Theroux, Paul:Dark Star Safari; Overland from Cairo to Cape Town
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Princeton, NJ: n.p., 1976. Presumed First Edition, First printing [privately printed]. Wraps. good. xi, [1],165, [3] pages. Wraps. Front cover creased. List of Abbreviations. Illustrate… Plus…
Princeton, NJ: n.p., 1976. Presumed First Edition, First printing [privately printed]. Wraps. good. xi, [1],165, [3] pages. Wraps. Front cover creased. List of Abbreviations. Illustrated front cover. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page. Inscription reads To Shirley and Frank Dear and special friends With love, Lucy. The author (widow of football coach Charlie Caldwell--who was elected Coach of the Year in 1950 and was a member of the Football Hall of Fame) spent four years in Vietnam, 1966-1970, mostly with the Marines at Da Nang. The printing costs of this book were covered by friends. All the money from the sale of the book went to a fund for the benefit of Marines permanently disabled in Vietnam. There were no complimentary copies. In the middle of the Vietnam War, 57-year old widow Lucy Caldwell left the comfort of her home and flew almost entirely around the world to help those in uniform for the United States military. She packed a single suitcase and journeyed from Princeton, New Jersey to Vietnam. That trek is remarkable, but it's what Caldwell did while she was in a war zone that makes her a hero. "She dragged her one little suitcase on the steps of the USO in China Beach and said I am here to serve,'" said McClary Reeves. "She wouldn't take anything for it. They had to pay her a dollar a year to validify her visa." There was a PBS documentary series "Lucy Caldwell". Lucy Caldwell was a political strategist and former Republican who worked in the White House and Congress. She was a vocal advocate for the rights of veterans and their families and worked tirelessly to ensure that the sacrifices of veterans were remembered and honored. Throughout her career, Lucy Caldwell was a passionate advocate for veterans' rights and was a fierce defender of gun laws that protected the rights of veterans. She was also a strong proponent of national security and pushed for greater protections for veterans and their families. Lucy Caldwell's work in Congress and the White House was crucial to the passage of several important pieces of legislation that protected and improved the lives of veterans. Lucy Caldwell was also a keen observer of international affairs and was vocal in her opposition to the Vietnam War. She argued that the United States had no place in the conflict and that the war should not be used as a way to further US interests. She was also a strong proponent of international cooperation and sought to use diplomacy to resolve conflicts. In addition to her political work, Lucy Caldwell was also a prolific writer. She wrote several books and was nominated for the BBC National Short Story Award for her work. She also wrote for the screen and worked with director Courttia Newland on several projects., n.p., 1976, 2.5, Hardback. New. Partisan conflict between the White House and Congress is now a dominant feature of national politics in the United States. What the Constitution sought to institute-a system of checks and balances-divided government has taken to extremes: institutional divisions so deep that national challenges like balancing the federal budget or effectively regulating the nation's savings and loans have become insurmountable. In original essays written especially for this volume, eight of the leading scholars in American government address the causes and consequences of divided party control. Their essays, written with a student audience in mind, take up such timely questions as: Why do voters consistently elect Republican presidents and Democratic congresses? How does divided control shape national policy on crucial issues such as the declaration of war? How have presidents adapted their leadership strategies to the circumstance of divided government? And, how has Congress responded in the way it writes laws and oversees departmental performance? These issues and a host of others are addressed in this compact yet comprehensive volume. The distinguished lineup of contributors promises to make this book "must" reading for both novice and serious students of elections, Congress, and the presidency., 6, North Hollywood, CA: Barclay House, 1969. Paperback. Light shelfwear. Very good. 188 pp. + ads. A pornographic novel. "Black sexual power. Call me Eddie, I'm black, powerful and always starved for sex. When I look at a woman, black or white, all I see is what I want and you can have the rest. If she objects to the way I treat her, that's tough. When I'm on fire, which is most of the time, I don't take no for an answer.." 7041., Barclay House, 1969, 3, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. Good/Very good. [14], 301, [5] pages. Some spotting on the edges noted. Alan Kent Haruf (February 24, 1943 - November 30, 2014) was an American novelist. In 1965 he graduated with a BA from Nebraska Wesleyan University, where he would later teach, and earned an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa in 1973. All of Haruf's novels take place in the fictional town of Holt, in eastern Colorado. Holt is based on Yuma, Colorado, one of Haruf's residences in the early 1980s. His first novel, The Tie That Binds (1984), received a Whiting Award and a special Hemingway Foundation/PEN citation. Where You Once Belonged followed in 1990. A number of his short stories have appeared in literary magazines. Plainsong was published in 1999 and became a U.S. bestseller. Verlyn Klinkenborg called it "a novel so foursquare, so delicate and lovely, that it has the power to exalt the reader." Plainsong won the Mountains & Plains Booksellers Award and the Maria Thomas Award in Fiction and was a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction. Eventide, a sequel to Plainsong, was published in 2004. Library Journal described the writing as "honest storytelling that is compelling and rings true." Jonathan Miles saw it as a "repeat performance" and "too goodhearted." A third novel in the series, Benediction was published in 2014. Plainsong is the marvelous story of how even extraordinary members of a tiny prairie community--two dedicated teachers, two young boys wise beyond their years, an air of wonderfully idiosyncratic ranchers and a pregnant high school girl come together, in the face of great difficulties, to form the most appealing extended family in contemporary fiction. With Plainsong, Kent Haruf has written an American masterwork: a profound, witty, warmhearted and tough-minded account of a place where family and community still come first. Plainsong is a beauty, as spare and heartbreaking as an abandoned homestead cabin. A heartstrong story of