Rainer Maria Rilke

Maurice Betz

William Stone

One of the most significant German-language poets of the last century offers a compelling portrait of Parisian life, art, and culture at the beginning of the 20th century In 1902, the young German writer Rainer Maria Rilke traveled to Paris to write a monograph on the sculptor Auguste Rodin. He returned many times over the course of his life, by turns inspired and appalled by the city's high culture and low society, and his writings give a fascinating insight into Parisian art and culture in the last century. Paris was a lifelong source of inspiration for Rilke. Perhaps most significantly, the letters he wrote about it formed the basis of his prose masterpiece, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge. Much of this work, despite its perennial popularity in French, German, and Italian, has never before been translated into English. This volume brings together a new translation of Rilke's essay on poetry, "Notes on the Melody of Things," and the first English translation of Rilke's experiences in Paris as observed by his French translator.

Rilke in Paris

Stefan Zweig

When I am on a journey, all ties suddenly fall away. I feel myself quite unburdened, disconnected, free... There is something in it marvellously uplifting and invigorating. Whole past epochs suddenly return: nothing is lost, everything still full of inception, enticement.' Stefan Zweig's writings on his travels in Europe are made available for the first time in English through Will Stone's sympathetic translation. Representing a lifetime's observations, this collection can be dipped into or savoured at length, and paints a rich and sensitive picture of Europe before the Second World War. For the insatiably curious Zweig, travel was both a necessary cultural education and a personal balm for the depression he experienced when rooted in one place for too long. He spent much of his life weaving between the countries of central Europe, visiting authors and friends, exploring the continent in the heyday of internatinal rail travel. This collection features his writings on London, Seville, Salzburg, Bruges, Ypres and many more destinations.

Journeys

Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.

The Story of the Garden of Eden

Poems for Nick Drake

The Visionary Walks Through Winter

There was once a time when J.P. and Nola Girdner must have felt that their entire lives had become unraveled. Confused, saddened, disappointed, and frightened, the couple discovered a serious health problem that would shake up their lives forever. The Girdners, along with their four children, would have to pull up stakes and leave everything that was familiar: their home, farm, church, and friends, and move to an unknown place, knowing that they would have to completely rebuild their lives, and they faced questions that few people would ever have to confront. Placing their trust in the God that they had so faithfully served, the Girdners set out on a thousand-mile journey that would take them to the wild Arizona Territory, where they eventually settled on 90 acres of undeveloped land along the banks of lower Oak Creek. Through years of grueling, difficult work, the Girdners began to build a ranch that would be their home for the rest of their live

Our Little Slice of Heaven

Shadyvale

A Sacred Poem

The Trial of Faith

The course of truth, or, The Church of the redeemed: a poem

This title presents a firsthand account of evolving race relations in Reconstruction South Carolina. It is an insightful evaluation of the pivotal role of the Freedmen's Bureau during Reconstruction in war-torn South Carolina as written by a young bureau agent eager to do his part in rebuilding a divided nation.

William Stone's Record of Service in the Freedmen's Bureau

Bitter Freedom

Monte Paulsen

Barbara am Ende

Two members of a team who descended into the Huautla cave complex in Mexico describe their perilous and deadly trek into one of the world's deepest caves. The Huautla in Mexico is the deepest cave in the Western Hemisphere, possibly the world. Shafts reach skyscraper-depths, caverns are stadium-sized, and sudden floods can drown divers in an instant. With a two-decade obsession, William Stone and his 44-member team entered the sinkhole at Sotano de San Augustin. The first camp settled 2,328 feet below ground in a cavern where headlamps couldn't even illuminate the walls and ceiling. The second camp teetered precariously above an underground canyon where two subterranean rivers collided. But beyond that lay the unknown territory: a flooded corridor that had blocked all previous comers, claimed a diver's life, and drove the rest of the team back-except for William Stone and Barbara am Ende, who forged on for 18 more days, with no hope of rescue, to set the record for the deepest cave dive in the Western Hemisphere.

William Stone

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