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Air Vagabonds

Author : Anthony J. Vallone
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
ISBN 13 : 1588344657
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)

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Download or read book Air Vagabonds written by Anthony J. Vallone and published by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 2015-05-26 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Air Vagabonds is the story of the amazing, true (mis)adventures of a band of rogues piloting aircraft alone into exotic and deadly destinations. In the late 1970s and through the 1980s the demand for light aircraft eclipsed anything seen before or since. This created the need for a small air force of pilots—ferry pilots—willing to fly thousands of planes to clients in every corner of the globe. Long-range solo flying is not for everyone, and it attracted a cast of eccentric, unforgettable mavericks who flew from one misadventure to the next, battling storms, desert winds, aircraft malfunctions, primitive navigational aids, loneliness, chemical imbalances, and dangerous Third World politics. Some carried on international scams and love affairs, some were lost at sea, some imprisoned by African despots. They’re all here, described with humor and high drama by one of their own, a survivor with phenomenal recall, a knack for distinguishing character from bluster, and a great ear for dialogue and aviation lore.

Vagabonds

Author : Hao Jingfang
Publisher : Gallery / Saga Press
ISBN 13 : 1534422099
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book Vagabonds written by Hao Jingfang and published by Gallery / Saga Press. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A century after the Martian war of independence, a group of kids are sent to Earth as delegates from Mars, but when they return home, they are caught between the two worlds, unable to reconcile the beauty and culture of Mars with their experiences on Earth in this “thoughtful debut” (Kirkus Reviews) from Hugo Award–winning author Hao Jingfang. This “masterful narrative” (Booklist, starred review) is set on Earth in the wake of a second civil war…not between two factions in one nation, but two factions in one solar system: Mars and Earth. In an attempt to repair increasing tensions, the colonies of Mars send a group of young people to live on Earth to help reconcile humanity. But the group finds itself with no real home, no friends, and fractured allegiances as they struggle to find a sense of community and identity trapped between two worlds.

Vagabonds!

Author : Eloghosa Osunde
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 059333003X
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book Vagabonds! written by Eloghosa Osunde and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2023-02-28 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORKER LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE “If you read one debut novel in 2022, this should be it.” —Los Angeles Times In the bustling streets and cloistered homes of Lagos, a cast of vivid characters—some haunted, some defiant—navigate danger, demons, and love in a quest to lead true lives. As in Nigeria, vagabonds are those whose existence is literally outlawed: the queer, the poor, the displaced, the footloose and rogue spirits. They are those who inhabit transient spaces, who make their paths and move invisibly, who embrace apparitions, old vengeances and alternative realities. Eloghosa Osunde's brave, fiercely inventive novel traces a wild array of characters for whom life itself is a form of resistance: a driver for a debauched politician with the power to command life and death; a legendary fashion designer who gives birth to a grown daughter; a lesbian couple whose tender relationship sheds unexpected light on their experience with underground sex work; a wife and mother who attends a secret spiritual gathering that shifts her world. As their lives intertwine—in bustling markets and underground clubs, churches and hotel rooms—vagabonds are seized and challenged by spirits who command the city's dark energy. Whether running from danger, meeting with secret lovers, finding their identities, or vanquishing their shadowselves, Osunde's characters confront and support one another, before converging for the once-in-a-lifetime gathering that gives the book its unexpectedly joyous conclusion. Blending unvarnished realism with myth and fantasy, Vagabonds! is a vital work of imagination that takes us deep inside the hearts, minds, and bodies of a people in duress—and in triumph.

Naval Aviation News

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Naval Aviation News written by and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Vagabond's Way

Author : Rolf Potts
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0593497473
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (934 download)

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Download or read book The Vagabond's Way written by Rolf Potts and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2023-10-03 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Thought-provoking, encouraging, and inspiring” (Gretchen Rubin) reflections on the power of travel to transform our daily lives—from the iconoclastic travel writer, scholar, and author of Vagabonding For readers who dream of travel, yearn to get back out on the road, or want to enrich a journey they’re currently on, The Vagabond’s Way explores and celebrates the life-altering essence of travel all year long. Each day of the year features a meditation on an aspect of the journey, anchored by words of wisdom from a variety of thinkers—from Stoic philosopher Seneca and poet Maya Angelou to Trappist monk Thomas Merton and Grover from Sesame Street. Iconoclastic travel writer and scholar Rolf Potts embraces the ragged-edged, harder-to-quantify aspects of travel that inevitably change travelers’ lives for the better in unexpected ways. The book’s various sections mirror the phases of a trip, including • dreaming and planning the journey: “All life-affecting journeys—and the unexpected wonders they promise—become real the moment you decide they will happen.” • embracing the rhythms of the journey: “The most poignant experiences on the road occur in those quiet moments when we recognize beauty in the ordinary.” • finding richer travel experiences: “Developing an instinct to venture beyond the obvious on the road allows you to see places as mysteries to be investigated.” • expanding your comfort zone: “No moment of instant gratification can compare to savoring an experience that has been earned by enduring the adversity that comes with it.” The Vagabond’s Way encourages you to sustain the mindset of a journey, even when you aren’t able to travel, and affirms that travel is as much a way of being as it is an act of movement.

