Curries 500: Discover a World of Spice in Dishes from India, Thailand and South-East Asia, as Well as Africa, the Middle East and the Caribbean, Shown in 500 Sizzling Photographs
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Make the most of the international curry culture and expand your culinary horizons with this...
Jessi Bone (48 KP) rated A Call To Haiti's Awakening in Books
Mar 25, 2019
Ernst Etienne in his a very small ninety pages book takes on the Nation of Haiti. Haiti is actually one of two nations on the Island of Hispaniola. He covers from the beginning of the nation when it was a set of different tribes all the way to what Haiti is today and what the nation can look like in the future. Mr. Etinne in his search of the past even covered the five different chiefdom's of the Taino Indians and their culture, beliefs, and values with unequally distinctive tribes. The actions he took on covering the history both negative and positive with slavery, pirates and struggling of the countries past and. His bravery with being willing to show all of it both positive and negative is unique in today's world where we want to forget the parts of our pasts we do not like. He is kind of bad stuff and shows how people will a lot of times make bad decisions when striving for betterment. The photographs and photographic documents were a wonderful bonus to accompany the text throughout. The information he gives is historical in nature but is in by no means boring. I found it interesting and fun and at parts quit surprising. I had no interest in Haiti but with the help of Mr. Etienne, I want to learn more about this small nation.
Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness
Scott Jurek and Steve Friedman
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'Run until you can't run anymore. Then run some more. Find a new source of energy and will. Then run...
The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?
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Most of us take for granted the features of our modern society, from air travel and...
Epic Survival: Extreme Adventure, Stone Age Wisdom, and Lessons in Living from a Modern Hunter-Gatherer
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Early on in his life, Matt craved a return to nature. When he became an adult, he took the plunge to...
Andy K (10821 KP) rated The Searchers (1956) in Movies
Apr 28, 2019
In this case, I recently watched the Back to the Future trilogy again (seen way too many times). After watching Back to the Future 3, I listened to some of the audio commentary and the filmmakers mention many times how much fun they had making a western this time around and how much they were in awe of the countryside locations where they had filmed mentioning also this is where John Ford had filmed classic scenes from a lot of his more famous western epic films, like The Searchers. That was enough for me to give it another go.
The story is a relatively simple one of a man and his companion going on an epic journey to try and find and save his niece who had been abducted by the Comanche Indians in the Old West. Several of his relatives had also been killed and he was searching for the chief called "Scar" whom he had learned was leading this band of outlaws. His journey for vengeance would take 5+ years and would take him across the sprawling western countryside during both summer and winter.
The main character in the film is the magnificent landscapes and sprawling sunrises and sunsets featured throughout the film. The cinematography is breathtaking and the use of color is just majestic considering this movie is from the mid 50s.
I have to admit to not watching a lot of John Wayne movies (yet), but he gives a memorable performance not quite as heroey as in some of his other classics. Jeffrey Hunter (Captain Christopher Pike) is also very good in the film.
A true masterpiece.
Bird Cloud: A Memoir of Place
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Annie Proulx, one of America's finest writers, invites us to share her experience in the building of...
Judge Sewall's Apology: The Salem Witch Trials and the Forming of a Conscience
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The most evocative and richly contextualised account of the Salem Witch trials in print. The Salem...
Lovers and Strangers: An Immigrant History of Post-War Britain
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TLS BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017 'Generous and empathetic ... opens up postwar migration in all its...