Hunting the Whole Way Home

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The prose in this collection of hunting essays from the writer and poet Sydney Lea is as lyrical and colorful as a fall morning in the New England woods. Like other writers who have tried to convey the beauty and knowledge that can be gained through blood sport in an age of dogmatic NRA rhetoric and shrill animal-rights advocacy (Tom McGuane comes to mind), Lea wrestles with the central paradox of 20th-century hunting: stalking and killing wild animals can bring one closer to a mostly forgotten elemental earth. Lea conveys a respect for his quarry, the land they both inhabit, and man's place in a living chain in which the actions of any single link can be felt throughout. One need not be a hunter to enjoy these meditations on landscape and humankind's place within the natural community.

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Haunting and lyrical.......2001-10-24

This collection of essays and poems impressed me with its beauty, its honesty, and the heartfelt emotion it conveys. Lea is a lover of the outdoors and outdoor sports and of the companions, both human and canine, who share that outdoor life with him - and he conveys that love effectively through language that though poetic is never precious. Running through all is an elegiac tone born of a sense of wild places and beloved friends and family passing, a tone augmented by the autumn season that is the setting for much of the book.

Hunting the Whole Way Home: Essays and Poems

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Hunting the Whole Way Home: Essays and Poems
Sydney Lea
Manufacturer: The Lyons Press
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 158574560X

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A thoughtful meditation on the central paradox of 20th-century hunting: stalking and killing wild animals can bring one closer to a mostly forgotten elemental earth.

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W. Hamilton Gibson
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Fertilization of orchids by insects (Orchid library)
Charles Darwin
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The Various Contrivances by Which Orchids are Fertilised by Insects
Charles Robert Darwin
Manufacturer: Adamant Media Corporation
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ASIN: 1402171943
Release Date: 2001-05-24

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Blossom hosts and insect guests;: How the heath family, the bluets, the figworts, the orchids and similar wild flowers welcome the bee, the fly, the wasp, ... faithful insects, (Gibson nature studies)

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Dimorphism in the genitalia of flowers ; Fertilization of orchids through the agency of insects (American journal of science and arts)

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Mr. Darwin on the fertilization of flowers: "Cross and self-fertilization in the vegetable kingdom", and "On the fertilization of orchids by insects"
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The various contrivances by which orchids are fertilized by insects

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Former Secretary of Transportation, former Secretary of Labor, President of the American Red Cross, wife of co-campaigner Republican presidential nominee and icon Bob Dole, co-campaigner presidential candidate in her own right, and now a Senator from North Carolina, Elizabeth Dole has led a remarkably accomplished life in her climb to being one of the two most influential women in American politics. Her reputation as an effective and inspiring public speaker is not incidental to those accomplishments. In Hearts Touched By Fire, Dole recounts her inexperienced beginnings while running for student office at Duke University, and how understanding the importance of being able to communicate what she had to say ultimately helped to take her and others on her journey. In addition to her own development as a speaker, related with candor and insight, Dole presents 500 of the most time-honored, beloved, and, ultimately inspiring quotations—some of which were said to her personally—that she uses in her role as a leader, legislator and orator. Hearts Touched By Fire is a wonderful collection not only for those interested in public speaking but for anyone who is simply in need of empowering and uplifting words of wisdom.

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Making a Point, That's Already Been Made..........2005-11-05

How often do you want to use just the right words to get a point across? Using a well-placed quote from a famous name often does just that. Why re-invent the wheel - when you can just borrow a well crafted phrase from a Forefather or two?

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Inspiring Quotations from Historical People.......2005-02-28

Great reading! I first took it home from the library. Then, after reading most of it, I felt I wanted my own copy. A nice book for the side of your bed or for reference in making a speech. There are 19 topics from Faith to Business, Family to Leadership, Character to Courage. No partisanship or politics here (I'm a liberal) . Easy to read. These are uplifting words of wisdom.

