false 16181 0 0 39585 074345314X 9780743453141 22 <![CDATA[The Final Frontiersman: Heimo Korth and His Family, Alone in Alaska's Arctic Wilderness]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169299939m/39585.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169299939s/39585.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39585.The_Final_Frontiersman_Heimo_Korth_and_His_Family_Alone_in_Alaska_s_Arctic_Wilderness 4.11 93 Hundreds of hardy people have tried to carve a living in the Alaskan bush, but few have succeeded as consistently as Heimo Korth. Originally from Wisconsin, Heimo traveled to the Arctic wilderness in his feverous twenties. Now, more than three decades later, Heimo lives with his wife and two daughters approximately 200 miles from civilization -- a sustainable, nomadic life bounded by the migrating caribou, the dangers of swollen rivers, and by the very exigencies of daily existence.

In The Final Frontiersman, Heimo's cousin James Campbell chronicles the Korth family's amazing experience, their adventures, and the tragedy that continues to shape their lives. With a deft voice and in spectacular, at times unimaginable detail, Campbell invites us into Heimo's heartland and home. The Korths wait patiently for a small plane to deliver their provisions, listen to distant chatter on the radio, and go sledding at 44° below zero -- all the while cultivating their hard-learned survival skills that stand between them and a terrible fate.

Awe-inspiring and memorable, The Final Frontiersman reads like a rustic version of the American Dream and reveals for the first time a life undreamed by most of us: amid encroaching environmental pressures, apart from the herd, and alone in a stunning wilderness that for now, at least, remains the final frontier.

]]> 16181 3.99 232 59 2004 204501 0307335968 9780307335968 16 <![CDATA[The Ghost Mountain Boys: The Terrifying Battle for Buna and Papua New Guinea--the Forgotten Land War of the South Pacific]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172666037m/204501.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172666037s/204501.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/204501.The_Ghost_Mountain_Boys_The_Terrifying_Battle_for_Buna_and_Papua_New_Guinea_the_Forgotten_Land_War_of_the_South_Pacific 3.80 41
Comprised of National Guardsmen from Michigan and Wisconsin, reserve officers, and draftees from across the country, the 32nd Division lacked more than training—they were without even the basics necessary for survival. The men were not issued the specialized clothing that later became standard issue for soldiers fighting in the South Pacific; they fought in hastily dyed combat fatigues that bled in the intense humidity and left them with festering sores. They waded through brush and vines without the aid of machetes. They did not have insect repellent. Without waterproof containers, their matches were useless and the quinine and vitamin pills they carried, as well as salt and chlorination tablets, crumbled in their pockets. Exhausted and pushed to the brink of human endurance, the Ghost Mountain Boys fell victim to malnutrition and disease. Forty-two days after they set out, they arrived two miles south of Buna, nearly shattered by the experience.

Arrival in Buna provided no respite. The 32nd Division was ordered to launch an immediate assault on the Japanese position. After two months of furious—sometimes hand-to-hand—combat, the decimated division finally achieved victory. The ferocity of the struggle for Buna was summed up in Time magazine on December 28, 1942, three weeks before the Japanese army was defeated: “Nowhere in the world today are American soldiers engaged in fighting so desperate, so merciless, so bitter, or so bloody.”

