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Author: Robert Edison Fulton
Publisher: Motorbooks
Published: 2016-10-01
Total Pages: 355
ISBN-13: 0760353301
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis adventurous work records Robert Edison Fulton's solo round-the-world tour on a two-cylinder Douglas motorcycle between July, 1932 and December, 1933. First published in 1937.
Author: Walter Shapiro
Publisher: Public Affairs
Published: 2009-04-28
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 0786740183
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBy the time most Americans see the presidential candidates on the campaign trail, they are practiced performers surrounded by a platoon of staffers and a brigade of reporters. But on their initial forays into Iowa and New Hampshire in 2002 and early 2003, their entourages were decidedly unpresidential--just an aide or two, perhaps a local reporter, and the candidate himself. Their motorcades were literally one-car caravans; their campaign stops, small gatherings in living rooms. The national media only intermittently follow the candidates as they struggle to define themselves, work out the kinks in their message and refine their personas. But Walter Shapiro did. One-Car Caravan is Shapiro's revealing account of the humble roots of the current presidential campaign, and he provides a telling picture of the 2004 Democratic contenders in their metaphorical boxers and briefs. He shows us John Kerry, Dick Gephardt, Joe Lieberman, John Edwards, Howard Dean, and the others with their hair down, their ties askew, and their foibles bared. It's not pretty to watch a candidate who dreams of flying on Air Force One bump his head on a luggage bin on a small commuter jet, but it can be pretty funny.
Author: Robert Edison Fulton
Publisher: LIT EDIZIONI
Published: 2012-03-28T00:00:00+02:00
Total Pages: 405
ISBN-13: 8861926363
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNel 1931, il ventitreenne Robert Fulton, fresco di laurea, durante una cena annuncia – per far colpo su una ragazza – “Voglio fare il giro del mondo in motocicletta”. Non poteva immaginare che allo stesso tavolo sedesse anche un rappresentante della Douglas, lo storico marchio inglese di motociclette, che di fronte a quelle parole fu preso da un entusiasmo e un’ammirazione incontenibili, dichiarandosi disposto a fornirgli il necessario per l’impresa. Ebbe inizio così, per caso, il primo giro del mondo in motocicletta di cui si abbia testimonianza. Un viaggio attraverso ventidue paesi, da Londra a New York passando attraverso Europa, Medio Oriente e Asia, un’avventura durata diciotto mesi in cui Fulton vivrà “un’Odissea a due cilindri”, alla scoperta di mondi e culture nascoste, in balia degli eventi e dell’imprevedibile. Fulton è sfuggito agli spari delle tribù Pashtun al confine tra Afghanistan e Pakistan, è scampato all’assalto dei banditi iracheni, è stato rinchiuso nelle carceri turche, si è trovato nel mezzo di vere e proprie guerre civili. Eppure, ha trovato anche un mondo di grande umanità e di semplice ricchezza che lo ha accolto e aiutato nei momenti più difficili. Scritto in punta di penna e accompagnato dalle fotografie dello stesso Fulton, One man caravan è il racconto di un’avventura leggendaria e di un mondo lontano da quello che conosciamo, ancora tutt’altro che globalizzato, un racconto che ha segnato profondamente la letteratura di viaggio e ha ispirato moltissimi amanti dell’avventura.
Author: Michael Benanav
Publisher: Lyons Press
Published: 2008-04
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781599211640
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBarnes & Noble "Discover Great New Writers" Seasonal PickAn American's life-or-death adventure to the salt mines of the Sahara Desert
Author: Irene Rawlings
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Published: 2010-09-14
Total Pages: 373
ISBN-13: 1449400345
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Sisters on the Fly know they're having more fun than anyone! Now you're invited to join them on their cross-country road trips as author Irene Rawlings takes you inside the Sisters' decorated vintage trailers. Each trailer reflects its owner's personality, and the Sisters share their individual stories behind their loving restorations--and a few of the wilder outdoor adventures they've experienced along the way. The Sisters also share tips for buying and restoring vintage trailers because they know that once you see all the fun they're having fly-fishing, riding horses, camping, eating, laughing, and loving, you just might want to join their cowgirl caravan when it heads out for the next adventure. Sisters on the Fly will inspire readers with charming and witty anecdotes from the Sisters as they experience the open road and some of the most beautiful places in the country. It is organized around fishing, food, friendship, love, and loss. And, of course, around beautiful vintage trailers that have been lovingly transformed from "trashed to treasured." The book features dozens of engaging stories about the incredible women who buy and restore these trailers, as well as sidebars loaded with both practical and whimsical information for anyone who is ready to find her own trailer and join the caravan.
