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The Alpine Casanovas

Author : Toni Davidson
Publisher : Cargo Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1910449199
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book The Alpine Casanovas written by Toni Davidson and published by Cargo Publishing. This book was released on 2015-09-14 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Alpine Casanovas is a stunning, sophisticated tour de force of sex, drugs, violence and death, exploring the lives of those caught between East and West. The Amerasian Beat and the Eurasian Quyn share the same heritage - both are half Vietnamese. Beat is a star of Asian action movies who lives in the US, relying on sex, drugs and acclaim to survive. Whilst filming in Vietnam he fakes his own death and then watches the media circus from the refuge of a chalet high in the mountains. Quyn is the product of an adulterous affair between his father, a bootlegger, and a Vietnamese refugee. Brought up in the family barn, when Quyn’s father immolates, Quyn is left itinerant. He drifts through corrosive casual jobs before returning to the mountain, building a treehouse close to his birthplace. Toni Davidson follows his acclaimed novels Scar Culture and My Gun Was As Tall As Me with his most accomplished and mature work to date; a bold, challenging and timely exploration of the loss of heritage, identity and community. As Davidson weaves a beguiling and complex web, both men are driven to near madness by the circumstances of their births, culminating in an explosive, shocking climax.

The Alpine Journal

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1022 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book The Alpine Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 1022 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Adventurer

Author : Leo Damrosch
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300248288
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Adventurer written by Leo Damrosch and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fast-paced narrative about the world-famous libertine Giacomo Casanova, from celebrated biographer Leo Damrosch"Fully succeeds in communicating that 'vivid presentness, ' that 'joyful eagerness' for life, which is what keeps us reading Casanova--and reading about him."--Gregory Dowling, Wall Street Journal "A nuanced, deftly contextualized biography of an adventurer, an opportunist, and a man of voracious appetites . . . another top-notch work from Damrosch."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review) The life of the iconic libertine Giacomo Casanova (1725-1798) has never been told in the depth it deserves. An alluring representative of the Enlightenment's shadowy underside, Casanova was an aspiring priest, an army officer, a fortune teller, a con man, a magus, a violinist, a mathematician, a Masonic master, an entrepreneur, a diplomat, a gambler, a spy--and the first to tell his own story. In his vivid autobiography Histoire de Ma Vie, he recorded at least a hundred and twenty love affairs, as well as dramatic sagas of duels, swindles, arrests, and escapes. He knew kings and an empress, Catherine the Great, and most of the famous writers of the time, including Voltaire and Benjamin Franklin. Drawing on seldom used materials, including the original French and Italian primary sources, and probing deeply into the psychology, self-conceptions, and self-deceptions of one of the world's most famous con men and seducers, Leo Damrosch offers a gripping, mature, and devastating account of an Enlightenment man, freed from the bounds of moral convictions.

Casanova

Author : Laurence Bergreen
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476716528
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book Casanova written by Laurence Bergreen and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Sexy, surprising, funny, insightful, and wildly entertaining” (Huffington Post)—the definitive biography of Giacomo Casanova, the impoverished boy who became the famous writer, notorious libertine, and self-invented genius in decadent eighteenth-century Europe. Today, “Casanova” is a synonym for “great lover,” yet the real story of this remarkable figure is little known. A figure straight out of a Henry Fielding novel, Giacomo Casanova was erotic, brilliant, impulsive, and desperate for recognition; a self-destructive genius. Over the course of his lifetime, he claimed to have seduced more than one hundred women, among them married women, young women in convents, girls just barely in their teens, women of high and low birth alike. Abandoned by his mother, an actress and courtesan, Casanova was raised by his illiterate grandmother, coming of age in a Venice filled with spies and political intrigue. He was intellectually curious and read forbidden books, for which he was jailed. He staged a dramatic escape from Venice’s notorious prison, I Piombi, the only person known to have done so. He then fled to France, ingratiated himself at the royal court, and invented the national lottery that still exists to this day. He crisscrossed Europe, landing for a while in St. Petersburg, where he was admitted to the court of Catherine the Great. He corresponded with Voltaire and met Mozart and Lorenzo da Ponte—assisting them as they composed the timeless opera Don Giovanni. And he wrote what many consider the greatest memoir of the era, the twelve-volume Story of My Life. Laurence Bergreen’s Casanova recounts this astonishing life in rich, intimate detail, and at the same time, paints a dazzling portrait of eighteenth-century Europe, filled with a cast characters from serving girls to kings and courtiers, “great fun for any history lover” (Kirkus Reviews).

The Casanova Papers

Author : Carl MacDougall
Publisher : Harvill Secker
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The Casanova Papers written by Carl MacDougall and published by Harvill Secker. This book was released on 1996 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

On the King's Couch

Author : Octave Aubry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book On the King's Couch written by Octave Aubry and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Handbook for Switzerland and the Adjacent Regions of the Alps

Author : John Murray
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 778 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handbook for Switzerland and the Adjacent Regions of the Alps written by John Murray and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Vegetation-based Degradation and Restoration on the Alpine Grasslands of the Tibetan Plateau

Author : Yanfu Bai
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
ISBN 13 : 2832553109
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (325 download)

