When Wanderers Cease To Roam

Author : Vivian Swift
Publisher : Bloomsbury USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2008-11-15
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1596914610

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When Wanderers Cease to Roam by Vivian Swift Pdf

Following a lifetime of trekking across the globe, Vivian Swift, a freelance designer who racked up 23 temporary addresses in 20 years, finally dropped her well-worn futon mattress and rucksack in a small town on the edge of the Long Island Sound. She spent the next decade quietly taking stock of her life, her immediate surroundings, and, finally, what it means to call a place a home. The result is When Wanderers Cease to Roam. Filled with watercolors of beautiful local landscapes, seasonal activities, and small, overlooked pleasures of easy living, each chapter chronicles the perks of remaining at home, including recipes, hobbies, and prized possessions of the small town lifestyle. At once gorgeously rendered and wholly original, this delightful and masterfully observed year of staying put conjures everything from youthful yearnings and romantic travels to lumpy, homemade sweaters and the gradations of March mud.

Author : Vivian Swift
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781632860286

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Gardens of Awe and Folly by Vivian Swift Pdf

"This delightful journal touches the heart and moves the spirit." - The Oregonian An illustrated, round-the-world tour of idiosyncratic gardens from beloved traveler/writer/watercolorist Vivian Swift. Nine masterpiece gardens. Nine stories of grandeur, sorrow, disaster, triumph, discovery, and joy. From Scotland to Key West, from Brazil to Paris--even right next door--there is always something to learn about being human from a great garden.

Author : Vivian Swift
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-10
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781608195329

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Le Road Trip by Vivian Swift Pdf

Traces an idyllic French honeymoon trip while sharing lighthearted tips and advice on how to thrive as a traveler, in a book with hundreds of watercolor and line illustrations.

Author : Peter Rock
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780547488646

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My Abandonment by Peter Rock Pdf

NOW A MAJOR FILM, LEAVE NO TRACE. Inspired by a true story, a riveting and unsettling novel about a girl and her father who live off the grid, in the shadows at the edge of civilization. Thirteen-year-old Caroline and her father live in Forest Park, an enormous nature preserve in Portland, Oregon. They inhabit an elaborate cave shelter, wash in a nearby creek, store perishables at the water’s edge, use a makeshift septic system, tend a garden, even keep a library of sorts. Once a week they go to the city to buy groceries and otherwise merge with the civilized world. But one small mistake allows a backcountry jogger to discover them, which derails their entire existence, ultimately provoking a deeper flight. Told through the startlingly sincere voice of its young narrator, My Abandonment is a riveting journey into life at the margins and a mesmerizing tale of survival and hope.

Author : Jeremy Collins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Art
ISBN : 1594859582

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Drawn by Jeremy Collins Pdf

A graphic-adventure that delves into why we pursue the wild outdoors

Author : Jim Shepard
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307595560

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You Think That's Bad by Jim Shepard Pdf

Following Like You’d Understand, Anyway—awarded the Story Prize and a finalist for the National Book Award—Jim Shepard returns with an even more wildly diverse collection of astonishingly observant stories. Like an expert curator, he populates the vastness of human experience—from its bizarre fringes and lonely, breathtaking pinnacles to the hopelessly mediocre and desperately below average—with brilliant scientists, reluctant soldiers, workaholic artists, female explorers, depraved murderers, and deluded losers, all wholly convincing and utterly fascinating. A “black world” operative at Los Alamos isn’t allowed to tell his wife anything about his daily activities, but he can’t resist sharing her intimate confidences with his work buddy. A young Alpine researcher falls in love with the girlfriend of his brother, who was killed in an avalanche he believes he caused. An unlucky farm boy becomes the manservant of a French nobleman who’s as proud of his military service with Joan of Arc as he’s aroused by the slaughter of children. A free-spirited autodidact, grieving her lost sister, traces the ancient steps of a ruthless Middle Eastern sect and becomes the first Western woman to travel the Arabian deserts. From the inventor of the Godzilla epics to a miserable G.I. in New Guinea, each comes to realize that knowing better is never enough. Enthralling and unfailingly compassionate, You Think That’s Bad traverses centuries, continents, and social strata, but the joy and struggle that Shepard depicts with such devastating sensitivity—all the heartbreak, alienation, intimacy, and accomplishment—has a universal resonance.

