Author: Miss Read
Publisher: Mariner Book
Keywords: series, fairacre, afield, farther
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2007-11-07
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 061888436X
ISBN-13: 9780618884360

Open the gate to Fairacre, America’s favorite English village.The end of a school year often brings unmitigated rapture for schoolteachers, and so it should for Miss Read, schoolmistress in the charming English village of Fairacre. But on the very first day of the long summer holiday, she falls and breaks her arm. Just when her summer seems ruined, her old friend, Amy Garfield, comes to her aid with a diverting suggestion. They travel to Crete for two weeks, and the change of scene provides a welcome break for both of them. When Miss Read returns, refreshed, to her beloved village, she is re

Author: Allen Lacy
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Keywords: excursions, gardener, afield, farther
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 1988-03-01
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 0374520631
ISBN-13: 9780374520632

In this splendid collection of short essays, gardener, writer, and professor Allen Lacy takes readers on a series of garden excursions, beginning at home. Lacy writes of his experiences with a variety of plants--evening primrose, prairie gentian, sumac, coreopsis, fuchsias, gloriosa lilies--in his own garden in New Jersey. Then he charts his travels to other gardens, in the United States, Spain, Switzerland, the Netherlands. Final essays in Farther Afield include a discussion of garden writing, profiles of other horticulturists, and humorous pieces on cats and houseplants, and, of course, flam

Author: Christie Golden
Publisher: Unknown
Keywords: farther, shore, homecoming, voyager, trek, star
Published: 2003-01-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0743475852
ISBN-13: 9780743475853

Author: Laura Manske
Publisher: Travelers’ Tales
Keywords: tales, guides, travelers, closer, travel, farther, family
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2000-01-05
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 1885211333
ISBN-13: 9781885211330

From Tanzania to China, Peru to the Arctic Circle, these stories are passports into a world where family travel has become par for the course. You’ll discover how travel restores, revitalizes, and reveals the family, and how traveling with family can give us balance, roots, and stronger wings to explore the world.

Authors:Abraham H. Maslow,  Bertha G. Maslow, Henry Ge
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Keywords: compass, nature, human, reaches, farther
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 1993-10-01
List price: $17.00
ISBN-10: 0140194703
ISBN-13: 9780140194708

In "The Farther Reaches of Human Nature", an extension of "Toward a Psychology of Being", Maslow explores the complexities of human nature by using both the empirical methods of science and the aesthetics of philosophical inquiry. With essays on biology, synergy, creativity, cognition, self-actualization, and the hierarchy of needs, this posthumous work is a synthesis of Maslow’s ideas.