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Roar and Thunder

Author : George Snyder
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1440113696
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Roar and Thunder written by George Snyder and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-02 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Cushman motor scooters to four-cylinder Hondas, Roar and Thunder is a personal lifetime journey of owning and riding motorcycles. Solo or two-up it tells of riding adventure through five Western states and Mexico, what was going on in the world at the time, and the changes in motorcycles and attitudes about them. There are twisty open roads, mud trails, quick boring freeways, traffic jams, high desert winds, pouring rain and blinding blizzards. The big motorcycle rides of the past are there - Death Valley Run, Indio, Lone Pine, Yuma Prison Run, Sunday poker runs, and just rides for burger and beers. Absent are Harley Davidson only events. If motorcycles are part of your life, come along for the ride

Making It on Social Security

Author : George Snyder
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595452035
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (954 download)

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Download or read book Making It on Social Security written by George Snyder and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2007-07 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You think the days have passed when seniors survived on dog and cat food? Media hype may have moved on to what Paris Hilton had for lunch but the practice continues. In today's workforce, 53% have no private retirement coverage, 32% have no savings for retirement. That's 85% of all workers with nothing set aside specifically for old age. Social Security represents 39% of all elderly income. For 65% of 33 million retired workers Social Security makes up more than half their income. Maybe that's you. For 22% Social Security is their only income. That's me. Could be that's you too. Average Social Security benefit income is about $1,000 a month. Most do not even get that. Are you making it on $12,000 to $15,000 a year or less? I am.

Taleisin's Tales

Author : Lin Pardey
Publisher : Lin and Larry Pardey
ISBN 13 : 1929214200
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (292 download)

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Download or read book Taleisin's Tales written by Lin Pardey and published by Lin and Larry Pardey. This book was released on 2017-01-05 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mexico Boating Guide

Author : Patricia Rains
Publisher : Mexico Boating Guide
ISBN 13 : 9780963847058
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Mexico Boating Guide written by Patricia Rains and published by Mexico Boating Guide. This book was released on 2006 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book and its text, charts, illustrations and photos are to be used for planning and reference purposes only. They are specifically not to be used for navigation. The text has been prepared, based upon personal inspections, official publications and other data deemed reliable, with the objective of making the boating visitor's voyage more enjoyable.

The Desert Islands of Mexico's Sea of Cortez

Author : Stewart W. Aitchison
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816527741
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book The Desert Islands of Mexico's Sea of Cortez written by Stewart W. Aitchison and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2010-11-15 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The desert islands in the Sea of Cortez are little known except to a few intrepid tourists, sailors, and fishermen. Though at first glance these stark islands may appear barren, they are a refuge for an astounding variety of plants and animals. While many of the species are typical of the greater Sonoran Desert region, some are endemic or unique to one or two islands. For example, Isla Santa Catalina is home to the worldÕs only rattlesnake that has lost its ability to grow a rattle. Other islands host nesting birds, such as Isla Rasa, a tiny, flat flow of basalt lava that attracts nearly half a million elegant and royal terns and HeermannÕs gulls each spring. The Desert Islands of MexicoÕs Sea of Cortez is one of the few books devoted to the biogeography of this remarkable part of the world. The book explores the geologic origin of the gulf and its islands, presents some of the basics of island biogeography, details insular lifeÑincluding residents of the intertidal zone Ñand provides a brief outlook for preserving this area. More than a simple guidebook, AitchisonÕs writing will take both actual and armchair travelers through a gripping tale of natural history. Like the rest of our fragile planet, the Sea of Cortez and its islands are threatened by humans. Overfishing has eliminated or greatly diminished many fish stocks, and dams on rivers that once flowed into the gulf prevent certain nutrients from reaching the sea. The tenuousness of this area makes the bookÕs extraordinary photographs and the firsthand descriptions by a well-known teacher, writer, and photographer all the more compelling.

Dagney Mongomery On A Boat Out At Sea: a Fairy Tale

Author : J Waldo Sacks
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1462865852
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (628 download)

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Download or read book Dagney Mongomery On A Boat Out At Sea: a Fairy Tale written by J Waldo Sacks and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-05-18 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Second in the Trilogy, Dagney, now a divorced woman on her mission of self-discovery, -discovers- a young man, a very young man, on her circumnavigation sailing adventure in Baja Mexico. Learning about life by escaping from it she finds herself teaching an overtly-healthy stud from the Sea of Cortez town of Topolobompo, who becomes her first-mate on The Adventuress, a 54 foot yawl, the intricacies of the female mystique and his role in it.

