Chasing Charley

Author : Mike Lauterborn
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1546267743
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chasing Charley written by Mike Lauterborn and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2018-11-07 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1960, acclaimed American author John Steinbeck (Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men) embarked on a three-month road trip around the United States with his wife’s gentleman poodle, Charley, in tow. Steinbeck’s aim was to rediscover the country he had last roamed as a young man. Ultimately, the journey would be as much about self-discovery. The resulting book, Travels with Charley, was a bestseller and is now counted among the classic American road novels. In 2003, writer Mike Lauterborn set off by van to follow Steinbeck’s path, to both learn about the author and see how America and Americans had changed in the intervening forty-plus years. Along the way, he hoped to find some of the people and places Steinbeck had encountered while taking in new sights and experiences. Travels with Charley aided Lauterborn during the planning stages of his own trip and prepared him for hardships Steinbeck had also faced, including vehicle troubles, adverse weather, solitude, and health woes. The author’s words would inspire, console, and haunt the young writer. Ultimately, the trail would lead Lauterborn to some of America’s most enduring landmarks, from broad rivers, rugged coastlines, and azure-blue volcanic lakes to barren deserts, quaint small towns, and sprawling cities. He met people from all walks of life and was struck by their common resilience, work ethic, and patriotism. In the end, however, he was most impressed by the formidable scope of the journey the ailing Steinbeck had undertaken. This book is a tribute to the author’s tireless pursuit of the noble quest.

Author : James L. Neibaur
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 081089162X
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Charley Chase Talkies written by James L. Neibaur and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charley Chase began his film career in early 1913 working as a comedian, writer, and director at the Al Christie studios under his real name, Charles Parrott. Chase then joined Mack Sennett's Keystone studio in 1914, costarring in early films of Charlie Chaplin and Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, as well as directing the frenetic Keystone Cops. By 1924 he was starring in a series of one-reel comedies at Hal Roach studios, graduating to two-reel films the following year. In 1929, he made the transition to sound films. Along with the continuing popularity of his own short comedies, Chase often directed the films of others, including several popular Three Stooges efforts. In The Charley Chase Talkies: 1929-1940, James L. Neibaur examines, film-by-film, the comedian's seventy-nine short subjects at Roach and Columbia studios. The first book to examine any portion of Chase’s filmography, this volume discusses the various methods Chase employed in his earliest sound films, his variations on common themes, his use of music, and the modification of his character as he reached the age of forty. Neibaur also acknowledges the handful of feature film appearances Chase made during this period. A filmmaker whom Time magazine once declared was receiving the most fan mail of any comedian in movies, Charley Chase remains quite popular among classic film buffs, as well as historians and scholars. A detailed look into the work of an artist whose career straddled the silent and sound eras, The Charley Chase Talkies will be appreciated by those interested in film comedy of the 1920s and 30s.

Author : John Hall
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1105098001
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chasing the Kings written by John Hall and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-09-30 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follow the rise and fall of John Hall and his quest to become King of the Mountain on Mulholland Drive.

Author : Ewan McGregor
Publisher : Sphere
ISBN 13 : 1405529091
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Long Way Round written by Ewan McGregor and published by Sphere. This book was released on 2013-04-11 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A highly readable and spiritually uplifting book about a dream come true' Wanderlust 'Touching and memorable ... one for armchair travellers and bike freaks' Daily Mail From London to New York, Ewan and Charley chased their shadows through Europe, the Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Mongolia and Russia, across the Pacific to Alaska, then down through Canada and America. But as the miles slipped beneath the tyres of their big BMWs, their troubles started. Exhaustion, injury and accidents tested their strength. Treacherous roads, unpredictable weather and turbulent politics challenged their stamina. They were chased by paparazzi in Kazakhstan, courted by men with very large guns in the Ukraine, hassled by the police, and given bulls' testicles for supper by Mongolian nomads. And yet despite all these obstacles they managed to ride more than twenty thousand miles in four months, changing their lives forever in the process. As they travelled they documented their trip, taking photographs, and writing diaries by the campfire. Long Way Round is the result of their adventures - a fascinating, frank and highly entertaining travel book about two friends riding round the world together and, against all the odds, realising their dream.

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1236 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 1236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Cruce Stark
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780870743337
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chasing Uncle Charley written by Cruce Stark and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the adventures of Mirabeau Lamar "Bo" Johnson in the post-Civil War West as he searches for his elusive "Uncle" Charlie--a former schoolteacher on the run after he mistakenly thinks he killed someone

Author : Bernard A. Drew
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317928946
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Motion Picture Series and Sequels written by Bernard A. Drew and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-04 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1989 alone, for example, there were some forty-five major motion pictures which were sequels or part of a series. The film series phenomenon crosses all genres and has been around since the silent film era. This reference guide, in alphabetical order, lists some 906 English Language motion pictures, from 1899 to 1990, when the book was initially published. A brief plot description is given for each series entry, followed by the individual film titles with corresponding years, directors and performers. Animated pictures, documentaries and concert films are not included but movies released direct to video are.

Author : Kathy Carmichael
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780786240890
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chasing Charlie written by Kathy Carmichael and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Davis Murphy, one of Dallas's most eligible bachelors, asks librarian Charlie Nelson to pretend to be his fiancée, her reaction is to run far and fast. Can he talk her into going along with his scheme?

Author : Sir William Howard Russell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pictures of Southern Life, Social, Political, and Military written by Sir William Howard Russell and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A series of letters from various places in the South dated April 30 to June 23, 1861, and written from the standpoint of an outsider. This collection, with five additional letters (three dated from Washington March 29 to April 9) has also been published with title: The civil war in America ... Boston, G.A. Fuller [1861].

Author : Joseph T. Humphrey
Publisher : Intrepid Pen Publishing, L.L.C.
ISBN 13 : 1955729026
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Branded written by Joseph T. Humphrey and published by Intrepid Pen Publishing, L.L.C.. This book was released on 2021-11-16 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry Murphy’s parents never told him he was from another realm. They couldn’t, because they have become as unaware as Henry. Everything was forgotten—memories siphoned away by the dark force that stalked them. For the last seventeen years, Henry has been living a lie. All those years of hiding have been compromised. Henry’s parents fled as refugees after stealing the location of the furnace—a source of power that would have allowed the Nekura uncontested rule over all life. But with their memories silenced, the Nekura have closed in on them unnoticed. The first warning was the screaming girl. After she broke into Henry’s high school classroom and screamed for him to run, she was hauled away and disappeared. The only friend Henry finds to help him is Charley, a strong-willed orphan girl with a fractured past. Henry is thrust into a reality he never knew existed and must fight against sinister creatures he cannot touch for reasons he doesn’t understand. What he doesn’t know can still hurt him, and it is hunting him down. Their only hope is the Light—a legendary force that bestows intangible power for those connected to it. Henry must uncover the shrouded memory of his family’s past and race to find the furnace before the Nekura tear his family apart and destroy both worlds in the process. Henry will learn the heartache of the forgotten, the joy of the reclaimed, strength beyond himself, and the unbreakable ties that bind family together.