Author: Jack Perkins
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780934745178
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Parasols of Fern
Author: Jack Perkins
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780934745178
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780934745178
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Finding Moosewood, Finding God
Author: Jack Perkins
Publisher: HarperChristian + ORM
ISBN: 0310318270
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
For twenty-five years, millions of Americans watched Jack Perkins on NBC News as a correspondent, commentator, and anchorman. People were familiar with his face, his bearing, and his rich, reassuring bass. Yet at the age of fifty-two and at the height of his career, Jack Perkins left the world of broadcasting and moved with his wife, Mary Jo, to a bare-necessities cabin on an uninhabited island off the coast of Maine. This isolated home they came to call Moosewood was the setting for and the catalyst to Jack and Mary Jo’s spiritual awakening. For thirteen years they endured (and learned to enjoy) snowbound winters, shuttling supplies from the mainland, testing themselves and the strength of their marriage, and discovering the rewards and glories of a close-to-nature life. Which is to say, the rewards and glories of a close-to-God life. As far as the public was aware, Jack Perkins had vanished. In fact, he was doing research; not, for a change, about the unknown private life of a movie star or celebrated artist, but about the unknown sides of himself. Jack’s personal account in Finding Moosewood, Finding God tells a relatable story of one man drawn to cast off a shallow and unsatisfying lifestyle in order to seek out a deeper, more meaningful and spiritual life. Within the course of explaining how their lives were blessedly transformed especially during the cycle of their first year of island living, Jack draws in stories from his long career in an impressionistic, associative way that invites the reader to connect the dots. One finds—as he finally did—that there’d been many hints along the way of a greater plan at work. This rich memoir also contains a photo insert.
Publisher: HarperChristian + ORM
ISBN: 0310318270
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
For twenty-five years, millions of Americans watched Jack Perkins on NBC News as a correspondent, commentator, and anchorman. People were familiar with his face, his bearing, and his rich, reassuring bass. Yet at the age of fifty-two and at the height of his career, Jack Perkins left the world of broadcasting and moved with his wife, Mary Jo, to a bare-necessities cabin on an uninhabited island off the coast of Maine. This isolated home they came to call Moosewood was the setting for and the catalyst to Jack and Mary Jo’s spiritual awakening. For thirteen years they endured (and learned to enjoy) snowbound winters, shuttling supplies from the mainland, testing themselves and the strength of their marriage, and discovering the rewards and glories of a close-to-nature life. Which is to say, the rewards and glories of a close-to-God life. As far as the public was aware, Jack Perkins had vanished. In fact, he was doing research; not, for a change, about the unknown private life of a movie star or celebrated artist, but about the unknown sides of himself. Jack’s personal account in Finding Moosewood, Finding God tells a relatable story of one man drawn to cast off a shallow and unsatisfying lifestyle in order to seek out a deeper, more meaningful and spiritual life. Within the course of explaining how their lives were blessedly transformed especially during the cycle of their first year of island living, Jack draws in stories from his long career in an impressionistic, associative way that invites the reader to connect the dots. One finds—as he finally did—that there’d been many hints along the way of a greater plan at work. This rich memoir also contains a photo insert.
Fern Etchings
Author: John Williamson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ferns
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ferns
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
The Fern Garden
Author: Shirley Hibberd
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3846057363
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3846057363
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.
Taylor's Master Guide to Gardening
Author: Roger Holmes
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 061815907X
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 663
Book Description
Provides information on growing trees, perennials, annuals, grasses, herbs, and bulbs, features the basics of garden design, and talks about environmentally sound controls of pests and diseases.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 061815907X
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 663
Book Description
Provides information on growing trees, perennials, annuals, grasses, herbs, and bulbs, features the basics of garden design, and talks about environmentally sound controls of pests and diseases.
Little Seed
Author: Wei Tchou
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
ISBN: 1646053400
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
"Little Seed is what I want the future of literature to be." —Sam Cohen, author of Sarahland Little Seed is an experimental memoir that braids together the narrative of the author's relationship with her brother and family with a deeply personal field guide to ferns. The chapters move associatively, commenting on each other indirectly and drawing out questions of assimilation, race, class, gender, nature and the general problem of being and knowing. When the author's brother has a psychotic break, the rigid structure of the book itself breaks apart and the protagonist adventures to the cloud forest of Oaxaca in order to truly live: to know the world by experiencing it rather than reading about it or following the direction of others. Some persistent themes throughout the book: What does it mean to be Chinese? What is love and how best to love? What really is a fern?
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
ISBN: 1646053400
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
"Little Seed is what I want the future of literature to be." —Sam Cohen, author of Sarahland Little Seed is an experimental memoir that braids together the narrative of the author's relationship with her brother and family with a deeply personal field guide to ferns. The chapters move associatively, commenting on each other indirectly and drawing out questions of assimilation, race, class, gender, nature and the general problem of being and knowing. When the author's brother has a psychotic break, the rigid structure of the book itself breaks apart and the protagonist adventures to the cloud forest of Oaxaca in order to truly live: to know the world by experiencing it rather than reading about it or following the direction of others. Some persistent themes throughout the book: What does it mean to be Chinese? What is love and how best to love? What really is a fern?
Mushroom Town
Author: Oliver Onions
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Where Dwarfs Reign
Author: Kathryn Robinson
Publisher: La Editorial, UPR
ISBN: 9780847702558
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Beelden van de dieren- en plantenwereld van het tropische regenwoud in Puerto Rico.
Publisher: La Editorial, UPR
ISBN: 9780847702558
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Beelden van de dieren- en plantenwereld van het tropische regenwoud in Puerto Rico.
Ferns of Kentucky with Sixty Full-page Etchings and Six Wood-cuts
Author: John Williamson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ferns
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ferns
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Perennial Combinations
Author: C. Colston Burrell
Publisher: Rodale
ISBN: 9780875968063
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Offers planting plans and plant descriptions to maximize the effects of color in a perennial garden
Publisher: Rodale
ISBN: 9780875968063
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Offers planting plans and plant descriptions to maximize the effects of color in a perennial garden