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Author: Bethany Strobel Publisher: Bethany Strobel ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 155
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"Brilliant and charmingly witty." A New Adult small town second chance cowboy romance. It’s been two long years since Jax and Jillian had a wild fling in her parents’ rental cabin over Christmas break, and almost a year since they've seen each other. Jax and Jillian have kept in touch, but life has taken them in different directions. When Jillian decided to take two more years of college for her Veterinarian degree, and Jax lost his Uncle - leaving him the sole heir to a sprawling ranch in Montana - things just didn’t work out for them. Recently graduated and with hundreds of hours of interning behind her, Jillian is hard pressed to find a job in the dwindling economy. When interviewer after interviewer turns her away, she fears she will never be able to pay her parents back all the tuition costs, and she's forced to move back in with them. So, when Jax turns up out of the blue at her parents' house and fails to ask her if she’d like the position on his ranch as full-time head Vet, she decides to take things into her own hands and demands he hire her for the job that just happens to be 1700 miles across the country. Is Jillian leaving behind family and friends for a job, or a chance to rekindle their love? Find out how their story continues in Chasing Mountains: Country Roads Romance
Author: Bethany Strobel Publisher: Bethany Strobel ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 155
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"Brilliant and charmingly witty." A New Adult small town second chance cowboy romance. It’s been two long years since Jax and Jillian had a wild fling in her parents’ rental cabin over Christmas break, and almost a year since they've seen each other. Jax and Jillian have kept in touch, but life has taken them in different directions. When Jillian decided to take two more years of college for her Veterinarian degree, and Jax lost his Uncle - leaving him the sole heir to a sprawling ranch in Montana - things just didn’t work out for them. Recently graduated and with hundreds of hours of interning behind her, Jillian is hard pressed to find a job in the dwindling economy. When interviewer after interviewer turns her away, she fears she will never be able to pay her parents back all the tuition costs, and she's forced to move back in with them. So, when Jax turns up out of the blue at her parents' house and fails to ask her if she’d like the position on his ranch as full-time head Vet, she decides to take things into her own hands and demands he hire her for the job that just happens to be 1700 miles across the country. Is Jillian leaving behind family and friends for a job, or a chance to rekindle their love? Find out how their story continues in Chasing Mountains: Country Roads Romance
Author: Nancy East Publisher: Headlamp Publishing ISBN: Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 253
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Before she went missing, Susan Clements was hiking with her daughter on one of the most popular trails in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, less than a mile from Clingmans Dome. When Nancy East’s search and rescue team joined the effort to find her, she learned Susan was a mother to three children who adored her. What Nancy didn’t know then was how much the search for Susan would impact and influence her own life’s path afterward. Two years later, Nancy and her good friend, Chris Ford, set out to improve the speed record of hiking all 801 miles of trail in Great Smoky Mountains National Park while raising funds for hiker safety and preparedness. While chasing the record, the duo faced tropical storm rains, swollen, unbridged creek crossings, injuries, night hiking, and wildlife encounters. Their arduous journey also became intertwined in one of the most rare human-bear tragedies in the park’s history. Maintaining a positive mental attitude was their superpower through it all. The enormous feat of endurance was one of the most grueling endeavors that Nancy, a mother and everyday athlete, had ever faced. However, the hardest things she had endured were in her past. The strength she gained from those experiences was now moving her forward, one difficult step at a time. Chasing the Smokies Moon is a story of grief, hope, empowerment, and love, and the thread that binds them all. ADVANCE PRAISE FOR CHASING THE SMOKIES MOON "If you think that setting trail records is about speed and hubris, Nancy East will prove you wrong. It is not her success, but her vulnerability that will encourage you to keep moving forward when the next step feels impossible. It is not her impressive miles, but rather her insightful reflections that allow you to recognize feelings of gratitude and connectedness in the midst of pain and loss. And it is not her attributes as a hiker, but her roles as a mother, spouse, and friend that make this book a valuable resource for anyone who is trying to navigate through relationships - and adventure." --Jennifer Pharr Davis, author of The Pursuit of Endurance: Harnessing the Record-Breaking Power of Strength and Resilience “I have always thought of Nancy East as somewhat of a real life superhero -- this harrowing and transparent account of her FKT attempt and SAR fundraising effort has certainly solidified that sentiment!” --Steven Reinhold, Backpacker Magazine, Brand Ambassador “Chasing the Smokies Moon is a deep dive into the depths of a Fastest Known Time record attempt. East relays with humor, profundity, and humility the highs and lows of an intense journey through the Great Smoky Mountains and human connection." --Heather Anderson, author of Mud, Rocks, Blazes: Letting Go on the Appalachian Trail “This story is more than just a recounting of an incredible feat of endurance and perseverance, it is an insightful and revealing look into the mind and soul of multi faceted adventurous woman.” --Kevin Fitzgerald, former Deputy Superintendent of Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Author: James Wilde Publisher: ISBN: 9781478715542 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 388
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Wilde explains how his dream to climb the seven continental summits transformed into the quest to bring clean drinking water to those in need in the Northern Province of Uganda.
