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Author : Stuart Spencer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (851 download)
Download or read book The Last Outpost at the Edge of the World written by Stuart Spencer and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andrzej Sapkowski
Publisher : Gollancz
ISBN 13 : 0575099917
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (75 download)
Download or read book The Last Wish written by Andrzej Sapkowski and published by Gollancz. This book was released on 2010-08-19 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geralt is a witcher, a man whose magic powers, enhanced by long training and a mysterious elixir, have made him a brilliant fighter and a merciless assassin. Yet he is no ordinary murderer: his targets are the multifarious monsters and vile fiends that ravage the land and attack the innocent. He roams the country seeking assignments, but gradually comes to realise that while some of his quarry are unremittingly vile, vicious grotesques, others are the victims of sin, evil or simple naivety. One reviewer said: 'This book is a sheer delight. It is beautifully written, full of vitality and endlessly inventive: its format, with half a dozen episodes and intervening rest periods for both the hero and the reader, allows for a huge range of characters, scenarios and action. It's thought-provoking without being in the least dogmatic, witty without descending to farce and packed with sword fights without being derivative. The dialogue sparkles; characters morph almost imperceptibly from semi-cliche to completely original; nothing is as it first seems. Sapkowski succeeds in seamlessly welding familiar ideas, unique settings and delicious twists of originality: his Beauty wants to rip the throat out of a sensitive Beast; his Snow White seeks vengeance on all and sundry, his elves are embittered and vindictive. It's easily one of the best things I've read in ages.'
Author : Lynn Stegner
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292739346
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book West of 98 written by Lynn Stegner and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2012-07-25 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to be a westerner? With all the mythology that has grown up about the American West, is it even possible to describe "how it was, how it is, here, in the West—just that," in the words of Lynn Stegner? Starting with that challenge, Stegner and Russell Rowland invited several dozen members of the western literary tribe to write about living in the West and being a western writer in particular. West of 98 gathers sixty-six literary testimonies, in essays and poetry, from a stellar collection of writers who represent every state west of the 98th parallel—a kind of Greek chorus of the most prominent voices in western literature today, who seek to "characterize the West as each of us grew to know it, and, equally important, the West that is still becoming." In West of 98, western writers speak to the ways in which the West imprints itself on the people who live there, as well as how the people of the West create the personality of the region. The writers explore the western landscape—how it has been revered and abused across centuries—and the inescapable limitations its aridity puts on all dreams of conquest and development. They dismantle the boosterism of manifest destiny and the cowboy and mountain man ethos of every-man-for-himself, and show instead how we must create new narratives of cooperation if we are to survive in this spare and beautiful country. The writers seek to define the essence of both actual and metaphoric wilderness as they journey toward a West that might honestly be called home. A collective declaration not of our independence but of our interdependence with the land and with each other, West of 98 opens up a whole new panorama of the western experience.
Author : Kirsten Strom
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000735931
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)
Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Surrealism written by Kirsten Strom and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-11-08 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a conceptual and global overview of the field of Surrealist studies. Methodologically, the companion considers Surrealism’s many achievements, but also its historical shortcomings, to illuminate its connections to the historical and cultural moment(s) from which it originated and to assess both the ways in which it still shapes our world in inspiring ways and the ways in which it might appear problematic as we look back at it from a twenty-first-century vantage point. Contributions from experienced scholars will enable professors to teach the subject more broadly, by opening their eyes to aspects of the field that are on the margins of their expertise, and it will enable scholars to identify new areas of study in their own work, by indicating lines of research at a tangent to their own. The companion will reflect the interdisciplinarity of Surrealism by incorporating discussions pertaining to the visual arts, as well as literature, film, and political and intellectual history.
Author : Charles Holme
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 794 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)
Download or read book The International Studio written by Charles Holme and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ryan Alonzo
Publisher : Yosemite Conservancy
ISBN 13 : 1930238576
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Tuolumne in Pictures written by Ryan Alonzo and published by Yosemite Conservancy. This book was released on 2015-06-09 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yosemite's Tuolumne Meadows has been up-and-coming landscape photographer Ryan Alonzo's summer home for several years, and he shares his deep sense of place in this exquisite, spare collection of photographs. Because he lives and works in the park, he is there to capture those special moments of light and weather in which Yosemite shines. Through his fresh lens, readers can experience the fields of wildflowers, the beckoning granite domes, and the mountain peak vistas of a remarkable corner of California's high Sierra, with each image accompanied by naturalist notes. For up to half the year, Tuolumne Meadows is closed to visitors due to snow on Tioga Road; Tuolumne in Pictures is the next best thing to being there.
