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Author : Frances Power Cobbe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Peak in Darien written by Frances Power Cobbe and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Arthur Ransome
Publisher : eBookIt.com
ISBN 13 : 1456636383
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (566 download)
Download or read book Swallows and Amazons (Swallows and Amazons Series #1) written by Arthur Ransome and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2021-01-29 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ultimate children's classic - long summer days filled with adventure. John, Susan, Titty and Roger sail their boat, Swallow, to a deserted island for a summer camping trip. Exploring and playing sailors is an adventure in itself but the island holds more excitement in store. Two fierce Amazon pirates, Nancy and Peggy, challenge them to war and a summer of battles and alliances ensues. 'My childhood simply would not have been the same without this book. It created a whole world to explore, one that lasted long in the imagination after the final page had been read' - Marcus Sedgwick
Author : John Keats
Publisher : Clipper Audio
ISBN 13 : 9781471233494
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Realms of Gold written by John Keats and published by Clipper Audio. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Keats' letters paint an unforgettably vivid and moving picture of CLIPPER the richly productive but also tragic final years of the poet's life. As he ponders on the nature of the writer's craft, he must first confront his brother's death from tuberculosis and then the imminent prospect of his own, tormented by the fear that he will not live to consummate his relationship with Fanny Brawne. This general selection also includes many of his finest poems, versions of which often appeared for the first time within the letters themselves.
Author : John McKendrick
Publisher : Birlinn
ISBN 13 : 085790261X
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (579 download)
Download or read book Darien written by John McKendrick and published by Birlinn. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Company of Scotland and its attempts to establish the colony of Caledonia on the inhospitable isthmus of Panama in the late seventeenth century is one of the most tragic moments of Scottish history. Devised by William Paterson, the stratagem was to create a major trading station between Europe and the East. It could have been a triumph, but inadequate preparation and organization ensured it was a catastrophe - of the 3000 settlers who set sail in 1688 and 1699, only a handful returned, the rest having succumbed to disease, and the enormous financial loss was a key factor in ensuring union with England in 1707. Based on archive research in the UK and Panama, as well as extensive travelling in Darien itself, John McKendrick explores this fascinating and seminal moment in Scottish history and uncovers fascinating new information from New World archives about the role of the English and Spanish, and about the identities of the settlers themselves.
Author : David Pearson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (291 download)
Download or read book Upon a Peak in Darien written by David Pearson and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A coming-of-age novella about a young man's summer singing and playing piano at a Vermont resort. A number of comic situations involving golf, tennis, college girls, gay antique dealers and the popular songs of the 1950's.
Author : James Baldwin
Publisher : E-Kitap Projesi & Cheapest Books
ISBN 13 : 6059496768
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (594 download)
Download or read book Thirty More Famous Stories Retold written by James Baldwin and published by E-Kitap Projesi & Cheapest Books. This book was released on 2024-02-04 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS discovered America on the 12th of October, 1492. He had spent eighteen years in planning for that wonderful first voyage which he made across the Atlantic Ocean. The thoughts and hopes of the best part of his life had been given to it. He had talked and argued with sailors and scholars and princes and kings, saying, "I know that, by sailing west across the great ocean, one may at last reach lands that have never been visited by Europeans." But he had been laughed at as a foolish dreamer, and few people had any faith in his projects. At last, however, the king and queen of Spain gave him ships with which to make the trial voyage. He crossed the ocean and discovered strange lands, inhabited by a people unlike any that had been known before. He believed that these lands were a part of India. When he returned home with the news of his discovery there was great rejoicing, and he was hailed as the hero who had given a new world to Spain. Crowds of people lined the streets through which he passed, and all were anxious to do him honor. The king and queen welcomed him to their palace and listened with pleasure to the story of his voyage. Never had so great respect been shown to any common man. But there were some who were jealous of the discoverer, and as ready to find fault as others were to praise. "Who is this Columbus?" they asked, "and what has he done? Is he not a pauper pilot from Italy? And could not any other seaman sail across the ocean just as he has done?" One day Columbus was at a dinner which a Spanish gentleman had given in his honor, and several of these persons were present. They were proud, conceited fellows, and they very soon began to try to make Columbus uncomfortable. "You have discovered strange lands beyond the sea," they said. "But what of that? We do not see why there should be so much said about it. Anybody can sail across the ocean; and anybody can coast along the islands on the other side, just as you have done. It is the simplest thing in the world." Columbus made no answer; but after a while he took an egg from a dish and said to the company, "Who among you, gentlemen, can make this egg stand on end?"
