Author: Elbert Hubbard
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ISBN:
Category : Philosophers
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Philosophers
Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors
Author: Elbert Hubbard
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Little Journeys. [A Series of Short Biographies of Famous Persons.]
Author: Elbert Green Hubbard
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Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 290
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
A Message to Garcia
Author: Elbert Hubbard
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ISBN:
Category : Conduct of life
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
The essay bemoans the difficulty of finding employees who obey instructions without needless questions, work diligently without supervision, take initiative to overcome obstacles, and complete assignments promptly. It bewails the number of incompetent, lazy, thoughtless, obstructionist employees who impede the work of the good employees, while admitting that these benighted people may not be able to help themselves -- Provided by Wikipedia.
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Category : Conduct of life
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
The essay bemoans the difficulty of finding employees who obey instructions without needless questions, work diligently without supervision, take initiative to overcome obstacles, and complete assignments promptly. It bewails the number of incompetent, lazy, thoughtless, obstructionist employees who impede the work of the good employees, while admitting that these benighted people may not be able to help themselves -- Provided by Wikipedia.
A Time of Gifts
Author: Patrick Leigh Fermor
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1590175174
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
This beloved account about an intrepid young Englishman on the first leg of his walk from London to Constantinople is simply one of the best works of travel literature ever written. At the age of eighteen, Patrick Leigh Fermor set off from the heart of London on an epic journey—to walk to Constantinople. A Time of Gifts is the rich account of his adventures as far as Hungary, after which Between the Woods and the Water continues the story to the Iron Gates that divide the Carpathian and Balkan mountains. Acclaimed for its sweep and intelligence, Leigh Fermor’s book explores a remarkable moment in time. Hitler has just come to power but war is still ahead, as he walks through a Europe soon to be forever changed—through the Lowlands to Mitteleuropa, to Teutonic and Slav heartlands, through the baroque remains of the Holy Roman Empire; up the Rhine, and down to the Danube. At once a memoir of coming-of-age, an account of a journey, and a dazzling exposition of the English language, A Time of Gifts is also a portrait of a continent already showing ominous signs of the holocaust to come.
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1590175174
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
This beloved account about an intrepid young Englishman on the first leg of his walk from London to Constantinople is simply one of the best works of travel literature ever written. At the age of eighteen, Patrick Leigh Fermor set off from the heart of London on an epic journey—to walk to Constantinople. A Time of Gifts is the rich account of his adventures as far as Hungary, after which Between the Woods and the Water continues the story to the Iron Gates that divide the Carpathian and Balkan mountains. Acclaimed for its sweep and intelligence, Leigh Fermor’s book explores a remarkable moment in time. Hitler has just come to power but war is still ahead, as he walks through a Europe soon to be forever changed—through the Lowlands to Mitteleuropa, to Teutonic and Slav heartlands, through the baroque remains of the Holy Roman Empire; up the Rhine, and down to the Danube. At once a memoir of coming-of-age, an account of a journey, and a dazzling exposition of the English language, A Time of Gifts is also a portrait of a continent already showing ominous signs of the holocaust to come.
Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors, Robert Southey
Author: Elbert Hubbard
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1434427846
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
A condensed biographical glance at Robert Southey (1774-1843), a Romantic poet. Elbert Green Hubbard (1856-1915) produced a series of similar booklets.
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1434427846
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
A condensed biographical glance at Robert Southey (1774-1843), a Romantic poet. Elbert Green Hubbard (1856-1915) produced a series of similar booklets.
The Lost Continent
Author: Bill Bryson
Publisher: Anchor Canada
ISBN: 0385674562
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
"I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to." And, as soon as Bill Bryson was old enough, he left. Des Moines couldn't hold him, but it did lure him back. After ten years in England he returned to the land of his youth, and drove almost 14,000 miles in search of a mythical small town called Amalgam, the kind of smiling village where the movies from his youth were set. Instead he drove through a series of horrific burgs, which he renamed Smellville, Fartville, Coleslaw, Coma, and Doldrum. At best his search led him to Anywhere, USA, a lookalike strip of gas stations, motels and hamburger outlets populated by obese and slow-witted hicks with a partiality for synthetic fibres. He discovered a continent that was doubly lost: lost to itself because he found it blighted by greed, pollution, mobile homes and television; lost to him because he had become a foreigner in his own country.
Publisher: Anchor Canada
ISBN: 0385674562
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
"I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to." And, as soon as Bill Bryson was old enough, he left. Des Moines couldn't hold him, but it did lure him back. After ten years in England he returned to the land of his youth, and drove almost 14,000 miles in search of a mythical small town called Amalgam, the kind of smiling village where the movies from his youth were set. Instead he drove through a series of horrific burgs, which he renamed Smellville, Fartville, Coleslaw, Coma, and Doldrum. At best his search led him to Anywhere, USA, a lookalike strip of gas stations, motels and hamburger outlets populated by obese and slow-witted hicks with a partiality for synthetic fibres. He discovered a continent that was doubly lost: lost to itself because he found it blighted by greed, pollution, mobile homes and television; lost to him because he had become a foreigner in his own country.
The Little Sparrows
Author: Al Lacy
Publisher: Multnomah
ISBN: 0307564673
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
Kearney, Cheyenne, Rawlins. Reno, Sacramento, San Francisco. At each train station, a few lucky orphans from the crowded streets of New York City receive the fulfillment of their dreams: a home and family. This "orphan train" is the vision of Charles Loring Brace, founder of the Children's Aid Society, who cannot bear to see innocent children abandoned in the overpopulated cities of the mid-nineteenth-century. Yet it is not just the orphans whose lives need mending -- follow the train along and watch God's hand restore love and laughter to the right family at the right time!
Publisher: Multnomah
ISBN: 0307564673
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
Kearney, Cheyenne, Rawlins. Reno, Sacramento, San Francisco. At each train station, a few lucky orphans from the crowded streets of New York City receive the fulfillment of their dreams: a home and family. This "orphan train" is the vision of Charles Loring Brace, founder of the Children's Aid Society, who cannot bear to see innocent children abandoned in the overpopulated cities of the mid-nineteenth-century. Yet it is not just the orphans whose lives need mending -- follow the train along and watch God's hand restore love and laughter to the right family at the right time!
Joseph Addison
Author: Elbert Hubbard
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 54
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors: Thomas B. Macaulay. Lord Byron. Joseph Addison. Robert Southey. Samuel T. Coleridge. Benjamin Disraeli
Author: Elbert Hubbard
Publisher:
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Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description