Download or read book Landing Uphill written by Eleanor Herz Swent and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2024-02-23 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning historian Eleanor Swent writes about going as a young bride in 1947 to a remote silver mine in Tayoltita, Mexico, landing in the mountains inland from Mazatlan, in a canyon with a tilted landing strip. Drawing primarily from letters to family and friends, she recounts the challenges and rich rewards of life in a Mexico unseen by most visitors — a Mexico of deep personal connections across cultures and generations. She weaves together her letters and later recollections, her husband’s oral history from UC-Berkeley, other first-person accounts, and historical documents to present a history of silver mining in Mexico, early Spanish settlement of California, and her own experience as a newcomer. She describes operations at the three mines where her husband works, and her visits to them: San Luis, Santa Rita, and Contra Estaca, accessible only by riding a mule for several hours. Eleanor grew up in Lead, South Dakota, home of the Homestake gold mine. Her undergraduate and graduate degrees (from Wellesley College and Denver University) did not prepare her for life in Tayoltita, where she learns to speak Spanish, ride mules, and cook on a wood stove. She also discovers opportunities to serve her new community. The Mexican women envy her because she has only two children after five years of marriage. They trust her enough to ask her for information on family planning, and their husbands thank her for providing it. Some of her new friends descended from Spanish royal minister Don Jose Antonio Delaveaga de Gurruchategui, who arrived in the Guarisamay district before 1776. They welcome Eleanor‘s help with their food distribution to local poor people. Eleanor’s mining engineer husband, Langan Swent, grew up in Tayoltita, and was called “El Niño Americano,” the American boy. He graduated from Stanford University and studied at Harvard and UC-Berkeley before serving in the Navy in the Mediterranean theater during World War II, receiving the Presidential Medal of Honor. His father was the first manager of the San Luis mine when the Hearsts bought it from descendants of Don Jose Delaveaga. Langan’s mother was the first Anglo woman to live in Tayoltita. Some of Eleanor‘s story is deeply personal. When Langan is thrown from a horse and seriously injured, she fears for his life. She gives birth to two children in Oakland, California, and one in Denver, Colorado. Each time she enters the hospital alone and sends a telegram to Mexico notifying Langan of the birth. Securing passports, residence permits, and birth certificates is another hurdle. She returns to Mexico, grateful for her beautiful company house and garden and plentiful household help. After seven years, Langan is offered a new job, and they are torn between his professional opportunity and their love of Mexico. He accepts the job and they move to Lead, South Dakota, with mixed feelings. By turns scholarly and personal, but never overly sentimental, Landing Uphill offers unique insight into historical Mexico, mining history, and Eleanor Swent’s journey from her arrival in Mexico as a bride, knowing no Spanish, to her tearful departure, speaking fluently with Mexicans who will be life-long friends.
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Download or read book Instructor Pilot Certification Test Preparation written by James Gim and published by James Gim. This book was released on 2023-12-01 with total page 615 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Instructor Pilot Certification Test Preparation" is an indispensable resource for those aspiring to become certified flight instructors (CFIs) and excel in their instructor pilot certification tests. This comprehensive ebook offers a structured and in-depth approach to help you develop the knowledge and teaching skills necessary to become a successful flight instructor. Inside this ebook, you will discover: Comprehensive Coverage: The ebook covers all the essential topics and subjects that prospective flight instructors need to master, including aerodynamics, flight maneuvers, teaching techniques, regulations, and more. It serves as a comprehensive reference guide for both new and experienced instructors. Practical Guidance: Learn effective teaching methods and strategies to convey complex aviation concepts to your future students. Understand how to tailor your instruction to meet the unique needs and learning styles of your students, ensuring their success. Sample Lessons: Access sample flight lessons, ground lessons, and teaching scenarios that can be adapted for use in your own instruction. These resources provide valuable templates to help you structure and plan your lessons effectively. Test Preparation: Prepare for the CFI certification tests with a variety of practice questions and answers designed to simulate the format and content of the actual exams. Gain the confidence you need to pass with flying colors. Tips for Success: Benefit from expert insights and tips for success in your journey to becoming a certified flight instructor. Whether you're pursuing a career in aviation instruction or aiming to share your passion for flying with others, this ebook will help you achieve your goals. "Instructor Pilot Certification Test Preparation" is your go-to guide for achieving excellence in aviation instruction. Whether you're embarking on a new career path or looking to enhance your current skills as a flight instructor, this ebook equips you with the knowledge and resources necessary to become a competent and effective CFI.
