A Kentucky mountain feud, told from inside: two families, a killing nobody now remembers the reason for, and a boy who falls in love across the line. Fox left New York for the coalfields and lived among these families for years before writing them; the dialect is transcribed, not invented, and the book refuses the sentimentality that made his later ones famous.

This book-collection file includes: Christmas Eve on Lonesome and Other Stories, Crittenden, Cumberland Vendetta, The Heart of the Hills, Hell Fer Sartain and Other Stories, In Happy Valley, A Knight of the Cumberland, The Last Stetson, The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come, a Mountain Europa, and The Trail of the Lonesome Pine. According to Wikipedia: "Born in Stony Point, Kentucky to John William Fox, Sr., and Minerva Worth Carr, Fox studied English at Harvard University... After working f...

This ground-breaking book explores the theoretical, clinical and training application of integrating mindfulness with all of the arts therapies, and includes cutting-edge contributions from neuroscience. Written by pioneers and leaders in the arts therapies and psychology fields, the book includes 6 sections that examine mindfulness and the arts therapies from different perspectives: 1) the history and roots of mindfulness in relation to spirituality, psychotherapy and the arts therapies; ...

15 AMERICAN WESTERN NOVELS A Cumberland Vendetta A Daughter of the Dons A Daughter of the Sioux A Man Four-Square A Texas Matchmaker An Apache Princess Bob Hampton of Placer Cabin Fever Gunsight Pass Hidden Gold Kid Wolf of Texas Out of the Depths: A Romance of Reclamation Rimrock Trail

The Alvis company of Coventry were motor and aero engineers who made some of the finest motor cars during the period 1920 to 1967, when car production stopped. There were no independent coachbuilders left and mass production was not for Alvis. Total production was a mere 21,250 and fewer than 7,000 after the Second World War. It is the post-war cars that this book focuses on. The successor to Alvis’s iconic Fourteen, the Three Litre, had a production run of seventeen years and the newest i...

Classic western. According to Wikipedia: "Born in Stony Point, Kentucky to John William Fox, Sr., and Minerva Worth Carr, Fox studied English at Harvard University. He graduated in 1883 before becoming a reporter in New York City. After working for both New York Times and the New York Sun, he published a successful serialization of his first novel, A Mountain Europa, in Century magazine in 1892. Two moderately successful short story collections followed, as well as his first conventional n...

John Fox won literary acclaim as one of the foremost chroniclers of life in the southeastern United States. "A Cumberland Vendetta" traces the roots and tragic consequences of one of the feuds that ripped apart many Southern communities in the nineteenth century.

"Erskine Dale—Pioneer" follows the story of its titular character, Erskine Dale, as he navigates the trials and tribulations of pioneer life in the Appalachian Mountains. Set in the early 19th century, the novel depicts the struggles of settlers as they carve out a living in the rugged wilderness.The central plot of the novel revolves around Erskine Dale's efforts to establish a homestead and build a new life for himself and his family. As he battles against the harsh elements, hostile nei...

Visionary, explorer, researcher, diplomat, humanist?Fridtjof Nansen was no ordinary man. Nansen was a dedicated scientist who made an outstanding contribution to marine zoology and oceanography, an audacious adventurer who pushed our knowledge of the Arctic to new frontiers, and an indefatigable savior of human beings displaced by conflict. As a young man Nansen led two successful polar expeditions and became a national hero, participating in the birth pangs of his country?Norway. As a res...

My previous book No Time to Die - The Unofficial Companion offered a comprehensive look at the genesis, production, and seemingly endless release woes of the much anticipated 25th James Bond film. Here then is the sequel that everyone asked me to write. No Time to Die - The Unofficial Retrospective covers the final marketing campaign and actual release of No Time to Die and also offers a comprehensive analysis of the film itself, the box-office, fan reaction, the future of the Bond franchi...

First published in 1913, The Heart of the Hills is the last novel completed by John Fox Jr. and the final piece in his mountain trilogy. This companion to The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come and The Trail of the Lonesome Pine is crucial to an understanding of Fox's views.In The Heart of the Hills Fox revises his earlier thoughts about mountain people. He depicts more clearly than in his previous work just how they were exploited by outside indust...

A mountain Europa follows an outsider who becomes immersed in the rhythms of an isolated mountain world, where encounters with unfamiliar customs challenge long-standing assumptions about identity, belonging, and change. The narrative opens with a moment of quiet reflection in nature, creating a contrast between personal stillness and the rugged environment that soon surrounds the protagonist. His arrival in the community exposes him to a way of life shaped by resilience, physical hardship...