Author : Paul K. Hooker
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (852 download)
Download or read book The Longing written by Paul K. Hooker and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2024-04-02 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beneath the noise and errands of everyday life, there is a longing, a yearning. What precisely we long for is not always clear; indeed, perhaps it is many things. Or perhaps it is finally one thing, the One that is behind and beneath all things. Paul Hooker probes this longing in the poem cycle of this book, exploring poetically the yearning that underlies life, love, work, worship, and faith itself. In the collections “Traditions” and “Transitions,” he explores that longing in both biblical and experiential contexts. And in the concluding essay, “Sightings of the Holy,” he meditates on four poems and the glimpses they provide of the Holy, a reality accessible only out of the corners of one’s eyes.
Author : Scott Wallace
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307462978
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)
Download or read book The Unconquered written by Scott Wallace and published by Crown. This book was released on 2012-07-24 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The extraordinary true story of a journey into the deepest recesses of the Amazon to track one of the planet's last uncontacted indigenous tribes. Even today there remain tribes in the far reaches of the Amazon rainforest that have avoided contact with modern civilization. Deliberately hiding from the outside world, they are the last survivors of an ancient culture that predates the arrival of Columbus in the New World. In this gripping first-person account of adventure and survival, author Scott Wallace chronicles an expedition into the Amazon’s uncharted depths, discovering the rainforest’s secrets while moving ever closer to a possible encounter with one such tribe—the mysterious flecheiros, or “People of the Arrow,” seldom-glimpsed warriors known to repulse all intruders with showers of deadly arrows. On assignment for National Geographic, Wallace joins Brazilian explorer Sydney Possuelo at the head of a thirty-four-man team that ventures deep into the unknown in search of the tribe. Possuelo’s mission is to protect the Arrow People. But the information he needs to do so can only be gleaned by entering a world of permanent twilight beneath the forest canopy. Danger lurks at every step as the expedition seeks out the Arrow People even while trying to avoid them. Along the way, Wallace uncovers clues as to who the Arrow People might be, how they have managed to endure as one of the last unconquered tribes, and why so much about them must remain shrouded in mystery if they are to survive. Laced with lessons from anthropology and the Amazon’s own convulsed history, and boasting a Conradian cast of unforgettable characters—all driven by a passion to preserve the wild, but also wracked by fear, suspicion, and the desperate need to make it home alive—The Unconquered reveals this critical battleground in the fight to save the planet as it has rarely been seen, wrapped in a page-turning tale of adventure.
Author : Edith Wharton
Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
ISBN 13 : 8728127420
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (281 download)
Download or read book In Morocco written by Edith Wharton and published by Lindhardt og Ringhof. This book was released on 2022-06-13 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While she might be better known for taking aim at American high society, Wharton was also a prolific travel writer. ‘In Morocco’ chronicles her visit to North Africa, at the tail-end of the First World War. Written at a time when the country was relatively unexplored, her writing perfectly captures the Moroccan architecture, towns, deserts, culture, tradition, and people. A fascinating read for anyone who enjoys other travel writers like Michael Palin and for those who want to explore Morocco before the advent of international tourism. Edith Wharton (1862 – 1937) was an American designer and novelist. Born in an era when the highest ambition a woman could aspire to was a good marriage, Wharton went on to become one of America’s most celebrated authors. During her career, she wrote over 40 books, using her wealthy upbringing to bring authenticity and detail to stories about the upper classes. She moved to France in 1923, where she continued to write until her death.