Download or read book FAA Aviation News written by and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Memoirs of My Years with IBM written by Gordon R. Williamson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2008-12-26 with total page 769 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take an anecdotal journey to more than fifty countries on six continents – read fascinating insights into the mores, customs, languages and social conditions that make these near and remote nation states so interesting, intriguing and exciting. This compilation of short narratives describing activities, events and places provide amusing, historical and cultural insights into the diverse world in which we live. The incidents recorded herein are true and comprise an important and lasting reminder of the ancillary benefits of living overseas and working for an international corporation such as IBM.
Download or read book The Complete Idiot s Guide to Barefoot Running written by Dr. Craig Richards and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enhanced running - naturally. For 30 years runners have been told that their only hope of salvation from injury is an expensive shoe - until now. The barefoot running and minimalist-footwear revolution is here and it is turning the world of running upside down. ? Offers expert advice on how to run barefoot and strengthen atrophied muscles and revitalize super-sensitive soles ? A Harvard University study made from early 2010 shows that barefoot running is better for the body and feet than running in expensive shoes
Download or read book From Jennys to Jets written by David Gilmer Towell and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Jennys to Jets takes you on an All-American adventure. Fly along with daredevil young pilots in the early days of aviation barnstorming, wingwalking, flying through massive snowstorms, landing on jungle airstrips with crocodiles and snakes. The action follows Bill Randall over a 40-year period, from 1918 to 1958. It begins as he barnstorms all over northern California with friends and his bride, Helen. The barnstorming slows in 1926 when Prohibition is in full force. To pay his bills, Bill teaches at a flight school in Oregon that turns out to have a hidden agenda. Later, Bill joins some of his friends flying planes in Howard Hughes epic World War I flying movie, Hells Angels. After the motion-picture adventure, Bill heads to Kansas City to fly the mail between Kansas City and St. Louis. Narrowly missing death in a Christmas Eve snowstorm, Bill and Helen decide to head back to California. When their marriage falls apart, Bill takes a job in Guatemala where he encounters snakes, crocodiles, and other curious creatures in the jungle. After a year, Bill is back in Los Angeles. Now he has to deal with women from an all-girls flying school, mobsters smuggling in Chinese from Mexico, and hookers in the desert. He even makes a special flight to get the famous stripper, Sally Rand, to a court appearance and back to her nightclub act on time. Although Bill was 46 years old at the beginning of World War II, he was still able to join the U.S. Army Air Corps and serve in the South Pacific. His letters home from the Pacific provide new insights into World War II. From Jennys to Jets is a fictionalized account of real-life aviator Bill Randall. Some of the action and many of the characters are purely fictional.
Download or read book My World of Aviation written by Johnn Lovaas and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a young man just out of high school, I looked to the field of aviation, and as a result experienced many things that were fun, educational and downright frightening. Here isa sampling of those experiences--some true to life and some from this aviation enthusiast's imagination. Come with me now into the skies where once only birds were able to soar.
Download or read book My Old Man and the Mountain written by Leif Whittaker and published by Mountaineers Books. This book was released on 2016-09-20 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: • A fresh perspective on a famous father and a legacy forged on the icy slopes of Mount Everest, the world’s highest peak In 1963, the world followed the first American Mount Everest Expedition, and watched as “Big Jim” Whittaker became the first American to stand on top of the world. He returned home a hero. My Old Man and the Mountain is Leif Whittaker’s engaging and humorous story of what it was like to “grow up Whittaker”—the youngest son of Jim Whittaker and Dianne Roberts, in an extended family of accomplished climbers. He shares glimpses of his upbringing and how the pressure to climb started early on. Readers learn of his first adventures with family in the Olympic Mountains and on Mount Rainier; his close yet at times competitive relationship with his brother Joss; his battle with a serious back injury; and his efforts to stand apart from his father’s legacy. With wry honesty he depicts being a recent college grad, still living in his parents’ home and trying to find a purpose in life—digging ditches, building houses, selling t-shirts to tourists—until a chance encounter leads to the opportunity to climb Everest, just like his father did. Leif heads to Nepal with all the excitement, irony, boredom, and trepidation that are part of high-altitude climbing. Well-known guides Dave Hahn and Melissa Arnot figure prominently in his story, as does “Big Jim.” But Leif’s story is not his father’s story. It’s a unique coming of age tale on the steep slopes of Everest and a climbing adventure that lights the imagination and fills an emotional human endeavor with universal meaning.
Download or read book Soaring Pilot s Manual written by Ken Stewart and published by Crowood. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Soaring Pilot's Manual advances the reader from elementary flying to confident soaring by clearly and precisely explaining the basic soaring mechanisms and techniques. Explanatory diagrams illustrate the text throughout, making a complicated subject simple to understand. Having covered the first steps, the book progresses to cross-country flying and the final section contains exercises that will be found useful for any glider pilot wishing to improve his ability and qualifications. The latest technology, such as GPS navigation and instrument systems is covered. Well illustrated with over 300 black & white line drawings.
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