Author : Henry Cole
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 39,11 MB
Release : 1998-03-23
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0688151159
Have you ever sat quietly near a stream, or in a meadow or a wood, and just looked and listened? Well, now is your chance-come walk with Henry Cole in this delightful follow-up to Jack's Garden. Vibrant, die-cut flaps fold out, inviting young viewers to observe the many forms of wildlife and plants found on land and in the water. Turn the pages for an interactive and fun exploration into nature. You'll be surprised by how much you see!
Author : Susan Gal
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 17,13 MB
Release : 2012-06-27
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0375985565
Please Take Me for a Walk is a celebration of dogs and kids and community. The book stars a very persuasive pup pleading with his best friend—the reader!—to take him for a walk. He recounts all the fun things they can see and do: chase squirrels in the yard, greet neighbors on their block, visit the shopkeepers downtown, swing by the schoolyard, and then run and play in the park. The dog run at the park is filled with all kinds of amazing purebreds and mutts, and our puppy wants them all to see "my best friend and me." Susan Gal uses this story of a dog's best walk ever to catalog all the favorite places in a child's world. She starts in the house and the yard, then widens her scope to the block, the neighborhood, downtown, and the park. And she captures the magical way the people of a community can be brought together through their pets. The dog's enthusiastic voice and eagerness to go out walking will resonate with any dog owner. And Susan Gal's artwork is so enticing and adorable it will have even confirmed cat lovers heading for the pound! Happy walking, everyone!
Author : Carolyn Curtis
Publisher : Barefoot Books
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 42,37 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781841486116
A boy and the moon share a walk through his neighborhood.
Author : Kathleen Rooney
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 43,26 MB
Release : 2017-01-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1250113334
NOW A NATIONAL INDIE BESTSELLER A love letter to city life in all its guts and grandeur, Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney paints a portrait of a remarkable woman across the canvas of a changing America: from the Jazz Age to the onset of the AIDS epidemic; the Great Depression to the birth of hip-hop. “In my reckless and undiscouraged youth,” Lillian Boxfish writes, “I worked in a walnut-paneled office thirteen floors above West Thirty-Fifth Street...” She took 1930s New York by storm, working her way up writing copy for R.H. Macy’s to become the highest paid advertising woman in the country. It was a job that, she says, “in some ways saved my life, and in other ways ruined it.” Now it’s the last night of 1984 and Lillian, 85 years old but just as sharp and savvy as ever, is on her way to a party. It’s chilly enough out for her mink coat and Manhattan is grittier now—her son keeps warning her about a subway vigilante on the prowl—but the quick-tongued poetess has never been one to scare easily. On a walk that takes her over 10 miles around the city, she meets bartenders, bodega clerks, security guards, criminals, children, parents, and parents-to-be, while reviewing a life of excitement and adversity, passion and heartbreak, illuminating all the ways New York has changed—and has not. Lillian figures she might as well take her time. For now, after all, the night is still young. “Transporting...witty, poignant and sparkling.” —People (People Picks Book of the Week)
Author : Libby DeLana
Publisher :
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 22,41 MB
Release : 2021-06-03
Category :
ISBN : 9781907974960
One morning in 2011, Libby DeLana stepped outside her New England home for a walk. She did the same thing the next day, and the next. It became a daily habit that has culminated in her walking over 25,000 miles - the equivalent of the earth's circumference. In Do Walk, Libby shares the transformative nature of this simple yet powerful practice. She reveals how walking each day provides the time and space to reconnect with the world around us; process thoughts; improve our physical wellbeing; and unlock creativity. It is the ultimate navigational tool that helps us to see who we are - beyond titles and labels, and where we want to go. With stunning photography, this inspiring and reflective guide is an invitation to step outside, and see where the path takes us.
