

Author : Harl Vincent
Publisher : eStar Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780982933077

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Vagabonds of Space by Harl Vincent Pdf

From the depths of the Sargasso Sea of Space came the thought-warning, "Turn back!" But Carr and his Martian friend found it was

Author : Thomas H. Harman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Rogues and vagabonds
ISBN : UIUC:30112066845568

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A Caveat Or Warning for Common Cursetors, Vulgarly Called Vagabonds by Thomas H. Harman Pdf