Tag: Tales

Free Download Tom Wood, "Trading Steel for Stone: Tales of a Rustbelt Refugee Turned Rocky Mountain Rescuer"
English | ISBN: 1555664679 | 2016 | 232 pages | EPUB | 1268 KB
When the author began his career as a volunteer mountain rescuer with the Alpine Rescue Team in Colorado seventeen years ago, he was a clueless Youngstowner fresh off the interstate from Ohio who didn’t know Gore-Tex from Tex-Mex. He had a lifetime of ridiculously dangerous pursuits and backcountry sins to atone for, so he became a Rocky Mountain rescuer with the intention of repaying the massive karmic debt he had accumulated. This is the story of how a career in volunteer service to others transformed a self-absorbed Rustbelt redneck adrenaline junkie into one of the nation’s leading voices in technical rope rescue.

Free Download The Great Horizon: 50 Tales of Exploration by Jo Woolf
English | August 21, 2018 | ISBN: 1910985880 | True EPUB | 446 pages | 17.5 MB
Fifty stories of adventure and exploration over more than two hundred years of human history.

Free Download Nancy L. Canepa, "The Enchanted Boot: Italian Fairy Tales and Their Tellers "
English | ISBN: 081433475X | 2022 | 467 pages | EPUB | 950 KB
This comprehensive collection of Italian tales in English encourages a revisitation of the fairy-tale canon in light of some of the most fascinating material that has often been excluded from it. In the United States, we tend to associate fairy tales with children and are most familiar with the tales of the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Anderson, and Disney. But the first literary fairy tales appeared in Renaissance Italy, and long before the Grimms there was already a rich and sophisticated tradition that included hundreds of tales, including many of those today considered "classic." The authors featured in this volume have, over the centuries, explored and interrogated the intersections between elite and popular cultures and oral and literary narratives, just as they have investigated the ways in which fairy tales have been and continue to be rewritten as expressions of both collective identities and individual sensibilities. The fairy tale in its Italian incarnations provides a striking example of how this genre is a potent vehicle for expressing cultural aspirations and anxieties as well as for imagining different ways of narrating shared futures.

Free Download Sa’Di, "The Discontented Dervishes: And Other Persian Tales"
English | 2002 | pages: 192 | ASIN: B00FIMWCQ0 | EPUB | 0,4 mb
Arthur Scholey has selected and retold 74 of Sa’di’s stories of the wisdom, humour and common sense of the kings, servants, lords, slaves and beggars, pupils and teachers, birds, beasts, insects and dervishes.

Free Download The Dawn of the Warrior Age: War Tales from Medieval Japan edited and translated by Royall Tyler
English | April 2, 2024 | ISBN: 0231214669, 0231214677 | True EPUB | 336 pages | 3.2 MB
The war between the Heike and Genji clans in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries is among the most compelling and significant moments in Japan’s history, immortalized in The Tale of the Heike. Beyond the events recorded in this canonical text, the conflicts of the surrounding years are crucial to medieval Japanese culture and history. In 1156, power began to slip away from the court nobility in Kyoto. A shogunate was later founded in Kamakura, and in 1221, it won a decisive victory over the court.

Free Download Bela Balázs, Mariette Lydis, "The Cloak of Dreams: Chinese Fairy Tales"
English | 2010 | pages: 208 | ISBN: 0691147116, 0691162336 | PDF | 1,9 mb
Intriguing fairy tales by the librettist of Béla Bartók’s opera Bluebeard’s Castle

Free Download Jonathan Sale, "Telling Tales Out of School: A Miscellany of Celebrity School Days"
English | 2014 | pages: 320 | ISBN: 1849547734 | EPUB | 0,5 mb
WHICH UNIVERSITY CHALLENGE PRESENTER FAILED HIS ELEMENTARY MATHS O LEVEL SIX TIMES? FOR WHICH DRAGONS’ DEN INVESTOR WAS FLOGGING LEATHER JACKETS A LUNCH BREAK ACTIVITY? WHICH ENVIRONMENTALIST WAS EXPELLED AT PRIMARY SCHOOL FOR ATTEMPTING TO POISON HIS CLASSMATES WITH DEADLY NIGHTSHADE? WHICH ADVENTURER AND EXPLORER SPENT HIS TIME AT ETON SHINNING UP THE ARCHITECTURE? Through intimate conversations with journalist Jonathan Sale, some of Britain’s leading personalities reminisce about their school and college days, revealing the portents, paths and false starts that led them to where they are today. With poignant and hilarious anecdotes spanning everything from those very first days at school to receiving their dreaded O level, A level and degree results, this book is brimming with recollections that every reader can associate with. Tributes are paid to the teachers who opened doors, whilst others tell tales on those who slammed them in their faces. And all credit to the teachers who were truly prophetic about their pupils. These personalities may be reticent with regard to their adult personal lives, but speak candidly about their childhoods, revealing fascinating insights into the role their formative years played in shaping them to become the people they are today.

Free Download Seafood Journey: Tastes and Tales From Scotland by Ghillie Basan, Gary Maclean
English | January 2, 2024 | ISBN: 1780278322 | 256 pages | PDF | 49 Mb
A journey highlighting the ingredients and recipes of Scotland’s coastline.

Free Download Leading Primary Care: Tales from the Leadership Hikers
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1032218991 | 197 Pages | PDF (True) | 5 MB
This new book of leadership narratives portrays the reality of driving change within primary care, making it a valuable resource for a broad primary care audience. It empowers both clinicians and non-clinicians by helping them recognise and harness their leadership qualities. The book weaves together stories from diverse primary care practitioners operating at different levels from junior to senior, in both clinical practice and large-scale operations. These narratives showcase how these professionals applied their leadership skills, navigated challenges, and distilled valuable lessons from their experiences.

Free Download Bruce Sandison, "Glorious Gentlemen: Tales from Scotland’s Stalkers, Gillies and Keepers"
English | 2013 | pages: 320 | ISBN: 1845025326, 1845024605 | EPUB | 0,3 mb
Bruce Sandison takes the reader on a magical journey as seen through the eyes of some of Scotland’s best-known and most respected gillies, stalkers, and keepers-men who have spent their whole lives on river, moor, and hill caring for the iconic salmon in our rivers and the red deer on our hills. The stories they have to tell are full of humor, kindliness, and patience; sometimes under difficult circumstances as they help their guests, old and young alike, novice or experienced, in pursuit of the best possible chance of sport. Your guide, Bruce Sandison, is a highly regarded author and conservationist, well known for his passionate love for his native land. Everything that is finest about Scotland will be found along the way and, above all, this is a unique opportunity to spend time in the company of these glorious, very special gentlemen.