Author: Ben Montgomery Publisher: Chicago Review Press ISBN: 1613747217 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 292
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Winner of the 2014 National Outdoor Book Awards for History/Biography Emma Gatewood told her family she was going on a walk and left her small Ohio hometown with a change of clothes and less than two hundred dollars. The next anybody heard from her, this genteel, farm-reared, 67-year-old great-grandmother had walked 800 miles along the 2,050-mile Appalachian Trail. And in September 1955, having survived a rattlesnake strike, two hurricanes, and a run-in with gangsters from Harlem, she stood atop Maine's Mount Katahdin. There she sang the first verse of "America, the Beautiful" and proclaimed, "I said I'll do it, and I've done it." Grandma Gatewood, as the reporters called her, became the first woman to hike the entire Appalachian Trail alone, as well as the first person—man or woman—to walk it twice and three times. Gatewood became a hiking celebrity and appeared on TV and in the pages of Sports Illustrated. The public attention she brought to the little-known footpath was unprecedented. Her vocal criticism of the lousy, difficult stretches led to bolstered maintenance, and very likely saved the trail from extinction. Author Ben Montgomery was given unprecedented access to Gatewood's own diaries, trail journals, and correspondence, and interviewed surviving family members and those she met along her hike, all to answer the question so many asked: Why did she do it? The story of Grandma Gatewood will inspire readers of all ages by illustrating the full power of human spirit and determination. Even those who know of Gatewood don't know the full story—a story of triumph from pain, rebellion from brutality, hope from suffering.
Author: Luanas Montgomery Notebooks Publisher: ISBN: 9781671070325 Category : Languages : en Pages : 122
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Montgomery Notebook and the perfect Diary for real patriots of Montgomery.You are proud to be born in Montgomery.Yes this city is great! Additional details: This notebook has the size of 6x9 inches! The notebook contains 120 blank lined pages. Examples of use: diary notebook creative logbook sketchbook homework diary fitness planner / sports
Author: Luanas Montgomery Notebooks Publisher: ISBN: 9781673530124 Category : Languages : en Pages : 122
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Montgomery Notebook and the perfect Diary for real patriots of Montgomery.You are proud to be born in Montgomery.Yes this city is great! Additional details: This notebook has the size of 6x9 inches! The notebook contains 120 dotted pages / 120 dot-grid pages. Examples of use: diary notebook creative logbook sketchbook homework diary fitness planner / sports
Author: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Publisher: Beacon Press ISBN: 0807000701 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 272
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MLK’s classic account of the first successful large-scale act of nonviolent resistance in America: the Montgomery bus boycott. A young Dr. King wrote Stride Toward Freedom just 2 years after the successful completion of the boycott. In his memoir about the event, he tells the stories that informed his radical political thinking before, during, and after the boycott—from first witnessing economic injustice as a teenager and watching his parents experience discrimination to his decision to begin working with the NAACP. Throughout, he demonstrates how activism and leadership can come from any experience at any age. Comprehensive and intimate, Stride Toward Freedom emphasizes the collective nature of the movement and includes King’s experiences learning from other activists working on the boycott, including Mrs. Rosa Parks and Claudette Colvin. It traces the phenomenal journey of a community and shows how the 28-year-old Dr. King, with his conviction for equality and nonviolence, helped transform the nation and the world. This book was published with two different covers. Customers will be shipped one of them at random.
Author: Luanas Montgomery Notebooks Publisher: ISBN: 9781650334660 Category : Languages : en Pages : 122
Book Description
Montgomery Notebook and the perfect Diary for real patriots of Montgomery.You are proud to be born in Montgomery.Yes this city is great! Additional details: This notebook has the size of 6x9 inches! The notebook contains 120 graph paper pages. Examples of use: diary notebook creative logbook sketchbook homework diary fitness planner / sports
Author: Sy Montgomery Publisher: Ballantine Books ISBN: 0345493818 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 235
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"In loving yet unsentimental prose, Sy Montgomery captures the richness that animals bring to the human experience. Sometimes it takes a too-smart-for-his-own-good pig to open our eyes to what most matters in life.” —John Grogan, author of Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World’s Worst Dog A naturalist who spent months at a time living on her own among wild creatures in remote jungles, Sy Montgomery had always felt more comfortable with animals than with people. So she gladly opened her heart to a sick piglet who had been crowded away from nourishing meals by his stronger siblings. Yet Sy had no inkling that this piglet, later named Christopher Hogwood, would not only survive but flourish—and she soon found herself engaged with her small-town community in ways she had never dreamed possible. Unexpectedly, Christopher provided this peripatetic traveler with something she had sought all her life: an anchor (eventually weighing 750 pounds) to family and home. The Good Good Pig celebrates Christopher Hogwood in all his glory, from his inauspicious infancy to hog heaven in rural New Hampshire, where his boundless zest for life and his large, loving heart made him absolute monarch over a (mostly) peaceable kingdom. At first, his domain included only Sy’s cosseted hens and her beautiful border collie, Tess. Then the neighbors began fetching Christopher home from his unauthorized jaunts, the little girls next door started giving him warm, soapy baths, and the villagers brought him delicious leftovers. His intelligence and fame increased along with his girth. He was featured in USA Today and on several National Public Radio environmental programs. On election day, some voters even wrote in Christopher’s name on their ballots. But as this enchanting book describes, Christopher Hogwood’s influence extended far beyond celebrity; for he was, as a friend said, a great big Buddha master. Sy reveals what she and others learned from this generous soul who just so happened to be a pig—lessons about self-acceptance, the meaning of family, the value of community, and the pleasures of the sweet green Earth. The Good Good Pig provides proof that with love, almost anything is possible.
Author: Dennex Publishing Publisher: ISBN: 9781078414319 Category : Languages : en Pages : 122
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Looking for a gift for women, men, girls or boys? This notebook (120 blank white pages, 6x9 inches) will be the perfect present for everyone who loves their hometown Montgomery. It can be used as a composition book, exercise book, journal, diary or planner. This beautifully designed notebook has a matte, sturdy paperback cover, perfect bound, for a gorgeous look and feel. PERFECT gift under 10$
Author: Dennex Publishing Publisher: ISBN: 9781079019865 Category : Languages : en Pages : 122
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Looking for a gift for women, men, girls or boys? This notebook (120 dot grid white pages, 6x9 inches) will be the perfect present for everyone who loves their hometown Montgomery. It can be used as a composition book, exercise book, journal, diary or planner. This beautifully designed notebook has a matte, sturdy paperback cover, perfect bound, for a gorgeous look and feel. PERFECT gift under 10$
Author: Dennex Publishing Publisher: ISBN: 9781079011401 Category : Languages : en Pages : 122
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Looking for a gift for women, men, girls or boys? This notebook (120 checkered white pages, 6x9 inches) will be the perfect present for everyone who loves their hometown Montgomery. It can be used as a composition book, exercise book, journal, diary or planner. This beautifully designed notebook has a matte, sturdy paperback cover, perfect bound, for a gorgeous look and feel. PERFECT gift under 10$
Author: Ben Montgomery
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