Download or read book Beneath My Feet written by Phil Jenkins and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2009-01-13 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Mercer Dawson is a towering figure in Canadian history — and science — as the man who led the Geological Survey during its exploration of the Canadian West, mostly from horseback or from a canoe. A tough job for anyone, it was an extraordinary achievement for Dawson. Born in 1849, Dawson was crippled by a childhood illness that left him hunchbacked and in constant pain. He never grew taller than a young boy, and he never let his disabilities stop him. An avid photographer, amateur painter, professional geologist and botanist, and by necessity an ethnographer, Dawson wrote constantly: poetry, journals, reports, notes, and more than five thousand letters, his first at the age of six and his last just two days before he died in 1901. But Dawson never wrote his memoirs. So, a century after his death, Phil Jenkins has lent him a hand. Using Dawson’s own words, and filling in the gaps in Dawson’s voice, Jenkins presents the man who left his heart in western Canada. Their countless stories — from witnessing the last great buffalo stampede to encountering the timeless customs of the Haida — evoke the real excitement of the age of exploration. Dawson knew the pain of unrequited love, suffered the bite of a million mosquitoes, and yet he travelled on, over mountainous physical odds, to become one of the most respected and enjoyed of Victorian Canadians, in the thought-provoking times of Dickens and Darwin.

Download or read book The Sky Beneath My Feet written by Lisa Samson and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2013-03-04 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being married to a saint isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Pastor’s wife Beth fears her marriage is over when her husband retreats to the backyard shed to await a sign from God as she is left to manage life with their two sons. Beth’s husband won’t be joining the family on vacation at the beach this year. He’s not even joining them in the house. Instead, Rick has holed up alone in the backyard shed. Nobody knows exactly what he’s up to. Maybe he’s immersing himself in prayer. Maybe he’s lost his mind. Maybe he’s even the modern-day prophet or the saint the neighborhood artist imagines him to be. But while “St. Rick” waits for an epiphany, Beth will have to figure out what to do with herself and their teenage sons, possibly for the rest of her life. What happens next is both uproarious and bittersweet: a peace march turns violent, her son is caught with drugs, and she embarks on an ambitious road trip that turns into something nearly surreal. Will Beth rediscover the idealistic woman she used to be, once upon a time? Can her marriage survive Rick’s backyard vigil? Will anything ever be the same? And should it be? Truthful, comic, heartbreaking, and magical in the very best sense of the word, The Sky Beneath My Feet gently tears the veil off our egos and expectations to reveal the throbbing, redemptive, and achingly beautiful life beyond and within us. Thought-provoking contemporary standalone novel Book length: approximately 90,000 words Includes discussion questions for book clubs

Download or read book A Lamp Unto My Feet written by Ginny Breecher and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-03-24 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Lamp Unto My Feet This collection of hymn lyrics inspired by the Scriptures will be a lamp for your feet and a light on your path through life's journey. They are the inspired work of a heart moved to share God's unfailing love with the world.

Download or read book Jocelyn written by Alphonse de Lamartine and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Wind Beneath His Wings written by Maggie Walsh and published by Cree Storm. This book was released on 2019-04-25 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is book 10 of the Eternal Flames Maddox series, you should read Eternal Flames 1-14 and book 1-9 of Eternal Flames Maddox before this book. Unwilling to be his mates dirty little secret any longer, Sutton walks away, telling Casimir he's done. Casimir refuses to believe that Sutton could just leave him like that and thinks Sut only needs a few days to cool off. However when reality sets in Casimir realizes he has made a terrible mistake, when Sutton refuses to talk to him or even look in his direction. When Sutton goes out on a rescue call to a local mine there is a cave in which leaves Sutton trapped with four other men in desperate need of medical attention. Casimir practically goes insane trying to get his man out alive. When the threat of losing Sutton for good hits Casimir, he promises not only to himself but to his mate, that he will do whatever he has to do to make things up to Sutton and win him back. He can only hope that if Sutton survives, that he will be willing to give Casimir one more chance, because the alternative is just too devastating to consider.

