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Free Download John Muir, "Journeys in the Wilderness: A John Muir Reader"
English | 2010 | pages: 576 | ISBN: 1841586978 | EPUB | 0,7 mb
The name of John Muir has come to stand for the protection of wild land and wilderness in both America and Britain. Born in Dunbar in the east of Scotland in 1838, Muir is famed as the father of American conservation, and as the first person to promote the idea of National Parks. Combining acute observation with a sense of inner discovery, Muir’s writings of his travels through some of the greatest landscapes on Earth, including the Carolinas, Florida, Alaska and those lands which were to become the great National Parks of Yosemite and the Sierra Valley, raise an awareness of nature to a spiritual dimension.These journals provide a unique marriage of scientific survey of natural history with lyrical and often amusing anecdotes, retaining a freshness, intensity and brutal honesty which will amaze the modern reader. This collection, including the never-before-published "Stickeen", presents the finest of Muir’s writings, and imparts a rounded portrait of a man whose generosity, passion, discipline and vision are an inspiration to this day.

Free Download Tony Perrottet, "John Muir’s Yosemite"
English | 2014 | pages: 27 | ASIN: B005AJAMXG | EPUB | 8,6 mb
John Muir, the father of conservation, found his calling in the California wilderness known as Yosemite. Here, in this short-form book from award-winning journalist, author, and frequent National Public Radio contributor Tony Perrottet, is the story of Muir and the national park he helped create.

Free Download Colin Odell, "John Carpenter (Pocket Essential series)"
English | 2001 | pages: 96 | ISBN: 1903047374 | PDF | 2,2 mb
Pocket Essentials is a dynamic series of books that are concise, lively, and easy to read. Packed with facts as well as expert opinions, each book has all the key information you need to know about such popular topics as film, television, cult fiction, history, and more. John Carpenter has been setting trends and exciting audiences for a quarter of a century. His first two features were a double-whammy virtually unparalleled in modern cinema-the urban re-working of Rio Bravo, Assault on Precinct 13, followed by the first and defining slasher movie, Halloween. Since then Carpenter has worked with low and big budgets, directed stars and unknowns, and enjoyed commercial success and suffered critical failure. But he has consistently produced a stream of entertaining, unpretentious movies some of which-particularly Escape from New York and The Thing-are now regarded as modern classics. In their Pocket Essential to John Carpenter, Michelle le Blanc and Colin Odell examine and analyze every film by this prolific director.

Free Download Adrian Frazier, "Hollywood Irish: John Ford, Abbey Actors and the Irish Revival in Hollywood"
English | 2011 | pages: 300 | ISBN: 1843511819 | EPUB | 3,7 mb
In the course of a 1935 USA Abbey Theatre tour of the plays of Sean O’Casey and others, an extensive collaboration was launched between director John Ford (‘My real name is Sean Martin Aloysius O’Feeney’), fresh from shooting O’Flaherty’s The Informer, and star players such as Sara Allgood, Barry Fitzgerald and his brother Arthur Shields. Tempted by movie contracts, these great stage actors resettled in Hollywood and became members of what was informally called Ford’s ‘stock company’, appearing again and again in his key films such as The Long Way Home (1940), How Green Was My Valley (1941), She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949) and The Quiet Man (1952). Based on a hitherto-unknown cache of Shields family papers and memorabilia, Frazier traces the remarkable life stories of these actors in their migration from Dublin to California. He shows how signifying elements of the Irish Revival mutated from world theatre to global cinema, giving fresh readings to some of the great films of the era. Richly illustrated, and driven by a sparkling narrative style, Hollywood Irish brings depth and perspective to Ireland’s part in the fashioning of American identity.

Free Download John Wilson, "Discovering the Arctic: The Story of John Rae"
English | 2003 | pages: 80 | ISBN: 0929141881 | EPUB | 5,6 mb
Short-listed for the 2004 Canadian Children’s Book Centre Norma Fleck Award and commended for the 2004 Best Books for Kids and Teens

Free Download Peter Fallon, "Chosen Lights: Poets on Poems by John Montague"
English | 2009 | pages: 149 | ISBN: 1852354712 | EPUB | 1,2 mb
Loughcrew, Oldcastle, Co. Meath, Gallery Press 2009. cloth & dustjacket. 8vo., 149 pp. Twenty-two Irish poets select a favorite Montague poem & offer appreciative commentary on it. The book is thus a combination Festschrift, selected poems, & critical ‘casebook’. Contributors include Seamus Heaney, Paul Muldoon, Derek Mahon, Eavan Boland, Eamon Grennan, Michael Longley, Medbh McGuckian, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, et al. Fine – new in fine dj.

