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Book Synopsis Henderson's Spear by : Ronald Wright
Download or read book Henderson's Spear written by Ronald Wright and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2014-05-20 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A masterly epic that weaves a contemporary search for a missing father with a vivid story from the heyday of the British Empire. Liv, a Canadian filmmaker, is writing from a Tahitian jail, piecing together her troubled past and her family's buried history for the unknown daughter she gave up at birth. The search for her own father, a pilot missing since the Korean War, has brought her to the South Seas and landed her behind bars on a trumped-up murder charge. In the stillness of her cell, Liv ponders the secret journal of her ancestor Frank Henderson, who came to these same waters a century before on an extraordinary three-year voyage with Queen Victoria's grandsons--Prince George (later George V) and Prince Eddy, who would die young and disgraced, linked by the gutter press to the Ripper killings and many other scandals. Through unforgettable characters and a mesmerizing story, Henderson's Spear traces two tales of obsession, intrigue, and loss--from the 1890s and the 1990s. These stories reach around the world from Africa, England, and North America to converge with compelling effect in the Polynesian islands. With a deep understanding of the landscape and culture of the South Sea Islands, Ronald Wright's Henderson's Spear explores the patterns of history and the accidents of love.
Download or read book Hendersons Speer written by Ronald Wright and published by München : Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag. This book was released on 2004 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Henderson's Spear by : Ronald Wright
Download or read book Henderson's Spear written by Ronald Wright and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2002-08-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of Melville and Stevenson, a superb storyteller -- winner of the David Higham Prize for Fiction -- brings literary art of great range and beauty to a South Seas epic. Two tales of passion and intrigue, from the 1890s and the 1990s, reach around the world from Canada, England and West Africa to converge in the Polynesian islands. The story opens as a letter from Olivia, a Canadian filmmaker who writes from a Tahitian jail to the daughter she gave up for adoption at sixteen. Olivia's search for her own father, an airman missing since the Korean War, has brought her to the South Seas and landed her in prison on a trumped-up murder charge. The other main strand of the novel -- based on fact -- is told in the secret diaries of Frank to have been Jack the Ripper. Frank is driven to write down what he knows when he begins to suspect there are people who wish him out of the way. As she fights to get out of jail, Olivia recalls her own childhood in the English house where Henderson once lived. There, while packing up the family home after her mother's death, she finds Henderson's old papers and learns of links between herself and him that she had never known, links that explain her mother's behaviour and her father's disappearance. Written with a deep understanding of the landscape and culture of the South Sea islands, Henderson's Spear is at once a moving study of loss -- of a parent, a child, a past -- and an exploration of historical forces that nearly extinguished a people and still threaten us today. Ronald Wright's deft touch and luminous prose make this rich, powerful novel utterly compelling.
Book Synopsis Henderson's War Tax Guide by : Elias Heckman Henderson
Download or read book Henderson's War Tax Guide written by Elias Heckman Henderson and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Henderson's War Tax Guide, Act of October 3, 1917 by : Elias Heckman Henderson
Download or read book Henderson's War Tax Guide, Act of October 3, 1917 written by Elias Heckman Henderson and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Spear, Speir, Speer and Friends by : George Spear
Download or read book Spear, Speir, Speer and Friends written by George Spear and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A one-name study of persons with the surname Spear and its variations from 1611 in England to 1850 in the southern United States.
