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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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster

When Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mt. Everest in the early afternoon of May 10 1996 he hadn't slept in fifty-seven hours and was reeling from the brain-altering effects of oxygen depletion. As he turned to begin his long dangerous descent from 29028 feet twenty other climbers were still pushing doggedly toward the top.  No one had noticed that the sky had begun to fill with clouds. Six hours later and 3000 feet lower in 70-knot winds and blinding snow Krakauer collapsed in his tent freezing hallucinating from exhaustion and hypoxia but safe. The following morning he learned that six of his fellow climbers hadn't made it back to their camp and were desperately struggling for their lives. When the storm finally passed five of them would be dead and the sixth so horribly frostbitten that his right hand would have to be amputated.

Into Thin Air is the definitive account of the deadliest season in the history of Everest by the acclaimed journalist and author of the bestseller Into the Wild. On assignment for Outside Magazine to report on the growing commercialization of the mountain Krakauer an accomplished climber went to the Himalayas as a client of Rob Hall the most respected high-altitude guide in the world.  A rangy thirty-five-year-old New Zealander Hall had summited Everest four times between 1990 and 1995 and had led thirty-nine climbers to the top. Ascending the mountain in close proximity to Hall's team was a guided expedition led by Scott Fischer a forty-year-old American with legendary strength and drive who had climbed the peak without supplemental oxygen in 1994. But neither Hall nor Fischer survived the rogue storm that struck in May 1996.

Krakauer examines what it is about Everest that has compelled so many people -- including himself -- to throw caution to the wind ignore the concerns of loved ones and willingly subject themselves to such risk hardship and expense. Written with emotional clarity and supported by his unimpeachable reporting Krakauer's eyewitness account of what happened on the roof of the world is a singular achievement.

Into the Wild is available on audio read by actor Campbell Scott.[]

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Into the Wild

In a compelling book that evokes the writings of Thoreau Muir and Jack London Krakauer recounts the haunting and tragic mystery of 22-year-old Chris McCandless who disappeared in April 1992 into the Alaskan wilderness in search of a raw transcendent experience. His emaciated corpse was discovered four months later. Maps. NPR sponsorship.[]

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Man Seeks God: My Flirtations with the Divine

When a health scare puts him in the hospital Eric Weiner-an agnostic by default-finds himself tangling with an unexpected question posed to him by a well-meaning nurse. "Have you found your God yet?" The thought of it nags him and prods him-and ultimately launches him on a far-flung journey to do just that.

Weiner a longtime "spiritual voyeur" and inveterate traveler realizes that while he has been privy to a wide range of religious practices he's never seriously considered these concepts in his own life. Face to face with his own mortality and spurred on by the question of what spiritual principles to impart to his young daughter he decides to correct this omission undertaking a worldwide exploration of religions and hoping to come if he can to a personal understanding of the divine.

The journey that results is rich in insight humor and heart. Willing to do anything to better understand faith and to find the god or gods that speak to him he travels to Nepal where he meditates with Tibetan lamas and a guy named Wayne. He sojourns to Turkey where he whirls (not so well as it turns out) with Sufi dervishes. He heads to China where he attempts to unblock his chi; to Israel where he studies Kabbalah sans Madonna; and to Las Vegas where he has a close encounter with Raelians (followers of the world's largest UFO-based religion).

At each stop along the way Weiner tackles our most pressing spiritual questions: Where do we come from? What happens when we die? How should we live our lives? Where do all the missing socks go? With his trademark wit and warmth he leaves no stone unturned. At a time when more Americans than ever are choosing a new faith and when spiritual questions loom large in the modern age MAN SEEKS GOD presents a perspective on religion that is sure to delight inspire and entertain.

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The Book of Tea (Slipcase)

Classic book to preserve the Traditional Tea Ceremony of Japan originally published in 1906.[]

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A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail

Stretching from Georgia to Maine the Appalachian Trail offers some of America's most breathtaking scenery. After living for many years in England Bill Bryson moved back to the United States and decided to reacquaint himself with his country by taking to this uninterrupted "hiker's highway." Before long Bryson and his infamous walking companion Stephen Katz are stocking up on insulated long johns noodles and manuals for avoiding bear attacks as they prepare to set off on a walk that is both amusingly ill-conceived and surprisingly adventurous. John Muir Henry David Thoreau and Peter Jenkins never took a hike like this.

A Walk in the Woods showcases Bryson at the height of his comic powers. Meeting up with characters such as Beulah and her fearsome husband "Bubba T. Flubba" readers risk snakebite and hantavirus to trudge through swollen rivers traipse up mountainsteps and develop a new reverence for cream sodas and hot showers. But Bryson also uses his acute powers of observation to conjure a poignant backdrop of silent forests and sparkling lakes thereby making a gentle but unforgettable plea for the ecological treasures we are in danger of losing. Fresh illuminating and uproariously funny A Walk in the Woods is travel writing at its very best.[]

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