Turner Tales, Essays, and Quatroons

Author : Merle B. Turner
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1462810357
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (628 download)

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Download or read book Turner Tales, Essays, and Quatroons written by Merle B. Turner and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2008-03-18 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tales in this collection are those of an inveterate insomniac. The characters, and their predicaments, come on stage when the lights are not quite focused, the cues still muffled from the curtains of fantasy. Perhaps it is fitting. My pretensions to competence, if such there were, are in the philosophy of science, where the debate was and continues to be: how much is invention and how much is real. ’Tis no different in my insomniac excursions.Those characters that come into focus? Some are invention, some are real.

Tales from the Tijuana Jails

Author : Sam Warren
Publisher : Bookwarren Publishing Servi
ISBN 13 : 094594957X
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (459 download)

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Download or read book Tales from the Tijuana Jails written by Sam Warren and published by Bookwarren Publishing Servi. This book was released on 2008 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mexican jail in which the author was unjustly confined was like nothing any American would expect. Co-ed with young children running about, shops selling all manner of goods including drugs, condos for the privileged and others sleeping on the out in the open, It would strike anyone as bizarre as the bar in the first Star Wars movie. Inside the 20 foot concrete and barbed wire high walls, the large block in eastern Tijuana was truly a little city and each inmate there had his or her own fascinating story to tell about their encounter with the system in Mexico.

Taleisin's Tales

Author : Lin Pardey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781929214112
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (141 download)

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Download or read book Taleisin's Tales written by Lin Pardey and published by . This book was released on 2016-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With stories from paradise and hard-won lessons in seamanship, Taleisin's Tales reflects back to the first miles Lin and Larry gained together on their second cruising boat, taking the reader from launching and sea trials between California and the Sea of Cortez to French Polynesia, the Cook Islands, Tonga and New Zealand. In the style readers have come to know, Taleisin's Tales relates stories sometimes harrowing, sometimes cautionary, sometimes hilarious, often heart-warming - and shows how slowing the pace brings unexpected moments of clarity and joy, and that sailing across an ocean on a small boat is not easy but, with the right partner and attitude, can be beautifully rewarding. Taleisin's Tales takes the reader from Bull Canyon, California, to Kawau Island, New Zealand, where, after almost 28 years of voyaging on Taleisin, Lin and Larry now live with a publishing company, a boatyard and a fifteen-foot Herreshoff sloop.

Isle of the Amazons in the Vermilion Sea

Author : Gregory MacDonald
Publisher : 39 West Press
ISBN 13 : 1946358142
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (463 download)

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Download or read book Isle of the Amazons in the Vermilion Sea written by Gregory MacDonald and published by 39 West Press. This book was released on 2019-04-23 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Myth has it that Baja California was once ruled by a giant queen, Calafia. Her subjects were black Amazon women, and they lived in a land of ferocious griffins, tall mountains, precipitous cliffs, and deep valleys. Baja was also said to be an island of gold and precious stones. Spanish explorers, lured by tales of riches and beautiful women, were drawn to this mythical place. Jesuit priests, adventurers, fishermen, hunters, and the curious soon followed. In Isle of the Amazons in the Vermilion Sea, Gregory MacDonald has assembled a superb collection of excerpts from diaries, letters, field notes, books, and journals. These short impressions give us the sights, smells, sounds, and tastes of mountain hamlets, lush valleys, hot deserts, and blue seas, and together, they create a stunning narrative of the mythology, history, and topology of the Baja land, sea, and people. Montalvo, Cortéz, and Padre Eusebio Kino—in 1400, 1535, and 1701, respectively—describe the flora and fauna of a peninsula untouched by civilization, and in the twentieth century, Bancroft, Cannon, Crosby, Gardner, North, Steinbeck, and Octavio Paz, among others, speak of the fishing, the hunting, and, despite hardships, the pure joy of being. The writers observe fish pileups and feeding-frenzies; suffer insect bites, cactus pricks, and jellyfish stings; and are awed by magical sunsets, the silence of the desert, and the stars. Original illustrations by award-winning printmaker Judith Palmer transform the work into a masterpiece.

Fascinating True Tales from Old California

Author : Colleen Adair Fliedner
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493063243
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Fascinating True Tales from Old California written by Colleen Adair Fliedner and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-04-01 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over four centuries, California has been an ever-changing landscape of innovation and revolution, triumph and tragedy. In Fascinating True Tales from Old California, author Colleen Adair Fliedner mines the history of theGolden State to collect more than fifty tales of famous Californians and their escapades from 1542 through 1940. For many, like James Lick, Leland Stanford, and John Downey, California was a place to strike it rich. Others sought freedom and a new beginning, including Chinese immigrants and African Americans, like philanthropist and freed slave, Biddy Mason. And still some characters just wanted to live their lives outside of society’s rules, like swindler James Reavis or the cross-dressing stagecoach driver, Charley Parkhurst. Readers will be entertained and enlightened as they take a trip through California’s colorful past.

