Wild Stories

Author : Colin Thompson
Publisher : Random House Australia
ISBN 13 : 1864718269
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wild Stories written by Colin Thompson and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2010 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colin Thompson's acclaimed stories of the lives of the inhabitants of one particular garden are now in one new illustrated collection.

Author : Men's Journal Editors
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307422704
Total Pages : 610 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wild Stories written by Men's Journal Editors and published by Crown. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the past decade, Men’s Journal has set the standard for travel and adventure writing by publishing the work of America’s finest authors and literary journalists. Wild Stories collects thirty-two of the best pieces to appear in the magazine, written by its most esteemed contributors, including Jim Harrison, Sebastian Junger, P. J. O’Rourke, Rick Bass, Thomas McGuane, George Plimpton, Hampton Sides, Doug Stanton, Tim Cahill, and Mark Bowden. Each of the four chapters in Wild Stories showcases Men’s Journal’s diversity and taut storytelling power. “The Adventures” is a series of razor-sharp travel narratives, from a road trip across India on the perilous Grand Trunk Road to a search for grizzlies in Romania. “The Sporting Life” is a look into obscure corners of the sports world, where golf’s bush-league wannabes try to make it to the PGA and a group of cyclists out-suffer one another in pursuit of the mythic Hour Record. “Men’s Lives” includes profiles of singular adventurers such as Yvon Chouinard and Ned Gillette, and captures the rewards of such quintessentially male traditions as building a cabin on your own plot of land. And “The Reporting” collects definitive accounts of the most newsworthy disasters, as well as riveting dispatches from war zones in Somalia, Sudan, and Colombia, and from environmental hot spots in Alaska and Montana. Commemorating Men’s Journal’s tenth anniversary, Wild Stories is a diverse and entertaining anthology that explores the magazine’s basic creed: Life is an adventure. From the first page to the last, these are stories you’ll never forget. From the Hardcover edition.

Author : Graham Nash
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0385347545
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wild Tales written by Graham Nash and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A founding member of the bands Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young and the Hollies shares the story of his life from his youth in post-war England through his creative relationship with Joni Mitchell and his career as a solo musician and political activist

Author : Clint Willis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781840183160
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wild written by Clint Willis and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wild brings together writings about men and women fighting for their lives in the wilderness, from Jon Krakauer's article on which he based his best-seller Into the Wild, to Carl R. Raswan's account of surviving raids, droughts, and sandstorms in the desert with the Bedouins. Other accounts include: Philipe Descola telling of life with an isolated tribe of headhunters; Edward Abbey on the hazards of trying to navigate the Southwest canyons; Bill Bryson describing his life-threatening adventures along the Appalachian Trail; and Sheila Nickerson on the survivors of family and friends lost to the wilderness.

Author : Hope Atwood Dayhoff
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wild Stories Written in the Wind written by Hope Atwood Dayhoff and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2023-11-23 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My business, Pictures and Poetry, has been operating since 1993. Many of my images are award winners and have been good sellers while I was able to sell them at my shows. The introduction and the "About the Author" section are very important to the fifty-two stories in my new book.

Author : Dorthe Nors
Publisher : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 : 1644451395
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wild Swims written by Dorthe Nors and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dazzling return to the short story by a finalist for the Man Booker International Prize In fourteen effervescent stories, Dorthe Nors plumbs the depths of the human heart, from desire to melancholy and everything in between. Just as she did in her English-language debut, Karate Chop, Nors slices straight to the core of the conflict in only a few pages. But Wild Swims expands the borders of her gaze, following people as they travel through Copenhagen, London, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, and elsewhere. Here are portraits of men and women full of restless longing, people who are often seeking a home but rarely finding it. A lie told during a fraught ferry ride on the North Sea becomes a wound that festers between school friends. A writer at a remote cabin befriends the mother of an ex-lover. Two friends knock doors to solicit fraudulent donations for the cancer society. A woman taken with the idea of wild swims ventures as far as the local swimming pool. These stories have already been featured in the pages of New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, Tin House, and A Public Space. They sound the darker tones of human nature and yet find the brighter chords of hope and humor as well. Cutting and offbeat without ever losing its warmth, Wild Swims is a master class in concision and restraint, and a path to living life without either. With Wild Swims Nors’s star will continue to be ascendant.

Author : Cale Atkinson
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 1368041620
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Explorers of the Wild written by Cale Atkinson and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2018-06-04 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boy and Bear both love to explore the outdoors. There are so many neat things to see, and so many strange things to find. These explorers are prepared for anything . . . except each other! When Bear and Boy meet in the woods, they're scared at first. Really scared. But soon these kings of the wild realize that no mountain is too big to conquer if you have a friend to climb it by your side. Praise for Explorers of the Wild "[An] exquisite book . . . [with] ravishing art." -- USA Today Praise for To the Sea "A whale's tale that dives deep and surfaces with useful lessons about making, keeping, and helping friends." -- Kirkus Reviews "An unusual and appealing story about friendship." -- School Library Journal

Author : Charles M. Peters
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300235526
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Managing the Wild written by Charles M. Peters and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-20 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawn from ecologist Charles M. Peters’s thirty†‘five years of fieldwork around the globe, these absorbing stories argue that the best solutions for sustainably managing tropical forests come from the people who live in them. As Peters says, “Local people know a lot about managing tropical forests, and they are much better at it than we are.” With the aim of showing policy makers, conservation advocates, and others the potential benefits of giving communities a more prominent conservation role, Peters offers readers fascinating backstories of positive forest interactions. He provides examples such as the Kenyah Dayak people of Indonesia, who manage subsistence orchards and are perhaps the world’s most gifted foresters, and communities in Mexico that sustainably harvest agave for mescal and demonstrate a near†‘heroic commitment to good practices. No forest is pristine, and Peters’s work shows that communities have been doing skillful, subtle forest management throughout the tropics for several hundred years.

Author : Rae Ann Kumelos
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781940322100
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wild Wisdom written by Rae Ann Kumelos and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-15 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robin MacArthur
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062444417
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Half Wild written by Robin MacArthur and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-08-02 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This heartbreakingly honest and authentic fiction will make you weep over, laugh at, and finally cheer for, mothers and daughters, sons and fathers, lovers and losers, and the human race in general. Half Wild is American fiction, and American literature, at its very best.”—Howard Frank Mosher, author of The Great Northern Express and Northern Borders Spanning nearly forty years, the stories in Robin MacArthur’s formidable debut give voice to the dreams, hungers, and fears of a diverse cast of Vermonters—adolescent girls, aging hippies, hardscrabble farmers, disconnected women, and solitary men. Straddling the border between civilization and the wild, they all struggle to make sense of their loneliness and longings in the stark and often isolating enclaves they call home—golden fields and white-veiled woods, dilapidated farmhouses and makeshift trailers, icy rivers and still lakes rouse the imagination, tether the heart, and inhabit the soul. In “Creek Dippers,” a teenage girl vows to escape the fate that has trapped her eccentric mother. In “God’s Country,” an elderly woman is unexpectedly reminded of a forbidden youthful passion and the chance she did not take. Returning to her childhood house when her mother falls ill, a daughter grapples with her own sense of belonging in “The Women Where I’m From.” With striking prose powerful in its clarity and purity, MacArthur effortlessly renders characters—men and women, young and old—cleaved to the fierce and beautiful land that has defined them.