Jack London, Farmer
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 16,9 MB
Release : 1913
Category :
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 16,9 MB
Release : 1913
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Jonah Raskin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 43,73 MB
Release : 2010-09-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0520268032
"This is an insider's view, and Raskin offers readers insights into a hidden California. The impact of his book is to return culture to agriculture in a state dominated by agribusiness."—Gerald Haslam, author of The Great Central Valley: California's Heartland “Jonah Raskin has lived and taught in this area for well over thirty years and has the credibility to write about the evolution of farming here. His book is a magical mixture of journalism and memoir. I loved his interviews with local farmers and growers. He explores the questions that we all are asking about our relationship to food and what it means to eat locally, who grows it, and will they be able to continue to do so.”—Ianthe Brautigan, author of You Can't Catch Death: A Daughter's Memoir "'Think global, buy local' takes on new meaning in this intriguing synthesis of memoir and reportage on the slow and local food movements."—Peter Laufer, author of Wetback Nation and The Dangerous World of Butterflies “Anyone wanting to know what it's like to live in the paradise that is Sonoma County must read Field Days. Jonah Raskin brings this blessed region and its communities of environmental champions vividly to life.”—Jeff Cox, author of The Organic Cook's Bible and The Organic Food Shopper's Guide “In Jonah Raskin's wonderfully observant ramble through Sonoma County's farms, orchards, and vineyards, it becomes abundantly clear that American farming has not been killed off by agribusiness, or the Department of Agriculture's call to 'get big or get out'. With Raskin we meet a rich community of amazing people who have stayed on the land, or gone back to it, sharing a new kind of ecologically informed consciousness about our intimate connections to the land and the people who work it. Anybody who reads this book, wherever they live, will gain a new appreciation of this new generation of farmers. Thanks to them, we're learning to eat well—a basic necessity in the hard times ahead.”—Ernest Callenbach, author of Ecotopia "In Field Days, Jonah Raskin becomes the George Plimpton of organic farming. Instead of getting out on the playing field to measure his stuff against pro athletes, he toils long days beside farm workers. Soulful and always curious, Raskin traces the tradition of responsible farming practices in Northern California, and explores the meaning of living locally."—Bart Schneider, author of The Man in the Blizzard
Author : Earle Labor
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 12,3 MB
Release : 2013-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0374178488
"The first authorized biography of a great American novelist"--
Author : Jack London
Publisher :
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 29,19 MB
Release : 1916
Category : American drama
ISBN :
Author : Kenneth K. Brandt
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 41,94 MB
Release : 2021-05-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1789143888
Jack London (1876–1916) lived a life of excess by conventional standards. Daring, outspoken, politically radical, amazingly imaginative, and emotionally complicated, the author of literary classics such as The Call of the Wild and The Sea-Wolf emerges in Kenneth K. Brandt’s new biography as a vital and flawed embodiment of conflicting yearnings. London’s exuberant energies propelled him out of the working class to become a world-famous writer by the age of twenty-seven—after stints as a child laborer, an oyster pirate, a Pacific seaman, and a convict. He wrote extensively about his travels to Japan, the Yukon, the slums of London’s East End, Korea, Hawaii, and the South Seas. Swiftly paced, intellectually engaging, and richly dramatic, London’s writings—bolstered by their wildly clashing philosophical viewpoints derived from thinkers like Nietzsche, Marx, and Darwin—continue to engross readers with their depictions of primal urges, raw sensations, and reformist politics.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 13,74 MB
Release : 1917
Category : Popular culture
ISBN :
Author : Jack London
Publisher : BEYOND BOOKS HUB
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 32,88 MB
Release : 2021-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
This novel features a love triangle between a rancher, Dick Forrest, his wife, Paula, and her lover, Evan Graham. All characters can be traced back to London and his friends and family. London called the novel "all sex from start to finish--in which no sexual adventure is actually achieved or comes within a million miles of being achieved, and in which, nevertheless, is all the guts of sex...."
Author : Joan London
Publisher : Heyday Books
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 42,91 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Author : Marie Van Vorst
Publisher :
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 33,59 MB
Release : 1923
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Jack London
Publisher : E-Kitap Projesi & Cheapest Books
Page : 8554 pages
File Size : 46,44 MB
Release : 2024-01-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 6257287316
This Excellent Collection brings together Jack London's longer, major books and a fine selection of shorter pieces and Fiction Books. These Books created and collected in Jack London's Most important Works illuminate the life and work of one of the most individual writers of the XX century - a man who elevated political writing to an art. John Griffith London (born John Griffith Chaney; January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916) was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and American magazines, he was one of the first American authors to become an international celebrity and earn a large fortune from writing. He was also an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction. His most famous works include "The Call of the Wild" and "White Fang", both set in the Klondike Gold Rush, as well as the short stories "To Build a Fire", "An Odyssey of the North", and "Love of Life". He also wrote about the South Pacific in stories such as "The Pearls of Parlay", and "The Heathen". London was part of the radical literary group "The Crowd" in San Francisco and a passionate advocate of unionization, workers' rights, socialism, and eugenics. He wrote several works dealing with these topics, such as his dystopian novel The Iron Heel, his non-fiction exposé "The People of the Abyss", "War of the Classes", and "Before Adam". This Collection included: 1. A Daughter of the Snows 2. The Call of the Wild 3. The Sea-Wolf 4. The Game 5. White Fang 6. The Iron Heel 7. Martin Eden 8. Burning Daylight 9. Adventure 10. The Scarlet Plague 11. A Son of the Sun 12. The Valley of the Moon 13. The Mutiny of the Elsinore 14. The Jacket (The Star-Rover) 15. The Little Lady of the Big House 16. Jerry of the Islands 17. Michael, Brother of Jerry 18. Before Adam 19. The Son of the Wolf 20. Children of the Frost 21. Tales of the Fish Patrol 22. Lost Face 23. South Sea Tales 24. The House of Pride and Other Tales of Hawaii 25. Smoke Bellew 26. The Turtles of Tasman 27. On the Makaloa Mat 28. The Road 29. John Barleycorn 30. When God Laughs and Other Stories 31. Dutch Courage and Other Stories 32. The Human Drift and Other Stories 33. The God of His Fathers: Tales of the Klondyke 34. Love of Life and Other Stories 35. The Red One 36. The Night-Born 37. War of the Classes 38. The Faith of Men 39. The Strength of the Strong 40. Moon-Face and Other Stories 41. A Thousand Deaths 42. Up The Slide 43. The Sundog Trail 44. The Acorn-Planter 45. Theft 46. The People of the Abyss 47. Revolution and Other Essays 48. The Cruise of the Snark