Farley Mowat:Never Cry Wolf
- Paperback 1997, ISBN: 9780770420727
Hardcover
Paramount, 1997-08-31. VHS. Very Good/Good. excellent condition VHS tape in lightly worn sleeve; Based on the popular novels about that other suave, globe-trotting man of action, this g… More...
Paramount, 1997-08-31. VHS. Very Good/Good. excellent condition VHS tape in lightly worn sleeve; Based on the popular novels about that other suave, globe-trotting man of action, this genre picture from director Phillip Noyce mixed romance and character development with dangerous stunts, geopolitical intrigue, and a variety of elaborate disguises, resulting in an uneven stew of a spy thriller. Val Kilmer is Simon Templar, a classy, cunning master thief and "man of a thousand faces" who cribs his phony names from those of obscure saints and sells his illegal services to the highest bidder. Hired by an ambitious Russian politician (Rade Serbedzija) to steal the formula for cold fusion, Templar falls in love with Dr. Emma Russell (Elisabeth Shue), the frail Oxford scientist who has unlocked the secret of the process. Back in Moscow, the thief debates whether to betray his new love or the powerful madman who is paying him millions, until he discovers that his client is concealing oil reserves that could save his freezing people. Often seen as an also-ran to the legendary James Bond, Templar, the creation of author Leslie Charteris, in fact predated the first Bond novel by decades and probably inspired Ian Fleming in his creation of the debonair agent. Karl Williams, Rovi, Paramount, 1997-08-31, 2.75, St Martins Pr, 1994-05-01. Hardcover. Good. 031210944X JR13318 Good/Good c. 1993, blue bds. w/price clipped d.j., 518pp., (shelf wear, corners bumped, page ends soiled, some pages creased to corners, some lt.crinkling and half moons from page turning, some page soiling, binding good, d.j. taped to bds., lt.edge wear, mylar cover, lt.rubbing).From Publishers WeeklyIn post-WW II England a frightened young girl comes to maturity and love in this sensitive historical/fantasy by the author of First Love, Last Love. Having been stranded in Italy at the beginning of the war, Questa Adamson spent years narrowly evading the Fascists and enduring near-starvation and brutalization by German soldiers. At age 17 she returns to her native land and learns that she has inherited the nearly ruined Shropshire estate of Eagle Court. Her short-lived tranquility is disturbed by the arrival of her father's old friend, Grace Syrett, seeking refuge from London's housing shortage for herself and her young son, Dickie. While the women reach an uneasy truce, Questa falls into swoons in which she finds love with a mysterious neighbor, a young Roman named Marcus who lived in the area 20 centuries previously. She also befriends a modern neighbor, elderly, crippled Randolph Atherton, who teaches her how to farm her land. When disaster strikes, Questa manages to find the strength to surmount her troubles and embrace a new love who seems to be Marcus's legacy. Saxon paints a vivid picture of life in postwar England, its inhabitants bitterly struggling with shortages and other deprivations. Her attempt to integrate Questa's dreamworld of Roman Britain is never fully convincing, however.Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.From Library JournalIn 1947, 17-year-old Questa Adamson returns to England from Italy, where she has spent the war years living in hiding with relatives of her long-dead mother. Questa's father has died in combat, but she remembers his fond tales of youthful summers spent on his uncle's Shropshire estate, which Questa has inherited. Despite her halting English, malnutrition, and fear of strangers, Questa insists on living in the rundown manor and attempts to restore the farm to productivity. She is aided by neighbors and former servants who knew her father. But equally important are her mysterious dreams and visions of life in the region during the Roman occupation of Britain. Through her dreams, Questa slowly regains confidence and even develops enough trust to fall in love. The connections with the Roman era, central to certain plot developments, require a major suspension of disbelief. For romance readers comfortable with dollops of time-slip fantasy.- Kathy Piehl, Mankato State Univ., Minn.Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.From BooklistFrom the misery of war-torn Italy a young woman finds solace in the hills of Wales above the ravaged ancestral home that is all she has left to remind her of her father, a casualty of the First World War, and his family. Everyone tells Questa to sell the home and find an apartment, but after years of hiding and working on the land in Italy, farming comes naturally to her. On her first night alone in the house, Questa also meets family from more than 1,000 years ago, a Roman centurion as bewildered as she about how to cultivate this area. Throughout the novel, Questa time travels (in her dreams?), and she falls in love with the man from long ago. Meanwhile she spruces the old place up while suffering further setbacks from fire, death, and other disasters. Only after she falls in love in her own time does she discover the truth of her visions from the past. Questa's visits with the past just happen, as matter-of-factly as the rain falls and the garden grows in this vigorous historical fiction. Saxton's fans will rave. Denise Perry DonavinFrom Kirkus ReviewsFrom the author of First Love, Last Love (1993) and a number of other romances comes this oddly lackluster story of a young orphan set in the English countryside during the post-WW II period. After spending several years hiding among peasants in Italy, Questa Adamson returns to England to find her father dead and herself the inheritor of his country estate, Eagles Court. The place is a ruin, but with the help of a crusty but lovable old caretaker and her son, Questa attempts to put it in order and get the farm up and running once more. Though she's barely 18, Questa has sworn off men for good after some terrible experiences with German soldiers during the war. But she has vivid dreams of a young lover named Marcus, who inhabited her land some 2,000 years ago. These dream sequences are barely credible and not well integrated into the story, so that their presence is like an annoying tic rather than an evocative refrain. Meanwhile, during her waking hours, Questa contends with the ups and downs of farm life and befriends an older man who owns the neighboring estate. It turns out he has a son named Martin, who bears a striking resemblance to Questa's dream lover. As she falls in love with Martin, the memories of her dreams grow less and less insistent. There's a resolution that ties the dream world to the waking one, though it's not at all satisfactory. As a romance, the book is even more of a dud: Since one of the obstacles placed before Questa is the need to overcome her revulsion toward men, it's more than a little frustrating that the novel ends with her preparing for her wedding day, leaving the reader to imagine the culmination of physical love. -- Copyright ?, St Martins Pr, 1994-05-01, 2.5, 256 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's quarter blue cloth with tilt lettering to spine over brown blind-stamped boards in original pictorial jacket. First American edition. Murder with Mack and Mabel: Lovesey, master of the period-mystery invention, now drenches a so-so plot in early-moviemaking lore, making his sleuth an English vaudevillian who has (reluctantly) taken a job as one of Mack Sennett's Keystone Cops. This narrator/hero is Warwick Easton, who--observing the Sennett operation on his first day at work--sees a Keystone Cop accidentally killed while doing a tricky stunt. Upsetting. . . but Easton is soon more preoccupied with lovely Amber Honeybee, an ambitious but virginal no-talent whom Sennett has, for unknown reasons, given a lead role. (Has Mack dumped Mabel Normand for Amber?) Then there's another ""accident"": Amber's sweet mother dies from a fall. . . or a push? And why is someone ransacking Amber's house, roughing up Easton? What are they looking for? Could it be a piece of unexposed film in Amber's possession? Easton ponders all this, especially after Amber disappears, all her hair turning up in his motorcar trunk. (The real cops naturally suspect him of murder.) The mystery-film is developed--and it seems to involve that stunt-accident. Was Sennett being blackmailed by Amber? Well, yes--though the murder motives (a cameraman also turns up dead) lies elsewhere. An uninspired puzzle--but Lovesey does a suave, amused, uncluttered job with the gritty silent-screen backgrounds, the many early-Hollywood cameos, and the camera/technical details. Condition: Previous owner's embossed imprint on front end paper, page ends dusty. Jacket with some closed tears else a very good copy in a near fine jacket., Pantheon Books, 1983, 3.5, London, Collins & Harvill Press, [1969], First Edition. . original pictorial cloth, dj (light wear), near fine in very good dj. . 8vo [25 x 18 cm]; 217, [vi] pp, numerous illus, including color, table, map endpapers. . The author of 'Born Free' and a series on Elsa the lion here writes of her experience with Pippa, a cheetah, and her attempt to restore it to the wilds of Kenya. Appendices include cheetah illnesses and treatment and comparison table of development of leopard, lion and cheetah. There is also a much more common US edition. The illustrations are quite remarkable including all family members. The cheetah is the world's fastest mammal. A picture of this book is available on request by email., London, Collins & Harvill Press, [1969], First Edition., 0, Seal/Bantam, Toronto, 1985. 13th paperback printing, Disney movie tie in cover. Condition: Good, edge and corner wear, creasing, some writing on inside cover page, some underlining, a well read book.More than a half-century ago the naturalist Farley Mowat was sent to investigate why wolves were killing arctic caribou. Mowat's account of the summer he lived in the frozen tundra alonestudying the wolf population and developing a deep affection for the wolves (who were of no threat to caribou or man)is today celebrated as a classic of nature writing, at once a tale of remarkable adventures and indelible record of myths and magic of wolves., Bantam Books/Seal, 1985, 2.5<
