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| Author | : William F. Buckley (Jr.) |
| Publisher | : Random House (NY) |
| Total Pages | : 384 |
| Release | : 1987 |
| Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
| ISBN | : 9780394557816 |
Chronicles the author's four thousand-mile sailing voyage across the Pacific with four close friends, his son Christopher, and a photographer.
| Author | : William F. Buckley, |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Total Pages | : 363 |
| Release | : 2024-08-06 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1493087886 |
Racing Through Paradise is the third entry in Bill Buckley’s now classic sailing trilogy. Here the irresponsible, eloquent, enjoyable Buckley guides us through his beloved Azores, and through the Galapagos (“the Bronx Zoo at the Equator”), about which he inclines more to Melville’s view than to Darwin’s, and through places such as Johnston Atoll, where mysteries and hostilities await. On a hilarious side adventure, we have a memorable encounter with “The Angel of Craig’s Point.” Along the way, Buckley navigates among pleasant diversions as well as unforeseen navigational and philosophical shoals. He adroitly excerpts the candid journals of his shipmates, notably that of his son, Christopher, himself a best-selling novelist. The fine photographs by Christopher Little illustrate throughout. When Buckley’s Sealestial sails, finally, into New Guinea, we have shared a unique experience with a special breed of sailor, skipper, host, friend, and human being.
| Author | : William F. Buckley Jr. |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Total Pages | : 283 |
| Release | : 2023-08-01 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1493079190 |
Airborne is how William F. Buckley, Jr. describes his sail across the wide Atlantic with his son and five friends. The trip, for fifteen years a dream, for fifteen months a planned operation, was always a risk: one doesn’t set out haphazardly in a small sailboat across 4,400 miles of ocean, and Buckley’s account of perils of the sea as experienced by himself since he acquired his first sailboat at age thirteen is at once graphic, instructive, and terrifying. But, we learn quickly, the concern is mostly for the prospect of thirty days and thirty nights away from the cosmopolitan jungle to which he and his friends are accustomed; their lair, so to speak. But it happened: notwithstanding vicissitudes amusing, annoying, and even dangerous, suddenly the schooner, and the entire trip, were airborne, and the experience resulted in a fusion of hopes, fears, ambitions, and pleasures that lifts the book from the category of mere chronicles of the sea, into a chronicle of our time, a passage of the spirit.
| Author | : William F. Buckley (Jr.) |
| Publisher | : Random House (NY) |
| Total Pages | : 344 |
| Release | : 1992 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : |
A narrative of an ocean passage which is also a metaphor for all our passages : parenthood, friendships, new worlds found, mortality.
| Author | : Mary Perdue |
| Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
| Total Pages | : 322 |
| Release | : 2022-07-12 |
| Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
| ISBN | : 0813195543 |
When Triple Crown winner Seattle Slew retired from racing in 1978 to stand at stud at Spendthrift Farm, no one could be certain he would be a successful sire. But just four years later, his dark bay daughter Landaluce won the Hollywood Lassie Stakes by twenty-one lengths—a margin of victory that remains the largest ever in any race by a two-year-old at Hollywood Park. California horse racing had a new superstar, and Slew was launched on a stud career that would make him one of the most influential sires in North America. Like her father, Landaluce soon became a national celebrity, and was poised to become the next American super-horse. But those dreams ended when the two-year-old died in her stall at Santa Anita four months later, the victim of a swift and mysterious illness. Today, with her "I Love Luce" bumper stickers long gone, the filly has been largely forgotten. In Landaluce: The Story of Seattle Slew's First Champion, Mary Perdue tells the story of a horse whose short but meteoric career could have changed racing history forever. Sparking comparisons to Ruffian, Landaluce helped elevate California horse racing to the national stage and could have been the first filly to ever win the Triple Crown. In telling this story, Perdue explores the lives and careers of Landaluce's breeders, owners, and trainer, D. Wayne Lukas, as well as her famous sire Seattle Slew—and shows not only how one filly captured the imagination of racing fans across the country, but also set the stage for another filly turned super-horse, Zenyatta, in the decades to come. Find out more at landalucebook.com
| Author | : Jeff Rasley |
| Publisher | : Conari Press |
| Total Pages | : 258 |
| Release | : 2010-09-15 |
| Genre | : Travel |
| ISBN | : 1609252896 |
What does it mean to bring progress—schools, electricity, roads, running water—to paradise? Can our consumer culture and desire to “do good” really be good for a community that has survived contentedly for centuries without us? In October 2008, climbing expedition leader and attorney, Jeffrey Rasley, led a trek to a village in a remote valley in the Solu region of Nepal named Basa. His group of three adventurers was only the third group of white people ever seen in this village of subsistence farmers. What he found was a people thoroughly unaffected by Western consumer-culture values. They had no running water, electricity, or anything that moves on wheels. Each family lived in a beautiful, hand-chiseled stone house with a flower garden. Beyond what they already had, it seemed all they wanted was education for the children. He helped them finish a school building already in progress, and then they asked for help getting electricity to their village. Bringing Progress to Paradise describes Rasley’s transformation from adventurer to committed philanthropist. We are attracted to the simpler way of life in these communities, and we are changed by our experience of it. They are attracted to us, because we bring economic benefits. Bringing Progress to Paradise offers Rasley’s critical reflection on the tangled relationship between tourists and locals in “exotic” locales and the effect of Western values on some of the most remote locations on earth.
