The Walk West: A Walk Across America 2 (Walk West)

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A Walk Northwest

Great adventure

good, not as good, but good

GREAT FOLLOW UP TO A GREAT BOOK

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The Walk West: A Walk Across America 2 (Walk West)
Peter Jenkins , and Barbara Jenkins
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A Walk Northwest.......2006-11-30

I read this book almost 30 years after the original walk. I read it because I had read the first book by Jenkins, A Walk Across America, and wanted to see how his walk across the rest of the country with a new wife turned out.

No doubt this was a good book, but it was good because Jenkins had a lot of help from his wife and friends writing this. He is a better photographer than he is a writer. Half of this book was about his painful miles across Louisiana and Texas and I couldn't wait for the rest of the country, especially Colorado, to begin. What he witnessed in Louisiana and Texas 30 years ago are things (minus any voodoo ladies) I have experienced in those two states 30 years later. Some things just don't change and this book is proof of that.

Had Jenkins done this walk 30 years later he would have had the internet, cable TV, cell phones and laptops to help him better plan his route. Some of the experiences along the route West are fine examples of what happens when you don't plan properly. Part of the enjoyment was experiencing this book vicariously back to the mid 1970s when such communicaton amenities like cell phone, internet and cable TV weren't available. I can only chuckle now.

I don't want to bash Jenkins, though. He broke through the stereotype rich Yankee hippie kid from Connecticutt and made something of himself: he wrote a book about 1970s Americans and their feelings in the post-Vietnam Era. And except for driving everywhere, something most writers prefer to do, he went there on foot, usually leaving his wife behind because she didn't walk as fast as she and he didn't care.

What did disturb me about this book is how little Peter wrote about his wife Barbara (unless something bad happened to her). This adventure across the country was, afterall, all about HIM and not THEM and when things didn't go his way, he'd lash at his wife. I will give him credit for at least admitting he has a temper and will push women around.

Sometimes Jenkin's egotism bothered me. He'd write about his winter in Lake City, CO and what he did with his friends there, but he rarely mentioned his wife. He did the same in Dallas when he stayed there for several months waiting tables at El Chico; he wrote about the people of Dallas but never mentioned what Barbara did in that time. Did she just stay home and keep his bed warm for him?

The book is easy to read because of Jenkin's simplistic writing style and sometimes overused cliches ("Rivers of sweat ran down my forehead!") Some of the better chapters are the ones written by Barbara, when she descibes peoples' souls rather than just describe peoples' physical features.

Still, despite its flaws, because this was the first book about a white man who walked across this country at a time when this country was trying to re-establish an identity post-Vietnam, it's a good read.

Great adventure.......2006-05-14

I read 'A Walk Across America' and 'The Walk West' a number of years ago. Both proved to be exciting. I liked 'The Walk West' best since it covered areas I have visited. I began staying at Vickers Ranch at Lake City Colorado due to this book. I took my book with me my first visit and had Perk Vickers and his wife autograph it for me. Perk is getting up in age but was still alive the last time I heard. Sad thing is the ranch is up for sale. Time changes things I guess.

good, not as good, but good.......2005-07-09

I love the first one,(walk accross America) this is the sequel. not as good - but if you read the first one - you have to read this one!! dontcha wanna see how it all comes out?!! how he makes it to the coast? you MUST!!

the second leg of the journey, Peter is not alone. he met and married Barbara, and she goes with him on this part of the trip.

ssshhhhhh, i'll tell you a secret - Peter was my hero (right next to Robin Graham) until i wrote a letter to him and Barbara, right after i read this. she wrote me back and - low and behold - they split up. so, being a woman, i have to side with her - that rat!! men!! plus she sent me a book that she just wrote. how cool is that?!!!

my man, Norman, once again, is laughing at me - he thinks i'm a nut! lol

ok, good read. good adventure. you must own it!!! why not buy it from one of the nice sellers that sell used copies, save some money and get the book!! OK? thank you.