Author: R. A. Montgomery
Publisher:
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 68
ISBN-13: 9781933390543
DOWNLOAD EBOOK(Ages 5-8) You live in Tibet in 1696. Your parents say you're not old enough to go on the long caravan to India, through the Himalayan mountains of Nepal. You know the trip could be dangerous (bandits, bad weather, rock falls), but it would be the journey of a lifetime.
Author: Scott Alderman
Publisher: Scott Alderman
Published: 2022-03-15
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 0578350017
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBrace yourself for a roller coaster thrill ride as you join the Tattoo the Earth 2000 summer tour of America, the most insane tour ever inflicted on a continent. Featuring twenty of metal’s biggest bands, including Metallica, Slipknot, and Slayer, plus Filip Leu, Sean Vasquez, and the world’s best tattoo artists, these renegade outsiders pissed off all the wrong music business heavyweights but left delirious inked fans in their wake. Caravan of Pain is a rip-roaring music business underdog tale: compelling, hysterical, and cautionary. Its unique peek inside the world of music festivals, metal, and tattooing gives the reader a front row seat to a watershed time in our culture at the turn of the millennium. Told with candor and humor by the tour’s creator Scott Alderman and illustrated with memorabilia and never-before-seen photos, Caravan of Pain is a story of inspiration, persistence, and the dark side of following a dream. "...a rare chronicle of the era in which tattooing went from an underground activity to a part of the mainstream—a shift that Tattoo the Earth can lay claim to having energized. A highly entertaining account of one of rock's most colorful tours." - Kirkus Reviews "...provides interesting, hilarious and often harrowing insight into an era when tattooing was still largely an underground subculture and metal was feared by many." - Revolver "For anyone thinking of starting something like this it shows that you better do a deep background check into the type of people that you might be dealing with if you choose to move forward." - Kevin Lyman, Warped Tour Founder
Author: Thomas Hegghammer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-03-05
Total Pages: 721
ISBN-13: 1108625274
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAbdallah Azzam, the Palestinian cleric who led the mobilization of Arab fighters to Afghanistan in the 1980s, played a crucial role in the internationalization of the jihadi movement. Killed in mysterious circumstances in 1989 in Peshawar, Pakistan, he remains one of the most influential jihadi ideologues of all time. Here, in the first in-depth biography of Azzam, Thomas Hegghammer explains how Azzam came to play this role and why jihadism went global at this particular time. It traces Azzam's extraordinary life journey from a West Bank village to the battlefields of Afghanistan, telling the story of a man who knew all the leading Islamists of his time and frequented presidents, CIA agents, and Cat Stevens the pop star. It is, however, also a story of displacement, exclusion, and repression that suggests that jihadism went global for fundamentally local reasons.
Author: Irfan Orga
Publisher: Eland Publishing
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOrga journeys to the center of Turkey to stay with the Yuruk nomads in the High Taurus Mountains, learning their lore and legends in a world untouched by politics or the march of events.
Author: Kirsten Osbourne
Publisher: Unlimited Dreams Publishing
Published: 2021-12-07
Total Pages: 139
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKShe’s forced into marriage. He’s about to brave the West. Will their unlikely pairing keep the trail of love alive? Independence, Missouri, 1852. Her father’s tragic death set Hannah Moseby emotionally adrift. And after her mother remarries, her new stepfather makes no secret of his disdain for her. And he soon delivers a shocking ultimatum: Marry a religious man heading west… or face the world alone. Preacher Jedediah Scott always felt the guiding hand of God. So after a stranger offers his stepdaughter in holy matrimony, he’s certain that the Lord’s wisdom must be at work. And when he finally encounters the sweet young lady, he’s drawn to her the second their gaze meets. Despite her new husband’s kindness, Hannah fears she’s not cut out to be a preacher’s wife once they’re facing the hardships of the Oregon Trail. And as Jedediah falls hard for his Heaven-sent bride, he prays that she will learn to love him as well. Will they survive the perils of the untamed West and embrace their newfound bond? Hannah’s Hanky is the sweeping first tale in the Clover Creek Caravan historical Western romance series. If you like heartfelt connections, adventurous wagon-trails, and a delightful peek into the past, then you’ll adore Kirsten Osbourne’s unforgettable story. Buy Hannah’s Hanky to pioneer a path to passion today!
