Download or read book Memoirs of a Dutch Village Boy written by Pieter W Broekharst and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2022-04-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MEMOIRS OF A VILLAGE BOY is a life story, but not an entire autobiography. The main character Frederik Brocard talks about his childhood and his friends, and about the neighborhood where he grew up, the neighbors and other local residents. It is a story about everyday events, but also about love and loss, about joy and sadness, amorous encounters, and erotic escapades. It is about his social life then and now and the return to his native village after years of residence in France. He finds new neighbors and new friends and feels like the village boy of yesteryear again. It is a mixture of factual experiences with a nod to the truth, and events that originated entirely from the author's brain. What is autobiographical is a question to which the answer will remain shrouded in darkness. Fact and fantasy, always with a quip, are connected to each other. It is a story about a life as a life could have been.

Download or read book Dutch written by Edmund Morris and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2011-10-19 with total page 909 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, the only biography ever authorized by a sitting President--yet written with complete interpretive freedom--is as revolutionary in method as it is formidable in scholarship. When Ronald Reagan moved into the White House in 1981, one of his first literary guests was Edmund Morris, the Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of Theodore Roosevelt. Morris developed a fascination for the genial yet inscrutable President and, after Reagan's landslide reelection in 1984, put aside the second volume of his life of Roosevelt to become an observing eye and ear at the White House. During thirteen years of obsessive archival research and interviews with Reagan and his family, friends, admirers and enemies (the book's enormous dramatis personae includes such varied characters as Mikhail Gorbachev, Michelangelo Antonioni, Elie Wiesel, Mario Savio, François Mitterrand, Grant Wood, and Zippy the Pinhead), Morris lived what amounted to a doppelgänger life, studying the young "Dutch," the middle-aged "Ronnie," and the septuagenarian Chief Executive with a closeness and dispassion, not to mention alternations of amusement, horror,and amazed respect, unmatched by any other presidential biographer. This almost Boswellian closeness led to a unique literary method whereby, in the earlier chapters of Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan, Morris's biographical mind becomes in effect another character in the narrative, recording long-ago events with the same eyewitness vividness (and absolute documentary fidelity) with which the author later describes the great dramas of Reagan's presidency, and the tragedy of a noble life now darkened by dementia. "I quite understand," the author has remarked, "that readers will have to adjust, at first, to what amounts to a new biographical style. But the revelations of this style, which derive directly from Ronald Reagan's own way of looking at his life, are I think rewarding enough to convince them that one of the most interesting characters in recent American history looms here like a colossus."

Download or read book Idylls of a Dutch Village Eastloorn written by Siebold Ulfers and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Back Then Memoirs of a Country Boy written by Larry L. Laws and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-09-14 with total page 595 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Larry learned early on that a mans hand-shake is his bond. To this day he retains that bond as well as one of honesty and compassion for others in all his dealings. Most men are honest, but at times ambition or greed can influence the best of intentions. Although Larry had a humble beginning, he rose above it to become a very successful man and was able to change dysfunctional living practices with his own family. He instilled love, honesty and respect in their upbringing all the while exhibiting patience and understanding. His greatest love is for God, his family, friends and nature. That love has been an inspiration in the writing of both Poetic Expressions and now his autobiography. Larry also managed to take time out of his busy schedule to work with other kids as noted by all his years of coaching baseball and never missing any event that they were involved in, even if he had to leave work early. His love of nature is unequalled. Larrys descriptions have the ability to take you there. Sometimes that love of nature has resulted in butting heads with preservationists as to timberland and renewable resources. This is especially so with them filing lawsuits to stop burnt and diseased timber harvesting. A sense of humor didnt pass him by either as noted in his autobiography again and again, as he says, a man without mirth is akin to a horse without hooves. For both must tread lightly upon the rocky roads of life. To sum it up Larry quotes an unknown author, the rigors of senior years may prove to be very challenging Have we put up a good fight throughout or is it the confusion of genes and how they are inherited to blame?

