Flowing Streams: Journeys of a Life Well Lived
USA: Zondervan Publishing Company, 2008. Hardcover in Dust Jacket.
The best biographies give us a satisfying glimpse into a great person’s life, while also teaching us about the context in which that person lived. Through biography, we can also learn history, psychology, sociology, politics, philosophy, and more. Reading a great biography is both fun and educational. What’s not to love?
USA: Zondervan Publishing Company, 2008. Hardcover in Dust Jacket.
Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1965. A Near Fine Hardcover. This concise volume gathers together two essays on Samuel Johnson and one on James Boswell. The essays are entitled 'Johnson Agonistes', 'Boswell's Boswell' and 'Johnson's 'Irene'. All three are written in an open, readable style and contain numerous quotations.....
New York: Dodd Mead & Company, 1987. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. Two friends, one blind, the other an experienced mountaineer tell of their great adventure in Nepal.
New York: Exposition Press, 1956. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket.
New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1971. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good in a Very Good Dust Jacket. Adventures of a man and wife in the American wilderness and other remote places from the Alaskan tundra to the game reserves of East Africa..recounted with rare beauty and quiet humor.
New York: Basic Books, 2006. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. By focusing on purely symbolic gestures, Kennedy missed crucial opportunities to confront the obstructionist Southern bloc and to enact genuine reform. Kennedy's inertia emboldened white supremacists, and forced discouraged black activists to adopt increasingly militant tactics. At.....
Random House, 1987. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. An account of some of the author's experiences as the top "Miami Herald" crime reporter over a period of 17 years. She describes the murders, rapes, drug deals, kidnappings and over 5,000 corpses she has investigated.....
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1988. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover in Dust Jacket. SAY GOODNIGHT, GRACIE...George Burns tells the story of his life with Gracie, the dizzy comedienne whose "illogical logic" charmed America.
New York: Norton, 1976. 1st Edition. Hardcover.
Philadelphia: Cary and Hart, 1847. Hardcovers. With the armorial bookplate of Thomas Streatfield Clarkson whose family founded Clarkson University a private research university with its main campus in Potsdam, New York, and additional graduate program and research facilities in the New York Capital Region and Beacon, New York.Ref: Hathi; wiki;.....
USA: Easton Press / Simon and Schuster, 2009. A Fine Hardcover.
New York: Charles Scribner and Company, 1866. 1st Edition. Hardcover.
New York: The World Publishing Company, 1971. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good in a Very Good Dust Jacket. Erskine Preston Caldwell was an American novelist and short story writer. His writings about poverty, racism and social problems in his Southern United States in novels such as Tobacco Road and.....
New York: The Neale Publishing Company, 1912. First Edition, First Printing. Decorated cloth. Ellison Capers (1837-1908), a Charleston native, was elected major of a regiment at the beginning of the war, but advanced quickly, being promoted to colonel during the Atlanta campaign, and to Brigadier General in the aftermath of.....
New York: Henry Holt & Co, 1983. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Nick DelCorso is an award-winning war photographer who has seen action and dodged bullets all over the world-most notably in Vietnam, where he served as an Army photographer and recorded combat scenes whose horrors have.....
New York: Harper & Row, 1988. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. This fascinating account of a Yale-trained psychiatrist's twenty-year experience with Native American healing interweaves autobiography with stories of the Native Americans who challenged his medical school assumptions about healing.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Company Inc., 1970. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Story of the Herreshoff family of Rhode Island and the boats they designed and built including the America's Cup winner Reliance.
Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1989. Soft cover.
Boston: Little, Brown, 1973. First Edition, First Printing. Near Fine Hardcover in a Very Good Dust Jacket. Harry M. Caudill's explosive novel tells the story of Appalachia's shrewdest, most powerful political boss, Dr. Tom Bonhom. Educated well beyond his fellow mountaineers, Doc Bonhom started out as a well-paid coal company.....
New York: Wiley, 2009. First Edition, Second Printing. Hardcover in Dust Jacket. A good story, well told, of a sliver of life in Richmond, a small, elite-driven capital city in the young nation's most influential state. [Publishers Weekly].
U.S.A. The Overlook Press, 2014. 1st Edition. Hardcover.
USA: Villard, 2002. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good Hardcover in a Very Good Dust Jacket. Child has everything he needs for an Ian Fleming-type mountaineering drama: a great setting in the Pamir Alai region of Kyrgyzstan; a cast of quick-witted American mountaineers (three men and one woman); a backdrop.....
New York: Basic Books, 2013. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Remarkable.... Clarke is one of the most gifted historians of American religion, with particular mastery of the antebellum southern Christian mind.... Clarke probes deeply and sympathetically into the culture of the Africans whom the Wilsons were seeking.....
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ Press, 1991. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket.
London: Collins, 1973. First Edition, First Printing. Near Fine Hardcover in a Very GoodDust Jacket.