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Book Synopsis In a Village Far from Home by : Catherine Palmer Finerty
Download or read book In a Village Far from Home written by Catherine Palmer Finerty and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do most career women do after a successful run on Madison Avenue? Catherine Finerty watched her friends settle into the country-club life. She opted instead for Mexico. When the 60-year-old widow loaded up her car and headed south, what she found at the end of the road was far from what she expected. Finerty settled into a comfortable house just outside of Guadalajara and, although not a Catholic, she soon immersed herself in Franciscan volunteer work. It wasn't long before she found herself visiting small settlements hidden in the tropical mountains of western Mexico, and it was in Jesœs Mar’aÑso isolated that one could only get there by mule or small planeÑthat she found her new calling: the village nurse. With its bugs and heat, no phones or running water, the tiny town was hardly a place to enjoy one's retirement years, but Finerty was quickly charmed by the community of Cora Indians and mestizos. Armed with modest supplies, a couple of textbooks, and common sense, she found herself delivering first aid, advising on public health, and administering injections. And in a place where people still believed in the power of shamans, providing health care sometimes required giving in to the magical belief that a hypodermic needle could cure anything. Finerty's account of her eight years in Jesœs Mar’a is both a compelling story of nursing under adverse conditions and a loving portrait of a people and their ways. She shares the joys and sorrows of this isolated world: religious festivals and rites of passage; the tragedy of illness and death in a place where people still rely on one another as much as medicine; a flash flood that causes such havoc that even less-than-pious village men attend Mass daily. And she introduces a cast of characters not unlike those in a novel: Padre Domingo and his airborne medical practice; the local bishop, who frowns on Finerty's slacks; Chela, a mestiza from whom she rents her modest two-room house (complete with scorpions); and the young Cora Indian woman Chuy, from whom she gains insight into her new neighbors. Blending memoir and travel writing, In a Village Far from Home takes readers deep into the Sierra Madre to reveal its true treasure: the soul of a people.
Download or read book Far from Home written by Paul Boyce and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2020-12-09 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On April 21st 1701, Yazama Jiutarô, a young Japanese samurai is devastated when he and his fellow warriors are informed of the ritual suicide of their master in punishment for a severe offence. The warriors are now ronin – masterless and on the run – but they vow vengeance on the court official whom they blame, promising to return in force at the New Year, December 31st 1702. They know that their revenge, no matter how justified, will only lead to their own deaths by the same ritual suicide. The band separates and scatters and Jiutarô heads south. As he crosses the sea from the main island of Honshu to that of Kyushu, his boat is hit by a tempest. When the storm abates he finds himself in a world populated by races and species of peoples familiar, strange and terrifying. Believing himself to be in one of the hells he has heard of in myths, theatre and stories, he knows he has to find a way back to the home he is far away from.
Download or read book Far from Home written by Joy Bounds and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This story which I must tell of war and great courage and treachery, is one of loss. Though France may celebrate her achievements for centuries to come, it is the story of how I lost my daughter, Jehanne, whom people here call Jeanne d’Arc, and the peace of my family. Joan of Arc remains one of history’s most puzzling figures. How, in the fifteenth century, could a peasant girl become the head of the French army and have such success against the English occupiers? Her story ends tragically – aged 19 she is burnt at the stake after a sham trial. Far From Home is Joan of Arc’s story told by her mother, Zabillet. This brilliant, vivid historical novel, published in the 600th anniversary year of Joan of Arc’s birth, brings new insight into what it is like to be the mother of a hero. Zabillet knows nothing of her daughter’s extraordinary future as she and her husband, Jacques, struggle to raise their children. A family of peasants, they work the land for their feudal lords and a meagre return for themselves. The English and French are engaged in a senseless war causing destruction to the land and traditional village life. But Jehanne is fiercely independent and refuses to settle down like all the other village girls. Zabillet is shocked and frightened beyond measure when Jehanne leaves home and travels to the uncrowned King of France hundreds of miles away. She struggles to believe that it could be a daughter of hers who leads the French army in amazing victories against the English. And when things go wrong, she has to stand by helplessly as Jehanne is imprisoned by the English and sentenced to death.Zabillet falls into misfortune and despair. The war drags on and for a while her family falls apart. But eventually Jehanne’s vision of a united France is realised. As an old woman, Zabillet seeks justice for her daughter and restores her reputation.
Book Synopsis Houses Far From Home by : Margaret Rodman Critchlow
Download or read book Houses Far From Home written by Margaret Rodman Critchlow and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2001-03-01 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The houses far from home featured in this book are located in Vanuatu, a chain of islands between Fiji and Australia in the southwest Pacific. Once known as the Anglo-French Condominium of the New Hebrides, the islands were jointly administered by the British and French from 1906 to 1980. In this innovative and revealing study of a unique colonial project, Margaret Rodman tells the stories of these houses, exploring the profound differences of perspective, experience, and power that domestic spaces reveal and offering a novel look at the history of British colonialism in the Pacific. Each chapter has at its heart a house where readers can explore dimensions of race, gender, and power that domestic spaces reveal. Moving across time, between different islands and actors, between oral memories and archival documents, Margaret Rodman provides a richly documented "multi-sited ethnography" of the social history of the New Hebrides.