| Author | : Martin Martinez |
| Publisher | : Fulton Books, Inc. |
| Total Pages | : 234 |
| Release | : 2021-03-22 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1649526830 |
In 1844, there was a land rush to North Central Florida. Rush land was selling for forty-seven cents an acre, and Horatio Elgin purchased 5,600 acres of it. He was the first of four generations to steward this Garden of Eden that turned out to be a paradise for the breeding of Thoroughbred horses. This is the story of the people and the horses of Paradise!
| Author | : Neal R. Rice |
| Publisher | : Tate Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 202 |
| Release | : 2009-02 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1606961209 |
Gayle and M'Chel Sievers, Davy Nal, Jimmy Mannor, and the other teenagers from the Texas town of Paradise had plans for a fun-filled Saturday of horseback riding and a Christmas Parade. It all changed the moment they saw the girl sadly staring at them from Sanderson's Mercantile. In 1898, the teenagers of Paradise, Wise County, Texas, made life worth living by following the principles of loving God, their neighbors, and all of creation. Love conquers all, or does it? Could love cost them their lives? Trials in Paradise, the second novel by author Neal R. Rice, follows the teenagers and the country folks as they try to do the right thing. Will the teenagers and the good citizens pass the...Trials in Paradise?
| Author | : Roger A. Vincent |
| Publisher | : Trafford Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 507 |
| Release | : 2012-07-17 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1466942983 |
Journey from Gauntlet to Paradise begins with author Roger Vincents early years as a curly-haired little boy on Grandmas Hill Farm and follows the author and his wife through their life travels. A thrilling, awe-inspiring journey awaits all who venture along with author Roger Vincent, and the love of his life, Betty May, as they journey through over sixty national parks along the way. We all live in critical times, times that are crucial and sometimes even dangerous. The Bible informs us that God is a God of exclusive devotion, but who can manage to do that? Vincent tells us not to worry because God doesnt expect us to exclusively devote ourselves to Him. If it were not for God excusing our errors, none of us would survive his inevitable day of reckoning! Through his lifes journey, he comes to understand the fact that despite who we are, we will all face judgment day when we die. The question he poses is this: who among us has a strong and solid knowledge of God and the Bible? They are the ones who will draw closer to God.
| Author | : Karen Barnett |
| Publisher | : WaterBrook |
| Total Pages | : 354 |
| Release | : 2017-06-06 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0735289557 |
An ideal sanctuary and a dream come true–that’s what Margaret Lane feels as she takes in God’s gorgeous handiwork in Mount Rainier National Park. It’s 1927 and the National Park Service is in its youth when Margie, an avid naturalist, lands a coveted position alongside the park rangers living and working in the unrivaled splendor of Mount Rainier’s long shadow. But Chief Ranger Ford Brayden is still haunted by his father’s death on the mountain, and the ranger takes his work managing the park and its crowd of visitors seriously. The job of watching over an idealistic senator’s daughter with few practical survival skills seems a waste of resources. When Margie’s former fiancé sets his mind on developing the Paradise Inn and its surroundings into a tourist playground, the plans might put more than the park’s pristine beauty in danger. What will Margie and Ford sacrifice to preserve the splendor and simplicity of the wilderness they both love? Karen Barnett’s vintage national parks novels bring to vivid life President Theodore Roosevelt’s vision for protected lands, when he wrote in Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter: "There can be nothing in the world more beautiful than the Yosemite, the groves of the giant sequoias and redwoods, the Canyon of the Colorado, the Canyon of the Yellowstone, the Three Tetons; and our people should see to it that they are preserved for their children and their children's children forever, with their majestic beauty all unmarred."
