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Shortly before Christmas in 1943, five Army aviators left Alaska’s Ladd Field on a test flight. Only one ever returned:…
Leon Crane, a city kid from Philadelphia with little more than a parachute on his back when he bailed from his B-24 Liberator before it crashed into the Arctic. Alone in subzero temperatures, Crane managed to stay alive in the dead of the Yukon winter for nearly twelve weeks and, amazingly, walked out of the ordeal intact. 81 Days Below Zero recounts, for the first time, the full story of Crane’s remarkable saga. In a drama of staggering resolve with moments of phenomenal luck, Crane learned to survive in the Yukon’s unforgiving landscape. His is a tale of the human capacity to endure extreme conditions and intense lonelinessand emerge stronger than before.Robert Fripp: The Boffomundo Interview
By Ron Curtiess. 2015
Officially transcribed from the original Boffomundo archives, Robert Fripp: The Boffomundo Interview 1979 reveals an intriguing and unique look into…
the mind of one of music's masters of precision and creativity -- all through the subtle brilliance of Wayne's World-esque early L. A. cable access hosts Ron Curtiss and Aaron Weiner. Featuring aired and unaired content from their 1979 interview, a new introduction by Ron Curtiss, and additional contextualizing articles and interviews, this is a gem that could have been long forgotten if not for Curtiss’s archival masterminding and his dedication to preserving the prog legacy. This book is a must-have for all fans of King Crimson, David Bowie, philosophical self-inquisition, and technological wizardry. A Rare Bird Exclusive: Purchasers of the ebook will receive access to a video of the full interview.Word betaal vir jou gedigte
By Bernard Levine, Elmarié Smal. 2016
Skryf jy gedigte? Nou, kan jy betaal word vir die gedigte wat jy skryf en dit kan ook gepubliseer word…
in kaartjies, kalenders, plakkate en muurbehangsels. As jy jou skrywersdrome wil bewaarheid en terselfder tyd ook vergoed word vir jou gedigte, is hierdie unieke boek spesiaal vir jou. Om gedigte te skryf vir geld is groot pret en baie winsgewend! Word betaal om te doen waarvan jy hou.The Analyst
By Molly Peacock. 2017
When a psychoanalyst became a painter after surviving a stroke, her longtime patient, distinguished and beloved poet Molly Peacock, took…
up a unique task. The Analyst is a new, visceral, twenty-first century "in memoriam" of ambiguous loss in which Peacock brilliantly tells the story of a decades-long patient-therapist relationship that now reverses and continues to evolve. Peacock invigorates the notion of poetry as word-painting: A tapestry of images, from a red enameled steamer on a black stove to Tibetan monks funneling glowing sand into a painting, create the backdrop for her quest to define identity. From "In Our Unexpected Future":. . . for frocks outlast pillars. But feelingsoutlive frocks. The immaterial storms through,a force beyond years (a mere four since youwere nearly felled). It isn't what happened that lasts. Not art, either, but the savory core. What's felt.The Wise King: A Christian Prince, Muslim Spain, and the Birth of the Renaissance
By Simon R. Doubleday. 2015
"If I had been present at the Creation,” the thirteenth-century Spanish philosopher-king Alfonso X is said to have stated, "Many…
faults in the universe would have been avoided. ” Known as El Sabio, "the Wise,” Alfonso was renowned by friends and enemies alike for his sparkling intellect and extraordinary cultural achievements. In The Wise King, celebrated historian Simon R. Doubleday traces the story of the king’s life and times, leading us deep into his emotional world and showing how his intense admiration for Spain’s rich Islamic culture paved the way for the European Renaissance. In 1252, when Alfonso replaced his more militaristic father on the throne of Castile and León, the battle to reconquer Muslim territory on the Iberian Peninsula was raging fiercely. But even as he led his Christian soldiers onto the battlefield, Alfonso was seduced by the glories of Muslim Spain. His engagement with the Arabic-speaking culture of the South shaped his pursuit of astronomy, for which he was famed for centuries, and his profoundly humane vision of the world, which Dante, Petrarch, and later Italian humanists would inherit. A composer of lyric verses, and patron of works on board games, hunting, and the properties of stones, Alfonso is best known today for his Cantigas de Santa María (Songs of Holy Mary), which offer a remarkable window onto his world. His ongoing struggles as a king and as a man were distilled--in art, music, literature, and architecture--into something sublime that speaks to us powerfully across the centuries. An intimate biography of the Spanish ruler in whom two cultures converged, The Wise King introduces readers to a Renaissance man before his time, whose creative energy in the face of personal turmoil and existential threats to his kingdom would transform the course of Western history.Bekoorde Lewe in Ceylon: 1953 - 1963
By Tony Buxton. 1931
Die skrywer se fassinerende avonture in die vroeë 50’s, beskryf ‘n avontuurlike lewenswyse waaroor die meeste van ons droom, maar…
wat vandag onmoontlik sal wees. Gebore in Colombo (Sri Lanka) in 1931. Hy het sy kinderlewe in Engeland deurgebring en het hy na die oorlog teruggekeer na Ceylon om in die familie besigheid te werk wat deur sy oupa begin is. Nie die gewone koloniale tipe waarvan daar verwag was om nie met die plaaslike mense te meng of om na hul klubs te gaan nie, het Tony die teenoorgestelde gedoen teen alle reëls in. Tony het die geselskap van die Ceylonese verkies . Dit het tot gevolg gehad dat hy baie vriende gemaak het insluitende bekende politikuste . Hy het ‘n passie vir onderwater verkenning gekweek in ‘n tyd toe die sport maar nog net begin het, voor daar SCUBA was. Hy het sy werk en loopbaan opgegee om op spiesvisvang, krewe, garnale en krappe te oorleef, akwarium visse te vang en in die woude te jag. Hy het homself as ‘n onderwater toergids gevestig wat bekende en ryk mense gelok het. Deur sy dienste verniet aan te bied het hulle hom terug betaal deur hom na hulle huise in Europa te nooi waar hy ‘n lewe beleef het wat hy nie eers geweet het bestaan nie. Gedurende hierdie reise trou hy met drie van sy vier vroue, twee Skandinawiese modelle en ‘n Italiaanse aktrise, aangetrokke tot sy lewenswyse, maar nie een van hulle kon in Ceylon aanpas nie. Die magtige Minister van Toerisme, ‘n duiker homself, stel Tony aan om onderwater toerisme te bevorder. Hulle word hegte vriende en hy raak betrokke in politike intriges. Selfs met geen geld lewe hy gelukkig deur vis te ruil vir basiese behoeftes. Op en af tussen luukse en gewone leefstyle was hy die eerste person om in die Maldives en suid Indië te duik, waar hy ‘n sensasie veroorsaak. Hierdie is ‘n aangrypende verhaal van nie so lank gelede in ‘n unieke Suid-Oostelike Asiatiese land – Ceylon, voor dit ingesluk was deur politieke onrus,Poems That Do Not Sleep
By Hassan Al Nawwab. 2021
Hassan Al Nawwab is a former Iraqi soldier who came to Australia after the war with his family 20 years…
ago. With devastating simplicity, these imagistic poems speak of war and terror, of homesickness in exile, the blessings of peace and the pain of belonging. The collection is in two parts, ‘Tree Flying' and ‘Diaspora', and each poem is presented with its counterpart in Arabic on the opposite page, as translated from English by the poet himself.