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Download or read book English Parks written by Susan Lasdun and published by Vendome Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the history of the park in England, from its classical roots through the Medieval auxiliary farm and Renaissance hunting reserve, to its modern role as part of the architecture of a built environment. Draws on many literary and historical sources, and includes many previously unpublished illustrations. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Book Synopsis The Maze in the English Park: A Historical Crime Novella by : Elizabeth von Witanovski
Download or read book The Maze in the English Park: A Historical Crime Novella written by Elizabeth von Witanovski and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is 1880s Prague when the paths of an actor and a Viennese aristocrat cross. Karel Bernini is a rising star of the Prague National Theater. Josef von Kaplitz is the indisputable future star of the Viennese political scene. Both are dangerously enchanted by anarchism. But when they fall victim to a young noblewoman, her accidental death sparks a tumult of murder and deceit. After her caprice alters the lives of many innocent people on both sides of the Atlantic, the drama culminates in 1950s England. When a photographer, whose young wife is a ballerina with Old Vic, finds an undeveloped roll of film in his lover's antique store in London, a story of unaccounted murder begins to take shape in his dark room. In this historical novella, two young men who become embroiled in the accidental death of a noblewoman set off a chain of events that, decades later, transform the life of a photographer in England.
Download or read book The English Park written by Susan Lasdun and published by . This book was released on 1997-08-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As scenery and places of recreation, parks are a vital part of our well-being. Their existence is almost taken for granted, yet they are often threatened as they suffer from pressures applied by conflicting interests. This book follows their long history and makes a case for the continued care of this tradition both in the preservation of existing parks and the creation of new ones in our cities. Parks have been an inseparable part of British lifestyle for nearly a thousand years. The author draws on literary sources, in prose and verse, and includes remarkable historical documentation as well as largely unpublished illustrations.
Book Synopsis The English is Coming! by : Leslie Dunton-Downer
Download or read book The English is Coming! written by Leslie Dunton-Downer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-09-14 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English has fast become the number one language for everything from business and science, diplomacy and education, entertainment and environmentalism to socializing and beyond—virtually any human activity unfolding on a global scale. Worldwide, nonnative speakers of English now outnumber natives three to one; and in China alone, more people use English than in the United States—a remarkable feat for a language that got its start as a mongrel tongue on an island fifteen hundred years ago. Through the fascinating stories of thirty English words used and understood in nearly all corners of the globe, The English Is Coming! takes readers on an eye-opening journey across culture and commerce, war and peace, and time and space. These mini-histories shed new light on everyday words: the strange turns of fate by which their meanings evolved and their new roles as the building blocks of the first language ever to forge a global community. Exploring such familiar terms as shampoo (from a Hindi word for scalp and body hygiene long practiced in India); robot (coined by Czech painter Josef Capek for his brother Karel’s 1921 play about man-made creatures); credit (rooted in a prehistoric phrase of sacred significance: "to put heart into"); and dozens of others, Dunton-Downer reveals with clarity and humor how these linguistic artifacts embody the resilience, appeal, adoptability, and wild inclusiveness that English, through a series of historical accidents, gained on its road to worldwide reach. These words explain not only how English has managed to link our distant and often disparate pasts but also how it is propelling humankind to a future that we can, for the first time, talk about and shape in a language that now belongs to all of us: Global English. Perfect for culture buffs, armchair travelers, and language lovers alike, The English Is Coming! is sure to inspire truly global conversations for decades to come.
Book Synopsis Park Life: A Year in the Wildlife of an Urban Park by : Rick Thompson
Download or read book Park Life: A Year in the Wildlife of an Urban Park written by Rick Thompson and published by Grosvenor House Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2020-08-06 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wildlife diary of a year in a riverside park in the heart of England, with fascinating facts, folklore and surprising rarities.
Download or read book Magnolia Parks written by Jessa Hastings and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-07-13 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “How many loves do you get in a lifetime?” She is a beautiful, affluent, self-involved, and mildly neurotic London socialite. He is Britain’s most photographed bad boy who broke her heart. Magnolia Parks and BJ Ballentine are meant to be, and everyone knows it. She dates other people to keep him at bay; he sleeps with other girls to get back at her for it. But at the end of every sad endeavor to get over one another, it’s still each other they crawl back to. But now their dysfunction is catching up with them, pulling at their seams and fraying the world they’ve built; a world where neither has ever let the other go completely. As the cracks start to show and secrets begin to surface, Magnolia and BJ are finally forced to face the formidable question they’ve been avoiding all their lives: How many loves do you really get in a lifetime?
Download or read book Lunar Park written by Bret Easton Ellis and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2005-08-16 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the New York Times bestselling author of American Psycho and Less Than Zero comes a chilling tale that combines reality, memoir, and fantasy to create a fascinating portrait of this most controversial writer but also a deeply moving novel about love and loss, parents and children, and ultimately forgiveness. “John Cheever writes The Shining.” —Stephen King, Entertainment Weekly Bret Ellis, the narrator of Lunar Park, is the bestselling writer whose first novel Less Than Zero catapulted him to international stardom while he was still in college. In the years that followed he found himself adrift in a world of wealth, drugs, and fame, as well as dealing with the unexpected death of his abusive father. After a decade of decadence a chance for salvation arrives; the chance to reconnect with an actress he was once involved with, and their son. But almost immediately his new life is threatened by a freak sequence of events and a bizarre series of murders that all seem to connect to Ellis’s past. His attempts to save his new world from his own demons makes Lunar Park Ellis’s most suspenseful novel. Look for Bret Easton Ellis’s new novel, The Shards!