Author : Frances Power Cobbe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Peak in Darien written by Frances Power Cobbe and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lucasta Miller
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0525655840
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (256 download)
Download or read book Keats written by Lucasta Miller and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2022-04-19 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dazzling new look into the short but intense, tragic life and remarkable work of John Keats, one of the greatest lyric poets of the English language, seen in a whole new light, not as the mythologized Victorian guileless nature-lover, but as the subversive, bawdy complex cynic whose life and poetry were lived and created on the edge. In this brief life, acclaimed biographer Lucasta Miller takes nine of Keats's best-known poems—"Endymion"; "On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer"; "Ode to a Nightingale"; "To Autumn"; "Bright Star" among them—and excavates how they came to be and what in Keats's life led to their creation. She writes of aspects of Keats's life that have been overlooked, and explores his imagination in the context of his world and experience, paying tribute to the unique quality of his mind. Miller, through Keats’s poetry, brilliantly resurrects and brings vividly to life, the man, the poet in all his complexity and spirit, living dangerously, disdaining respectability and cultural norms, and embracing subversive politics. Keats was a lower-middle-class outsider from a tragic and fractured family, whose extraordinary energy and love of language allowed him to pummel his way into the heart of English literature; a freethinker and a liberal at a time of repression, who delighted in the sensation of the moment. We see how Keats was regarded by his contemporaries (his writing was seen as smutty) and how the young poet’s large and boisterous life—a man of the metropolis, who took drugs, was sexually reckless and afflicted with syphilis—went straight up against the Victorian moral grain; and Miller makes clear why his writing—considered marginal and avant-garde in his own day—retains its astonishing originality, sensuousness and power two centuries on.
Author : Arthur Ransome
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448161444
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (481 download)
Download or read book Coot Club written by Arthur Ransome and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-03-07 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Let fly jib sheet! Slack away main! Fenders out!’ Dick and Dorothea – also known as The Ds – arrive in Norfolk all ready to learn how to sail. They couldn’t hope for a better teacher than Tom Dudgeon. But Tom is in a spot of trouble. After seeing the beastly Margoletta moored clean across the nests of his beloved coots, Tom set the motorcruiser adrift. Now the enemy have offered a bounty on his head. Can they save the birds’ nest from almost certain destruction? Will they avoid being caught by the awful Hullabaloos? Only some brave friends and quick thinking stands between them and disaster... Includes exclusive material: In ‘The Backstory’ you can test your knowledge of the book, learn about the adventurous author and get some handy facts about birds and boats. Vintage Children’s Classics is a twenty-first century classics list aimed at 8-12 year olds and the adults in their lives. Discover timeless favourites from The Jungle Book and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland to modern classics such as The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.
Author : Jon Sparks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781841145990
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (459 download)
Download or read book Arthur Ransome's Lake District written by Jon Sparks and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award winning writer and photographer Jon Sparks has produced an in-depth guide to the Lake District landscapes, which in many places has changed remarkably little since Arthur Ransome's time.
Author : Erica McAlpine
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691203768
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book The Poet's Mistake written by Erica McAlpine and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-09 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What our tendency to justify the mistakes in poems reveals about our faith in poetry—and about how we read Keats mixed up Cortez and Balboa. Heaney misremembered the name of one of Wordsworth's lakes. Poetry—even by the greats—is rife with mistakes. In The Poet's Mistake, critic and poet Erica McAlpine gathers together for the first time numerous instances of these errors, from well-known historical gaffes to never-before-noticed grammatical incongruities, misspellings, and solecisms. But unlike the many critics and other readers who consider such errors felicitous or essential to the work itself, she makes a compelling case for calling a mistake a mistake, arguing that denying the possibility of error does a disservice to poets and their poems. Tracing the temptation to justify poets' errors from Aristotle through Freud, McAlpine demonstrates that the study of poetry's mistakes is also a study of critical attitudes toward mistakes, which are usually too generous—and often at the expense of the poet's intentions. Through remarkable close readings of Wordsworth, Keats, Browning, Clare, Dickinson, Crane, Bishop, Heaney, Ashbery, and others, The Poet's Mistake shows that errors are an inevitable part of poetry's making and that our responses to them reveal a great deal about our faith in poetry—and about how we read.
Author : Homer
Publisher : Wordsworth Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781840221176
Total Pages : 982 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (211 download)
Download or read book Chapman's Homer written by Homer and published by Wordsworth Editions. This book was released on 2000 with total page 982 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Homer bidding farewell to his wife, Odysseus bound to the mast, Penelope at the loom, Achilles dragging Hector's body round the walls of Troy - scenes from Homer have been portrayed in every generation. Chapman's translations are argued to be two of the liveliest and readable.