Author : Amanda du Preez
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000540952
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Art, the Sublime, and Movement written by Amanda du Preez and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-01-31 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a critical interdisciplinary approach to the study of contemporary visual culture and image studies, exploring ideas about space and place and ultimately contributing to the debates about being human in the digital age. The upward and downward pull seem in a constant contest for humanity’s attention. Both forces are powerful in the effects and affects they invoke. When tracing this iconological history, Amanda du Preez starts in the early nineteenth century, moving into the twentieth century and then spanning the whole century up to contemporary twenty-first century screen culture and space travels. Du Preez parses the intersecting pathways between Heaven and Earth, up and down, flying and falling through the concept of being “spaced out”. The idea of being “spaced out” is applied as a metaphor to trace the visual history of sublime encounters that displace Earth, gravity, locality, belonging, home, real life, and embodiment. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, visual culture, media and cultural studies, phenomenology, digital culture, mobility studies, and urban studies.
Author : Christina Schwarz
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451683723
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)
Download or read book The Edge of the Earth written by Christina Schwarz and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-04-02 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Drowning Ruth, a haunting, atmospheric novel set at the closing of the frontier about a young wife who moves to a far-flung and forbidding lighthouse where she uncovers a life-changing secret. In 1898, a woman forsakes the comfort of home and family for a love that takes her to a remote lighthouse on the wild coast of California. What she finds at the edge of the earth, hidden between the sea and the fog, will change her life irrevocably. Trudy, who can argue Kant over dinner and play a respectable portion of Mozart’s Serenade in G major, has been raised to marry her childhood friend and assume a life of bourgeois comfort in Milwaukee. She knows she should be pleased, but she’s restless instead, yearning for something she lacks even the vocabulary to articulate. When she falls in love with enigmatic and ambitious Oskar, she believes she’s found her escape from the banality of her preordained life. But escape turns out to be more fraught than Trudy had imagined. Alienated from family and friends, the couple moves across the country to take a job at a lighthouse at Point Lucia, California—an unnervingly isolated outcropping, trapped between the ocean and hundreds of miles of inaccessible wilderness. There they meet the light station’s only inhabitants—the formidable and guarded Crawleys. In this unfamiliar place, Trudy will find that nothing is as she might have predicted, especially after she discovers what hides among the rocks. Gorgeously detailed, swiftly paced, and anchored in the dramatic geography of the remote and eternally mesmerizing Big Sur, The Edge of the Earth is a magical story of secrets and self-transformation, ruses and rebirths. Christina Schwarz, celebrated for her rich evocation of place and vivid, unpredictable characters, has spun another haunting and unforgettable tale.
Author : Edward Livermore Burlingame
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1062 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Scribner's Magazine written by Edward Livermore Burlingame and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 1062 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Theatre Profiles written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gary Pulsifer
Publisher : Peter Owen Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Paul Bowles by His Friends written by Gary Pulsifer and published by Peter Owen Publishers. This book was released on 1992 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of reminiscences of the writer Paul Bowles presents a composite portrait of his complex yet reticent personality. Various contributors--writers, painters, composers, journalists and publishers--have known him for many years. Paul Bowles's accomplishments as a composer of music and his work for the theatre are also brought to the fore.
Author : Olga Slavnikova
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1468302906
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (683 download)
Download or read book 2017 written by Olga Slavnikova and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An award–winning “satirical political thriller follows the . . . adventures of a Russian gem cutter . . . and the consequences of his affair with a virtual stranger.”(Publishers Weekly) Professor Anfilogov, a wealthy and emotionless man, sets out on an expedition to unearth priceless rubies that no one else has been able to locate. His expedition reveals ugly truths about man’s disregard for nature and the disasters created by insatiable greed. In 2017, winner of the Russian Booker Prize, Olga Slavnikova stuns with a witty, engaging, and remarkable tale of love, obsession, murder, and the lengths people will go to get what they want. “Slavnikova’s characters are magnetizing, and her crystal clear vision of a world in which ‘commercial infinities’ choke off humanism and art is salubriously caustic.” —Booklist
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1258 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Scribner's Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 1258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wharton E.
Publisher : Рипол Классик
ISBN 13 : 5521078479
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (21 download)
Download or read book In Morocco written by Wharton E. and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edith Wharton (1862–1937) was an American novelist and short story writer. Her works show the lives of people of the late nineteenth century, the times of decline in American history. She was the first woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1921. Wharton also was familiar with many famous people of the time, including President Theodore Roosevelt. “In Morocco” is a travelogue about Edith’s journey to Morocco in the final days of the World War I. It colorfully describes her month-long path through the cities and deserts of the country, and all the places she visited - ruins, mosques, palaces, markets, and harems.
