Author: Clive Bowd
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781520683621
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 62
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'Tales of The Ridgeway' is just that, a collection of stories, folklore and my own personal observations made over 45 years exploring the archaeology and history of this ancient route-way. The ridgeway in question is the section that follows the chalk escarpment from the Thames at Streatley, through Berkshire, Oxfordshire and Wiltshire to the great Neolithic metropolis that is Avebury. It forms a forty mile downland stretch of the much longer Icknield Way providing excellent walking, and scope for exploration of varied habitats and places of interest. In these pages you will find odd snippets of information concerning the archaeological sites, but much more, human endeavour, enterprise and just a little fun! My background in archaeology and heritage conservation, coupled with my local knowledge, will hopefully lend a deeper appreciation of the area to anyone following in my footsteps. However, this is not a guide book, but a celebration of that which is good, interesting and a little quirky to be found on some of the best turf in the world, under lofty skies. This is a landscape that grows on you. Enjoy!
Author: Rick Ridgeway
Publisher: Patagonia
ISBN: 9781938340994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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At the beginning of his memoir Life Lived Wild, Adventures at the Edge of the Map, Rick Ridgeway tells us that if you add up all his many expeditions, he’s spent over five years of his life sleeping in tents: “And most of that in small tents pitched in the world’s most remote regions.” It’s not a boast so much as an explanation. Whether at elevation or raising a family back at sea level, those years taught him, he writes, “to distinguish matters of consequence from matters of inconsequence.” He leaves it to his readers, though, to do the final sort of which is which."--Amazon.
Author: Keith Ridgway
Publisher: Picador
ISBN: 1761685708
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 277
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A Shock inhabits the secret life of a city, its hidden energies. It dramatizes how patterns form and then disperse, how stories are made and relationships created . . . remarkable' - Colm Tóibín, author of Brooklyn 'Political, pertinent, spunky and funny, A Shock is a grand sweep of modern storytelling' - June Caldwell, author of Room Little Darker In A Shock, a clutch of more or less loosely connected characters appear, disappear and reappear. They are all of them on the fringes of London life, often clinging on – to sanity or solvency or a story – by their fingertips. Keith Ridgway, author of the acclaimed Hawthorn & Child, writes about people whose understanding of their own situation is only ever partial and fuzzy, who are consumed by emotions and anxieties and narratives, or the lack thereof, that they cannot master. He focuses on peripheral figures who mean well and to whom things happen, and happen confusingly, and his fictional strategies reflect this focus. In a deftly conjured high-wire act, Ridgway achieves the fine balance between the imperatives of drama and fidelity to his characters. The result is pin-sharp and often breathtaking. 'A Shock is a perfect, living circle of beauty and mystery, clearsighted and compassionate, and, at times, wonderfully funny’ - David Hayden, author of Darker With the Lights On
Author: Charles Ridgway
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781937011420
Category : Disneyland (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Disney Legend Charles Ridgway looks back over forty years of working for "the Mouse," from Disneyland, to Walt Disney World, to Euro-Disney and beyond. Filled with light-hearted and hilarious reminiscences of famous people and outlandish publicity stunts, this memoir will delight Disney fans young and old.
Author: William J. Schnell
Publisher: Baker Books
ISBN: 1441231641
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 199
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At first, the Watchtower Society seemed harmless to William J. Schnell, even valuable as a way to develop his faith in God and pass it on to others. This book is Schnell's fascinating account of his involvement with the cult, which effectively enticed him in the 1920s and continues to lure countless individuals today. Readers will learn, as Schnell did, that the Jehovah's Witness religion he had joined was anything but innocent. For thirty years he was enslaved by one of the most totalitarian religions of our day, and his story of finally becoming free is riveting. Readers will be alerted to the inner machinations, methods, and doctrines of the Watchtower Society, arming them to forewarn others and witness to their Jehovah's Witness friends, relatives, neighbors, and the stranger at the door. With more than 300,000 copies sold, 30 Years a Watchtower Slave is truly one of the classic testimonies of freedom from a powerful cult.
Author: Bill Moen
Publisher: The Guest Cottage, Inc.
ISBN: 1930596200
Category : Bars (Drinking establishments)
Languages : en
Pages : 180
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Relive the days when wisconsin was young and wild, when the tavern was the social hub of small towns across the state.