GREAT FOLLOW UP TO A GREAT BOOK.......2004-10-01

Quite inspiring, interesting story, well written. I enjoyed the author's first book and did enjoy this one as well. The author's observations were excellent, both of places and the people both meet. I did read this book some time ago and will quite likely read it again soon. This is a good one to add to your collection. I wonder if Peter and barbara are still married??? Anyway, good job and thank you both.

Excellent Read!.......2004-04-24

After reading Peter's first book, I couldn't wait to read this one. I found it also hard to lay down. His experiences and travels throughout the west was really interesting. I was somewhat disappointed to read in the beginning about his wife having second thoughts on making this journey with Peter, but after a while, she seemed to find out what interesting places and people were all about, besides her beloved seminary. Read Peter's first book and then grap this one!

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THE WALK WEST - A WALK ACROSS AMERICA 2
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The Walk West : A Walk Across America 2
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"In 1973, Peter Jenkins began the walk from Alfred, New York to New Orleans..."

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Walk West a Walk Across America: 2
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ASIN: 0517642395
Release Date: 1987-03-07

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By any standards, Admiral Sir John Treacher is an exceptional man who has had the fullest of lives. Old enough to have served and be sunk in the War, he went to be a naval aviator flying in the Korean War. His career took off too and he rose rapidly to be the captain of the aircraft carrier HMS Eagle and soon after Commander in Chief Channel.

To everyone's surprised he left the Navy when all the indications were that he was about to become First Sea Lord. For many this would have meant a quiet retirement. Not so here! A number of influential appointments quickly followed including controversially Chairmanship of Playboy Club UK at a critical time for their vital gaming interests.

He was deeply embroiled in the highly political Westland drama which resulted in the resignation of Cabinet ministers. Today as he approaches 80 he is still an active and influential figure in the aeronautical industry.

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The life of a man who trod a carefully selected path........2005-01-19

Naval pilots are amongst the most skilled in the world if only because of the extremely limited space they have on which to land. In any other situation, any runway that was hard to find because of adverse weather conditions and, even if you did find it, it was moving and heaving in a storm-tossed sea, the airport itself would have been closed down hours ago. For a naval pilot, however, these are the daily trials of life and death in addition to those of warfare.

For naval pilot Admiral Sir John Treacher to have become the professional head of the Royal Navy's world-wide fleet at the age of just 50 years tells me he was very likely to have gone on to much greater things. Like one of the officers he succeeded on two occasions, perhaps he was destined to become Admiral of the Fleet with a seat in the House of Lords. Of course, we shall never know because he suddenly decided on a complete career change and, having made that decision, his successful transition from "Wardroom to Boardroom" was inevitable.

This is not one of those obligatory biographies from a newly retired senior officer who hopes his own record of his own achievements will somehow show he really did make a significant contribution to military history after all. Treacher served through 35 of the most interesting years in British naval history - including WW2, the Korean conflict and beyond. During that time and in many ways, this man did play a small but significant part in that history. Then, suddenly, but while he was still young enough to start all over again, he opted for a second career. His time in the boardroom was equally fascinating and is made just as equally exciting by this easy-to-read biography.

Truly recommended good reading where even the complicated is made easy to understand.

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From Napster to Total Information Awareness to flash mobs, the debates over who gets to control information and technology has revolved around a single question: How closely do we want the virtual world to resemble the real world? But while we weren't looking, the opposite has happened: The real world has started imitating the virtual world--in some alarming ways. More and more of our social, political, and religious activities are modeling themselves after the World Wide Web, along the lines of either anarchy or oligarchy, total freedom vs. complete control. And battle lines are being drawn.

On one side, trying to maintain control of information, are corporations, judges, the military, and global institutions. On the other side, trying to liberate information, are educators, hackers, civil libertarians, artists, consumers, and political dissidents. The Anarchist in the Library, by the rising young academic star Siva Vaidhyanathan, is a radically original look at how this battle will define one of the major fault lines of twenty-first century civilization.