Download or read book Memoirs of a Dutch Mudsill written by John Henry Otto and published by Kent State University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captain John Henry Otto was a keen observer; his memoirs paint a vivid picture of the life of a common soldier and of a line officer at the company level during the Civil War.

Download or read book Memories of A Country Boy written by Victor Allman and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You are the creator of your destiny. With these words, Victor Allman sums up his life story. This book tells of the many challenges he encountered and how he dealt with them. Allman proceeds from the view that all challenges are surmountable if you are goal-driven and results-oriented. Born in Barbados, Allman’s goal was to become a lawyer, his grandmother’s dying wish. A winding road, replete with fascinating detours, took him into teaching, and then into the Royal Barbados Police Force and international athletics, ultimately leading to further education and a long career in Canada.

Download or read book Story of Little Jan the Dutch Boy written by Helen L. Campbell and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Boy at the Dike written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Readers learn how one child can make a difference when a young boy saves a village by plugging a hole in a dike with his finger."--Publisher.

Download or read book A View of the Ocean written by Jan De Hartog and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2009-03-25 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The internationally best-selling novelist, playwright Jan de Hartog, author of The Captain and The Peaceable Kingdom, moves and inspires us with this simple, elegant story of his mother and himself. She was a quiet, unassuming woman married to a giant of a man, a famous Protestant theologian and pastor, simple, bighearted and big-muscled, who moved through life with gusto and the commotion of a wagon train and who, but for God, might have become a pirate or a general. He adored his wife and didn’t like anyone else around to claim her attention. Their sons saw him as a monster of egocentricity, a tyrant, a blustering bully; to her he was a sensitive, shy, helpless man with a mission. She believed in him from the moment they met, and under the wings of her faith in him as a philosopher, he became one. During their thirty years of marriage this woman’s only concern was to enable her husband to hearken to “the voice of God.” After his death she discovered somewhere deep inside a core of drop-forged steel. She rose to the challenge of widowhood and, continuing his work, took his place in the world. The full splendor of this tiny, frail woman’s character, intelligence, and courage became evident during her World War II internment in a Japanese camp in the Dutch East Indies, when she managed to arrange a cease-fire between the Dutch Army and Indonesian guerillas. After her release from prison camp, she returned to Amsterdam, and resumed her simple life, offering spiritual advice to those seeking solace. Finally, she was faced with the ultimate test of her spirit: a diagnosis of a cancer too far advanced for treatment. De Hartog tells us how his mother’s blazing courage through it all inspired his own spiritual awakening as he found, in her final months, the strength, the power, and the acceptance to see her through to the end. From the Hardcover edition.

Download or read book The Village Sang to the Sea written by Bruce McAllister and published by . This book was released on 2013-02 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Cold War a 13-year-old American boy, Brad Lattimer, moves with his family to a fishing village in Northern Italy. It is no ordinary village. But Brad is welcomed like a long-lost cousin. His teacher is a gentle hunchback with a lisp who is more than he seems to be; and there are witches in the olive groves who will poison your cat, but not for the reasons you imagine. In those same groves there is a village so small it shouldn't be a village, its red doorways too short for normal men to pass through easily; and at night, on its narrow cobble street, creatures that should not exist walk while a single baby cries forever. On the sands of the next cove sits a pale girl who somehow knows the poetry of the great Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and wants you to drown with her, just as Percy drowned near this village over a century ago. This is the village where Brad, too, will start to dream strange dreams and write his first stories; where, he will fall sick because the village's magic has a hold on him: It wants him to become something other than a boy--something that can never leave it--something it can have as its own forever. "The Village Sang to the Sea: A Memoir of Magic is a uniquely haunting book. It's a beauty in the fullest meaning of the word. --Peter S. Beagle, World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement winner and author of The Last Unicorn The Village Sang to the Sea is that rarity: a book that delicately and perfectly captures the magic we all know underlies the world. You will not forget this book. Not ever." --Nancy Kress, Hugo and Nebula awards winner "The Village Sang to the Sea: A Memoir of Magic is just what its sub-title promises: magic. It s evocative, authentic, beautiful and completely compelling. --James P. Blaylock, World Fantasy Award winner "Bruce McAllister's gorgeous new novel is magical realism at its very best. I loved it. --Terri Windling, Bram Stoker Award winner and co-editor of the The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror series "In our early years we all believe and trust in endless possibilities. Most of us soon leave this realm, though some of us return from time to time. If we call it merely 'imagination, ' we don't reach the truly magical. The Village Sang to the Sea: A Memoir of Magic got me there. It's a delight." --Ron Arias, National Book Award nominee and author of The Road to Tamazunchale