Author: Kianna Alexander
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781519954053
Category : Man-woman relationships
Languages : en
Pages :
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Enjoy the first three books in the Roses of Ridgeway historical romance series, all in on convenient set!Kissing the Captain Lilly Benigno is thrown for a loop when she discovers her father's will demands she share the land with a man she's never met, sea captain Ricardo Benigno. The attraction between them is instant, and they both agree that marriage is the only acceptable way they can share the land. But can two people from such different worlds learn to love each other, or will Lilly's heart be broken if she dares to kiss the captain? The Preacher's Paramour Reverend Derrick Chase, a Moravian pastor, is newly settled in Ridgeway, over 3,000 miles away from where he grew up in North Carolina. He came to California hoping to put distance between himself, and a dark past he has no desire to revisit. But the tall, beautiful Prudence Emerson gets his heart pounding every time she's near. She's an honorable woman, and he won't soil her reputation. But another thing he won't do is let her slip through his fingers. Can he love her without drawing her into the dangerous web of his secret past? Loving the Lawman Just as Sheriff Noah Rogers begins to woo the icy Valerie Ridgeway, a rash of crime invades the usually peaceful environment of Ridgeway. When the safety of the innocent citizens of town becomes more threatened than ever before, Noah must find a way to protect them, and the woman he loves. But when shocking violence, loss, and grief threaten to unravel their hard-won courtship, will they find a way to overcome it all, so that Valerie can truly begin loving the lawman?
Author: Rick Ridgeway
Publisher: National Geographic
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 338
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As the gorge narrowed to barely the width of their equipment-laden rickshaws, the four men stood in the icy water, looking downstream at a five-foot waterfall and then up 100 feet of rock wall at a sliver of Tibetan sky. For weeks, they had pulled the carts across some of the planet's most remote terrain, but it looked as if this might be the end of their quest. With food tightly rationed and another hundred miles to go, their lives might depend on their next decision, but all four could sense they were close to their goal -- the calving grounds of the chiru, an elusive, endangered antelope whose delicate wool, shahtoosh, has for centuries been woven into shawls that command prices that can approach $20,000 apiece.
Author: Colson Whitehead
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0345804325
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 337
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • "An American masterpiece" (NPR) that chronicles a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. • The basis for the acclaimed original Amazon Prime Video series directed by Barry Jenkins. Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. An outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is on the cusp of womanhood—where greater pain awaits. And so when Caesar, a slave who has recently arrived from Virginia, urges her to join him on the Underground Railroad, she seizes the opportunity and escapes with him. In Colson Whitehead's ingenious conception, the Underground Railroad is no mere metaphor: engineers and conductors operate a secret network of actual tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil. Cora embarks on a harrowing flight from one state to the next, encountering, like Gulliver, strange yet familiar iterations of her own world at each stop. As Whitehead brilliantly re-creates the terrors of the antebellum era, he weaves in the saga of our nation, from the brutal abduction of Africans to the unfulfilled promises of the present day. The Underground Railroad is both the gripping tale of one woman's will to escape the horrors of bondage—and a powerful meditation on the history we all share. Look for Colson Whitehead’s new novel, Crook Manifesto, coming soon!
Author: Erin H. Turner
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493023292
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 409
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This collection of fifty outlaw tales includes well-knowns such as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Frank and Jesse James, Belle Starr (and her dad), and Pancho Villa, along with a fair smattering of women, organized crime bosses, smugglers, and of course the usual suspects: highwaymen, bank and train robbers, cattle rustlers, snake-oil salesmen, and horse thieves. Men like Henry Brown and Burt Alvord worked on both sides of the law either at different times of their lives or simultaneously. Clever shyster Soapy Smith and murderer Martin Couk survived by their wits, while the outlaw careers of the dimwitted DeAutremont brothers and bigmouthed Diamondfield Jack were severely limited by their intellect, or lack thereof. Nearly everyone in these pages was motivated by greed, revenge, or a lethal mixture of the two. The most bloodthirsty of the bunch, such as the heartless (and, some might argue, soulless) Annie Cook and trigger-happy Augustine Chacón, surely had evil written into their very DNA.
