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Out in the Midday Sun

Author : Margaret Shennan
Publisher : Monsoon Books
ISBN 13 : 9814625329
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (146 download)

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Download or read book Out in the Midday Sun written by Margaret Shennan and published by Monsoon Books. This book was released on 2015-11-01 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of British Malaya and Singapore, from the days of Victorian pioneers to the denouement of independence, is a momentous episode in Britain’s colonial past. Through memoirs, letters and interviews, Margaret Shennan chronicles its halcyon years, the two World Wars, economic depression and diaspora, revealing the attitudes of the diverse quixotic characters of this now quite vanished world. The British came as fortune-seekers to exploit Asian trade shipped through Penang and Singapore. They found a mature Asian culture in a land of palm-fringed shores and primeval jungle. Like modern Romans, they built townships, defences, communications and hill stations, they spurred a rivalry between the fledgling commercial centres of Singapore, Penang and Kuala Lumpur, and they superimposed their law and established an idiosyncratic political system. They also developed the tin and rubber of the Malay States, encouraging Chinese and Indian immigrants by their open-door policy. The outcome was a vibrant multi-racial society – the most cosmopolitan in the East.

Out In The Midday Sun

Author : Elspeth Huxley
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1446475816
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (464 download)

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Download or read book Out In The Midday Sun written by Elspeth Huxley and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-06-08 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elspeth Huxley captivated readers throughout the world with her 'memories of an African childhood' in THE FLAME TREES OF THIKA and THE MOTTLED LIZARD. In this final volume of her trilogy she tells the story of her adult life in Africa, in which the vigorously evoked personalities - from the pioneer Lord Delamere and Baroness Blixen to Jomo Kenyatta - blend with her supurb description of the social, cultural and political upheavals of the time. 'An accomplished story-teller, she weaves anecdotes, character sketches, political history together without losing her thread or the readers momentum. ' SUNDAY TIMES 'She evokes it all lovingly but astringently, especially the glittering, often scandelous life of the young aristocrats who lived in Happy Valley. ' DAILY EXPRESS

Two Weeks in the Midday Sun

Author : Roger Ebert
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022631443X
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Two Weeks in the Midday Sun written by Roger Ebert and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-04-06 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for Two Weeks in the Midday Sun -- About the Author -- Title Page -- Foreword by Martin Scorsese -- Dedication -- Two Weeks in the Midday Sun: A Cannes Notebook -- Postscript, 1997: Scorsese Goes to Dinner

The Sun at Midday: Tales of a Mediterranean Family

Author : Gini Alhadeff
Publisher : Odyssey Editions
ISBN 13 : 1623730392
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (237 download)

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Download or read book The Sun at Midday: Tales of a Mediterranean Family written by Gini Alhadeff and published by Odyssey Editions. This book was released on 2016-06-30 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This astonishing memoir is the story of a family who always felt slightly foreign in every country and developed a chameleon-like ability to adapt to their surroundings. Gini Alhadeff was born in Alexandria, Egypt, and grew up in Cairo, Khartoum, Florence, and Tokyo. With a vivid gift for narrative, Alhadeff evokes the languid Alexandria of the early decades of this century (where her mother’s family made its fortune in cotton) and some of its beguiling honorary citizens: a violet-eyed aunt who refused to have new slipcovers made for her sofa so President Nasser would find the old ones when her house was impounded; a cousin who was taught the limits of reason by Wittgenstein at Cambridge and became a monsignor; a gynecologist uncle interned at Auschwitz and then Buchenwald, who lived to tell his tale with stark unsentimentality. With a keen sense for both the comic and the tragic, Alhadeff sizes up what is left of the family fortune: a tendency to live beyond one’s means, the stories and legends that survive the rise and fall of families, and the present as a paradise for those who, having lost all, have nothing to lose.

Out in the Midday Sun

Author : Sheridan Morley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Out in the Midday Sun written by Sheridan Morley and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Who Goes Out in the Midday Sun?