Author : Anke Gleber
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 12,97 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780691002385
Anke Gleber examines one of the most intriguing and characteristic figures of European urban modernity: the observing city stroller, or flaneur. In an age transformed by industrialism, the flaneur drifted through city streets, inspired and repelled by the surrounding scenes of splendor and squalor. Gleber examines this often elusive figure in the particular contexts of Weimar Germany and the intellectual sphere of Walter Benjamin, with whom the concept of flanerie is often associated. She sketches the European influences that produced the German flaneur and establishes the figure as a pervasive presence in Weimar culture, as well as a profound influence on modern perceptions of public space. The book begins by exploring the theory of literary flanerie and the technological changes--street lighting, public transportation, and the emergence of film--that gave a new status to the activities of seeing and walking in the modern city. Gleber then assesses the place of flanerie in works by Benjamin, Siegfried Kracauer, and other representatives of Weimar literature, arts, and theory. She draws particular attention to the works of Franz Hessel, a Berlin flaneur who argued that flanerie is a "reading" of the city that perceives passersby, streets, and fleeting impressions as the transitory signs of modernity. Gleber also examines connections between flanerie and Weimar film, and discusses female flanerie as a means of asserting female subjectivity in the public realm. The book is a deeply original and searching reassessment of the complex intersections among modernity, vision, and public space.
Author : Paula Peeters
Publisher :
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 28,71 MB
Release : 2020-05-15
Category :
ISBN : 9780994639455
Author : John Daly
Publisher : Boolarong Press
Page : 21 pages
File Size : 25,96 MB
Release :
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1922643432
A trip into Australia’s heart and the Top End is an adventure dream for most Australians! Burnt-orange landscapes; stark-white ghost gums; iconic rock domes; glowing-red sunsets; night diamonds in unpolluted skies; plummeting waterfalls; rain-drenched wetlands; emerald-green monsoon forests; and the world’s oldest art galleries, attract thousands of visitors to this timeless land. Walk with us through 38 parks and reserves along a thousand kilometres of tracks and trails and discover the hidden beauty of these unique areas. Choose your own adventure from 63 easy, 39 moderate, 17 hard, and nine overnight walks. Whether you throw on a backpack, sleep in a tent or prefer a campervan, caravan or motorhome, you’ll find somewhere to rest your head in the access and information sections. Active travellers and keen bushwalkers will find their own special place in this seventh book of the Take A Walk series. It will remain a great memento of your trip into some of Australia’s most untouched areas. National parks provide a great escape where we can appreciate and learn from our natural landscapes.
Author : Satoshi Kitamura
Publisher : Catnip Publishing Limited
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 28,31 MB
Release : 2003-06-01
Category : Children's stories
ISBN : 9781903285572
A charming book for children who want to be a little scared. Monsters large and small pop up at every turn as Lily takes a walk with her dog, Nicky. But Lily isn't afraid; she has Nicky to protect her. Full-color illustrations.
Author : R. Gary Patterson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 25,15 MB
Release : 2008-06-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 143910364X
Take a Walk on the Dark Side is the ultimate book for today's rock and roll fan: a fascinating compendium of facts, fictions, prophecies, premonitions, coincidences, hoaxes, doomsday scenarios, and other urban legends about some of the world's most beloved and mysterious pop icons. Updating, revising, and expanding on material from his cult classic Hellhounds on Their Trail, Patterson offers up a delectable feast of strange and occasionally frightening rock and roll tales, featuring the ironies associated with the tragic deaths of many rock icons, unsolved murders, and other tales from the "fell clutch of circumstance." Beginning with the fateful place where it all started -- a deserted country crossroads just outside Clarksdale, Mississippi, where Robert Johnson made his deal with the devil -- through the Buddy Holly curse (rock and roll's first great tragedy) and beyond, this incredible volume uncovers some of rock and roll's most celebrated murders, twists of fate, and decades-long streaks of bad luck that defy rational explanation. Inside you'll find: Facts about Jimmy Page and the Zeppelin Curse. Chilling quirks of fate in the fatalities in the Allman Brothers and Lynyrd Skynyrd. Facts about Jimmy Page and the Zeppelin curse Chilling quirks of fate surrounding the deaths of musicians in the Allman Brothers Band and Lynyrd Skynyrd A provocative look at "The Club," membership in which requires an untimely death at age twenty-seven and whose inductees include Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix, and Janis Joplin Cryptic messages in song lyrics that have proved eerily prophetic Carefully researched, wildly enjoyable, and often harrowing, Take a Walk on the Dark Side takes the reader on a mysterious ride through rock and roll history.
