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A Glasgow Trilogy

The Boy Who Wanted Peace; Grace and Miss Partridge; Mr Alfred M. A.

By: George Friel

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A Glasgow Trilogy

The Boy Who Wanted Peace; Grace and Miss Partridge; Mr Alfred M. A.

By: George Friel

Distinguished by irony, compassion and the author's own dry wit, these three novels paint a memorable picture of life in the streets, schools and tenements of Glasgow in the 1950s and 60s. With a unique vision of loneliness, old age, sexual longing, hot young blood and youth's casual cruelty, George Friel's books explore a dark comedy of tangled communication, human need and fading community. All these elements come together in the humorous parable of greed, religion and slum youth that is The Boy Who Wanted Peace; in the fate of old and disturbed Miss Partridge who is obsessed with the innocence of young Grace; and in the mental collapse of Mr Alfred, a middle-aged school teacher who is in love with one of his pupils. The humour, realism and moral concern of Friel's work clearly anticipate and stand alongside the novels of Alan Spence, Alasdair Gray, William McIlvanney and James Kelman.

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A Glasgow Trilogy

The Boy Who Wanted Peace; Grace and Miss Partridge; Mr Alfred M. A.

By: George Friel

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Prison Journal

The Cardinal Makes His Appeal

By: George Pell

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The Cardinal Makes His Appeal

By: George Pell

Innocent! That final verdict came after George Cardinal Pell endured a grueling eight years of accusations, investigations, trials, public humiliations, and more than a year of imprisonment after being convicted by an Australian court of a crime he did not commit. Led off to jail in handcuffs, following his sentencing on March 13, 2019, the 78-year-old Australian prelate began what was meant to be six years in jail for "historical sexual assault offenses”. Cardinal Pell endured more than thirteen months in solitary confinement, before the Australian High Court voted 7-0 to overturn his original convictions. His victory over injustice was not just personal, but one for the entire Catholic Church. Bearing no ill will toward his accusers, judges, prison workers, journalists, and those harboring and expressing hatred for him, the cardinal used his time in prison as a kind of "extended retreat". He eloquently filled notebook pages with his spiritual insights, prison experiences, and personal reflections on current events both inside and outside the Church, as well as moving prayers.

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Ignatius Press

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1642291420

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Prison Journal

Volume 1

By: George Cardinal Pell

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Volume 1

By: George Cardinal Pell

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1621644480

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Championship Triathlon Training

By: George M. Dallam,Steven Jonas

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Championship Triathlon Training

By: George M. Dallam,Steven Jonas

Dedication, passion, obsession—for serious endurance athletes, coaches, duathletes, and triathletes, the quest for improvement never ends. Knowing they can shave time from the previous performance, they seek out the latest in research and training techniques. In Championship Triathlon Training, renowned experts George Dallam and Steven Jonas provide you with the same advanced conditioning concepts and programming used by today's elite triathletes. By understanding the science behind the principles, you will incorporate physiology, biomechanics, nutrition, and injury prevention into your regimen to address your specific needs and the demands of competition. Specifically, you'll learn these techniques: -Use weight training, plyometrics, and core development to accelerate skill development in all phases of swimming, running, and cycling. -Apply metabolic training to improve endurance and race speed. -Combine sport-specific skills, such as mounting and dismounting, with metabolic training to improve transition times between phases. -Develop more efficient movement patterns for increased performance potential and reduced injury. -Assess health and physical status to avoid overtraining. Complete with sample programs for each triathlon distance, technique analysis, training- and race-specific fueling strategies, and tips for motivation, focus, and goal setting, Championship Triathlon Training will optimize your training and maximize your results.

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Human Kinetics

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1492582131

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Prison Journal, Volume 2

The State Court Rejects the Appeal

By: Cardinal George Pell

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Prison Journal, Volume 2

The State Court Rejects the Appeal

By: Cardinal George Pell

Innocent! That final verdict came after George Cardinal Pell endured a grueling four years of accusations, investigations, trials, public humiliations, and more than a year of imprisonment after being convicted by an Australian court of a crime he did not commit. Led off to jail in handcuffs, following his sentencing on March 13, 2019, the 78-year-old Australian prelate began what was meant to be six years in jail for "historical sexual assault offenses". Cardinal Pell endured more than thirteen months in solitary confinement, before the Australian High Court voted 7-0 to overturn his original convictions. His victory over injustice was not just personal, but one for the entire Catholic Church. Bearing no ill will toward his accusers, judges, prison workers,journalists, and those harboring and expressing hatred for him, the cardinal used his time in prison as a kind of "extended retreat". He eloquently filled notebook pages with is spiritual insights, prison experiences, and personal reflections on current events both inside and outside the Church, as well as moving prayers. In this second of three volumes, Cardinal Pell receives the terrible news that his first appeal is rejected. With the same grace, wisdom, and calm perseverance we see on display in Volume 1, he continues his quest for justice by appealing to the Australian High Court. Glimmers of hope emerge as more legal experts, including non-Catholics, join the chorus of those demanding that this miscarriage of justice be reversed.

