Download or read book The Adventures of William Walkingstick written by Brennan Pope and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2007-09 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Walkingstick stumbles upon a magical land that includes an enchanted forest, woodsmen, and faeries. The first person he meets is a gentle giant, Eril, who wants to introduce him to his town. But instead of fellow giants, he points to his hat, which William discovers includes a miniature community. Eril explains that the hat town's "bitties" make tasty treats called doppums, and there are some other giants with such hats, too. These giants protect the bitties and help them see the world--enjoying the doppums in return. But the giants and bitties must always be on the lookout for Egad the Terrible, who steals hat towns so he can sell the doppums at his own market. William cannot stand by without doing anything: He seeks to rescue the hat towns that have been stolen. With a little help from Eril, a lion-hearted bittie, a wayward faerie, and other new friends, William seeks to overcome his fears. He'll need to discover the true meaning of bravery to have any chance of saving the bitties.
Download or read book The Magic Walking Stick by John Buchan Delphi Classics Illustrated written by John Buchan and published by Delphi Classics. This book was released on 2017-07-17 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘The Magic Walking-Stick by John Buchan - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Complete Works of John Buchan’. Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. The Delphi Classics edition of Buchan includes original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of the author, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily. eBook features: * The complete unabridged text of ‘The Magic Walking-Stick by John Buchan - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)’ * Beautifully illustrated with images related to Buchan’s works * Individual contents table, allowing easy navigation around the eBook * Excellent formatting of the textPlease visit www.delphiclassics.com to learn more about our wide range of titles
Download or read book William Wordsworth s Walking Sticks written by and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Wordsworth's walking sticks: One is of lengthened shape, thin and elegant with a single hole through the top of the stem, but still solid. The second walking stick has a curved handle. At the top of the stick is a brass plate bearing an inscription recording that the stick was a gift from Charles M. Leupp to William Wordsworth. The wood from the stick came from the Niagara Falls area.
Download or read book The Walking Stick written by Caiden Dedrick and published by Caiden Dedrick. This book was released on 2021-07-04 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Walking Stick, is based on a stickman going through different scenarios or action events.
Download or read book The Walking Stick Adventure written by Janice Hord and published by Word Wright International. This book was released on 2007-09-01 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers of this text join the author and her grandchildren as they explore the world around them.
Download or read book Listening for Coyote written by William L Sullivan and published by Navillus Press. This book was released on 2023-04-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this classic adventure memoir, Sullivan sets out to discover the spirit of the wilderness by backpacking 1361 miles across Oregon, traversing four mountain ranges and eighteen Wilderness Areas. Along the way he is held at gunpoint by a marijuana grower, poisons himself with mushrooms, and hikes forty miles a day through Hells Canyon trying to outrun October snowstorms. His insightful journal has been chosen one of Oregon's "100 Books" by the Oregon Cultural Heritage Commission.
Download or read book Redrawing Anthropology written by Tim Ingold and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why should anthropologists draw? The answer proposed in this groundbreaking volume is that drawing uniquely brings together ways of making, observing and describing. In twelve chapters, a team of authors from the UK, Europe, North America and Australia explore the potential of a graphic anthropology to change the way we think about creativity and perception, to grasp the dynamics of improvisatory practice, and to refocus the study of material culture from ready-made objects onto the flows of materials involved in the generation of things. Drawing on expertise in fields ranging from craftwork, martial arts, and dance to observational cinema and experimental film, they ask what it means to follow materials, to learn movements and to draw lines. Along the way, they contribute to key debates on what happens in making, the relation between design and performance, how people acquire bodily skills, the place of movement in human self-awareness, the relation between walking and imagination, and the perception of time. This book will appeal not just to social, cultural and visual anthropologists but to archaeologists and students of material culture, as well as to scholars across the arts, humanities and social sciences with interests in perception, creativity and material culture.
Download or read book The Secret Life of Things written by Mark Blackwell and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection enriches and complicates the history of prose fiction between Richardson and Fielding at mid-century and Austen at the turn of the century by focusing on it-narratives, a once popular form largely forgotten by readers and critics alike. The volume also advances important work on eighteenth-century consumer culture and the theory of things. The essays that comprise The Secret Life of Things thus bring new texts, and new ways of thinking about familiar ones, to our notice. Those essays range from the role of it-narratives in period debates about copyright to their complex relationship with object-riddled sentimental fictions, from anti-semitism in Chrysal to jingoistic imperialism in The Adventures of a Rupee, from the it-narrative as a variety of whore's biography to a consideration of its contributions to an emergent middle-class ideology.
