“ernest kellogg gann”

"This book is an episodic log of some of the more memorable of (the author's) nearly 10,000 hours aloft in peace and in war. It is also an attempt to define by example his belief in the phenomenon of luck-- that the pattern of anyone's fate is only partly contrived by the individual".--The New Yorke... More

A compilation of Barry Schiff's monthly column in AOPA Pilot, the popular aviation periodical, these books contain favorite articles from over the years in three volumes that are arranged by subject. These articles are pulled from his more than 26,000 flight hours in 260 types of aircraft to assembl... More

Song of the Sirens steps aboard seventeen of Gann's most beloved vessels, from the beautiful brigantine ALBATROS, to the incredible BUTTERFLY??? hardly more than a raft with patchwork sails. Each one has its own fascinating stories, containing many colorful characters, and Gann's storytelling reveal... More

Description A Study of the Stock and Commodity Markets with Charts and Rules for Successful Trading and Investing. "Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold. For wisdom it better than rubies, and all the things that may b... More

'The best short story Hemingway has written' Sunday Times Set in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana, Hemingway's magnificent fable is the story of an old man, a young boy and a giant fish. It was The Old Man and the Sea that won for Hemingway the Nobel Prize for Literature. Here, in a perfectly... More

Written when Hemingway returned from his 1953 safari, and edited by his son Patrick, True at First Light is a rich blend of autobiography and fiction, a breathtaking final work from one of this century's most beloved and important writers. The book opens on the day Hemingway's close friend Pop, a le... More

Hemingway's passion for Spain and the bullfight is renowned. In Death in the Afternoon he shares the sights, the sounds, the excitement and, above all, the knowledge which fuelled his passion for `the emotional and spiritual intensity and pure classic bea... More

'He is one of those who, honestly and undauntedly, reproduces the genuine features of the hard countenance of the age' Nobel Prize Citation The Essential Hemingway is the perfect introduction to the astonishing, wide-ranging body of work by the Nobel Prize-winning author. This impressive collection ... More

Powerful, intense, visually magnificent, Fiesta is the novel which established Ernest Hemingway as a writer of genius. Paris in the twenties: Pernod, parties and expatriate Americans, loose-living on money from home. Jake is wildly in love with Brett Ashley, aristocratic and irresistibly beautiful, ... More