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Diary of a Lucky Leatherneck Throttle Jock
William E Reynolds
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An often-humorous chronological collection of experiences and encounters that Reynolds recorded from the time he was inducted until he went aboard the U.S.S. Essex as a Marine fighter pilot. He describes flying episodes and the characteristics of various aircraft...particularly the F-4-U Corsair. However, the Diary of a Lucky Leatherneck Throttle Jock is more about off-duty life...principally the pursuit of females and firewater, and of the antics of some wild and crazy guys he knew.
Follow Reynolds from the sweltering heat of Iowa during Pre-flight School to flying open cockpit trainers in sub-zero temperatures in Minneapolis. Then on to the completion of flight training at Corpus Christi, Texas, and receiving the gold wings of a Naval Aviator.
He next takes you to Vero Beach, Florida, for operational training in dive-bombers followed by more of the same at El Toro in southern California. Stick on his tail as he joins a fighter squadron in Mojave, California, which is subsequently sent to Hawaii and finally to the fleet anchorage where Reynolds boards the carrier Essex.
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An often-humorous chronological collection of experiences and encounters that Reynolds recorded from the time he was inducted until he went aboard the U.S.S. Essex as a Marine fighter pilot. He describes flying episodes and the characteristics of various aircraft
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Deep in the volcano country of central Africa live some of the rarest, most intriguing animals on earth -- the mountain gorillas. Here, in the mist-shrouded forests, Dian Fossey courageously dedicated her life to studying them. Here she patiently waited until the luminous-eyed gorillas accepted her presence, hugged her, and loved her...while she fought for their survival against poachers, callous researchers, zoo collectors, and local bureaucrats. And here, surrounded by these enemies, she died, mysteriously and brutally murdered.Now, one of the world's most respected naturalist writers draws for the first time ever on Dian Fossey's personal writings to reveal the true story of a magnificent obsession...one woman's enormous empathy for a highly intelligent, desperately endangered animal -- and how it ruled her life, her work, and her heart.
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"A woman who gave herself completely to those she loved.".......2005-01-24
When it came to dealing with people, Dian Fossey was sometimes her own worst enemy, but her dedication to saving the African mountain gorilla and its habitat in Rwanda is indisputable. Describing himself as an "editorial collaborator," rather than as a biographer, Farley Mowat assembles Fossey's story from her never-before-printed journals and private papers, inserting them directly into the book in boldface so she can tell her own story. From her founding of the Karisoke Research Center in Rwanda in 1967, until her murder there in December, 1985, Fossey battled to save "those she loved" from poaching, abduction, and dismemberment.
Throughout her eighteen years at Karisoke, Fossey studied organized groups of gorillas to whom she became so familiar that they would even touch her. As fierce and protective of her own "turf" as a silverback, however, she refused to bend to the exigencies of the political climate and funding requirements and made innumerable enemies. When local herdsmen exerted their age-old rights to graze cattle on "her" mountain, Fossey shot the cattle. When poachers hurt her gorillas, she pursued them, even kidnapping the four-year-old son of one of them to force his surrender. When students at her own Center disagreed with her, she could be brutal.
Fossey also fought local officials, park guards, and conservators who took bribes and staged events in order to protect their payoffs. She battled conservation organizations which wanted to get her funds, rival researchers who wanted to take over her project, and governmental officials who saw tourism in the park as a source of wealth and graft. Always fighting with ferocity, she made no effort to see another point of view or compromise. Her unsolved murder in 1985, by someone who knew the layout of her cabin, could have been by someone from any of these alienated groups.
Mowat presents Fossey as a lonely warrior who never found personal peace, a woman who was instrumental in drawing pubic attention to the plight of the mountain gorilla but who was less sucessful than she had hoped. As he points out in his Epilogue, her cause has been continued by some of the researchers who studied with her. Two of those, Amy Vedder and Bill Weber, continue the story of the gorillas from the death of Fossey through 1993's disastrous Rwandan Civil War. Their book, In the Kingdom of Gorillas: Fragile Species in a Dangerous Land, reflects a more conciliatory viewpoint than that of Fossey. Mary Whipple
A sympathetic portrait of a complicated woman.......2000-10-13
Another engrossing and fascinating Mowat title, another Mowat "must read", "Woman in the Mists" is the sympathetic biography of a woman whose work gave us a window into the world of the mountain gorilla, a species to whose protection and conservation she was devoted. By alternating excerpts from her diary entries and personal letters with his own descriptive text, Mowat brings Dian Fossey, a powerfully willed and often abrasive woman, to life. Her youthful years, young adulthood, her fateful meeting with Louis Leakey, her romantic involvements and disappointments, her first contacts with the gorillas and the years of her work and struggle are portrayed with humanity and affection. The tale is enormously enriched by her own words. She struggled indomitably against self-serving African bureaucrats, indigenous herdsmen and hunter-gatherers, antagonistic forces that gained strength against her in the fields of primatology and philanthropy, and her own gradually deteriorating health largely the result of a powerful smoking addiction.
