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Author : Ann Gibson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (23 download)
Download or read book The Life of a Recluse written by Ann Gibson and published by . This book was released on 1817 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard S. Vetter
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801456150
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)
Download or read book The Brown Recluse Spider written by Richard S. Vetter and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-07 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The brown recluse is a fascinating spider very well adapted to dwelling in houses and other buildings. Because of this very quality and the ghastly reputation associated with the medical consequences of its bite, it has become infamous throughout North America. Although recluse spiders can cause serious skin injuries and, in very rare cases, death, the danger posed by this spider is often exaggerated as a result of arachnophobia and the misdiagnosis of non-spider-related conditions as brown recluse bites. These misdiagnoses often occur in areas of North America where the spider does not exist, making legitimate bites improbable. One of the greatest factors that keeps the myths alive is misidentification of common (and harmless) spiders as brown recluses. With this book, Richard S. Vetter hopes to educate readers regarding the biology of the spider and medical aspects of its bites, to reduce the incidence of misdiagnoses, and to quell misplaced anxiety. In The Brown Recluse Spider, Vetter covers topics such as taxonomy, identification, misidentification, life history characteristics and biology, medical aspects of envenomations, medical conditions misdiagnosed as brown recluse bites, other spider species of medical consideration (several of which have been wrongly implicated as threats to human health), and the psychology behind the entrenched reasons why people believe so deeply in the presence of the spider in the face of strong, contradictory information. Vetter also makes recommendations for control of the spider for households in areas where the spiders are found and describes other species of recluse spiders in North America. Although The Brown Recluse Spider was written for a general audience, it is also a valuable source of information for arachnologists and medical personnel.
Author : A. Gibson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783628478154
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (781 download)
Download or read book The life of a recluse written by A. Gibson and published by . This book was released on with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : A. Gibson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783628478154
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (781 download)
Download or read book The life of a recluse written by A. Gibson and published by . This book was released on with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Finkel
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1101911530
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)
Download or read book The Stranger in the Woods written by Michael Finkel and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The remarkable true story of a man who lived alone in the woods of Maine for 27 years, making this dream a reality—not out of anger at the world, but simply because he preferred to live on his own. “A meditation on solitude, wildness and survival.” —The Wall Street Journal In 1986, a shy and intelligent twenty-year-old named Christopher Knight left his home in Massachusetts, drove to Maine, and disappeared into the forest. He would not have a conversation with another human being until nearly three decades later, when he was arrested for stealing food. Living in a tent even through brutal winters, he had survived by his wits and courage, developing ingenious ways to store edibles and water, and to avoid freezing to death. He broke into nearby cottages for food, clothing, reading material, and other provisions, taking only what he needed but terrifying a community never able to solve the mysterious burglaries. Based on extensive interviews with Knight himself, this is a vividly detailed account of his secluded life—why did he leave? what did he learn?—as well as the challenges he has faced since returning to the world. It is a gripping story of survival that asks fundamental questions about solitude, community, and what makes a good life, and a deeply moving portrait of a man who was determined to live his own way, and succeeded.
Author : A. GIBSON (of Newark.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (56 download)
Download or read book The Life of a Recluse written by A. GIBSON (of Newark.) and published by . This book was released on 1817 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Darcie Chan
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0615523773
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (155 download)
Download or read book The Mill River Recluse written by Darcie Chan and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2011-05-18 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sensational New York Times bestseller The Mill River Recluse reminds us that friendship, family, and love can come from the most unexpected places. Perfect for fans of Maeve Binchy. From the outside, Mill River looks like any sleepy little Vermont town where everyone knows everyone and people never need to lock their doors. There are newcomers for whom this appeals, from police officer Kyle Hansen and his daughter Rowen, who are starting over after heartache, to Claudia Simon, the schoolteacher who is determined to reinvent herself. But on closer inspection, there are those in Mill River—including a stealthy arsonist, a covetous nurse, and a pilfering priest—who have things they wish to hide. None more than the widow Mary McAllister, who for the past sixty years has secluded herself in her marble mansion overlooking the town. Most of the residents have never even seen the peculiar woman. Only the priest, Father O’Brien, knows the deep secrets that keep Mary isolated—and that, once revealed, will forever change the community. Praise for The Mill River Recluse “[Darcie] Chan’s sweet novel displays her talent. . . . A comforting book about the random acts of kindness that hold communities together.”—Kirkus Reviews “A heartwarming story.”—Examiner “A real page-turner.”—IndieReader
Author : Peter France
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1473511631
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (735 download)
Download or read book Hermits written by Peter France and published by Random House. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ours is an age where solitude tends to be discussed in the context of the 'problem of loneliness'. However in previous ages the capacity to seek fulfillment outside society has been admired and seen as a measure of discernment and inner security. In this lucid and highly readable book, Peter France shows how hermits, from the Taoists and Ancient Greeks to the present day, have something vitally important to say to a society that fears solitude.
Author : Dale Lorna Jacobsen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780646991061
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Being Lucy written by Dale Lorna Jacobsen and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-30 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the forestry road to Mount Delusion, on the edge of the Victorian High Country, stand two old huts known as Strobridge's huts. The two-roomed hut facing the road, built of milled timber around 1935, is the more recent. This was Lucy's hut. Behind is a much older hut of slab walls and bark roof with a dirt floor-Ella's hut. This story is based on the life of Lucy Strobridge from Brookville in the Gippsland Mountains of Victoria. Very little is known of this reclusive woman who lived her life in isolation.
