Download or read book Paint A Boy Soldier s Journey written by Simon Hutt and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simon Hutt always wanted to join the Army. In 1989, aged 16, he enlisted in the Royal Artillery and after a years basic training was posted to Germany as a regular soldier. Within months his unit was posted to the Middle East to take part in the first Gulf War... ...Simon was only 17. The devastation and destruction left a big impression and on his return he wondered why the Western World could mobilise its forces to fight for Kuwait, but not the likes of Bosnia or Rwanda. Determined to make a difference, Simon goes Absent Without Leave and travels to the former Yugoslavia to join the Bosnian Croat Army. Fighting for people instead of oil... ...but the scars of war are not only physical.
Download or read book A Little Piece of Ground written by Elizabeth Laird and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2016-02-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Little Piece Of Ground will help young readers understand more about one of the worst conflicts afflicting our world today. Written by Elizabeth Laird, one of Great Britain’s best-known young adult authors, A Little Piece Of Ground explores the human cost of the occupation of Palestinian lands through the eyes of a young boy. Twelve-year-old Karim Aboudi and his family are trapped in their Ramallah home by a strict curfew. In response to a Palestinian suicide bombing, the Israeli military subjects the West Bank town to a virtual siege. Meanwhile, Karim, trapped at home with his teenage brother and fearful parents, longs to play football with his friends. When the curfew ends, he and his friend discover an unused patch of ground that’s the perfect site for a football pitch. Nearby, an old car hidden intact under bulldozed building makes a brilliant den. But in this city there’s constant danger, even for schoolboys. And when Israeli soldiers find Karim outside during the next curfew, it seems impossible that he will survive. This powerful book fills a substantial gap in existing young adult literature on the Middle East. With 23,000 copies already sold in the United Kingdom and Canada, this book is sure to find a wide audience among young adult readers in the United States.
Download or read book Wojtek written by Alan Pollock Alan and published by . This book was released on 2019-05 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: View more details of this book at www.walkerbooks.com.au
Download or read book The Journey That Saved Curious George written by Louise Borden and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2005-09-26 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1940, Hans and Margret Rey fled their Paris home as the German army advanced. They began their harrowing journey on bicycles, pedaling to Southern France with children’s book manuscripts among their few possessions. Louise Borden combed primary resources, including Hans Rey’s pocket diaries, to tell this dramatic true story. Archival materials introduce readers to the world of Hans and Margret Rey while Allan Drummond dramatically and colorfully illustrates their wartime trek to a new home. Follow the Rey’s amazing story in this unique large format book that resembles a travel journal and includes full-color illustrations, original photos, actual ticket stubs and more. A perfect book for Curious George fans of all ages.
Download or read book Thursday s Child Journeys Far and Wide in the Australian Outback written by Clive Thomas and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foundling Peter Tobin lived through a vanished age, a time when the wide Australian outback was opening up to the force of steel rails, steam power, visionary civic builders, and the power of determined men and their horses.In the remote outback of the late 19th century, Peter makes his own way in the world, from drover, sheep shearer and horse breaker, training horses for the South African War, to wealthy man of the land.The saga of a world now gone is told in powerful terms in the novel Thursday?s Child: Journeys Far and Wide in the Australian Outback.
Download or read book Soldiers of the Prince written by Charles Edward Jefferson and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Boys and Girls Bookshelf Little journeys into bookland written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Painting Home written by Erika Jolma and published by Pelican Ventures Book Group. This book was released on 2019-06-21 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the Great War clamors into Finland, Sergeant Matti Ranta of the Finnish Conscripted Corps and his new girlfriend Anna Ojala struggle to keep their lives intact. Matti is sent to the front to lay siege on Leningrad in alliance with a terrible enemy. Torn between his desire to regain his homeland and an aching suspicion that what they are doing isn't right, Matti is forced to make an unimaginable choice to save an orphan who will surely die without his intervention. Set in 1940's Finland and Leningrad, this story weaves two cultures together through the lives of three people who never should have met, but who would be inexplicably drawn together through a great miracle of faith in a time when miracles seem impossible. And in the end, love survives.
