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Patagonia: Images of a Wild Land
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In Patagonia (Penguin Classics)
ASIN: 0958575304 |
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This book by Australian photographer David Neilson, contains a superb collection of photographs featuring the spectacular Andean regions of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego in southern South America. Cerro Torre, Fitz Roy, and the Torres del Paine are among the peaks featured in the photographs in both colour and black & white duotone. The text contains brief essays on the exploration, climbing history and natural history and a longer account of an expedition that sailed a yacht from Scotland to the Strait of Magellan, climbed in western Tierra del Fuego and then made a crossing of the Southern Patagonian Ice-cap. Hardcover, 10 inches x 13 inches, 96 pages, 44 colour photos, 20 black & white duotones, 30 small black & whites, 25,000 word text, 3 maps and bibliography.
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Fantastic! Terrific photos of the edge of the world........2002-05-24
These are the best pictures I have seen of the subject, and I perused all the other books on the topic. The hardbound Mountaineering in Patagonia is the nicest GUIDEbook for climbers, but Neilon's pictures are timeless, artistic, and inspiring. His admixture of gritty black-and-white pieces with soaring, beautiful color plates (shot with a large-format camera in many cases, hence incredibly sharp and grainless reproductions) are enough to have me saving for a trip to Patagonia already.
Astonishing photographs.......2001-01-10
Patagonia is justifiably admirable for its vast beautiful emptinesses. These photographs capture the sense of wonderful wilderness that still pervades so much of this unique, spectacular part of the world. Not to be tamed or truly settled by humanity, Patagonia is awe-inspiring. Seeing it through the eyes of this book is the next best thing to being there. After the experience, a reader will want to be there. Being there is not just the stuff of romance and legend; it is the stuff of confrontation with onesself and one's place on this planet. In some ways it is like visiting a place somewhat like our own American West if it were mirrored on another, parallel, accessible planet. This might have been the American West if fate had taken a different course. The book suggests the intensity of seeing these possibilities first-hand. It's a trip.
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North America's Greatest Big Game Lodges and Outfitters is the first and only reference book of its' kind. This is an information-packed guide for the hundreds of thousands of hunters who each year travel to hunting lodges to pursue the sport they love. More than 200 lodges and outfitters from sumptuous to rustic are detailed for the type of hunting they offer, the prime booking dates, costs, guest services, and nearby points of non-hunting interest and much more. This is the trip planner that guarantees you'll know before you go.
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Picture the Past Set 1 (Picture the Past Series)
Sally Senzell Isaacs
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Textbook........2003-03-05
This book contains many errors, bad descriptions paried with horrid illustrations, and many other dissapoinments. It may teach you what you need to learn, but not very well at all. I DO NOT reccomend this book. Unless it is required.
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A Teacher's Edition of the middle-grade science book "Exploring Living Things". Has the student text surrounded by extra teaching materials.
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Fifth International Symposium on Chromatography and Electrophoresis
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The Homotopy Category of Simply Connected 4-Manifolds (London Mathematical Society Lecture Note Series)
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This study is concerned with computing the homotopy classes of maps algebraically and determining the law of composition for such maps. The problem is solved by introducing new algebraic models of a 4-manifold. Including a complete list of references for the text, the book appeals to researchers and graduate students in topology and algebra.
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- Dick 201: Intro to VALIS
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Radio Free Albemuth
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Radio Free Albemuth, his last novel, Philip K. Dick morphed and recombined themes that had informed his fiction from A Scanner Darkly to VALIS and produced a wild, impassioned work that reads like a visionary alternate history of the United States. Agonizingly suspenseful, darkly hilarious, and filled with enough conspiracy theories to thrill the most hardened paranoid,
Radio Free Albemuth is proof of Dick's stature as our century's greatest science fiction writer.
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Calling Occupants..........2006-10-22
Book five of my 39 book PKD odyssey. Radio Free Albemuth is Dick's last book. So far it's my favorite of the lot. Radio Free Albemuth has two main characters, one of which is Philip K. Dick - who watches his friend receive information from mysterious extra-planetary sources. The other is that friend. Taking place is a typically PDK police state in the US and amusingly self-referential (if you're the main character how can you not be), Nicholas receives incomprehensible information that slowly forms into a coherent message. A very controlled book without much of the frenetic pace of his earlier works.
delusions of the infinite.......2006-05-28
some interesting ideas of course, but tiresomely paranoid. Dick is reaching for religious explanations for his own madness. his brain at this point is like a pinball machine that has experienced "tilt". one of my very favorite authors, but unlike many who love the Valis trilogy i don't much care for his work after 1970. your mileage may vary.
