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"The 30th anniversary festivities for John Carpenter's cult classic continue with 'The official art of Big Trouble in Little China,' a companion to 'The official making of Big Trouble in Little China.' A celebration of not just the art created for the film, this book also features official artwork inspired by Jack Burton's adventure"--Back cove
Life-long friends and veterans of war, Clay and Tom settle into their ideal lives, fishing the rugged, picturesque coastline of the Pacific Northwest during its annual salmon runs. Haunting local bars, trekking the rainforest of coastal mountains, feasting on local abundance with friends and lovers, they seem destined to carry on longstanding traditions of generations who have aligned their lives to the land and sea in a small, bucolic fishing port. That is, until a corporate consortium builds a fish hatchery and processing plant in its bay, at a time when the ill effects of climate change and depleting resources conspire to rupture the community’s fabric. The tensions, violence, and intrigue that result threaten to bring it all crashing down.
This book purports to be a manuscript dictated by a strange being named I-Am-The-Man to a man named Llewyllyn Drury. Drury's adventure culminates in a trek through a cave in Kentucky into the core of the earth. It blends passages on the nature of physical phenomena, such as gravity and volcanoes, with spiritualist speculation and adventure-story elements (like traversing a landscape of giant mushrooms).
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Cavalry units from Midwestern states remain largely absent from Civil War literature, and what little has been written largely overlooks the individual men who served. The Fifth Illinois Cavalry has thus remained obscure despite participating in some of the most important campaigns in Arkansas and Mississippi. In this pioneering examination of that understudied regiment, Rhonda M. Kohl offers the only modern, comprehensive analysis of a southern Illinois regiment during the Civil War and combines well-documented military history with a cultural analysis of the men who served in the Fifth Illinois. The regiment’s history unfolds around major events in the Western Theater from 1861 to Septem...