Download or read book Once an Outlaw written by Debbi Rawlins and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2009-03-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the rough-and-tumble town of Deadwood in 1876, cowboy Sam Keegan is about as hard as they get. Considered a real sexy piece of man by the local womenfolk, Sam runs the town livery stable. And he was last seen in the company of a pretty gal in a wedding dress, Reese Winslow…who escaped one of the local brothels! The little lady claims to be a doctor—from the future, no less! Beware of her, as she's causing no end of problems. Mostly for Sam, who is real skittish about the law. But trouble or not, the man can't seem to stop himself from wanting Reese…and learnin' firsthand what women from the future like to do with hot, hard cowboys!
Download or read book All These Are Memories of My Voyage written by David Brett and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2008 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ALL THESE ARE MEMORIES OF MY VOYAGE has been described as ` a story of sibling rivalry, mathematics, medicine, fashion, art and unrequited loves ending in death '. But that is merely the background.. `Mention Talavera Street and you'd hear..."What, live there! No way! Bloody Poles and Irish - which is worse?" Of the two Ryan girls, Serena decides that she is a Polish, but Little Jen, with her pale skin and her red hair, has to be an Irish. Thrown together as sisters they grow up sharing everything. This was all very well when they were little, but more difficult as they grew older and the bonds of childhood frayed. By the time they are adult it is a comlete disaster for the two men who are carried along in their wake. The result in a miniature saga of complicity, comedy and obsessional love lit up by "glints from the giant, glittering, mirror-scaled serpent of madness". Only Jennifer's self-sacrifice makes a space for the others to live completed lives.' The story spreads over three decades and several countries, and over the life of science and the life of art. It includes heart-break, film, computing and sex. ALL THESE ARE MEMORIES OF MY VOYAGE is the culmination of a long series of short stories, plays and radio scripts which have appeared in various guises and under different titles during the past 30 years. Of one selection `TheScotsman' wrote that they were `deep and intelligent as well as nifty'.
Download or read book A Nocturnal Expedition Round My Room written by Xavier de Maistre and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Swell written by LIZ. CLARK and published by Patagonia. This book was released on 2024-05-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rarities of These Lands written by Claudia Swan and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-09 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The early years of the seventeenth century saw a great flourishing of Dutch culture. In the arts, this was the era of Vermeer and Rembrandt, as well as the development of a local art market. Commerce extended around the world, with state-sponsored trading companies importing foreign goods. Politically, the Netherlands became the first nation-state in Europe, in 1648. In this book, Claudia Swan considers all these aspects together, examining the material culture of the period-the designed, manufactured, and hand-crafted materials and wares-to show how the Dutch encounter with so-called "exotic" goods played a fundamental role in the country's political formation"--
Download or read book A Collection Of Voyages written by William Dampier and published by . This book was released on 1729 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Whispering Leaf written by Debatrayee Banerjee and published by Partridge Publishing. This book was released on 2015-08-07 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Whispering Leaf. . . with each and every poem presents a song or a painting- a song composed by our heart; a painting sketched by our subconscious mind.
Download or read book Atlantic Voyages written by John McAleer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-06 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As he prepared to embark for India in 1774, Alexander Mackrabie's excitement at the sights to be seen and novelties to be experienced was palpable. Mackrabie's journey was conducted under the auspices of the London-based East India Company and was one of the many thousands of Company voyages that brought Europeans into contact with Asian countries and cultures, as well as numerous people and places along the way. Atlantic Voyages tells the story of travellers like Mackrabie as they navigated the waters of the Atlantic Ocean, reflecting on who and what they had left behind in Europe, looking forward to new challenges in Asia, and evaluating the sights and smells, sounds and tastes, hopes and expectations, fears and regrets, that regaled their senses and played on their minds as they sailed along the way. It charts the tension between tedium and terror on the one hand, and exhilaration and excitement on the other, attempting to understand the maritime space of the Atlantic as it was experienced by the people who traversed its waters. The lives of the people carried by East Indiamen were deeply affected by their Atlantic experiences. They confronted the reality of shipboard life: its seasickness and boredom, its cramped living conditions, its questionable dining fare, and its severely restricted privacy. They acclimatised to the rhythms of the ocean and the vicissitudes of the weather. They encountered rites of passage and ceremonies of initiation on the high seas. They prepared themselves for cultural disorientation and a host of unusual sights and sensations. And they wondered at the extraordinary beauty of the elements around them - the sea, the sky, the islands - and the strangeness of their inhabitants, human and animal alike. The ship's passage played a crucial role in shaping the responses and experiences of those individuals surrounded by its wooden walls. Their words bring to life this maritime journey, illuminate the experiences of the people who undertook it, and contribute to our understanding of the place of the Atlantic Ocean in wider histories of the East India Company and the British Empire in this period.