Download or read book Rose of the Wind written by Anna Hempstead Branch and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Prentis Williams Children written by Jenny Arnesen and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-05-11 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE PRENTIS, WILLIAMS CHILDREN BOOK 1: ALL FOR A REASON – CALVIN PRENTIS Four friends attend the same College and share a residence together. Calvin Prentis meets and falls in love with Sarah-Jane, a beautiful, rude and selfish woman! Jade, who had always loved Calvin, is hurt when she is led to believe that he plans to spend his life with Sarah-Jane so she applies and is accepted for a position that will take her away from the College and away from Calvin. When the tearful Jade tells him of her decision to leave he is shocked and bewildered, he spends a night with her in his arms as he tries to console her. The next day he comes home and finds her gone, leaving only a note in which she confesses her love for him. He tries in vain to contact her but which ever way he turns he comes up short. She has left no forwarding address. The beautiful Sarah-Jane also leaves a note for him, but somehow the simple note from Jade had hurt him deeper and meant more. He realises that it was Jade he loved all along, but has his realisation come too late? With a small fortune left to him in a trust fund by his Grand parents, he purchases a property and starts his own business. He tries once more to find Jade only to discover that there is another man in her lift. Heart broken he returns home pouring himself into his business and his dance studio. How can he bridge the gap that came between them? How can he prove his love to her, and set things right? BOOK 2: WHERE DO YOU GO TO MY LOVELY – MAURICE AND NAKITA WILLIAMS Maurice and Nakita: the children of Paula and Barry Williams. Maurice a Paediatrician and Nakita, a Physiotherapist and Beautician live together in Umhlanga where they run a private Clinic and practice the unusual past time of restoring veteran cars. Brought up in a family where music and dance was as important as breathing, Nakita uses her musical talent as therapy in much of her treatment of patients. When Maurice receives a call from Lizzy, an extremely gifted five year old patient that he had been treating for an ear infection, requesting his help, both their lives are changed for ever! Is history about to repeat itself? Are the Doctor’s capable of handling what life has thrown in their path? Will Nakita’s shock at the abuse of this child make her more determined to find out the cause? What will be the response of the uncle this family so desperately needs? Love, intrigue and sorrow abound as the doctors set out to fulfil more than their Hippocratic Oath!

Download or read book Outcaste written by Ellen Renner and published by Hot Key Books. This book was released on 2015-05-07 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zara is on a quest for revenge - but is she amongst friends, or the bitterest of enemies? Fleeing from the dangerous and powerful mage society she has betrayed, Zara has taken refuge in the Maker city of Gengst, where she knows she will face persecution and death if her identity is uncovered. She must live without magic, and even though she can finally be with the man she loves, her new life is far from the utopia she had dreamt it would be. As the Knowledge Seekers work together to build machines powerful enough to end the centuries-long war between the mages and the non-magical Makers, Zara finds her loyalties and love tested to breaking point. She must face the evil that is her heritage, uncover the truth behind the childhood tragedy that haunts her - and find the strength to believe in herself.

Download or read book Bugaboo Dreams written by Topher Donahue and published by Rocky Mountain Books Ltd. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take the snowiest mountains in Canada, add two Austrian immigrants, an army of adrenaline-addicted skiers (kings, queens, billionaires, average people and everyday ski bums) and throw a helicopter into the mix for an unforgettable story of mountain adventure. The tale begins when two childhood friends-Hans Gmoser and Leo Grillmair-leave postwar Austria and travel to Canada in search of adventure. They stumble upon employment taking skiers across the vast glaciers and through the thick forests of Western Canada. When skiers start asking the immigrant mountaineers if it would be possible to use a helicopter to reach the best high-altitude powder, the two find themselves catapulted into a project brimming with more adventure, success, tragedy and fame than they could have dreamed. Complete with archival and contemporary photos, this is the inside story of the people, thrills, accidents and innovations behind the evolution of a sport from a dangerous, ramshackle and lawless enterprise into a multi-million dollar industry offering reliable access to one of the world's most exciting forms of recreation.

Download or read book The World Beneath Their Feet written by Scott Ellsworth and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2020-02-18 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2020 National Outdoor Book Award for Best History/Biography A saga of survival, technological innovation, and breathtaking human physical achievement -- all set against the backdrop of a world headed toward war -- that became one of the most compelling international dramas of the 20th century. As tension steadily rose between European powers in the 1930s, a different kind of battle was already raging across the Himalayas. Teams of mountaineers from Great Britain, Nazi Germany, and the United States were all competing to be the first to climb the world's highest peaks, including Mount Everest and K2. Unlike climbers today, they had few photographs or maps, no properly working oxygen systems, and they wore leather boots and cotton parkas. Amazingly, and against all odds, they soon went farther and higher than anyone could have imagined. And as they did, their story caught the world's attention. The climbers were mobbed at train stations, and were featured in movies and plays. James Hilton created the mythical land of Shangri-La in Lost Horizon, while an English eccentric named Maurice Wilson set out for Tibet in order to climb Mount Everest alone. And in the darkened corridors of the Third Reich, officials soon discovered the propaganda value of planting a Nazi flag on top of the world's highest mountains Set in London, New York, Germany, and in India, China, and Tibet, The World Beneath Their Feet is a story not only of climbing and mountain climbers, but also of passion and ambition, courage and folly, tradition and innovation, tragedy and triumph. Scott Ellsworth tells a rollicking, real-life adventure story that moves seamlessly from the streets of Manhattan to the footlights of the West End, deadly avalanches on Nanga Parbat, rioting in the Kashmir, and the wild mountain dreams of a New Zealand beekeeper named Edmund Hillary and a young Sherpa runaway called Tenzing Norgay. Climbing the Himalayas was the Greatest Generation's moonshot-one that was clouded by the onset of war and then, incredibly, fully accomplished. A gritty, fascinating history that promises to enrapture fans of Hampton Sides, Erik Larson, Jon Krakauer, and Laura Hillenbrand, The World Beneath Their Feet brings this forgotten story back to life.