Dick 201: Intro to VALIS.......2005-10-09
Set in California in the early 1970's, record producer and hipster Nicholas Brady is receiving communications from outer space that put him in the thick of a political plot to depose the despised U.S. President from Orange County, while Phil Dick is his science-fiction writer friend in this outrageous novel. Do these outcasts have what it takes to overthrow an authoritarian government and right the social wrongs of America? Not if the administration's goons have anything to say about it. A marvelous romp through faith, insanity, free will, and paranoia.
While not technically part of the "Valis" trilogy, this book deals with many of the same themes and occasionally even the same events, some of which supposedly really happened. It seems likely that the reason Dick never published this novel during his lifetime is because so much of this material had already been covered in his other books. But this work is far more novelistic, telling a chronological story about how two individuals decided to stick it to the Man, and less a scholarly treatise on the nature of God, reality, the universe, etc... For those who found "Valis" a little too methodological in its analysis of comparative cosmologies and so forth, "Albemuth" is a much more readable, straightforward science fiction novel. If you haven't read the "Valis" trilogy yet, read this book first.
The characters are pretty much standard for Dick: the everyman who overdid the drug culture during the 1960's, and the science fiction writer who tries to turn everything into a story. Since both of these are Dick's alter-egos, they serve to bring the writer into the action and let him toy with both autobiography and meta-fiction. As a general rule, Dick's style is easy enough to read, but his plots are often difficult to follow, since things are rarely what they appear to be and some dichotomies are never really resolved. Unlike some of his better known works, this book at least has a fairly clear-cut conclusion. The bottom line is: if you're a fan of imaginative fiction who is still unfamiliar with the work of this astonishing writer, then you need to tune in pronto. And while this may not be the master's tightest work, those new to Dick might just as well start here as anywhere.
wild, paranoid, large-scale, incredibly cool.......2005-08-30
Phillip K. Dick is at his best when he is working with BIG IDEAS, and it doesn't get any bigger than this. This book is connected in interesting ways with his insanely metaphysical Valis trilogy -- but what I think is most exciting about this one is the way he inserts himself into the universe depicted in the previous trilogy, as if to suggest that the genesis of the ideas from those books had its basis in his own experience. This tie to the "real" world makes this the ultimate Phillip K. Dick novel (though probably not the first one to read, since the conceit works best if you are already familiar with some of his ideas and works) -- since it "intensifies" or brings to completion the level of metaphysical speculation, as if to say: "you know all those books I wrote about fantasy worlds in which it was impossible to tell the difference between fantasy and reality?... that wasn't just fiction, some of it really happened to me." If you've only encountered Dick through the various movie adaptations (some successful some not), you should read Scanner, Ubik, and at least the Valis trilogy first, but then you won't be disappointed by this, his final work (even though it wasn't completed to his satisfaction when he died there's more good stuff in there than in several stacks of standard pulp sci fi.)
Fascinating forerunner of VALIS.......2004-06-05
This was an early version of Dick's masterpiece VALIS. It is a very different novel and a very good one in its own right, full of the same metaphysical issues but not as directly autobiographical as VALIS. It is set in an alternate universe in which a certain Ferris F. Fremont (a thinly disguised Richard Nixon) is president. Nixon's paranoia about domestic "enemies" becomes Fremont's all-out campaign against a supposed conspiracy called Aramchek. To crack down on this enemy, an insidious secret police organization called FAP (Friends of the American People) is set up. Nicholas Brady, an alter ego for Dick himself, is the target for FAP harassment, and learns that the conspiracy is real. Aramchek is the satellite that is beaming information to several thousand highly aware individuals around the world, forming a "collective brain." Radio Free Albemuth is cast in a more straightforward science-fictional mode than the unconventional VALIS. But on its own merits, it is an absorbing novel that is the best possible introduction to the material and preoccupations of Dick's later years.
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4 Book Set By Philip K. Dick; Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?; Radio Free Albemuth; Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said.
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Radio Free Albemuth
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