Download or read book Green Hills and Blue Lagoons written by John Penisten and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reminiscence of life as a U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer in the Fiji Islands, South Pacific, in 1968-69. These sketches describe the experiences, difficulties, and rewards of earning one's living in a foreign culture where one must learn to speak the language, follow the customs, and adopt the lifestyle of the local people in order to survive. The text relates the adventures of three young Americans, fresh out of college and filled with youthful idealism, and how they came to be on an island called Vanua Levu, the "Big Land," in Fiji. These three young men, with varied backgrounds from different parts of the United States, came together for this one period in their lives. Far from their respective roots, they learned and shared much, about themselves and with others in a communal culture. These stories are true and accurate accounts of real experiences and adventures. They share the successes and failures, the joys and sorrows, the good and bad, as these young Americans break the cultural barriers around them and become immersed in a totally different culture. These stories reflect their dedication and resolve and their adoption and acceptance into the Fijian culture and society into which they were placed. This is a record of what they accomplished and gained under difficult circumstances as U.S. Peace Corps Volunteers in the small island country of Fiji in the South Pacific.
Download or read book The Green Hill written by Sophie Pierce and published by Unbound Publishing. This book was released on 2023-03-02 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2017, Sophie Pierce’s life changed forever when her twenty-year-old son Felix died suddenly and unexpectedly. Thrown into an unimaginable new reality, she had to find a way to survive. By writing letters to Felix – composed during walks and swims taken close to his burial place by the River Dart – Sophie gradually learned how to live in the landscape of sudden loss, navigating the weather and tides of grief. The Green Hill collects these letters alongside Sophie’s account of the years following Felix’s death, into which she weaves poignant memories of his life. What results is a deeply moving, beautifully captured record of how – amid the rivers and rocks of Dartmoor, and in the sea off the South Devon coast – Sophie was able to hold on to and nurture her bond with Felix, both in her mind and through a physical engagement with the landscape: actively mourning, rather than grieving. This book is a celebration of the natural world and the role it plays in our lives and relationships, as well as an examination of how beauty, a sense of place and the passing seasons can help us contend with our own mortality. Above all, The Green Hill is one woman’s story of navigating through trauma and loss, and towards a fragile, complicated kind of joy. 'In The Green Hill, Sophie Pierce writes about the sudden death of her son Felix with an aching and gentle honesty. Struggling to come to terms with the loss not only of the young man he was, but everything that he would eventually become, she finds herself overwhelmed not only by grief, but also by love. Her writing is illuminated by a remarkable attention to the beauty and consolation of the natural world, and by the wisdom and tenderness which has been so painfully acquired. This is a book that will be a great comfort to those who need it' Sarah Perry, author of The Essex Serpent and Melmoth 'Unforgettable, necessary. This beautiful book is a map, compass and ration of courage for anyone arrived in the landscape of sudden loss. Full of love and learning' Tanya Shadrick 'The Green Hill is an extraordinary book... I thought of the fairy tale in which a captured princess must weave clothes from stinging nettles: Sophie Pierce has wrought something beautiful and useful from the darkest pain' Cressida Connolly, novelist and critic
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Download or read book Reframing the Musical written by Sarah K. Whitfield and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-03-01 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This critical and inclusive edited collection offers an overview of the musical in relation to issues of race, culture and identity. Bringing together contributions from cultural, American and theatre studies for the first time, the chapters offer fresh perspectives on musical theatre history, calling for a radical and inclusive new approach. By questioning ideas about what the musical is about and who it for, this groundbreaking book retells the story of the musical, prioritising previously neglected voices to reshape our understanding of the form. Timely and engaging, this is required reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students of musical theatre. It offers an intersectional approach which will also be invaluable for theatre practitioners.
