NIVEN, JENNIFER::THE ICE MASTER - THE DOOMED VOYAGE OF THE KARLUK.
- Erstausgabe 2000, ISBN: 9780333779606
Gebundene Ausgabe
New York, New York, U.S.A. : Blue Rider Press, 2016. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. It's the early sixties and Willie Nel… Mehr…
New York, New York, U.S.A. : Blue Rider Press, 2016. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. It's the early sixties and Willie Nelson is down-and-out, barely eking out a living as a singer-songwriter. The week before Christmas, he spots a legless man on a cart, selling wares in front of Leonard's department store in Fort Worth, Texas. The humble figure, by the name of Vernon Clay, piques Willie's curiosity, but Vernon is stubbornly private and--despite Willie's charming queries--has no interest in telling his story. Willie is tenacious, though, and he eventually learns that Vernon is a fellow musician, a fine guitarist and singer. When Vernon disappears, he leaves behind only a diary, which tells an epic tale of life-altering tragedies, broken hearts, and crooked record men, not to mention backroad honky-tonks, down-home cooking, and country songwriting genius. Deeply moved and spurred on by Vernon's pages, Willie aims to give the man one last shot at redemption and a chance to embody the holiday spirit. This is the story of the real-life Texas street vendor that inspired Willie Nelson's classic Christmas song, "Pretty Paper." New, unread, first edition, first printing, in new, mylar-protected dust jacket. Gift quality. {Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} L151, Blue Rider Press, 2016, 6, Knopf, 2007. 1st Edition . Hardcover. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Stated First Edition-Here, from Bill Clinton, is a call to action. Giving is an inspiring look at how each of us can change the world. First, it reveals the extraordinary and innovative efforts now being made by companies and organizations and by individuals to solve problems and save lives both down the street and around the world. Then it urges us to seek out what each of us, regardless of income, available time, age, and skills, can do to help, to give people a chance to live out their dreams. Bill Clinton shares his own experiences and those of other givers, representing a global flood tide of nongovernmental, nonprofit activity. These remarkable stories demonstrate that gifts of time, skills, things, and ideas are as important and effective as contributions of money. From Bill and Melinda Gates to a six-year-old California girl named McKenzie Steiner, who organized and supervised drives to clean up the beach in her community, Clinton introduces us to both well-known and unknown heroes of giving. Among them: Dr. Paul Farmer, who grew up living in the family bus in a trailer park, vowed to devote his life to giving high-quality medical care to the poor and has built innovative public health-care clinics first in Haiti and then in Rwanda; a New York couple, in Africa for a wedding, who visited several schools in Zimbabwe and were appalled by the absence of textbooks and school supplies. They founded their own organization to gather and ship materials to thirty-five schools. After three years, the percentage of seventh-graders who pass reading tests increased from 5 percent to 60 percent; Oseola McCarty, who after seventy-five years of eking out a living by washing and ironing, gave $150,000 to the University of Southern Mississippi to endow a scholarship fund for African-American students; Andre Agassi, who has created a college preparatory academy in the Las Vegas neighborhood with the city s highest percentage of at-risk kids. Tennis was a stepping-stone for me, says Agassi. Changing a child s life is what I always wanted to do; Heifer International, which gave twelve goats to a Ugandan village. Within a year, Beatrice Biira s mother had earned enough money selling goat s milk to pay Beatrice s school fees and eventually to send all her children to school and, as required, to pass on a baby goat to another family, thus multiplying the impact of the gift. Clinton writes about men and women who traded in their corporate careers, and the fulfillment they now experience through giving. He writes about energy-efficient practices, about progressive companies going green, about promoting fair wages and decent working conditions around the world. He shows us how one of the most important ways of giving can be an effort to change, improve, or protect a government policy. He outlines what we as individuals can do, the steps we can take, how much we should consider giving, and why our giving is so important. Bill Clinton s own actions in his post-presidential years have had an enormous impact on the lives of millions. Through his foundation and his work in the aftermath of the Asian tsunami and Hurricane Katrina, he has become an international spokesperson and model for the power of giving. We all have the capacity to do great things, President Clinton says. My hope is that the people and stories in this book will lift spirits, touch hearts, and demonstrate that citizen activism and service can be a powerful agent of change in the world., Knopf, 2007, 6, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007. First edition. Stated. Presumed first printing. Hardcover. Very good/very good. xiii, 240 p. Frontis. Resources. Index. Here, from Bill Clinton, is a call to action. "Giving" is an inspiring look at how each of us can change the world. First, it reveals the extraordinary and innovative efforts now being made by companies and organizations--and by individuals--to solve problems and save lives both "down the street and around the world. " Then it urges us to seek out what each of us, "regardless of income, available time, age, and skills, " can do to help, to give people a chance to live out their