Search Results: Titles starting with C from Michael Patrick McCarty, Bookseller

Frank Amato Pubns, 2001. Softcover. Good. 8x0x11. Signed by Author. In Good to Very Good condition. Signed Paul Ptalis on title page. Discussion and photographs of a range of traditional and innovative salmon flies. Includes discussion of the aesthetics of fly design and a section on hooks with good pictures. Content focuses on Paul's artistic style, using both his original and interpretive traditional patterns. The text discusses and illustrated techniques related to artistic flow, seeing the material, and developing one's own style, topics not often discussed in the literature. Also included, is a unique section on traditional salmon hooks presented as an invaluable reference for those interested in tradition and collecting. They are graphically represented, including over 150 blind-eye hooks; originals from the 1800s and reproductions by the modern masters. Ptalis was a board member of the Catskill Fly Fishing Museum and a member of the New York Anglers Club. A source of great pride was… Read More

The Folio Society , 1993. Hardcover. Like New/No Dustjacket as issued. . In Very good+ slipcase box. Translated, with an introduction, by Urgunge Onon. Revised by Sue Bradbury. Chinggis Khan was not only a military genius, but also a great statesman and diplomat. Through a combination of armed force and diplomacy, he managed to merge the complex system of alliances which existed between diverse tribes into a powerful confederacy that swept across most of Eurasia, starting in 1219. Urgunge Onon's fresh translation brings out the excitement of this epic with its wide-ranging commentaries on military and social conditions, religion and philosophy, while remaining faithful to the original text.

Beacon Press , 2012. Trade paperback. Very Good. 136x9x136. The Book is in Very Good+ condition. Try to imagine Thoreau married, with a job, three kids, and a minivan. This is the sensibility—serious yet irreverent—that suffuses Cabin Fever, as the author seeks to apply the hermit-philosopher’s insights to a busy modern life. Tom Montgomery Fate lives in a Chicago suburb, where he is a husband, father, professor, and active member of his community. He also lives in a cabin built with the help of friends in the Michigan woods, where he walks by the river, chops wood, and reads Thoreau by candlelight. Fate seeks a more attentive, deliberate way of seeing the world and our place in it, not only in the woods but also in the context of our relationships and society. In his search for “a more deliberate life” amid a high-tech, material world, Fate invites readers into an interrogation of their own lives, and into a… Read More

Beacon Press , 2012. Trade paperback. Like New. 136x9x136. Try to imagine Thoreau married, with a job, three kids, and a minivan. This is the sensibility—serious yet irreverent—that suffuses Cabin Fever, as the author seeks to apply the hermit-philosopher’s insights to a busy modern life. Tom Montgomery Fate lives in a Chicago suburb, where he is a husband, father, professor, and active member of his community. He also lives in a cabin built with the help of friends in the Michigan woods, where he walks by the river, chops wood, and reads Thoreau by candlelight. Fate seeks a more attentive, deliberate way of seeing the world and our place in it, not only in the woods but also in the context of our relationships and society. In his search for “a more deliberate life” amid a high-tech, material world, Fate invites readers into an interrogation of their own lives, and into a new kind of vision: the possibility of… Read More

Thames & Hudson, 1993. Hard cover. Like New/Very Good. Previous owner name. "Intriguing and strangely magnetic, cabins fulfil the longing in all of us to indulge again in our childhood reveries of secret hideaways, built of branches and leaves or whatever is to hand; to enter our own private world; to commune with nature and with our own selves. Hidden in the forest, up in the treetops, by the side of still or moving water, down at the end of the garden, the cabin is the most magical of dwellings. Magical, but real too, as these photos from all over the world testify: fishing cabins in Maine; the shed in Wales to which Dylan Thomas retreated to write; hides built by wild duck hunters in France, Finnish saunas, and English beach huts. The search for solitude, the need to throw off the trappings of worldly life, has produced some of the world's most romantic and beguiling buildings. Brought together here, they remind us of that wilder side of human nature which we all recognize and… Read More