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Ignatius Press

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1621644502

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Winter's Tales

Reflections on the Novelistic Stage

By: Kathleen George

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Winter's Tales

Reflections on the Novelistic Stage

By: Kathleen George

Winter's Tales tackles the question of whether narrative and drama are as different from each other as some scholars have assumed. By examining everything from voice and tense to "scene and summary," George, a theater professor and novelist, analyzes the many choices a writer has when framing a story. She addresses narrative theoretical ground before focusing on contemporary plays that are "novelistic." She finishes the study by examining the problems of adaptation from novel to stage. Her account is-by way of its essayistic style-personal, at times a writer's journal of reading and writing discoveries. In Winter's Tales, George demonstrates, among other things, the ways the diegetic is evident in the very content of frame plays and divided plays: she distinguishes between kinds of memory plays by cataloguing the possible stances of the narrator: she also covers subjects like multiple narration, and she gives accounts of the epic, dramatic, and lyric solutions to adapting novels. Kathleen George is a Professor in the Theatre Arts Department at the University of Pittsburgh.

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University of Delaware Press

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0874139163

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9780874139167

General/Flag Officer Worldwide Roster, 1998

By: George H. Stalcup

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General/Flag Officer Worldwide Roster, 1998

By: George H. Stalcup

Office of the Sec. of Defense; def. agencies; joint chiefs of staff; combined commands and agencies; unified commands; special activities/joint service colleges; dept. of army (forces command, field operating agencies, major CONUS commands, major overseas commands; Marine Corps. Forces (Pacific and Atlantic); marine expeditionary forces; marine forces reserve; marine corps commands (CONUS and Overseas); dept. of the Air Force (secretariat, air staff, Fld. Opr. Agencies, major commands); Dept. of the Navy (sec. of the Navy, chief of Naval Ops., Direct Reporting Units, Atlantic and Pacific Fleets, Naval Forces Europe).

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DIANE Publishing

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0788176129

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Encyclopedia of British Writers, 1800 to the Present

By: George Stade,Karen Karbiener

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Encyclopedia of British Writers, 1800 to the Present

By: George Stade,Karen Karbiener

Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide biographical and critical information on major and lesser-known nineteenth- and twentieth-century British writers, and includes articles on key schools of literature, and genres.

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Infobase Publishing

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1438116896

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9781438116891

Punk Diary

The Ultimate Trainspotter's Guide to Underground Rock, 1970-1982

By: George Gimarc

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Punk Diary

The Ultimate Trainspotter's Guide to Underground Rock, 1970-1982

By: George Gimarc

The Ultimate Trainspotter's Guide to Underground Rock, 1970-1982

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Hal Leonard Corporation

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0879308486

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Overreach

Leadership in the Obama Presidency

By: George C. Edwards, III

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Overreach

Leadership in the Obama Presidency

By: George C. Edwards, III

How Obama overestimated the power of rhetoric and persuasion during his presidency When Barack Obama became president, many Americans embraced him as a transformational leader who would fundamentally change the politics and policy of the country. Yet, two years into his administration, the public resisted his calls for support and Congress was deadlocked over many of his major policy proposals. How could this capable new president have difficulty attaining his goals? Did he lack tactical skills? In Overreach, respected presidential scholar George Edwards argues that the problem was strategic, not tactical. He finds that in President Obama's first two years in office, Obama governed on the premise that he could create opportunities for change by persuading the public and some congressional Republicans to support his major initiatives. As a result, he proposed a large, expensive, and polarizing agenda in the middle of a severe economic crisis. The president's proposals alienated many Americans and led to a severe electoral defeat for the Democrats in the 2010 midterm elections, undermining his ability to govern in the remainder of his term. Edwards shows that the president's frustrations were predictable and the inevitable result of misunderstanding the nature of presidential power. The author demonstrates that the essence of successful presidential leadership is recognizing and exploiting existing opportunities, not in creating them through persuasion. When Obama succeeded in passing important policies, it was by mobilizing Democrats who were already predisposed to back him. Thus, to avoid overreaching, presidents should be alert to the limitations of their power to persuade and rigorously assess the possibilities for obtaining public and congressional support in their environments.

