Download or read book The Last Great Walk written by Wayne Curtis and published by Rodale. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1909, Edward Payson Weston walked from New York to San Francisco, covering around 40 miles a day and greeted by wildly cheering audiences in every city. The New York Times called it the "first bona-fide walk . . . across the American continent," and eagerly chronicled a journey in which Weston was beset by fatigue, mosquitos, vicious headwinds, and brutal heat. He was 70 years old. Using the framework of Weston’s fascinating and surprising story, journalist Wayne Curtis investigates exactly what we lost when we turned away from foot travel, and what we could potentially regain with America’s new embrace of pedestrianism. From how our brains and legs evolved to accommodate our ancient traveling needs to the way that American cities have been designed to cater to cars and discourage pedestrians, Curtis guides readers through an engaging, intelligent exploration of how something as simple as the way we get from one place to another continues to shape our health, our environment, and even our national identity. Not walking, he argues, may be one of the most radical things humans have ever done.

Download or read book The Strenuous Life written by Ryan Swanson and published by Diversion Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2019-08-20 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “It seemed as if Theodore Roosevelt’s biographers had closed the book on his life story. But Ryan Swanson has uncovered an untold chapter” (Johnny Smith, coauthor of Blood Brothers: The Fatal Friendship between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X). Crippling asthma, a frail build, and grossly myopic eyesight: these were the ailments that plagued Teddy Roosevelt as a child. In adulthood, he was diagnosed with a potentially fatal heart condition and was told never to exert himself again. Roosevelt’s body was his weakness, the one hill he could never fully conquer—and as a result he developed what would become a lifelong obsession with athletics that he carried with him into his presidency. As President of the United States, Roosevelt boxed, practiced Ju-Jitsu, played tennis nearly every day, and frequently invited athletes and teams to the White House. It was during his administration that America saw baseball’s first ever World Series; interscholastic sports began; and schools began to place an emphasis on physical education. In addition, the NCAA formed, and the United States hosted the Olympic Games for the first time. From a prize-winning historian, this book shows how Roosevelt fought desperately (and sometimes successfully) to shape American athletics in accordance with his imperialistic view of the world. It reveals that, in one way or another, we can trace our fanaticism for fitness and sports directly back to the twenty-sixth president and his relentless pursuit of “The Strenuous Life.” “Essential reading for anyone who cares about the history of sports in America.” —Michael Kazin, author of War against War: The American Fight for Peace, 1914–1918

Download or read book Connecticut Walk Book West written by Ann T. Colson and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Western Fells written by Alfred Wainwright and published by Frances Lincoln. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A. Wainwright's definitive guide to walking in the Lake District, comprehensively revised and updated.

Download or read book Argonauts of the Western Pacific written by Bronislaw Malinowski and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-11 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic text examines the extensive and complex trading system maintained by the Trobriand islanders. While the main theme is economics and social organization, the power of magic, mythology and folklore are also examined.

Download or read book Trekking Across America written by Lyell D Jr Henry and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For several decades following the end of the Civil War, the most popular sport in the United States was walking. Professional pedestrians often covered 500 miles or more for up to six grueling days and nights in pursuit of large money prizes in competitions held in big-city arenas. Walking was also a favorite amateur sport; newspapers often noted a "pedestrian mania" or "walking fever" that only began to give way in the mid-1880s to fast-rising crazes for baseball, bicycling, and roller-skating. As competitive walking faded, however, another kind of walking that had also begun in the late 1860s came to full flower. Between 1890 and 1930, hundreds of men, women, even children and entire families were on the nation's roads and railroad tracks trekking between widely separated points-frequently New York and San Francisco-and sometimes moving in unusual ways, such as on roller-skates or by walking barefooted, backwards, on stilts, or while rolling a hoop. To finance their attention-seeking journeys, many sold souvenir postcards. Although they claimed various reasons for making these treks, for most the treks clearly were a means of personal expression. The public usually found these performers entertaining, but public officials and newspaper editors often denounced them as nuisances or frauds. Tapping vintage postcards and old newspaper articles, this is the first book to bring back to view this once-familiar feature of American life. Following a prologue providing background and context, five chapters address different aspects of this trekking phenomenon. In 106 illustrations and seventy-six vignettes-some poignant, many amusing, all engaging-the book provides a fair representation of the many trekkers who moved across the country during those years. An epilogue offers some final musings about those trekking performers and their place in the annals of American popular culture"--

Download or read book The Gift of Choice written by Consuelo R. Jackson and published by TEACH Services, Inc.. This book was released on 2003 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Come to the group of islands poetically dubbed as the "Pearl of the Orient Seas," where in the early 1900s, American missionaries found fertile hearts for the Gospel seed to grow.This two-in-one book chronicles the beginning and the growth of the Adventist work in the Phillippines, focusing on the lives of Leon Z. Roda and Alfonso P. Roda, father-and-son. Read their poignant and romantic lives and find the re-enactment of the great controversy between Christ and Satan.Written in novel style, it portrays the father-and-son passion for the literary arts--music, poetry, the Scriptures, and the inspired writings of Ellen G. White. May the reader find not only comfort but entertainment and inspiration as well from its pages.

Download or read book The Western World written by Michael D Healy and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-12 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Western World is a new era conspiracy theory set in Los Angeles, California. This fast-paced thriller involves government corruption, crooked cops, organized crime, murder, and espionage. When a DEA agent uncovers mysterious payoffs from South American drug cartels to high ranking U.S. officials, will he and his family be able to expose the evidence before they are caught by the government agents and mafia operatives sent after them? Read first hand the secrets of The Western World.

