Download or read book Highway Odyssey written by Alexander Flint and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2011-02 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It started with a man, his seven-year-old son, and their custom van. Their task was simple: drive from New York to Colorado, keeping an eye out for adventure. But unbeknownst to Alexander Flint, that first summer in 1978 would start a tradition that lasted for more than two decadesand brought him to a whole new understanding of his own identity and the world around him. Highway Odyssey is Flints chronicle of those remarkable road trips, filled with the unique characters, significant sights and important moments along the way. Its treacherous at times, as when father and son backpack across the snowfields of the Grand Tetons, climbing over a closed mountain pass on to Hurricane Pass and down into the Alaskan Basin. The trek made Flints son eligible for a Guinness record, and brought them closer than ever. And in the end, what was supposed to be a short visit with old friends turned into an understanding of Flints role and responsibility as a single parent struggling with the failure of his marriage. The ultimate road trip novel, Highway Odyssey is about the healing power of travel and the unyielding strength of family bonds. And it is about discovering what really matters in life and making sure we tell the ones we love how important they are.
Download or read book Wooing a Harsh Mistress written by John L. Haley and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Public Roads written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Route of Parmenides written by Alexander P.D. Mourelatos and published by Parmenides Publishing. This book was released on 2008-05-12 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mourelatos' study of the fragments of Parmenides' poem combines traditional philological reconstruction with the approaches of literary criticism and philosophical analysis in order to reveal the thought structure and expressive unity of the best preserved and most important, influential, and coherent text of Greek philosophy before Plato. Through philosophical, philological, and literary analysis, Mourelatos examines the morphology of images and metaphors in Parmenides' text with the aim of articulating and interpreting the poem's key concepts and component arguments. Relevant antecedents and parallels from the tradition of epic poetry, especially from Homer's Odyssey, are explored in depth.
Download or read book Odyssey s End written by Matt Coyle and published by Oceanview Publishing. This book was released on 2023-11-14 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brain disease worsening, Rick Cahill risks everything—even his life—to provide for his fractured family's future San Diego private investigator Rick Cahill's past comes back to haunt him when he's at his most vulnerable. His wife, Leah, has fled with their daughter, Krista, to her parents' home in Santa Barbara. She fears Rick's violent outbursts brought on by his potentially fatal brain disorder, CTE—and she doesn't trust that he'll ever be able to tame his manic desire to bring his own brand of justice to an unjust world. Rick desperately wants to reunite his family and help provide for Krista's future—one he fears he won't be alive to see. A jumpstart toward that future appears in the form of Peter Stone, Rick's longtime enemy. Stone offers Rick $50,000 to find a woman he claims can save his life with a kidney transplant. Rick can't pass up the chance to buttress Krista's future. When what seems like a simple missing person case spirals out of control into cryptocurrency machinations, dead bodies, and an outgunned faceoff, Rick is forced to battle evil from his past. Can he stay alive long enough to see his family one last time? Perfect for fans of Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch and Lee Child's Jack Reacher While all of the novels in the Rick Cahill PI Crime Series stand on their own and can be read in any order, the publication sequence is: Yesterday's Echo Night Tremors Dark Fissures Blood Truth Wrong Light Lost Tomorrows Blind Vigil Last Redemption Doomed Legacy Odyssey's End
Download or read book 83 Odyssey written by Charles Roamer and published by . This book was released on 2024-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seasoned road trip enthusiast Charles Roamer takes readers on a journey down a fascinating-though not well-known-largely two-lane highway that runs from the Canadian border near Westhope, North Dakota, to the Mexican border in Brownsville, Texas, which he drove in his 2006 Toyota Corolla. Share the author's quirky adventures and discover what he learned about the varied terrain, towns, and people he encountered in America's deep hinterland-a region he found to have much more beauty, diversity, and attractions than commonly perceived. Besides U.S. 83, learn about other roads in the pre-interstate U.S. Highway system that's approaching its one-hundredth anniversary. This is a travel story that may inspire many readers to make a similar journey, or will engage those who are content to be armchair travelers.
Download or read book Curves on the Highway written by Gerry Davis and published by Roberts Rinehart. This book was released on 2002-02-11 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the woman who has always had the urge to embark on a lengthy cross-country journey by herself, Curves on the Highway is both an inspirational guide and a practical how-to book. Gerry Davis offers advice for women travelers on everything from how to deal with auto mechanics to pointers on packing sensibly. The all-important issue of security weaves throughout chapters on trip planning, insurance, and choosing a hotel.