Download or read book Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great written by Elbert Hubrard and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-07-16 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great by Elbert Hubrard
Download or read book Selected Travel Writing written by Graham Greene and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2018-11-06 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pair of revelatory travel memoirs from “a superb storyteller . . . [who] had a talent for depicting local color” (The New York Times). “One of the finest writers of any language,” British author Graham Greene embarked on two awe-inspiring and eye-opening journeys in the 1930s—to West Africa and to Mexico (The Washington Post). Greene would find himself both shaken and inspired by these trips, which would go on to inform his novels. Journey Without Maps: When Graham Greene set off from Liverpool in 1935 for what was then an Africa unmarked by colonization, it was to leave the known transgressions of his own civilization behind for those unknown. First by cargo ship, then by train and truck through Sierra Leone, and finally on foot, Greene embarked on a dangerous and unpredictable 350-mile, four-week trek through Liberia with his cousin and a handful of servants and bearers into a world where few had ever seen a white man. For Greene, this odyssey became as much a trip into the primitive interiors of the writer himself as it was a physical journey into a land foreign to his experience. “One of the best travel books [of the twentieth] century.” —The Independent The Lawless Roads: This eyewitness account of religious and political persecution in 1930s Mexico inspired The Power and the Glory, the British novelist’s “masterpiece” (John Updike). In 1938, Greene, a burgeoning convert to Roman Catholicism, was commissioned to expose the anticlerical purges in Mexico. Churches had been destroyed, peasants held secret masses in their homes, religious icons were banned, and priests disappeared. Traveling under the growing clouds of fascism, Greene was anxious to see for himself the effect it had on the people. Journeying through the rugged and remote terrain of Chiapas and Tabasco, Greene’s emotional, gut response to the landscape; the sights and sounds; the oppressive heat; and the people’s fear, despair, resignation, and fierce resilience makes for a vivid and powerful chronicle. “[A] singularly beautiful travel book.” —New Statesman
Download or read book Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters written by Elbert Hubbard and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-07-29 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters by Elbert Hubbard
Download or read book Strategies that Work written by Stephanie Harvey and published by Stenhouse Publishers. This book was released on 2007 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes strategies teachers can use to promote reading comprehension in students from kindergarten through eighth grade; and includes examples of student work, illustrations, and other reference tools.
Download or read book Otherworld Journeys written by Carol Zaleski and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1987 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the evidence surrounding near-death experiences, with researchers' findings, first-person accounts of survivors, and possible medical or psychological explanations placing this material in historical perspective.
Download or read book The Boy s Book of Modern Travel and Adventure written by Merideth Johnes and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Buffalo Bill s America written by Louis S. Warren and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2006-12-05 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody was the most famous American of his age. He claimed to have worked for the Pony Express when only a boy and to have scouted for General George Custer. But what was his real story? And how did a frontiersman become a worldwide celebrity? In this prize-winning biography, acclaimed author Louis S. Warren explains not only how Cody exaggerated his real experience as an army scout and buffalo hunter, but also how that experience inspired him to create the gigantic, traveling spectacle known as Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show. A dazzling mix of Indians, cowboys, and vaqueros, they performed on two continents for three decades, offering a surprisingly modern view of the United States and a remarkably democratic version of its history. This definitive biography reveals the genius of America’s greatest showman, and the startling history of the American West that drove him and his performers to the world stage.
Download or read book Around the World in 366 Tales January Journeys written by Steve Wilson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-01-18 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten-year-old Sadie Meadows is reading in bed on New Year's Eve when she finds a book called The World from Your Bedroom - There and Back Again, but when she opens it up and begins to read, she is a little disappointed to see it is nothing more than a travel book packed with pages detailing hundreds of places across the world. She reads the first page, then puts the book down just as sleep claims her at the instant that the New Year arrives. She awakes to find that, instead of being in her bedroom at home in Skipton, somehow she has been transported to Wexford in the Republic of Ireland, the location that she had just read about in the book. There follow a series of adventures, each set in a different location, as Sadie finds herself travelling across the globe as she attempts to get back home again. Her journeys this month take her to south-western Europe, North Africa and the extreme north of the North American landmasses.
Download or read book Journeys Across Niagara written by D. K. LeVick and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2011-12-14 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A faded picture sets in motion a perilous journey for five young men, who not only encounter harrowing adventure in the forbidden Niagara Gorge, but are forced to confront the swirling illusions of the world and the God they knewchanging their lives forever. Journeys across Niagara brings together a series of historical events, in a twist of mystery and revelation, with a group of 1962 teenagers caught up in a changing world around them. The ice-bridge of Niagara Fallssteeped in history, fraught with tragedylures them from a world they know into the mysterious Niagara Gorge. As in a time machine, they enter an exhilarating world of massive ice sculptors, impassable rapids, and unassailable walls of ice. Coming face-to-face with the mighty falls, they emerge in a struggle of life and death with a Niagara they never knew existed. Peeling back time, you will meet the hermit living on the falls, achieving his quest to become one with it. Experience the day the falls stopped, exploring a riverbed never before exposeduntil the water returns in a frenzy. Witness slavery through the eyes of a runaway girl riding the Underground Railroad. Cultures clash when the path of a young soldier converges with a young Iroquois brave at Devils Hole massacre. More than a simple tale of camaraderie and adventure, this is a fascinating tale rich in both historical fact and stories of visitors journeying through Niagara into the tapestry of Kevin and his friends search to find what God really is in their lives. Journeys across America is a kaleidoscope journey of adventure and history exploring the questions confronting people of all ages.