But her work and her happiness were plagued by male academics and agents of philanthropic organizations who got caught up in a web of calumny and distrust motivated by primatologists who were seriously bent out of shape by her abrasiveness and who felt they could avenge themselves by vilifying her, possibly abetted by society's undercurrent of misogyny. Had there been no vilification, she may never have been killed, as her fatal enemy, probably an African, no doubt took strength from knowing how much she was hated by, for example, the American and European agents of the Mountain Gorilla Project. Mowat provides the reader a chilling view of Fossey's victimization, but never identifies the sexist element which seems apparent to this male reviewer.
Fossey survived all the victimization because of her extraordinary strength and a powerfully motivating love for the gorillas and the entire eden-like natural world in which she lived. She had serious blind spots: her obliviousness to her abrasiveness, her hatred for the National Park's Tutsi herders and pygmy hunter-gatherers, even before the latter began killing her beloved gorillas (whole gorilla family groups, in order to capture a single infant for the zoo trade and skulls for the tourist souvenir trade), and her (and Mowat's) use of the racist epithet "wog" with impunity toward Africans who she hated, though she shared genuine bonds of love with the Africans who worked with her as trackers and poaching patrollers, and evidenced no other racist feeling. Mowat's record of Fossey's life is a powerful, shocking, revealing and loving account.
A wonderful written book.......2000-09-01
Farley Mowat performed an excellent service when he wrote this book. Dian Fossey was a woman of great character, confidence, courage, determination, and conviction. Her life was lived for what she found to be a greater cause and the world is that much worse off without her. This book did an excellent job of showing the reader who Dian Fossey really was and what she really went through. I recommend it to anyone. It is well worth reading.
I fell in love with this book!.......2000-04-18
Read this book, and you will feel like you know the real Dian Fossey. Personal letters, journal entries all give insight to her life as a living, breathing human being who had many friends (human and non-human). Her passion for life is inspirational! This is a must read, and also an excellent book to read for school projects!
Wonderful!!.......1999-03-22
This Book contains the interisting life of Dian Fossey from her bith to her dearh
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"Bombal--with her bold disregard for simple realism in favor of a heightened reality in which the external world reflects the internal truth of the characters' feeling, and with her deliberate mingling of fantasy, memory and event--is the precursor of the magical realism that is the flower of South American writing today. . . . Both [novels] awake a feeling of genuine discovery, of minds and hearts not borrowed from European literature but indigenous to a New World of thought and feeling." --Chicago Tribune "María Luisa Bombal is the mother of us all." --Carlos Fuentes "One of the most outstanding representatives of the avant-garde in Latin America. [Her] themes of erotic frustration, social marginality, and cosmic transcendence must be considered as a profound expression of women's predicament presented through a feminine perspective." --Women Writers of Spanish America The shrouded woman, a corpse reviewing her life as she views the mourners at her wake, perceives in the personal ties that made up her life a failure of all parties to benefit from the possibilities of true intimacy. Helga, the heroine of House of Mist, has a powerfully imaginative inner life entirely unappreciated by her husband until he finally learns to value her as something more than a trophy. In these two evocative novels, a daring blend of magical elements, innovative style, and unsparing social criticism opens a window on the privileged yet artificially useless lives of upper-class Chilean women of the earlier twentieth century. House of Mist was first published in 1935 as La última niebla and translated into English by the author in 1947. The Shrouded Woman (La amortajada) was published in Spanish in 1938 and in English in 1948, again in the author's own translation.
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Thought provoking and inquisitive.......1998-12-14
Although I had to read this novel for a Spanish literature class, I found myself enjoying it immensely. There are so many questions that we have about what happens after death. This novel shows you one possibility.
Ana Maria is in limbo between life and death, and although she is dead to our world, she can still hear, see and feel. As she lies on her deathbed, she has memories of her life with each of the people who come close to her bedside. Her tumultuous and unhappy life leaves her unable to die and rest peacefully until she has released her anger and sadness in this world. Through her memories and seeing those at her deathbed for the last time, she is able to die in peace and rest for all eternity.