Author : Sarah Vowell
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2003-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780743243803

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The Partly Cloudy Patriot by Sarah Vowell Pdf

The author shares her perspective on such topics as the 2000 election, present-day civil rights activists, and the relationship between the United States and Canada.

Author : Sandra Novack
Publisher : Random House
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2009-02-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781588367914

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Precious by Sandra Novack Pdf

BONUS: This edition contains a Precious discussion guide and an excerpt from Sandra Novack's Everyone but You. The summer of 1978, ten-year-old Vicki Anderson rides her bike to the local park and goes missing. Her tight-knit blue-collar Pennsylvania neighborhood, where children roam the streets at night playing lightning tag, aboveground pools sparkle in backyards, and flowers scent the air, will never be the same. Down the street from Vicki’s house, another family is in crisis. Troubled by her past, headstrong Natalia Kisch has abandoned her husband and two daughters for another man. Frank Kisch, grappling with his anger, is left to raise their girls alone, oblivious to his daughters’ struggles with both disappearances: Eva, seventeen, plunges into an affair with her married high school teacher, and nine-year-old Sissy escapes to a world of imagination and storytelling that becomes so magical it pierces the reality of the everyday. When Natalia unexpectedly returns, the struggles and tensions that have built over the summer erupt into a series of events that change the Kisches irrevocably—forcing them to piece together their complicated pasts and commitments to each other. In this haunting, atmospheric debut, Sandra Novack examines loss, loyalty, and a family in crisis. Lyrical and elegiac, Precious illuminates our attempts to make sense of the volatility that surrounds and consumes us, and explores our ability, even during the most trying times, to remember and hold on to those we love most.

Author : Mairi Hedderwick
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Architecture
ISBN : STANFORD:36105020834409

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Highland Journey by Mairi Hedderwick Pdf

Following the success of an Eye on the Hebrides, Mairi Hedderwick was urged to embark on further travels. It was no easy task. A new journey, with its inherent deprivations and discomforts, could not be done to order. It had to be a compulsion - an inspiration.

Author : Roger Wendlick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Book collectors
ISBN : STANFORD:36105133334701

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Shotgun on My Chest by Roger Wendlick Pdf

Author : Tom Hodgkinson
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2007-06-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780141928548

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How to be Idle by Tom Hodgkinson Pdf

How to be Idle is Tom Hodgkinson's entertaining guide to reclaiming your right to be idle. As Oscar Wilde said, doing nothing is hard work. The Protestant work ethic has most of us in its thrall, and the idlers of this world have the odds stacked against them. But here, at last, is a book that can help. From Tom Hodgkinson, editor of the Idler, comes How to be Idle, an antidote to the work-obsessed culture which puts so many obstacles between ourselves and our dreams. Hodgkinson presents us with a laid-back argument for a new contract between routine and chaos, an argument for experiencing life to the full and living in the moment. Ranging across a host of issues that may affect the modern idler - sleep, the world of work, pleasure and hedonism, relationships, bohemian living, revolution - he draws on the writings of such well-known apologists for idleness as Dr Johnson, Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson and Nietzsche. His message is clear: take control of your life and reclaim your right to be idle. 'Well written, funny and with a scholarly knowledge of the literature of laziness, it is both a book to be enjoyed at leisure and to change lives' Sunday Times 'In his life and in this book the author is 100 per cent on the side of the angels' Literary Review 'The book is so stuffed with wisdom and so stuffed with good jokes that I raced through it like a speed freak' Independent on Sunday Tom Hodgkinson is the founder and editor of The Idler and the author of How to be Idle, How to be Free, The Idle Parent and Brave Old World. In spring 2011 he founded The Idler Academy in London, a bookshop, coffeehouse and cultural centre which hosts literary events and offers courses in academic and practical subjects - from Latin to embroidery. Its motto is 'Liberty through Education'. Find out more at www.idler.co.uk.

