We Should Have Shot the Donkeys
We Should Have Shot the Donkeys

Author: Ken Roberts

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2011-11-15

Total Pages: 520

ISBN-13: 1467007250

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Three survivors of the Great War 1914/18, decide to tell of their experiences in the, trenches in the hope that the black and white dreams they suffer will at last go away. A novice reporter with the London Herald is sent to Wales to interview the three men. This is his first job, during the time he spends in Wales he falls in love with the town and the daughter of one of the men. When the Second World War breaks out and with a need to experience war he joins the army as a war correspondent, landing on Gold beach in 1944.

on a donkey i huricane deck
on a donkey i huricane deck

Author: Bryan Roberts

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2013-06-06

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 1291446168

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A dangerous and adventurous ride across a continent - with sneaky asides from the donkey! A classic

Persian Diary, 1939-1941
Persian Diary, 1939-1941

Author: Walter N. Koelz

Publisher: U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY

Published: 1983-01-01

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 093220693X

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Naturalist and zoologist Walter Koelz traveled to Iran on a project of plant exploration (sponsored by the U.S. Department of Agriculture) from late 1939 to early 1941. With him were three companions: Rup Chand, Wangyel, and Rinchen Gialtsen. Together they brought back 3000 seed samples, 4000 herbarium specimens, and a collection of bird skins. Koelz’s diary of that journey is presented in this volume, with an introduction by Henry T. Wright. Includes dozens of black and white photos.

Must We Mean What We Say?
Must We Mean What We Say?

Author: Stanley Cavell

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015-10-06

Total Pages: 373

ISBN-13: 1316425363

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In this classic collection of wide-ranging and interdisciplinary essays, Stanley Cavell explores a remarkably broad range of philosophical issues from politics and ethics to the arts and philosophy. The essays explore issues as diverse as the opposing approaches of 'analytic' and 'Continental' philosophy, modernism, Wittgenstein, abstract expressionism and Schoenberg, Shakespeare on human needs, the difficulties of authorship, Kierkegaard and post-Enlightenment religion. Presented in a fresh twenty-first century series livery, and including a specially commissioned preface, written by Stephen Mulhall, illuminating its continuing importance and relevance to philosophical enquiry, this influential work is now available for a new generation of readers.

Soldiers and Their Horses
Soldiers and Their Horses

Author: Jane Flynn

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-01-14

Total Pages: 173

ISBN-13: 1000030385

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The soldier-horse relationship was nurtured by The British Army because it made the soldier and his horse into an effective fighting unit. Soldiers and their Horses explores a complex relationship forged between horses and humans in extreme conditions. As both a social history of Britain in the early twentieth century and a history of the British Army, Soldiers and their Horses reconciles the hard pragmatism of war with the imaginative and emotional. By carefully overlapping the civilian and the military, by juxtaposing "sense" and "sentimentality," and by considering institutional policy alongside individual experience, the soldier and his horse are re-instated as co-participators in The Great War. Soldiers and their Horses provides a valuable contribution to current thinking about the role of horses in history.

On a Donkey's Hurricane Deck
On a Donkey's Hurricane Deck

Author: R. Pitcher Woodward

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2021-05-18

Total Pages: 381

ISBN-13:

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'On a Donkey's Hurricane Deck' by R. Pitcher Woodward is the author's adventurous and action voyage story. Excerpt: "With my two cameras I secured six hundred pictures descriptive of the journey across eleven states, through the four seasons, during that long, long year; only by them and my diary am I brought to realize it is not a wild, weird dream. Now it is over, I sometimes smile over things recalled which, when they happened, found me as serious as the donk—grave in the superlative degree—and thoughtless people and those who never even crossed the plains by train may style my experience a mere outing or "picnic."

Rode Hard and Put Away Wet
Rode Hard and Put Away Wet

Author: Richard Powell

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2008-02

Total Pages: 205

ISBN-13: 059548610X

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Richard Powell is one of those individuals who is determined to have as many different experiences as possible as he goes through life. He is a hunter and has spent most of his entire adult life broke . having spent his gold on airfares and hunting licenses and guide fees on four continents. Along the way he has met incredibly interesting men and women . experienced African nights . was attacked by an enraged water buffalo in South America, been offered a thousand dollars to shoot poachers in the Chete area of the remote Zambezi Valley, and been really wet and bug bitten during the rainy season near the Matto Grosso. His latest book deals with various sagas including a hunt for water buffalo in Aboriginal country in Northern Australia where an aborigine lady named Maura called him Cartoon Richard . On this hunt the camp cook did her best to starve the paying clients which led to a hissy fit by the New Zealand dude in camp. Being a big man it was a big hissy fit. Off to Africa, a funky little Suzuki named Baby Red with 800,000 km carried Richard and his wife Margaret around safely as they did their best to hunt kudu and gemsbok and warthog and leopard. In Old Montana a hunt for tundra swans with a fine gentleman from Billings led to a morning where one rejoices to be alive . as an ancient man with many ailments refused to . 'go gently into that good night' . He was a hunter-not some old man waiting to die somewhere in an institution. And the major theme of all these adventures is laughter. Maybe different mountains and skies and accents-but always . laughter as things go awry .

Symposium on J. L. Austin (Routledge Revivals)
Symposium on J. L. Austin (Routledge Revivals)

Author: K T Fann

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-01-11

Total Pages: 504

ISBN-13: 1136646094

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J. L. Austin (1911-1960) exercised in Post-war Oxford an intellectual authority similar to that of Wittgenstein in Cambridge. Although he completed no books of his own and published only seven papers, Austin became through lectures and talks one of the acknowledged leaders in what is called ‘Oxford philosophy’ or ‘ordinary language philosophy’. Few would dispute that among analytic philosophers Austin stands out as a great and original philosophical genius. Three volumes of his writing, published after his death, have become classics in analytical philosophy: Philosophical Papers; Sense and Sensibilia; and How to Do Things with Words. First published in 1969, this book is a collection of critical essays on Austin’s philosophy written by well-known philosophers, many of whom knew Austin personally. A number of essays included were especially written for this volume, but the majority have appeared previously in various journals or books, not all easy to obtain.