Download or read book Confessions of a Barbarian written by David Petersen and published by Big Earth Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Iconoclast, activist, philosopher, and spiritual father of the environmental movement, the author of The Monkeywrench Gang was also an avid journal keeper. Here Abbey's longtime friend David Petersen showcases the best of these journals, complete with Abbey's philosophical musings, notes, character sketches, and illustrations.
Download or read book Confessions of a Barbarian written by George Sylvester Viereck and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Confessions of a Barbarian Red Knife Valley written by Edward Abbey and published by Borgo Press. This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Confessions of a Barbarian written by Edward Abbey and published by Bower House. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few have cared more about American wilderness than the irascible Cactus Ed. Author of eco-classics such as The Monkey Wrench Gang and Desert Solitaire, Edward Abbey reveals all his rough-hewn edges and passionate beliefs in this witty, outspoken, maddening, and sometimes brilliant selection of journal entries that takes the writer from his early years as a park ranger and would-be literary author up to his death in 1989. This new edition features an interview in which Abbey speaks candidly about his own work, his approach to writing, and his writing mechanics as well. Also included is a detailed index and original sketches made by Abbey himself.
Download or read book Confessions of a Barbarian written by George Sylvester Viereck and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-05-02 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book CONFESSIONS OF A BARBARIAN written by George Sylvester 1884-1962 Viereck and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-25 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Confessions of a Barbarian written by George Sylvester Viereck and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-09-17 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In response to an unfavorable review for "Confessions of a Barbarian," George Sylvester Viereck writes to the Editor of The Independent: Sir: It is not my habit to reply to reviewers. In the twenty-five years of my young life so many vials of ink have been poured upon my innocent head that I am somewhat impervious to either praise or blame. But 1 frankly admit that I am sorry that your magazine should have been the one to print so stupidly inadequate and imbecile a notice of my "Confessions of a Barbarian," as it did in its issue of July 28. I have now published four books in two languages in three countries. I have a certain standing as a writer, as an editor and as a playwright; and it seems to me that I am entitled to criticism, not to the badinage of a schoolboy. I would not object to an unfavorable review; but I think that you as the editor, should have protected me from drivel so inane, futile and hackneyed, written presumably by some preposterous nobody. Good God! Literature in this country must be chiefly its own reward.... This book of mine happens to be the bestselling non-fiction book in New York City. It happens to have been published in two languages. This fall John Lane will bring out an edition in England. The Ambassador of the United States, Dr. David Jayne Hill, has presented a copy of the book to the Kaiser. I have touched on many serious problems. I admit that I have written brilliantly; and it has always been characteristic of dull minds to suspect brilliancy of shallowness. Most people, especially amateur critics, seem to find it impossible to understand that a man may clever without being insincere. I have been in Germany, where I have spoken to some of the most important men in the Empire. Ministers of State and Ambassadors: and I have come in touch with the genius of the land. Between the lines of my book you will find hints of diplomatic secrets and traces of intimate knowledge of things German-American.... Gertrude Atherton, who knows Germany as well as this Country, calls it "really a memorable work." And finally James Huneker, perhaps our greatest living critic. has expressed himself as follows:"The spectacle of young Viereck spanking two nations in his 'Confessions' is enough to arouse the marble bust of his once famous grandmother, Edna Viereck. at the Royal Theater. Berlin; or to stir the envy of the first and only Shavian, G. B. S... George Sylvester Viereck is the head of a long line of American Super-Boys His book is flown with the frank insolence and effervescing wine of brilliant youth... He knows, like most poets, absolutely nothing of men and women, of art or of life, and that is his chief charm.... The fires of inexperience are more creative than the slag and cinders of wisdom.... Truth has been known to pop forth from the mouths of babes." Mr. Huneker, you will notice, is also a trifle facetious; but he recognizes the serious literary quality of my book. In fact, most reviewers have treated my "Confessions of a Barbarian" extremely well. I have had much of real illuminating criticism. The Call printed what would vulgarly have been called a "roast" of this book; and its author, Courtenay Lemon was very much surprised when in return I wrote him a flattering letter and asked him to lunch with me. But I was pleased with his review because he went into the essence of my work. While I cannot agree with him, at least he developed a point of view. Your reviewer touches not even the fringes of the book. He merely nicks out one little mannerism for his dubious witticism and then has the impudence to call his abortion an honest review! .... I wish that in justice to yourself and in justice to me you would print this letter. -GEORGE SYLVESTER VIERECK, New York City.
