One Thousand Days of Spring

One Thousand Days of Spring
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2014
Genre: Hitchhiking
ISBN: 9789535806011

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A true story of a young successful stockbroker going broke, and lifting his thumb in search for his true self, by traveling the world. After almost five years of traveling on five different continents, Tomislav laid down in a hammock in one village on the coast of Ecuador, and started writing a book. He was determined to put down everything he knows about traveling, and with that, answer the questions that many people ask him for years: How is it possible to travel with almost no money? Is his way of traveling safe enough? What are the worst, and the best moments on the road? How can you earn money while traveling? Where to look for sponsors? How did his parents and friends react? Why is he traveling in the first place? Since it was impossible to give a simple and short answers to those questions, he started answering them in the only way possible - by telling his life story. Tomislav wrote about his student days in Croatia, about the days when he had a well paid job as a stockbroker, about going bankrupt, about turning his life around, about first ventures on the road with a backpack on his back, and about finding a way that he will follow in the years to come - by traveling. Tomislav wrote about hitchhiking in numerous countries, sleeping in homes of strangers, camping on the side of the road, eating in supermarkets and drinking beer in parks, volunteering, many anecdotes that he encountered on the road, natural beauties that left him breathless, and about the beautiful people that he met on the way.

One Thousand Days in Siberia

One Thousand Days in Siberia
Author: Iwao Peter Sano
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 244
Release: 1999-03-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780803292604

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Iwao Peter Sano, a California Nisei, sailed to Japan in 1939 to become an adopted son to his childless aunt and uncle. He was fifteen and knew no Japanese. In the spring of 1945, loyal to his new country, Sano was drafted in the last levy raised in the war. Sent through Korea to join the Kwantung Army in Manchuria, Sano arrived in Hailar, one hundred miles from the Soviet border, as the war was coming to a close. In the confusion that resulted when the war ended, Sano had the bad luck to be in a unit that surrendered to the Russians. It would be nearly three years before he was released to return to Japan. Sano's account of life in the POW and labor camps of Siberia is the story of a little-known part of the great conflagration that was World War II. It is also the poignant memoir of a man who was always an outsider, both as an American youth of Japanese ancestry and then as a young Japanese man whose loyalties were suspect to his new compatriots. Iwao Peter Sano returned to California in 1952 and is now a retired architect living in Palo Alto.

A Thousand Days

A Thousand Days
Author: Arthur M. Schlesinger
Publisher: HMH
Total Pages: 1117
Release: 2002-06-03
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0547524501

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Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner: “Of all the Kennedy books . . . this is the best.” —Time Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. served as special assistant to President John F. Kennedy throughout his presidency—from the long and grueling campaign to Kennedy’s tragic and unexpected assassination by Lee Harvey Oswald. In A Thousand Days, Schlesinger combines intimate knowledge as one of President Kennedy’s inner circle with sweeping research and historic context to provide a look at one of the most legendary presidential administrations in American history. From JFK’s battle with Nixon during the 1960 election, to the seemingly charmed inaugural days, to international conflict and domestic unrest, Schlesinger takes a close and fond, but unsparing, look at Kennedy’s tenure in the White House, covering well-known successes, like his involvement in the Civil Rights movement; infamous humiliations, like the Bay of Pigs; and often overlooked struggles, like the Skybolt missile mix-up, alike. Praised by the New York Times as “at once a masterly literary achievement and a work of major historical significance,” A Thousand Days is not only a fascinating look at an American president, but a towering achievement in historical documentation.

Miss One Thousand Spring Blossoms

Miss One Thousand Spring Blossoms
Author: John Ball
Publisher: Speaking Volumes
Total Pages: 338
Release:
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1628150114

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Our Hundred Days in Europe

Our Hundred Days in Europe
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
Publisher:
Total Pages: 328
Release: 1895
Genre: Europe
ISBN:

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All the Year Round

All the Year Round
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Publisher:
Total Pages: 1260
Release: 1860
Genre: English literature
ISBN:

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A Thousand Days in the Arctic

A Thousand Days in the Arctic
Author: Frederick G. Jackson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 579
Release: 2011-12-29
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108041647

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Frederick G. Jackson's 1899 journal of his exploration in Franz Josef Land describes vividly a forbidding terrain of ice and snow.

Five Thousand Days Like This One

Five Thousand Days Like This One
Author: Jane Brox
Publisher: Beacon Press
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2000-04-07
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780807021071

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Amid the turmoil after her father's death-decisions to be made, the future of the family farm to be settled-Jane Brox, using her acclaimed "compassion, honesty, and restraint" (The Boston Globe), begins a search for her family's story. The search soon leads her to the quintessentially American history of New England's Merrimack Valley, its farmers, and the immigrant workers caught up in the industrial textile age. Jane Brox's first book, Here and Nowhere Else, won the 1996 L. L. Winship/PEN New England Award. Her work has appeared in numerous journals and magazines, and has been represented in Best American Essays. She is a frequent contributor to The Georgia Review. Jane Brox lives in the Merrimack Valley of Massachusetts.