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In July 1973, for the first time in its history, the New York Times Magazine devoted a full issue to a single article: Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist J. Anthony Lukas's account of the Watergate story to date. Six months later, a second installment ran in another full issue.

Kwame Dawes was born in Ghana, grew up in Jamaica, and studied and taught in New Brunswick, Canada. He has published five volumes of poetry, an anthology of reggae poetry, and a critical volume on reggae music and literature. His first book of poems, Progeny of Air, won the prestigous Forward Poetry Prize. He teaches at the University of South Carolina in Columbia.

This reprint makes available again Frank Walter's dramatic and colorful 1937 biography of Winfield Scott Stratton, the man who struck it rich at the foot of Pikes Peak and turned Cripple Creek into the greatest gold camp on earth. More than regional history, Midas Of The Rockies is a story so fabulously impossible and yet so painfully true that it commends itself to the whole of America, the only earth, the only people who could have created it.

This penetrating account of Mexican history, legend, myth, and ancient civilizations is altogether enthralling". -- Publishers Weekly

Mysticism is peculiar to the mountainbred", Frank Waters once told an interviewer for Psychology Today. And in Mountain Dialogues, available for the first time in paperback, the mountainbred Waters proves it true. Ranging over such diverse subjects as silence, spirits, time, change, and the sacred mountains of the world, Waters sounds again and again the radiant, mystic theme of man's inherent wholeness and his oneness with the cosmos.Writing ...

In the early 1940s, $10 bought a bus ticket from Appalachia to a better job and promise of prosperity in the flatlands of northeast Ohio. A mountaineer with a strong back and will to work could find a job within twenty-four hours of arrival. But the cost of a bus ticket was more than a week's wages in a lumber camp, and the mountaineer paid dearly in loss of kin, culture, homeplace, and freedom.Numerous scholarly works have addressed this migr...

The story of Martiniano, the man who killed the deer, is a timeless story of Pueblo Indian sin and redemption, and of the conflict between Indian and white laws, written with a poetically charged beauty of style, a purity of conception, and a thorough understanding of Indian values.

Mark Dugan brings reality to the forefront in The Making of Legends. Some of the characters in his accounts are practically unknown but deserve more recognition than the bandits whose names are mythic.

Keine Beschreibung.

A fascinating and important book". -- The New York Times

A history of Memphis Tennessee Garrison, a teacher, worker at US Steel, and vice-president of the National Board of the NAACP at the height of the civil rights struggle (1963-66). Based on interview transcripts, it is the story of African-American life in a West Virginia company town.

In 1927, at the peak of his career, Zane Grey bought a three-masted schooner, which he sailed to the Galapagos Islands, later journeying to Tahiti, New Zealand, Australia, and Fiji.As colorful as his characters were, so too was their creator. A consummate explorer, Zane Grey toured the world, was an acclaimed expert on salt-and freshwater fishing, and incorporated the sights and sounds he witnessed into his writings. As a companion to his biog...

Daniel Vitaglione was born in Marseilles, attended the Lycée Thiers and the University of Provence, and received his Ph.D. in comparative literature at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland. He has published A Dictionary of Idioms French American, American French. He now lives in Roquebrune in Provence.

Provence through the eyes of its writers, the local ones and the visitors who were also moved, that is the inspiration behind this text. In this compact travel guide, Daniel Vitaglione presents a literary panorama of the region from the Avignon of Mistral to Colette's St. Tropez.

In a series of intriguing routes through the English countryside, Professor Robert Cooper notes those attractions that the casual tourist might unknowingly pass by, such as the house where Dickens wrote A Tale of Two Cities, or the windswept quay where John Fowles's French Lieutenant's woman walked.

The Literary Guide and Companion to Northern England is the third and final guide in Cooper¿s light-hearted and informative travel collection. As Cooper explains in the preface to the first volume: \u201cThis book was written for the person who unabashedly loves travel, loves England, and loves English literature. In short, for somebody remarkably like the person I was when I began to plan my first trip to Britain and looked for just such a...

Cooper's The Literary Guide and Companion to Southern England has been popular with travellers since 1986.This, the second guide in a series of three, brings all Cooper's delight and enthusiasm to the literary sites of Middle England.

The Bassett home gave refuge to a veritable who's who of western outlaws...What makes the book so delectable are the lovingly detailed scandals involving Brown's Park pioneers". -- True West

Robert Silverberg's The Longest Voyage captures the drama and danger and personalities in the colorful story of the first voyages around the world. In only a century, circumnavigators in small ships charted the coast of the New World and explored the Pacific. Characterized by fierce nationalism, competitiveness, and bloodshed, it was a century much like our own. Silverberg brings these early ocean explorers intensely alive in The Longest Voyag...

Hutslar documents this early architecture with extensive descriptive materials from local histories, diaries, traveller's accounts, building contracts and many recent photographs. These descriptions will be interesting for modern craftsmen and other builders involved in historic restoration or log construction generally.