The recording industry has sued the music downloaders into submission, but as a model of communication, their effects still echo around the world. The proliferation of such peer-to-peer networks may appear to threaten many established institutions, and the backlash against them could be even worse than the problems they create. Their effects--good and bad--resonate far beyond markets for music. They are altering our sense of the possible, extending our cultural and political imaginations.

Unregulated networks of communication have existed as long as gossip has. But with the rise of electronic communication, they are exponentially more important. And they are drawing the outlines of a battle for information that will determine much of the culture and politics of our century, from unauthorized fan edits of Star Wars to terrorist organizations' reliance on "leaderless resistance." The Anarchist in the Library is the first guide to one of the most important cultural and economic battlegrounds of the twenty-first century.

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good yet unclear ideas.......2007-09-02

The author brings up very interesting ideas, discussing how culture and technologies are inherently anarchistic, and how oligarchies are constantly trying to harness these for control & profit, which may end up damaging or destroying them in the process. The 'anything goes' trading of Napster wasn't good for artist and content produces, but the tied-down DRM world is even worse in the long run.

He definitely knows his material, but the writing just isn't that clear. He compares things to "Anarchistic Libertarianism" like I'm supposed to instantly know the ramifications of the term. I'd read a paragrah and realize I have no idea what he was trying to say.

There's a great argument to make here, I just don't think Siva Vaidhyanathan presents it very well.

Infostructure in geopardy?.......2006-03-01

This is a book is on, the most unexpected subjects: Information anarchy in utopia, Information anarchy in dystopia and Information utopia?

These insights are from an expert who visualizes the effects of hacking, cracking and whacking in the world in general. And how such a scenario creates chaos in libraries. See for instance, computer filters (p. 38), effect of total acces (121-122), and terrorism (118-120, 122).

Contextually, this books sounds as a sequel to the earlier title by the same author, i.e., "Copyrights and Copywrongs." In considering structurally as a sequel, I am not in anyways special. Because, The Chronicle of Higher Education, in 2004, said it precisely in the following article: "In the Copyright Wars, This Scholar Sides With the Anarchists." (see: http://chronicle.com/free/v51/i13/13a02901.htm)

Nevertheless, Anarchist in the Library adds value to the existing literature on safety, security, and emergency preparedness.

Interestingly, The Anarchist in the Library deals with clashes and the limits of freedom in a world that continues to converge - in electronic, media and digital domains.

The Anarchist in the Library is a good reading for policy makers to consider issues in public governance in a situation that is loaded with smart-internet, as well as, friendly-access environment.

Are The Libraries Safe Anymore For Decent Folks?.......2005-07-04

Anarchy is a governing system that eschews authority. Oligarchy governs from, through, and for authorities. These ideologies feed off each other dialectically; they are rapidly remaking our global information ecosystem: the increasing speed and amount of information and the basic paradox of the digital world onto the real world.

Libraries are never as placid as they appear. They are sources of controversy and conflict. After it was confirmed that some of the terrorists had used public computers in Virginia and Florida, the government decided they want access fo patron reading habits and Internet use. Thus, the USA Patriot Act came into existence.

The Patriot Act, signed by President Bush II, in October 2001, has turned into an intrusion in the privacy of library users and those who check out books. Anyone pretending to be FBI can check your account and no one will inform you.

The FBI is notorious for overstepping its bounds. This intrusion into patrons' privacy is against the Constitution. We are being denied our inalienable rights. The library is not just functionally important to communities all over the world, the doors should be open to everybody. Librarians are being forced to choose between their values, but they are supposed to support and protect the patrons. We are not to be intimidated by the choice of books we choose to read. I am using a diverse study among the nonfiction (simply because they are new), clearly not my choice of reading material, but folks on Amazon. com seem to prefer the newer books for their reviews.

As with Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama, unclassified technical reports have disappeared from the Los Alamos National Lab web site. How is that possible? It never should have been put online in the first place.