This novel is captivating as it leads you through her life post-mortem. The narrator is sometimes Ana Maria herself and sometimes another force. At times, she even has the spirit from beyond pulling her closer to her final resting place.
The novel is not always exciting, but it definitely makes you question religion's take on what happens after death.
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Robin Heatherton is a spy for the Confederacy. Disguised as a young boy, she infiltrates Yankee forces during the Battle of the Wilderness, but when her cover is compromised, she must crawl back to her own lines with vital intelligence. Meanwhile, Union Army Major Thomas Corley, obsessed with Robin ever since her espionage work led to the death of his brother, has vowed to track her down, and to kill her. Her husband dead at the hands of the Yankees, Robin flees with their five-year-old son into the untamed reaches of the Colorado Territory, where she'll try to work a gold-mining claim-helped only by gruff, handsome Garrison Parker, a Union veteran with no respect for women. She'll teach him some....unless Corley finds her first.
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needs something.......2007-10-10
I think this book is a little overrated. The historical facts are awesome, and the period detail engaging, vivid and illuminating.
However, I felt no sympathy for this character in the end, and found it hard to be compelled by her situation. Too many men falling in love with her, no time to build something between she & Garry. I never felt we really got to know the hearts of these weird people. She was a spy, one side or the other, she played a deceitful albeit necessary role, but one never truly understands WHY she did it, HOW she became involved, WHO she really loves, WHERE her heart lies, or WHEN - the timing is awful. And the oxymorons and irony is everywhere. There she is feeling SO safe with the yankee negro camp, they're welcoming her with open arms, yet she is fighting against everything they believe in and taking advantage of their kind-hearted generosity. She takes advantage of everyone and everything she can. Macey, Jeremy & Garrison were more interesting and we hardly got to know them. If Robin broke that rib one more time I was going to throw the book against the wall.
Where can I get more of the "Women of The West" Series?.......2000-10-18
I really enjoyed this but I can't seem to find the rest of the Women of the West "Series". Please let me know how to get them. Mariann98@aol.com
More great work by Gear.......2000-02-29
If you've read and loved Gear's other works (like People of the Lakes, etc.) or even if you haven't. you're sure to fall in love with gear's writing all over again. Gear has a gift for blending historical fact into believable fiction. This novel made me re-think the way I imagined the Civil War and held me entranced until it was finished/
Five stars! Ten stars!! Twenty!!! I would if I could!!.......1998-09-27
I walked around the house like a zombie, my eyes glued to the page. Not the inconvenience of cooking nor the movie playing on T.V. succeeded of dragging my eyes from between the pages. The characters are so REAL. Garry is such a sympathetic character, not at all macho like many romance novels, but deffinatly a man. Jeremy, Robin's son is an adorable scared little boy and his affection for his toy horse, Traveller, that he made with his own hands just makes you want to cry. Robin is one of the strongest women I have ever read about. Every character portraid in the novel seemed very real and human to me. Even Major Corley. I found myself feeling sorry for him, even though he was the next thing to evil. This is a keeper for sure, I'd recommend it to ANYONE!!
Bob Wiseman - Author/Reviewer.......1996-08-11
I'm always hearing from New York publishers and editors that there's
nothing new being written about the Old West. Look again, pardners,
Gear has found a new slant by taking a serious look at the women
who won the West. I think the western genre just got a welcome
nudge. The western women slant will prove profitable and entertaining reading. As stated, "New York,
take another look."
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One of my favorites!.......2005-01-24
Read it 4 times and it keeps getting better! Highly suggest any of her books.
You cannot force someone to love you........2002-12-21
That is the lesson that the three main characters have to learn, all for different reasons. This is a story of first love, loss, desire, lust, obsession, true love and redemption in ancient Florida. This is at times a very sad love story(and that kinda slowed the plot down and overshadowed Teeka's story, but not too much), a real tear-jerker of a pre-historic novel.
I want this book.......2000-06-28
This and the other three books are just about the best books I've ever read. If anyone has any information about where I can get any of these books, please e-mail me at mxpx_chick420@yahoo.com. I would really appreciate it, I love those books and I can't find them anywhere.
I want this book so baaaaaaaaad!.......2000-05-17
I loved this book I want it to read it over I've already read the three books 3 times. I've gotten ahold of the last two and I want the first one. I loved the story. The first time I read it I was 10 I loved it then now that I'm 20 i want to read it again so I want to get ahold of this book. I'ts to bad the book is out of stalk, If anybody has it email me at jjjordan2@yahoo.com please..........truley it is a on the edge tear jurker at least it was for me I would recomend this book to anyone.
