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The Smell Of The Continent

Author : James Munson
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0330536826
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book The Smell Of The Continent written by James Munson and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-12-10 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘I remember being much amused last year, when landing at Calais,’ wrote Mrs Frances Trollope in her 1835 book, Paris and the Parisians, ‘at the answer made by an old traveller to a novice ... making his first voyage. “What a dreadful smell!” said the uninitiated stranger ... “it is the smell of the continent, sir!” replied the man of experience. And so it was.’ Historians James Munson and Richard Mullen examine just what it was about the smell of the continent that so attracted British travellers in the hundred years from the fall of Napoleon to the outbreak of the First World War. It was the first time in history that the British, en masse, set out to discover Europe. Drawing on contemporary accounts, diaries and letters, Munson and Mullen offer a compelling portrait of the Victorians abroad, many of them convinced that their country was not only vastly superior but also the envy of the world. From the glowing review coverage: 'Pure charm' A.N. Wilson, Reader's Digest 'An entertaining and sometimes surprising, thought-provoking history' Sunday Times

The Smell of the Continent

Author : Richard Mullen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781408459409
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (594 download)

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Download or read book The Smell of the Continent written by Richard Mullen and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I remember being much amused last year, when landing at Calais," wrote Mrs. Frances Trollope in her 1835 book, "Paris and the Parisians," "at the answer made by an old traveler to a novice . . . making his first voyage. 'What a dreadful smell ' said the uninitiated stranger . . . 'It is the smell of the continent, sir ' replied the man of experience. And so it was." Historians James Munson and Richard Mullen examine just what it was about the smell of the continent that so attracted British travelers in the hundred years from the fall of Napoleon to the outbreak of the First World War. It was the first time in history that the British, en masse, set out to discover Europe. Drawing on contemporary accounts, diaries, and letters, Munson and Mullen offer a compelling portrait of the Victorians abroad, many of them convinced that their country was not only vastly superior but also the envy of the world. Their attitudes to foreign food, modes of transport and habits were often as uncharitable then as now and complaints about "beastly abroad" abound. But there were also those intrepid souls who were genuinely interested in other countries what they could learn from them. "The Smell of the Continent" vividly reveals that the gulf between the "traveler" and the "tourist" was as wide in our great-grandparents' time as it is today.

The 8th Continent

Author : Matt London
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698146840
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (981 download)

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Download or read book The 8th Continent written by Matt London and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-09-16 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HAVE YOU EVER WANTED TO CREATE A PLACE WHERE YOU COULD MAKE YOUR OWN RULES? Evie and Rick Lane are determined to transform the Great Pacific Garbage Patch—a real life pile of floating garbage—into an eighth continent, using a special formula developed by their father. This new continent will be a place where their family can make their own rules and live free from the intervention of Winterpole, a global governing agency run by bumbling bureaucrats. But eleven-year-old pink-and-plastic-obsessed Vesuvia Piffle, the secret mastermind behind the villainous Condo Corp, also has her sights set on this new land, and she wants to use it to build a kind of Miami-on-steroids. Now, it’s a race against time and across the world as the kids gather the items they need to create their continent. Because whoever controls the eighth continent controls our future. And the future can’t be both “green” and pink. BUILD IT - RUN IT - RULE IT at 8thContinentBooks.com

The Night Bird

Author : Catherine Asaro
Publisher : LUNA
ISBN 13 : 1426818823
Total Pages : 573 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book The Night Bird written by Catherine Asaro and published by LUNA. This book was released on 2008-07-01 with total page 573 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries the women of Aronsdale have lived freely among the green and misted valleys. Creatures of exotic beauty and sensuality, they possess powerful skills of enchantment…and young Allegro is no different. But her life—and Aronsdale's independence—is threatened when Jazid nomads invade, carrying Allegro into the desert as a prized trophy…or worse. Until an unexpected ally falls under her spell. From the moment feared Jazid warrior Markus Onyx sees the alluring beauty, he knows he has found his queen. But even the promise of love cannot quell Allegro's determination to save her homeland. Summoning her powers, she casts herself north—out of passion's grip—and into the dark heart of conflict.…

On the Scent of a Continent

Author : Martin Baenninger
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
ISBN 13 : 1645448568
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (454 download)

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Download or read book On the Scent of a Continent written by Martin Baenninger and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2019-12-10 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the Scent of a Continent: Memories of Africa—a young, recent college graduate brought up and educated in the United States finds himself travelling on his first business trips through Africa on behalf of a Swiss-based multinational fragrance corporation, encountering, and doing his best to cope with situations, people, and challenges that he never imagined, and learning lessons that he did not even know were there to learn. At the same time, a travel memoir and a coming-of-age story, On the Scent of a Continent recounts a series of captivating vignettes that are instructive and often funny and give an interesting insight into what this unique and entrancing continent was like fifty years ago. Interwoven in the text is also much aviation lore with absorbing and extensive background information about some of the airlines and airplanes of the mid twentieth century. The diverse and eventful episodes recounted in the book are both charming and informative, and seventy-four illustrations bring the witty and lighthearted text even more to life.

