Land Memoir

In 1867, John Muir set out on foot to explore the botanical wonders of the South, keeping a detailed journal of his adventures as he traipsed from Kentucky southward to Florida. One hundred and fifty years later, on a similar whim, veteran Atlanta reporter Dan Chapman recreated Muir's journey to see for himself how nature has fared since Muir's time. Channeling Muir, he uses humor, keen observation, and a deep love of place to celebrate the South's natural riches.

Diego González es un documentalista que habla dormido. Está casado con una sonidista que trata de descifrar lo que dice en sueños. Se muda a Barcelona, pero el pasado lo alcanza como una pesadilla. La visita de un viejo conocido, el periodista Adalberto Anaya, trastoca su reciente tranquilidad. Anaya - quien ha vigilado a Diego durante años con la atención casi desmedida de un admirador - lo culpa de haber hecho un documental para entregar a un narco.

The stories in this book are all of real encounters, ranging from backstage encounters in universities that reveal the social world of academe to lessons learned from anxiety-ridden sororities girls to a transforming encounter with a Black man who grew from a child working at jobs such as a chicken-catcher at nights to support his family and became successful and wealthy to the point that he was able to buy the movie theater that forced him to sit in the balcony when he was young.

Story Tim: Adventure Land contains tales from the life of Tim A. Cummins. It features short stories from his life growing up in Kenya as well as when he worked as a TV photographer for WTOC-TV news in Savannah, Georgia. Tim's life may seem unbelievable at times. He gets chased by elephants, was nearly eaten by lions, fought off pythons, nearly frozen on top of Mount Kenya, and was almost burned alive!

Eines Tages wirft der Unternehmensberater Markus Weber seine heile Welt über den Haufen und stürzt sich Hals über Kopf in ein Abenteuer. Er setzt sich auf sein Fahrrad und fährt los - durch 26 Länder, bis nach Togo. Seine Reise führt ihn durch verlassene osteuropäische Dörfer und über zermürbende Sandpisten in Westafrika. Er fährt per Anhalter durch die Sahara, radelt durch den unerschlossenen guineischen Regenwald und schmuggelt sich in Liberia über geschlossene Grenzübergänge.

One hundred fifty years ago, the McCoy brothers of Springfield, Illinois, bet their fortunes on Abilene, Kansas, then just a slapdash way station. Instead of an endless horizon of prairie grasses, they saw a bustling outlet for hundreds of thousands of Texas longhorns coming up the Chisholm Trail. The Chisholm Trail follows the McCoys' vision and the effects of the Chisholm Trail from post-Civil War Texas and Kansas to the multimillion-dollar beef industry that remade the Great Plains, the American diet, and the national and international beef trade.

From top CNN anchor and special correspondent Soledad O'Brien comes a highly personal look at her biggest reporting moments, from Hurricane Katrina, the tsunami in Southeast Asia, and the devastating Haiti earthquake to historic elections and high-profile interviews with everyday Americans. Drawing on her own unique background and consciousness as well as her experiences as a journalist at the front lines of the most provocative issues in today's society.

In thinking about her native land, Julia Reed quotes another Southern writer, Willie Morris, who said, “It’s the juxtapositions that get you down here.” These juxtapositions are, for Julia Reed, the soul of the South and in her warmhearted and funny new audiobook, South Toward Home, she chronicles her adventures through the highs and the lows of Southern life - the Delta hot tamale festival, a masked ball, a rollicking party in a boat on a sand bar, scary Christian billboards, and the southern affection for the lowly possum.

Was macht eine, die aus einem Ort namens Tittenkofen stammt, aber nicht so ausschaut? Die auf dem Bauernhof aufwächst, aber eigentlich auf die Bühne will? Klar, sie nimmt's mit Humor und wird Komikerin. Monika Gruber erinnert sich an ihre Kindheit und Jugend auf dem Land bei Erding. Sie erzählt teils bitterböse, teils rührend-nostalgische Geschichten, in denen sie grantelt, witzelt, schwelgt und auch lästert, aber nie denunziert, denn dazu liebt sie Land und Leute zu sehr

"The land of little joys" is a book aimed at those who love their place of origin, for those who have been absent for short or long periods and felt the need to go back, to those who never abandoned it despite everything, because in it there are only small joys that at least limit the degree of general dissatisfaction of those who live there.

Somalia was Tom Pecora's first deployment as a CIA Protective Operations Cadre (POC) officer, responsible for providing protective operations support in hostile areas of the world. He later headed up a series of the Agency's undisclosed protective operations teams. From 1989 until his retirement in 2013, he was assigned to multiple war zones across Africa, Latin America, Southeast Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, doing the kind of work few are even aware exists.

This interpretation is split into three sections. The first part will discuss the challenges Obama faced as a presidential candidate. The second part will go over the challenges Obama faced after being elected into the presidency. The third part will cover what happened when Obama was president and the methods he used to relieve himself of the pressure he felt in office.

Longtime fly fisherman Quinn Grover had contemplated the “why” of his fishing identity before, more recently, becoming focused on the “how” of it. He realized he was a dedicated fly fisherman, in large part, because public lands and public waterways in the West made it possible. In Wilderness of Hope Grover recounts his fly-fishing experiences with a strong evocation of place, connecting those experiences to the ongoing national debate over public lands.

Disneyland - as you remember it, and as you've never seen it before... In the Shadow of the Matterhorn author, - and former cast member - David Smith, takes you inside the Magic Kingdom for a completely different kind of VIP tour. Never-before-published stories about working inside the park, growing up down the street, and the profound effect that Disneyland has had on so many people, are all part of this moving and revealing book.

A collection of short stories covering a 70-year span, from childhood events to adulthood lessons, this easy-to-listen-to collection includes a bonus story exclusively for Audible and a special interview in which the author sits down with producer Alison Larkin and, in a world gone mad, talks about the simple things that really matter.

In 1910, when Olaf F. Larson was born to tenant livestock and tobacco farmers in Rock County, Wisconsin, the original barn still stood on the property. It was filled with artifacts of an earlier time - an ox yoke, a grain cradle, a scythe used to cut hay by hand. But Larson came of age in a brave new world of modern inventions - tractors, trucks, combines, airplanes - that would change farming and rural life forever. When Horses Pulled the Plow is Larson's account of that rural life in the early 20th century.

Everyone's journey to their promised land starts differently. My journey started when I 15, pregnant, and living in the projects. I realized my mission in life became my ministry. The pain became my plan. God's plan took me from the projects to my promised land to use me for the kingdom to help other women.

This book is a dramatic story of the author's time as legal counsel for a brokerage house in Chicago, which brought together the buy-sell transaction ushering the former Soviet Union into the world market currency system. All of this relates to current events, including an unexecuted Supreme Court order, quietly sealed away in the Supreme Court vault, awaiting its providential day of execution, along with a revolutionary plan to distribute the wealth of all federal and state-owned lands to the American citizenry, fulfilling a personal, decades-old prophecy of Jubilee!

Berna González Harbour firma una deslumbrante narración biográfica sobre el artista que mejor supo retratar nuestro país: Francisco de Goya.

Richard Noble has had the ambition all his adult life to see Britain excel in engineering on the world stage. His achievements in the highly insecure world of record-breaking emphatically demonstrate his commitment to his cause. In his book Take Risk! he tells the extraordinary stories of his 11 projects in record-breaking and aviation that all saw people and companies go out of their way to join him in his exciting endeavours - and take risk.