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"In 1914 Henry Ford and naturalist John Burroughs visited Thomas Edison in Florida and toured the Everglades. The following year Ford, Edison, and tire maker Harvey Firestone joined together on a summer camping trip and decided to call themselves the Vagabonds. They would continue their summer road trips until 1925, when they announced that their fame made it too difficult for them to carry on. Although the Vagabonds traveled with an entourage of...
2) The Vagabond
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From the author of Gigi comes this tale of 33-year-old Renée Néré, recently divorced and seeking a new life as a vaudeville performer. Maxime, a wealthy playboy, tempts her from the path of independence with the comforts of love and marriage. From the physical and psychological distance of a provincial tour, Renée reflects upon the conflicting needs of security and freedom. "The Vagabond, one of the first and best feminist novels ever written,...
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Blackstone Publishing
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2018
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In the weeks before the 1979 Mexican elections, San Diego P.I. Alvaro Hickey is checking the stories that Baja California campesinos are spreading about visits from the Holy Virgin, one who has definite political preferences. Though Alvaro doubts that this visitor is divine, he’s firmly on her side. Then, Lourdes Shuler asks him to unite her with her sister, Lupe, whom she claims is the campesinos’ Virgin. Alvaro is not the kind to turn down
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Literary dreamers, wanderers, bohemians, rebels, and romantics are the subject of this 1906 critical study. Some of their journeys took a physical direction, some an intellectual, and some, both. Studies of those who embody Rickett's definition of "vagabond" include William Hazlitt, Thomas De Quincy, George Borrow, Henry David Thoreau, Robert Louis Stevenson, Richard Jeffries, and Walt Whitman.
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Embrace the shadows with Vagabond #5, your newest compendium of terror, bringing you the most chilling tales from the darkest recesses of the unknown. This winter issue, featuring thirteen harrowing stories, invites you to tread the blizzard-blown paths where whispers dance with the winds, and figures lurk just beyond the frosted glass. Each tale spins a delicate web of dread, suspense, and the outright macabre, drawing the brave and the curious into...
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Two ex-Green Berets recount their missions after two decades in Special Forces, from running counter-terrorism training to rescuing kidnap victims & more.
A lot of confusion, a lot of humor, a lot of broken dreams and broken promises, an occasional triumph...
1978-A chance meeting on a remote military airbase between two Green Berets involved in the same operation leads to a partnership that will last over forty years. Four years after that meeting,...
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This book delineates different manifestations of the vagabond spirit of poetry through the ages. In doing so, it makes claims for the efficacy of poetry in our industrialized world, where we are presented with environmental, political and economic challenges. The Vagabond Spirit of Poetry demonstrates that poems are vital now more than ever because they can transform our relations with each other and with the earth. It acknowledges the awesome power...
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The True Adventures of a Vagabond is the story of a young boy growing up in Brooklyn, N.Y. without a father and learning first hand street sense where nothing comes easy for survival in a big city and that would, curiously and eventually come in handy in his street-smart career as a Special Agent. His early years unwittingly started the chain of lifes events that would lead him to many foreign countries and meeting some of the most powerful men in...
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The world of Elantion is once again invaded by ancient, otherworldly enemies. After two years of warfare, the Draelia Monarchy is the most devastated among the lands. Cities and villages lie in ruins, there are no longer any humans, elves, or dwarves-there are only the Tulvar. The thousands of surviving humans have fled, finding refuge in the elven realm of Elelreel, which is protected by both mountain ranges and powerful elven magic. Meanwhile, the...
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David Livingstone: The Wayward Vagabond in Africa is an expression of doubt about the raîson d'etre concerning the 19th Century explorers and missionaries in Africa. Led by David Livingstone, the Scottish explorer and missionary, they are said to have come to civilise "backward" Africans, which the author creatively re-imagines, arguing that it is far from the truth. Instead, their actions gave impetus to colonialism proper. In this book the omniscient...
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A tale of cat and mouse.
A good old-fashioned adventure.
A story for anyone who has wandered, lost and alone,or wishes they could.
This is the tale of a girl called Anya Netherby who, with one rash decision, suddenly finds herself on the run. She has no one to turn to and nowhere to go.
She wanders aimlessly, beginning to fear she has made a bad mistake, and with no idea how to put it right. Her luck turns when she discovers an abandoned puppy....
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Random House Publishing Group
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2002
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INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • With a new foreword by Tim Ferriss • “Vagabonding easily remains in my top-10 list of life-changing books. Why? Because one incredible trip, especially a long-term trip, can change your life forever. And Vagabonding teaches you how to travel (and think), not just for one trip, but for the rest of your life.”—Tim Ferriss, from the foreword
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