Penguin Books, 2012. Trade paperback. Very Good. 81x10x123. Confronted with the disappointments and knockdowns that can come in middle age—job loss, the death of his mother, a health scare, a divorce—Lou Ureneck needed a project that would engage the better part of him and put him back in life's good graces. City-bound for a decade, Lou decided he needed to build a simple post-and-beam cabin in the woods. He bought five acres in the hills of western Maine and asked his younger brother, Paul, to help him.Twenty years earlier the brothers had built a house together. Now Lou saw working with Paul as a way to reconnect with their shared history and to rediscover his truest self. As the brothers—with the help of Paul's sons—undertake the challenging construction, nothing seems to go according to plan. But as they raise the cabin, Ureneck eloquently reveals his own evolving insights into the richness and complexity of family… Read More

Tread of Pioneers Historical Commission, 2000. Softcover. Very Good. Story of the adventures, hardships, and joys of the Crawfords, the first settlers of Steamboat Springs, Colorado, as told by Lulita Crawford Pritchett, grandaughter of James Crawford, who relived these experiences through the stories she heard as a young girl.

Camden House Pub, 1991. Softcover. Very Good. 6x0x9. In Very Good+ condition. Chris Czajkowski came to Canada's attention in the mid-1980s when she began writing to CBC Radio's Morningside about a particularly unusual adventure: in her late thirties, she headed into the pristine wilderness of British Columbia's Tweedsmuir Provincial Park. There, she single-handedly cleared the land and -- despite a total lack of experience in construction -- built her own house.More than simply a lyrical celebration of the natural world, Cabin at Singing River is a story of courage, perseverance and imagination. From the moment Chris sets her inexperienced foot into an unsteady canoe until the triumphant day she stands back to survey the log house she has built, we are irresistibly drawn into her remarkable journey toward independence.

Rio Nuevo Publishers, 2009. Trade paperback. Very Good. Deserts of the American Southwest are home to an incredible diversity of drought-tolerant plants, including many found nowhere else on earth. And no other group says desert quite like cacti. Their prickly nature notwithstanding, cacti are very fragile, as are the arid deserts they inhabit. In Cacti of the Desert Southwest, botanist and educator Meg Quinn describes eighty significant cacti of the Sonoran, Mojave, and Chihuahuan deserts, including several which are listed as threatened or endangered. Most are shown in full flower.

Arizona Cactus & Native Flora Society/Desert Botanical Garden, 1970. Trade paperback. Very Good. Science Bulletin No. 4.; 112 pages.

Time-Life Books, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. No dustjacket. In Very Good+ condition. Small nick to spine. Issue point of Single hourglass on last page. Cactus Country is one of twenty-seven volumes from the Time-Life book series The American Wilderness. Published in the 1970s, this series introduces the reader to the wilderness areas of Canada, Mexico, and the United States. This volume portrays the geography, plants, and animals of the Sonoran Desert in southern Arizona and northern Mexico. Topics covered include the Superstition and Kofa Mountains, Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, El Gran Desierto, and the various types of cacti found in the Sonoran Desert. Edward Abbey's informal and engaging writing style makes the informative narrative easy to read; numerous photographs supplement the text. Edward Paul Abbey (1927 - 1989) was an American author, essayist, and anarchist, noted for his advocacy of environmental issues and criticism of public land policies. His best-known… Read More

Univ of Nevada Press, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New/Very Good. 9x6x0. Grant Arliss, a young politician overwhelmed by the pressures of his New York City life, retreats to the serenity of the American Southwestern desert, where he meets the independent and intriguing Dulcie Adclaid. Mary Austin (1868-1934) wrote more than 30 books during her career, including Land of Little Rain (1903) and Lost Borders (1909). Born in Carlinsville, Illinois, Mary Austin eventually ventured west with her brother and widowed mother to homestead in California. Throughout her essays, poems, plays, and stories, she focused on environmental issues and the relationship between individual experience and cultural histories.

