It s Jake s birthday. He is sitting in a small plane, being flown over the landscape that has been the backdrop to his life his childhood, his marriage, his work, his passions. Now he is in his early sixties, and he isn t quite the man he used to be. He
Civil War veteran Abel Truman, now elderly and disabled, endures a solitary existence in a driftwood shack on the Pacific Coast before undertaking one last hike through the Olympic Mountains, a journey during which he reflects on the war's ...
In the Wilderness is an American nature/outdoors classic by Charles Dudley Warner featuring: HOW I KILLED A BEAR and LOST IN THE WOODS.Charles Dudley Warner (September 12, 1829...
This book will appeal to those with an interest in wilderness survival and outdoors life, and it would make for a worthy addition to any collection. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive.
Max Brand is the best-known pen name of Frederick Faust, creator of Dr. Kildare, Destry, and many other fictional characters ... A great deal more about this author and his work can be found in The Max Brand Companion (Greenwood Press, ...
Reproduction of the original.
When Vala’s family is deemed a threat to society by the government, her life is dramatically shifted from that of a normal seventeen-year-old girl, to a life on the run.
Taken together, these essays revise and enhance existing work on the battle, highlighting ways in which the military and nonmilitary spheres of war intersected in the Wilderness.
In Sara's accounts Arnold always arrived via this same evocation: this big, nervous death-hunter trawling the news in the Neue Freie Presse for yet more reasons why he and his young wife needed urgently to have a child.
This book delivers on that promise.”—Amanda Quick “A beautiful tale of both romance and survival…Here is the beauty as well as the savagery of the wilderness and, at the core of it all, the compelling story of the love of a man and ...
Reproduction of the original: Away in the Wilderness by R.M Ballantyne