Download or read book The Walking Stick Chronicles written by Bobby Banaitis and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-06-03 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join Zoey, on a Sunday night in Maine, as she gets to pick a medallion from her father's walking stick for story time. Geared toward young readers of early chapter books, "The Walking Stick Chronicles" mixes life lessons with adventures and engages young readers with amazing tales. At the end of each story, the reader can complete the Walking Stick Adventure Challenge to really feel involved. Your little one will soon be yearning to get away from the distractions of the modern world and go on Walking Stick Adventures of his or her own.
Download or read book The Adventure of the Twisted Truths written by Cole Phillips and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2024-02-28 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has been five years since the feared serial killer known as the Grand Reaper stalked the streets of the city of Lundon, the greatest metropolitan city in the world of Tera, five years since a cabal within the Lundon government and Lord Supreme Judge Questus Darkclaw covered up a shocking truth about the shadowy killer. But when young law student William Tudor is made the scapegoat in the murder of an investigative journalist, Professor Hershel Pendragon realizes he needs to solve the Grand Reaper case once and for all. Enlisting the aid of renowned private detective Francis Foresight, the professor flies to the City of Mandar. His mission is to hunt for clues about a mysterious individual known as the Dragon Lord whom the professor believes holds the key to solving the mystery. Back in Lundon, William is making a name for himself as he fights in court to uncover the secrets of the Grand Reaper. But there are those in power who do not wish for the truth to be revealed, and they will stop at nothing to silence their foes. Forged evidence, hired assassins, and a corrupt Ministry of Justice are just a few of the roadblocks Will faces. In order to survive, Will must rely on the help of his friends: the loyal Emily May, the sharp-shooting Robert of Locksley, and a strange individual named Vigilant Justice, whose face and origins are shrouded in mystery by the mask he always wears. But will their help be enough to unravel the government's twisted truths? Or will agents of death silence them first?
Download or read book A Walk in the Woods written by Bill Bryson and published by Anchor Canada. This book was released on 2012-05-15 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: God only knows what possessed Bill Bryson, a reluctant adventurer if ever there was one, to undertake a gruelling hike along the world's longest continuous footpath—The Appalachian Trail. The 2,000-plus-mile trail winds through 14 states, stretching along the east coast of the United States, from Georgia to Maine. It snakes through some of the wildest and most spectacular landscapes in North America, as well as through some of its most poverty-stricken and primitive backwoods areas. With his offbeat sensibility, his eye for the absurd, and his laugh-out-loud sense of humour, Bryson recounts his confrontations with nature at its most uncompromising over his five-month journey. An instant classic, riotously funny, A Walk in the Woods will add a whole new audience to the legions of Bill Bryson fans.
Download or read book Young Wings written by and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Life and Adventures of William Buckley written by William Buckley and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2017-10-02 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Flannery has done us a service first by reissuing the story of a fascinating adventure from 200 years ago, and then by setting these events in perspective with his lucid introduction.’ Canberra Times ‘At 2.00 pm on Sunday, 6 July 1835, a giant of a man shambled into the camp left by John Batman at Indented Head near Geelong...’ In 1803 the convict William Buckley, a former soldier, escaped from the first official settlement in Victoria, near Sorrento on Port Phillip Bay. For three decades the ‘wild white man’ lived with Aborigines around the bay, before giving himself up in 1835. First published in 1852, The Life and Adventures of William Buckley is the ultimate survival story of early Australia and provides an extraordinary insight into pre-contact indigenous society. Tim Flannery has published over thirty books, including the award-winning The Future Eaters, The Weather Makers and Here on Earth and the novel The Mystery of the Venus Island Fetish. In 2005 he was named Australian Humanist of the Year and in 2007 Australian of the Year. In 2007 he co-founded and was appointed Chair of the Copenhagen Climate Council. In 2011 he became Australia’s Chief Climate Commissioner, and in 2013 he founded the Australian Climate Council. ‘This account, in Buckley’s words...has all the elements of a Boy’s Own yarn: convicts, savages, privations, wars, cannibalism, survival, treachery and the founding of a colony.’ Herald Sun