Penguin Books, 1998. Softcover. Like New. 7x5x0. Baxter Black (1945–2022), a veterinarian turned writer/troubadour/raconteur and periodic commentator on National Public Radio, has produced a collection of his best anecdotes, songs, poems, and wisdom from the range. My world is one in which people have lots of wrecks, he reports in Cactus Tracks. Cow wrecks; horse wrecks; financial wrecks; flood, fire, and drought wrecks. Laughing at our 'wrecks' seems to make the tribulations of our lifestyle easier to handle." Here is the complete collection of his commentaries from NPR's Morning Edition. With subjects ranging from naked wrangling to life lessons (When our opinions get as immovable as a granite outhouse, God has a way of shaking the foundation), Baxter drops his reader-listener right into the prickly heart of things.

Alfred A. Knopf, 2002. First edition. Hardcover. Like New/Fine. 6x1x8. In his first novel since his best-selling Nothing but Blue Skies, and thirty-three years after The Sporting Club established his reputation, Thomas McGuane’s trademark combination of high wit, low behavior, and hard-won wisdom has never been on sharper—or, ultimately, more moving—display. This is the story of the Whitelaws, a family whose values are as far-flung as the territory they helped settle, and whose most recent generations have pioneered the landscape of dysfunction.The patriarch, Sunny Jim, exerts his perverse control even posthumously, by means of a last will and testament that binds the family fortune (a bottling franchise) to a marriage that ought, by general assent, to be rent asunder. The charms of this particular son-in-law, lately released from prison, are potent if short-lived; Evelyn Whitelaw, his estranged wife, is quite literally bedeviled by them. And as… Read More

Great Smoky Mountains Association . Softcover. Like New. 6x0x9. Mr. Shields tells the fascinating story of this beautiful, lively, mountain community of Tennessee. Learn about home life, religion, country stores, agriculture, and education in the cove. Delightful historic photographs.

Hyperion, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 9x5x1. Dave Robicheaux, a detective in the New Iberia, Louisiana, Sheriff's Office, becomes embroiled in a new investigation into the twenty-eight-year-old murder of a famed NAACP leader, when the man convicted of the crime asks him to prove his innocence.

Farrar Straus Giroux, 1997. Hard cover. Good/Good. 6x0x8. Hansen, Brooks. An x-library copy. By a master of surreal storytelling in the tradition of Carroll, Lewis, and Tolkien. As he travels on his own mission to the Northlands of Norway, a reindeer named Caesar is joined by unlikely companions; a mother sparrow searching with her two chicks for her lost mate. With Caesar's permission, the birds make a nest in his antlers and travel with him through the fall and into winter. Little do they know that the object of their search, after being rescued from an accident by a well-meaning schoolgirl, has been taken miles away, across the sea, and that he is desperately seeking them as well. Both searches seem hopeless, but in this unique adventure, devotion, perseverance, and self-sacrifice - with the help of a little magic - are richly rewarded.

Hylas Publishing, 2004. Illustrated. Hard cover. Fine in good dust jacket.

Privately Published , 1999. 3rd Printing. Hardcover. Like New. 11x9x0. Signed by Author. Revised and Expanded. Signed "Greg Guirard" on title page. A cultural documentary, with 143 beautiful duo-tone photographs, of the people -- mostly French-speaking Cajuns -- who earn their livelihood by fishing, crabbing, crawfishing, trapping, and hunting alligators, turtles and bullfrogs in Louisiana's Atchafalaya Basin. This is a book of black and white photographs accompanied by interviews of the people who are pictured. It is a very moving and personal account of life in the Atchafalaya Basin, introducing some of the people that have lived there all of their lives. The interviews tell about what their lives have been like, mainly centered around fishing, hunting, and logging. Greg Guirard (1937–2017) was a photographer and nature writer on the Louisiana’s Atchafalaya Basin and Cajun culture. His works were focused on the Atchafalaya landscape, its flora and… Read More

University of Louisiana, 1989. First edition. Softcover. Very Good. 6x0x9. With selected bibliography and a reference discography. Photos, 58 pages. Barry Jean Ancelet (pseudonym Jean Arceneaux; born 1951), is a Cajun folklorist in Louisiana French and ethnomusicologist in Cajun music. He has written several books, and under his pseudonym Jean Arceneaux, including poetry and lyrics to songs. A scarce title.