Author: Sterling Campbell
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
About the Book In Sterling’s Misadventures, Sterling internally struggles to determine what might be or could be based on decisions made along the way. The relevancy and uniqueness are Sterling's individual ways of dealing with self-awareness and development. Sterling explores themes of childhood experiences and maturity development. About the Author Sterling Campbell’s own life is reflected upon in Sterling’s Misadventures. Campbell grew up at a lake, quit high school, joined the Army, served in Viet Nam, and completed a PhD in business administration. Campbell is currently retired from a career as a CFO and he is married to a lovely lady he met at a slab dance. Campbell and his wife, Marilyn, are retired and reside in the state of Washington. They have two children and five grandchildren.
Sterling's Misadventures
Author: Sterling Campbell
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
About the Book In Sterling’s Misadventures, Sterling internally struggles to determine what might be or could be based on decisions made along the way. The relevancy and uniqueness are Sterling's individual ways of dealing with self-awareness and development. Sterling explores themes of childhood experiences and maturity development. About the Author Sterling Campbell’s own life is reflected upon in Sterling’s Misadventures. Campbell grew up at a lake, quit high school, joined the Army, served in Viet Nam, and completed a PhD in business administration. Campbell is currently retired from a career as a CFO and he is married to a lovely lady he met at a slab dance. Campbell and his wife, Marilyn, are retired and reside in the state of Washington. They have two children and five grandchildren.
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
About the Book In Sterling’s Misadventures, Sterling internally struggles to determine what might be or could be based on decisions made along the way. The relevancy and uniqueness are Sterling's individual ways of dealing with self-awareness and development. Sterling explores themes of childhood experiences and maturity development. About the Author Sterling Campbell’s own life is reflected upon in Sterling’s Misadventures. Campbell grew up at a lake, quit high school, joined the Army, served in Viet Nam, and completed a PhD in business administration. Campbell is currently retired from a career as a CFO and he is married to a lovely lady he met at a slab dance. Campbell and his wife, Marilyn, are retired and reside in the state of Washington. They have two children and five grandchildren.
The Fun Factory
Author: Rob King
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 0520255380
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
From its founding in 1912, the short-lived Keystone Film Company—home of the frantic, bumbling Kops and Mack Sennett's Bathing Beauties—made an indelible mark on American popular culture with its high-energy comic shorts. Even as Keystone brought "lowbrow" comic traditions to the screen, the studio played a key role in reformulating those traditions for a new, cross-class audience. In The Fun Factory, Rob King explores the dimensions of that process, arguing for a new understanding of working-class cultural practices within early cinematic mass culture. He shows how Keystone fashioned a style of film comedy from the roughhouse humor of cheap theater, pioneering modes of representation that satirized film industry attempts at uplift. Interdisciplinary in its approach, The Fun Factory offers a unique studio history that views the changing politics of early film culture through the sociology of laughter.
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 0520255380
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
From its founding in 1912, the short-lived Keystone Film Company—home of the frantic, bumbling Kops and Mack Sennett's Bathing Beauties—made an indelible mark on American popular culture with its high-energy comic shorts. Even as Keystone brought "lowbrow" comic traditions to the screen, the studio played a key role in reformulating those traditions for a new, cross-class audience. In The Fun Factory, Rob King explores the dimensions of that process, arguing for a new understanding of working-class cultural practices within early cinematic mass culture. He shows how Keystone fashioned a style of film comedy from the roughhouse humor of cheap theater, pioneering modes of representation that satirized film industry attempts at uplift. Interdisciplinary in its approach, The Fun Factory offers a unique studio history that views the changing politics of early film culture through the sociology of laughter.
