The Quest of the Simple Life

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.[]

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A Tramp Abroad (1880) (Oxford Mark Twain)

A Tramp Abroad published in 1880 is Mark Twain's second travel book a sequel to his immensely popular The Innocents Abroad. Here Twain returns to Europe in the company as Russell Banks puts it in his introduction of a genial "goad guide and all-purpose straight man" modeled on his friend and real-life traveling companion Joe Twitchell who "plays Butch Cassidy to Twain's Sundance Sancho to his Quixote." The eccentric journey they take through Germany Switzerland Italy and other countries constantly veers into imaginative burlesques exaggerations tall tales and humorous digressions the most well known of which are the inimitable "Baker's Blue-Jay Yarn" and "The Awful German Language." The travelers gamely take in student duels Wagnerian opera and the works of the Old Masters; they travel by raft train and donkey cart listen to folk legends and dreadful pianists scale the Alps and view cathedrals he found noble in their ugliness. But the sight that cheers them most is that of New York harbor on their return. A Tramp Abroad Banks reminds us celebrates two "American males clearly blessed with the gift of friendship of giving it and of receiving and holding onto it."[]

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South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-17

An illustrated account of Shackleton's last expedition to the Antarctic.[]

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Atlas of Human Anatomy Professional Edition (5th edition) (Netter Basic Science)

Atlas of Human Anatomy Professional Edition uses Frank H. Netter MD's detailed illustrations to illuminate anatomy and its relevance to medical practice. This 5th Edition features a stronger clinical focus than ever before including an online image bank of some of Netter's classic anatomy and pathology illustrations along with many diagnostic imaging examples that capture anatomy the way it is most frequently seen in practice. At netterreference.com you can access the selected images and downloads as well as videos from Netter's 3-D Interactive Anatomy. Netter. It's how you know.

• Vividly visualize the anatomy relevant to your practice and educate your patients and staff with hundreds of exquisite hand-painted illustrations created by and in the tradition of pre-eminent medical illustrator Frank H. Netter MD.


• Leverage the Netter "visual vocabulary" you learned in medical school to grasp complex clinical concepts at a glance.

• Correlate anatomy with practice through an increased clinical focus many new diagnostic imaging examples and new clinical illustrations online
• Access valuable online resources at netterreference.com including an image bank of over 200 plates from the book more than180 additional plates containing diagnostic imaging and clinical illustrations and video samples from Netter's 3D Interactive Anatomy
• Integrate the Netter Atlas with your other Netter clinical products at www.netterreference.com. Unlock the power of a wide Netter image bank for presentations and clinical use

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The Ice Balloon: S. A. Andree and the Heroic Age of Arctic Exploration

In this grand and astonishing tale Alec Wilkinson brings us the story of S. A. Andrée the visionary Swedish aeronaut who in 1897 during the great age of Arctic endeavor left to discover the North Pole by flying to it in a hydrogen balloon. Called by a British military officer “the most original and remarkable attempt ever made in Arctic exploration” Andrée’s expedition was followed by nearly the entire world and it made him an international legend.
 
The Ice Balloon begins in the late nineteenth century when nations compelled by vanity commerce and science competed with one another for the greatest discoveries and newspapers covered every journey. Wilkinson describes how in Andrée several contemporary themes intersected. He was the first modern explorer—the first to depart for the Arctic unencumbered by notions of the Romantic age and the first to be equipped with the newest technologies. No explorer had ever left with more uncertainty regarding his fate since none had ever flown over the horizon and into the forbidding region of ice.
 
In addition to portraying the period The Ice Balloon gives us a brief history of the exploration of the northern polar regions both myth and fact including detailed versions of the two record-setting expeditions just prior to Andrée’s—one led by U.S. Army lieutenant Adolphus Greely from Ellesmere Island; the other by Fridtjof Nansen the Norwegian explorer who initially sought to reach the pole by embedding his ship in the pack ice and drifting toward it with the current.
 
Woven throughout is Andrée’s own history and how he came by his brave and singular idea. We also get to know Andrée’s family the woman who loves him and the two men who accompany him—Nils Strindberg a cousin of the famous playwright with a tender love affair of his own and Knut Fraenkel a willing and hearty young man.
 
Andrée’s flight and the journey based on the expedition’s diaries and photographs dramatically recovered thirty-three years after the balloon came down along with Wilkinson’s research provide a book filled with suspense and adventure a haunting story of high ambition and courage made tangible with the detail beauty and devastating conditions of traveling and dwelling in “the realm of Death” as one Arctic explorer put it.[]

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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

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THE INNOCENTS ABROAD

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