Download or read book Confessions of a Barbarian written by George Sylvester Vierick and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-16 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book of mine happens to be the bestselling non-fiction book in New York City. It happens to have been published in two languages. This fall John Lane will bring out an edition in England. The Ambassador of the United States, Dr. David Jayne Hill, has presented a copy of the book to the Kaiser. I have touched on many serious problems. I admit that I have written brilliantly; and it has always been characteristic of dull minds to suspect brilliancy of shallowness. Most people, especially amateur critics, seem to find it impossible to understand that a man may clever without being insincere. I have been in Germany, where I have spoken to some of the most important men in the Empire. Ministers of State and Ambassadors: and I have come in touch with the genius of the land. Between the lines of my book you will find hints of diplomatic secrets and traces of intimate knowledge of things German-American.... Gertrude Atherton, who knows Germany as well as this Country, calls it "really a memorable work." And finally James Huneker, perhaps our greatest living critic. has expressed himself as follows: "The spectacle of young Viereck spanking two nations in his 'Confessions' is enough to arouse the marble bust of his once famous grandmother, Edna Viereck. at the Royal Theater. Berlin; or to stir the envy of the first and only Shavian, G. B. S... George Sylvester Viereck is the head of a long line of American Super-Boys His book is flown with the frank insolence and effervescing wine of brilliant youth... He knows, like most poets, absolutely nothing of men and women, of art or of life, and that is his chief charm.... The fires of inexperience are more creative than the slag and cinders of wisdom.... Truth has been known to pop forth from the mouths of babes."-GEORGE SYLVESTER VIERECK, New York City
Download or read book The Cambridge History of the American Novel written by Leonard Cassuto and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-24 with total page 1271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An authoritative and lively account of the development of the genre, by leading experts in the field.
Download or read book The Fool s Progress written by Edward Abbey and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1998-08-15 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry Lightcap, a man facing a terminal illness, sets out on a trip across America accompanied only by his dog, Solstice, and discovers the beauty and majesty of the Southwest.
Download or read book Abbey in America written by John A. Murray and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than twenty-five years after his death, iconic writer and nature activist Edward Abbey (1927-1989) remains an influential presence in the American environmental movement. Abbey's best known works continue to be widely read and inspire discourse on the key issues facing contemporary American society, particularly with respect to urbanization and technology. Abbey in America, published forty years after Abbey's popular novel The Monkey Wrench Gang, features an all-star list of contributors, including journalists, authors, scholars, and two of Abbey's best friends as they explore Abbey's ideas and legacy through their unique literary, personal, and scholarly perspectives.
Download or read book Barbarian Days written by William Finnegan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Autobiography** Included in President Obama’s 2016 Summer Reading List “Without a doubt, the finest surf book I’ve ever read . . . ” —The New York Times Magazine Barbarian Days is William Finnegan’s memoir of an obsession, a complex enchantment. Surfing only looks like a sport. To initiates, it is something else: a beautiful addiction, a demanding course of study, a morally dangerous pastime, a way of life. Raised in California and Hawaii, Finnegan started surfing as a child. He has chased waves all over the world, wandering for years through the South Pacific, Australia, Asia, Africa. A bookish boy, and then an excessively adventurous young man, he went on to become a distinguished writer and war reporter. Barbarian Days takes us deep into unfamiliar worlds, some of them right under our noses—off the coasts of New York and San Francisco. It immerses the reader in the edgy camaraderie of close male friendships forged in challenging waves. Finnegan shares stories of life in a whites-only gang in a tough school in Honolulu. He shows us a world turned upside down for kids and adults alike by the social upheavals of the 1960s. He details the intricacies of famous waves and his own apprenticeships to them. Youthful folly—he drops LSD while riding huge Honolua Bay, on Maui—is served up with rueful humor. As Finnegan’s travels take him ever farther afield, he discovers the picturesque simplicity of a Samoan fishing village, dissects the sexual politics of Tongan interactions with Americans and Japanese, and navigates the Indonesian black market while nearly succumbing to malaria. Throughout, he surfs, carrying readers with him on rides of harrowing, unprecedented lucidity. Barbarian Days is an old-school adventure story, an intellectual autobiography, a social history, a literary road movie, and an extraordinary exploration of the gradual mastering of an exacting, little-understood art.