dreams. Bill Clinton shares his own experiences and those of other givers, representing a global flood tide of nongovernmental, nonprofit activity. These remarkable stories demonstrate that gifts of time, skills, things, and ideas are as important and effective as contributions of money. From Bill and Melinda Gates to a six-year-old California girl named McKenzie Steiner, who organized and supervised drives to clean up the beach in her community, Clinton introduces us to both well-known and unknown heroes of giving. Among them: Dr. Paul Farmer, who grew up living in the family bus in a trailer park, vowed to devote his life to giving high-quality medical care to the poor and has built innovative public health-care clinics first in Haiti and then in Rwanda; a New York couple, in Africa for a wedding, who visited several schools in Zimbabwe and were appalled by the absence of textbooks and school supplies. They founded their own organization to gather and ship materials to thirty-five schools. After three years, the percentage of seventh-graders who pass reading tests increased from 5 percent to 60 percent; ' Oseola McCarty, who after seventy-five years of eking out a living by washing and ironing, gave $150, 000 to the University of Southern Mississippi to endow a scholarship fund for African-American students; Andre Agassi, who has created a college preparatory academy in the Las Vegas neighborhood with the city's highest percentage of at-risk kids. "Tennis was a stepping-stone for me, " says., Alfred A. Knopf, 2007, 3, New York. 1938. Vanguard. 1st American Edition. Very Good.No Dustjacket. Translated from the Danish by J. B. C. Watkins. The Author Of Pelle The Conqueror Recalls His Early Years. 330 pages. hardcover. FROM THE PUBLISHER - This is the true story, without pretense and without posturing, of the life of a little Danish lad, first a sickly infant in the slums of Copenhagen and then winning his way to health and self-confidence as a herd boy on the island of Bornholm. Even if the reader did not know that young Martin, terrorized by a brutal, drunken father, was ultimately to win world-wide fame as an author, his attention would be held by the vivid and realistic picture presented on one hand of life among the dispossessed and on the other of a rude, vigorous and primitive folk eking out an existence from a barren land. The author, his parents, his elder brother, the farmer who later employs him, the maid servants on the farm who embarrass him - all these become alive and memorable people. The book ends on a note of confidence and joy, and when we conclude it we realize that we have been in contact with a great writer and a great soul, and that we have imbibed not only of his knowledge but also of his strength. inventory #11980, 0, UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2.] NFINE/VG+. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp, clean,wrap-around colour pictorial illustrated dw/dj with lettering to front+ spine/backstrip; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners no major nicks,tears or splits present,front lower corner tip minisculely rubbed with similar loss.Top+fore-edges bright and clean without ; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners near pristine,appears unread, apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,original,plain chocolate brown cloth boards with bright,crisp, blocked gilt lettered spine/backstrip and immaculate repeated b/w regional map (Arctic Ocean,Alaska+Canada and routes taken by parties) with b/w map inset aerial diagram of North Pole illustrated sets of endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,vii-xivpp+3-402pp [paginated] includes a Prologue,a contents list/table,Aboard the Karluk: Crew, Scientific staff,Eskimos and Passengers,16 chapters and an Epilogue, 16pp of 37 contemporary b/w biographical and polar scenic photographs in 2 blocks of 8pp apiece,between pp114/5 and pp274/5 respectively, Notes,b/w maps (Karluk's lower deck plan,Shipwreck Camp plan,pencil tracing of Wrangel Island),photograph+map credits and acknowledgements; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title.epigraph,title separator page. This is a story of a disasterous expedition,treacherous crew members and extraordinary bravery.Drawing on previously unpublished letters of journals of crew members,their decendants and interviews with survivors, this book is the account of one of the most ambitious - and disasterous - Artic expeditions ever mounted. The Karluk set of in September 1913 and the ship and its crew were soon imprisoned in ice,abandoned by the expedition's leader.For five months those left behind eked out an existence on board,until they were forced to leave the ship when she was crushed by powerful ice floes.The ship went down in january 1914,and for two more months the ship's company lived on the polar icepack. Finally,the captain left his crew and walked seven hundred miles across the Artic to search for help.He reached civilization in May 1914 and the handful of survivors were finally rescued by a tiny schooner in September 1914.This is their story. Drawing on previously unpublished letters of journals of crew members,their descendants and,astonishingly, interviews with survivors,Jennifer Niven's book is a riveting account of one of the most ambitious - and disastrous - Arctic expeditions ever mounted.It is a story about unlikely heroes and unexpected villains - humans reduced to their primal needs by the infinite power and mystery of nature. Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** This item offered P+p included.Offer available UK only,unless indicated otherwise. ** ** N.B. US customers please be aware: US Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to USA can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always., LONDON.MACMILLAN,2000., 3.5<