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Princeton University Press

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1400841968

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A Delaware Album, 1900-1930

By: George David Miller

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A Delaware Album, 1900-1930

By: George David Miller

A Delaware Album, 1900-1930 contains over 300 postcard photographs from the entire state taken during the period from 1900 to 1930. Arranged by subjects—City and Town Views; Delaware Beaches; Amusements; Industry and Agriculture; Signs of the Times; Trains, Trolleys, and Automobiles; Water Transportation; Schools; Religion; Businesses; Hotels and Motels—each photo has a caption ranging from a sentence or two to several paragraphs. The book's introduction detail how the cards were produced, analyzes the subject matter depicted on the cards, documents the history of several of the most prominent local photographers in the state whose work is found almost only on postcards, and traces the evolution and popularization of postcard photography.

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University of Delaware

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1611490456

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Every Last Trick

By: George Feydeau

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Every Last Trick

By: George Feydeau

‘My dear fellow. Dreadfully sorry. I’ll be marrying your wife.’ A charming politician and his glamorous new wife evoke a picture of marital bliss. Her first husband was a liar and a cheat. Her second is a different batch of chromosomes altogether. Not only is he chairman of the Feminist Forum but he clearly adores her. He says so, repeatedly, usually on Thursday nights when he goes out to ‘stretch his legs’. Her suspicions are obviously hormonal. But when he resorts to illusion to maintain the delusion, well, there’s a lot of confusion. If experience has taught her anything it’s the need to fight fire with fire, lies with more lies and every last trick with pure magic... A comic marvel from the master of French farce, Georges Feydeau, Every Last Trick is an ingenious look at the game of infidelity and marriage, given fresh life by Tamsin Oglesby.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1783196327

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How Did We Get Into This Mess?

Politics, Equality, Nature

By: George Monbiot

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How Did We Get Into This Mess?

Politics, Equality, Nature

By: George Monbiot

“A primal account of an unstifled world.” —Bill McKibben “A dazzling command of science and relentless faith . . .” —Naomi Klein A wide-ranging collection of essays from leading environmental commentator on how politics and big business threaten our daily lives, our society, and the planet Without countervailing voices, naming and challenging power, political freedom withers and dies. Without countervailing voices, a better world can never materialise. Without countervailing voices, wells will still be dug and bridges will still be built, but only for the few. Food will still be grown, but it will not reach the mouths of the poor. New medicines will be developed, but they will be inaccessible to many of those in need. George Monbiot is one of the most vocal, and eloquent, critics of the current consensus. How Did We Get into this Mess?, based on his powerful journalism, assesses the state we are now in: the devastation of the natural world, the crisis of inequality, the corporate takeover of nature, our obsessions with growth and profit and the decline of the political debate over what to do. While his diagnosis of the problems in front of us is clear-sighted and reasonable, he also develops solutions to challenge the politics of fear. How do we stand up to the powerful when they seem to have all the weapons? What can we do to prepare our children for an uncertain future? Controversial, clear but always rigorously argued, How Did We Get into this Mess? makes a persuasive case for change in our everyday lives, our politics and economics, the ways we treat each other and the natural world.

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Verso Books

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1784783633

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Professional Development of Chemistry Teachers

By: Rachel Mamlok-Naaman,Ingo Eilks,George Bodner,Avi Hofstein

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Professional Development of Chemistry Teachers

By: Rachel Mamlok-Naaman,Ingo Eilks,George Bodner,Avi Hofstein

Continuous professional development of chemistry teachers is essential for any effective chemistry teaching, due to the evolving nature of the subject matter and its instructional techniques. Professional development aims to keep chemistry teaching up-to-date and to make it more meaningful, more educationally effective, and better aligned to current requirements. Presenting models and examples of professional development for chemistry teachers, from pre-service preparation through to continuous professional development, the authors walk the reader through theory and practice. The authors discuss factors which affect successful professional development, such as workload, availability and time constraints, and consider how we maintain the life-long learning of chemistry teachers. With a solid grounding in the literature and drawing on many examples from the authors' rich experiences, this book enables researchers and educators to better understand teachers' roles in effective chemistry education and the importance of their professional development.

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Royal Society of Chemistry

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1782627065

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9781782627067

Federal Royal Commissions in Canada 1867-1966

A Checklist

By: George F. Henderson

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Federal Royal Commissions in Canada 1867-1966

A Checklist

By: George F. Henderson

The subjects inquired into by Canadian federal royal commissions have ranged over such a wide field that the reports and special studies prepared by the 400 commissions since Confederation have become an essential part of any research in Canadian studies. In many cases the special studies which are always prepared by the best experts available stand as the most important works ever to appear on a given subject. For example, the studies used by the Royal Commission on Dominion-Provincial Relations (1937-1940) are still used as required reading in both graduate and undergraduate university courses almost thirty years later. In the author's work as Government Documents Librarian, he witnesses the daily use of royal commission material. The importance attached to royal commission documents and the considerable difficulty in locating many of the earlier reports let Henderson to undertake the compilation of this checklist four years ago.

