Ambition and Survival - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ambition and Survival write by Christian Wiman. This book was released on 2013-06-14. Ambition and Survival available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An intimate first book of personal essays and incisive commentary from the editor of Poetry.
Astoria
Astoria - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Astoria write by Peter Stark. This book was released on 2014-03-04. Astoria available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the tradition of The Lost City of Z and Skeletons in the Zahara, Astoria is the thrilling, true-adventure tale of the 1810 Astor Expedition, an epic, now forgotten, three-year journey to forge an American empire on the Pacific Coast. Peter Stark offers a harrowing saga in which a band of explorers battled nature, starvation, and madness to establish the first American settlement in the Pacific Northwest and opened up what would become the Oregon trail, permanently altering the nation's landscape and its global standing. Six years after Lewis and Clark's began their journey to the Pacific Northwest, two of the Eastern establishment's leading figures, John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson, turned their sights to founding a colony akin to Jamestown on the West Coast and transforming the nation into a Pacific trading power. Author and correspondent for Outside magazine Peter Stark recreates this pivotal moment in American history for the first time for modern readers, drawing on original source material to tell the amazing true story of the Astor Expedition. Unfolding over the course of three years, from 1810 to 1813, Astoria is a tale of high adventure and incredible hardship in the wilderness and at sea. Of the more than one hundred-forty members of the two advance parties that reached the West Coast—one crossing the Rockies, the other rounding Cape Horn—nearly half perished by violence. Others went mad. Within one year, the expedition successfully established Fort Astoria, a trading post on the Columbia River. Though the colony would be short-lived, it opened provincial American eyes to the potential of the Western coast and its founders helped blaze the Oregon Trail.
Survival Is a Style
Survival Is a Style - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Survival Is a Style write by Christian Wiman. This book was released on 2020-02-04. Survival Is a Style available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Named as a 2020 Book of the Year by The Times Literary Supplement Survival Is a Style, Christian Wiman’s first collection of new poems in six years, may be his best book yet. His many readers will recognize the musical and formal variety, the voice that can be tender and funny, credibly mystical and savagely skeptical. But there are many new notes in this collection as well, including a moving elegy to the poet’s father, sharp observations and distillations of modern American life, and rangy poems that merge and juxtapose different modes of speech and thought. The cumulative effect is extraordinary. Reading Survival Is a Style, one has the sense one is encountering work that will become a permanent part of American literature.
The Long Home
The Long Home - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Long Home write by Christian Wiman. This book was released on 2007. The Long Home available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Winner of the 11th annual Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize, "The Long Home" is Christian Wiman's
Necessary Dreams
Necessary Dreams - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Necessary Dreams write by Anna Fels. This book was released on 2013-07-17. Necessary Dreams available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this groundbreaking book about how women perceive, are prepared for, and cope with ambition and achievement, psychiatrist Anna Fels examines ambition at the deepest psychological level. Cutting to the core of what ambition can provide—the essential elements of a fulfilling life—Fels describes why, for women but not for men, ambition still remains fraught with often painful conflict. Fels draws on case studies, research, interviews, and autobiographies of accomplished and celebrated women past and present—writers, artists, architects, politicians, actors—to explore the ways in which women are brought up to avoid recognition and visibility in favor of traditional feminine values and why they often choose to nurture and defer to rather than compete with men. She poses invaluable questions: What is the nature of ambition and how important is it in a woman’s life? What are the forces that promote or impede its development? To what extent does ambition go against a woman’s very nature? And she challenges currently held theories about the state of mind and the needs of men. Incisive and highly readable, Necessary Dreams is a unique exploration of the options and obstacles women face in the pursuit of their goals. It is a book that every woman will want—and need—to read.