Author: Pierre Petit Publisher: University of Hawaii Press ISBN: 0824897749 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 320
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In the connected highlands of southwest China, Vietnam, and Laos, recalling the past is a highly sensitive act. Among local societies, many may actively avoid recalling the past for fear of endangering themselves and others. Oral traditions and rare archives remain the main avenues to visit the past, but the national revolutionary narrative and the language of heritagization have strongly affected the local expression of historical memory. Yet this does not prevent local societies from producing their stories in their own terms, even if often in conflict with both national and Western categories. Producing history, ethnohistory, historical anthropology, and historical geography in the Southeast Asian highlands raises significant questions relating to methodology, epistemology, and ethics, for which most researchers are often ill-prepared. How can scholars manage to competently access information about the past? How is one to capture history-in-the-making through events, speech acts, rituals, and performances? How is the memory of the past transmitted—or not—and with what logic? Based on the experiences and reflections of a dozen diverse scholars rooted in decades of work in these three communist states, Chasing Traces is the first book about historical ethnography and related issues in the Southeast Asian highlands. Taking a critically reflexive posture, the authors make a plea for the individual, the hidden, and the backstage, for what life is really like on the ground, as opposed to imagined homogeneity, legibility, and unambiguousness. Their investigations on the history of ethnic minority communities adds archival historiography to ethnographic fieldwork and examines the relationship between the two fields. The individual chapters each tell distinctive stories of the conjunction of fieldwork, archival research, official surveillance, community participation, cultural norms, partnership with local scholars, and the other factors that both facilitate and frustrate the research enterprise of writing about the past in these societies. A timely work, this volume also provides guidelines for alternative ways to document and reflect when physical access becomes limited due to factors such as pandemic, political instability, and violence, and offers creative ways for researchers to cope with these dramatic shifts.
Author: Frank Tompkins Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing ISBN: 1789125693 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 732
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Chasing Villa is a record of events in Western history, military history, the Mexican Revolution, and the last of the horse cavalry. Following its first publication in 1934, U.S. Army Colonel Frank Tompkins’ account of the Punitive Expedition by a participant became widely considered to be one of the most comprehensive. The book tells the story of the Columbus Raid and Pershing’s Expedition into Mexico. On March 9, 1916 the border town of Columbus, New Mexico was attacked by forces under the command of the Mexican revolutionary, Pancho Villa. Eighteen Americans were killed and a number of buildings were burned to the ground before the U.S. Cavalry, inflicting heavy losses, drove Villa and his mounted band back into Mexico. Frank Tompkins, a Major in the U.S. Cavalry at the time, led the counterattack against Villa’s mounted men on March 9th, and was with General John “Black Jack” Pershing during the subsequent year-long “Punitive Expedition” that sought to capture the elusive Villa in Mexico. The Columbus Raid and Punitive Expedition proved to be the last major campaign of the U.S. Cavalry. At the same time it presaged the more modern military techniques that would soon be employed by American forces in World War I. First published in 1934 and long out of print, “Chasing Villa” is a sound and literate record of milestone events in Western history, military history, the Mexican revolution, and the last of the horse cavalry.
Author: Daniel Barbarisi Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 0525566112 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 369
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“Daniel Barbarisi plunges into an adventure from another era when he goes in search of buried treasure, guided only by a cryptic poem, a mischievous art collector, and the footsteps another pursuer who died on the quest… Every page draws you deeper into this no-man’s-land where fortune—or tragedy—awaits.” —Christopher McDougall, author of Born to Run When Forrest Fenn was given a fatal cancer diagnosis, he came up with a bold plan: He would hide a chest full of jewels and gold in the wilderness, and publish a poem that would serve as a map leading to the treasure's secret location. But he didn't die, and after hiding the treasure in 2010, Fenn instead presided over a decade-long gold rush that saw many thousands of treasure hunters scrambling across the Rocky Mountains in pursuit of his fortune. Daniel Barbarisi first learned of Fenn's hunt in 2017, when a friend became consumed with decoding the poem and convinced Barbarisi, a reporter, to document his search. What began as an attempt to capture the inner workings of Fenn's hunt quickly turned into a personal quest that led Barbarisi down a reckless and potentially dangerous path, one that found him embroiled in searcher conspiracies and matching wits with Fenn himself. Over the course of four chaotic years, several searchers would die, endless controversies would erupt, and one hunter would ultimately find the chest. But the mystery didn't end there. Full of intrigue, danger, and break-neck action, Chasing the Thrill is a riveting tale of desire, obsession, and unbridled adventure.
Author: Jonathan Waterman Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 1493035207 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 185
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The history of mountaineering began on Denali with the legendary story of four gold miners (called “Sourdoughs” because they carried sourdough starter with them at all times) who claimed to have summited after climbing more than 8,000 feet of steep snow and ice, then back down again—all in a single and incredibly dangerous day in 1910. Lugging a 25-pound, 14-foot flagpole to mark their success, they took on North America’s highest peak using sheet metal crampons, coal shovels, hatchets, and alpenstocks to balance their way up the mountain. Was the expedition a success or a hoax? Denali climber Jon Waterman brings this colorful mountaineering mystery to life.
Author: Ramsey Wake Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 0359950396 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 112
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A second trip, through my mind. A book that's different, a book that's honest. This is a book for those chasing after, seeking for, and searching through.
Author: David Leach Publisher: ECW Press ISBN: 1770909389 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 347
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A fascinating, non-partisan exploration of an incendiary region Say the word “Israel” today and it sparks images of walls and rockets and a bloody conflict without end. Yet for decades, the symbol of the Jewish State was the noble pioneer draining the swamps and making the deserts bloom: the legendary kibbutznik. So what ever happened to the pioneers’ dream of founding a socialist utopia in the land called Palestine? Chasing Utopia: The Future of the Kibbutz in a Divided Israel draws readers into the quest for answers to the defining political conflict of our era. Acclaimed author David Leach revisits his raucous memories of life as a kibbutz volunteer and returns to meet a new generation of Jewish and Arab citizens struggling to forge a better future together. Crisscrossing the nation, Leach chronicles the controversial decline of Israel’s kibbutz movement and witnesses a renaissance of the original vision for a peaceable utopia in unexpected corners of the Promised Land. Chasing Utopia is an entertaining and enlightening portrait of a divided nation where hope persists against the odds.
Author: Bethany Strobel
Author: Bethany Strobel
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