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Book Synopsis The Hopeful Traveller by : Fiona Farrell
Download or read book The Hopeful Traveller written by Fiona Farrell and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating novel of hope, love, idealism and human progress, made up of two separate stories, which can be read in isolation and yet reverberate against each other. Sometime in the 1860s, in an isolated valley on Banks Peninsula, Harry Head, "the Hermit of Hickory Bay", experimented unsuccessfully with flight. His story forms part of the exuberant blend of fact and fiction which constitutes this tale. The author takes us back to the beginnings of novel-writing, as philosophical play and serious entertainment. Think Crusoe's island, think Utopia. Twelve characters, driven by obsession, hope or the vagaries of chance, come ashore in widely different circumstances onto the same island. Once there, the game can begin. Written in two halves, this is a book to be read from either end. Begin with the past and race toward the future, or begin with the present and circle back towards the past. Time may separate the two sections yet subtle links and twisting events bring them together into a varied, intriguing and compulsive whole.
Book Synopsis The Hopeful Traveller by : Janina David
Download or read book The Hopeful Traveller written by Janina David and published by Envelope Books. This book was released on 2024-06-05 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In France, Mattie feels twenty again. In Poland, Magda revisits her impoverished family. In Uzbekistan, Diana lets a fellow tourist kiss her. In Germany, Lynn loses her luggage on the Düsseldorf train. The Hopeful Traveller is a collection of short stories about—and told by—single women who have put the past behind them but are still looking for their anchor in the present. The stories include bitter-sweet accounts of the freedoms of postwar life, foreign travel, the rekindling of old friendships and the search for new ones. They speak of cosmopolitan, self-confident, well-heeled characters, in an era just before the birth of feminism, conventional in their expectations of men, always just a step away from displacement and alienation. Set variously in Paris, Kalisz, Samarkand, Hong Kong, Melbourne, Erfurt, Singapore and London, these stories, from a much-admired veteran writer, offer a teasing mix of realism and fantasy, wish-fulfilment and regret.
Book Synopsis The Hopeful Traveller by : Janina David
Download or read book The Hopeful Traveller written by Janina David and published by . This book was released on 2021-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In France, Mattie feels 20 again. In Poland, Magda revisits her impoverished family. In Uzbekistan, Diana lets a fellow tourist kiss her. In Germany, Lynn loses her luggage on the Düsseldorf train. The Hopeful Traveller is a collection of short stories about--and told by--single women who have put the past behind them but are still looking for their anchor in the present. It includes bitter-sweet accounts of the freedoms of postwar life, of foreign travel, of the rekindling of old friendships and of the search for new ones. The stories speak of cosmopolitan, self-confident, well-heeled characters, in an era just before the birth of feminism, conventional in their expectations of men, always just a step away from displacement and alienation. Set variously in Paris, Kalisz, Samarkand, Hong Kong, Melbourne, Erfurt, Singapore and London, these stories, from a much-admired veteran writer, offer a teasing mix of realism and fantasy, wish-fulfilment and regret. Some of these stories have appeared in translation in overseas annuals and collections.
Book Synopsis The Hopeful Traveller by : Mary Hocking
Download or read book The Hopeful Traveller written by Mary Hocking and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-02-25 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Time of War told the story of a group of Wrens on a West Country airfield, but now the war is over, the girls are dispersed, and must learn to endure the rigours of the early post-war years, as well as the boredoms and perplexities of civilian life. While Kerren takes a job as a librarian and tries to forget her husband, who was killed in the war, her friend, Robin, has married a kind, conventional lawyer and lives in Cheltenham. But the lives of these two are still, though more remotely, linked; their reunions with other men and women from the old Station, and Kerren's efforts to adapt herself to a life far less sheltered than her wartime one, provide both comedy and some near-tragedy. Mary Hocking drew on her own experiences as an ex-Wren to trace the changes of emotional temperature, the disillusionment and the challenges, the need to realize new ways of life and the necessity to re-create themselves, experienced by her characters in this wonderful novel.