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Excellent intro to fuzzy rule-based modeling, with examples........1996-11-24

Many good books have recently been published on fuzzy rule-based systems for control, but few authors have dealt with open systems. The book by Bardossy and Duckstein, which does an excellent job of introducing fuzzy rule-based modeling of open systems, may stimulate more research in this area. Indeed, the realistic examples presented in the book are very convincing. More emphasis could however have been put on the complex processes of selecting input variables and defining fuzzy rules. The discussion, in the introduction, of the differences between fuzzy numbers and probability distributions is certainly too short to convince a statistician of the usefulness of fuzzy sets for uncertainty modeling. However, if the book does not contribute to this philosophical debate, it certainly does a good job of showing the practical value of fuzzy models for nonparametric modeling of open systems.

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Gripping read!

One of the Absobing Books Victorains Enjoyed Back in 1860s

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Aurora Floyd (Oxford World's Classics)
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press
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ASIN: 0192837273

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With Lady Audley's Secret, Mary Elizabeth Braddon had established herself, alongside Wilkie Collins and Mrs Henry Wood, as one of the ruling triumvirate of `sensation novelists'. Aurora Floyd (1862-3), following hot on its heels, achieved almost equal popularity and notoriety. Like Lady Audley, Aurora is a beautiful young woman bigamously married and threatened with exposure by a blackmailer. But in Aurora Floyd, and in many of the novels written in imitation of it, bigamy is little more than a euphemism, a device to enable the heroine, and vicariously the reader, to enjoy the forbidden sweets of adultery without adulterous intentions. Passionate, sometimes violent, Aurora does succeed in enjoying them, her desires scarcely chastened by her disastrous first marriage. She represents a challenge to the mid-Victorian sexual code, and particularly to the feminine ideal of simpering, angelic young ladyhood. P. D. Edward's introduction evaluates the novel's leading place among `bigamy-novels' and Braddon's treatment of the power struggle between the sexes, as well as considering the similarities between the author and her heroine.

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Is not life altogether a long comedy, with Fate for the stage-manager, and Passion, Inclination, Love, Hate, Revenge, Ambition, and Avarice, by turns, in the prompter's box? A tiresome comedy sometimes, with dreary, talkee, talkee front scenes which come to nothing, but only serve to make the audience more impatient as they wait while the stage is set and the great people change their dresses; or a "sensation" comedy, with unlooked-for tableaux and unexpected dénoûments; but a comedy to the end of the chapter, for the sorrows which seem tragic to us are very funny when seen from the other side of the foot-lights.

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Gripping read!.......2004-10-23

Beautiful Aurora is spoiled and petted but she carries a dreadful secret. As a young woman she impulsively marries her father's groom, leading him to pay the unsuitable suitor off.. But it will all come back to haunt her later, when she marries again. Among the most compelling "neglected" works of Victorian fiction.

One of the Absobing Books Victorains Enjoyed Back in 1860s.......2002-02-16

"Aurora Floyd" may not be the best novel Mary Elizabeth Braddon wrote -- the honor goes to "Lady Audley's Secret" -- but, the book is still intriguing because of the contrast it makes with the other book and many other comtemporary novels, especially "Jane Eyre." And if you don't have these historical interest, the book is pretty interesting thanks to its good story telling.

"Aurora Floyd" follows the history of the heroine of the same name, who has a shady past left in France. Aurora, unrestrained morally in her youth, hides some secret, but still attractive enough to make the two heroes fall in love with her. Without telling the nature of the secret, Aurora, strong-willed and candid, a gives a clear warning to one of them, proud Talbot Bulstrode, that he may one day regret his rash action if he dares to marry her. While he vanishes from her to marry other woman, tame and tender-hearted Lucy, the other suitor meek John Mellish succeeds in winning her heart, and he immediately marries her, not knowing her secret. As the time goes on, however, her hidden secret emerges from the past, and finally catches up with Aurora, living now quietly in a countryside. She must face the past, but how? While she is tormented by the sense of guilt, her husband began to suspect something wicked is going on, and he too began to suffer.

