In 1997 Michael Nine set off on his first tour as Death Squad. Beginning in Northern California, where he lived, the tour was an ambitious six-month journey across the United States and into Canada, comprised of sixty shows. Amidst the chaos he managed to extensively document his experiences, taking close to four hundred photos and preserving flyers, posters and handouts.
After decades of touring, Michael looks back at this first venture and shares his recollections; digging into the memories of each show, the people and places encountered along the way. The reader is taken on this journey and plunged into the underground noise scene. The highs, lows and absurdities are amplified.
Michael Nine has been creating and performing audiovisual works for nearly three decades. He has released close to one hundred titles and has been touring extensively since 1997. In the mid nineties, Michael produced two multi-media public access television shows, The Pain Factory and Fuck TV, both of which were recently released on DVD for the first time. In 2001 Michael started to release material and tour under the name MK9. He is now based in Vancouver, Canada. This is his first published book. Michael is currently working on a second book covering the years 1998-2000.
The printed book is available, 200 pages that include:
145 photos, 33 handouts, 47 flyers, writings, documents and an extensive interview.
3 CDs of unreleased live shows and radio performances. 8.5' x 11' perfect bound.
In an Edition of 300 (ISBN 978-1-7780934-0-1)
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Did you know that Viking-age Swedes were the founding dynasty of what eventually became Russia?
In contrast to their Danish and Norwegian cousins, Swedish Vikings traveled east rather than west in search of riches, land, and power. The extensive river systems of Russia provided economic and military “super-highways” to the adventurers from the north, who journeyed down them all the way to the Black Sea and Constantinople in search of fame and riches.
The rise in TV shows and movies has renewed the people’s interest in Vikings, but the Swedish Vikings have been notably absent from these accounts. In Captivating History’s History of Sweden, you will learn more about these Swedish adventurers, along with other parts of Sweden’s fascinating history.
In this audiobook, you will discover:
- The Swedes’ fierce struggle to gain independence
- The “Father of Sweden,” King Gustav Vasa and his dynasty that spawned some of the greatest military minds in Europe
- How the Swedish Empire achieved success and expanded as far as North America
- Sweden’s revolutionary war tactics and how that led to victories on the battlefield
- Why Sweden adopted its famous policy of neutrality
- The hero Raoul Wallenberg and his role in WWII
- And much more!
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Welcome to BrightPathTours' mini-tour of LaFayette Park! Our tour begins at the LaFayette Monument, one of five major monuments that honor individuals for their service to America. LaFayette Park has existed from the time the White House was built and four of the monuments here pay tribute to the men who came from France, Poland, and Germany to aid in America's fight for independence. This tour will lead you around this beautiful park while we discuss the many contributions of the men who fought alongside the likes of Henry Knox, Alexander Hamilton, and George Washington himself. The great thing about BrightPathTours is that you can walk at your own pace, on your own schedule -- and come back as many times as you like to hear the history of this place and these great men!
If your'e visiting DC and don't have a lot of time for a tour, try one of BrightPathTours mini-tours. They're under an hour but they pack plenty of history, stories, and intriguing tid-bits! This tour of the President's Neighbors is made up of only three stops but we’re visiting three of the most imposing and historic buildings in Washington DC: the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, the White House, and the United States Treasury Building. Our tours allow you to walk at your own pace, on your own schedule so you can even divide this tour into smaller pieces and come back a few times -- or you can come back multiple times to repeat the complete tour and REALLY understand this most important area of Washington DC!
Welcome to BrightPathTours' tour of LaFayette Square! On this tour you'll see some of the earliest formal residences built in Washington DC, and we’ll talk about some of the buildings that are long gone as well as many of the people – famous and notorious – who lived here. The tour starts near the White House, at Blair House, the President's 70,000 square-foot guest house! If you think that's impressive, wait 'til you hear some of the stories of the people who lived and worked here -- all "Social Influencers" of their time! Join us as we walk all the way around this historic square. And remember: Our tours always allow you to walk at your own pace, on your own schedule!