Book Synopsis So Far from Home by : Ann Knope & Krystyna Stachowicz Farley
Download or read book So Far from Home written by Ann Knope & Krystyna Stachowicz Farley and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A first hand account of a Polish family's experience during the deconstruction of Poland by Hitler and Stalin as seen through the eyes of a feisty 14 year old girl, Krystyna Stachowicz. Krystyna is a living witness to the unraveling of the Second Polish Republic when they were left to face alone the Nazi and Communist threat to the free world, while the rest of the world looked the other way.
Book Synopsis Travels not far from home by : Aubin St. Helier
Download or read book Travels not far from home written by Aubin St. Helier and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Far From Home written by Sheila Newberry and published by Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.. This book was released on 2016-04-07 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fans of Katie Flynn and Sheila Jeffries, Far From Home Home is a heart-warming novel from the Queen of family saga, and author of Bicycles and Blackberries, Sheila Newberry. Ipswich, 1923. After an unlucky start in her first role as a nursemaid, sixteen-year-old Elin Odell looks forward to seeing in the New Year at home. Little does she know, her family is changing and she has no idea what lies ahead . . . Having been offered the role as governess for the Lamberts in Middlesex, Elin quickly accepts, leaving her own family behind in Ipswich. But when tragedy strikes at her new home, Elin steps up to hold everyone together at the expense of her own happiness. As the Lambert's troubles grow, so do her family's back home and she finds herself struggling to support them both. But with the help of her employer's charming brother, Mark, might she find her own happiness after all? 'Reading a Sheila Newberry book is like having dinner with your mother in her warm and cosy kitchen. You can feel the love and care put into every juicy morsel' - Diane Allen, bestselling author of For the Sake of Her Family. 'I have long been a fan of Sheila Newberry's novels. I love their wonderful warmth and charm.' Maureen Lee, bestselling author of The Seven Streets of Liverpool. Previously published as The Little Train Home
Download or read book Far from Home written by Miranda Acland and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2024-05-24 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “With Far from Home Miranda has come up with a gripping page turner of an adventure” – Bear Grylls “An assured and pacy debut” – Philip Blackwell, Ultimate Library Far from Home is a story about identity, motherlessness and loss. Three young friends, Joe, Alex and Emma, facing the challenge of their early 20s with changing relationships and unsolved mysteries from the past. A struggle to find the truth whatever it takes. When a boy crashes a bike on a mountain road in Nepal and a girl in London starts investigating what really happened to her mother all those years ago the truth starts to reveal itself in a dangerous adventure that takes us from Devon to London, across Central Asia, India and Nepal. Can their friendship survive? Can THEY survive? Where does the truth actually lie?
Book Synopsis 'Far, Far from Home' by : Richard Wright Simpson
Download or read book 'Far, Far from Home' written by Richard Wright Simpson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1994-07-21 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These compelling letters of two young enlisted men coming of age in the midst of war read like a good historical novel, complete with plot, character development, suspense, tragedy, and even more than a little romance, offering both a vivid picture of war at the battlefront and the texture ofthe home life of a Southern family during the Civil War.
Book Synopsis Far from Home by : Lillian Schlissel
Download or read book Far from Home written by Lillian Schlissel and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2002-09-01 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lillian Schlissel is a professor emerita of English and American Studies at Brooklyn CollegeCUNY. She is the author of numerous books, including The Western Women's Reader (with Catherine Lavender) and Black Frontiers: A History of African American Heroes in the Old West. Byrd Gibbens is a professor of English at the University of New Mexico, Valencia campus, and the author of This Is a Strange Country: Letters of a Western Family 1880-1906.Elizabeth Hampsten is a professor of English at the University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, and the author of Settlers' Children: Growing Up on the Great Plains.
Author :United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Disaster Recovery Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :294 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Far from Home by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Disaster Recovery
Download or read book Far from Home written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Disaster Recovery and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Far From Home written by Ellie Dean and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-01-19 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE SECOND CLIFFEHAVEN NOVEL BY SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR ELLIE DEAN It is 1940 and Staff Nurse Polly Brown has been granted a posting at Cliffehaven Memorial Hospital on the south coast to be near her badly injured husband, Adam. But her decision has meant that she has had to part with their beloved five-year-old daughter, Alice, who is travelling to safety in Canada. Polly's heart is torn in two as she says goodbye to Alice and heads to the Beach View boarding house in Cliffehaven, where she throws herself into her work. But as she confronts the fact that Adam may not survive his injuries, a telegram arrives at Beach View. The boat Alice was on has been torpedoed by a German U-boat... A fabulous, heart-warming Second World War novel in Ellie Dean's bestselling Cliffehaven series (previously called the Beach View Boarding House series).
Book Synopsis In a Village by the Sea by : Muon Van
Download or read book In a Village by the Sea written by Muon Van and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Moving from the wide world to the snugness of home and back out again, Village by the Sea tells the story of longing for the comforts of home"--
Download or read book China on the Move written by C. Cindy Fan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-12-04 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a multi-faceted, comprehensive and timely study of the millions of migrants in China, their experiences, and their impacts on the city and the countryside.
Book Synopsis Animism Or, Thought Currents of Primitive Peoples by : George William Gilmore
Download or read book Animism Or, Thought Currents of Primitive Peoples written by George William Gilmore and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Life Within Limits by : Michael Jackson
Download or read book Life Within Limits written by Michael Jackson and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-16 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of life satisfaction, happiness, and wellbeing in the first world and third world.
Book Synopsis Bulletin of the American Geographical Society of New York by :
Download or read book Bulletin of the American Geographical Society of New York written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
