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Author : Rockwell Kent
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1996-07-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 0819552933
A new paperback edition of Kent's first book, often referred to as Alaska's Walden.
Author : Rockwell Kent
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1920
Category : Alaska
ISBN : UOM:39015020853233
Author : Rockwell Kent
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9798869139269
Wilderness is the first book by Rockwell Kent (1882-1971), noted American artist and illustrator. The book, in journal form, describes the experiences of Kent and his 9-year-old son while living in a simple cabin near Seward, Alaska, and surrounded by a vast, largely untouched wilderness. This Pathfinder Book Reprint Edition features the original 1920 edition of Wilderness, a 1930 Preface by the author, and is illustrated throughout with Kent's drawings.
Author : ROCKWELL. KENT
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1033014338
Author : Rockwell Kent,Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-18
Category : History
ISBN : 1377949788
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Author : Rockwell Kent
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1920
Category : Alaska
ISBN : UVA:X002649698
Author : Percy Rockwell Kent
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1920
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:314518937
Author : Rockwell Kent
Publisher : Nabu Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 129488056X
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Author : Rockwell Kent
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1527973611
Excerpt from Wilderness: A Journal of Quiet Adventure in Alaska No other of the qualities of the journal and drawings goes home to me more than the unforced authenticity of the impression set down by this strong and ardent artist. Emerson's grandeur is in finitely more convincing to me because of his homeliness, and I feel a perverse Yankee suspicion of those who deal in sublimities only. The man who can extract the whole quaint savor out of that magical, prosaic, humorous moment of human life, the first stretch ing yawn of the early morning, that man can make me believe that I too see the north wind running mightily athwart the sky. And the artist who can put into the simplest drawing of a man and a little boy eating together at a rough table in a rough cabin, all the dear solidity of family and home life, with its quiet triumph against over powering Nature, that artist can make me how my head before the sincerity of his impressive Night. The homeliness of the diary, its courageously unaffected natural ness, how it carries one out of fussy complications to a long breath of relief in the fewness and permanence of things that count! And the humor of it sometimes deliciously unintentional like the picture of the artist finishing a fine drawing, setting the beans to soak, bathing in the bread pan, and going to bed to read a chapter of Blake, sometimes intentional and shrewd like a banana - peel on a mountain - top tames that wilderness, or colds, like bad temper and loss of faith, are a malady of the city crowd sometimes outright and hearty like a child's joke, as in the amusingly faithful portrait of the pot-bellied, self-important personality of the air-tight stove! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Rockwell Kent
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 39 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780819572066
First published in 1941, A Northern Christmas is Rockwell Kent's uplifting account of the 1918 Christmas he spent with his 9-year old son in a one-room, moss-caulked log cabin on a remote Alaskan Island. Published here in its original format, with Kent's striking illustrations, this charming keepsake edition is sure to delight a new generation of readers.
Author : Rockwell 1882-1971 Kent,Dorothy Canfield 1879-1958 Fisher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 1373492201
Author : Rockwell Kent
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1996-07-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780819572073
A classic tale of seafaring, shipwreck, and survival, reprinted from Wesleyan University Press's 1978 facsimile of the original. When artist, illustrator, writer, and adventurer Rockwell Kent first published N by E in a limited edition in 1930, his account of a voyage on a 33-foot cutter from New York Harbor to the rugged shores of Greenland quickly became a collectors' item. Little wonder, for readers are immediately drawn to Kent's vivid descriptions of the experience; we share "the feeling of wind and wet and cold, of lifting seas and steep descents, of rolling over as the wind gusts hit," and the sound "of wind in the shrouds, of hard spray flung on a drum-tight canvas, of rushing water at the scuppers, of the gale shearing a tormented sea." When the ship sinks in a storm-swept fjord within 50 miles of its destination, the story turns to the stranding and subsequent rescue of the three-man crew, salvage of the vessel, and life among native Greenlanders. Magnificently illustrated by Kent's wood-block prints and narrated in his poetic and highly entertaining style, this tale of the perils of killer nor'easters, treacherous icebergs, and impenetrable fog—and the joys of sperm whales breaching or dawn unmasking a longed-for landfall—is a rare treat for old salts and landlubbers alike.
Author : Caroline Van Hemert
Publisher : Little, Brown Spark
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780316414432
For fans of Cheryl Strayed, the gripping story of a biologist's human-powered journey from the Pacific Northwest to the Arctic to rediscover her love of birds, nature, and adventure. During graduate school, as she conducted experiments on the peculiarly misshapen beaks of chickadees, ornithologist Caroline Van Hemert began to feel stifled in the isolated, sterile environment of the lab. Worried that she was losing her passion for the scientific research she once loved, she was compelled to experience wildness again, to be guided by the sounds of birds and to follow the trails of animals. In March of 2012, she and her husband set off on a 4,000-mile wilderness journey from the Pacific rainforest to the Alaskan Arctic, traveling by rowboat, ski, foot, raft, and canoe. Together, they survived harrowing dangers while also experiencing incredible moments of joy and grace -- migrating birds silhouetted against the moon, the steamy breath of caribou, and the bond that comes from sharing such experiences. A unique blend of science, adventure, and personal narrative, The Sun is a Compass explores the bounds of the physical body and the tenuousness of life in the company of the creatures who make their homes in the wildest places left in North America. Inspiring and beautifully written, this love letter to nature is a lyrical testament to the resilience of the human spirit. Winner of the 2019 Banff Mountain Book Competition: Adventure Travel
Author : Tom Kizzia
Publisher : Crown
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780307587831
Into the Wild meets Helter Skelter in this riveting true story of a modern-day homesteading family in the deepest reaches of the Alaskan wilderness—and of the chilling secrets of its maniacal, spellbinding patriarch. When Papa Pilgrim, his wife, and their fifteen children appeared in the Alaska frontier outpost of McCarthy, their new neighbors saw them as a shining example of the homespun Christian ideal. But behind the family's proud piety and beautiful old-timey music lay Pilgrim's dark past: his strange connection to the Kennedy assassination and a trail of chaos and anguish that followed him from Dallas and New Mexico. Pilgrim soon sparked a tense confrontation with the National Park Service fiercely dividing the community over where a citizen’s rights end and the government’s power begins. As the battle grew more intense, the turmoil in his brood made it increasingly difficult to tell whether his children were messianic followers or hostages in desperate need of rescue. In this powerful piece of Americana, written with uncommon grace and high drama, veteran Alaska journalist, Tom Kizzia uses his unparalleled access to capture an era-defining clash between environmentalists and pioneers ignited by a mesmerizing sociopath who held a town and a family captive.
Author : Constance Martin,Rockwell Kent,Richard V. West,Norman Rockwell Museum at Stockbridge
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520227125
his admiration for the heroic virtues of their inhabitants, and the mystical strain in his nature, his sense of wonder before the elemental and infinite. These early Monhegan paintings, with their uncompromising clarity, their concentration on the stark forms of the island, and their romantic delight in great expanses of sea, cold northern sky, and brilliant light, were among his most moving works."--Lloyd Goodrich "[We see] Kent's fascination with the wild and remote places of the earth, his admiration for the heroic virtues of their inhabitants, and the mystical strain in his nature, his sense of wonder before the elemental and infinite. These early Monhegan paintings, with their uncompromising clarity, their concentration on the stark forms of the island, and their romantic delight in great expanses of sea, cold northern sky, and brilliant light, were among his most moving works."--Lloyd Goodrich