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Author : Russell D. Lowther
Release : 1968
Genre : Methodist Church
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Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Laughter and Tears in the Mountains by : Russell D. Lowther
Download or read book Laughter and Tears in the Mountains written by Russell D. Lowther. This book was released on 1968. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mountain
Release : 2012-01-30
Genre : Humor
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Book Rating : 453/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Laughter in the Mountains by : Mountain
Download or read book Laughter in the Mountains written by Mountain. This book was released on 2012-01-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a celebration of life. Its astonishing view is from the perspective of someone living a simple, isolated life in the Rocky Mountains as a mountain man. Sylvan Ambrose Hart was born in the Oklahoma Territory in 1906. In the 1930's, while still a young man, he walked into the Rocky Mountains and designed a unique life for himself in the wilds - hunting, fishing, trapping, panning gold, crafting his own tools, weapons, shelter, and clothes. For almost fifty years he lived the life of a reclusive mountain man --eventually gaining national fame as Buckskin Bill, Last of the Mountain Men. In 1973 another young man, studying philosophy in a private college back east, found that he could no longer abide being shackled by the conventional wisdoms of our culture. To the dismay of all who knew and loved him, he dropped out of college and headed for the mountains. He caught a train cross-country to Montana, then hopped a bus southbound skirting the Rocky Mountains. At one point he simply stepped off the bus and walked into the mountains with only a backpack, machete, and knife (no food or gun) determined to learn what the mountains offered to teach --or die trying. After a few months of eating rattlesnakes, ants and field mice, this struggling newcomer to the mountains (the author) discovered the now old and grizzled mountain man living not only successfully but quite flamboyantly in the depths of the Rocky Mountain wilderness on the River of No Return. Buckskin was an extraordinary man. Anyone who ever met him walked away with stories and memories to be cherished for a lifetime. Here are my favorite memories of the Last of the Mountain Men.
Author : Margaret Alexiou
Release : 2017-06-05
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 808/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Greek Laughter and Tears by : Margaret Alexiou
Download or read book Greek Laughter and Tears written by Margaret Alexiou. This book was released on 2017-06-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the range and complexity of human emotions and their transmission across cultural traditionsWhat makes us laugh and cry, sometimes at the same time? How do these two primal, seemingly discrete and non-verbal modes of expression intersect in everyday life and ritual, and what range of emotions do they evoke? How may they be voiced, shaped and coloured in literature and liturgy, art and music?Bringing together scholars from diverse periods and disciplines of Hellenic and Byzantine studies, this volume explores the shifting shapes and functions of laughter and tears. With a focus on the tragic, the comic and the tragicomic dimensions of laughter and tears in art, literature and performance, as well as on their emotional, socio-cultural and religious significance, it breaks new ground in the study of ancient and Byzantine affectivity.Key featuresIncludes an international cast of 25 distinguished contributors Prominence is given to performative arts and to interactions with other cultures Transitions from Late Antiquity to Byzantium, and from Byzantium to the Renaissance, form focal points from which contributors look backwards, forwards and sidewaysHighlights the variety, audacity and quality of the finest Byzantine works and the extent to which they anticipated the renaissance
Author : Surazeus Astarius
Release : 2017-10
Genre : Poetry
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Book Rating : 56X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Gothiniad by : Surazeus Astarius
Download or read book Gothiniad written by Surazeus Astarius. This book was released on 2017-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gothiniad of Surazeus - Oracle of Gotha presents 150,792 lines of verse in 1,948 poems, lyrics, ballads, sonnets, dramatic monologues, eulogies, hymns, and epigrams written by Surazeus 1993 to 2000.
Author : Alan Weber
Release : 2003-04-09
Genre : Nature
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Book Rating : 037/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Because It's There by : Alan Weber
Download or read book Because It's There written by Alan Weber. This book was released on 2003-04-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with Hannibal's legendary crossing of the Alps and concluding with present-day firsthand accounts of Everest and K-2 expeditions, this engrossing collection presents 43 essays, poems, and reminiscences by artists and adventurers to whom climbing is more personal mission than sport.