The Bondi to Manly Walk is the definitive guide to Sydney’s stunning coastline.
A spectacular 80-kilometre (50-mile) track connects Sydney's iconic beaches of Bondi and Manly, and will have you winding through secluded bays, protected bushland and the glittering harbour city.
A must-have for visitors, the guidebook will equally delight the most familiar Sydneysiders, combining fascinating local and natural histories with clear instructions.
Covering every bay, beach and headland between Bondi and Manly, day walkers can also choose from 12 highlighted short walks, including:
- Bronte to Bondi
- The Rocks and Sydney Harbour Bridge
- Hermitage Foreshore Walk near Rose Bay
- South Head at Watsons Bay
- The Spit to Manly Walk
- Manly’s North Head
Listen to the chapter on planning before setting out, then enjoy a guided tour of the walk. The full walk is divided into 61 stops with easy-to-follow track notes as well as stories of the places along the way, transforming the walk into a memorable experience.
With accommodation options for those wanting the challenge of inn-to-inn style hiking, as well as notes for families and dog walkers, it has something for casual day walkers and multi-day hikers alike.
Our audiobook is the ONLY complete, up-to-date, 2022 edition of the Highway Code. Other audiobooks available on the market were published in 2013 and have not been updated.
The Highway Code is essential reading for all road users in England, Scotland and Wales, providing all the latest rules of the road and traffic signs. All road users have a responsibility to keep their knowledge up-to-date. This new edition incorporates new rules on: a) The hierarchy of road users - this means the introduction of new responsibilities towards more vulnerable road users, to keep them safe on the road. These will be known by the 'H' rules b) Mobile Phones - tighter restrictions on the use of mobile phones whilst driving c) Junctions - you should give way to pedestrians crossing or waiting to cross a road that you're turning into d) Parking Laws - new rules around parking on pavements. The Highway Code remains one of the source materials for all theory tests.
With Part II of BrightPath Tours Walk along the National Mall, we'll continue our tour of the Smithsonian Museums, this time, on the North side of the Mall. Whether the structures are old or new, the millions of visitors who come here each year rarely look at the OUTSIDE of the buildings, and most know very little of the history of this place called the National Mall. BrightPath Tours has set out to change that! We'll continue the discussions we started in Part I, highlighting the history of the buildings, how they were built, and who bankrolled the projects -- then we'll conclude with a look at some of the very modern elements that characterize the new museums of today.
Starting at the National Gallery of Art East building, we'll walk down the Mall towards the Washington Monument and we'll end the tour at the National Museum of African-American History and Culture -- a stunning museum and one of the newest in DC.
Join BrightPath Tours as we take you on this fascinating walk past the buildings that everyone enters, but few look at before they go inside!
The National Mall in Washington, DC is home to the world-renowned Smithsonian Museums and millions of visitors each year come to view the vast collections held here -- however -- they rarely look at the OUTSIDE of the buildings, and most know very little of the history of this place called the National Mall. BrightPath Tours would like to change that! With Part I of our Walk Around the National Mall, we will stop at each of the buildings on the South side of the Mall and we'll discuss a variety of topics that includes the history of each site, the origins of the buildings, and the people who gave us these magnificent structures.
Starting at the US Department of Agriculture, we'll walk up the Mall towards the US Capitol and we'll finish Part I at the US Botanic Garden.
Join BrightPath Tours as we take you on this fascinating walk past the buildings that everyone enters, but few look at before they go inside!
'Serve un Piano B per tutti, subito, che sia più di un'alternativa a un piano iniziale andato male. 'B' non perché è un ripiego, ma perché è l'unica alternativa a qualcosa che non può più andare, né avanti né indietro.'