Californio Portraits

Author : Harry W. Crosby
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806152591
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Californio Portraits written by Harry W. Crosby and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2015-10-08 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1981, Harry W. Crosby’s Last of the Californios captured the history of the mountain people of Baja California during a critical moment of transition, when the 1974 completion of the transpeninsular highway increased the Californios’ contact with the outside world and profoundly affected their traditional way of life. This updated and expanded version of that now-classic work incorporates the fruits of further investigation into the Californios’ lives and history, by Crosby and others. The result is the most thorough and extensive account of the people of Baja California from the time of the peninsula’s occupation by the Spaniards in the seventeenth century to the present. Californio Portraits combines history and sociology to provide an in-depth view of a culture that has managed to survive dramatic changes. Having ridden hundreds of miles by mule to visit with various Californio families and gain their confidence, Crosby provides an unparalleled view of their unique lifestyle. Beginning with the story of the first Californios—the eighteenth-century presidio soldiers who accompanied Jesuit missionaries, followed by miners and independent ranchers—Crosby provides personal accounts of their modern-day descendants and the ways they build their homes, prepare their food, find their water, and tan their cowhides. Augmenting his previous work with significant new sources, material, and photographs, he draws a richly textured portrait of a people unlike any other—families cultivating skills from an earlier century, living in semi-isolation for decades and, even after completion of the transpeninsular highway, reachable only by mule and horseback. Combining a revised and updated text with a new foreword, introduction, and updated bibliography, Californio Portraits offers the clearest and most detailed portrait possible of a fascinating, unique, and inaccessible people and culture.

A Sailor on Horseback

Author : Captain Robert T. Bush
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1469122634
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (691 download)

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Download or read book A Sailor on Horseback written by Captain Robert T. Bush and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-07-28 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Sailor on Horseback is a memoir of a life spent on and around the sea. Beginning with a recollection of rural life in pre-war England, with World War 2 seen through the eyes of a schoolboy during the Occupation, the book spans eighty years and all the worlds oceans. The many strands of the memoir include nautical nostalgia, recalling seafaring in the immediate post-war era before the decline of the former colonial powers and the traditional shipping companies trading around the Indian Ocean coasts, and in Burmese waters before the military government became established Iran before Mossadeq and after Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf in boom times and war times happy days ashore and afloat in Australia, Canada, Mexico and the Seychelles adventurous and exciting times working for the worlds richest man yachting deluxe on a superyacht, meeting many remarkable people in some beautiful places good and not so good times in the shipping industry around the world.

Edge of a Continent

Author : Donald Greame Kelley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book Edge of a Continent written by Donald Greame Kelley and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea

Author : Yukio Mishima
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1407054112
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea written by Yukio Mishima and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-01-26 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tale of youth and warped masculinity, this is the suspenseful, lyrical and page-turning Japanese classic. A band of thirteen-year-old boys reject the stupidity of the adult world. They decide it is illusory, hypocritical and sentimental, and train themselves in a brutal callousness they call ‘objectivity’. When the mother of one of them begins an affair with a ship’s officer, he and his friends idealise the man at first, but it is not long before they conclude that he is, in fact, soft and romantic. They regard this disillusionment as an act of betrayal on his part – and the retribution is deliberate and horrifying. ‘A page turning novel... A timeless classic’ Independent ‘Mishima’s greatest novel, and one of the greatest of the past century’ The Times TRANSLATED BY JOHN NATHAN

The Season of Stories

Author : Silvio Sirias
Publisher : Anaphora Literary Press
ISBN 13 : 1681142708
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (811 download)

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Download or read book The Season of Stories written by Silvio Sirias and published by Anaphora Literary Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1961, twelve year-old Diego Miranda’s life changes drastically when his parents inform him that they are moving back to their homeland, Nicaragua. The boy, who has lived only in Los Angeles, hates the idea of leaving the city he loves, his friends, and his beloved Dodgers. In the middle of this crisis, he meets the writer Scott O’Dell, the novelist who has recently won the Newbery Medal for Island of the Blue Dolphins. In spite of their age difference, the two become close friends. As a result of this relationship, Diego’s teachers invite the writer to give a talk about the Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa. O’Dell chooses to narrate the story of Balboa’s colonization efforts, his sighting of the Pacific Ocean, and his eventual beheading through the eyes of Anayansi—the Indian Princess with whom he shared his life. Told alongside each other, Diego’s and Anayansi’s lives intertwine to create a broad, stunning portrait—set four centuries apart—of the redemptive power of storytelling.

Cruising World

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1110 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cruising World written by and published by . This book was released on 1980-07 with total page 1110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: