Books with author Francis Lee Jaques

The Singing Wilderness is Sigurd Olson's first and best-selling book, with over 70,000 copies sold in hardcover since its release in 1956. Now available in paperback for the first time, this volume established Olson as a major writer renowned for the beauty of his prose and the clarity of his vision."The singing wilderness has to do with the calling of the loons, northern lights, and the great silences of a land lying northwest of Lake Superior", Olson writes. "It is concerned with the simple joys, the timelessness and perspective found in a way of life that is close to the past. I have heard the singing in many places, but I seem to hear it best in the wilderness".Olson tells his story through descriptions of the simple events in nature that bring meaning to his life: picking berries, looking for pine knots, fly-fishing, hiking through the forest, paddling a canoe. "The movement of a canoe is like a reed in the wind", he writes. "Silence is part of it, and the sounds of lapping water, bird songs, and wind in the trees. It is part of the medium through which it floats, the sky, the water, the shores".

Rafi didn't believe in vampires until his first date tried to kill him. Worse, she isn't the only vampire in town. Rafi McCullough is a Filipino-American teenager who learns from his grandfather of the Filipino vampires called aswang, who are daywalkers. Under constant threat of attack, Rafi must learn kali, the Filipino art of blade fighting, if he is going to stay alive long enough to rid the town of the killers in their midst.

Circe Kellar is the only person ever to witness spontaneous human combustion when she sees her grandmother consumed by fire.Soon after her grandmother's death, a mysterious young man, Evan Royce, appears claiming to have known Circe's grandmother, even though he is much too young. Was Circe's grandmother a Promethean, a member of a nearly extinct race that gave birth to the phoenix legend, and has Circe inherited those powers?A series of inexplicable events forces Circe to confront Evan's outlandish claims and the possibility that she has special powers, not to mention her growing attraction to the powerful stranger.

1947, First Edition (stated) signed and dedicated to the Editor of Field & Stream by the author. Published by Doubleday. Black DJ with photo of two Canadian Geese in flight. Small wear to edges and water stain to back outside edge. A very good DJ. Green cloth boards with gilt embossing of Canadian Geese on front and lettering on spine. Dedication by author on inside title page. All pages clean and bright. Binding tight as new. This is a Fine + copy with a very good DJ. An unusual signed copy of this desired text. Ships from the US next day.