Download or read book Narrow Escapes written by Tanure Ojaide and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narrow Escapes: A Poetic Diary of the Coronavirus Pandemic is a poetic journey that is at once emotional and spiritual. In over 200 distinct poems, the reader follows the poet’s musing from the pandemic’s outbreak to the onset of the second wave. The poems are shaped by and reflect the persistent fear induced by the ubiquity of the virus and the accentuation of life’s uncertainty as never experienced before. In diary form, the poet deploys specific images to present the virus as a leveler because its victims are not defined by class, race, ideology, nationality, or culture. The poems invite readers to go beyond our obsessions with self and materialism by embracing compassion, love, sacrifice, and sensitivity to others. Ranging from the personal, familial, and public to the political and economic, the poet reminds readers of the lurking presence of nonhuman beings and the ways in which they intertwine with human beings. The poems are themselves therapeutic, painting as it were on the canvass of a shaken world, broad strokes of poetic language that render a much better version of an imperfect world.
Download or read book Narrow Escapes and Wilderness Adventures written by Ben East and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-01 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here’s a powerful collection of 21 true action stories—the best of Ben East, his most exciting and inspiring narratives of narrow escape, written over the past 30 years. In each of these thrilling tales, this master outdoor writer recreates a dramatic adventure of an ordinary man, usually alone, facing and surviving a sudden threat to his life. All the stories in NARROW ESCAPES AND WILDERNESS ADVENTURES are true. Wherever possible, Ben East has personally interviewed the survivors of these ordeals. The authenticity, immediacy and color of each adventure is heightened by the wealth of detail the author has culled from local newspaper accounts, hospital records, even the correspondence about these men, written by families and friends. Each spellbinding story in NARROW ESCAPES AND WILDERNESS ADVENTURES unfolds against a great outdoors background: Alaska, Equatorial Africa, the Florida Keys, the Michigan woods and many others. In these locales, the men in Ben East’s stories battle heroically to stay alive as they find themselves hopelessly lost, stranded in sub-zero wastes, confronted by enraged beasts, or swamped by savage seas. Suspense continuously mounts as these amateur hunters and fishermen summon previously untapped wells of courage and endurance and, above all, their will to live when nature on the rampage strikes. In addition to being fascinating reading, this book is, in a real sense, an invaluable survival manual which shows how to improve the safety of your outdoor trips and how to survive dangers that cannot be foreseen.
Download or read book Narrow Escapes written by Tanure Ojaide and published by Spears Media Press. This book was released on 2021-04-02 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narrow Escapes: A Poetic Diary of the Coronavirus Pandemic is a poetic journey that is at once emotional and spiritual. In over 200 distinct poems, the reader follows the poet's musing from the pandemic's outbreak to the onset of the second wave. The poems are shaped by and reflect the persistent fear induced by the ubiquity of the virus and the accentuation of life's uncertainty as never experienced before. In diary form, the poet deploys specific images to present the virus as a leveler because its victims are not defined by class, race, ideology, nationality, or culture. The poems invite readers to go beyond our obsessions with self and materialism by embracing compassion, love, sacrifice, and sensitivity to others. Ranging from the personal, familial, and public to the political and economic, the poet reminds readers of the lurking presence of nonhuman beings and the ways in which they intertwine with human beings. The poems are themselves therapeutic, painting as it were on the canvass of a shaken world, broad strokes of poetic language that render a much better version of an imperfect world.
Download or read book Close Calls and Narrow Escapes written by Cyril Burke and published by . This book was released on 2016-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Narrow Escapes Advernturous Tales of Escapes and Rescues written by Various and published by Learning Island. This book was released on with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two young boys are skating on a frozen pond when they are attacked by a pack of hungry wolves! A sea captain and his mate see two young children on a frozen iceberg that is floating out to sea! A balloonist finds that he has a young boy hanging by a rope from his balloon, 100 feet off the ground! A couple with a baby wakes in the early morning to find a forest fire headed their way! A young Sioux girl tries to help a white family when hostile members of her tribe attack! Two baker boys peer over the edge of the castle wall to see the approach of an attacking army! Two boys jump from their ship to have a race in the ocean, only to discover that a shark has them racing for their lives! Read these seven exciting 15-minute stories of narrow escapes and rescues. Ages 8 and up. Educational Versions have exercises designed to meet Common Core standards. LearningIsland.com believes in the value of children practicing reading for 15 minutes every day. Our 15-Minute Books give children lots of fun, exciting choices to read, from classic stories, to mysteries, to books of knowledge. Many books also work well as hi-lo readers. Open the world of reading to a child by having them read for 15 minutes a day.
