He also is known for his success as a writer, and the best of his work makes up a significant part of this book - excerpts from magazine articles, short stories, and letters that are incorporated into this biography by two English professors who vividly portray the highly original man behind the deeds and the writings."--BOOK JACKET.

Humorous "salt-encrusted" sea stories of life aboard an imaginative carrier, Okinawa, by a U.S. Navy (Ret.) Rear Admiral.

The world of ancients is a fantasy epic of the untold realm and in this world alliance is a key to unravel the prophecies written on the skull. Young Griffin rider Akello was elected as an envoy of Alaoka to put a full stop to the long-running chaos and vengeance spread across the borders of Alaoka. The Quest on his shoulder was Himalayan but he was not alone. On his adventure, envoys from different landscapes with their mythical beasts joined Akello in establishing the alliance between Alaoka, Beku-neu, Draguva, and Yuvalle. The saga of these cosmopolitans along with the rugged captain of the Giant Kallan ship was filled with action, romance, comradeship and twists bounded with war strategies.

In this bestselling new book, his first in seventeen years, Robert M. Pirsig, author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, takes us on a poignant and passionate journey as mysterious and compelling as his first life-changing work. Instead of a motorcycle, a sailboat carries his philosopher-narrator Phaedrus down the Hudson River as winter closes in. Along the way he picks up a most unlikely traveling companion: a woman named Lila who in her desperate sexuality, hostility, and oncoming madness threatens to disrupt his life. In Lila Robert M. Pirsig has crafted a unique work of adventure and ideas that examines the essential issues of the nineties as his previous classic did the seventies.