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University of Toronto Press

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1487590008

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Early Western Augusta Pioneers

Including the Families of Cleek, Gwin, Lightner, and Warwick, and Related Families of Bratton, Campbell, Carlile, Craig, Crawford, Dyer, Gay, Givens, Graham, Harper, Henderson, Hull, Keister, Lockridge, McFarland, and Moore

By: George W. Cleek

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Early Western Augusta Pioneers

By: George W. Cleek

From its establishment in 1745, Augusta County, Virginia served as a haven for Scotch-Irish, German, and, to a lesser extent, English immigrants who failed to find economic opportunity or religious freedom in the colonial settlements along the Middle Atlantic coastline. This little known but important work contains detailed genealogies of the twenty families mentioned in the title of the work, who settled in that region of "old western Augusta" that today encompasses Bath and Highland counties, Virginia. In addition to the family histories, the compiler has provided introductory chapters on the history of German and Scotch-Irish settlement to the region; a table of family members who fought in the Colonial, Revolutionary, and Civil Wars, and a full name index with approximately 10,000 entries.

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Genealogical Publishing Com

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0806345225

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9780806345222

The Politics of Identity in Irish Drama

W.B. Yeats, Augusta Gregory and J.M. Synge

By: George Cusack

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The Politics of Identity in Irish Drama

W.B. Yeats, Augusta Gregory and J.M. Synge

By: George Cusack

This study examines the early dramatic works of Yeats, Synge, and Gregory in the context of late colonial Ireland’s unique socio-political landscape. Cusack demonstrates the complex negotiation of nationalism, class, and gender identities undertaken by these authors in the years leading up to Ireland’s revolution.

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Routledge

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1135855986

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9781135855987

Majority of One: Legislatve Life

By: George W. Scott

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Majority of One: Legislatve Life

By: George W. Scott

Praise for A Majority of One: By far the best description of a state legislatures real operation in printfrom a legislator who knew what was happeningand whySlade Gorton (R) Former and Majority Leader Washington State House of Representatives, Washington State Attorney General and U.S. Senator Senator George Scott has provided us with a warm, insightful appreciation of the legislative process that few outsiders can offer. This is a must read for students of state governmentPhil Talmadge (D) Former Washington State Senator and State Supreme Court Justice. Legislative leaders are activists. George Scott is also a trained historian. Majority is a unique, inclusive insiders firsthand look at legislating, documented in depth. It is the place to start for students of the process, campaigners, legislators and those who care about politicsJeannette Hayner (R) Former Member of the House. Minority, and Majority Leader, Washington State Senate. Anyone who cares about representative government must read this book. George Scott captures the essence of legislative action with the knowledge only an insider can bring. He does it with perception, wit and humor.Daniel J. Evans (R) Former State House Majority Leader, Governor, and U.S. Senator. Rarely, and I am tempted to say never, do we find an insiders political savvy combined with the scholarly analysis that George Scott devotes to A Majority of One. Scott is unmatched in his command of the voluminous archival source materials involved here and his use of firsthand experience in weaving them into an absorbing account. This book is a practical guide for understanding the grassroots politics and placing these practices in the bigger picture of local, state, and national affairs. A Majority of One is a must read for both the concerned citizen and the political pro.David H. Stratton Professor Emeritus of History Washington State University.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1450043917

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9781450043915

As Told At the Explorers Club

More Than Fifty Gripping Tales Of Adventure

By: George Plimpton

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As Told At the Explorers Club

More Than Fifty Gripping Tales Of Adventure

By: George Plimpton

For more than a century, The Explorers Club has been the meeting place for some of the most daring adventurers on the planet. It's a legendary oasis, where a man just back from the Gobi Desert might kick back and, over some port, have a chat with a fellow off to Bandung.This updated edition includes a new foreword by Richard Wiese, the 44th president of The Explorers Club, and an all-new photo insert that takes readers inside the exclusive club and its world-famous adventure archives. Here then, are some of the best tales ever swapped at that capital of adventure, including: Anthony Fiola on being in close quarters with a polar bear Charles Lindbergh on his famous flight Felix Reisenberg on the Arctic Anne Keenleyside, Ph. D. on cannibalism Roald Amundsen on the explorer Stefansson Mervyn Cowie on hunting killer lions Jean-Marc Boivin on hang-gliding Curtis and Kathleen Saville on oceanic rowing E. W. Deming on Sitting Bull's mysterious death It's some of the finest writing on some of the most hair-raising journeys ever made, all selected by the late George Plimpton, himself a member of The Explorers Club.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1493047450

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