Tag: Places

Free Download John Phillip Santos, "Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation"
English | 2000 | pages: 284 | ISBN: 0140292020, 0670868086 | EPUB | 0,8 mb
Finalist for the National Book Award!In this beautifully wrought memoir, award-winning writer John Philip Santos weaves together dream fragments, family remembrances, and Chicano mythology, reaching back into time and place to blend the story of one Mexican family with the soul of an entire people. The story unfolds through a pageant of unforgettable family figures: from Madrina-touched with epilepsy and prophecy ever since, as a girl, she saw a dying soul leave its body-to Teofilo, who was kidnapped as an infant and raised by the Kikapu Indians of Northern Mexico. At the heart of the book is Santos’ search for the meaning of his grandfather’s suicide in San Antonio, Texas, in 1939. Part treasury of the elders, part elegy, part personal odyssey, this is an immigration tale and a haunting family story that offers a rich, magical view of Mexican-American culture.

Free Download Meaningful places : landscape photographers in the nineteenth-century American West By Sailor, Rachel McLean
2014 | 207 Pages | ISBN: 082635422X | PDF | 54 MB
The early history of photography in America coincided with the Euro-American settlement of the West. This thoughtful book argues that the rich history of western photography cannot be understood by focusing solely on the handful of well-known photographers whose work has come to define the era. Art historian Rachel Sailor points out that most photographers in the West were engaged in producing images for their local communities. These pictures didn’t just entertain the settlers but gave them a way to understand their new home. Photographs could help the settlers adjust to their new circumstances by recording the development of a place–revealing domestication, alteration, and improvement. The book explores the cultural complexity of regional landscape photography, western places, and local sociopolitical concerns. Photographic imagery, like western paintings from the same era, enabled Euro-Americans to see the new landscape through their own cultural lenses, shaping the idea of the frontier for the people who lived there.

Free Download Chris Santella, "Fifty places to fly fish before you die: fly-fishing experts share the world’s greatest destinations"
English | 2004 | pages: 224 | ISBN: 1584793562 | EPUB | 8,9 mb
Amateur or expert, every angler dreams of landing "the big one," but that’s only part of the appeal of fly fishing. Because even when hours pass without a bite, nothing beats the rugged beauty of the surroundings. For both armchair travelers and avid outdoorsmen who may have already started a checklist of their own, Fifty Places to Fly Fish Before You Die maps out the meccas of the fly-fishing world. Through in-depth interviews with the sport’s acknowledged gurus, author Chris Santella goes beyond standard guides to convey the very essence of the recommended locations. Readers can vicariously cast mouse pattners to fifty-pound taimen in the wilds of Mongolia, wrangle with wily permit off the Florida Keys, and match the hatch on Montana’s Armstrong’s Spring Creek. Jardines de la Reina, Cuba (tarpon), the Zhupanova River, Kamchatka (rainbow trout), and the Rio Negro, Brazil (peacock bass) are also included. The essays include a cultural and natural history of each site, along with colorful anecdotes based on the author’s and authorities’ experiences. With breath-takingly-beautiful photos of the spots, many by celebrated fly-fishing photographer R. Valentine Atkinson, the book also provides adventurous anglers with enough travel-and-tackle information so that they, too, can start planning excursions to go fish around the globe.

Free Download Chris Santella, "Fifty places to fly fish before you die: fly-fishing experts share the world’s greatest destinations"
English | 2004 | pages: 224 | ISBN: 1584793562 | EPUB | 8,9 mb
Amateur or expert, every angler dreams of landing "the big one," but that’s only part of the appeal of fly fishing. Because even when hours pass without a bite, nothing beats the rugged beauty of the surroundings. For both armchair travelers and avid outdoorsmen who may have already started a checklist of their own, Fifty Places to Fly Fish Before You Die maps out the meccas of the fly-fishing world. Through in-depth interviews with the sport’s acknowledged gurus, author Chris Santella goes beyond standard guides to convey the very essence of the recommended locations. Readers can vicariously cast mouse pattners to fifty-pound taimen in the wilds of Mongolia, wrangle with wily permit off the Florida Keys, and match the hatch on Montana’s Armstrong’s Spring Creek. Jardines de la Reina, Cuba (tarpon), the Zhupanova River, Kamchatka (rainbow trout), and the Rio Negro, Brazil (peacock bass) are also included. The essays include a cultural and natural history of each site, along with colorful anecdotes based on the author’s and authorities’ experiences. With breath-takingly-beautiful photos of the spots, many by celebrated fly-fishing photographer R. Valentine Atkinson, the book also provides adventurous anglers with enough travel-and-tackle information so that they, too, can start planning excursions to go fish around the globe.

Free Download Fifty Places to Travel with Your Dog Before You Die: Dog Experts Share the World’s Greatest Destinations by Chris Santella, DC Helmuth
English | May 16, 2023 | ISBN: 1419761005 | 224 pages | MOBI | 24 Mb
Chris Santella’s bestselling Fifty Places series returns with a collection of creative, adventurous trips for dogs and the humans who love them.

Free Download Peter Hathaway Capstick, "Death in the Silent Places"
English | 1981 | ISBN: 0312186185, 0312915373 | EPUB | pages: 258 | 1.0 mb
From the master of adventure behind the classic Death in the Long Grass, former big-game hunter Peter Hathaway Capstick now turns from his own exploits to those of some of the greatest hunters of the past with Death in the Silent Places.

Free Download Duncan Fishwick, "Cult Places and Cult Personnel in the Roman Empire "
English | ISBN: 1138375934 | 2019 | 392 pages | EPUB | 16 MB
The twenty-one studies assembled in this volume focus on the apparatus and practitioners of religions in the western Roman empire, the enclaves, temples, altars and monuments that served the cults of a wide range of divinities through the medium of priests and worshippers. Discussion focuses on the analysis or reconstruction of the centres at which devotees gathered and draws on the full range of available evidence. While literary authorities remain of primary concern, these are for the most part overshadowed by other categories of evidence, in particular archaeology, epigraphy, numismatics and iconography, sources in some cases confirmed by the latest geophysical techniques – electrical resistivity tomography or ground-probing radar. The material is conveniently presented by geographical area, using modern rather than Latin terminology: Rome, Italy, Britain, Gaul, Spain, Hungary, along with a broader section that covers the empire in general. The titles of the various articles speak for themselves but readers may find the preface of interest in so far as it sets out my ideas on the use of ancient evidence and the pitfalls of some of the approaches favoured by modern scholars. Together with the wide range of individual papers the preface makes the book of interest to all students of the Roman empire as well as those specifically concerned with the history of religions.

Free Download Richard E. Stoner, "Ashtabula: People and Places"
English | 2005 | pages: 128 | ISBN: 0738534307, 1531619754 | EPUB | 47,7 mb
A collection of local photographer Richard E. Stoner’s work which captured Ashtabula’s transformations over time.

Free Download The Secret Life of Hidden Places: Concealed Rooms, Clandestine Passageways, and the Curious Minds That Made Them (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CPKWTCJY | 2024 | 8 hours and 31 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 248 MB
Author: Stefan Bachmann, April Genevieve Tucholke
Narrator: James Langton

Free Download Dark Places of the Earth: The Voyage of the Slave Ship Antelope (Audiobook)
English | July 13, 2015 | ASIN: B010O0HISC | M4B@64 kbps | 10h 58m | 299 MB
Author: Jonathan M. Bryant | Narrator: Tom Zingarelli
A dramatic work of historical detection illuminating one of the most significant―and long forgotten―Supreme Court cases in American history.