Download or read book Hiking with Hitler written by Director Governance and Institutional Development Division Max Everest-Phillips and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-01-20 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book written on the miniature art of the walking stick badge (Stocknagel). The origins of these souvenirs stretch back to medieval pilgrimages in Germany, when hiking had expressed piety, patriotism and freedom. After Adolf Hitler's rise to power in 1933, however, leisure activities were subverted by the totalitarian dictatorship. The simple pleasures of sauntering along the street, strolling through the countryside or rambling in the hills - were swept up in the Nazi Party's doctrine of violence and racial hatred. Under the Third Reich, the walking stick became a weapon of terror. Walking stick badges glorified the F�hrer and, during the Second World War, commemorated the 'Greater German Empire.' In this lavishly illustrated study, the author weaves together history, politics, art, tourism and hiking to provide the definitive Collector's Guide to these unusual mementos from the Nazi era. In so doing, this book firmly establishes 'Stocknagology', the study of walking stick badges, as a fascinating hobby in its own right. 'Hiking with Hitler' has three aims. First, it steps out at a quick pace by suggesting that walking is not just a functional activity. It can also be a political act, reflected by politics taking much of its imagery - in steps, footing, pace and direction - from walking. Indeed a walk resembles political ambition: setting off in the spirit of high ideals or foolhardy adventure, early hopes get blunted by wrong turns and boggy ground, the struggle seems up an interminably winding hill. Then suddenly the effort is rewarded by the elation of success in finally reaching a long cherished destination, or confronts the despondency of fog engulfing the peak. Hiking as a metaphor for political struggle was a theme in the Third Reich. In the upheavals triggered in Germany by World War I, the walking stick became a weapon of political violence and so ceased to be a symbol of gentility (one reason for its rapid decline as a social status symbol, rather than simply a physical aid for mobility, after the World War II). The second objective is to provide the collector with a leisurely ramble through the walking stick badges produced during the Third Reich (1933-1945). This detailed guide outlines their intrinsic interest and current commercial value (as of 2017), according to rarity and historical importance. And thirdly, 'Nazi nagels' are presented in the broader context of 'Stocknagology.' This is the study of walking stick badges ('Stockn�gel' in German). It links history and hiking, placing walking stick badges in the political, social and economic context of their time. It examines the significance of walking and tourism not only in the leisure activity of individual walkers, but also in the collective experience of reinterpreting the political myths about the significance of the sites they visit. The choice of destination and the fantasies of leisure crudely or subtly reinforce political messages and imaginary identities. This is especially significant under a totalitarian regime where the distinctions between private life, work, and politics disappear. Stockn�gel may, at first sight, seem a rather trivial form of propaganda, insignificant in the success of the Nazi Party, marginal in the F�hrer-cult around Adolf Hitler as the saviour of the German nation. Stockn�gel, however, deepen our understanding of how state-building happens literally step by step when hiking and tourism are politicised. Walking stick badges from the Nazi period are shown by this book to be silent witnesses to how a dictatorship can subject leisure to political ends.
Download or read book Readers Guide to Periodical Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 1934 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book William Faulkner written by André Bleikasten and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Accessible . . . Engaging . . . May well be our fullest account to date of what Bleikasten calls Faulkner’s ‘energy for life’ and ‘will to write.’” —Theresa Towner, author of The Cambridge Introduction to William Faulkner Writing to American poet Malcolm Cowley in 1949, William Faulkner expressed his wish to be known only through his books—but his wish would not come true. He would go on to win the Nobel Prize for literature several months later, and when he died famous in 1962, his biographers immediately began to unveil and dissect the unhappy life of “the little man from Mississippi.” Despite the many works published about Faulkner, his life and career, it still remains a mystery how a poet of minor symbolist poems rooted in the history of the Deep South became one of the greatest novelists of the twentieth century. Here, renowned critic André Bleikasten revisits Faulkner’s biography through the author’s literary imagination. Weaving together correspondence and archival research with the graceful literary analysis for which he is known, Bleikasten presents a multi-strand account of Faulkner’s life in writing. By carefully keeping both the biographical and imaginative lives in hand, Bleikasten teases out threads that carry the reader through the major events in Faulkner’s life, emphasizing those circumstances that mattered most to his writing: the weight of his multi-generational family history in the South; the formation of his oppositional temperament provoked by a resistance to Southern bourgeois propriety; his creative and sexual restlessness and uncertainty; his lifelong struggle with finances and alcohol; his paradoxical escape to the bondages of Hollywood; and his final bent toward self-destruction. This is the story of the man who wrote timeless works and lived in and through his novels.
Download or read book A Walk on the Sunny Side written by William Clark and published by LifeRich Publishing. This book was released on 2021-04-01 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A brilliant collection of assorted short stories, written as only William Clark can do! Thought-provoking and intriguing. I could not wait to read the next page! I highly recommend...it speaks to the heart." Joy Charlene Henley, author "This collection of short stories is a genuine treasury of writing wisdom that will enrich anyone who reads them. William Clark is a talented writer with a heart for God." Pastor Gerald Derreberry
