Download or read book A Kenyan Winterlude written by Lorna J. Shaw and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-02-10 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following her return to New Lancaster, Margaret Darwin marries Douglas Parker. They decide to visit Michael Parker and his family in Nairobi, Kenya on their way to Italy to study the history of the Etruscan tribes. While in Kenya, at the risk of making the book seem like a travelogue they visit the orphanage in Uganda for children victimized by the AIDS crisis which has long range implications in the plots of the succeeding books in the series.
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Download or read book Into Thin Air written by Jon Krakauer and published by Anchor. This book was released on 1998-11-12 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The epic account of the storm on the summit of Mt. Everest that claimed five lives and left countless more—including Krakauer's—in guilt-ridden disarray. "A harrowing tale of the perils of high-altitude climbing, a story of bad luck and worse judgment and of heartbreaking heroism." —PEOPLE A bank of clouds was assembling on the not-so-distant horizon, but journalist-mountaineer Jon Krakauer, standing on the summit of Mt. Everest, saw nothing that "suggested that a murderous storm was bearing down." He was wrong. By writing Into Thin Air, Krakauer may have hoped to exorcise some of his own demons and lay to rest some of the painful questions that still surround the event. He takes great pains to provide a balanced picture of the people and events he witnessed and gives due credit to the tireless and dedicated Sherpas. He also avoids blasting easy targets such as Sandy Pittman, the wealthy socialite who brought an espresso maker along on the expedition. Krakauer's highly personal inquiry into the catastrophe provides a great deal of insight into what went wrong. But for Krakauer himself, further interviews and investigations only lead him to the conclusion that his perceived failures were directly responsible for a fellow climber's death. Clearly, Krakauer remains haunted by the disaster, and although he relates a number of incidents in which he acted selflessly and even heroically, he seems unable to view those instances objectively. In the end, despite his evenhanded and even generous assessment of others' actions, he reserves a full measure of vitriol for himself. This updated trade paperback edition of Into Thin Air includes an extensive new postscript that sheds fascinating light on the acrimonious debate that flared between Krakauer and Everest guide Anatoli Boukreev in the wake of the tragedy. "I have no doubt that Boukreev's intentions were good on summit day," writes Krakauer in the postscript, dated August 1999. "What disturbs me, though, was Boukreev's refusal to acknowledge the possibility that he made even a single poor decision. Never did he indicate that perhaps it wasn't the best choice to climb without gas or go down ahead of his clients." As usual, Krakauer supports his points with dogged research and a good dose of humility. But rather than continue the heated discourse that has raged since Into Thin Air's denouncement of guide Boukreev, Krakauer's tone is conciliatory; he points most of his criticism at G. Weston De Walt, who coauthored The Climb, Boukreev's version of events. And in a touching conclusion, Krakauer recounts his last conversation with the late Boukreev, in which the two weathered climbers agreed to disagree about certain points. Krakauer had great hopes to patch things up with Boukreev, but the Russian later died in an avalanche on another Himalayan peak, Annapurna I. In 1999, Krakauer received an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters--a prestigious prize intended "to honor writers of exceptional accomplishment." According to the Academy's citation, "Krakauer combines the tenacity and courage of the finest tradition of investigative journalism with the stylish subtlety and profound insight of the born writer. His account of an ascent of Mount Everest has led to a general reevaluation of climbing and of the commercialization of what was once a romantic, solitary sport; while his account of the life and death of Christopher McCandless, who died of starvation after challenging the Alaskan wilderness, delves even more deeply and disturbingly into the fascination of nature and the devastating effects of its lure on a young and curious mind."
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Download or read book The Last Summer written by Lorna J. Shaw and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-01-28 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of Margaret Darwin, a capable self confident woman who cared for her husband during seven years as he suffered with Alzheimer's disease and an adult daughter who wass infected with .HIV After their deaths, she learns that she has ovarian cancer. Determined to see herself through to the end of her life, she leaves Toronto and her two estranged sons to go to a small town in northern Ontario where she and her husband had vacationed long ago.. In this small town she meets several characters who change her self sufficiency to a desperate need to find God and peace for her tattered soul. She has several alarming adventures as she struggles to find herself again to become whole
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Download or read book An Etruscan Spring written by Lorna J. Shaw and published by . This book was released on 2015-09-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AN ETRUSCAN SPRING is the sequel to A Kenyan Winterlude. After their adventures in Kenya and Uganda, Margaret and Douglas Parker arrive in Rome to begin a belated Italian honey moon. Margaret becomes weary after touring the city's attractions. And with a respiratory infection, she agrees to her husband's suggest ion that they drive north to Tuscany to rest at their small hotel on the beaches of the Tyrrhenian Sea. Margaret basks in the sunshine while reclining on the balcony of their room. Doug takes advantage of the time to prowl through the dusty museum at Tarquinia wheer he meets and befriends the curator, a British archaeologist, Philip Longfellow, who takes him around to various newly discovered "digs' . Margaret recovers to accompany them to an ancient Etruscan village on the steep hillside near Volterra. They wander about examining inscriptions on rocks. An earthquake occurs triggering a massive earthslide. The terrified Parkers escape by jumping into an excavation but Philip is badly injured with a complex fracture of his leg. Doug administers first-aid and lights a bonfire as twilight is near. Margaret volunteers to remain with the victim while Doug leaves to get the car to summon help. The earthslide has scraped away the soil covering a royal tomb nearby compromising the strength of the ceiling. Doug's weight collapses the ceiling and he falls into the depths of the tomb encountering demonic forces, where he calls out to Jesus to save him. A neighbouring farmer arrives attracted by the fire. His dog discovers the hole in the tomb ceiling. Theproper authorities arrive to aid Philip and to extract the unconscious Doug from the tomb with a dislocated shoulder and a broken collar bone. He is immediately transported to the hospital in Siena. Margaret joins him and learns Philip Longfellow is now at the same facility. She goes to see Philip and discovers he is a homosexual. When Doug is well enough to use a wheelchair, they go to see Philip and meet his partner a suave, wealthy tycoon in the Italian film industry, Fredrico Scalise who is very helpful to the Parkers, It is determined that Philip is exhibiting symptoms of an advanced case of AIDS. Both Parkers are tested positive for HIV. Philip is sent to a famous clinic in Paris for treatment of his condition. Fredrico also suffers the same symptoms and insists that the Parkers be treated at the clinic at his expense because of their care for his beloved Philip. April in Paris is the sequel where the Parkers become more involved with these characters and others of their acquaintance.
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