Free Download Richard P. Heitzenrater, "An Exact Likeness: The Portraits of John Wesley"
English | 2016 | pages: 128 | ISBN: 1501816608 | EPUB | 7,6 mb
Faces are more than a montage of organs that see, breathe, speak, hear, eat, sing, smell, and yell. As Josephine Tey points out in her mystery novel, The Daughter of Time, the slant of an eyebrow, the set of a mouth, the look of the eye, the firmness of a chin, often can provide evidence of character that is as telling as a report card or a police blotter. Those features depicted on portraits of individuals can be equally telling of the person’s inner nature or perhaps of what the artist thinks (or wants the viewer to think) about the person being portrayed. Sometimes a portrait might be even more useful than a biography.

Free Download Wildflowers of the High Sierra and John Muir Trail by Elizabeth Wenk
English | July 1, 2018 | ISBN: 1643590073 | 224 pages | EPUB | 87 Mb
This new book by Sierra expert Elizabeth Wenk includes photos and descriptions of approximately 300 species of wildflowers and flowering shrubs in the High Sierra. Focused on areas above 8,000 feet in elevation from Yosemite south through the Whitney Region, by restricting the collection of species to higher elevations, the book can include all commonly seen species and nearly half of all higher elevation species in a compact guide. Make plant identification more approachable to hikers, this book differentiates between species using features easily identifiable to a non-botanist. Descriptions include the species’ common and scientific names, family name, growth form, flowering time, elevation range, region, specific locations on popular trails, and how to identify the plant using color, petal number, leaf shape, height, and more.

Free Download Maestro John Monash: Australia’s Greatest Citizen General (Biography) by Tim Fischer
English | November 10, 2014 | ISBN: 1922235598 | 318 pages | PDF | 6.55 Mb
"A perfected modern battle plan is like nothing so much as a score for an orchestral composition, where the various arms and units are the instruments, and the tasks they perform are their respective musical phrases. Every individual unit must make its entry precisely at the proper moment and play its phrase in the general harmony." – John Monash *** Who was the most innovative general of World War I? For author (and former Deputy Prime Minister of Australia) Tim Fischer*, the answer has to be Australia’s John Monash, a man who, for all the recognition he received in his lifetime and after, has arguably not been given his proper due within the major military histories of the Great War. In this book, Fischer asks why John Monash was never promoted to Field Marshal, as international precedent suggested was most appropriate, pointing the finger primarily at Billy Hughes, the Australian prime minister from 1915 to 1923, within a wider context of establishment suspicion towards this son of a German Jewish migrant. The book demonstrates how a posthumous granting of the Field Marshal rank for John Monash now constitutes a due reward for this great servant of the Australian nation – a salutary reminder of his legacy. * n 1971, at the age of 24, the Honorable Tim Fischer was elected to the New South Wales State Parliament, switching to the Federal Parliament in 1984 and was for 10 years Federal Leader of the Nationals, including serving as Deputy Prime Minister and Trade Minister. Upon retirement from the Australian Parliament, he took up various philanthropic and corporate roles. From 2008 to 2012, Fischer was the Australian Ambassador to the Holy See, based in Rome. *** "Tim Fischer brings his army and political experience to the General Monash story with a flowing and digestible style." – Professor Roland Perry *** "In his account of Monash’s life and military career, Fischer details the many obstacles faced and surmounted by ‘the most innovative general’ of the war….Monash made concerted use of infantry, artillery, tanks, aircraft and radio in (to quote him) ‘comprehensive holistic battle plan[s].’ His strategy’s success became evident in thwarting Germany’s final westward push…" – The NYMAS Review, StrategyPage, April 2015 (Series: Biography) [Subject: Biography, Military History, World War I, Australian Studies, Politics]

Free Download Cable Cowboy: John Malone and the Rise of the Modern Cable Business by Mark Robichaux
English | October 18, 2002 | ISBN: 047123639X | 340 pages | PDF | 4.04 Mb
An inside look at a cable titan and his industry