Sven Hedin (1865-1952) spent three decades exploring Central Asia: traveling the Silk Road, discovering long-lost cities, mapping uncharted rivers. This memoir tells the story of his exploits and accomplishments.
Sven Hedin (1865-1952) spent three decades exploring Central Asia: traveling the Silk Road, discovering long-lost cities, mapping uncharted rivers. This memoir tells the story of his exploits and accomplishments.
Studio A chronicles the creator of some of the most indelible popular music of our time, a restless and protean figure whose career has been the subject of repeated transformations, declines and comebacks. From early singles such as "Blowin' in the Wind" to recent albums like Love and Theft, Bob Dylan has proven himself to be the greatest lyricist ...
The account of the authors 18 months of travel in the years 1906-1908. The book is in 3 volumes and gives a lively account of the authors travels and adventures in Tibet. The author skips the heavy technical jargon and has adopted an easy style of writing that would be appealing to the expert as well as an interested reader. The book is full of ...
Beginning near Sitka and ending in the Yukon Delta, this collection of essays on Alaska's natural grandeur takes the reader on a grand tour of a great land. Editors Hedin and Holthaus demonstrate the diversity of Alaska through writings that offer a rich understanding of the complexities of the land and its people. The Great Land offers ...
Sven Anders Hedin (1865-1952) was a Swedish explorer, geographer and geopolitician. Hedin was born in Stockholm. Between 1886 and 1892 he studied geology, mineralogy, zoology, and Latin in Stockholm, Uppsala, Berlin, and Halle. He was a student of Ferdinand von Richthofen. Between his graduation in 1892 and 1935 he led several expeditions to ...
It is the unique gift of a poet to distil a place, a moment, a feeling in such a way that draws readers into his or her intimate world, inviting them to make it their own. In "Where One Voice Ends Another Begins", seventy-six extraordinary poets from across generations invite readers to experience Minnesota through hundreds of diverse and deeply ...
Robert Bly introduces this selected volume of poems by the celebrated Norwegian modernist. In the world explored here, smokestacks, billboards, and telephone poles dot the traditionally pastoral landscape.
Includes works by Langston Hughes, Hart Crane, Edna St. Vincent Millay, William Carlos Williams, John Berryman and many others--all in celebration of trains.
"Riddles of the Gobi Desert": This account of the celebrated Swedish explorer describes his expeditions into northern China and inner Mongolia in 1928 and 1929. Written in his characteristic narrative to simplicity it details his negotiation with the central government of Nan king and aims to increase the archaeological and geographical knowledge ...
For the first time, in one volume, the rich canon of American war poems, from "Yankee Doodle" to Robert Creeley's "Ground Zero." This unique, comprehensive anthology gathers together more than two hundred poems about the American experience of war—narratives, meditations, elegies, lamentations, odes, tributes, and battle hymns—many of ...
Raymond Hedin attended St. Francis Seminary, part of the class of 1969. But he left before ordination, and got married. Now divorced and ex-Catholic, Hedin returns to the seminary for a reunion and interviews 22 priests, 15 other men who left the seminary before being ordained, and several other men of non-priestly status who continue to serve the ...
"If you have a tiny farm, you need to love poetry more than the farm. If you sell apples, you need to love poetry more than the apples."-Robert Bly, from the introduction Olav H. Hauge, one of Norway's most beloved poets, is a major figure of twentieth-century European poetry. This generous bilingual edition-introduced by Robert Bly-includes the ...
Rowers and divers, strolling couples, scenes of Parisian working life: This is the world of Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894). Though he was affiliated with Impressionism from the start (he funded several early Impressionist exhibitions and often supported colleagues like Renoir, Monet and Pissarro by buying their works), and though he shared its ...
Size is usually the first thing that comes to mind when we ponder the great airships. In war and peace, to most people they seem bigger than life itself, bright, wondrous, sometimes dangerous apparitions that engender a religious awe. They remain the largest crafts that have ever been launched into the sky. Tracing the history of the airship from ...
Nowhere is the conflict between economic progress and environmental quality more apparent than in the mineral extraction industries. The latter half of the 20th century saw major advances in the reclamation technologies. However, mine water pollution problems have not been addressed. In many cases, polluted mine water long outlives the life of the ...
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On Alexander's Track to the Indus: Personal Narrative of Explorations on the Northwest Frontier of India