African Adventures and Misadventures
Author: William York
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1571574840
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Bill York, who recently passed away, once said, “Most guiding for big game is pretty unadventuresome work.” However, when there is excitement, it comes in spades, and Bill York had his share of unusual encounters. From his early days in Kenya when he and a companion trekked alone through the desert of the NFD and had to fend off marauding lions that ate his caravan ponies to encountering a Mau Mau terrorist who took potshots at his victims with a stolen elephant gun, York gives an entertaining account of his life. York was there when the RAF bombed the rain forest to rid Kenya of the dreaded Mau Mau, and he explains how the bombing went awry—very few Mau Mau were killed but plenty of wounded and dangerously short-tempered buffalo were left to wreck havoc in the countryside. He gives an insider’s view to the funny and outrageous behavior of some his famous acquaintances--Eric Rundgren, Ken Dawson, Frank Broadbent, and Iodine Ionides. PH Eric Rundgren, for example, was so interested in getting himself good elephant tusks that he would scout out the best tuskers for himself and guide his clients to less desirable trophies! There are stories about how York found a cache of rhino and elephant ivory that J. A. Hunter had stashed before his death, and how John Boyes managed to exasperate British authorities with his dastardly deeds. There is an entire chapter on hunting giant forest hogs because Bill York spent a lot of time in their habitat, and there are encounters and adventures with crop-raiding elephant and ghost buffalo that could be seen but not killed. Then there is the story of a client who was so huge that York was not sure he could get the man a single trophy. As with York’s previous book, the pages are loaded with interesting anecdotes, fascinating tales, and well-written prose that give insight into East Africa and its more famous characters.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1571574840
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Bill York, who recently passed away, once said, “Most guiding for big game is pretty unadventuresome work.” However, when there is excitement, it comes in spades, and Bill York had his share of unusual encounters. From his early days in Kenya when he and a companion trekked alone through the desert of the NFD and had to fend off marauding lions that ate his caravan ponies to encountering a Mau Mau terrorist who took potshots at his victims with a stolen elephant gun, York gives an entertaining account of his life. York was there when the RAF bombed the rain forest to rid Kenya of the dreaded Mau Mau, and he explains how the bombing went awry—very few Mau Mau were killed but plenty of wounded and dangerously short-tempered buffalo were left to wreck havoc in the countryside. He gives an insider’s view to the funny and outrageous behavior of some his famous acquaintances--Eric Rundgren, Ken Dawson, Frank Broadbent, and Iodine Ionides. PH Eric Rundgren, for example, was so interested in getting himself good elephant tusks that he would scout out the best tuskers for himself and guide his clients to less desirable trophies! There are stories about how York found a cache of rhino and elephant ivory that J. A. Hunter had stashed before his death, and how John Boyes managed to exasperate British authorities with his dastardly deeds. There is an entire chapter on hunting giant forest hogs because Bill York spent a lot of time in their habitat, and there are encounters and adventures with crop-raiding elephant and ghost buffalo that could be seen but not killed. Then there is the story of a client who was so huge that York was not sure he could get the man a single trophy. As with York’s previous book, the pages are loaded with interesting anecdotes, fascinating tales, and well-written prose that give insight into East Africa and its more famous characters.
Sand in My Bra and Other Misadventures
Author: Jennifer Leo
Publisher: Travelers' Tales
ISBN: 9781885211927
Category : Voyages and travels
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Publisher: Travelers' Tales
ISBN: 9781885211927
Category : Voyages and travels
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Outdoor Adventures and Misadventures
Author: Chris Kellogg
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN:
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
BLURB This book chronicles many stories that cover deep-sea fishing in the Bahamas and a lightning strike there, too, as well as fly fishing in the Catskills. Then there is hunting quail in Florida and big game in Kenya. Not left out are stories of Palm Beach society, adventures in Mexico, and memorable automobile moments. These are just a few of many varied tales best told next to the fireplace with a drink in hand. Some stories should bring a chuckle or a real belly laugh. Enjoy the many adventures.
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN:
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
BLURB This book chronicles many stories that cover deep-sea fishing in the Bahamas and a lightning strike there, too, as well as fly fishing in the Catskills. Then there is hunting quail in Florida and big game in Kenya. Not left out are stories of Palm Beach society, adventures in Mexico, and memorable automobile moments. These are just a few of many varied tales best told next to the fireplace with a drink in hand. Some stories should bring a chuckle or a real belly laugh. Enjoy the many adventures.
Race and Other Misadventures
Author: Larry T. Reynolds
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9781882289356
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9781882289356
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll
Author: Alvaro Mutis
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 9780940322912
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 724
Book Description
Maqroll the Gaviero (the Lookout) is one of the most alluring and memorable characters in the fiction of the last twenty-five years. His extravagant and hopeless undertakings, his brushes with the law and scrapes with death, and his enduring friendships and unlooked-for love affairs make him a Don Quixote for our day, driven from one place to another by a restless and irregular quest for the absolute. Álvaro Mutis's seven dazzling chronicles of the adventures and misadventures of Maqroll have won him numerous honors and a passionately devoted readership throughout the world. Here for the first time in English all these wonderful stories appear in a single volume in Edith Grossman's prize-winning translation.
