Writings 1912

September 1st, 2008


Writings 1912

Seven Years in Tibet
Seven Years in Tibet Originally published in 1953, this adventure classic recounts Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer's 1943 escape from a British internment camp in India, his daring trek across the Himalayas, and his happy sojourn in Tibet, then, as now, a remote land little visited by foreigners. Warmly welcomed, he eventually became tutor to the Dalai Lama, teenaged god-king of the theocratic nation. The author's vivid descriptions of Tibetan rites and customs capture its unique traditions before the Chinese invasion in 1950, which prompted Harrer's departure. A 1996 epilogue details the genocidal havoc wrought over the past half-century.

Author: Heinrich Harrer
Paperback:  352 pages
Company: Tarcher  (1997-08-25)
ISBN: 0874778883
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Canoeing with the Cree
Canoeing with the Cree
In 1930 two novice paddlers--Eric Sevareid and Walter C. Port--launched a secondhand 18-foot canvas canoe into the Minnesota River at Fort Snelling for an ambitious summer-long journey from Minneapolis to Hudson Bay. Without benefit of radio, motor, or good maps, the teenagers made their way over 2,250 miles of rivers, lakes, and difficult portages. Nearly four months later, after shooting hundreds of sets of rapids and surviving exceedingly bad conditions and even worse advice, the ragged, hungry adventurers arrived in York Factory on Hudson Bay--with winter freeze-up on their heels. First published in 1935, Canoeing with the Cree is Sevareid's classic account of this youthful odyssey. The newspaper stories that Sevareid wrote on this trip launched his distinguished journalism career, which included more than a decade as a television correspondent and commentator on the CBS Evening News. Now with a new foreword by Arctic explorer, Ann Bancroft.


Author: Eric Sevareid
Paperback:  248 pages Special Edition
Company: Borealis Books  (2005-04-15)
ISBN: 0873515331
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Speaking to the Rose: Writings, 1912-1932
Speaking to the Rose: Writings, 1912-1932
The Swiss writer of whom Hermann Hesse famously declared, “If he had a hundred thousand readers, the world would be a better place,” Robert Walser (1878–1956) is only now finding an audience among English-speaking readers commensurate with his merits—if not with his self-image. After a wandering, precarious life during which he produced poems, essays, stories, and novels, Walser entered an insane asylum, saying, “I am not here to write, but to be mad.” Many of the unpublished works he left were in fact written in an idiosyncratically abbreviated script that was for years dismissed as an impenetrable private cipher. Fourteen texts from these so-called pencil manuscripts are included in this volume—rich evidence that Walser’s microscripts, rather than the work of incipient madness, were in actuality the product of desperate genius building a last reserve, and as such, a treasure in modern literature.
With a brisk preface and a chronology of Walser’s life and work, this collection of fifty translations of short prose pieces covers the middle to later years of the writer’s oeuvre. It provides unparalleled insight into Walser’s creative process, along with a unique opportunity to experience the unfolding of his rare and eccentric gift. His novels The Robber (Nebraska 2000) and Jakob von Gunten are also available in English translation.


Author: Robert Walser
Paperback:  134 pages
Company: Bison Books  (2005-09-01)
ISBN: 0803298331
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1912 Academic Writing | University of Toronto School of Continuing ...
At the School of Continuing Studies, University of Toronto, you register online to take University level continuing education courses online,in-class,through distance learning, or ... (more...)

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Revolutionary Writings 1912-1949 : National Revolution and Social Revolution December 1920-June ... Mao's Road to Power: Revolutionary Writings 1912-1949 : From the Jinggangshan to ... (more...)

Speaking To The Rose, Writings, 1912-1932
The Swiss writer of whom Hermann Hesse famously declared, ?If he had a hundred thousand readers, the world would be a better place,? Robert Walser (1878?1956) is only now ... (more...)

Einstein Papers Project - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Klein et al.   ISBN 0-691-08772-5, 1993. Volume 4 - Writings 1912-1914. Includes a previously unpublished manuscript on relativity and electrodynamics, a notebook documenting his ... (more...)

Speaking to the Rose: Writings, 1912-32 - Robert Walser, edited and ...
Michael Hofmann writes: The prevalent movement in Walser's writing ? whether in sentence, paragraph, story or entire career ? is towards defeat. The notion of defeat says ... (more...)

Spalding University - low-residency Master of Fine Arts in Creative ...
low-residency Master of Fine Arts in Writing (MFA) Next Application Deadline is February 1 for spring and summer semesters mfa@spalding.edu     Offering concentrations in: (more...)

Mao Writings
Revolutionary Writings 1912-1949. Volume 1 (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1992-1999). Library of Congress Call Number DS778 .M3 A25 1992-1999 ; Stuart R. (more...)
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Einstein Papers Project - Published Volumes
Writings, 1912-1914. Volume 5, The Swiss Years: Correspondence, 1902-1914. Volume 6, The Berlin Years: Writings, 1914-1917. Volume 7, The Berlin Years: (more...)

Papers of Harold Bell Wright, 1890-1946
Their Yesterdays, first writing, cover, 1912 : Their Yesterdays, first writing, chapters 1 - 10, 1912 : Their Yesterdays, first writing, chapters 11-20, 1912 (more...)

Resolved Question: woolf don't read?
12/5/07 Period 7SENTENCE OUTLINE Thesis Statement: Virginia Woolf's writings were greatly influenced by the events that occurred in her life. I. Virginia Woolf was born on January 25, 1882 in London. A. Her parents married on 1875. 1. Her mother was Julia Jackson Stephen and the widow of Herbert Ducksworth. 2. Her father was Lesle Stephen and the widow of Minny Thackeray. B. Woolf was educated at home by her father where she had full access to Leslie's large library. C. Woolf married Leonard Woolf on August 10, 1912. 1. Leonard and Virginia were the founder of Hogarth Press where all of Virginia's works were published. 2. Virginia had an affair with Vita Sacksvillewest while she was still married to Leonard. D. Woolf was an English and novelist and essayist. II. Woolf's works were influenced by the people she grew up with and where she lived. A. Virginia had a very large family. 1. Woolf's closest sister was Vanessa Stephen and she dedicated most of her life to her. 2. Gerald and George Ducksworth were her half-brothers and they both sexually abused Woolf. 3. Deaths in her family had a big impact on Woolf's works and life. a. Leslie Stephen died from cancer and this caused Woolf to commit suicide. b. Julia Stephen's sudden death in 1895 led to Woolf's first severe nervous breakdown. B. The Talland House was her family rest house where she spent most of her childhood. 1. The setting of most of her novels took place at the Talland House. 2. The Talland House was located at St. Ives, Cornwall. C. The Bloomsbury Group influenced Woolf's literature, criticisms, feminisms and sexuality. III. Woolf had many nervous breakdowns throughout her life. A. She commited suicide by putting rocks in her pocket and drowned herself to death. B. She died on March 28, 1941, but they later found her body on April 18 on River Ouse. IV. Woolf's styles of writing in Between the Acts was "through art, sexual ambivalence, and meditation on themes of flux of time and life" (Marrimah). A. The main character of Between the Acts were the Oliver's. B. The setting of the novel took place on May 1940 in England. V. Virginia Woolf was considered as "one of the greatest innovators in the English language" (Fukashima). A. The Voyage Out was published in 1915 and was reconstructed by Louise DeSalvo. B. Mrs. Dalloway was published in 1925 an was originally called The Hours. (more...)

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