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Author : Hamilton Drummond
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book A Maker of Saints written by Hamilton Drummond and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Colin O'Brien
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1681777193
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (817 download)
Download or read book The Beautiful Race written by Colin O'Brien and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born of tumult in 1909, the Giro d'Italia helped unite a nation. Since then, it has reflected it's home country—the Giro's capricious and unpredictable nature matches the passions and extremes of Italy itself.A desperately hard race through a beautiful country, the Giro has bred characters and stories that dramatize the shifting culture and society of its home. There was Alfonsina Strada, who cropped her hair and raced against the men in 1924, or Ottavio Bottecchia, expected to challenge for the winner's "Maglia Rosa," the famed pink jersey, in 1928, until he was killed on a training ride—most likely by Mussolini's Black Shirts. And what would a book about the Giro d'Italia be without Fausto Coppi, the metropolitan playboy with amphetamines in his veins, guided by a mystic blind masseur, who seemed to glide up the peaks. But let us not forget his arch rival Gino Bartali—humble, pious and brave. It recently emerged that he smuggled papers for persecuted Jewish Italians. Then there is the Giro's most tragic hero, Marco Pantani, born to climb but fated to lose.Halted only by World Wars, the Giro has been contested for over a century, and The Beautiful Race is a richly written celebration of this legendary race.
Author : Linda Cracknell
Publisher : Cargo Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1908754559
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (87 download)
Download or read book Doubling Back written by Linda Cracknell and published by Cargo Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-26 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautiful, fascinating and moving memoir where the author retraces ten walks undertaken by others, from the Highlands of Scotland to the Swiss Alps and Kenya. Doubling Back is a fascinating and moving account of walking in the footsteps of others. In 1952 Linda Cracknell's father embarked on a hike through the Swiss Alps. Fifty years later Linda retraces that fateful journey, following the trail of the man she barely knew. This collection of walking tales takes its theme from that pilgrimage. The walks trace the contours of history, following writers, relations and retreading ways across mountains, valleys and coasts formerly trodden by drovers, saints and adventurers. Each walk is about the reaffirming of memories, beliefs and emotions, and especially of the connection that one can have with the past through particular places. This book celebrates life, family, friendship and walking through landscapes richly textured with stories. Doubling Back is a masterwork of travel writing in the vein of Robert Macfarlane and Roger Deakin, lyrical, poignant, and with stunning descriptions of the landscapes Linda Cracknell leads us through.
Author : John Herdman
Publisher : Leamington Books
ISBN 13 : 1914090055
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (14 download)
Download or read book Clapperton written by John Herdman and published by Leamington Books. This book was released on 2020-11-11 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The absurd, the grotesque, Thomas Clapperton, hypochondriac, egomaniac, Scotsman, misanthrope, misogynist, menagerie keeper ... has a date.His romantic rendezvous is with the girl across the road, Trudy Otter. Although Trudy only has an incestuous eye for her brother, Rex.The most dysfunctional of all beings rub against each other in the desperate search for human happiness in John Herdman's gothic miserene, Clapperton.Also in this volume, The Devil and Dr Tuberose. The equally unbalanced Dr Marcus Tuberose battles legless infantry of demons until he finally confronts the devil himself, embodied in the family dog of his blessed colleagues. A tale of transgressive madness from the master of the Scottish Gothic, John Herdman.Two tales of the mania, derangement and the psychopathy peculiar to the Caledonian Antisyzygy. Brace yourself for hilarity, ridicule and an exquisite dose of oddity.ALSO IN THIS EDITION: Complete Herdman Bibliography, spanning six decades of creative output."Perhaps in the very combination of opposites — what either of the two Thomases, of Norwich and Cromarty, might have been willing to call "the Caledonian antisyzygy" — we have a reflection of the contrasts which the Scot shows at every turn... we need not be surprised to find that in their literature the Scots present two aspects which appear contradictory. Oxymoron was ever the bravest figure, and we must not forget that disorderly order is order after all." G. GREGORY SMITH, Scottish Literature: Character and Influence"I was struck by Herdman's wry, philosophical bent, his acute sense of place and perception and anguish at the plight of the human condition .... But despite the pitch darkness and seriousness of his themes, Herdman is an appealing writer, with a clipped, laconic and lugubrious wit, capable of swiftly etching a scene .... goodness knows why John Herdman is not much better known than he is." Alan Taylor, The Sunday Herald"Herdman's writing is a feat of great wit and invention." Scotland on Sunday"It is a tribute to Herdman's writing that he evokes so many writers without ever seeming to imitate them .. the quality of Herdman's fantastic imaginings commands respect." Christopher Whyte"John Herdman skilfully treads a vertiginous edge between satiric comedy and high seriousness." The Scotsman
Author : David Herman
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 0801895537
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Muriel Spark written by David Herman and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2010-06 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A substantial addition to Spark criticism, of which there has been surprisingly little published in recent years."--Aileen Christianson, University of Edinburgh --Book Jacket.
Author : Sam Hirst
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 1839981555
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (399 download)
Download or read book Theology in the Early British and Irish Gothic, 1764–1834 written by Sam Hirst and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2023-07-11 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theology in the Early British and Irish Gothic, 1764–1832 reassesses the relationship between contemporary theology and the Gothic. Investigating Gothic aesthetics, depictions of the supernatural and portrayals of religious organisations, it explores how the Gothic engages with contemporary theologies, both Dissenting and Anglican. Moving away from the emphasis on either a monolithic Protestantism or on the Gothic as a secular mode, it shows the ways in which the Gothic exploration of the transcendent and the obscure cannot be separated from the diverse theologies of its day. The project maps how the Gothic not only reflects but actively engages in the theological debates and controversies contemporary to its efflorescence.