Download or read book Collection of the Early Voyages Travels and Discoveries of the English Nation written by Richard Hakluyt and published by . This book was released on 1811 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in All Parts of the World written by John Pinkerton and published by . This book was released on 1812 with total page 910 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tuscany in the Age of Empire written by Brian Brege and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2021-07-13 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the American Association for Italian Studies Book Prize A new history explores how one of Renaissance Italy’s leading cities maintained its influence in an era of global exploration, trade, and empire. The Grand Duchy of Tuscany was not an imperial power, but it did harbor global ambitions. After abortive attempts at overseas colonization and direct commercial expansion, as Brian Brege shows, Tuscany followed a different path, one that allowed it to participate in Europe’s new age of empire without establishing an empire of its own. The first history of its kind, Tuscany in the Age of Empire offers a fresh appraisal of one of the foremost cities of the Italian Renaissance, as it sought knowledge, fortune, and power throughout Asia, the Americas, and beyond. How did Tuscany, which could not compete directly with the growing empires of other European states, establish a global presence? First, Brege shows, Tuscany partnered with larger European powers. The duchy sought to obtain trade rights within their empires and even manage portions of other states’ overseas territories. Second, Tuscans invested in cultural, intellectual, and commercial institutions at home, which attracted the knowledge and wealth generated by Europe’s imperial expansions. Finally, Tuscans built effective coalitions with other regional powers in the Mediterranean and the Islamic world, which secured the duchy’s access to global products and empowered the Tuscan monarchy in foreign affairs. These strategies allowed Tuscany to punch well above its weight in a world where power was equated with the sort of imperial possessions it lacked. By finding areas of common interest with stronger neighbors and forming alliances with other marginal polities, a small state was able to protect its own security while carving out a space as a diplomatic and intellectual hub in a globalizing Europe.
Download or read book The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York Mariner written by Daniel Defoe and published by . This book was released on 1831 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Robinson Crusoe and the Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-03-06 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Running away to sea to escape a legal career, Robinson Crusoe ends up having rather more excitement than he'd bargained for in this infamous adventure yarn by Daniel Defoe. Only just surviving his first storm at sea, Crusoe goes on to become a successful merchant, until he's seized by pirates on his second voyage. He manages to escape and reinvents himself once more in his second career as a plantation owner. Lured to sea again as part of a slave-gathering expedition, Crusoe finds himself shipwrecked off the coast of Trinidad and in his third and most famous role - the original castaway. Crusoe salvages what he can from his wreck and establishes an existence on the island, as well as fitting in a religious conversion, adopting a pet parrot and goat, saving Friday from cannibals, seizing a ship from its mutineers and sails her back to England, to find that things have changed in the 3 decades that he's been away... Published in 1719, although many early readers initially assumed that Robinson Crusoe was a factual autobiography of a real man named Crusoe, the book was actually the first example of realistic fiction. It was a popular innovation, being reprinted four times in its first year, and going on to have a huge influence on writers as diverse as Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Beatrix Potter, and has been adapted many times for stage and screen. Unusually, this edition also includes The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, where the action returns to the island and other exotic locations including Madagascar, Cambodia and Siberia. The original map of the island from the 1719 edition is included, plus a new map showing Crusoe's route, as well as a Foreword by Ray Mears.
Download or read book The Voyages of Pedro Fernandez de Quiros 1595 1606 written by Pedro Fernandes de Queirós and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Complete Adventures Huck Finn Tom Sawyer and Robinson Crusoe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Complete by Mark Twain The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe written by Mark Twain and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2024-06-22 with total page 900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book 1: Embark on a river journey full of adventure and self-discovery with “ Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain .” Mark Twain's iconic novel follows the escapades of Huck Finn and Jim, a runaway slave, as they navigate the Mississippi River. Twain's masterful storytelling explores themes of friendship, freedom, and the moral complexities of society. Book 2: Join the mischievous escapades of a small-town boy with “ The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Complete by Mark Twain .” Mark Twain introduces readers to the irrepressible Tom Sawyer as he navigates the challenges of adolescence in a 19th-century American town. Twain's humor and insight make this classic a timeless portrayal of youth, friendship, and the thrill of adventure. Book 3: Experience the solitude and survival instincts of a marooned sailor with “ The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe .” Daniel Defoe's timeless tale follows Robinson Crusoe as he grapples with isolation on a desert island, confronting nature's challenges and his own inner struggles. This pioneering work of fiction remains a captivating exploration of human resilience and the quest for self-discovery.
Download or read book The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book ROBINSON CRUSOE written by Daniel Defoe and published by The Anglo Egyptian Bookshop. This book was released on 2018-04-30 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