Book Synopsis The Hopeful Traveller by : Cyril C. Ellison
Download or read book The Hopeful Traveller written by Cyril C. Ellison and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Hopeful Traveler by : American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation & Dance
Download or read book Hopeful Traveler written by American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation & Dance and published by . This book was released on 1984-07-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Traveler's Gift by : Danielle Davison
Download or read book The Traveler's Gift written by Danielle Davison and published by Page Street Kids. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Liam loved his father’s stories of life at sea. But one day, his father’s ship doesn’t return, and Liam’s love of stories fades. Then the Traveler, a mysterious old man who spins stories with a magical beard like a tapestry, arrives, reminding Liam of his father. They embark on the Traveler’s final voyage together, and before the journey ends, the Traveler passes on his magical gift to Liam. Woven with themes of loss, discovery, and friendship, this poignant tale captures the unexpected magic of shared stories and refound hope.
Book Synopsis Adventures of a Compulsive Traveller by : Dominic Dunne
Download or read book Adventures of a Compulsive Traveller written by Dominic Dunne and published by Transit Lounge . This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journalist Dominic Dunne’s travels have rarely been ordinary, despite his best intentions. He has been travelling all his life, from the time his parents started their annual pilgrimage to the opal fields of Lightning Ridge. Since then he has trekked all over Australia and to some 60 countries, spending his life trying to satisfy his insatiable appetite for travelling, an addiction that has taken him to wonderful and sometimes dangerous places where he has met all manner of people. In this book Dominic uses insight and wit – and a good dollop of gossip – to capture the highlights (and lowlights) from destinations the world over. Dominic takes readers backstage with Nana Mouskouri in Greece and in search of the ghosts of Elvis Presley in Mississippi. He escapes marauding Americans at Noel Coward’s Jamaican sanctuary, crosses cranky guards in North Korea, rubs shoulders with Hillary Clinton in Washington and solves a life-long mystery in Zimbabwe. And he meets his namesake, the best-selling American author Dominick Dunne, with whom he forges an enduring friendship.
Download or read book The Traveller's Library written by and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Traveler written by Ron McLarty and published by . This book was released on with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visiting his childhood home in Rhode Island after learning that his first girlfriend has passed away, part-time actor Jono Riley remembers his coming of age at the side of three best friends, a period that was marked by a mysterious shooting.
Book Synopsis The Traveller's Guide, Or, English Itinerary by : Walley Chamberlain Oulton
Download or read book The Traveller's Guide, Or, English Itinerary written by Walley Chamberlain Oulton and published by . This book was released on 1805 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Traveller's Oracle by : William Kitchiner
Download or read book The Traveller's Oracle written by William Kitchiner and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Hope of Europe by : Philip Gibbs
Download or read book The Hope of Europe written by Philip Gibbs and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Strangers to that Land by : Andrew Hadfield
Download or read book Strangers to that Land written by Andrew Hadfield and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1994 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strangers to that Land, subtitled 'British Perceptions of Ireland from the Reformation to the Famine', is a critical anthology of English, Scottish and Welsh colonists' and travellers' accounts of Ireland and the Irish from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. It consists exclusively of eyewitness descriptions of Ireland given by writers using the English language who had never been to Ireland before and were seeing the country for the first time. Each extract, where necessary, is set in context and briefly explained. The result is a vivid, continuous record of Ireland as defined and judged by the British over a period of four centuries. In their general introduction the editors discuss the significance of these changing historical perceptions, as well as the impact upon them of literary conventions which played a part in shaping the emerging texts. It is argued that the relationship between Ireland and England within a British context constitutes a unique case study in the procedures of racial stereotyping and colonial representation, the exploration of cultural conflict and the aesthetics of travel writing. There are twenty-one contemporary illustrations
Book Synopsis Six Years of a Traveller's Life in Western Africa by : Francisco Travassos Valdez
Download or read book Six Years of a Traveller's Life in Western Africa written by Francisco Travassos Valdez and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Traveller's Oracle, Or, Maxims for Locomotion by : William Kitchiner
Download or read book The Traveller's Oracle, Or, Maxims for Locomotion written by William Kitchiner and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by : Jules Verne
Download or read book A Journey to the Centre of the Earth written by Jules Verne and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
