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Author : Patrick HARPUR
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781906069162
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (691 download)
Download or read book The Stormy Petrel written by Patrick HARPUR and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mary Stewart
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN 13 : 1444715089
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (447 download)
Download or read book Stormy Petrel written by Mary Stewart and published by Hodder & Stoughton. This book was released on 2011-04-28 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: font size="+1"A gripping, nail-biting adventure set in Scotland, from the original queen of romantic suspense/font size font size="+1"Total heaven. I'd rather read her than most other authors' Harriet Evans/font size When Rose Fenemore takes a desperately needed holiday to an isolated cottage on the Scottish island of Moila she doesn't expect much in the way of adventure - just a few quiet weeks of writing, walking and bird-watching. And then, late one night during a wild storm, two young men appear in her doorway, seeking shelter from the wind and rain. Neither man is quite who he claims, and the question of who to trust will put Rose in grave peril . . . Praise for Mary Stewart: 'Mary Stewart is magic' New York Times 'One of the great British storytellers of the 20th century' Independent 'She set the benchmark for pace, suspense and romance - with a great dollop of escapism as the icing' Elizabeth Buchan 'Mary Stewart's writing is illuminated by her evident affection for the Western Scottish landscape . . . a rattling good yarn' Sunday Telegraph Reader reviews of Stormy Petrel: 'Mary Stewart! What an author! . . . The plot has enough twists and turns to keep you guessing, and the writing is a joy' 'She truly is one of the best romantic suspense writers, if not the best' 'Like consuming really rich chocolate you don't want it to end . . . She has the gift and has been sharing it with her readers generously. She still has magic' 'Mary Stewart specialises in novels which have you alternately holding your breath as to what might happen, or chuckling to yourself'
Author : P. Kevin MacKeown
Publisher : City University of HK Press
ISBN 13 : 9629373777
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (293 download)
Download or read book A Stormy Petrel: The Life and Times of John Pope Hennessy written by P. Kevin MacKeown and published by City University of HK Press. This book was released on 2019-11 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many words have been used to describe John Pope Hennessy, the former governor of Hong Kong. “Controversial” is perhaps the briefest way to outline his character. Yet we may be guilty of ascribing modern ideas to our understanding of characters of the past. An Irish Catholic raised during the age of empire and rising nationalism, a devout Tory and Disraeli follower, a believer in both the benefits of empire and a patron of local talent in his postings, it is easy to view Pope Hennessy as a man of contradictions. This volume traces Pope Hennessy’s history from his early beginnings in famine Ireland to his attempts to rise through the ranks in London. It goes on to cover his early postings to Labuan, West Africa, and, of course, Hong Kong, as well as his final days with his family. His actions and his personality are laid bare for readers fo form their own opinions of one of Hong Kong’s most enigmatic governors. “As to Sir J. P. Hennessy, the less said the better. His acts speak powerfully enough. The centre of his world was he himself. But with all the crowd of dark and bright powers that were wrestling within him, he could not help doing some good…” - Dr Ernst Johann Eitel, Missionary, sinologist, and John Pope Hennessy’s private secretary
Author : Bob Flood (Bird watcher)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Multimedia Identification Guide to North Atlantic Seabirds written by Bob Flood (Bird watcher) and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Bergman
Publisher : Sasquatch Books
ISBN 13 : 1632172674
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Every Penguin in the World written by Charles Bergman and published by Sasquatch Books. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A husband and wife travel the globe to see all 18 penguin species in this “celebration of these delightful birds and a call for their conversation” that offers “joy, love, and hope for penguins and the world” (Dr. Jane Goodall). Every Penguin in the World tracks author-photographer Charles Bergman’s forays around the southern hemisphere—from the Galapagos to South Africa to the Antarctic—in his quest to see all 18 species of penguins in the world. The sections of the book are organized around themes of adventure, science and conservation, and pilgrimage—in which stories of each penguin species will be touched upon. This endearing and thought-provoking book beautifully combines narrative and photography to capture the plight and the experience of penguins worldwide. The author and his wife developed a passion after seeing their first penguin species and have since spent years traveling far and wide to see each variety of penguin in its natural habitat. Both a love letter and a call to action, Every Penguin in the World is a joyful ode to adventure, conservation, and the beautiful penguins that capture our hearts. “It's SO good! [...] Chuck Bergman’s writing, photography, and vulnerability is so kick-ass!” —Brené Brown, New York Times–bestselling author of Dare to Lead
Author : Rob Thomas
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 147298580X
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (729 download)