Author : Herbie Sykes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780956423351
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (233 download)
Download or read book Maglia Rosa written by Herbie Sykes and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carl MacDougall
Publisher : Harvill Secker
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Lights Below written by Carl MacDougall and published by Harvill Secker. This book was released on 1993 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : E E Richardson
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1407097598
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)
Download or read book The Devil's Footsteps written by E E Richardson and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-08-03 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was just a bit of fun, a local legend. The Devil's Footsteps: thirteen stepping stones, and whichever one you stopped on in the rhyme could predict how you would die. A harmless game for kids - and nobody ever died from a game. But it's not a game to Bryan. He's seen the Dark Man, because the Dark Man took his brother five years ago. He's tried to tell himself that it was his imagination, that the Devil's Footsteps are just stones and the Dark Man didn't take Adam. But Adam's still gone. And then Bryan meets two other boys who have their own unsolved mysteries. Someone or something is after the children in the town. And it all comes back to the rhyme that every local child knows by heart: Thirteen steps to the Dark Man's door, Won't be turning back no more . . .
Author : Stephen Lloyd
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0593331389
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (933 download)
Download or read book Friend of the Devil written by Stephen Lloyd and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2022-05-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: High school can be hell. Literally. A demonic detective novel best devoured in a single sitting--from acclaimed TV writer Stephen Lloyd. Welcome to Danforth Putnam, boarding school for the elite, sprawled across its own private island off the coast of New England. Sam, a war vet who feels sure he’s seen it all, has been called here to find a stolen rare book. But as he corners D&D nerds, grills steroid-raging linemen, and interviews filthy-rich actresses, he soon senses that something far stranger—“witchy”, in fact—is afoot. When students start to meet mysterious and gruesome deaths, Sam realizes just how fast the clock is ticking. After joining forces with plucky, epilepsy-defying school reporter Harriet, Sam ventures into increasingly dark territory, unravelling a supernatural mystery that will upend everything he thinks he knows about this school—and then shatter his own reality. Toss Dracula into a blender, throw in a shot of hard-boiled detective fiction, splash in a couple drops of Stranger Things, and pour yourself a nice tall glass of Friend of the Devil.
Author : James BRUCE (the Traveller.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (19 download)
Download or read book An interesting narrative of the travels of James Bruce, Esq; into Abyssinia, to discover the source of the Nile: abridged from the original work. To which is added notes and extracts, from the travels of Dr Shaw, M. Savary, and the Memoirs of Baron de Tott written by James BRUCE (the Traveller.) and published by . This book was released on 1790 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ewan Morrison
Publisher : Leamington Books
ISBN 13 : 1914090438
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (14 download)
Download or read book Not Dark Yet written by Ewan Morrison and published by Leamington Books. This book was released on 2021-08-12 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published to mark John Herdman's 80th birthday in 2021. Writers, academics, publishers and literary figures from Britain, Europe and North America came together to celebrate Scottish novelist and critic, John Herdman. The cast of Not Dark Yet are John Herdman's contemporaries and friends, his students and readers. This celebration of John Herdman is witness to the strength of admiration that exists for this Scottish writer's work, a body of writing that extends over a period of seven decades. And seven decades is impressive — especially for a man who is only just turning eighty.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Laverock written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Colin OBrien
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781781257166
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (571 download)
Download or read book Giro D'Italia written by Colin OBrien and published by . This book was released on 2017-04 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Samuel Rutherford Crockett
Publisher : New York : F.A. Stokes Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Silver Skull; a Romance written by Samuel Rutherford Crockett and published by New York : F.A. Stokes Company. This book was released on 1901 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tim Moore
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448156408
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (481 download)
Download or read book Gironimo! written by Tim Moore and published by Random House. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 3,162 km race. A 48-year-old man. A 100-year-old bike. Made mostly of wood. That he built himself. Tim Moore sets off to recreate the most appalling bike race of all time. The notorious 1914 Giro d'Italia was an ordeal of 400-kilometre stages, cataclysmic night storms and relentless sabotage - all on a diet of raw eggs and red wine. Of the 81 who rolled out of Milan, only eight made it back. Committed to total authenticity, Tim acquires the ruined husk of a gearless, wooden-wheeled 1914 road bike with wine corks for brakes, some maps and an alarming period outfit topped off with a pair of blue-lensed welding goggles. From the Alps to the Adriatic the pair relive the bike race in all its misery and glory, on an adventure that is by turns bold, beautiful and recklessly incompetent.
Author : Gillian Price
Publisher : Cicerone Press Limited
ISBN 13 : 1783625708
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (836 download)
Download or read book Walking in Tuscany written by Gillian Price and published by Cicerone Press Limited. This book was released on 2023-05-24 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guidebook to walks in the Italian region of Tuscany. 43 graded routes range from 2.5 to 18km, and take in the Renaissance splendour of Florence and Siena, the World Heritage scenery of Val d'Orcia and San Gimignano and the stunning island of Elba. Alongside detailed route descriptions and clear mapping there is essential practical information on public transport and food and drink, as well as a comprehensive list of accommodation, and a useful Italian-English glossary. The guide is packed with interesting details about the area's wildlife, landscape, culture and history, making it a perfect companion to getting to know this beautiful region. Tuscany is justifiably renowned for its glorious landscapes. Romantic hilltop villages clinging to rolling hills contrast with dense forests, rugged mountains and long, sandy beaches. This is a region that resonates with history - Etruscan remains, Medici villas, Renaissance towns and landscapes that inspired Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and Dante. Add in the climate and superb food and wine and you have a perfect walking destination.
