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The Wallum Pond Estates (Hardcover): Harry Lee Barnes The Wallum Pond Estates (Hardcover)
Harry Lee Barnes
R811 Discovery Miles 8 110 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Clonal Propagation of Endangered Native Plants Rhododendron Chapmanii Gray Taxus Floridana Nutt. and Torreya Taxifolia Arn... Clonal Propagation of Endangered Native Plants Rhododendron Chapmanii Gray Taxus Floridana Nutt. and Torreya Taxifolia Arn (Hardcover)
Lee Barnes
R2,267 Discovery Miles 22 670 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Corky & Nikita - A True Friendship (Hardcover): Henry Lee Barnes Corky & Nikita - A True Friendship (Hardcover)
Henry Lee Barnes
R646 Discovery Miles 6 460 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Life Is A Country Western Song (Paperback): H. Lee Barnes Life Is A Country Western Song (Paperback)
H. Lee Barnes
R432 R404 Discovery Miles 4 040 Save R28 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Author of Talk to Me, James Dean and Cold Deck, H. Lee Barnes is an eloquent ambassador for the contemporary American West. In these twelve moving stories, Barnes delves deep into the wild, expansive places of the region and of the human heart that are slowly coming to rein. With gorgeously distilled prose, Barnes writes of vastness and distance, of the separate, small inches and whole histories that occupy equal measures of the western spirit. Each of the stories in Life Is a Country Western Song reveals a character longing to close a gap, or who, for better and for worse, have come to terms with their estrangement and exile. A divorcee rekindles a doomed romance over the internet; a locksmith absorbs broken dreams in foreclosed homes; a boy learns how to love and hate in Juarez, Mexico; because he has no one else, a Nevada Patrolman confides his marital troubles in a dog. Wrought with empathy, precision and a steady finger on the pulse of the complexities facing today’s changing, often turbulent West, Barnes’s stories show a writer at the apex of his craft, offering an updated take on a West that is rapidly descending into the annals of legend.

The Wallum Pond Estates (Paperback): Harry Lee Barnes The Wallum Pond Estates (Paperback)
Harry Lee Barnes
R517 Discovery Miles 5 170 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A Girl Before Now (Paperback): Andy Lee Barnes A Girl Before Now (Paperback)
Andy Lee Barnes
R694 Discovery Miles 6 940 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Clonal Propagation of Endangered Native Plants Rhododendron Chapmanii Gray Taxus Floridana Nutt. and Torreya Taxifolia Arn... Clonal Propagation of Endangered Native Plants Rhododendron Chapmanii Gray Taxus Floridana Nutt. and Torreya Taxifolia Arn (Paperback)
Lee Barnes
R1,606 Discovery Miles 16 060 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Mousiecorp - Clawing Your Way Up the Corporate Scratching Post (Paperback): Amoreena Lee Barnes Mousiecorp - Clawing Your Way Up the Corporate Scratching Post (Paperback)
Amoreena Lee Barnes
R419 Discovery Miles 4 190 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Drug Lords of Oakland - The untold stories of California's most notorious Drug Kingpins of the 1970s, 80s, and 90s... Drug Lords of Oakland - The untold stories of California's most notorious Drug Kingpins of the 1970s, 80s, and 90s (Paperback)
Titus Lee Barnes
R451 Discovery Miles 4 510 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Corky & Nikita - A True Friendship (Paperback): Henry Lee Barnes Corky & Nikita - A True Friendship (Paperback)
Henry Lee Barnes
R506 Discovery Miles 5 060 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
When We Walked Above the Clouds - A Memoir of Vietnam (Paperback): H. Lee Barnes When We Walked Above the Clouds - A Memoir of Vietnam (Paperback)
H. Lee Barnes
R570 R527 Discovery Miles 5 270 Save R43 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

There is the mythology of the Green Berets, of their clandestine, special operations as celebrated in story and song. And then there is the reality of one soldier’s experience, the day-to-day loss and drudgery of a Green Beret such as H. Lee Barnes, whose story conveys the daily grind and quiet desperation behind polished-for-public-consumption accounts of military heroics. In When We Walked Above the Clouds, Barnes tells what it was like to be a Green Beret, first in the Dominican Republic during the civil war of 1965, and then at A-107, Tra Bong, Vietnam. There, he eventually came to serve as the advisor to a Combat Recon Platoon, which consisted chiefly of Montagnard irregulars. Though “nothing extraordinary,” as Barnes saw it, his months of simply doing what the mission demanded make for sobering reading: the mundane business of killing rats, cleaning guns, and building bunkers renders the intensity of patrols and attacks all the more harrowing.   More than anything, Barnes’s story is one of loss—of morale lost to alcoholism, teammates lost to friendly fire, missions aborted, and missions endlessly and futilely repeated. As the story advances, so does the attrition—teammates transferred, innocence cast off, confidence in leadership whittled away. And yet, against this dark background, Barnes still manages to honor the quiet professionals whose service, overshadowed by the outsized story of Vietnam, nonetheless carried the day.   Purchase the audio edition.

Aman - The Story of a Somali Girl (Paperback, 1st Vintage Books Ed): Virginia Lee Barnes, Janice Boddy Aman - The Story of a Somali Girl (Paperback, 1st Vintage Books Ed)
Virginia Lee Barnes, Janice Boddy
R572 Discovery Miles 5 720 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This is the extraordinary first-person account of a young woman's coming of age in Somalia and her struggles against the obligations and strictures of family and society. By the time she is nine, Aman has undergone a ritual circumcision ceremony; at eleven, her innocent romance with a white boy leads to a murder; at thirteen she is given away in an arranged marriage to a stranger. Aman eventually runs away to Mogadishu, where her beauty and rebellious spirit leads her to the decadent demimonde of white colonialists. Hers is a world in which women are both chattel and freewheeling entrepreneurs, subject to the caprices of male relatives, yet keenly aware of the loopholes that lead to freedom. Aman is an astonishing history, opening a window onto traditional Somali life and the universal quest for female self-awareness.

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