The Ghost Pirates and Others

The Ghost Pirates and Others
Author: William Hodgson
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2012-12-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 159780441X

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William Hope Hodgson was a contemporary of H. P. Lovecraft, and Clark Ashton Smith, and was one of the most important and influential fantasists of the 20th century. His novel The Ghost Pirates is a take-no-prisoners supernatural adventure story that is just as powerful today as it was 100 years ago. In addition to his landmark novel, this volume contains some of his most influential short fiction; from his supernatural detective Thomas Carnacki to tales of the mysterious Sargasso Sea. The Ghost Pirates and Others is the perfect introduction to the magic, mystery and adventure of William Hope Hodgson.

Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet

Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet
Author: Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 709
Release: 2017-05-30
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1452954496

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Living on a damaged planet challenges who we are and where we live. This timely anthology calls on twenty eminent humanists and scientists to revitalize curiosity, observation, and transdisciplinary conversation about life on earth. As human-induced environmental change threatens multispecies livability, Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet puts forward a bold proposal: entangled histories, situated narratives, and thick descriptions offer urgent “arts of living.” Included are essays by scholars in anthropology, ecology, science studies, art, literature, and bioinformatics who posit critical and creative tools for collaborative survival in a more-than-human Anthropocene. The essays are organized around two key figures that also serve as the publication’s two openings: Ghosts, or landscapes haunted by the violences of modernity; and Monsters, or interspecies and intraspecies sociality. Ghosts and Monsters are tentacular, windy, and arboreal arts that invite readers to encounter ants, lichen, rocks, electrons, flying foxes, salmon, chestnut trees, mud volcanoes, border zones, graves, radioactive waste—in short, the wonders and terrors of an unintended epoch. Contributors: Karen Barad, U of California, Santa Cruz; Kate Brown, U of Maryland, Baltimore; Carla Freccero, U of California, Santa Cruz; Peter Funch, Aarhus U; Scott F. Gilbert, Swarthmore College; Deborah M. Gordon, Stanford U; Donna J. Haraway, U of California, Santa Cruz; Andreas Hejnol, U of Bergen, Norway; Ursula K. Le Guin; Marianne Elisabeth Lien, U of Oslo; Andrew Mathews, U of California, Santa Cruz; Margaret McFall-Ngai, U of Hawaii, Manoa; Ingrid M. Parker, U of California, Santa Cruz; Mary Louise Pratt, NYU; Anne Pringle, U of Wisconsin, Madison; Deborah Bird Rose, U of New South Wales, Sydney; Dorion Sagan; Lesley Stern, U of California, San Diego; Jens-Christian Svenning, Aarhus U.

Ghost Soldiers

Ghost Soldiers
Author: Hampton Sides
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2002-05-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 038549565X

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “The greatest World War II story never told” (Esquire)—an enthralling account of the heroic mission to rescue the last survivors of the Bataan Death March—from the author of Blood and Thunder. On January 28, 1945, 121 hand-selected U.S. troops slipped behind enemy lines in the Philippines. Their mission: March thirty rugged miles to rescue 513 POWs languishing in a hellish camp, among them the last survivors of the infamous Bataan Death March. A recent prison massacre by Japanese soldiers elsewhere in the Philippines made the stakes impossibly high and left little time to plan the complex operation. In Ghost Soldiers Hampton Sides vividly re-creates this daring raid, offering a minute-by-minute narration that unfolds alongside intimate portraits of the prisoners and their lives in the camp. Sides shows how the POWs banded together to survive, defying the Japanese authorities even as they endured starvation, tropical diseases, and torture. Harrowing, poignant, and inspiring, Ghost Soldiers is the mesmerizing story of a remarkable mission. It is also a testament to the human spirit, an account of enormous bravery and self-sacrifice amid the most trying conditions.