Author : Caroline Knapp
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1582433143
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (824 download)
Download or read book The Merry Recluse written by Caroline Knapp and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2005-04-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the best–selling author of Drinking: A Love Story and Appetites: Why Women Want comes this unforgettable collection spanning fifteen years of observations on modern culture and women's lives. Caroline Knapp's readers are known not just for their number, but for their intense connection to her work. Knapp connected so well in part because of the intense focus she brought to her subjects. Now, with The Merry Recluse: A Life in Essays, Knapp shows us that her vision through a wider lens is as brilliant as through a narrow one. These essays paint the fullest picture of this wonderful writer that we've yet seen, but they are also a full portrait of a writing life, showing how the same themes can engage––and expand––a writer over a lifetime. Knapp, who died in 2002, was considered one of the country's more intelligent and graceful voices in memoirs. This collection also shows her to be a witty, provocative observer of the world around her.
Author : Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812202864
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book Lives of the Anchoresses written by Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2013-06-15 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In cities and towns across northern Europe in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, a new type of religious woman took up authoritative positions in society, all the while living as public recluses in cells attached to the sides of churches. In Lives of the Anchoresses, Anneke Mulder-Bakker offers a new history of these women who chose to forsake the world but did not avoid it. Unlike nuns, anchoresses maintained their ties to society and belonged to no formal religious order. From their solitary anchorholds in very public places, they acted as teachers and counselors and, in some cases, theological innovators for parishioners who would speak to them from the street, through small openings in the walls of their cells. Available at all hours, the anchoresses were ready to care for the community's faithful whenever needed. Through careful biographical studies of five emblematic anchoresses, Mulder-Bakker reveals the details of these influential religious women. The life of the unnamed anchoress who was mother to Guibert of Nogent shows the anchoress's role as a spiritual guide in an oral culture. A study of Yvette of Huy shows the myriad possibilities open to one woman who eventually chose the life of an anchoress. The accounts of Juliana of Cornillon and Eve of St. Martin raise questions about the participation of religious women in theological discussions and their contributions to church liturgy. And the biographical study of Margaret the Lame of Magdeburg explores the anchoress's role as day-to-day religious instructor to the ordinary faithful.
Author : Carolyn Vega
Publisher : Amherst College Press
ISBN 13 : 1943208069
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (432 download)
Download or read book The Networked Recluse written by Carolyn Vega and published by Amherst College Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The image is so well known it is practically iconic: The reclusive poet, feminine and fragile, weaving verse of beguiling complexity from the room in which she kept herself sequestered from the world. The Belle of Amherst, the distinctive American voice, the singer of the soul's mysteries: Emily Dickinson. Yet that image scarcely captures the fullness and vitality of Dickinson's life, most notably her many connections--to family, to friends, to correspondents, to the literary tastemakers of her day, even to the unnamed, and perhaps unknowable, "Master" to whom she addressed three of her most breathtaking works of prose. Through an exploration of a relatively small group of items from Dickinson's vast literary remains, this volume--an accompaniment to an exhibition on Dickinson mounted at The Morgan Library & Museum in New York--demonstrates the complex ways in which these often humble objects came into conversation with other people, places, and events in the poet's life. Seeing the network of connections and influences that shaped Dickinson's life presents us with a different understanding of this most enigmatic yet elegiac poet in American letters, and allows us more fully to appreciate both her uniqueness and her humanity. The materials collected here make clear that the story of Dickinson's manuscripts, her life, and her work is still unfolding. While the image of Dickinson as the reclusive poet dressed only in white remains a popular myth, details of Dickinson's life continue to emerge. Several items included both in the exhibit and in this volume were not known to exist until the present century. The scrap of biographical intelligence recorded by Sarah Tuthill in a Mount Holyoke catalogue, or the concern about Dickinson's salvation expressed by Abby Wood in a private letter to Abiah Root, were acquired by Amherst College in the last fifteen years. What additional pieces of evidence remain to be uncovered and identified in the attics and basements of New England? Published to accompany The Morgan Library & Museum's pathbreaking exhibit I'm Nobody Who are You? The Life and Poetry of Emily Dickinson--part of a series of exhibits at the Morgan celebrating and exploring the creative lives of significant women authors--The Networked Recluse offers the reader an account of the exhibit itself, together with a series of contributions by curators, scholars of Dickinson, and poets whose own work her words have influenced.
Author : Mary Ann Kelty
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781104523138
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (231 download)
Download or read book Visiting My Relations, and Its Results written by Mary Ann Kelty and published by . This book was released on 2009-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Author : Evelyn Juers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781525274008
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (74 download)
Download or read book The Recluse written by Evelyn Juers and published by . This book was released on 2018-03-21 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evelyn Juers's study of reclusion focuses on Eliza Emily Donnithorne, long considered the model for Charles Dickens's character Miss Havisham in Great Expectations. For most of her life she lived in isolation in a large house in the inner-Sydney suburb of Newtown. It was said that she had been jilted at the altar and become a recluse, wearing her wedding dress and keeping her wedding banquet set until the day she died. But who was she? The Recluse is the story of Juers' quest to find the elusive Eliza Donnithorne, who was born in South Africa, and lived in India, England and Australia. Like House of Exile it features a cast of colourful historical characters, authors, convicts, sailors and servants, journalists and bloggers, and makes a powerful case for solitude as a dignified way of life.
Author : A. Gibson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (83 download)
Download or read book The Life of a Recluse written by A. Gibson and published by . This book was released on 1817 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : T. Morley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (21 download)
Download or read book The Happy Recluse; Or, the Peculiar Advantages of Solitude written by T. Morley and published by . This book was released on 1815 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mari Hughes-Edwards
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 0708325068
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)
Download or read book Reading Medieval Anchoritism written by Mari Hughes-Edwards and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2012-06-15 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interdisciplinary study of medieval English anchoritism from 1080-1450, explodes the myth of the anchorhold as solitary death-cell, reveals it instead as the site of potential intellectual exchange, and demonstrates an anchoritic spirituality in synch with the wider medieval world.