Author : Trisha Ray
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1489512349

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Meanwhile Back in Los Ranchos by Trisha Ray Pdf

Travel...when all goes smoothly, countries are delightful and everyone gets along-this is its own reward. But the best stories come from the times when things don't go according to plan. This book is filled with those stories. Finding an ear for dinner, being arrested for reckless parking, rogues and revolutions. These are the episodes that make for good stories, at least after the fact. And then-home to Los Ranchos, New Mexico. Trisha weaves a colorful tale of travel, living abroad and international mishaps, lavishly illustrated with over 600 vibrant watercolors and photographs. And along the way, makes a delightfully unexpected discovery.

Author : John Wyndham
Publisher : Rosetta Books
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780795312113

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The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham Pdf

The classic postapocalyptic thriller with “all the reality of a vividly realized nightmare” (The Times, London). Triffids are odd, interesting little plants that grow in everyone’s garden. Triffids are no more than mere curiosities—until an event occurs that alters human life forever. What seems to be a spectacular meteor shower turns into a bizarre, green inferno that blinds everyone and renders humankind helpless. What follows is even stranger: spores from the inferno cause the triffids to suddenly take on a life of their own. They become large, crawling vegetation, with the ability to uproot and roam about the country, attacking humans and inflicting pain and agony. William Masen somehow managed to escape being blinded in the inferno, and now after leaving the hospital, he is one of the few survivors who can see. And he may be the only one who can save his species from chaos and eventual extinction . . . With more than a million copies sold, The Day of the Triffids is a landmark of speculative fiction, and “an outstanding and entertaining novel” (Library Journal). “A thoroughly English apocalypse, it rivals H. G. Wells in conveying how the everyday invaded by the alien would feel. No wonder Stephen King admires Wyndham so much.” —Ramsey Campbell, author of The Overnight “One of my all-time favorite novels. It’s absolutely convincing, full of little telling details, and that sweet, warm sensation of horror and mystery.” —Joe R. Lansdale, author of Edge of Dark Water

Author : Susanna Moodie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1852
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN : PRNC:32101068585205

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Roughing it in the Bush by Susanna Moodie Pdf

Author : Isabel Gillies
Publisher : Harper Wave
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0062654160

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Cozy by Isabel Gillies Pdf

The New York Times bestselling author of Happens Every Day, Isabel Gillies, presents a fresh and inspiring look at the subtle art of cozy--part manifesto, part lifestyle guide, part memoir--that shows fans of The Little Book of Hygge that true comfort comes from within. When we talk about being cozy, most of us think of a favorite sweater or a steaming cup of tea on a rainy day. But to Isabel Gillies, coziness goes beyond mere objects. To be truly cozy, she argues, means learning to identify the innermost truth of yourself and carrying it into the world, no matter your environment. Starting when she was young, Gillies has gradually learned the art and subtle beauty of creating a life where you feel safe, steadied, and at home in the world. From old family recipes and subway rides to jury duty and hospital stays, in Cozy Gillies shows readers that true ease stems not with throw pillows and a candle, but from opportunities to feel that we are part of something bigger than ourselves, and learn to make ourselves at home no matter where we are. Simple choices can make a hectic life or an uncomfortable situation just a little more comfortable--you just have to know what to do. Just as Marie Kondo offered a philosophy for how to tidy, Gillies offers a new way of occupying the spaces we live in. Starting with yourself, then broadening to your home, your community, and the world at large, Cozy will show you how to bring the truth of who you are into any situation, easy or challenging. As Gillies says, "Cozy isn't something that just exists. You have to make cozy happen." Written with profound warmth and featuring hand-drawn illustrations, this wise, necessary book is call to action for each of us to seek out those often-missed opportunities to care for ourselves, and to begin living a more intimate and authentic life. --New York Times Book Review