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Download or read book The Blue Lagoon written by Henry De Vere Stacpoole and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-23 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The epoch-making novel The Blue Lagoon has inspired numerous movie adaptations and has been disturbing the imagination of the fans of adventure sea stories for more than a century. It is the most successful and famous novel by Henry De Vere Stacpoole, telling a story of life and fate of two marooned kids who are left to themselves on a tropical island. They grow relying only on their wit, resourcefulness and the bounty of tropical nature that gives them food and shelter. The two fall in love with each other as they grow older.
Download or read book In the World My Journey from Nowhere to Everywhere written by Dr. Gerard Brooker and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2018-02-05 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From being born without a left carotid artery to being abused as a stuttering child by alcoholic parents, Dr. Brooker tells his story about the battles, including PTSD. He has fought to overcome these difficulties and to go on with his worldwide inspirational crusade to feed hungry children.
Download or read book The Blue Lagoon written by Henry De Vere Stacpoole and published by online-ebooks.info. This book was released on 1908 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Orientation written by Wallace Collins and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2004-05 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Orientation: A Journey is an autobiographical account of a group of African American tourists who traveled on a tour to Europe, Asia and North Africa. The writer inserts fictional situations in the book to enable the reader to view the bareback narrative in relation to, or as a divergence from the autobiographical portions of the book. As a reality, these segments in the book are its core that lends itself to the fiction he creates, which propels the writer's rush of awareness, and bares his accelerated consciousness, enabling him to carry the fictitious segments of the book on a non-liner, narrative, course.
Download or read book Portraits of Persistence written by Javier Auyero and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles of triumph and hardship amid massive inequality in Latin America.
Download or read book Orientation a Journey written by Wallace B. Collins and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2004-05-10 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Orientation: A Journey is an autobiographical account of a group of African American tourists who traveled on a tour to Europe, Asia and North Africa. The writer inserts fictional situations in the book to enable the reader to view the bareback narrative in relation to, or as a divergence from the autobiographical portions of the book. As a reality, these segments in the book are its core that lends itself to the fiction he creates, which propels the writer's rush of awareness, and bares his accelerated consciousness, enabling him to carry the fictitious segments of the book on a non-liner, narrative, course.
Download or read book The Way in Ocean written by Leonard and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-09-02 with total page 790 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young boy sailed on board of a small drift netter to north, cold Norwegian and Greenland seas; he survived the vicious storms and got great discoveries. The Arctic and Barents Sea opened their secrets to him and to those brave and stubborn, who did not afraid to meet the challenge of cold, wind, ice, andwhite bears. He went through Greenland, Labrador and Canadian-USA waters, Sable Island, Sargasso Sea with its enigmatic Bermuda Triangle, Mexico Gulf, Caribbean Sea, South Atlantic and Antarctic; mysterious events, discoveries and meetings with other people of this planet and touch with the heroic exploratory deeds of past. And then has been a final act of the way, the Arctic Tale, which witness that a human being cannot survive against the will of nature. The stories and related events are true and factual with some permissible imagination and exaggeration e.g. if in the book the waves were 10m high, in reality the waves were 8-9m only, still in the range of storms and hurricanes He got all the way through himself, but still impersonated, at least for 30-40%, the other guys at ocean.
Download or read book The Blue Lagoon written by H. De Vere Stacpoole and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-16 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Blue Lagoon" (A Romance) by H. De Vere Stacpoole. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
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Download or read book The Blue Lagoon The Garden of God Sequel written by Henry De Vere Stacpoole and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-23 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Blue Lagoon tells about two English kids marooned on a tropic island during a huge storm. Their only adult company is an aging sailor, who fathers the kids until their teenage years and dies. They both grow up, finding food in the wild and falling in love with each other, until one day, a fate drives their little family unprotected into the open ocean. Yet, the father of the boy makes a rescue expedition and it turns out the two boats sail to meat each other. The second book of the sequence tells about the life of their son, Dick, who repeats the fate of his parents and lives on a deserted island where he finds love, occupation and exciting adventures.