Ghost Is Land-CC

Ghost Is Land-CC
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ISBN: 9780812459722

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Up and Down with The Rolling Stones - My Rollercoaster Ride with Keith Richards

Up and Down with The Rolling Stones - My Rollercoaster Ride with Keith Richards
Author: Tony Sanchez
Publisher: Kings Road Publishing
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2010-10-18
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1857826892

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This insider's account of the lives of Brian Jones, Keith Richard, and Mick Jagger in the sixties and seventies has become legendary in the years since its first publication in 1979. Tony Sanchez worked for Keith Richard for eight years - buying drugs, running errands, and orchestrating cheap thrills - and he records unforgettable accounts of the Stones' perilous misadventures: racing cars along the Cote d'Azur; murder at Altamont; nostalgic nights with the Beatles at the Stones-owned nightclub Vesuvio; frantic flights to Switzerland for blood changes; and the steady stream of women, including Anita Pallenberg, Marianne Faithfull, and Bianca Jagger. Here the Stones as never seen before, cavorting around the world, smashing Bentleys, working black magic, getting raided, having children, snorting coke, and mainlining heroin. Sanchez tells the whole truth, sparing not even himself in the process. With hard-hitting prose and candid photographs, he creates an invaluable primary source for anyone interested in the world's most famous rock and roll band.

Ghosts Live Here

Ghosts Live Here
Author: Cc Brown
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Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-09-27
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Ghosts are real.... They come out and play after dark at the 1886 Crescent Hotel and Spa, the most haunted hotel in America. Worthy of its very own Grimms Fairy Tale, the massive stone structure towers above the Victorian village in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, like some ancient fortress overlooking its kingdom. Nicole and her traveling companions check into room 419 at the resort, where all is not as it seems. They soon learn the historic vacation destination has long been the source of eerie tales and unusual paranormal activity. A late-night guided tour of the historical hotel reveals guests repeatedly report sightings of ghostly figures prowling the halls and haunting the rooms on every floor. Determined to discover an explanation for the unexplainable, an investigation into the dark history of the hotel spells trouble for the three amateur ghost detectives. The trio finds the hotel was a hotspot catering to the elite when it opened in 1886. In the early 1900s, it served as a college for young women and later became a questionable cancer clinic. Intrigued, the group soon finds themselves entangled in a century-old mystery filled with restless ghosts, eerie hauntings, and long-buried secrets. Will they discover that some secrets are best left in the past, or will they untangle the past for both the living and the dead?

Ghosts Along the Cumberland

Ghosts Along the Cumberland
Author: William Lynwood Montell
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
Total Pages: 276
Release: 1975
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780870495359

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A fascinating collection of ghost stories, tales of the supernatural, death beliefs and death sayings that remain as a vestige of the part in south central Kentucky's "Pennyrile" region. "This unique and extremely valuable book adds considerably to the area of folklore studies in the United States. The material which Montell obtained in his field work is superb." --Don Yoder. "This book is to be recommended to both folklorists and those non-folklorists who read folklore for enjoyment alone. It makes an important contribution to the study of deathlore and, it is to be hoped, will draw added attention to this multi-generic subject area." --David J. Hufford, Tennessee Folklore Society Bulletin. "Professor Montell's book can well be viewed as a standard of excellence: a direct, articulate and cataloged approach for future study and implementation in the fields of folklore and oral history." --Joan Perkal, Oral History Association Newsletter. "The book gives fascinating accounts of death beliefs, death omens, folk beliefs associated with the dead, and in the major section, ghosts narratives. A fine combination of scholarship and chilling narration to be relished by firelight in an old deserted house in the hills." --Book Forum. "Professor Montell has arranged beliefs and experiences about death of a particular group of people in such a way that a whole new aspect of the people's lives comes to focus." --Loyal Jones, The Filson Club HIstory Quarterly.

Beyond Terror

Beyond Terror
Author: Barbara Siegel
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Total Pages: 164
Release: 1991
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780671709044

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The Guardian of the Mist has disappeared, and Dark forces within Ghostworld have arisen. Caught in the middle of an impending war between good and evil, Andy learns what Elizabeth already knows--that he cannot return to the world of the living until the dark fire of evil is stopped.