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Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1997. Hardcover. Like New/Fine. 5x1x9. Wade Brackenbury wanted an adventure, and he got the journey of a lifetime. Along with a charismatic photographer named Pascal, Wade went seeking the Drung people, a dwindling minority in the vast empire of China, said to live in an obsure valley in Southern Tibet. No Westerner had been to the Drung valley in over a century. Yak Butter & Black Tea is a story of daring and adventure, offering a fascinating glimpse into a hidden corner of contemporary China. And it is the account of a young man, driven by a compulsion he doesn't understand, as he tests himself in this dangerous, exotic land. "A remarkable account of exploration and adventure in forbidden lands. Travel writing of the old school at its best.
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Yak Butter & Black Tea: A Journey Into Forbidden China
by Brackenbury, Wade
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Yak Butter & Black Tea: A Journey Into Tibet
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Algonquin Books, 1998. Softcover. Like New. 5x0x8. Wade Brackenbury wanted an adventure, and he got the journey of a lifetime. Along with a charismatic photographer named Pascal, Wade went seeking the Drung people, a dwindling minority in the vast empire of China, said to live in an obscure valley in Southern Tibet. No Westerner had been to the Drung valley in over a century. Yak Butter & Black Tea is a story of daring and adventure, offering a fascinating glimpse into a hidden corner of contemporary China. And it is the account of a young man, driven by a compulsion he doesn't understand, as he tests himself in this dangerous, exotic land. "A remarkable account of exploration and adventure in forbidden lands. Travel writing of the old school at its best.
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A Yak for Christmas
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Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. Good/No Dustjacket. 8x5x1. An x-library copy. A heartwarming children's book that tells the story of a little girl named Anjali who dreams of having a yak for Christmas. Anjali lives in the Himalayan mountains with her family and longs for a special animal friend to keep her company during the long winter months. The author was the wife of famous mountaineer Sir Edmaund Hillary.
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The Dial Press, 1971. First Edition. Very Good/Good. Some rubbing and edgewear to dustjacket. Yamsi, a six-thousand-acre working cattle ranch at the headwaters of the Williamson River in Oregon's Klamath Basin, is the setting for Dayton Hyde's lively meditation on what it means to be a rancher in the West in the late twentieth century. In Yamsi, Hyde records a year on the ranch as the seasons change and the ranch work changes with them. Informed by a sense of responsibility toward those who lived and worked on the land before him - including the Klamath Indians who first called the land home - and those who might one day follow, Hyde struggles to run a family-owned cattle business in an age of corporate agriculture. Hard work and hardships at Yamsi coexist with a dedication to principles of conservation and sound ecology. Hyde describes his efforts to preserve the pine forests and marshes on his privately owned land - and to protect the owl, osprey, eagle, kingfisher, and sandhill crane that…
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Yardbird Suite: A Compendium of the Music and Life of Charlie Parker
by Koch, Lawrence O
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Northeastern University Press, 1999. Softcover. Like New. 6x1x9. Bebop saxophonist Charlie "Yardbird" Parker (1920-1955), a man of extremes in his personal life, was a disciplined musical genius who expanded and transformed the boundaries of jazz. Richly illustrated with extensive musical notations, this in-depth study of hundreds of works in the Parker discography takes into account newly discovered recordings and CD reissues. Koch meticulously documents each recording session and provides an array of musical details on theme structure, key, chords, distinguishing phrases, and performance format. Comprehensive biographical material -- including the "Bird stories" of Parker's eccentric behavior, sexual appetite, drug addiction, and compulsive drinking -- is interwoven with the musical analysis to fully illuminate both the man and the musician. This volume will appeal to Bird fans, jazz buffs, and musicologists alike, and it will make an essential companion for listeners of…
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The Yavapai People of the Red Rocks: People of the Sun
by Ruland-Thorne, Kate, and Caillou, Aliza (Editor)
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Thorne Enterprises Publications, Incorporated, 1995. Softcover. Like New. 8x5x0. Marie, Sue. Signed by Author. With brief gift inscription by and signed by author; scarce thus.