The Vagabonds

Author : Jeff Guinn
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501159313
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book The Vagabonds written by Jeff Guinn and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “fascinating slice of rarely considered American history” (Booklist)—the story of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison—whose annual summer sojourns introduced the road trip to our culture and made the automobile an essential part of modern life. In 1914 Henry Ford and naturalist John Burroughs visited Thomas Edison in Florida and toured the Everglades. The following year Ford, Edison, and tire maker Harvey Firestone joined together on a summer camping trip and decided to call themselves the Vagabonds. They would continue their summer road trips until 1925, when they announced that their fame made it too difficult for them to carry on. Although the Vagabonds traveled with an entourage of chefs, butlers, and others, this elite fraternity also had a serious purpose: to examine the conditions of America’s roadways and improve the practicality of automobile travel. Cars were unreliable and the roads were even worse. But newspaper coverage of these trips was extensive, and as cars and roads improved, the summer trip by automobile soon became a desired element of American life. The Vagabonds is “a portrait of America’s burgeoning love affair with the automobile” (NPR) but it also sheds light on the important relationship between the older Edison and the younger Ford, who once worked for the famous inventor. The road trips made the automobile ubiquitous and magnified Ford’s reputation, even as Edison’s diminished. The automobile would transform the American landscape, the American economy, and the American way of life and Guinn brings this seminal moment in history to vivid life.

Popular Aviation and Aeronautics

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1106 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Popular Aviation and Aeronautics written by and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 1106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Flying Vagabond

Author : Eddie Gantner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780578430133
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Flying Vagabond written by Eddie Gantner and published by . This book was released on 2018-12-22 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of an aviation career born of desire, fueled with hope and, in the early years, bred of desperation. With little to no chance of success, perseverance became his Mantra, confidence, his strength; adventures never dreamed of, the result. Airline 'freight dog' to corporate pilot, this book has it all. Humor, adventure, 'Come to Jesus' moments abound between the pages of "Flying Vagabond." If you're looking for a heck of ride, this is it! I "LOVED" this book! - Andrew Jost, Captain/Chief Pilot, Continental Airlines, HOU (Ret.) It is a history of an OLD and BOLD (sometimes not so smart) pilot that you will find most enjoyable and very difficult to put down. - Doug Simpson, CDR US Navy (Ret.) F-8, Falcon It will keep you riveted, chapter to chapter... - Captain William Leonardi "Dancing Through the Maze" About The Author: Captain Eddie Gantner has flown for many thousands of hours. After his discharge from the US Navy, his career has taken him on a very unusual aviation career path. From cargo hauling in vintage aircrafts to captaincy of sleek, modern international corporate aircrafts. His perseverance and determination in more than fifty years of aviation is amazing. Capt. Eddie currently continues his aviation endeavors as an instructor and check airmen/pilot examiner for CAE at their North East Training Center.

Some Rogues and Vagabonds of Dickens

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Some Rogues and Vagabonds of Dickens written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Air Travel News

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Air Travel News written by and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Literary Curiosities and Eccentricities: a Book of Anecdote, Laconic Sayings, and Gems of Thought in Prose of Verse

Author : William Alexander Clouston
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.M/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Literary Curiosities and Eccentricities: a Book of Anecdote, Laconic Sayings, and Gems of Thought in Prose of Verse written by William Alexander Clouston and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Literary curiosities and eccentricities, in prose and verse, ed. by W.A. Clouston

Author : Literary curiosities
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Literary curiosities and eccentricities, in prose and verse, ed. by W.A. Clouston written by Literary curiosities and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Wine and walnuts

Author : Literary curiosities
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Wine and walnuts written by Literary curiosities and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

England

Author : Beckles Willson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book England written by Beckles Willson and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

England

Author : An overseas Englishman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book England written by An overseas Englishman and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Vagabonds

Author : Nick Brokhausen
Publisher : Casemate
ISBN 13 : 1612009964
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Vagabonds written by Nick Brokhausen and published by Casemate. This book was released on 2021-06-04 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two ex-Green Berets recount their missions after two decades in Special Forces, from running counter-terrorism training to rescuing kidnap victims & more. A lot of confusion, a lot of humor, a lot of broken dreams and broken promises, an occasional triumph . . . 1978—A chance meeting on a remote military airbase between two Green Berets involved in the same operation leads to a partnership that will last over forty years. Four years after that meeting, Nick Brokhausen and Jeff Miller leave the service within a few weeks of each other and begin an odyssey that takes them to dozens of countries on five continents. Along with a small coterie of fellow former Special Operations and intelligence community veterans like Penguini, Max, Reek, The Spider Woman, and a score of others—some heroes and some villains—they undertake a variety of missions for the government, other governments, large multinational corporations mostly in the aerospace or resource development industries, and occasionally just for suffering individuals who cannot find help anywhere else. In the process they lay the groundwork for an entire new industry of private military contractors. Two men sadly just a bit ahead of their time. Every episode in this book actually happened. Not always precisely as described herein, but close. Changes have been made sometimes to make the narrative flow more smoothly, some to obfuscate events that might be flirting with classification issues . . . Names have been changed, not always to protect the innocent. But the underlying story is, for the most part, the reality as they lived it. “A fascinating account of an extraordinary series of adventures.” —Journal of Counterterrorism & Homeland Security International

The Vagabond in Literature

Author : Arthur Compton-Rickett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Vagabond in Literature written by Arthur Compton-Rickett and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Bibliographical notes": pages 206-[207] Foreword.--Introduction: The vagabond element in modern literature--I. William Hazlitt.--II. Thomas De Quincey.--III. George Borrow.--IV. Henry D. Thoreau.--V. Robert Louis Stevenson.--VI. Richard Jefferies.--VII. Walt Whitman.