'Se io fossi in te...' è la frase che Ivan odia di più. Così tanto che a forza di ignorare i consigli degli altri finisce per lasciare il lavoro e prepararsi a viaggiare lontano. È proprio allora, però, che la più grande crisi mondiale del terzo millennio si fa prepotentemente avanti, scombinando tutti i piani. Cosa fare? In poco tempo Ivan riadatta il suo progetto a una dimensione nazionale e mette insieme il suo Piano B: un viaggio in bici per l'Italia attraverso zone che mai aveva preso in considerazione. Sale sugli Altipiani Abruzzesi, attraversa il Molise, poi il Matese, l'Irpinia e i Monti Dauni. In Basilicata affronta le sfide più dure per poi raggiungere Matera e proseguire verso Santa Maria di Leuca, il finis terrae d'Italia. Un filo che unisce paesaggi antichi e fragili, persone semplici e orgogliose, problemi dalle radici profonde, messi ancora più in luce dal virus, che però pare dare anche nuove opportunità. Un viaggio che diventa una presa di coscienza dell'Italia, del cambiamento in corso, della resistenza a esso e della necessità di un Piano B che possa partire dall'interno e in grado di ridarci il tempo, lo spazio, la salute.
Unpublished for 90 years, Agatha Christie’s extensive and evocative letters from her year-long round-the-world trip to South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and America as part of the British trade mission for the famous 1924 Empire Exhibition.
In 1922 Agatha Christie set sail on a 10-month voyage around the British Empire with her husband as part of a trade mission to promote the forthcoming British Empire Exhibition. Leaving her two-year-old daughter behind with her sister, Agatha set sail at the end of January and did not return until December, but she kept up a detailed weekly correspondence with her mother, describing in detail the exotic places and people she encountered as the mission travelled through South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii and Canada.
The extensive and previously unpublished letters are accompanied by some of the original letters and memorabilia collected by Agatha on her trip.
Edited and introduced by Agatha Christie’s grandson, Matthew Prichard, this unique travelogue reveals a new side to Agatha Christie, demonstrating how her appetite for exotic plots and locations for her books began with this eye-opening trip, which took place just after only her second novel had been published (the first leg of the tour to South Africa is very clearly the inspiration for the book she wrote immediately afterwards, The Man in the Brown Suit). The letters are full of tales of seasickness and sunburn, motor trips and surf boarding, and encounters with welcoming locals and overbearing Colonials.
The Grand Tour is a book steeped in history, sure to fascinate anyone interested in the lost world of the 1920s. Coming from the pen of Britain’s biggest literary export and the world’s most widely translated author, it is also a fitting tribute to Agatha Christie and is sure to fascinate her legions of worldwide fans.
My budding career as a literary scholar was suddenly hijacked by a singular seemingly random event. It was 1976 when I tiptoed into a tiny Buddhist shrine room in a farmhouse nestled into the Black Mountains of Wales and there beheld a Tibetan master, the 16th Karmapa, sitting on a throne performing a ceremony known as The Black Hat. My mind came to an immediate stop, suspended. It felt familiar, like the secret garden of childhood.
I can still remember every detail like it was yesterday:
Karmapa occupies the throne completely. He has a spiritual dignity that makes it his rightful seat, just as the lion proclaims his natural dominion. The force of his presence alone brings a hushed silence to the room. It feels like it has expanded into a cathedral.
Two monks blow long Tibetan horns in a haunting wail so loud and long it startles thought patterns, blowing them away like clouds. The Karmapa slowly opens the Black Hat-box, takes the black silk crown in his hand, and puts it on his head holding it down with one hand. With the other hand he fingers a crystal rosary moving it deftly, twirling the beads around three times. The horns continue while he gazes with eyes that seem to dissolve the fiction of time and the boundaries of space. Time is standing still.
That glimpse into enlightened mind became embedded like a seed and grew into a quest over the next decades to find the key places on our planet called the Hidden Lands.
The legend came alive while I was living in a Tibetan Buddhist monastery in the Himalayas. I met Tibetans who had been to the supreme Hidden Land of Pemako while escaping from the Chinese invasion of Tibet. They made it sound like the ‘promised land’ with streams flowing with milky water. There were certain plants that could induce enlightenment.
Why did it take decades to get there? What made the right ingredients emerge to penetrate this sacred sanctuary? And the big question: Who hid it and why?