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Yayoi Kusama (Phaidon Contemporary Artist Series)
by Hoptman, Laura; Kultermann, Udo; Kusama, Yayoi
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Phaidon Press, 1999. First Edition. Softcover. Like New/Very Good+. 10x1x11. a monograph on the extraordinary 40 year career of Japanese sculptor and performance artist Yayoi Kusama, recently the subject of a major retrospective at New York's Museum of Modern Art, which toured the United States and Japan through 1999. In January-March 2000 the Serpentine Gallery, London will be presenting a large solo exhibition devoted to Kusama's work. Internationally noted for her soft sculptures an psychedelic installations, Kusama explores themes of love, infinity and obsession throughout her work, from her net-like pattern paintings begun in 1959, to her Pop-inspired love happenings in the 1960s, to installations in which every surface has been compulsively covered in polka-dots, mirrors or stuffed phallus-like protrusions. A visionary whose work is unique in the panorama of post-war art, Yayoi Kusama is known not only as an artist but also as a fashion-designer, poet and novelist - all documented in…
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A Year in Paradise
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C. E. Tuttle Co, 1967. Rev. ed. Softcover. Good. A portrait of Mount Rainier through the seasons of 1920. Schmoe's love affair with Rainier began during the winter he and his new bride spent caretaking Paradise Lodge, which was completely buried under the snow until the Fourth of July. His knowledge of natural history, his photographic talent, and his graceful writing combine to create a rich portrait of this beloved mountain.With 20 b&w photos and 30 illustrations.
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A Year in the Wilderness: Bearing Witness in the Boundary Waters
by Freeman, Amy; Freeman, Dave
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Milkweed Editions. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dustjacket as Issued. 8x0x10. In Very Good+ condition. Since its establishment as a federally protected wilderness in 1964, the Boundary Waters has become one of our nationâs most valuableâand most frequently visitedânatural treasures. When Amy and Dave Freeman learned of toxic mining proposed within the areaâs watershed, they decided to take actionâby spending a year in the wilderness, and sharing their experience through video, photos, and blogs with an audience of hundreds of thousands of concerned citizens. This book tells the deeper story of their adventure in northern Minnesota: of loons whistling under a moonrise, of ice booming as it forms and cracks, of a moose and her calf swimming across a misty lake.With the magicâand urgentâmessage that has rallied an international audience to the campaign to save the Boundary Waters, A…
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The Year of the Crab: Marine Animals in Modern Medicine
by Sargent, William
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W. W. Norton & Company, 1988. Trade paperback. Very Good. 79x15x127. Golder, Robert J. Signed by Author. Signed by author. There is also a brief previous owner inscription. While the blood of the horseshoe crab produces a sensitive diagnostic test for flue vaccine and spinal meningitis, this ancient animal has also contributed to studies in neurobiology, vision and the functioning of antibodies; the sea urchin adds to our understanding of cystic fibrosis; and the flounder appears to be an indicator species for detecting carcinogens in coastal waters. Such primitive marine animalstheir cellular structures and embryological developmenthave become valuable tools in biomedical research as the focus of studies of human physiology, writes the author. Sargent (Shallow Waters: A Year on Cape Cod's Pleasant Bay examines the life histories of these and other creatures. He also takes us to the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, Mass., where scientists are working to find a check or cure for…
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The Year of the She-Grizzly
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Coward McCann, 1978. Hard cover. Good/No Dustjacket as Issued. 8x5x0. An account of one year in the life of a female grizzly bear reveals her feeding methods, her care of her newborn cub, and her responses to encounters with humans. Howard Allison Sturtzel (1894â1985) was an American writer, including of popular children's books. He wrote books with his wife, under the name Jane and Paul Annixter. The couple's novel work, primarily equestrian fiction, consisted of four books, two of which were a part of the "A Penny of Paintrock" series. In addition, the couple are also accredited for over 500 short stories. The couple enjoyed an active and natural lifestyle in Pasadena, which reflected in their writings that most often involved animals and nature.
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A Year of Mornings: 3191 Miles Apart
by Maria Alexandra Vettese; Stephanie Congdon Barnes
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Princeton Architectural Press, 2008-10-01. Paperback. Like New. 7x5x0. Imagine for a second what it would be like if you could see again--in one grand and lovely collection--all of the precious moments you've ever seen. That's what it feels like to flip through A Year of Mornings, and even though the authors have set their sights on their own surroundings, you'll recognize in their photos a familiar, physical sense of joy experienced in daily rituals. Born out of a year-long visual blogging project, the book profiles passing early-morning moments at home shared between two women living 3,191 miles apart. What started as a meeting of two creative minds became a close friendship that went on to inspire a huge community of readers (whose participation in the project is paid tribute at the end with a month-by-month section of the authors' favorite posted comments). As the book progresses from season to season, you can see a kind of kindred vision taking shape between them, so much so…
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The Year of the Greylag Goose
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Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. Hardcover. Very Good/Good . 10x8x0. Previous Owner Name. Tears and edgewear to dustjacket. Konrad Zacharias Lorenz (1903 - 1989) was an Austrian zoologist, ethologist, and ornithologist. He shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Nikolaas Tinbergen and Karl von Frisch. Lorenz is recognized as one of the founding fathers of the field of ethology, the study of animal behavior. He is best known for his research of the principle of attachment, or imprinting, through which in some species a bond is formed between a newborn animal and its caregiver.