Author : Benedict Allen
Publisher : Viking Adult
ISBN 13 : 9780670810321
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Who Goes Out in the Midday Sun? written by Benedict Allen and published by Viking Adult. This book was released on 1986 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Last Thousand Days of the British Empire

Author : Peter Clarke
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1596917423
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (969 download)

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Download or read book The Last Thousand Days of the British Empire written by Peter Clarke and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping, brilliantly vivid history of the sudden end of the British empire and the moment when America became a world superpower. "I have not become the King's First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire." Winston Churchill's famous statement in November 1942, just as the tide of the Second World War was beginning to turn, pugnaciously affirmed his loyalty to the world-wide institution that he had served for most of his life. Britain fought and sacrificed on a worldwide scale to defeat Hitler and his allies-and won. Yet less than five years after Churchill's defiant speech, the British Empire effectively ended with Indian Independence in August 1947 and the end of the British Mandate in Palestine in May 1948. As the sun set on Britain's Empire, the age of America as world superpower dawned. How did this rapid change of fortune come about? Peter Clarke's book is the first to analyze the abrupt transition from Rule Britannia to Pax Americana. His swiftly paced narrative makes superb use of letters and diaries to provide vivid portraits of the figures around whom history pivoted: Churchill, Gandhi, Roosevelt, Stalin, Truman, and a host of lesser-known figures though whom Clarke brilliantly shows the human dimension of epochal events. The Last Thousand Days of the British Empire is a captivating work of popular history that shows how the events that followed the war reshaped the world as profoundly as the conflict itself.

Out in the Midday Sun

Author : Monica Campbell- Martin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (499 download)

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Download or read book Out in the Midday Sun written by Monica Campbell- Martin and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sun of Suns

Author : Karl Schroeder
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1429938056
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Sun of Suns written by Karl Schroeder and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2007-07-31 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Karl Schroeder's sci-fi thriller, Hayden Griffin has come to the city of Rush with one thing in mind: to take murderous revenge for his parents' deaths. It is the distant future. The world known as Virga is a fullerene balloon three thousand kilometers in diameter, filled with air, water, and aimlessly floating chunks of rock. The humans who live in this vast environment must build their own fusion suns and "towns" that are in the shape of enormous wood and rope wheels that are spun for gravity. Young, fit, bitter, and friendless, Hayden Griffin is a very dangerous man. He's come to the city of Rush in the nation of Slipstream with one thing in mind: to take murderous revenge for the deaths of his parents six years ago. His target is Admiral Chaison Fanning, head of the fleet of Slipstream, which conquered Hayden's nation of Aerie years ago. And the fact that Hayden's spent his adolescence living with pirates doesn't bode well for Fanning's chances . . . At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

In the Midday Sun

Author : Guy Bellamy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781909609365
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book In the Midday Sun written by Guy Bellamy and published by . This book was released on 2013-04-27 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Natural Navigator

Author : Tristan Gooley
Publisher : The Experiment
ISBN 13 : 1615191550
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (151 download)

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Download or read book The Natural Navigator written by Tristan Gooley and published by The Experiment. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Secret World of Weather and The Lost Art of Reading Nature’s Signs, learn to tap into nature and notice the hidden clues all around you Before GPS, before the compass, and even before cartography, humankind was navigating. Now this singular guide helps us rediscover what our ancestors long understood—that a windswept tree, the depth of a puddle, or a trill of birdsong can help us find our way, if we know what to look and listen for. Adventurer and navigation expert Tristan Gooley unlocks the directional clues hidden in the sun, moon, stars, clouds, weather patterns, lengthening shadows, changing tides, plant growth, and the habits of wildlife. Rich with navigational anecdotes collected across ages, continents, and cultures, The Natural Navigator will help keep you on course and open your eyes to the wonders, large and small, of the natural world.

Beyond Tula

Author : Andrei Egunov-Nikolev
Publisher : Academic Studies PRess
ISBN 13 : 1644690969
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (446 download)

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Download or read book Beyond Tula written by Andrei Egunov-Nikolev and published by Academic Studies PRess. This book was released on 2019-06-03 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andrei Egunov-Nikolev’s Beyond Tula is an uproarious romp through the earnestly boring and unintentionally campy world of early Soviet “production” prose, with its celebration of robust workers heroically building socialism. Combining burlesque absurdism and lofty references to classical and Russian High Modernist literature with a rather tongue-in-cheek plot about the struggles of an industrializing rural proletariat, this “Soviet pastoral” actually appeared in the official press in 1931 (though it was quickly removed from circulation). As a renegade classics scholar, Egunov was aware of the expressive potential latent in so-called “light genres”—Beyond Tula is a modernist pastoral jaunt that leaves the reader with plenty to ponder.