Its a good book about a womans tragedy and love life........1999-04-26
Its is my favorite book .I am only 12 but I have read it.I am a good reader for my age. Anyway I felt sorry for Teeka when Kaho chose her for his bride when she was suposed to marry Auro.At first she hated Kaho and he was mean but after she had been with him for a while she started to love him and he loved her and he didint seem so mean. I didnt like Kaho at first either. I want to read the one after TOUCHES THE STARS which comes after this one but my mom doesnt have it and i cant find it.Well I dont want to ruin it for your but i can say to read it it is a very good book and it made me cry in some parts.
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Fox in the Mist
A. Dee Carey
Manufacturer: Wings ePress
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ASIN: 1590886933 |
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The Fox in the Mist is Ms. Careys second historical fantasy novel set during the times of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. Blending the elements of fantasy and romance, it is the story of a man's love for a fox-woman and their struggle to return the Scottish throne to its rightful owner. Filled with magical creatures and adventure. Appropriate for young adult as well as adult readers.
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The Mists of Mbinda: Kate's Busy Life Concealed the Soul of a Woman Lonely for Love
Corrine Vanderwerff
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Woman in the mist,
Yu Hsu
Manufacturer: Rainbow Press
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ASIN: B0006BYB1C |
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Great way to start a return to good health........2007-05-13
Very interesting book, but Ann Wigmore books always are. I'm now back to making Rejuvalac, and fermenting vegies. I've bought, since reading the book,
A 5-1/4 gallon new crock, and two one gallon fermenting jars for making pickles and pickled Vegies such as Kim Chee. The book has been an inspiration.
Wonderful, easy blended recipes!.......2007-05-12
This is the best source of blended juice recipes I've found yet, easy to use and make. Of course the author is famous for curing all types of diseases. I have been diagnosed with Ulcerative Colitis and have been drinking blended juices since I was discharged from a weeks hospital stay. At my 6 week check-up the doctor said I was doing very, very well with a tone of amazement in his voice. He, nor any gastrointerologis, doesn't believe diet has anything to do with this disease, but it does and I will cure it and they will ask me how when they perform a colonoscopy next and I will share my treatment with them. Perhaps if more do this then more doctors will realize the benefits of raw/living eating and start recommending this instead of perscription drugs that do more harm to other vital organs than good! I don't care to live the rest of my life on medications, they just don't taste as good as blended juices or lovely vegetables!
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A must-have for every concerned consumer, this comprehensive reference explains the important health and environmental benefits of organic foods. It details where to find and buy them on a budget, and how "organic" differs from other "eco-labels." It also provides key information about current legislative activity as well as a complete resource guide.
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Missing vital components.......2003-11-19
As a new subscriber to the organic food movement but needing more information on it, I bought this book because I thought it would by my primary "source" on it. Wrong. I expected page after page of sound and detailed arguments where the author would SHOW the reader the benefits of organic food. Instead what I got was 4 page chapters where the author only tells the reader why it's better, and does so with minimal evidence. It goes into way too much detail on the legal and commercial history of the movement leaving out a thorough analysis and comparison of the real value of organic food, that it's not processed like conventional food is. Showing this process through illustrative righting and contrasting with organic food, perhaps doing a commidity chain analysis on several food items, needs to be the centerpiece of such a book and it is simply missing. For those more interested in the evolution of organic food and looking for contemporary resources on it, this is their book.
Finally! The Organic Bible We've Been Waiting For........2001-10-29
It seems so obvious - like this book should have already been written. Elaine Lipson has written the definitive sourcebook on Organics, putting Organic Foods into a larger context whereby it can arguably be stated that not only are we healing ourselves with Organics but the Earth as well. For anyone wanting to convince a friend on the importance of Organics, or just remember why Organic Food is the right choice for themselves and their families, this book is a powerful reminder on how truly revolutionary the Organic Food movement is. Ms.Lipson gives an excellent history of the Organic Foods industry showing where it grew from and how committed the people are who are spearheading this effort. From farmers to some of the best chefs in the world, I felt like I got introduced to a worderful community of people who are trying to make a difference.
The Best Organic Guide Yet!.......2001-08-16
One of the best books yet on the often confusing world of organics! Lipson has taken a complex, unweildy subject and created an elegantly written, easy-to-understand and enjoyable to read guide. Short enough to be manageable, it's still as comprehensive a guide as I've seen for consumers. I highly recommend this book to anyone who's raising kids, interested in his or her health, or concerned about the health of the planet. This book is as good as it gets in the world of organics.
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