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Download or read book Vegetation-based Degradation and Restoration on the Alpine Grasslands of the Tibetan Plateau written by Yanfu Bai and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2024-08-13 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Known as the “roof of the world,” the Tibetan Plateau is the highest and largest plateau on Earth. Tibetan Plateau hosts several mountain ecosystems characterized by high elevations, cold conditions, and a wide range in water availability. Its unique physical and geographical environment includes ecosystems typical for alpine regions, classified as alpine grasslands, which account for 50-70% of the total land area of the Tibetan plateau. Most of these grasslands contain fragile tundra-like environments which are seriously affected by anthropogenic modifications and whose restoration presents a challenge. These natural grassland types include alpine deserts, alpine steppes, alpine meadows, and alpine swamp meadows along precipitation gradients, as well as the transition types between them. Alpine grasslands remain subject to severe degradation by multiple factors, mainly overgrazing and climate warming. As a result, grasslands exhibit a decreased capacity to support biodiversity and complexity, and more generally, ecosystem functions. Therefore, these changes also affect social and recreational activities and restrict access to clean water and food by local communities.

acta botanica barcinonensia

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Publisher : Edicions Universitat Barcelona
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book acta botanica barcinonensia written by and published by Edicions Universitat Barcelona. This book was released on 2003 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Early Days

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book The Early Days written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Antiquities Violations and Site Protection Efforts on National Forests in Oregon and Washington

Author : Carl M. Davis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Antiquities Violations and Site Protection Efforts on National Forests in Oregon and Washington written by Carl M. Davis and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Chain of Mont Blanc

Author : Louis Kurz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Chain of Mont Blanc written by Louis Kurz and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Coping with Demographic Change in the Alpine Regions

Author : Thomas Bausch
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3642546811
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (425 download)

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Download or read book Coping with Demographic Change in the Alpine Regions written by Thomas Bausch and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-06-17 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Europe’s population is ageing and decreasing. Demographic change is making not only regional and territorial adaptation necessary, but also new region-specific spatial planning and regional development. This publication focusses on demographic change and its implications for the economy and social systems in the Alpine areas, which differ widely from their surrounding metropolitan areas. It provides a specific regional in-depth study in order to help establish suitable adaptation and development programs. It covers various aspects including demographic analysis, onsite participatory strategies and implementation processes, as well as generalized adaptation strategies. Reports on pilot actions in various regions across the Alps demonstrate how demographic change can be approached from a practitioner’s perspective. The volume is based on the results of the project DEMOCHANGE, which was co-funded by the European Regional Development Fund in the frame of the European Territorial Cooperation "Alpine Space" program.

Casanova in Venice

Author : Kildare Dobbs
Publisher : The Porcupine's Quill
ISBN 13 : 1123009767
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Casanova in Venice written by Kildare Dobbs and published by The Porcupine's Quill. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is a twenty-first century riposte to Lord Byron’s Don Juan. Casanova in Venice leads the reader on a fast-paced, deliriously raunchy journey in pursuit of that infamous lover and liar, Casanova. The rhythm gallops and the imagery bucks as Casanova grows out of innocence and into the daring, deceitful legend that has since become the subject of fascination, envy and art -- and Kildare Dobbs reveals every tantalizing detail in a meter that begs for recitation. Or rather, almost every detail. For the narrator of Casanova in Venice has a mind of his own and a decidedly modern agenda in this particular re-telling: from complaints about the excessive sanitation of women today, to opinions on the Big Bang Theory, the lively banter between narrator, audience and Casanova himself turns this mock-heroic epic into an equally thoughtful commentary on modern life. The narrative frame is based loosely on Casanova’s own Memoires and uses the same classical eighteenth-century poetic conventions that Casanova might have used, and so nymphs, gods, lyres and Muses all make the occasional appearance. Most sections are headed by a translated epigraph quoted from the Memoires and are written entirely in light-hearted rhyming couplets. Accompanied by Wesley Bates’ magical, irreverent illustrations throughout, the result is, finally, a worthy contribution to modern mythology: ‘Arthur, Cu, Scarface, move over, / make room for hero Casanova!’

Casanova in Bolzano

Author : Sandor Marai
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0375712968
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (757 download)

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Download or read book Casanova in Bolzano written by Sandor Marai and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2005-11-08 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Another rediscovered masterpiece from the Hungarian novelist whose Embers became an international bestseller—a sensuous, suspenseful, aphoristic novel about the world’s most notorious seducer and the encounter that changes him forever. In 1756 Giacomo Casanova escapes from a Venetian prison and resurfaces in the Italian village of Bolzano. Here he receives an unwelcome visitor: the aging but still fearsome Duke of Parma, who years before had defeated Casanova in a duel over a ravishing girl named Francesca and spared his life on condition that he never see her again. Now the duke has taken Francesca as his wife—and intercepted a love letter from her to his old rival. Rather than kill Casanova on the spot, he makes him a startling offer, one that is logical, perverse, and irresistible. Turning an historical episode into a dazzling fictional exploration of the clasp of desire and death, Casanova in Bolzano is further proof that Sándor Márai is one of the most distinctive voices of the twentieth century.

Scottish Mountaineering Club Journal

Author : Scottish Mountaineering Club
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scottish Mountaineering Club Journal written by Scottish Mountaineering Club and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes section "Mountaineering literature."

A Handbook for Travellers in Switzerland, the Alps of Savoy and Piedmont, the Italian Lakes, and Part of Dauphiné

Author : John Murray (Firm)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Handbook for Travellers in Switzerland, the Alps of Savoy and Piedmont, the Italian Lakes, and Part of Dauphiné written by John Murray (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: