The Brass Cane

The Brass Cane
Author: Lori Ocker
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2010-05-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1450086160

Your life can change in a heartbeat, the blink of an eye. Great losses, great gains, all without plan or design. How could you guess that a chance accident in the park could change so many lives forever? The death of one elderly man had the ripple effect to profoundly impact the community in which a widow, Mary, and her young family live. Mourning the death of her murdered husband, Mary struggles to provide for her rapidly growing children. Son Allen, with high hopes of being a major league pitcher, found his dream dashed in an instant. Be part of this family as they experience the triumphs and tragedies of life and discover that dreams can, in fact, come true.

Make Your Own Walking Sticks

Make Your Own Walking Sticks
Author: Charles Self
Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2007-07-01
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1607658984

Features step-by-step projects for a variety of sticks, staffs and canes. Includes a history of walking sticks, reasons to make your own, full-color gallery, and information on how to market your work. Carvers, turners and woodworkers of all skill levels will discover 15 fun projects and patterns for crafting canes. Includes 25 original carving patterns from renowned artist Lora S. Irish.

Cane Topper Woodcarving

Cane Topper Woodcarving
Author: Lora S. Irish
Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing
Total Pages: 546
Release: 2018-12-11
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1607655349

Expert advice on carving expressive cane toppers from basswood blocks. 4 detailed step-by-step tutorials for creating expressive canes. 6 joinery methods for strong and durable joints between cane topper and staff. How to source and prepare staffs from found wood. Tips for adding joint covers, hand grips, and custom features. Guide to basic cane construction techniques.

Cane Fighting

Cane Fighting
Author: Sammy Franco
Publisher: Contemporary Fighting Arts, LLC
Total Pages: 116
Release: 2016-03-16
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN:

Cane Fighting Techniques For The Real World! Cane Fighting: The Authoritative Guide to Using the Cane or Walking Stick for Self-Defense is a no nonsense book written for anyone who wants to learn how to use the cane or walking stick as a fighting weapon for real-world self-defense. The Ultimate Self-Defense Weapon for Everyone! While seemingly inconspicuous, the cane or walking stick is both a practical and devastating weapon for all ages, young and old, regardless of size or strength or experience and skill level. Most importantly, you don’t need martial arts training to master this incredible self-defense weapon. One Book For All Kinds of Fighting Sticks With over 200 photographs and step-by-step instructions, Cane Fighting is the authoritative resource for mastering the following weapons: The Hooked Wooden Cane, The Modern Tactical Combat Cane, Walking Sticks of all types, The Irish Fighting Shillelagh, and The Bo Staff Powerful Cane Fighting Techniques At Your Fingertips Cane Fighting is devoid of tricky or flashy cane fighting moves that can get you injured or possibly killed when defending against a determined attacker. Instead, it arms you with practical and powerful cane fighting techniques that actually work in the chaos of real-life street assaults. In fact, the skills and techniques found in these pages are surprisingly simple and easy to apply. Cane Fighting Covers These Essential Topics: How to choose the right tactical cane for your needs, advantages of the combat cane, weapon requirements, grips, essential dos and don’ts, weapon terminology, high and low concealment stances, strikes, power swings, preparing for impact shock, first strike techniques, combinations, striking angles, cane chokes, self-defense stages, blocks, deflections, footwork skills, cane fighting attributes, target areas, medical implications of cane strikes, use-of-force concerns, workout routines, conditioning exercises, and much more! Whether you are a beginner or advanced practitioner, student or instructor, Cane Fighting: The Authoritative Guide to Using the Cane or Walking Stick for Self-Defense teaches you powerful street-oriented techniques and proven fighting methods to get you home alive and in one piece.

A Visual History of Walking Sticks and Canes

A Visual History of Walking Sticks and Canes
Author: Anthony Moss
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Total Pages: 600
Release: 2021-04-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9781538144954

This book aims to bring to life a picture of a bygone era, a time when 'the cane was king', simulating an age which the only film, theatre, literature and imagination can recreate. In this way, I wish to educate further the student, collector, historian and researcher in how the cane played such an important role in fashion.

Cane River

Cane River
Author: Lalita Tademy
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2001-04-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0759522421

A New York Times bestseller and Oprah's Book Club Pick-the unique and deeply moving saga of four generations of African-American women whose journey from slavery to freedom begins on a Creole plantation in Louisiana. Beginning with her great-great-great-great grandmother, a slave owned by a Creole family, Lalita Tademy chronicles four generations of strong, determined black women as they battle injustice to unite their family and forge success on their own terms. They are women whose lives begin in slavery, who weather the Civil War, and who grapple with contradictions of emancipation, Jim Crow, and the pre-Civil Rights South. As she peels back layers of racial and cultural attitudes, Tademy paints a remarkable picture of rural Louisiana and the resilient spirit of one unforgettable family. There is Elisabeth, who bears both a proud legacy and the yoke of bondage... her youngest daughter, Suzette, who is the first to discover the promise-and heartbreak-of freedom... Suzette's strong-willed daughter Philomene, who uses a determination born of tragedy to reunite her family and gain unheard-of economic independence... and Emily, Philomene's spirited daughter, who fights to secure her children's just due and preserve their dignity and future. Meticulously researched and beautifully written, Cane River presents a slice of American history never before seen in such piercing and personal detail.

Stickmaking

Stickmaking
Author: Leo Gowan
Publisher: Crowood Press (UK)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1997
Genre: Bone carving
ISBN: 9781861260987

Comparatively easily mastered and needing few expensive tools or materials, stickmaking is an increasingly popular craft. This book examines tools and techniques; different types of sticks; materials both traditional and new; the microwave in hornwork; fancy sticks and miniature sticks; and jointing and finishing. Highly illustrated with colour photographs and line drawings Stickmaking is a fully comprehensive guide to this fascinating craft.

The Magic Walking Stick

The Magic Walking Stick
Author: John Buchan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2019-07-14
Genre:
ISBN: 9781080537297

The Magic Walking Stick is a children's short story by John Buchan. It tells the story of a teenage boy who buys a walking stick from a beggar - a magic walking stick that allows the boy to visit many places at his command...

Cane

Cane
Author: Jean Toomer
Publisher: Dover Publications
Total Pages: 147
Release: 2019-01-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0486829251

"[Cane] has been reverberating in me to an astonishing degree. I love it passionately; could not possibly exit without it." — Alice Walker "A breakthrough in prose and poetical writing …. This book should be on all readers' and writers' desks and in their minds." — Maya Angelou Hailed by critics for its literary experimentation and vivid portrayal of African-American characters and culture, Cane represents one of the earliest expressions of the Harlem Renaissance. Combining poetry, drama, and storytelling, it contrasts life in an African-American community in the rural South with that of the urban North. Author Jean Toomer (1894–1967) drew upon his experiences as a teacher in rural Georgia to create a variety of Southern psychological realism that ranks alongside the best works of William Faulkner. The book's three-part structure, ranging from South to North and back again, is united by its focus on the lives of African-American men and women in a world of bigotry, violence, passion, and tenderness.