Iron Curtain

Author : Anne Applebaum
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0385536437
Total Pages : 803 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)

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Download or read book Iron Curtain written by Anne Applebaum and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 803 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the long-awaited follow-up to her Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag, acclaimed journalist Anne Applebaum delivers a groundbreaking history of how Communism took over Eastern Europe after World War II and transformed in frightening fashion the individuals who came under its sway. At the end of World War II, the Soviet Union to its surprise and delight found itself in control of a huge swath of territory in Eastern Europe. Stalin and his secret police set out to convert a dozen radically different countries to Communism, a completely new political and moral system. In Iron Curtain, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Anne Applebaum describes how the Communist regimes of Eastern Europe were created and what daily life was like once they were complete. She draws on newly opened East European archives, interviews, and personal accounts translated for the first time to portray in devastating detail the dilemmas faced by millions of individuals trying to adjust to a way of life that challenged their every belief and took away everything they had accumulated. Today the Soviet Bloc is a lost civilization, one whose cruelty, paranoia, bizarre morality, and strange aesthetics Applebaum captures in the electrifying pages of Iron Curtain.

Antarctica

Author : Karen Romano Young
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781913750527
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (55 download)

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Download or read book Antarctica written by Karen Romano Young and published by . This book was released on 2022-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Antarctica contains eons of secrets that scientists are just beginning to uncover -- from wildlife to scientific marvels, this continent may hold the key to the future of the planet.

Scent of Triumph

Author : Jan Moran
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250048907
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Scent of Triumph written by Jan Moran and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-03-31 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Jan Moran is the new queen of the epic romance."- USA Today best-selling author Rebecca Forster When French perfumer Danielle Bretancourt steps aboard a luxury ocean liner, leaving her son behind in Poland with his grandmother, she has no idea that her life is about to change forever. The year is 1939, and the declaration of war on the European continent soon threatens her beloved family, scattered across many countries. Traveling through London and Paris into occupied Poland, Danielle searches desperately for her the remains of her family, relying on the strength and support of Jonathan Newell-Grey, a young captain. Finally, she is forced to gather the fragments of her impoverished family and flee to America. There she vows to begin life anew, in 1940s Los Angeles. There, through determination and talent, she rises high from meager jobs in her quest for success as a perfumer and fashion designer to Hollywood elite. Set between privileged lifestyles and gritty realities, Scent of Triumph by commanding newcomer Jan Moran is one woman's story of courage, spirit, and resilience.

Brushwood, Picked Up on the Continent

Author : Orville Horwitz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brushwood, Picked Up on the Continent written by Orville Horwitz and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Cruise to Cape Town: A Journey into a New South Africa

Author : Hugh Leggatt
Publisher : Grosvenor House Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1781485720
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (814 download)

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Download or read book Cruise to Cape Town: A Journey into a New South Africa written by Hugh Leggatt and published by Grosvenor House Publishing. This book was released on 2012-10-10 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An expatriate South African's detailed portrait of life aboard the superliner Queen Mary 2 as she sails from Southampton to Cape Town, followed by impressions of the spectacular Cape, with a tour to little-known upcountry destinations. This Travel/Memoir is spiced with autobiographical reminiscences of apartheid years, an English heritage, gold mining magnates and a meeting with Nelson Mandela.

The Lost Continent

Author : Bill Bryson
Publisher : VNR AG
ISBN 13 : 9780060161583
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (615 download)

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Download or read book The Lost Continent written by Bill Bryson and published by VNR AG. This book was released on 1989 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to." And, as soon as Bill Bryson was old enough, he left. Des Moines couldn't hold him, but it did lure him back. After ten years in England he returned to the land of his youth, and drove almost 14,000 miles in search of a mythical small town called Amalgam, the kind of smiling village where the movies from his youth were set. Instead he drove through a series of horrific burgs, which he renamed Smellville, Fartville, Coleslaw, Coma, and Doldrum. At best his search led him to Anywhere, USA, a lookalike strip of gas stations, motels and hamburger outlets populated by obese and slow-witted hicks with a partiality for synthetic fibres. He discovered a continent that was doubly lost: lost to itself because he found it blighted by greed, pollution, mobile homes and television; lost to him because he had become a foreigner in his own country.