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The Year of the Greylag Goose
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Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1979. Hard cover. Like New/Good. 10x8x0. Remainder mark top edge. The dustjacket has some tears and edgewear. A fascinating account of a year in the life-cycle of the greylag goose, from egg to adult, with lots of beautiful color photos. Geese are observed in a variety of situations, and are shown fighting, courting, nesting and raising goslings. Their interaction with the researchers involved in the study of the birds over the course of the year is also described. Konrad Zacharias Lorenz (1903 - 1989) was an Austrian zoologist, ethologist, and ornithologist. He shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Nikolaas Tinbergen and Karl von Frisch. Lorenz is recognized as one of the founding fathers of the field of ethology, the study of animal behavior. He is best known for his research of the principle of attachment, or imprinting, through which in some species a bond is formed between a newborn animal and its caregiver.
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The Yearling
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Collier Books, 1930. Softcover. Very Good. 8x5x1. Published The Yearling in 1938, the Yearling become an international best seller as well as a critical success, winning the Pulitzer Prize in 1939. In the years since it has become an American classic. The story of the Baxter family who lived in the Florida scrub and struggled to make a living off the land, the novel features the âcoming of ageâ of 12-year-old Jody as well as his fawn.
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Yearning for the Land: A Search for the Importance of Place
by Simpson, John W
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Pantheon Books, 2002. First edition. Hard cover. Like New/Very Good. 91x16x136. What does landscape mean to us? How does it shape our sense of ârootednessâ to place and connection to community? Can that sense and that connection enrich us in the same manner as having knowledge of our familial lineage? Landscape historian John Warfield Simpson sets out to answer these questions by following the journey of the great conservationist John Muir from his homeland along the North Sea coast in East Lothian County, Scotland, to his familyâs adopted home in the fields and forests of Marquette County, Wisconsin. Along the way he discovers much about himself; and we, in turn, can learn much about ourselves.In 1849 the Muirs immigrated from East Lothian to the wilds of central Wisconsin in search of religious and economic opportunity. What concept of land did they and millions of others from the Old World leave behind, and what did they find in their New…
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Yekl
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SMK Books, 2012. Softcover. Good. 6x0x9. Some pencil underling and margin notes; else Fine. His first novel, Yekl: A Tale of the New York Ghetto, was published in 1896. The graphic story of an Americanized Russo-Jewish immigrant, it attracted much attention and was favorably commented on by the press both in America and in England. W. D. Howells compared Cahan's work to that of Stephen Crane, and prophesied for him a successful literary future.
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Yellow Wolf: His Own Story
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Caxton Press. Softcover. Very Good. 6x0x8. One page corner has been turned, else in Fine condition. The Nez Perce campaign is among the most famous in the brief and bloody history of the Indian wars of the West. Yellow Wolf was a contemporary of Chief Joseph and a leader among his own men. His story is one that had never been told and will never be told again. A first person account, through author L.V. McWhorter of the Nez Perce's ill-fated battle for land and freedom.
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Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit: Essays on Native American Life Today
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Simon & Schuster, 1996. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good . 5x1x9. Bold and impassioned, sharp and defiant, Leslie Marmon Silko's essays evoke the spirit and voice of Native Americans. Whether she is exploring the vital importance literature and language play in Native American heritage, illuminating the inseparability of the land and the Native American people, enlivening the ways and wisdom of the old-time people, or exploding in outrage over the government's long-standing, racist treatment of Native Americans, Silko does so with eloquence and power, born from her profound devotion to all that is Native American. Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit is written with the fire of necessity. Silko's call to be heard is unmistakable; there are stories to remember, injustices to redress, ways of life to preserve. It is a work of major importance, filled with indispensable truths--a work by an author with an original voice and a unique access to both worlds.
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Yellowpup
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Bulfinch Press, 1999. Hardcover. Good/Good . 9x0x10. Some dampstaining to underside of dustjacket. Sixty black-and-white photographs, accompanied by an essay on the joys and problems of raising a young puppy, follow a group of young golden retrievers at play.
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