Download or read book Adventures and Narrow Escapes in Nicaragua written by Joseph Worth and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Narrow Escapes written by Samuel Oliner and published by Paragon House Publishers. This book was released on 2000-11-27 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Oliner's personal experience of the Holocaust produced memories that have never left him. Oliner's significant epilogue in this new edition both updates his story and helps to show how his narrow escape led to a remarkable career." Narrow Escapes is readable and recommended for all ages, including elementary, high school, and college students."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Kid Pirates written by Allan Zullo and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some volunteered. Others were forced to serve. But each of these young people sailed with the world's most feared pirates-from the notorious Blackbeard and Captain Kidd to Sir Henry Morgan and others. Some of these kids fought side-by-side with the pirates, and others tried to escape. You will never forget their incredible true stories.
Download or read book Guide s Greatest Narrow Escape Stories written by Lori Peckham and published by Review and Herald Pub Assoc. This book was released on 2008-05 with total page 3 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes things happen that convince you Somebody's got your back. You know those close calls that make your heart start racing'or nearly stop. Those nerve-racking experiences that leave you in shock and relief that you made it through. Those are the narrow escapes that make you realize that God is working overtime to keep you safe. Here are the true stories of some astonishing narrow escapes that definitely involved help from Heaven. How else could we explain these stories of survival? Just imagine being held at gunpoint by two drunk men! What about a car stuck on railroad tracks'with a train fast approaching! And just wait until you read about a frightening visit to a fortuneteller, a raging bull running straight toward a girl, and scuba divers trapped under a sheet of ice. Whew! There's nothing like a narrow escape to remind us that God is watching out for us!
Download or read book A Narrow Escape Reprinted from All the Year Round written by Annie Cudlip (formerly Thomas.) and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Narrow Escapes of Solomon Smart written by Mabel Watts and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Solomon Smart's family members explain how they would save him from danger as various animals.
Download or read book Dangling from the Golden Gate Bridge and Other Narrow Escapes written by John Anthony Adams and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Incredible death-defying stories of survival against all odds!"--Cover
Download or read book Mr Toad s Narrow Escapes written by Kate Petty and published by Barron's Educational Series. This book was released on 1992 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mr. Toad and his son Lucky have some dangerous adventures on their search for a winter home and decide to be more careful when they are out and about.
Download or read book Escape from the Edge written by Morris Schnitzer and published by Azrieli Holocaust Survivor. This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memoir of a German Jewish teenager who takes on three different identities and crosses countless borders to escape death at the hands of the Nazis during World War II.
Download or read book The Lost Boys of Sudan written by Jeff Burlingame and published by Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2012-01-15 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents accounts of narrow escapes executed by oppressed individuals and groups while illuminating social issues and the historical background that led to wars in Sudan and the orphaned refugees known as the 'Lost Boys.'
Download or read book Hot with the Bad Things written by Lucia LoTempio and published by Alice James Books. This book was released on 2020-05-12 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These poems take a closer look at violence against women, both physical and psychological. Follow the intersection of fear, identity, and the malleability of the speaker’s own experiences of violence enacted on her by men, particularly a past partner. Imagistic and evocative, the poems ask how are we conditioned into living with violence, and how do we move forward?
Download or read book Walkaway written by Cory Doctorow and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2017-04-25 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kirkus' Best Fiction of 2017 From New York Times bestselling author Cory Doctorow, an epic tale of revolution, love, post-scarcity, and the end of death. "Walkaway is now the best contemporary example I know of, its utopia glimpsed after fascinatingly-extrapolated revolutionary struggle." —William Gibson Hubert Vernon Rudolph Clayton Irving Wilson Alva Anton Jeff Harley Timothy Curtis Cleveland Cecil Ollie Edmund Eli Wiley Marvin Ellis Espinoza—known to his friends as Hubert, Etc—was too old to be at that Communist party. But after watching the breakdown of modern society, he really has no where left to be—except amongst the dregs of disaffected youth who party all night and heap scorn on the sheep they see on the morning commute. After falling in with Natalie, an ultra-rich heiress trying to escape the clutches of her repressive father, the two decide to give up fully on formal society—and walk away. After all, now that anyone can design and print the basic necessities of life—food, clothing, shelter—from a computer, there seems to be little reason to toil within the system. It’s still a dangerous world out there, the empty lands wrecked by climate change, dead cities hollowed out by industrial flight, shadows hiding predators animal and human alike. Still, when the initial pioneer walkaways flourish, more people join them. Then the walkaways discover the one thing the ultra-rich have never been able to buy: how to beat death. Now it’s war – a war that will turn the world upside down. Fascinating, moving, and darkly humorous, Walkaway is a multi-generation SF thriller about the wrenching changes of the next hundred years...and the very human people who will live their consequences. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
