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Captains of the Sands

Author : Jorge Amado
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 014310635X
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book Captains of the Sands written by Jorge Amado and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-06-25 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Brazilian Lord of the Flies, about a group of boys who live by their wits and daring in the slums of Bahia A Penguin Classics They call themselves “Captains of the Sands,” a gang of orphans and runaways who live by their wits and daring in the torrid slums and sleazy back alleys of Bahia. Led by fifteen-year-old “Bullet,” the band—including a crafty liar named “Legless,” the intellectual “Professor,” and the sexually precocious “Cat”—pulls off heists and escapades against the right and privileged of Brazil. But when a public outcry demands the capture of the “little criminals,” the fate of these children becomes a poignant, intensely moving drama of love and freedom in a shackled land. Captains of the Sands captures the rich culture, vivid emotions, and wild landscape of Bahia with penetrating authenticity and brilliantly displays the genius of Brazil’s most acclaimed author. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Captains of the Sands

Author : Jorge Amado
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101602910
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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The Double Death of Quincas Water-Bray

Author : Jorge Amado
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101603542
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book The Double Death of Quincas Water-Bray written by Jorge Amado and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-08-28 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Penguin Classic Widely considered the greatest work by the foremost Brazilian author of the twentieth century, The Double Death of Quincas Water-Bray comes to Penguin Classics in a new translation by the dean of Portuguese-language translators, Gregory Rabassa. It tells the story of Joaquim Soares da Cunha, who drops dead after he abandons his life of upstanding citizenship to assume the identity of Quincas Water-Bray, a “champion drunk” and bum who is whisked along on a postmortem journey that climaxes in his loss at sea. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Captain of the Sands

Author : Keith Dewhurst
Publisher : Viking Adult
ISBN 13 : 9780670203512
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Captain of the Sands written by Keith Dewhurst and published by Viking Adult. This book was released on 1981 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Jorge Amado

Author : Keith H. Brower
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815339328
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (393 download)

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Download or read book Jorge Amado written by Keith H. Brower and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Captain of the Sands

Author : Keith Dewhurst
Publisher : Jonathan Cape
ISBN 13 : 9780224016193
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book Captain of the Sands written by Keith Dewhurst and published by Jonathan Cape. This book was released on 1982-01-01 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Violent Land

Author : Jorge Amado
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143106376
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book The Violent Land written by Jorge Amado and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-06-25 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the great Brazilian author, an exotic tale of greed, madness, and a dispute between two powerful families over land on the cocoa-rich coast of Bahia A Penguin Classic The siren song of the lush, cocoa-growing forests of Bahia lures them all—the adventurers, the assassins, the gamblers, the brave and beautiful women. It is not a gentle song, but a song of greed, madness, and blood. It is a song that promises riches untold, or death for the price of a swig of rum . . . a song most cannot resist—until it is too late—not Margot, the golden blond prostitute who comes for love; not Cabral, the unscrupulous lawyer who works for one of the Cacao “colonels”; and not Juca, whose ruthless quest to reap the jungle’s harvest plants the seeds of his own destruction. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

The Discovery of America by the Turks

Author : Jorge Amado
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101603577
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book The Discovery of America by the Turks written by Jorge Amado and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-08-28 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Penguin Classic Published here for the first time in English in a brilliant translation by the peerless Gregory Rabassa, The Discovery of America by the Turks is a whimsical Brazilian take on The Taming of the Shrew that will remind readers why Jorge Amado is to Portuguese-American literature what Jorge Luis Borges is to Spanish-American literature. It follows the adventures of two Arab immigrants—“Turks,” as Brazilians call them—who arrive in the rough Brazilian frontier in 1903 and become involved in a merchant's farcical attempt to marry off his shrew of a daughter. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Skeletons on the Zahara

Author : Dean King
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0759509697
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (595 download)

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Download or read book Skeletons on the Zahara written by Dean King and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2004-02-16 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: b.A masterpiece of historical adventure, ISkeletons on the Zahara The western Sahara is a baking hot and desolate place, home only to nomads and their camels, and to locusts, snails and thorny scrub -- and its barren and ever-changing coastline has baffled sailors for centuries. In August 1815, the US brig Commerce was dashed against Cape Bojador and lost, although through bravery and quick thinking the ship's captain, James Riley, managed to lead all of his crew to safety. What followed was an extraordinary and desperate battle for survival in the face of human hostility, starvation, dehydration, death and despair. Captured, robbed and enslaved, the sailors were dragged and driven through the desert by their new owners, who neither spoke their language nor cared for their plight. Reduced to drinking urine, flayed by the sun, crippled by walking miles across burning stones and sand and losing over half of their body weights, the sailors struggled to hold onto both their humanity and their sanity. To reach safety, they would have to overcome not only the desert but also the greed and anger of those who would keep them in captivity. From the cold waters of the Atlantic to the searing Saharan sands, from the heart of the desert to the heart of man, Skeletons on the Zahara is a spectacular odyssey through the extremes and a gripping account of courage, brotherhood, and survival.

