This autobiography of Frank O'Connor, one of the great Irish writers, covers his life, from his birth in a Cork slum in 1903 to his release from imprisonment as a revolutionary in 1923.

Inspired by his ranger days in Rocky Mountain National Park more than forty-five years ago as well as more recent rambles, Richard Fleck has created these descriptive essays that take readers from shimmering desert heat to snowy summits. Fleck has expanded his acclaimed book "Breaking Through the Clouds" (2004) to create a new book that concentrates on the intermountain American West. This edition includes counterpoint experiences in the desert, canyon lands, and dry prairie far below the summits of the lofty peaks, such as Death Valley, Grand Gulch, Grand Canyon, and the Great Sand Dunes....

Posthumously published in 1864, "The Maine Woods" depicts Henry David Thoreau s experiences in the forests of Maine, and expands on the author s transcendental theories on the relation of humanity to Nature. On Mount Katahdin, he faces a primal, untamed Nature. Katahdin is a place not even scarred by man, but it was a specimen of what God saw fit to make this world. In Maine he comes in contact with rocks, trees, wind and solid earth as though he were witness to the creation itself. Of equal importance, "The Maine Woods" depicts Thoreau s contact with the American Indians and depicts his...

This set of timeless essays from the quintessential American shares his valuable philosophies on nature, solitude, slavery, religion, politics, fulfilling work, civil responsibilities, and more. WALDEN, Thoreau s beloved and well-known reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, looks at how the outside world can benefit from renouncing a materialistic way of life. If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. Thoreau If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man....

This set of timeless essays from the quintessential American shares his valuable philosophies on nature, solitude, slavery, religion, politics, fulfilling work, civil responsibilities, and more. WALDEN, Thoreau s beloved and well-known reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, looks at how the outside world can benefit from renouncing a materialistic way of life. If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. Thoreau If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man....