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- Once
Were Warriors ~ Ships in 2-3 days
Alan Duff / Paperback / Published 1995 ---Candid story of Maoris in New
Zealand. Better appreciation for responsibility, life and fate than in
ANY modern American writing by or about minorities. Our Price: $8.80 ~
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- Catapult:
Harry and I Build a Seige Weapon, by Jim Paul. A couple buddies
cruise the junkyards and hearn about history while they build a big thing
for an art project, supposedly. The ladies at the art place don't approve.
- One-Upmanship
: Being Some Account of the Activities and Teachings of the Lifemanship
Correspondence College of One-Upness and Games Lifemastery ~ Usually ships in 24 hours Stephen Potter,
et al / Paperback / Published 1997 ---Very funny and will remind you of
you and your pals and then some. Red Green goes to Oxford. Our Price: $7.96
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- The
Theory & Practice of Gamesmanship Stephen Potter / Hardcover /
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- The
Theory and Practice of Gamesmanship, Or, the Art of Winning Games
Without Actually Cheating Stephen Potter / Paperback / Published 1998 Our
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Hopping
Freight Trains in America, by Duffy Littlejohn. The only how to.
Rolling
Nowhere, by Ted Conover. Fine and perhaps only 'inside' modern book
on hoboes, tramps and bums, from a guy who lived with them for a year and
got a little too close--just right.
The
Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Manmade
Landscape, by James Howard Kunstler. The margins of parking lots, malls
and medians are some of the most significant places in my life, unfortunately---they're
where I've often found both reest and escape in my suburban world. Not intentionally,
they're just where you have to go to get anywhere if you're not in a car.
Despite their desolation, I've found them to be places where you can make
friends and experience a sense of place, unlike in a car. If you've ever
wandered, bike toured or hitchhiked, this is where you've been.
Tiny
Houses by Lester Walker.
Cabin
Fever by Marie-France Boyer. Cute tiny dwellings galore, great photos.
Shelters,
Shacks and Shanties, by D. C. Beard, the guy who brought the Boy
Scouts to the US.
The
American Boy's Handy Book: What to do and How to Do It, by D. C.
Beard. A lifetime's worth of fun DIY projects for your boy and not a CRT
in sight. Learn more than by any computer in this book! Easy, creative,
historic...and most projects are probably illegal now due to liability worry.
(Heck, isn't a kid building something a vioation of child labor and NAFTA?)
Wilderness
Visionaries: Leopold, Thoreau, Muir, Olson, Murie, Service, Marshall,
Rutstrum, by Jim Dale Vickery. Writings by some heroes.
Whiteout:
Lost in Aspen, by Ted Conover. Young newspaperman gets caught up
in the hustle (authobio!)...for all those who spent some time up there and
out there.
The
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