The Dark of the Sun

Author : Wilbur Smith
Publisher : Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1785765906
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (857 download)

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Download or read book The Dark of the Sun written by Wilbur Smith and published by Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An action-packed thriller by global sensation, Wilbur Smith. 'A master storyteller' - Sunday Times 'Wilbur Smith is one of those benchmarks against whom others are compared' - The Times 'No one does adventure quite like Smith' - Daily Mirror The highest prize comes at the highest price... Captain Bruce Curry has a simple enough mission: to lead his mercenary soldiers to rescue a town cut off by rebel fighting in the Belgian Congo. But events quickly take a turn for the worse as it becomes clear that the town's diamond supplies are the real focus of the mission. And where there is treasure, danger always seems to follow. It isn't long before Curry finds something even more valuable than diamonds in the town. Something he'll do anything to protect. And soon he discovers that his most deadly enemies might be those closest to him . . .

Staying Out of the Midday Sun

Author : Kate A. Hardy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781783016808
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (168 download)

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Download or read book Staying Out of the Midday Sun written by Kate A. Hardy and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four Londoners, whose lives are already entwined, wittingly and otherwise, are about to meet again in an obscure seaside town in southern France ... Holly and Peter, after a meeting of souls in book one, have installed themselves in Castallen-sur-Mer with their son Gabriel, no plan, a violin and a small stash of money, which is about to disappear ... Sandra has left Spitalfields, packed her manuscripts, her life and her best friend into a transit van, and is driving towards a small stone house on a hill outside Castallen, where Cameron will be waiting for her. Jasper, after an unplanned road trip and an episode in a Montpellier hotel room that he would rather forget, has arrived in his graffiti-sprayed VW camper van with his chef's knives, good references and a lingering desire for Darren. Set in France, London and Las Vegas, Staying out of the midday sun, is the second part of a trilogy spanning twenty years, in which the heroes are challenged with the everyday: love, babies, gt̋e cleaning, a new language, aging parents - as well as shoot-outs, Las Vegas weddings, bureaucracy, duck gizzard salad, and possibly the end of the world.

In the Heat of the Midday Sun

Author : Steven Scragg
Publisher : Pitch Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781801500975
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book In the Heat of the Midday Sun written by Steven Scragg and published by Pitch Publishing. This book was released on 2022-05-09 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Firefly

Author : Janette Jenkins
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1609451538
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Firefly written by Janette Jenkins and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a secluded hillside in Jamaica lies Firefly, Noël Coward's peaceful retreat. Here, between sundowners and sunsets, brandies and cigarettes, the seventy-year-old Coward whiles away his days -- a comforting, frustrating pattern of unwanted breakfasts, reluctant walks, graceless dips in the pool -- in the company of his manservant Patrice. Set over a series of summer days in the early 1970s, Firefly flits through Coward's dreams and memories, his successes and regrets, against a sultry, seductive backdrop of blue skies and glistening water. Colorful and contemplative, this is a moving portrait of old age and friendship, and a poignant appraisal of a life well lived.

The Meursault Investigation

Author : Kamel Daoud
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1590517520
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book The Meursault Investigation written by Kamel Daoud and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book of 2015 “A tour-de-force reimagining of Camus’s The Stranger, from the point of view of the mute Arab victims.” —The New Yorker He was the brother of “the Arab” killed by the infamous Meursault, the antihero of Camus’s classic novel. Seventy years after that event, Harun, who has lived since childhood in the shadow of his sibling’s memory, refuses to let him remain anonymous: he gives his brother a story and a name—Musa—and describes the events that led to Musa’s casual murder on a dazzlingly sunny beach. In a bar in Oran, night after night, he ruminates on his solitude, on his broken heart, on his anger with men desperate for a god, and on his disarray when faced with a country that has so disappointed him. A stranger among his own people, he wants to be granted, finally, the right to die. The Stranger is of course central to Daoud’s story, in which he both endorses and criticizes one of the most famous novels in the world. A worthy complement to its great predecessor, The Meursault Investigation is not only a profound meditation on Arab identity and the disastrous effects of colonialism in Algeria, but also a stunning work of literature in its own right, told in a unique and affecting voice.