Backlands

Author : Euclides da Cunha
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101460857
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Backlands written by Euclides da Cunha and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-05-25 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An important new translation of a fundamental work of Brazilian literature Written by a former army lieutenant, civil engineer, and journalist, Backlands is Euclides da Cunha's vivid and poignant portrayal of Brazil's infamous War of Canudos. The deadliest civil war in Brazilian history, the conflict during the 1890s was between the government and the village of Canudos in the northeastern state of Bahia, which had been settled by 30,000 followers of the religious zealot Antonio Conselheiro. Far from just an objective retelling, da Cunha's story shows both the significance of this event and the complexities of Brazilian society. Published here in a new translation by Elizabeth Lowe, and featuring an introduction by one of the foremost scholars of Latin America, this is sure to remain one of the best chronicles of war ever penned.

Captains Courageous

Author : Rudyard Kipling
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Captains Courageous written by Rudyard Kipling and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers an amply illustrated edition of Kipling's 1897 novel.

Dick Sand, A Captain at Fifteen

Author : Jules Verne
Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3849645800
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (496 download)

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Download or read book Dick Sand, A Captain at Fifteen written by Jules Verne and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on 2014-10-06 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a story of the extraordinary adventures that befell Joshua Barney during his earliest years at sea, at the time of the Revolutionary war. He shipped as second mate on the brig "Cormorant," to sail from Baltimore to the Mediterranean. The first mate left the ship at Norfolk: the captain died; and Barney, only fifteen years old, was master of the ship and responsible for the safe delivery of her cargo at Nice. Everything in the book is true, though written in the form of fiction.

Dick Sand

Author : Jules Verne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Dick Sand written by Jules Verne and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dick Sand: Or, A Captain at Fifteen by Jules Verne, first published in 1878, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.

Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands

Author : Jorge Amado
Publisher : New York : Knopf
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands written by Jorge Amado and published by New York : Knopf. This book was released on 1969 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dona Flor's husband may have been a gambler and womanizer, but when he dies all she remembers is his lovemaking. A new marriage does not bring the erotic love she longs for. So when her first husband appears naked at the foot of her bed, eager to reclaim his conjugal rights, it is hard to resist.

The Lost Story of the William and Mary

Author : Gill Hoffs
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473858267
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)

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Download or read book The Lost Story of the William and Mary written by Gill Hoffs and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2016-10-31 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The emigrant ship William and Mary departed from Liverpool with 208 British, Irish, and Dutch emigrants in early 1853. Captained by young American Timothy Stinson, the vessel was sailing for New Orleans when the ship wrecked in the Bahamas in mysterious circumstances. Instead of grounding the ship on a nearby shore or building rafts for the passengers, Stinson and the majority of his crew sneaked away in lifeboats murdering at least two of the emigrants with a hatchet as they did so and reported the ship sunk with all on board lost. But the passengers kept the ship afloat and two days later were rescued by heroic wreckers as the ship went down. Now, over 160 years on, the tale of the two murdered in Bahamian waters and the hundreds who escaped thanks to kindly wreckers can finally be told. Stinson is no longer getting away with murder.

The Shattered Glass

Author : Jean Ariss
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Shattered Glass written by Jean Ariss and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Story of a woman's intense love for a confirmed alcoholic.

Ironclad Captains of the Civil War

Author : Myron J. Smith, Jr.
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476631298
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Ironclad Captains of the Civil War written by Myron J. Smith, Jr. and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-10-25 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1861 to 1865, the American Civil War saw numerous technological innovations in warfare--chief among them was the ironclad warship. Based on the Official Records, biographical works, ship and operations histories, newspapers and other sources, this book chronicles the lives of 158 ironclad captains, North and South, who were charged with outfitting and commanding these then-revolutionary vessels in combat. Each biography includes (where known) birth and death information, pre- and post-war career, and details about ships served upon or commanded.