Download or read book The Storm-petrels written by Rob Thomas and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-07-25 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first definitive work on the European Storm-petrel and its relatives, by one of the world's leading experts on the species. Imagine a bird as small as a sparrow, which lives most of its life on the open ocean yet can survive for decades. It walks on water, and migrates half way around the world, returning to remote islands to breed underground, often in the same rock crevice each year. At night it lays an enormous egg, feeding its chick until the nestling weighs more than both parents put together. It seems to have little fear of humans, but was itself feared by ancient seafarers. This might sound like the stuff of legend but is actually the description of a real creature, the storm-petrel: walker on water, global wanderer, climate sentinel and open-ocean survivor. In this beautifully written monograph, Rob Thomas explores the remarkable life of the European Storm-petrel, comparing and contrasting its behaviour and ecology across its range, and with the other storm-petrels of the world. We learn about their evolution, taxonomy, migration and adaptations to a life in the harsh open ocean, while also discovering what these enigmatic seabirds are revealing about what humans are doing to our planet. Illustrated with 150 photographs, and including the author's personal anecdotes and observations, Storm-petrels highlights some of the most exciting recent research findings and sets a trajectory for future discoveries.
Author : Mary Stewart
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1444715062
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (447 download)
Download or read book Thornyhold written by Mary Stewart and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-05-26 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A comfortable chair and a Mary Stewart: total heaven. I'd rather read her than most other authors.' Harriet Evans The rambling house called Thornyhold is like something out of a fairy tale. Left to Gilly Ramsey by the cousin whose occasional visits brightened her childhood, the cottage, set deep in a wild wood, has come just in time to save her from a bleak future. With its reputation for magic and its resident black cat, Thornyhold offers Gilly more than just a new home. It offers her a chance to start over. The old house, with it tufts of rosy houseleek and the spreading gilt of the lichens, was beautiful. Even the prisoning hedges were beautiful, protective with their rusty thorns, their bastions of holly and juniper, and at the corners, like towers, their thick columns of yews. 'Mary Stewart is magic' New York Times 'One of the great British storytellers of the 20th century' Independent
Author : Violet Needham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (317 download)
Download or read book The Black Riders written by Violet Needham and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Black Riders is the first in a series featuring Dick, a preteen orphan who gets caught up in a rebellion against the succession to the crown in a European kingdom run on medieval lines and guarded by the legendary Black Riders with Count Jasper in charge. Humour, loyalty and adventure become mixed as the story progresses and Dick is captured.
Author : Jane Brox
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547487150
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (474 download)
Download or read book Brilliant written by Jane Brox and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2010-06-29 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “superb history” of artificial light traces the evolution of society—“invariably fascinating and often original . . . [it] amply lives up to its title” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). In Brilliant, Jane Brox explores humankind’s ever-changing relationship to artificial light, from the stone lamps of the Pleistocene to the LEDs embedded in fabrics of the future. More than a survey of technological development, this sweeping history reveals how artificial light changed our world, and how those social and cultural changes in turn led to the pursuit of more ways of spreading, maintaining, and controlling light. Brox plumbs the class implications of light—who had it, who didn’t—through the centuries when crude lamps and tallow candles constricted waking hours. She identifies the pursuit of whale oil as the first time the need for light thrust us toward an environmental tipping point. Only decades later, gas street lights opened up the evening hours to leisure, which changed the ways we live and sleep and the world’s ecosystems. Edison’s bulbs produced a light that seemed to its users all but divorced from human effort or cost. And yet, as Brox’s informative portrait of our current grid system shows, the cost is ever with us. Brilliant is infused with human voices, startling insights, and timely questions about how our future lives will be shaped by light
Author : Patrick Harpur
Publisher : Skylight Press
ISBN 13 : 1908011653
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (8 download)
Download or read book The Savoy Truffle written by Patrick Harpur and published by Skylight Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set among the mansions and tennis clubs of Surrey's richest suburb, The Savoy Truffle is a darkly comic drama that evokes an era when Mod gear was fab, the Shorty Nightie shocking, the coffee frothy, and a new Beatles' single brought hysteria to the classroom. The grey post-war years are trembling on the verge of Technicolour, and the Blyte children are struggling to cope with the transition in their own idiosyncratic ways: Hugh's novel is held up by yearning for the Irish au pair; Janey moons over the mystery of men and the enigmatic Black Mini; George wages savage war on his Enemy; and the Moo takes refuge in his exclusive Sloppy Club. A crisis in their parents' lives brings madness and death, a supernatural visitor and an all-too-real tiger... The children have to confront - and conquer - the follies of their elders with wit and invention. Patrick Harpur is the acclaimed author of three novels and three works of non-fiction, including Daimonic Reality, The Philosophers' Secret Fire and Mercurius. He lives in West Dorset, worlds away from his Surrey upbringing.