Download or read book A Dutch Fork Farm Boy written by J. M. Eleazer and published by . This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Little Dutch Boy written by Sarah Toast and published by Publications International. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Retells the tale of the little boy whose resourcefulness and courage saved his country from being destroyed by the ocean.

Download or read book All Ships Follow Me written by Mieke Eerkens and published by Picador. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engrossing, epic saga of one family’s experiences on both sides of WWII, All Ships Follow Me questions our common narrative of the conflict and our stark notions of victim and perpetrator, while tracing the lasting effects of war through several generations. In March 1942, Mieke Eerkens’ father was a ten-year-old boy living in the Dutch East Indies. When the Japanese invaded the island he, his family, and one hundred thousand other Dutch civilians were interned in a concentration camp and forced into hard labor for three years. After the Japanese surrendered, Mieke’s father and his family were set free in a country that plunged immediately into civil war. Across the globe in the Netherlands, police carried a crying five-year-old girl out of her home at war’s end, abandoned and ostracized as a daughter of Nazi sympathizers. This was Mieke's mother. She would be left on the street in front of her sealed home as her parents were taken away and imprisoned in the same camps where the country’s Jews had recently been held. Many years later, Mieke’s parents met, got married, and moved to California, where she and her siblings were born. While her parents lived far from the events of their past, the effects of the war would continue to be felt in their daily lives and in the lives of their children. All Ships Follow Me moves from Indonesia to the Netherlands to the United States, and spans generations, as Mieke recounts her parents' lives during and just after the war, and travels with them in the present day to the sites of their childhood in an attempt to understand their experiences and how it formed them. All Ships Follow Me is a deeply personal, sweeping saga of the wounds of war, and the way trauma can be passed down through generations.

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Download or read book Idylls of a Dutch Village Eastloorn Classic Reprint written by S. Ulfers and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-13 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Idylls of a Dutch Village (Eastloorn) I have observed the beauty of a farmer's life among his meadows and cornfields, under the canopy of clouds. I have also observed the beauty of a minister's work among these people. And it is about these things that I wish to tell you. If there be a moral in the story, so much the better! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Henry s Dutch Country Anthology Vol I written by Henry J. Kauffman and published by Masthof Press & Bookstore. This book was released on 1995 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A super collection of 78 short articles on subjects ranging from axes to blacksmithing to summerhouses and warming pans. A sampling of other articles covers antiques, bells and bell towers, Britannia, butter molds, pewter spoons, copper-smithing, decorated chests, early American fireplaces, gunmaking, folk art in metals, Conestoga Wagon, Pennsylvania Rifle, locksmiths and locks, Pennsylvania pewterers, the riddle of two front doors, silversmithing, stills, Dutch barns, etc. (182pp. illus. hardcover. Masthof Press, 1995.) Also available is Henry's Dutch Country Anthology, Vol. II (item #2122).

Download or read book More Than a Memoir written by Nelson J. Leonard and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2006 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this unusual autobiography you will find the full story of a life spanning much of the twentieth century. Selective reading will disclose How a teacher/scientist may develop The importance of focus and integrity The fascination of doing chemical and biochemical research with students and colleagues The excitement of discovery and of facing new challenges Personal details about family life and friendships Career choices and diversions Plus In the 23 (!) appendices, you will find details concerning Other activities attendant upon a career in science The influence of conferences, symposia, and international scientific connections The coworkers who built the reputation of the author