The Last Walk

Author : Jessica Pierce
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022615100X
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Walk written by Jessica Pierce and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-04-04 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a book that draws on both personal stories and research presents an in-depth exploration of the practical, medical and moral issues that trouble pet owners confronted with the decline and death of their companion animals.

Author : Wayne Curtis
Publisher : Rodale Books
ISBN 13 : 1609613732
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Great Walk written by Wayne Curtis and published by Rodale Books. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1909, Edward Payson Weston walked from New York to San Francisco, covering around 40 miles a day and greeted by wildly cheering audiences in every city. The New York Times called it the "first bona-fide walk ... across the American continent," and eagerly chronicled a journey in which Weston was beset by fatigue, mosquitos, vicious headwinds, and brutal heat. He was 70 years old. In The Last Great Walk, journalist Wayne Curtis uses the framework of Weston's fascinating and surprising story, and investigates exactly what we lost when we turned away from foot travel, and what we could potentially regain with America's new embrace of pedestrianism. From how our brains and legs evolved to accommodate our ancient traveling needs to the way that American cities have been designed to cater to cars and discourage pedestrians, Curtis guides readers through an engaging, intelligent exploration of how something as simple as the way we get from one place to another continues to shape our health, our environment, and even our national identity. Not walking, he argues, may be one of the most radical things humans have ever done.

Author : Howard Jacobson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 140884530X
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dog's Last Walk written by Howard Jacobson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-09 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: _______________ '[An] acutely observed collection of occasional pieces that pick at absurdist life and reveal him to be a quiz, a cultural critic gifted with precise comic timing' - The Times 'The author's prose is always a delight ... a book that manages the high-wire act of being genuinely funny while dispensing genuine wisdom' - Times Literary Supplement 'Jacobson is one of the great sentence-builders of our time. I feel I have to raise my game, even just to praise ... In short, he is one of the great guardians of language and culture - all of it. Long may he flourish' - Nicholas Lezard, Guardian _______________ Week after week, for eighteen years, the Booker Prize-winning novelist Howard Jacobson wrote a weekly column for the Independent, reflecting in inimitable style on the sacred and the profane in turn, the frivolous and the serious, the deeply personal and the most universal. The shame and humiliation inherent in death is explored with frank astuteness. Matisse, darts and the power of love are celebrated; while cyclists are very much censured. And meanwhile, a beloved old Labrador walks his last walk as life elsewhere hurtles on and away... The Dog's Last Walk is a collection of wisdom and iconoclasm for our uncertain times, and one that reveals one of our greatest writers in all his humanity. _______________ 'Sharp and playful, surreal and thoughtful, and occasionally ... rather moving' - New Statesman 'Yes, Jacobson is an entertainer ... And he does indeed entertain, but in a way that stimulates rather than simply amuses' - Sunday Telegraph 'His columns were always one of the best things in [the Independent] – funny, argumentative, contrary and stuffed with ideas as well as a big, sympathetic personality' - Philip Hensher, Spectator

Author : Rose Zwi
Publisher : Spinifex Press
ISBN 13 : 9781875559725
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Last Walk in Naryshkin Park written by Rose Zwi and published by Spinifex Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This memoir of Jewish family history is also a documentation of atrocities inflicted by the fascist militia during the German occupation of Eastern Europe. It is a personal account of the legacy of the Holocaust.

Author : Barry Adkins
Publisher : Red Willow Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781936539055
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kevin's Last Walk written by Barry Adkins and published by Red Willow Publishing. This book was released on 2011-02 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspiration meets adventure in Barry's book that chronicles the tragicdeath of his teenage son, Kevin, due to alcohol poisoning, and his epic, 1,400-mile journey, from Arizona to Montana, with Kevin's ashes in his backpack. With a sense of humor that is rare among parents who have lost achild, Barry's book is a combination of faith, inspiration and adventure. Yup, his book will make you laugh, cry, and when you finish his book, you will simply smile. Everyparent that reads Barry's story will hug their precious children a littletighter. Barry wrote this book with audiences of all ages in mind. In movieterms it is rated "G."