Anarchy for thee, not for me........2005-04-05

While many academics do tend to "fog" their arguments I think this book by Professor Siva Vaidhyanathan of New York University is a fresh, provocative, and extremely readable discourse on the nature of freedom and control in a world awash with technology that is often over-hyped and under-analyzed. Prof. Vaidhyanathan is a fresh voice analyzing the extremely important issue of, in his words, the "availability and accessibility of the substance of expression and thus the possibility of public discussion and creativity" (185). As a veteran of the culture wars spawned by punk rock's initial social (and later in a watered-down form) commercial success, I have seen the reliance on empty sloganeering and naive calls for anarchy from punks who couldn't organize taking out the trash if they had all week. Prof. Vaidhyanathan rejects simplistic calls for decentralization and anarchy, and instead provides a rich and nuanced historical context for why we should return to what he calls "Civic Republicanism," a return to the idea of public trust and mutual dependency that many Americans have lost sight of in the rather simplistic way most debates have been framed in the battle over public control of information. One of the virtues of Prof. Vaidhyanathan's book is that he does not provide any easy answer or EFF manifestos, just a reliance on the basic responsibility of human beings to engage in meaningful dialogue about the Faustian bargains involved in new technologies. And in an age that promises unparalleled control and unparalleled, resistance, a call for a meaningful and participatory dialogue is a breath of fresh air.

Not very original.......2005-02-28

If you've been reading Slashdot, EFF's newsletter, or similar news sources, you have already read most of the valuable ideas that are in this book.
If you know very little about the political issues raised by recent changes in technology, the first three quarters of this book might be as good a place as any to introduce yourself to the discussions that have been floating around the net.
The last quarter of the book deals with broader political issues where the author has no more expertise than a typical reporter, and is at least as superficial as what you'd find in a typical newspaper article. For instance, he says "The World Bank and International Monetary Fund, which exercise wide-ranging influence over the lives of billions of people in developing nations, clearly work for the interests of the developed nations." I say that they work for a much narrower set of interests, and are probably somewhat harmful to developed nations as a whole.

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Forcing the Spring challenges standard histories of the environmental movement by offering a broad and inclusive interpretation of past environmentalist thought and a sweeping redefinition of the nature of the contemporary environmental movement. Robert Gottlieb demonstrates the centrality of environmental concerns to a wide range of social movements of the past century as he explores the connections between pressures on human and natural environments and the role of these pressures in shaping society. His analysis provides fundamental new insights into the past and future of the American environmental movement by placing it within the larger context of American social history.

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"...[a] provocative and original account..." --NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS

Originally published in 1993, Forcing the Spring was quickly recognized as a seminal work in the field of environmental history. The book links the environmental movement that emerged in the 1960s to earlier movements that had not previously been defined as environmental. It was the first to consider the importance of race, ethnicity, class, and gender issues in the history and evolution of environmentalism.

This revised edition extends the groundbreaking history and analysis of Forcing the Spring into the present day. It updates the original with important new material that brings the book's themes and arguments into the 21st century, addressing topics such as: the controversy spawned by the original edition with regard to how environmentalism is, or should be, defined; new groups and movements that have formed in the past decade; change and development in the overall environmental movement from 1993 to 2004; the changing role of race, class, gender, and ethnicity in today's environmentalism; the impact of the 2004 presidential election; the emergence of "the next environmentalism."

Forcing the Spring, Revised Edition considers environmentalism as a contemporary movement focused on "where we live, work, and play," touching on such hot-button topics as globalization, food, immigration, and sprawl. The book also describes the need for a "next environmentalism" that can address current challenges, and considers the barriers and opportunities associated with this new, more expansive approach.

Forcing the Spring, Revised Edition is an important contribution for students and faculty in a wide variety of fields including history, sociology, political science, environmental studies, environmental history, and social movements. It also offers useful context and analysis for anyone concerned with environmental issues.

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