Author : Patrick Harpur
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1907222405
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (72 download)
Download or read book The Good People written by Patrick Harpur and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2017-07-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two women see something uncanny in the skies over west London in the summer of 1989. It's the summer of 1989, a time of global flux just before the collapse of the Berlin wall and of South Africa's apartheid; a time of signs and portents… Two women see something uncanny in the skies over west London. Maeve, the wife of the local vicar, finds she has lost nearly an hour of her life. In search of this lost time, she uncovers the memory of an encounter with aliens and, worse, a mysterious event from her childhood in Ireland, which she finally redeems in the underworld of an IRA-connected pub… Her husband Alistair has his own nightmare: preparations for the visit of an African bishop and his entourage for a Christian conference, whose left-wing agenda is threatened by the attendance of a famous and enigmatic nun… Meanwhile, Heather's sighting comes as a revelation that leads her, like a questing Grail knight, through strange ordeals, from a menacing cult to an alternate reality; from a mental hospital to, finally, an encounter with her own hidden depths. A companion volume to the author's critically lauded Daimonic Reality, a classic nonfiction study of otherworld journeys, The Good People is a modern fairy tale that dramatizes with wit the interweaving of revelation and delusion, the natural and the supernatural, worldliness and sanctity—ultimately suggesting that our humdrum lives are shadowed by the alien dimension of myth.
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Aron Nimzowitsch
Publisher : Hays Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781880673850
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (738 download)
Download or read book My System written by Aron Nimzowitsch and published by Hays Pub. This book was released on 1991 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The landmark positional chess training classic in an easy-to-study algebraic format with 419 diagrams.
Author : Violet Needham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (563 download)
Download or read book The House of the Paladin written by Violet Needham and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Philip Pullman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781407130224
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Northern Lights written by Philip Pullman and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lyra Belacqua and her animal daemon live half-wild and carefree among scholars of Jordan College, Oxford. The destiny that awaits her will take her to the frozen lands of the Arctic, where witch-clans reign and ice-bears fight. Her extraordinary journey will have immeasurable consequences far beyond her own world...
Author : Lonny Harrison
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498597998
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)
Download or read book Language and Metaphors of the Russian Revolution written by Lonny Harrison and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-12-16 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Language and Metaphors of the Russian Revolution: Sow the Wind, Reap the Storm is a panoramic history of the Russian intelligentsia and an analysis of the language and ideals of the Russian Revolution, from its inception over the long nineteenth century through fruition in early Soviet society. This volume examines metaphors for revolution in the storm, flood, and harvest imagery ubiquitous in Russian literary works. At the same time, it considers the struggle to own the narrative of modernity, including Bolshevik weaponization of language and cultural policy that supported the use of terror and social purging. This uniquely cross-disciplinary study conducts a close reading of texts that use storm, flood, and agricultural metaphors in diverse ways to represent revolution, whether in anticipation and celebration of its ideals or in resistance to the same. A spotlight is given to the lives and works of authors who responded to Soviet authoritarianism by reclaiming the narrative of revolution in the name of personal freedom and restoration of humanist values. Hinging on the clashes of culture wars and class wars and residing at the intersection of ideas at the very core of the fight for modernity, this book provides a critical reading of authoritarian discourse and investigates rare examples of the counter narratives that thrived in spite of their suppression.
Author : Helen Kendrick Johnson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 682 pages
Book Rating : 4.M/5 ( download)
Download or read book Our Familiar Songs and Those who Made Them written by Helen Kendrick Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