Download or read book 220 Lyrics from the Eighties written by Kiwi Bloke and published by Paul Oliver. This book was released on 2012-03-05 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contained in this book are the lyrics to over 200 of the greatest songs of the 80's. Contents are an easy layout containing the Artist and their songs for easy searching. Grab a copy and I guarantee it will bring back the memories.

Download or read book Wind Spell written by Mallory Loehr and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2009-09-16 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three feathers fall out of the sky into the hands of Joe, Polly, and Sam. It’s clear that magic is touching their lives again when they see words written in the clouds—promising them the ability to fly! What more could kids wish for? But the threesome will soon find out that the power of flight is not only fabulously fun, but also deadly dangerous. . . .

Download or read book The Great Book of Poems written by Wesley Pierre and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2022-11-03 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great Book of Poems is a wide collection of poems written over a number of years. The poems focus on everything under the moon and sun. There are a wide variety of poems in this book about spirituality, love, life, death, good times and bad. The author hopes that each reader will find at least one poem that they feel was written personally for them. Never set limitations on yourself but most importantly, never let other people set limitations for you. Your life itself is a great poem that you are writing daily. Live, Laugh, Love, but most importantly, know your worth and find your true purpose.

Download or read book Thinking on My Feet written by Kate Humble and published by Aster. This book was released on 2018-10-04 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ** SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE** ** SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL WRITING AWARD - TRAVEL MEMOIR OF THE YEAR ** A lovely, civilised and transporting read, that should have all of us stepping out to meet the world with fresh eyes.' - Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall 'An enticing read that makes every walk Humble describes an adventure' - Ranulph Fiennes 'A beautiful and magnificent book. A paean to a simple act. I defy you to read this book and not be inspired to walk, march or hike - and as a result live a better life more connected with nature and the world around you.' - Simon Reeve 'A lovely book, fast-flowing yet at every turn giving the reader pause for thought. Kate Humble makes a delightful companion, her words full of sunshine and the raw pleasure she radiates as she encounters life in its many unexpected forms.' - Benedict Allen 'I've discovered that going for a daily walk has become as essential to me feeling good for the rest of the day as that first cup of tea. But I would argue that all I am doing is responding to a natural need we all have. Humans have always been migrants, the physiological urge to be nomadic is deep-rooted in all of us and perhaps because of that our brains are stimulated by walking. I solve all sorts of problems, formulate ideas, work things out to that gentle rhythm of self-propelled movement.' - Kate Humble Thinking on My Feet tells the story of Kate's walking year - shining a light on the benefits of this simple activity. Kate's inspiring narrative not only records her walks (and runs) throughout a single year, but also charts her feelings and impressions throughout - capturing the perspectives that only a journey on foot allows - and shares the outcomes: a problem solved, a mood lifted, an idea or opportunity borne. As she explores the reasons why we walk, whether for creative energy, challenge and pleasure, or therapeutic benefits, Kate's reflections and insights will encourage, motivate and spur readers into action. Also featured are Kate's walks with others who have discovered the magical, soothing effect of putting one foot in front of the other - the artist who walks to find inspiration for his next painting; the man who takes people battling with addiction to climb mountains; the woman who walked every footpath in Wales (3,700 miles) when she discovered she had cancer. This book will inspire you to change your perspective by applying walking to your daily endeavours. *PRAISE FOR THINKING ON MY FEET * 'A diary of sorts, charting a year of wonderful walks through the sun, wind and rain...each entry builds an image of her life in the great outdoors...it sounds idyllic to say the least.' - Sunday Express, S Magazine 'These are 365 days of inspiration to get out and, sometimes literally, smell the flowers.' - Wanderlust Magazine 'Humble's book about going for a walk can inspire absolutely anyone to make a change. Because all you have to do is step outside the front door.' - Waitrose Weekend 'Witty, enlightening and often startlingly profound' - Country Walking Magazine

Download or read book The Testimony of Greatness written by Phillip Berrian and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-12 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Take the War written by Janice Decker and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-03-03 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cowardice. Bravery. War calls to the best and the worst in humanity. Ordinary people answer that call in different ways: by finding their courage, by acting from the basest weakness, or by avoiding the call for as long as possible. An account of loss and reconciliation, collaboration and resistance, and the flowering of courage in unlikely soil, TAKE THE WAR tells an untold tale from the 20th century's World Wars. Based on true stories, including unpublished letters and diaries of heroines living and dead, TAKE THE WAR captures the Resistance roles played by women in WWI and WWII in France and Belgium. A new contribution to war literature, a story untold, TAKE THE WAR sheds light on the experience of ordinary women who attempt to navigate daily life in wartime settings, while finding their courage and becoming heroes.