Book Synopsis History of Kansas State and People by : William Elsey Connelley
Download or read book History of Kansas State and People written by William Elsey Connelley and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Speer written by Martin Kitchen and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-28 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Sets the record straight on Albert Speer’s assertions of ignorance of the Final Solution and claims to being the ‘good Nazi.’”—Kirkus Reviews In his bestselling autobiography, Albert Speer, Minister of Armaments and chief architect of Nazi Germany, repeatedly insisted he knew nothing of the genocidal crimes of Hitler’s Third Reich. In this revealing new biography, author Martin Kitchen disputes Speer’s lifelong assertions of ignorance and innocence, portraying a far darker figure who was deeply implicated in the appalling crimes committed by the regime he served so well. Kitchen reconstructs Speer’s life with what we now know, including information from valuable new sources that have come to light only in recent years. The result is the first truly serious accounting of the man, his beliefs, and his actions during one of the darkest epochs in modern history, not only countering Speer’s claims of non-culpability but also disputing the commonly held misconception that it was his unique genius alone that kept the German military armed and fighting long after its defeat was inevitable. “A devastating portrait of an empty, narcissistic and compulsively ambitious personality.”—The Wall Street Journal “Kitchen’s exhaustively researched, detailed book nails, one by one, the lies of the man who provided a thick coat of whitewash to millions of old Nazis. Its fascinating account of how the moral degradation of the chaotic Nazi regime corrupted an entire nation is a timely warning for today.”—Daily Mail (“Book of the Month”) “[An] excellent new biography . . . Kitchen has taken a wrecking ball to Speer’s mendacious and meticulously created self-image. And about time, too.”—History Today
Book Synopsis The American Short-horn Herd Book by : Lewis Falley Allen
Download or read book The American Short-horn Herd Book written by Lewis Falley Allen and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 1248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Williamses and Hendersons by : Lewis Shore Brumfield
Download or read book The Williamses and Hendersons written by Lewis Shore Brumfield and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Williams (1669-1735) was born in Langollen, Wales and immigrated about 1700 to America and settled in Virginia. His descendants lived in Virginia and North Carolina.
Book Synopsis Friends Or Foes? by : Norman E. Saul
Download or read book Friends Or Foes? written by Norman E. Saul and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Friends or Foes? Norman Saul continues his monumental multivolume magnum opus on U.S.-Russian relations over the course of 200 years. This fourth volume provides the first comprehensive study in any language of an era that shaped the rest of the century and captures the major changes in relations between two nations on the verge of becoming dominant global powers. Among other things, Saul examines the rationale for America's failure to recognize the Soviet government through the early 1930s, analyzing the impact of the Red Scare and the roles of the State Department, Russian migrs, religious groups, and key individuals—like Charles Evans Hughes, Robert Kelley, Herbert Hoover, Boris Skvirsky, Olga Kameneva, and Maxim Litvinov—on the policy process. In addition, he recalls the American Relief Administration's gigantic effort to help Russian peasants and garners new material from American business records on concession arrangements and commerce and on Soviet responses during the first Five Year Plan. He also records travelers' impressions, cultural exchange, and the role of academia in each country—particularly the contribution of Russian émigré scholars to American education and the contributions of American journalists in Russia. Saul also reveals the tendency on both sides to preserve an atmosphere of secrecy, conducting business behind closed doors and rarely on paper. His prodigious research in the Hoover Presidential Library, the Franklin Roosevelt Library, and the Hoover Institution at Stanford University-incorporating overlooked Diplomat Post Records and featuring an interview with George Kennan on his diplomatic role—has yielded a wealth of new insights into what really happened during a period in the history of the relations between the two countries that remains mysterious and controversial. Breaking new ground in diplomatic, economic, social, and cultural history, Saul's book illuminates both the mutual fascination that briefly permitted peaceful coexistence (and eventual alliance) and the ideological battles that ultimately led to the Cold War.
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Book Synopsis A Digest of the Cases Decided in the Law Court of Appeals of the State of South-Carolina, from June Term, 1835, to December Term, 1854 by : James Conner
Download or read book A Digest of the Cases Decided in the Law Court of Appeals of the State of South-Carolina, from June Term, 1835, to December Term, 1854 written by James Conner and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Directory and Handbook by : Baptist Missionary Association of America
Download or read book Directory and Handbook written by Baptist Missionary Association of America and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Lineage Book of the Charter Members of the Daughters of the American Revolution by : Daughters of the American Revolution
Download or read book Lineage Book of the Charter Members of the Daughters of the American Revolution written by Daughters of the American Revolution and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Lineage Book by : Daughters of the American Revolution
Download or read book Lineage Book written by Daughters of the American Revolution and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes inclusive "Errata for the Linage book."
