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Walking to Vermont

From Times Square into the Green Mountains -- a Homeward Adventure

By: Christopher S. Wren

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Walking to Vermont

From Times Square into the Green Mountains -- a Homeward Adventure

By: Christopher S. Wren

A distinguished former foreign correspondent embraces retirement by setting out alone on foot for nearly four hundred miles, and explores a side of America nearly as exotic as the locales from which he once filed. Traveling with an unwieldy pack and a keen curiosity, Christopher Wren bids farewell to the New York Times newsroom in midtown Manhattan and saunters up Broadway, through Harlem, the Bronx, and the affluent New York suburbs of Westchester and Putnam Counties. As his trek takes him into the Housatonic River Valley of Connecticut, the Berkshires of Massachusetts, the Green Mountains of Vermont, and along a bucolic riverbank in New Hampshire, the strenuous challenges become as much emotional as physical. Wren loses his way in a suburban thicket of million-dollar mansions, dodges speeding motorists, seeks serenity at a convent, shivers through a rainy night among Shaker ruins, camps in a stranger's backyard, panhandles cookies and water from a good samaritan, absorbs the lore of the Appalachian and Long Trails, sweats up and down mountains, and lands in a hospital emergency room. Struggling under the weight of a fifty-pound pack, he gripes, "We might grow less addicted to stuff if everything we bought had to be carried on our backs." He hangs out with fellow wanderers named Old Rabbit, Flash, Gatorman, Stray Dog, and Buzzard, and learns gratitude from the anonymous charity of trail angels. His rite of passage into retirement, with its heat and dust and blisters galore, evokes vivid reminiscences of earlier risks taken, sometimes at gunpoint, during his years spent reporting from Russia, China, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, South America, and Africa. He loses track of time, waking with the sun, stopping to eat when hunger gnaws, and camping under starry skies that transform the nights of solitude. For all the self-inflicted hardship, he reports, "In fact, I felt pretty good." Wren has woven an intensely personal story that is candid and often downright hilarious. As Vermont turns from a destination into a state of mind, he concludes, "I had stumbled upon the secret of how utterly irrelevant chronological age is." This book, from the author of the acclaimed bestseller The Cat Who Covered the World, will delight not just hikers, walkers, and other lovers of the outdoors, but also anyone who contemplates retirement, wonders about foreign correspondents, or relishes a lively, off-beat adventure, even when it unfolds close to home.

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Simon and Schuster

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1416589562

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9781416589563

Those Turbulent Sons of Freedom

Ethan Allen's Green Mountain Boys and the American Revolution

By: Christopher S. Wren

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Those Turbulent Sons of Freedom

Ethan Allen's Green Mountain Boys and the American Revolution

By: Christopher S. Wren

The myth and the reality of Ethan Allen and the much-loved Green Mountain Boys of Vermont—a “surprising and interesting new account…useful, informative reexamination of an often-misunderstood aspect of the American Revolution” (Booklist). In the “highly recommended” (Library Journal) Those Turbulent Sons of Freedom, Wren overturns the myth of Ethan Allen as a legendary hero of the American Revolution and a patriotic son of Vermont and offers a different portrait of Allen and his Green Mountain Boys. They were ruffians who joined the rush for cheap land on the northern frontier of the colonies in the years before the American Revolution. Allen did not serve in the Continental Army but he raced Benedict Arnold for the famous seizure of Britain’s Fort Ticonderoga. Allen and Arnold loathed each other. General George Washington, leery of Allen, refused to give him troops. In a botched attempt to capture Montreal against specific orders of the commanding American general, Allen was captured in 1775 and shipped to England to be hanged. Freed in 1778, he spent the rest of his time negotiating with the British but failing to bring Vermont back under British rule. “A worthy addition to the canon of works written about this fractious period in this country’s history” (Addison County Independent), this is a groundbreaking account of an important and little-known front of the Revolutionary War, of George Washington (and his good sense), and of a major American myth. Those Turbulent Sons of Freedom is an “engrossing” (Publishers Weekly) and essential contribution to the history of the American Revolution.

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Simon & Schuster

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1416599568

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9781416599562

The Cat Who Covered the World

The Adventures Of Henrietta And Her Foreign Correspondent

By: Christopher S. Wren

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The Adventures Of Henrietta And Her Foreign Correspondent

By: Christopher S. Wren

Foreign correspondent Christopher Wren chronicles his world travels through the eyes of his cat Henrietta.

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212

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Simon and Schuster

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0743222768

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9780743222761

Handbook of Heterocyclic Chemistry

By: Alan R. Katritzky,Christopher A. Ramsden,John A. Joule,Viktor V. Zhdankin

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Handbook of Heterocyclic Chemistry

By: Alan R. Katritzky,Christopher A. Ramsden,John A. Joule,Viktor V. Zhdankin

Heterocyclic compounds play a vital role in the metabolism of living cells. Their practical applications range from extensive clinical use to fields as diverse as agriculture, photography, biocide formulation and polymer science. Written by leading scholars and industry experts, the Handbook of Heterocyclic Chemistry is thoroughly updated with over 50% new content. It has been rewritten with a new expanded author team, who have carefully distilled essential information on the reactivity, structure and synthesis of heterocycles from the 2008 major reference work Comprehensive Heterocyclic Chemistry III. To bring the work up to date the author team have also added new synthetic examples and structures, key applications and new references from 2008-2010. Contains more than 1500 clearly drawn structures and reactions. The highly systematic coverage given to the subject makes this one of the most authoritative single-volume accounts of modern heterocyclic chemistry available and should be useful reference for those teaching a heterocyclic course. - Covers the structure, reactivity and synthesis of all heterocyclic compounds as distilled from the larger 15-volume reference work - Saves researchers time when they require important information on heterocycles--speeding them to thousands of clearly drawn chemical structures and pertinent reviews by leading experts - Features 35% new material to compliment the completely revised text

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1011

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Elsevier

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0080958443

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9780080958446

Theory of Macroeconomic Policy

By: Christopher Tsoukis

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Theory of Macroeconomic Policy

By: Christopher Tsoukis

Theory of Macroeconomic Policy offers a panoramic view of macroeconomic theory as a foundation for understanding macroeconomic, fiscal and monetary, policy.

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735

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0198825374

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The Cat Who Covered the World

The Adventures Of Henrietta And Her Foreign Correspondent

By: Christopher S. Wren

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The Adventures Of Henrietta And Her Foreign Correspondent

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Foreign correspondent Christopher Wren chronicles his world travels through the eyes of his cat Henrietta.

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Walking to Vermont

From Times Square into the Green Mountains -- a Homeward Adventure

By: Christopher S. Wren

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From Times Square into the Green Mountains -- a Homeward Adventure

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1416589562

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Book's by Christopher S. Wren

Walking to Vermont

Walking to Vermont

Those Turbulent Sons of Freedom

Those Turbulent Sons of Freedom

The Cat Who Covered the World

The Cat Who Covered the World

Handbook of Heterocyclic Chemistry

Handbook of Heterocyclic Chemistry

Theory of Macroeconomic Policy

Theory of Macroeconomic Policy

The Cat Who Covered the World

The Cat Who Covered the World

Walking to Vermont

Walking to Vermont

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