Download or read book The Jane Austen Gift Set written by JANE. AUSTEN and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2024-09-03 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rifle Paper Co. x Jane Austen classics in a beautiful gift set, just in time for the holidays! Beloved regency romance author Jane Austen's three seminal classics in one gorgeous gift box, all beautifully illustrated by Rifle Paper Co.'s Anna Bond! Box includes: Pride and Prejudice, Emma, and Sense and Sensibility

Download or read book The Western Christian Advocate written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 1726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Gift for a Great Man written by Dennis Cory and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2016-07-20 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the mid Eighteen Hundreds, over a decade before the Civil War, a precious Christian Grandma was raising her orphaned grandson. They lived in a township in Northwestern Kentucky where most of the people had abolitionist leanings. She was a saintly, matriarchal woman loved and respected by everyone in the immediate area; known and revered by most of the population of the county. She was one of those great ladies of the faith who had especially endeared herself to the young people of the local church and even to those outside of the church who were friends of her grandson and his girlfriend. She was endowed by God in Jesus Christ with His love, mercy, grace and forgiveness for family friends and neighbors. One night she had a dream which was unmistakably from the Spirit of God. She was told that she and her grandson had been chosen to bless a great man at a future time. She was to keep this to herself for the time being; she was told they would both be instructed in Gods specific purpose, but also in His time. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ This Grandmother is modeled after my childrens two Grandmothers; my mother, Etta Cory, and my mother-in-law, Dorothy Shelton, who are both now resting in Heaven with our LORD. If there is anything which could be said in common about both of these great ladies, it would be to say that they prayed. They knew to pray fervently in Jesus Name and in faith believing, not allowing circumstances or even what they saw in the natural to discourage their prayers to God. Lives were changed for the better and rooted down in Jesus Christ because these women prayed and believed never giving up hope or giving place to the enemy. Their Love and Faith has caused the foundation of countless lives to be built upon the Rock of Ages.

Download or read book Walk With Me My Son written by Richard Asmet Awid and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2021-05-14 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1901, nineteen-year-old Ehmid Alley Awid Amerey moved to London, Ontario, leaving the dissolving Ottoman Empire behind. With conscription on the horizon, he fled in search of safety, adventure, and better economic prospects. So begins Richard Asmet Awid’s historical family biography on the Lebanese diaspora and the Lebanese pioneers in the Canadian prairies. While centered around Richard’s close and extended family, this book also serves as a comprehensive history on the Lebanese migration to North America over the course of 135 years. Told in accessible and engaging prose, this biography gives an intimate look into the under-represented Canadian Lebanese community and their remarkable stories.

Download or read book Harlequin Western Romance September 2016 Box Set written by Jeannie Watt and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Romance—the Western way! Harlequin Western Romance brings you a collection of four new heartwarming contemporary romances of everyday women finding love. Available now! This box set includes: THE BULL RIDER'S HOMECOMING Montana Bull Riders • by Jeannie Watt Trace Delaney doesn't make promises he can't keep. As soon as he recovers from his injury, he'll get back to bull riding, pick up and move on as he always does. But can Annie Owen and her twin daughters change his mind? SECOND CHANCE RANCHER Rocky Mountain Twins • by Patricia Thayer Laurel Quinn never forgot her first love, Kase Rawlins. When Kase returns home to Colorado, they get a second chance… not only with each other, but to complete a family for Kase's four-year-old daughter, Addy. HER TEXAS RANGER HERO Lone Star Lawmen • by Rebecca Winters Texas Ranger Luckey Davis is following a lead on a new assignment and needs the help of Dr. Allyson Duncan. Ally not only gives him answers he wasn't expecting, but he finds himself falling for the graceful professor. THE RANCHER'S WIFE Men of Raintree Ranch • by April Arrington Logan Slade is determined to bring his estranged wife, Amy, back to Raintree Ranch. But can he give her the one thing she truly wants—his heart—before she walks away for good?

Download or read book The country written by and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Western Dental Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 1042 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book History of the Genesee Country western New York written by Lockwood Richard Doty and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 1116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Etheridge Translation of the Western Peshitto written by John Wesley Etheridge and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2024-09-27 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete English translation of the Western Aramaic Peshitta text. Great for comparison with standard translations from Greek. This translation of the Four Gospels has been made directly from the Syriac. The text chiefly followed is that of Gutbir, 1664, compared with the editions of Paris, G. F. Boderiani, 1584, Walton in the London Polyglot, and Schaaf’s of 1709. The rubrics for the lessons are from Walton. The object of the translator having been to offer in English an accurate representation of these venerable eastern scriptures, the version is as literal as the structure of the two languages seems to admit. From a desire to preserve the air and manner, as well as meaning, of the original, he has retained the Syrian orthography of the proper names, and has left some of the peculiar denominatives of the gospel narrative untranslated. Such are the titles of Pharishee, the Pharisees, Zadukoyee, the Sadducees, Sophree, the Scribes, Malphona, Doctor, &c. The name of the Divine Being, ALOHA, (the ALOHA of the Hebrew revelation,) is also left unaltered. In the expression of these names the method of the Nestorians has been followed rather than that used by the Western Syrians, because in the former the pronunciation more fully accords with the orthography.