family and romance, tribulation and tenacity, set on the High Plains east of Denver. In the small town of Holt, Colorado, a high school teacher is confronted with raising his two boys alone after their mother retreats first to the bedroom, then altogether. A teenage girl -- her father long since disappeared, her mother unwilling to have her in the house -- is pregnant, alone herself, with nowhere to go. And out in the country, two brothers, elderly bachelors, work the family homestead, the only world they've ever known. From these unsettled lives emerges a vision of life, and of the town and landscape that bind them together -- their fates somehow overcoming the powerful circumstances of place and station, their confusion, curiosity, dignity and humor intact and resonant. As the milieu widens to embrace fully four generations, Kent Haruf displays an emotional and aesthetic authority to rival the past masters of a classic American tradition. Utterly true to the rhythms and patterns of life, Plainsong is a novel to care about, believe in, and learn from. Derived from a Kirkus review: A stirring meditation on the true nature and necessity of the family. Among the several damaged families in this beautifully cadenced and understated tale is that of Tom Guthrie, a high-school history teacher in small Holt, Colorado, who's left to raise his two young sons, Ike and Bobby, alone when his troubled wife first withdraws from them and then, without explanation, abandons them altogether. Victoria Roubideaux, a high-school senior, is thrown out of her house when her mother discovers she's pregnant. Harold and Raymond McPheron, two aging but self-reliant cattle ranchers, are haunted by their imaginings of what they may have missed in life by electing never to get married, never to strike out on their own. Haruf believably draws these various incomplete or troubled figures together. Victoria, pretty, insecure, uncertain of her own worth, has allowed herself to be seduced by a weak, spoiled lout who quickly disappears. When her bitter mother locks her out, she turns to Maggie Jones, a compassionate teacher and a neighbor, for help. Maggie places Victoria with the McPheron brothers, an arrangement that Guthrie, a friend of both Maggie and the McPherons, supports. Some of Haruf's best passages trace with precision and delicacy the ways in which, gradually, the gentle, the lonely brothers and Victoria begin to adapt to each other and then, over the course of Victoria's pregnancy, to form a resilient family unit. Harold and Raymond's growing affection for Victoria gives her a sense of self-worth, which proves crucial when her vanished (and abusive) boyfriend, comes briefly back into her life. Haruf is equally good at catching the ways in which Tom and his sons must quietly struggle to deal with their differing feelings of loss, guilt, and abandonment. Everyone is struggling here, and it's their decency, and their determination to care for one another, Haruf suggests, that gets them through. A touching work, as honest and precise as the McPheron brothers themselves., Alfred A. Knopf, 1999, 2.75, Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2003. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Good/Good. Jacques Chazaud (Maps). 24 cm. [16], 472, [2] pages. Maps. Signed and inscribed by the author on the Title page. Inscription reads: To Nana, with best wishes. Paul Theroux. Includes two black and white maps (one of Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia; the other of Tanzania, Mozambique, and South Africa). DJ has some wear and soiling. There are some creasing to a few pages. Paul Edward Theroux (born April 10, 1941) is an American travel writer and novelist, whose best-known work is The Great Railway Bazaar. He has published numerous works of fiction, some of which were adapted as feature films. He was awarded the 1981 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his novel The Mosquito Coast. Theroux published his first novel, Waldo, during his time in Uganda. He published several more novels over the next few years, including Fong and the Indians, Jungle Lovers, and The Mosquito Coast. On his return to Malawi years later, he found that Jungle Lovers, which was set in that country, was still banned. After moving to London in 1972, Theroux set off on an epic journey by train from Great Britain to Japan and back. His account of this journey was published as The Great Railway Bazaar, his first major success as a travel writer and now a classic in the genre. He has since written a number of travel books, including traveling by train from Boston to Argentina (The Old Patagonian Express), walking around the United Kingdom (The Kingdom by the Sea), kayaking in the South Pacific (The Happy Isles of Oceania), visiting China (Riding the Iron Rooster), and traveling from Cairo to Cape Town across Africa (Dark Star Safari). Derived from a Kirkus review: America's master traveler takes us along on his wanderings in tumultuous bazaars, crowded railway stations, desert oases, and the occasional nicely appointed hotel lobby. "All news of out Africa is bad," Theroux begins. "It made me want to go there." Forty years after making his start as a writer while serving as a Peace Corps volunteer in Malawi, he returns for a journey from Cairo to Cape Town along "what was now the longest road in Africa." More reflective than some of his other big-tour narratives, Theroux's account finds him in the company of Islamic fundamentalists and dissidents, sub-Saharan rebels and would-be neocolonialists, bin Ladenites, and intransigent white landholders, almost all of them angry at America for one reason or another. The author shares their anger at many points. Of the pharmaceutical plant outside Khartoum that was flattened by a cruise missile on Bill Clinton's orders a few years back, he remarks, "Though we become hysterical at the thought that someone might bomb us, bombs that we explode elsewhere, in little countries far away, are just theater, of small consequence, another public performance of our White House, the event factory." Such sentiments are rarely expressed in post-9/11 America, and Theroux is to be commended for pointing out the consequences of our imperializing in Africa's miserable backwaters. His criticisms cut both ways, however; after an Egyptian student offends him with the remark, "Israel is America's baby," he replies, "Many countries are America's babies. Some good babies, some bad babies." Theroux is often dour, although he finds hopeful signs that Africa will endure and overcome its present misfortunes in the sight, for instance, of a young African boatman doing complex mathematical equations amid "spitting jets of steam," and in the constant, calming beauty of so many African places. Engagingly written, sharply observed: another winner from Theroux., Houghton Mifflin Company, 2003, 2.5<