Download or read book The Park written by John Freeman and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Freeman explores how parks--tiny microcosims of the world--are simultaneously natural and constructed, exclusionary and open, welcome and threatening.
Download or read book Footprints written by Josep Lluís Mateo and published by Park Publishing (WI). This book was released on 2021-02-15 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book England, England written by Julian Barnes and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-01-21 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • From the internationally acclaimed bestselling author The Sense of an Ending comes a "wickedly funny” novel (The New York Times) about an idyllic land of make-believe in England that gets horribly and hilariously out of hand. Imagine an England where all the pubs are quaint, where the Windsors behave themselves (mostly), where the cliffs of Dover are actually white, and where Robin Hood and his merry men really are merry. This is precisely what visionary tycoon, Sir Jack Pitman, seeks to accomplish on the Isle of Wight, a "destination" where tourists can find replicas of Big Ben (half size), Princess Di's grave, and even Harrod's (conveniently located inside the tower of London). Martha Cochrane, hired as one of Sir Jack's resident "no-people," ably assists him in realizing his dream. But when things go awry, Martha develops her own vision of the perfect England. Julian Barnes delights us with a novel that is at once a philosophical inquiry, a burst of mischief, and a moving elegy about authenticity and nationality.
Book Synopsis Sigurd Lewerentz by : Mikael Andersson
Download or read book Sigurd Lewerentz written by Mikael Andersson and published by Park Publishing (WI). This book was released on 2021-05-20 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive monograph on Swedish modernist architect Sigurd Lewerentz. Sigurd Lewerentz (1885-1975) is one of the most highly revered--as well as one of the most heavily mythologized--protagonists of modern European architecture. Arguably Sweden's most distinguished modernist, he is more influential for architects around the world today than he was during his lifetime. Countless architecture lovers from around the world visit his buildings. Stockholm's woodland cemetery Skogskyrkogården, his most significant contribution to landscape design, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. This authoritative new monograph on Sigurd Lewerentz is based on extensive research undertaken at ArkDes, Sweden's national center for architecture and design, where his archive and personal library are kept. It features a wealth of drawings and sketches, designs for furniture and interiors, model photographs, and more from his estate, most of which are published here for the first time, alongside new photographs of his realized buildings. Essays by leading experts explore Lewerentz's life and work, his legacy, and lasting significance from a contemporary perspective. This substantial, beautifully designed book offers the most comprehensive survey to date of Lewerentz's achievements in all fields of his multifaceted work.
Download or read book Richmond Park written by Paul Rabbitts and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2014-04-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of London’s largest Royal Park
Book Synopsis An English Park by : Arthur Owens Cooke
Download or read book An English Park written by Arthur Owens Cooke and published by . This book was released on 19?? with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Hunting for Empire by : Greg Gillespie
Download or read book Hunting for Empire written by Greg Gillespie and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hunting for Empire offers a fresh cultural history of sport and imperialism. Greg Gillespie integrates critical perspectives from cultural studies, literary criticism, and cultural geography to analyze the themes of authorship, sport, science, and nature. In doing so he produces a unique theoretical lens through which to study nineteenth-century British big-game hunting and exploration narratives from the western interior of Rupert's Land. Sharply written and evocatively illustrated, Hunting for Empire will appeal to students and scholars of culture, sport, geography, and history, and to general readers interested in stories of hunting, empire, and the Canadian wilderness.
Book Synopsis Sixty Miles From Contentment by : M. H. Dunlop
Download or read book Sixty Miles From Contentment written by M. H. Dunlop and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-11 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixty Miles from Contentment is a revitalization of a pulsating American scene in the nineteenth-century. Drawing on the work of travel writers from America's own East Coast and from fourteen other countries, it offers a witty and irreverent look at the wild Midwest in its heyday.
Book Synopsis The English Flower Garden by : William Robinson
Download or read book The English Flower Garden written by William Robinson and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Mysterious Library: A Coloring Book Journey Into Fables by : Eunji Park
Download or read book The Mysterious Library: A Coloring Book Journey Into Fables written by Eunji Park and published by Seven Seas. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mysterious Library: A Coloring Book Journey Into Fables will transport you on a quest into your favorite fairy tales, with over sixty-two pages of gorgeously-detailed pen and ink artwork to color, by Korean illustrator Eunji Park. This coloring book features a visual narrative about a young lady who discovers a strange library in the forest. As she picks up a book, she is transported into a storybook world, where she herself transforms into its heroine. To return home, she must find a hidden key, while traveling through various works of literature and fables, from Hansel and Gretel to Cinderella, from Alice in Wonderland to Rapunzel, and beyond. The Mysterious Library includes dazzling drawings of fanciful locations and beautiful scenery, fantastic animals, and an appealing heroine. The book is ideal for coloring and will delight colorists of all ages and skill levels.