Author : Dan Helm
Publisher : Bookbaby
ISBN 13 : 9781098312688
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Last Walk Home written by Dan Helm and published by Bookbaby. This book was released on 2020-08-22 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After my parents passed away just a few days apart several years back, I remember the stories they told about growing up in North Central Pennsylvania. There were wonderful stories about times they spent with their brothers and sisters. Attending dances at township fire halls, working on a farm and attending school together. I know its been said many times, I wished I had written down they stories they told but I didn't and no one else did either. I didn't want my children and their children to sit and wonder what was my life was like growing up as child; what the family was like, who were my friends and what were the good things and the not so good things I did. I hope this book will answer many of their questions. It is my wish that you read this book and hopefully it will spark your childhood memories and inspire you to jot down the things you did and life you lived growing up where you live and why it was special to you. Even if you don't publish you words, keep them for others to read and enjoy.

Author : Ron Baumbach
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781466473621
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Walk on Our Block written by Ron Baumbach and published by . This book was released on 2012-01-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You are invited to share in a family's last walk on their block.An unexpected family reunion leads three brothers and their sister back home. Traveling from all parts of the USA, they soon find themselves once again walking the block of their Long Island upbringing. They take steps back to their past in a moving and touching journey in time that takes them from the 1950's through to the 1960's and beyond.Revisiting their roots, upbringing and past they reconnect with their long gone childhood years, recapturing moments of their Dad's missing memory due to his long lost battle with Alzheimers.Their stroll is filled with lovingly shared adventures, wholesome family values, inspiring neighborly virtues, motherly love and fatherly guidance.Set in the 50's and 60's in a most restful village in middle America, true life comes vividly back to reality in this awe-inspiring path to the past. Personal, humorous, and charming neighborhood reflections based on motivating and enlivened homespun memories line their journey.A time long gone by comes roaring back to life in this personal reflection!Join The Last Walk on Our Block and relive your own memories of life as we all knew it.

Author : Louis Hoffman
Publisher : University Professors Press
ISBN 13 : 1939686350
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Our Last Walk written by Louis Hoffman and published by University Professors Press. This book was released on 2020-06-24 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Losing a pet is a deeply painful experience, yet often misunderstood by many who see the beloved pet as "Just a pet." Our Last Walk: Using Poetry for Grieving and Remembering Our Pets is a powerful resource for those experiencing pet loss and those who are supporting others who have lost a pet. Filled with powerful, authentic poems expressing loss, Our Last Walk helps the grieving person find words for their loss while sharing in the experience of others who have traversed that same painful journey. More than a book of tears, Our Last Walk also helps people to remember their beloved pet, preserving the love and memories of relationship. Through this book, many will find encouragement, healing, and hope.

Author : Janusz Korczak
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300097429
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ghetto Diary written by Janusz Korczak and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint. Originally published: New York: Holocaust Library, c1978.

Author : Bill Bryson
Publisher : Anchor Canada
ISBN 13 : 0385674546
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Walk in the Woods written by Bill Bryson and published by Anchor Canada. This book was released on 2012-05-15 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: God only knows what possessed Bill Bryson, a reluctant adventurer if ever there was one, to undertake a gruelling hike along the world's longest continuous footpath—The Appalachian Trail. The 2,000-plus-mile trail winds through 14 states, stretching along the east coast of the United States, from Georgia to Maine. It snakes through some of the wildest and most spectacular landscapes in North America, as well as through some of its most poverty-stricken and primitive backwoods areas. With his offbeat sensibility, his eye for the absurd, and his laugh-out-loud sense of humour, Bryson recounts his confrontations with nature at its most uncompromising over his five-month journey. An instant classic, riotously funny, A Walk in the Woods will add a whole new audience to the legions of Bill Bryson fans.