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Giving insight and how-to information on fulfilling the dream of sailing to the far reaches of the globe.
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good read.......2007-06-27
This is one of those few books that was written from the soul. Reading Annie's book is like having a conversation with some of your best friends over a cup of cocoa in their livingroom.
The information given here prompts one to think about what's important in his or her particular circumstances. After reading this book I feel that I would not live completely like Annie and her husband but I would probably approach each problem of living aboard a boat and cruising in the same logical fashion.
Ballance please.......2007-03-21
An excelent an informative book by someone with the runs on the board. Thank you Annie. Not the least for re-igniting a somewhat jaded enthusiasm. I want my own "Badger".
An important book!.......2006-06-21
Very often the finances of cruising are left out of the discussion, and here it is not. It's really an inspiration. Still, I think it's important to note that Anne doesn't sail a junk anymore, and that she's living a bit different life that's perhaps a bit more moderate. Also try "Sea-steading" Jerome FitzGerald to fill out the vision a bit, get them both.
Food for thought, not only source.......2005-11-01
I found the information to be helpful and honest in opinion. I am restoring a sail boat and have been reading tons of books on all systems from electrical, mechanical, heating, cooking, efficiency, safety, etc and felt this book was helpful. It doesn't have all the answers, or cover all the choices, but the author shares what she knows in an honest manner and gives actual models and types of different items for comparison. I liked the female point of view as to ease of management, cleanliness of systems, & actual daily use efficiency. A heating system was rated high, but messy, which made author reluctant to use, I appreciated the candor. As I said....Food for thought, definately worth the price.
Magnificent Book.......2005-04-10
Annie Hill has a wry sense of humour and packs an enormous amount of detailed useful information into each page. With frequent hilarious illustrations this is a wonderful book.
The chapter on budgeting and living on a (very) small income is magnificent and hugely relevant to would be cruisers. Follow it and you may go sailing and never go back to work solely to earn money (in order to leave and go sailing etc).
The Appendix contains a reprint of Weston Martyr's "The 200 Pound Millionaire" - a dangerously attractive and magnetic story of living on a small sailing boat in pre-War Europe (pre WWII that is).
The Appendix and Sources contain recommended books and equipment and suppliers - very useful.
The Forward is a very high recommendation from Tom Cunliffe. "By Gum, go and do likewise." 'Nuff said.
This book really can change your life. It changed mine. Now I am owned by a boat, if boats are like cats - they are not owned; they do the owning).
I recommend it to you too. But read it at your own risk.
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Voyaging on a Small Income
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Title: Boom in Asia: China and India must address the brewing crisis over access to oil.(TRANSPORTATION)
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Title: Boom time for Botswana: gold, coal, nickel and more, including the world's most valuable single diamond mine at Jwaneng--Botswana has solid minerals galore. Priscilla Ross reports on how this wealth is being harvested.(Mining)
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From the supplier: Age-related variables must be incorporated in energy forecasting models since they represent one of the most significant factors in determining future energy efficiency. Preference input data derived from a 1993 survey conducted in California revealed that the vehicle preferences of baby boomers create a potential impact on household income and fuel operating costs. Results also highlighted positive prospects for improving the country's fuel fleet economy, particularly if vehicle preferences are translated to actual purchase behavior.
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Boom town, the story of Thurber
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Matilde Urrutia was poet Pablo Neruda’s lover, muse, wife, and widow. The Nobel-laureate Chilean wrote The Captain’s Verses and One Hundred Love Sonnets—two of the most celebrated volumes of love lyrics in modern Spanish letters—for her. In My Life with Pablo Neruda, Urrutia reveals her side of their famed romance. But her book is not simply a love story told by a muse; it is also a document of her life as the persecuted widow of a national hero. Her voice lifts out of the sorrow and violence of the military dictatorship that precipitated her beloved’s death in 1973, to reaffirm the power of Neruda’s own passionate voice.
My Life with Pablo Neruda opens with the dramatic events of September 11, 1973, with Augusto Pinochet’s overthrow of the democratically elected socialist president of Chile, Salvador Allende. Devastated by the coup, the sixty-nine-year-old Neruda dies a few days later of a heart attack. Grief-stricken, Urrutia takes refuge in her memories, reeling back through time to recount the heady early days of her twenty-two-year romance with Neruda. Here, she reveals the birth of The Captain's Verses and divulges the secrets of their illicit marriage in Italy. Urrutia then returns to the grim reality she faces in Santiago in the mid-1970s, to describe life under the dictatorship. Harassed by Pinochet’s henchmen, she becomes an exile within her own country, mourns the torture and disappearance of loved ones, and finally awakes from the stupor of sorrow and commits herself to using Neruda’s words to lash out against the bloody regime.
Reading My Life with Pablo Neruda is like spending a long afternoon with Matilde Urrutia. In a conversational style, she brings Neruda to life, and he emerges as a vibrant, playful, and impatient man driven by unbounded appetites. At once humorous and heart-breaking, Urrutia's story makes for a fine domestic complement to Neruda’s own lush memoirs.