Author : Katie Takayasu
Publisher : Victory Belt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1628604611
Total Pages : 633 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (286 download)
Download or read book Plants First written by Katie Takayasu and published by Victory Belt Publishing. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 633 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you heard that a plant-forward lifestyle is better for you, but you don’t know why you should make plant-based foods a bigger part of your diet? Or maybe you understand the why, but you’ve had trouble figuring out how to improve your vegetable intake. In Plants First, Dr. Katie Takayasu helps you understand the reasons for prioritizing plant-powered foods to clean up the hormonal cascades that cause cravings and leave you feeling sick and tired. She offers approachable science lessons that explain how a plant-forward diet can correct issues like inflammation and hormonal imbalances to help your body find its healthy weight and experience more restorative sleep. Then Dr. Katie explains how to make small, steady shifts in your lifestyle to calm and refresh your brain and body through her five-day plant-powered health reset, which will help tap into your body’s innate wisdom for natural detoxification. She explains how to stock your Kitchen Pharmacy with good foods and supplements for a plant-forward diet, and with her yummy, family-friendly recipes, you will start creating balance on your plate and move along the path to a healthier lifestyle. Sample Recipes Include: • Almond Furikake Crusted Halibut with Roasted Vegetables, Black Rice and Coconut Lime Cream • Ginger Mandarin Almond Cake with Chocolate Ganache • Lavender Antioxidant Dream Milk • Slow Cooker Apple Pie Oatmeal • Roasted Chicken with Pears & Figs on Swiss Chard • Thai Coconut Curry Noodle Soup • Arugula, Lentil and Roasted Eggplant • “Menstrual Health” Salad with Lemon Balsamic Dressing • Kale & Quinoa Greek Salad • Coriander & Flax Roasted Eggplant
Author : Levison Wood
Publisher : Atlantic Monthly Press
ISBN 13 : 0802165648
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Walking the Americas written by Levison Wood and published by Atlantic Monthly Press. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A trek through Central America from the author of Walking the Himalayas, “just the kind of guy you want with you on an adventure” (The Washington Post). Beginning in the Yucatán—and moving south through Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama—Wood’s journey takes him from sleepy barrios to glamorous cities to Mayan ruins lying unexcavated in the wilderness. Wood encounters indigenous tribes in Mexico, revolutionaries in a Nicaraguan refugee camp, fellow explorers, and migrants heading toward the United States. The relationships he forges along the way are at the heart of his travels—and the personal histories, cultures, and popular legends he discovers paint a riveting history of Mexico and Central America. While contending with the region’s natural obstacles like quicksand, flashfloods, and dangerous wildlife, he also partakes in family meals with local hosts, learns to build an emergency shelter, negotiates awkward run-ins with policemen, and witnesses the surreal beauty of Central America’s landscapes, from cascading waterfalls and sunny beaches to the spectacular ridgelines of the Honduran highlands. Finally, Wood attempts to cross one of the world’s most impenetrable borders: the Darién Gap route from Panama into South America, a notorious smuggling passage and the wildest jungle he has ever navigated. A Sunday Times bestseller and longlisted for the Banff Mountain Book Award for adventure travel, Walking the Americas is a thrilling personal tale, an accomplished piece of cultural reportage, and a breathtaking journey across some of the most diverse and unpredictable regions on earth. “A thrilling narrative trek . . . [Wood] elevates this already fascinating landscape with lively prose that combines travel journal with history lessons, memoir, and survivalist handbook.”—Booklist
Author : Eliab Myers
Publisher : Wentworth Press
ISBN 13 : 9781361491010
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)
Download or read book CHAMPION TEXT BK ON EMBALMING written by Eliab Myers and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-25 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Neil Gaiman
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061991120
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (619 download)
Download or read book Good Omens written by Neil Gaiman and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-06-28 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic collaboration from the internationally bestselling authors Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, soon to be an original series starring Michael Sheen and David Tennant. ?Season 2 of Good Omens coming soon! “Good Omens . . . is something like what would have happened if Thomas Pynchon, Tom Robbins and Don DeLillo had collaborated. Lots of literary inventiveness in the plotting and chunks of very good writing and characterization. It’s a wow. It would make one hell of a movie. Or a heavenly one. Take your pick.” —Washington Post According to The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (the world's only completely accurate book of prophecies, written in 1655, before she exploded), the world will end on a Saturday. Next Saturday, in fact. Just before dinner. So the armies of Good and Evil are amassing, Atlantis is rising, frogs are falling, tempers are flaring. Everything appears to be going according to Divine Plan. Except a somewhat fussy angel and a fast-living demon—both of whom have lived amongst Earth's mortals since The Beginning and have grown rather fond of the lifestyle—are not actually looking forward to the coming Rapture. And someone seems to have misplaced the Antichrist . . .
Author : George Leo de St. M. Watson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Story of Napoleon's Death-mask written by George Leo de St. M. Watson and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
