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20th Anniversary Issue; Contains "Longing for Wholeness: An interview with Satish Kumar" - Being an insider and an outsider at the same time"Dweller on the Plain" by Eliezer Shore - Transcending the boundaries; "The Bridge of Well-Being" by Mark Nepo - The stranger, the fellow, the completing other; "Original Face" by Jennie Koralek - Moments beyond the ordinary; "The Thirteenth Wise Woman" by P.L. Travers - The necessary wicked fairy; "Fieldwork Enlightenment" by Barre Toelken - Are we the beneficiaries of other people's traditions?; "Behind the Mask" by Frederick Franck - Camouflaging the stranger-within; "Just Plain Shane" by William A. McIntosh - The unknown hero in American westerns; "Night-Visitor" by Alexander Eliot - Edward Hopper's "Nighthawks"; "The Stranger as Pathfinder" by Elaine Jahner - The one who shows the way home; "What He Was Like" by William Maxwell - Secrets confided to a diary; "The God with Two Faces" by Nouk Bassomb - Why is the stranger; "In the Doorway" by Ellen Dooling Draper - The moment of encounter; "A Glimpse of Eternity" by Martin Buber - Two views of the world; "Family Matters" by Virginia Baron - The story of Ruth and Naomi; "The Mysterious Stranger" by Mark Twain - Fatal enchantments; "Crossing the Threshold" by Doug Thorpe - Those who have lost their way back; 127 pages. Paperback in very good condition.

Zustand: New. In.

Zustand: New. In.

Leather. Zustand: Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. The scarce second edition of Granville Eliot's illustrated 'Treatise on the Defence of Portugal', bound alongside the first edition of Robinson's vanishingly scarce 'Sketch of the Campaign in Portugal'. Two highly desirable and scarce works, bound in a single volume.The first of these two works is the 1811 second edition of William Granville Eliot's scarce work, 'A Treatise on the Defence of Portugal, with a Military Map of the Country'.Illustrated with a partially hand coloured folding map frontispiece, and five folding maps of battle plans. Collated, complete.The work analyses the military defence of Portugal during the Peninsular War, focusing on strategies to resist French invasion. The treatise is grounded in military observation and contemporary experience, offering both practical recommendations and commentary on the conduct of the war.The second work is the vanishingly scarce first edition of the 1810 work 'A Sketch of the Campaign in Portugal', anonymously authored by the Hon. F. J. Robinson, afterwards Earl of Ripon.Robinson, a British officer, draws from personal observation and official reports to describe the movements of the Allied forces under Wellington, engagements with the French, and the conditions of the campaign.With a contemporary 1811 inscription to the verso of the front free endpaper. In a half calf binding, with marbled paper covered boards. Back strip age toned, with rubbing to gilt of title to back strip. Front joint and head of rear joint starting, with boards firmly held. Inscription to verso of front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages generally clean and bright, with instances of light spotting, most concentrated to pages facing plates. Very Good. book.