Download or read book Science and Technology in Homeric Epics written by S. A. Paipetis and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-10-22 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Homeric Epics, important references to specific autonomous systems and mechanisms of very advanced technology, such as automata and artificial intelligence, as well as to almost modern methods of design and production are included. Even if those features of Homeric science were just poetic concepts (which on many occasions does not explain the astonishing details of design and manufacture, like the ones included in the present volume), they seem to prove that these achievements were well within human capability. In addition, the substantial development of machine theory during the early post-Homeric age shows that the Homeric descriptions were a kind of prophetic conception of these machines, and scientific research must be a quest for the fundamental principles of knowledge available during the Late Bronze Age and the dawn of the Iron Age. Such investigations must of necessity be strongly interdisciplinary and also proceed continuously in time, since, as science progresses, new elements of knowledge are discovered in the Homeric Epics, amenable to scientific analysis. This book brings together papers presented at the international symposium Science and Technology in Homeric Epics, which took place at Ancient Olympia in 2006. It includes a total of 41 contributions, mostly original research papers, covering diverse fields of science and technology, in the modern sense of these words.
Download or read book Federal Highway Administration Office of Motor Carriers Register written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 908 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Federal Highway Administration Office of Motor Carrier and Highway Safety register written by United States. Office of Motor Carrier and Highway Safety and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Trans Canada Road Odyssey written by Abbas Tyabji and published by Partridge Publishing. This book was released on 2015-08-13 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why in heaven's name Canada?" I asked my son with shock and disappointment when he gave us the news that he and his family had planned to migrate to that country, from Dubai where he was based at the time. "Dubai is saturated and things are not as rosy as they were in the earlier days," he replied and sealed his and our fate!!! In the early days it seemed to us, based in Hyderabad, India that he had gone to another planet. But then my wife told me to look at the brighter side---- perhaps one day, we could visit them and I could take pictures of Canada for a book or photo feature on that country as I had done in the Middle East.
Download or read book Roads from the Ashes written by Megan Edwards and published by Trilogy Publications. This book was released on 1999-05 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author writes about her experiences traveling the U.S in a custom-built, four-wheel-drive motorhome.
Download or read book To Live s to Fly written by John Kruth and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At last, the authorized biography of Townes Van Zandt (1944-1997), who wrote such unforgettable songs as “Pancho & Lefty” and “If I Needed You.” Born to a wealthy oil family in Ft. Worth, Texas, hounded by alcoholism and depression, Van Zandt pursued a nomadic existence following his muse, whatever the cost to himself, friends, and relatives. Based on exclusive interviews with those close to Van Zandt, including his best friend Guy Clark and colleagues like Steve Earle and John Prine, To Live's to Fly captures all the humor, hijinks, poetry, and heartbreak of this revered, genuinely outlaw country artist.
Download or read book The Highway Kind Tales of Fast Cars Desperate Drivers and Dark Roads written by Patrick Millikin and published by Mulholland Books. This book was released on 2016-10-18 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thrilling crime stories about cars, driving, and the road from the world's bestselling and critically acclaimed writers. Like fiction, cars take us into a different world: from the tony enclaves of upper crust society to the lowliest barrio; from muscle car-driving con men to hardscrabble kids on the road during the Great Depression; from a psychotic traveling salesman to a Mexican drug lord who drives a tricked-out VW Bus. We all share the roads, and our cars link us together. Including entirely new stories from Michael Connelly, C.J. Box, George Pelecanos, Diana Gabaldon, James Sallis, Ace Atkins, Luis Alberto Urrea, Sara Gran, Ben H. Winters, and Joe Lansdale, THE HIGHWAY KIND is a street-level look at modern America, as seen through one of its national obsessions.
Download or read book Route 66 written by Jim Hinckley and published by Voyageur Press (MN). This book was released on 2017-04 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A virtual roadtrip through the highway's legends, stories, people, and funky businesses that are the essence of the Route 66 experience"--
Download or read book The Highway Engineer written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Odyssey Of The Open Road written by Nelson H Grau and published by . This book was released on 2024-02-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are times in this life when a near-death experience causes a person to pause and look back over the years, to consider the moments that have meant the most in this life. For the author, these were the years spent answering the sirens-call to a life on the road, of leaving hearth-and-home to live out of a big rig and become part of the fabric of the trucking culture of this great land. Follow the author down the highways and byways of our country as he attempts to explain the unexplainable: just what it is that motivates a person to sell-out to a life spent in perpetual motion; to the never-ending pursuit of the white line as the years roll away beneath their wheels. Of grizzled veterans who have sold-out to the life amidst the loss of so much on the home front. Of a man who possesses two homes, his truck and a sailboat, who lives the life of a virtual hermit-in-plain-sight. Read of a man with the means to pursue any life he may desire yet has chosen to chase a fading sunset into the western sky in a dressed-out Western Star. There are the tales of storms fought, of danger survived, and the never-ending pursuit of the revenue necessary to keep the wheels in motion. But so much more than any of this, is the encounter each of these road-warriors has with the mistress called the highway. Of the sirens-call she sends out to the chosen few that will pull them away from a staid existence; from a warm bed, a steady nine-to-five, and a life that is predictable to an extreme these men and women find they can no longer abide. Come along for the ride, it will be worth your time. And listen if you will for the call-of-the-road. She might just be speaking your name!