Popular Voyages and Travels throughout the continent and islands of Europe (Asia, Africa, and America) ... With engravings

Author : afterwards JAMIESON THURTLE (Frances)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book Popular Voyages and Travels throughout the continent and islands of Europe (Asia, Africa, and America) ... With engravings written by afterwards JAMIESON THURTLE (Frances) and published by . This book was released on 1820 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Lost Continent

Author : C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne
Publisher : Standard Ebooks
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book The Lost Continent written by C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne and published by Standard Ebooks. This book was released on 2017-02-06T23:35:56Z with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lost Continent, initially published as a serial in 1899, remains one of the enduring classics of the “lost race” genre. In it we follow Deucalion, a warrior-priest on the lost continent of Atlantis, as he tries to battle the influence of an egotistical upstart empress. Featuring magic, intrigue, mythical monsters, and fearsome combat on both land and sea, the story is nothing if not a swashbuckling adventure. The Lost Continent was very influential on pulp fiction of the subsequent decades, and echoes of its style can be found in the work of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Robert E. Howard, and others. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.

National Geographic Kids Beginner's World Atlas, 4th Edition

Author : National Geographic Kids
Publisher : Atlas
ISBN 13 : 1426335520
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book National Geographic Kids Beginner's World Atlas, 4th Edition written by National Geographic Kids and published by Atlas. This book was released on 2019 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our world is constantly changing and this refreshed atlas from the map experts at National Geographic captures the state of the planet with colorful maps, easy-to-grasp stats, and lots of fun facts--the perfect reference for young kids and students. Learn all about the people, places, animals, and environments of our world in the fourth edition of this engaging atlas. It's got a fresh, kid-friendly design; fun, lively photos; and all the latest, greatest geographic and political information that make this such a valuable resource. It's the perfect reference for kids to learn about lands close to home or oceans away--ideal for classroom use, homework help, and armchair exploration.

Cathedral of the Wild

Author : Boyd Varty
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1400069858
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cathedral of the Wild written by Boyd Varty and published by Random House. This book was released on 2014-03-11 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This is a gorgeous, lyrical, hilarious, important book. . . . Read this and you may find yourself instinctively beginning to heal old wounds: in yourself, in others, and just maybe in the cathedral of the wild that is our true home.”—Martha Beck, author of Finding Your Own North Star Boyd Varty had an unconventional upbringing. He grew up on Londolozi Game Reserve in South Africa, a place where man and nature strive for balance, where perils exist alongside wonders. Founded more than eighty years ago as a hunting ground, Londolozi was transformed into a nature reserve beginning in 1973 by Varty’s father and uncle, visionaries of the restoration movement. But it wasn’t just a sanctuary for the animals; it was also a place for ravaged land to flourish again and for the human spirit to be restored. When Nelson Mandela was released after twenty-seven years of imprisonment, he came to the reserve to recover. Cathedral of the Wild is Varty’s memoir of his life in this exquisite and vast refuge. At Londolozi, Varty gained the confidence that emerges from living in Africa. “We came out strong and largely unafraid of life,” he writes, “with the full knowledge of its dangers.” It was there that young Boyd and his equally adventurous sister learned to track animals, raised leopard and lion cubs, followed their larger-than-life uncle on his many adventures filming wildlife, and became one with the land. Varty survived a harrowing black mamba encounter, a debilitating bout with malaria, even a vicious crocodile attack, but his biggest challenge was a personal crisis of purpose. An intense spiritual quest takes him across the globe and back again—to reconnect with nature and “rediscover the track.” Cathedral of the Wild is a story of transformation that inspires a great appreciation for the beauty and order of the natural world. With conviction, hope, and humor, Varty makes a passionate claim for the power of the wild to restore the human spirit. Praise for Cathedral of the Wild “Extremely touching . . . a book about growth and hope.”—The New York Times “It made me cry with its hard-won truths about human and animal nature. . . . Both funny and deeply moving, this book belongs on the shelf of everyone who seeks healing in wilderness.”—BookPage

The Decline and Fall of Europe

Author : Francesco M. Bongiovanni
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137009063
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book The Decline and Fall of Europe written by Francesco M. Bongiovanni and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moving from the birth of Europe to the current crisis, this irreverent and topical book questions the relevance of the European Union today, addressing issues ranging from immigration and Turkish integration to the sovereign debt crisis, and whether this will prove to be merely the beginning of intractable economic challenges.

Continent in Limbo

Author : Edith Sulkin
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595148522
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book Continent in Limbo written by Edith Sulkin and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-10-07 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A personal story of Europe's people in the crucial years, 1946-47. The guns were silent but the peace had not yet begun. Edith Sulkin traveled as a 23-year-old reporter through England, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Holland, and Germany. This report is in terms of people rather than governments. Equipped with their language and the knowledge of how to approach them, she was able to assemble a remarkable picture of how the people of Europe came through the war. Sulkin found a continent suspended between the ideologies of the East and West, with many of its people desperately seeking the harbor of a middle way.