Author: John Muir
Publisher: Island Press
Published: 2004-01-01
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781559636414
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"I am now writing up some notes, but when they will be ready for publication I do not know... It will be a long time before anything is arranged in book form." These words of John Muir, written in June 1912 to a friend, proved prophetic. The journals and notes to which the great naturalist and environmental figure was referring have languished, unpublished and virtually untouched, for nearly a century. Until now. Here edited and published for the first time, John Muir's travel journals from 1911-12, along with his associated correspondence, finally allow us to read in his own words the remarkable story of John Muir's last great journey. Leaving from Brooklyn, New York, in August 1911, John Muir, at the age of seventy-three and traveling alone, embarked on an eight-month, 40,000-mile voyage to South America and Africa. The 1911-12 journals and correspondence reproduced in this volume allow us to travel with him up the great Amazon, into the jungles of southern Brazil, to snowline in the Andes, through southern and central Africa to the headwaters of the Nile, and across six oceans and seas in order to reach the rare forests he had so long wished to study. Although this epic journey has received almost no attention from the many commentators on Muir's work, Muir himself considered it among the most important of his life and the fulfillment of a decades-long dream. John Muir's Last Journey provides a rare glimpse of a Muir whose interests as a naturalist, traveler, and conservationist extended well beyond the mountains of California. It also helps us to see John Muir as a different kind of hero, one whose endurance and intellectual curiosity carried him into far fields of adventure even as he aged, and as a private person and family man with genuine affections, ambitions, and fears, not just an iconic representative of American wilderness. With an introduction that sets Muir's trip in the context of his life and work, along with chapter introductions and a wealth of explanatory notes, the book adds important dimensions to our appreciation of one of America's greatest environmentalists. John Muir's Last Journey is a must reading for students and scholars of environmental history, American literature, natural history, and related fields, as well as for naturalists and armchair travelers everywhere.
Author: Udo Weigelt
Publisher: NorthSouth (NY)
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780735821552
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →All the animals in the forest must deal with the death of their old friend, the bear, when he goes to sleep and never wakes up.
Author: Felix Zandman
Publisher: Schocken
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 464
ISBN-13:
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Author: Deepika Chawla
Publisher: Axen Publishing
Published: 2023-01-28
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 9357490221
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The agenda of making this book that keep maintain with your life and our life journey. You should always be ready to achieve any milestone in life. Taking this idea forward with the support of all beautiful writers. Message to all the people living in the society from young generation to old age. I hope you like it.
Author: Bashkim Shehu
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 2007-04-17
Total Pages: 123
ISBN-13: 0810121115
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In a remote Albanian village, a place of banishment, a stranger appears, claiming to be Viktor Dragoti and looking for his long-lost love. That Viktor Dragoti has been dead for nine years, killed by the Albanian coast guard while trying to swim to freedom, only adds to the stranger's mystery--and to the suspense of this curiously real and yet otherworldly work by one of Albania's most distinguished writers. With echoes of The Return of Martin Guerre and Kafka's The Trial, with allusions to The Odyssey and the Albanian folktale of Ago Ymeri, a legendary hero released from the underworld for one day, Shehu's novel blends the autobiographical and the historical, the personal and the political into a powerful tale--a story that conveys the terrors, small and large, of a totalitarian state while capturing all that is surreal and even lyrical in life in such a deeply distorted world.
Author: Sarada Chiruvolu
Publisher:
Published: 2023-07-14
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9788183226608
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Home at Last explains specific landmarks that we encounter during the journey toward enlightenment, based on the author's direct experience. The book also lets readers know what they can expect when confronting the mysterious, awakened inner force called kundalini. It explains how our outlook and goals change radically as kundalini directs our day-to-day life. Part spiritual memoir, part meditation handbook, Chiruvolu's writings are clear and accessible yet contain profound spiritual insights covering: - The nature of prana, or vital life force; how to increase its presence in our system; and the process of transmitting pranic energy from teacher to student. - Detailed information on the important roles of diet, exercise, and training the mind in preparation for the journey of realization. - The physical and psychological challenges one can expect during the extended process of awakening. - Possible impediments to raising the energy, and how to transcend them. - How to adapt to living and working with this powerful new energy in the context of everyday life
Author: Simon Garfield
Publisher:
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780571216086
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From the author of Mauve comes a dramatic and hugely readable account of the day which saw the dawning of the railway age - and the first railway accident
Author: Harold Nicolson
Publisher: Prion (GB)
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781853753008
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