The story is melodramatic, but it is the merit of sensation novels, the genre in vogue during the 1860s, and Braddon, as she showed in her previous (actually written almost at the same time) "Lady Audley's Secret," is very good at handling the subject. It is notable, however, that the author intends to do something different this time, spending more pages on the analysis of the psychology of the characters. The result is a mixed bag; sometimes she shows good descriptions of characters with a witty touch, which reminds us of Thackeray, the story sometimes gets slower because of too much philosophy. Compared with the fast-paced "Lady Audley's Secret," her new experiment may look somewhat damaging.

But as a whole, the book is agreeable, and after you finish two-thirds of the book, Braddon makes the plot speedier. The last part includes one of the earliest examples of detective story, and a good (but short) portrayal of detective Joseph Grimstone's work is still fascinating. But the greatest merit of the book is its sub-text dealing with incredibly violent passion of Aurora, whose image is clearly mocking the typical angelic image of Victorain women. One of the book's scenes, in which the heroine gives a shower of blows with her wrip to her stable-man who bullied her dog, caused sensation and scandalized some critics. The description is still impressive today.

In conclusion, "Aurora Floyd" is a fairly gripping story, even though it is not the best place to start reading her books or Victorian novels. If you think you are familiar with those Victoraiin novels, or want to read one of the effect following the impact of Bronte's "Jane Eyre," try it.

Trivia: Braddon lived long (died in 1915), and before her death, she even watched the filmed version of her own "Aurora Floyd." Her life story is as intriguing as a story she wrote.

[NOTE ON THE TEXT] Oxford University Press's "Aurora Flyod" uses the later edition of the book while Broadview Press's uses an earlier edition. The former one is considerable changed from the latter, so for the academic use you must be careful.

A Great Gothic Tale.......2001-07-05

Having devoured Trollope, Willkie Collins, I happened onto Aurora Floyd and was truly surprised to find such an outstanding story so beautifully written. A dark secret revealed, a murder and a love story, this is a wonderful book.

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Aurora Floyd
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Manufacturer: John W. Lovell Co.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Leather Bound
ASIN: B000K1N3B2

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Undated, circa 1865. Burgundy quarter-leather bound, marbled boards, marbled endpages. Gilt lettering and design on spine. A very pretty book.

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Aurora Floyd: a Domestic Novel
M. E. Braddon
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The encircling woods and wide lawn-like meadows, the still ponds of limpid water, the trim hedges, and the smooth winding roads; undulating hill-tops, melting into the purple distance; laboring me:i's cottages, gleaming white from the surrounding foliage; solitary roadside inns with brown thatched roofs and moss-grown stacks of lop-sided chimneys ; noble mansions hiding behind ancestral oaks ; tiny Gothic edifices; Swiss and rustic lodges; pillared gates surmounted by escutcheons hewn in stone, and festooned with green wreaths of clustering ivy ; village churches and prim schoolhouses; every object in the fair English prospect is steeped in a fuminous haze, as the twilight shadows steal slowly upward from the dim recesses of shady woodland and winding lane, and every outline of the landscape darkens against the deepening crimson of the sky.

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Aurora Floyd: Volume I
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Release Date: 2002-03-14

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Aurora Floyd: Volume II
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
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Release Date: 2002-03-14

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon's ambivalent pre-Raphaelite ekphrasis (1). : An article from: Victorian Newsletter
Sophia Andres
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
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ASIN: B000E0L51O
Release Date: 2005-12-20

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This digital document is an article from Victorian Newsletter, published by Thomson Gale on September 22, 2005. The length of the article is 4699 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Mary Elizabeth Braddon's ambivalent pre-Raphaelite ekphrasis (1).
Author: Sophia Andres
Publication: Victorian Newsletter (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 22, 2005
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Mary E Braddon
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Aurora Floyd;: A domestic story; from "Temple Bar."

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