Download or read book The Monkey Wrench Gang written by Edward Abbey and published by Rosetta Books. This book was released on 2011-08-19 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A motley crew of saboteurs wreaks havoc on the corporations destroying America’s Western wilderness in this “wildly funny, infinitely wise” classic (The Houston Chronicle). When George Washington Hayduke III returns home from war in the jungles of Southeast Asia, he finds the unspoiled West he once knew has been transformed. The pristine lands and waterways are being strip mined, dammed up, and paved over by greedy government hacks and their corrupt corporate coconspirators. And the manic, beer-guzzling, rabidly antisocial ex-Green Beret isn’t just getting mad. Hayduke plans to get even. Together with a radical feminist from the Bronx; a wealthy, billboard-torching libertarian MD; and a disgraced Mormon polygamist, Hayduke’s ready to stick it to the Man in the most creative ways imaginable. By the time they’re done, there won’t be a bridge left standing, a dam unblown, or a bulldozer unmolested from Arizona to Utah. Edward Abbey’s most popular novel, The Monkey Wrench Gang is an outrageous romp with ultra-serious undertones that is as relevant today as it was in the early days of the environmental movement. The author who Larry McMurtry (Lonesome Dove) once dubbed “The Thoreau of the American West” has written a true comedic classic with brains, heart, and soul that more than justifies the call from the Los Angeles Times Book Review that we should all “praise the earth for Edward Abbey!” “Mixes comedy and chaos with enough chase sequences to leave you hungering for more.”—The San Francisco Chronicle
Download or read book The Ecocentrists written by Keith Makoto Woodhouse and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disenchanted with the mainstream environmental movement, a new, more radical kind of environmental activist emerged in the 1980s. Radical environmentalists used direct action, from blockades and tree-sits to industrial sabotage, to save a wild nature that they believed to be in a state of crisis. Questioning the premises of liberal humanism, they subscribed to an ecocentric philosophy that attributed as much value to nature as to people. Although critics dismissed them as marginal, radicals posed a vital question that mainstream groups too often ignored: Is environmentalism a matter of common sense or a fundamental critique of the modern world? In The Ecocentrists, Keith Makoto Woodhouse offers a nuanced history of radical environmental thought and action in the late-twentieth-century United States. Focusing especially on the group Earth First!, Woodhouse explores how radical environmentalism responded to both postwar affluence and a growing sense of physical limits. While radicals challenged the material and philosophical basis of industrial civilization, they glossed over the ways economic inequality and social difference defined people’s different relationships to the nonhuman world. Woodhouse discusses how such views increasingly set Earth First! at odds with movements focused on social justice and examines the implications of ecocentrism’s sweeping critique of human society for the future of environmental protection. A groundbreaking intellectual history of environmental politics in the United States, The Ecocentrists is a timely study that considers humanism and individualism in an environmental age and makes a case for skepticism and doubt in environmental thought.
Download or read book Finding Abbey written by Sean Prentiss and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the great environmental writer Edward Abbey died in 1989, four of his friends buried him secretly in a hidden desert spot that no one would ever find. The final resting place of the Thoreau of the American West remains unknown and has become part of American folklore. In this book a young writer who went looking for Abbey’s grave combines an account of his quest with a creative biography of Abbey. Sean Prentiss takes readers across the country as he gathers clues from his research, travel, and interviews with some of Abbey’s closest friends—including Jack Loeffler, Ken “Seldom Seen” Sleight, David Petersen, and Doug Peacock. Along the way, Prentiss examines his own sense of rootlessness as he attempts to unravel Abbey’s complicated legacy, raising larger questions about the meaning of place and home.
Download or read book The International written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
