Download or read book The Drifting Clouds written by Gary L. Edgar and published by Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency. This book was released on 2018-02-26 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of Tran Van Tuan, a Vietnamese man struggling to survive through wars, six decades of hardship, and the ever-present threat of death, so he could realise his dreams. Born in North Vietnam during World War II, Tuan is abandoned in infancy by his father. The family is forced to flee the post-war fighting between the returned French colonialists and the Viet Minh nationalists. A harrowing period as refugees ends with the defeat of the French and the family exodus to Saigon. Journey with Tuan through the desperate years of what the Vietnamese call “the American War,” the death of his beloved mother, his fight to educate himself and rise above poverty, his eventual marriage, and the chaos and drama of the fall of Saigon to the Communists. Tuan clings to the dream of freedom as he faces the threat of execution, forced labour camps, the collapse of his marriage, and a final daring escape by boat that almost ends in death. Repatriated to Australia from a Malaysian refugee camp, he strives against the odds once again to fulfil his destiny as an artist, committed to portraying the sufferings of his generation through his visionary canvases. Compelling, courageous, and immensely touching, The Drifting Clouds speaks simply, yet eloquently of the indomitable nature of the human spirit that sustains hope even in the darkest hours.
Download or read book Drifting Clouds Between China and Australia written by Wei-ping Liu and published by Wild Peony Pty Limited. This book was released on 2002 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Liu Wei-ping (b. 1915, China) was recruited as a diplomat and sent to Australia in early 1945. He was a scholar and not a politician, and when the People's Republic of China was established in 1949, he decided to remain in Australia. He formalized his academic qualifications, and in 1956 joined the Chinese Studies teaching staff at the University of Sydney. The book tells of pre-war China and post-war Australia, as well as negotiating life in a new cultural environment.
Download or read book Drifting Clouds written by Frank Robinson and published by . This book was released on 2020-12 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Darcie Tredwell edited and Illistrated this children's book.Frank K. Robinson is the original author of the poem, But Darcie Tredwell, who has studied this poem for years, is the artist and illustrator of this 2020 work.
Download or read book Book of Clouds written by Chloe Aridjis and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-10-31 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tatiana, a young Mexican woman, is adrift in Berlin. Choosing a life of solitude, she takes a job transcribing notes for the reclusive Doktor Weiss. Through him she meets 'ant illustrator turned meteorologist' Jonas, a Berliner who has used clouds and the sky's constant shape-shifting as his escape from reality. As their three paths intersect and merge, the contours of all their worlds begins to change...
Download or read book Drifting Clouds written by E. B. and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Annual Report of the Minister of Mines for the Year Ending written by British Columbia. Dept. of Mines and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Before the Dawn written by Joseph A. Altsheler and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-10 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By Joseph A. Altsheler is a historical work set during the American Civil War. Altsheler's narrative offers a glimpse into the history of Richmond during this tumultuous period, providing readers with a vivid historical perspective.
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Download or read book Nature written by Sir Norman Lockyer and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Ireland Literature and the Coast written by Nicholas Allen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The island of Ireland is home to one of the world's great literary and artistic traditions. This book reads Irish literature and art in context of the island's coastal and maritime cultures, beginning with the late imperial experiences of Jack and William Butler Yeats and ending with the contemporary work of Anne Enright and Sinead Morrissey. It includes chapters on key historical texts such as Erskine Childers's The Riddle of the Sands, and on contemporary writers including Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin and Kevin Barry. It sets a diverse range of writing and visual art in a fluid panorama of liquid associations that connect Irish literature to an archipelago of other times and places. Situated within contemporary conversations about the blue and the environmental humanities, this book builds on the upsurge of interest in seas and coasts in literary studies, presenting James Joyce, Elizabeth Bowen, John Banville, and many others in new coastal and maritime contexts. In doing so, it creates a literary and visual narrative of Irish coastal cultures across a seaboard that extends to a planetary configuration of imagined islands.
Download or read book A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man written by James Joyce and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-01-12 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aonia edizioni. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a semi-autobiographical novel by James Joyce, first serialised in the magazine The Egoist from 1914 to 1915, and published first in book format in 1916 by B. W. Huebsch, New York. The first British edition was published by the Egoist Press in February 1917. The story describes the formative years of the life of Stephen Dedalus, a fictional alter ego of Joyce and an allusion to the consummate craftsman of Greek mythology, Daedalus. A novel written in Joyce's characteristic free indirect speech style, A Portrait is a major example of the Kunstlerroman (an artist's Bildungsroman) in English literature. Joyce's novel traces the intellectual and religio-philosophical awakening of young Stephen Dedalus as he begins to question and rebel against the Catholic and Irish conventions with which he has been raised...(Wikipedia)
Download or read book Japan written by Patrick Smith and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-03-30 with total page 547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Japanese are in the process of re-creating themselves--an endeavor they have undertaken at intervals throughout history, always prompted by a combination of domestic and global forces. In this landmark book, Patrick Smith asserts that a variety of forces--the achievement of material affluence, the Cold War's end, and the death of Emperor Hirohito--are now spurring Japan once again toward a fundamental redefinition of itself. As Smith argues, this requires of the West an equally thorough reevaluation of the picture we have held of Japan over the past half-century. He reveals how economic overdevelopment conceals profound political, social, and psychological under-development. And by refocusing on "internal history" and the Japanese character, Smith offers a new framework for understanding Japan and the Japanese as they really are. The Japanese, he says, are now seeking to alter the very thing we believe distinguishes them: the relationship between the individual and society. Timely, measured, and authoritative, this book illuminates a new Japan, a nation preparing to drop the mask it holds up to the West and to steer a course of its own in the world. Jacket image: The Great Wave of Kanagawa, from 36 Views of Mount Fuji (detail) by Katsushika Hokusai. Private collection.
