The Urge to Travel Long Distances
Author | : Robert Bly |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 62 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Prose poems, American |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Robert Bly |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 62 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Prose poems, American |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Robert Bly |
Publisher | : Henry Holt |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 2018-03-27 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1250158192 |
National Book Award-winning poet and author of the internationally best-selling Iron John, Robert Bly revisits a selection of fairy tales and examines how these enduring narratives capture the essence of human nature. Few forms of storytelling have greater power to captivate the human mind than fairy tales, but where do these tales originate from, and what do they mean? Celebrated poet and bestselling author Robert Bly has been asking these questions throughout his career. Here Bly looks at six tales that have stood the test of time and have captivated the poet for decades, from “The Six Swans” to “The Frog Prince.” Drawing on his own creative genius, and the work of a range of thinkers from Kirkegaard and Yeats to Freud and Jung, Bly turns these stories over in his mind to bring new meaning and illumination to these timeless tales. Along with illustrations of each story, the book features some of Bly's unpublished poetry, which peppers his lyric prose and offers a look inside the mind of an American master of letters in the twilight of his singular career.
Author | : Adam Augustyn Assistant Manager and Assistant Editor, Literature |
Publisher | : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc |
Total Pages | : 474 |
Release | : 2010-08-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 161530133X |
Explores the works and writers from post World War II America to today, including Stephen Crane, Arthur Miller, and Allen Ginsberg.
Author | : Ada Lucas |
Publisher | : CreateSpace |
Total Pages | : 92 |
Release | : 2014-07-25 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 9781500617929 |
Travel is a basic human desire; we are in essence a migratory species. Although not everyone experiences an unrelenting urge to travel, many of us do have an assiduous yearning to explore the beautiful world we live in. So what is it that creates this urge to put some distance between ourselves and everything we know? What motivates us to spend the year skimping and saving for and fantasizing about our next trip? Why do we travel? Through beautiful photography from around the world and insightful and inspiring quotes, this book attempts to answer the question of why we travel. This book features quotes and sayings from some of history's most notable writers, thinkers and passionate travelers alike.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1572 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : Aeronautics |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Caroline Van Hemert |
Publisher | : Little, Brown Spark |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2019-03-19 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0316414433 |
For fans of Cheryl Strayed, the gripping story of a biologist's human-powered journey from the Pacific Northwest to the Arctic to rediscover her love of birds, nature, and adventure. During graduate school, as she conducted experiments on the peculiarly misshapen beaks of chickadees, ornithologist Caroline Van Hemert began to feel stifled in the isolated, sterile environment of the lab. Worried that she was losing her passion for the scientific research she once loved, she was compelled to experience wildness again, to be guided by the sounds of birds and to follow the trails of animals. In March of 2012, she and her husband set off on a 4,000-mile wilderness journey from the Pacific rainforest to the Alaskan Arctic, traveling by rowboat, ski, foot, raft, and canoe. Together, they survived harrowing dangers while also experiencing incredible moments of joy and grace -- migrating birds silhouetted against the moon, the steamy breath of caribou, and the bond that comes from sharing such experiences. A unique blend of science, adventure, and personal narrative, The Sun is a Compass explores the bounds of the physical body and the tenuousness of life in the company of the creatures who make their homes in the wildest places left in North America. Inspiring and beautifully written, this love letter to nature is a lyrical testament to the resilience of the human spirit. Winner of the 2019 Banff Mountain Book Competition: Adventure Travel
Author | : Ian Frazier |
Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | : 541 |
Release | : 2010-10-12 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 1429964316 |
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.
Author | : Erling Holden |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2016-03-16 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1317185854 |
Sustainable mobility has become the new imperative for transport policy. There have been a number of policy attempts at sustainable mobility globally, such as the development of more efficient conventional transport technologies, the promotion of efficient and affordable public transport systems and the encouragement of environmental awareness. Such policies have so often been presented as prerequisites for sustainable mobility that they are now taken for granted. But are any of these policies really successful? To what extent do they actually contribute (or fail to contribute) to sustainable mobility? Why do some policies succeed and others fail? Using an interdisciplinary approach which brings together various theories and methodologies, this book tests each of these policies - or hypotheses, as the author sees them - with detailed empirical investigations. It also argues that leisure-time travel should be included in any sustainable mobility policies, as it now accounts for 50 per cent of all annual travel distance in developed countries. The book concludes by suggesting fourteen theses of sustainable mobility for the EU and a new model for future best practice.
Author | : William Aalbersberg |
Publisher | : [email protected] |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Agriculture |
ISBN | : 9789820200838 |
"A majority of Pacific Islanders rely on subsistence farming and fishing for survival. These sectors are also major foreign currency earners in a number of countries. In cultural terms, the very existence of Pacific peoples is inseparable from the land. Although the risks to the physical survival of many Pacific Islands as a result of sea-level rise have been widely publicised, it is agriculture and marine and terrestial ecosystems that are likely to be affected greatest in the next century. Adverse effects on these systems will probadly render many areas uninhabitable long before they are totally inundated, if they ever are. This small volume aims to increase grass-roots awareness, to help Pacific populations cope with changes and make the necessary sacrifices to counter negative impacts of climate change."--Back cover
Author | : Mark Beecroft |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 79 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Urban transportation |
ISBN | : 9780013017349 |