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 9780940322912
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 724
Book Description
Maqroll the Gaviero (the Lookout) is one of the most alluring and memorable characters in the fiction of the last twenty-five years. His extravagant and hopeless undertakings, his brushes with the law and scrapes with death, and his enduring friendships and unlooked-for love affairs make him a Don Quixote for our day, driven from one place to another by a restless and irregular quest for the absolute. Álvaro Mutis's seven dazzling chronicles of the adventures and misadventures of Maqroll have won him numerous honors and a passionately devoted readership throughout the world. Here for the first time in English all these wonderful stories appear in a single volume in Edith Grossman's prize-winning translation.
Treasure Island & Other Great Adventures (Illustrated)
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher: e-artnow
ISBN: 8027230691
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 2340
Book Description
Musaicum Books presents to you this carefully created volume of "Treasure Island & Other Great Adventures (Illustrated)". This ebook has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. His most famous works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. A literary celebrity during his lifetime, Stevenson now ranks among the 26 most translated authors in the world. Contents: Novels: Treasure Island Kidnapped (Adventures of David Balfour I) Catriona (Adventures of David Balfour II) The Wrecker The Ebb-Tide St Ives: Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses Short Stories: Island Nights' Entertainments (South Sea Tales) The Adventure of the Hansom Cab The Adventure of Prince Florizel and a Detective The Misadventures of John Nicholson
Publisher: e-artnow
ISBN: 8027230691
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 2340
Book Description
Musaicum Books presents to you this carefully created volume of "Treasure Island & Other Great Adventures (Illustrated)". This ebook has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. His most famous works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. A literary celebrity during his lifetime, Stevenson now ranks among the 26 most translated authors in the world. Contents: Novels: Treasure Island Kidnapped (Adventures of David Balfour I) Catriona (Adventures of David Balfour II) The Wrecker The Ebb-Tide St Ives: Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses Short Stories: Island Nights' Entertainments (South Sea Tales) The Adventure of the Hansom Cab The Adventure of Prince Florizel and a Detective The Misadventures of John Nicholson
THE GREATEST ADVENTURES SERIES - Robert Louis Stevenson Edition (Illustrated)
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher: e-artnow
ISBN: 8027200245
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 2340
Book Description
This eBook edition of "THE GREATEST ADVENTURES SERIES - Robert Louis Stevenson Edition (Illustrated)" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. His most famous works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. A literary celebrity during his lifetime, Stevenson now ranks among the 26 most translated authors in the world. Table of Contents: Novels: Treasure Island Kidnapped (Adventures of David Balfour I) Catriona (Adventures of David Balfour II) The Wrecker The Ebb-Tide St Ives: Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses Short Stories: Island Nights' Entertainments (South Sea Tales) The Adventure of the Hansom Cab The Adventure of Prince Florizel and a Detective The Misadventures of John Nicholson
Publisher: e-artnow
ISBN: 8027200245
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 2340
Book Description
This eBook edition of "THE GREATEST ADVENTURES SERIES - Robert Louis Stevenson Edition (Illustrated)" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. His most famous works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. A literary celebrity during his lifetime, Stevenson now ranks among the 26 most translated authors in the world. Table of Contents: Novels: Treasure Island Kidnapped (Adventures of David Balfour I) Catriona (Adventures of David Balfour II) The Wrecker The Ebb-Tide St Ives: Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses Short Stories: Island Nights' Entertainments (South Sea Tales) The Adventure of the Hansom Cab The Adventure of Prince Florizel and a Detective The Misadventures of John Nicholson
Whose Panties Are These?
Author: Jennifer Leo
Publisher: Travelers' Tales
ISBN: 9781932361117
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
The best travel stories often hatch when things go completely wrong, and this second title in a series of women's travel humor capitalizes on that phenomenon with more sidesplitting stories of female misadventure around the world.
Publisher: Travelers' Tales
ISBN: 9781932361117
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
The best travel stories often hatch when things go completely wrong, and this second title in a series of women's travel humor capitalizes on that phenomenon with more sidesplitting stories of female misadventure around the world.