Reminiscent of classics like Band of Brothers and The Things They Carried, this harrowing portrait of a largely overlooked campaign is part war diary, part extreme adventure tale, and (through letters, journals, and interviews) part biography of a group of men who fought to survive in an environment every bit as fierce as the enemy they faced.]]> 16181 3.99 232 59 2007 39587 0520230337 9780520230330 0 <![CDATA[This Is the Beat Generation: New York-San Francisco-Paris]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169299940m/39587.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169299940s/39587.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39587.This_Is_the_Beat_Generation_New_York_San_Francisco_Paris 3.83 24 This book charts the transformation of these experiences into literature, and a literary movement that spread across the globe. From "The First Cut-Up"--the murder in New York in 1944--we end up in Paris in 1960 with William Burroughs at the Beat Hotel, experimenting with the technique that made him notorious, what Campbell calls "The Final Cut-Up."
In between, we move to San Francisco, where Ginsberg gave the first public reading of Howl. We discover Burroughs in Mexico City and Tangiers; the French background to the Beats; the Buddhist influence on Kerouac, Gary Snyder, and others; the "Muses" Herbert Huncke and Neal Cassady; the tortuous history of On the Road; and the black ancestry of the white hipster.]]> 16181 3.99 232 59 1999 38459 0520231309 9780520231306 4 <![CDATA[Talking at the Gates: A Life of James Baldwin]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169160102m/38459.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169160102s/38459.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38459.Talking_at_the_Gates_A_Life_of_James_Baldwin 3.80 15 The Fire Next Time, Go Tell It on the Mountain, and Giovanni's Room, had become modern classics.
James Campbell knew Baldwin for ten years before Baldwin's death. For this book, he interviewed many of Baldwin's friends and examined several hundred pages of correspondence. He quotes from the vast and disturbing file that the FBI compiled on Baldwin and he discusses Baldwin's sometimes turbulent relationships with Norman Mailer, Richard Wright, and Marlon Brando, as well as his friendship with Martin Luther King Jr. Elegantly written, candid, and original, Talking at the Gates is a comprehensive account of the life and work of a writer who believed that "the unexamined life is not worth living."]]> 16181 3.99 232 59 1991 44824 0520234413 9780520234413 2 <![CDATA[Exiled in Paris: Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Samuel Beckett, and Others on the Left Bank]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170270521m/44824.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170270521s/44824.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44824.Exiled_in_Paris_Richard_Wright_James_Baldwin_Samuel_Beckett_and_Others_on_the_Left_Bank 4.27 11 Exiled in Paris provides a compelling look at the personalities who fueled the literary and philosophical dramas of postwar Paris: James Baldwin, Alexander Trocchi, Boris Vian, Maurice Girodias, and many others. James Campbell provides a fresh look at Samuel Beckett's early career; reveals the facts behind the publication of the scandalous best-seller The Story of O; and tells the poignant story of Richard Wright's years in exile. He captures the sense of deliverance that Wright, so accustomed to daily humiliations in his own country, experienced during his sojourn on the Left Bank, where, for the first time in his life, he was treated as a great man of letters. Here, too, are all the circumstances surrounding Wright's mysterious death, which many close to him regarded as suspicious.]]> 16181 3.99 232 59 1995 3239694 0520252373 9780520252370 1 <![CDATA[Syncopations: Beats, New Yorkers, and Writers in the Dark]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3239694.Syncopations_Beats_New_Yorkers_and_Writers_in_the_Dark 3.50 4 New Yorker magazine, including John Updike, William Maxwell, Truman Capote, and Jonathan Franzen. Continuing his longterm engagement with African American authors, he offers an account of his legal battle with the FBI over James Baldwin's file and a new profile of Amiri Baraka. He also focuses on the Beat poets Gary Snyder and Allen Ginsberg, as well as writers such as Edmund White and Thom Gunn. Campbell's concluding essay on his childhood in Scotland gracefully connects the book's autobiographical dots.]]> 16181 3.99 232 59 2008 1052180 0099425122 9780099425120 1 <![CDATA[Paris Interzone]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180539971m/1052180.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180539971s/1052180.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1052180.Paris_Interzone 4.33 3 16181 3.99 232 59 1994 2612069 085031108X 9780850311082 0 <![CDATA[Bombing of Nuremberg]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2612069.Bombing_of_Nuremberg 4.00 2 16181 3.99 232 59 1973 4777193 0586061657 9780586061657 0 <![CDATA[The Panther Book of Scottish Short Stories (Panther Books)]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4777193.The_Panther_Book_of_Scottish_Short_Stories 5.00 1 16181 3.99 232 59 1984 1257236 1852851767 9781852851767 1 <![CDATA[The Anglo-Saxon State]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182302287m/1257236.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182302287s/1257236.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1257236.The_Anglo_Saxon_State 2.50 2 16181 3.99 232 59 2003