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Beautiful history of one of literature's greatest romances.......2006-01-29
Matilde Urrutia, Neruda's third wife, was the subject of some of the greatest love poetry ever written. In this beautiful account of their life together, one gains gorgeous insight not only to their love, but to the character of the great poet Neruda, a view unavailable in other biographies. You also learn the tragic history of Chile and Neruda's involvment in it.
Having read the original in Spanish, I can say that Alexandra Giardino's adaptation is a masterpiece in literary translation. The book reads so much better, actually, with her work.
Highly recommended.
A lyrical, if understandably biased, tribute to a great poet.......2004-10-21
This translation of Matilde Urruita's memoir adds so much to the the canon of English language material about Pablo Neruda. Opening with the assassination of President Allende and Neruda's death, Urrutia in a series of flashbacks reveals her life with Neruda and his poetry. Indeed, there is a sense that the poetry had a life of its own; it certainly becomes a third "character" in this memoir.
There are moments when Uruttia threatens to overwhelm with overwrought sentimentality, but Uruttia (with no small assist from the translator, I'm certain) stops short. But all in all, it is a delightful book that chronicles a magic love affair.
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Grants: Corporate Grantmaking for Racial and Ethnic Communities
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African-American, Hispanics and Latinos, Native Americans and Asian Pacific Americans are the fastest growing population segments in the United States, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. By 2025, most of the children born in the U.S. will be from one of these communities. They are among the fastest growing economic segments as well, which is the link this book makes between the enlightened self-interest of corporate giving and the communities corporations serve.
This is the only comprehensive listing of 124 corporations and over ten thousand grants they offer each year to benefit minorities. This thorough guide was compiled from information on 72,000 grants made by the corporations in 1995, the most recent year for which data is available.
The 124 companies included collectively had revenues of $2 trillion dollars in 1995 and their grants of $1.3 billion made up 22% of all grant making from American corporations. Many of the companies are among the largest employers of minorities. The book has compiled a wealth of statistics on the ethnic groups it covers, as well as corporate giving patterns by company and location. Six cross-referenced indices provide grant seekers with access to a multitude of information on thousands of grants available.
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Grants is a "must" for fundraising & community projects........2000-04-06
This extensive reference surveying corporate grantmaking for racial and ethnic communities provides a comprehensive listing of 124 major corporations and over ten thousand grants offered to benefit minorities. Grants is a 'must' for those involved in either fundraising or community projects, documenting the major supporters of ethnic communities and revealing trends in minority gift-giving.
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The Inside Story of Bob Dylan
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<* hk *' CKAPTKR XV. First Weeks of th BombnrtlaM* nt ,.. CONTENTS. Vll. CHAPTER XVI. PAGE. The Last Weeks before tho Capitulation of Paris .... 310 '' CHAPTER XVII. Negotiations for the Capitulation of Paris ...... 329 CHAPTER xvm. From Gambetta's Retirement to the Conclusion of the Peace Pre liminaries ........... 356 BISMARCK IN THE FRANCO-GERMAN WAR. CHAPTER I. DEPARTURE OP THE CHANCELLOR I FOLLOW HIM TO SAAR* BRUCKEN JOURNEY CONTINUED TO THE FRENCH FRONTIEE THE MOBILISED FOREIGN OFFICE. ON the 31st July, 1870, at half - past five in the afternoon, the Chancellor, who had some days before partaken of the Sacrament in his own room, drove from his residence in the Wilhelm Strasso to the station, accompanied by his wife and daughter, in order to start with King William for the Seat of War, in the first instance for Mainz. Several Councillors of tho Foreign Office, a secretary of the despatch department of the Central Bureau, two experts in secret ciphering, and three* or four messengers of the Chancellor's department were ap pointed to go with him. The rest of us followed him only with our good wishes, as, helmet on head, he walked down the stairs between tho two Sphinxes, through the great hall, and stepped into tho carriage. I had resigned myself to taking part in tho 2 10 Bismarck in the Fmnco-Gewnan War. war only on maps and in newspapers. But a much better fate was in store for me, On the evening of the 6th of August the Government re ceived the telegram announcing the victory at Worth. Half an hour afterwards, work being over, I earned the joyful news, still fresh and warm, to a company of friends who were waiting in expectation in a wine-shop in Potsdam Street. Every one knows how Germans celebrate good news, and this was so good that it was celebrated by many too well, and by most of us at any rate, too long. In consequence I was still in bed when next morning a chancery messenger appeared, bringing the copy of a telegraphic despatch, requiring me to set out for headquarters in the course of the day. Benignant fate ! say I. So quickly were my few necessaries collected, that by midday I had my railway-pass, my passport, and my military billet j and by eight o'clock in the evening I was joined by the two companions ordered by the Minister to accompany me. We travelled^ the Anhalt railway, going by Halle, Nordiausen, and Cassel, anxious, by God's help, to reach headquarters as fast as possible. We began our journey in a first-class coupe, but we came down to a third-class, and at last to a luggage-van. Every where there were long delays, which
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Bismarck: Some Secret Pages Of His History (volume Ii)
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