Download or read book The Texas Siberia Trail written by Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson and published by . This book was released on 2014-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Major Malcolm-Wheeler Nicholson is best remembered as the man who invented the modern comic book, founded DC Comics, and brought SUPERMAN, hero of heroes, to the public. But before all of that the Major wrote adventure tales for the great pulp magazines-and no run-of-the-mill pulp fiction was it. The Major served as a cavalry officer on the southwest border during the Mexican Revolution. While the First World War raged in Europe, he fought the Moro insurgency in the southern Philippines. Then followed his strangest assignment, conducting espionage in legendarily hostile Siberia. After the war he was stationed in Western Europe. These places became the settings for the majority of his hardboiled adventure stories. His use of authentic detail, combined with his superior storytelling ability, make his stories difficult to put down. You read one of the Major's entrancing tales-and your imagination is transported back to those real places of danger and daring! This inaugural collection of the Major's fiction includes stories set in all four of his real-life arenas, originally published in top adventure pulps: ADVENTURE, ARGOSY, THE POPULAR MAGAZINE. It is time for the Major to receive his due-as one of the great adventure writers of the pulps. Included is an introduction by Nicky Wheeler-Nicholson, the Major's granddaughter.

Download or read book Hiking to Siberia written by Lawrence Millman and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary Nonfiction. Travel Writing. In HIKING IN SIBERIA, Lawrence Millman follows the trail of a woman who once tried to walk (and row) from New York City to Siberia. He also gets a ride from an apparent ghost in Iceland and attends a feast in Micronesia where the pièce de résistance is fruit bat penis. This stylish, often very funny collection of essays affirms Millman's place among the very best living travel writers.

Download or read book Hiking and Backpacking Trails of Texas written by Mickey Little and published by Taylor Trade Publications. This book was released on 2005 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most comprehensive, map-packed guide available for Texas walkers, hikers, and backpackers.

Download or read book Old Texas Trails written by Jesse Wallace Williams and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NOTE: for book to these maps see CCF 434092, call number US/CAN 976.4 E3w.

Download or read book Hiking and Backpacking Trails of Texas written by Mickey Little and published by Butterworth-Heinemann. This book was released on 1995 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Ride the Texas Mountain Trail written by Texas. Travel and Information Division and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Hiking and Backpacking Trails of Texas written by Mildred J. Little and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Texas Trail as Followed by a Pioneer in 1882 written by Cora Belle Martin Gilland and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Lassiter on the Texas Trail written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Ride the Texas Lakes Trail written by and published by . This book was released on 1968* with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Travels in Siberia written by Ian Frazier and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2010-10-12 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Dazzling Russian travelogue from the bestselling author of Great Plains In his astonishing new work, Ian Frazier, one of our greatest and most entertaining storytellers, trains his perceptive, generous eye on Siberia, the storied expanse of Asiatic Russia whose grim renown is but one explanation among hundreds for the region's fascinating, enduring appeal. In Travels in Siberia, Frazier reveals Siberia's role in history—its science, economics, and politics—with great passion and enthusiasm, ensuring that we'll never think about it in the same way again. With great empathy and epic sweep, Frazier tells the stories of Siberia's most famous exiles, from the well-known—Dostoyevsky, Lenin (twice), Stalin (numerous times)—to the lesser known (like Natalie Lopukhin, banished by the empress for copying her dresses) to those who experienced unimaginable suffering in Siberian camps under the Soviet regime, forever immortalized by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in The Gulag Archipelago. Travels in Siberia is also a unique chronicle of Russia since the end of the Soviet Union, a personal account of adventures among Russian friends and acquaintances, and, above all, a unique, captivating, totally Frazierian take on what he calls the "amazingness" of Russia—a country that, for all its tragic history, somehow still manages to be funny. Travels in Siberia will undoubtedly take its place as one of the twenty-first century's indispensable contributions to the travel-writing genre.

Download or read book Texas Mountains Trail Region written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Ride the Texas Forest Trail written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Pinta Trail in the Texas Hill Country written by Jefferson Morgenthaler and published by . This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning in 1845, German immigrants of the Adelsverein colonization company became the first settlers to venture significantly north of San Antonio de Bexar. From their first staging ground at New Braunfels, they began plans for a second at Fredericksburg, a way station on the journey to their promised lands north of the Llano River. The best-known pathway into the frontier to the north was the Pinta Trail, said to be an ancient native trace. The trail began at San Antonio, crossed the Guadalupe River near today's Sisterdale, and ventured north at least as far as the vicinity of Fredericksburg. It remained the principal gateway to the northern German settlements until the 1850s, when its lower reaches fell into disuse in favor of a new road, known as the Fredericksburg Road. A cutoff at Boerne from the newly popular Fredericksburg Road preserved access to Sisterdale, where it connected to the upper Pinta Trail to Fredericksburg. The trail continued to be used above Sisterdale for a period of time, but a new road from Sisterdale through Luckenbach to Fredericksburg emerged and that development, along with the rise of the Fredericksburg Road, doomed the upper Pinta Trail by the 1880s. The location and destination of the Pinta Trail have not been previously understood. Significant misinformation has accumulated over the years. New historical research has brought greater clarity to the topic than was possible before. This pamphlet updates and corrects existing scholarship on the trail, adding a solid foundation of fact to accounts that have long depended on legend.

Download or read book Ride the Texas Hill Country Trail written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Route 66 written by William Kaszynski and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-05-07 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Route 66 is a fixture of American culture. For the truckers, salesmen and vacationers who have traveled it and for the people who live along it, the road is a reminder of the bygone days of American motoring. Despite time, neglect and progress, Route 66 endures. Almost all of its 2,448 miles are still intact and drivable. Travel from Chicago to Los Angeles and experience Route 66 through this richly illustrated book, with pictures of many of the historic landmarks and longtime businesses that have become roadside institutions to several generations of Route 66 travelers, plus some that are relatively unknown. Nearly all of the places shown can be visited today. The book is also a salute to those who supported the highway over the years, including Cyrus Avery, Jack Cuthbert ("Mr. 66"), Lucille Hamon and Campbell's 66 Express.