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Book The Outlaws of Sherwood

Download or read book The Outlaws of Sherwood written by Robin McKinley and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-11-18 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Newbery Medal–winning author of The Hero and the Crown brings the Robin Hood legend to vivid life. Young Robin Longbow, subapprentice forester in the King’s Forest of Nottingham, must contend with the dislike of the Chief Forester, who bullies Robin in memory of his popular father. But Robin does not want to leave Nottingham or lose the title to his father’s small tenancy, because he is in love with a young lady named Marian—and keeps remembering that his mother too was gentry and married a common forester. Robin has been granted a rare holiday to go to the Nottingham Fair, where he will spend the day with his friends Much and Marian. But he is ambushed by a group of the Chief Forester’s cronies, who challenge him to an archery contest . . . and he accidentally kills one of them in self-defense. He knows his own life is forfeit. But Much and Marian convince him that perhaps his personal catastrophe is also an opportunity: an opportunity for a few stubborn Saxons to gather together in the secret heart of Sherwood Forest and strike back against the arrogance and injustice of the Norman overlords.

Book Sherwood Forest

Download or read book Sherwood Forest written by Camille Roy and published by Futurepoem. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poems.

Book Sherwood Forest and the Dukeries

Download or read book Sherwood Forest and the Dukeries written by Ian D. Rotherham and published by . This book was released on 2013-07-18 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sherwood Forest is arguably the most famous historic landscape in the world, immortalized through storytelling, mythology, romantic books, and ultimately by Hollywood. This is the setting for Robin Hood, Little John and the rest of the 'Merry Men'. Yet behind the glamorous legends are equally fascinating places, people and histories. An important and vast medieval 'Forest' and extensive heath, the area was farmed and settled before that time. After the break-up of the Royal Hunting Forest came the famous establishment of great halls, houses and parks of the aristocracy, the so-called 'Dukeries', and then industry, with deep coal mining, wartime military training, and twentieth-century forestry. From the nineteenth century onwards, the region was a notable tourism and leisure destination, and the sites of famous oak trees such as the Major Oak were places one could visit to touch the past. Tourism continues today as visitors from around the world come to experience the forest's nature, history and myth. This book is not a guide to the region but a companion to the area, its history, its people and its landscape. As such, this volume will be of great interest to visitors to the region, to residents and to all those fascinated by the history and the legends of Sherwood and the Dukeries. The book focuses on Sherwood Forest and the Dukeries area, but in the context of the surrounding towns and villages and is richly illustrated with images from the past, including photographs, postcards, paintings and antique prints from over two hundred years.

Book Robin Hood   The Shadows of Sherwood Forest

Download or read book Robin Hood The Shadows of Sherwood Forest written by Roehrig Tilman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An action-filled retelling of the story o. Robin Hood as seen through the eyes of his trusted strong right hand, Little John. When peasant John Little witnesses the Sheriff of Nottingham’s men destroying his village for John’s crime of poaching deer to feed his people, he flees into the tangle of Sherwood Forest with the only other survivor, his young foster daughter Marian. But dangers lurk there, too: the outlaw Robin Hood soon catches them and takes them prisoner. Robin Hood does not quite match the heroic stories that are already told about him. For all Robin’s dazzling bravado and clever tricks, the reality of his fight against oppression by the Norman nobility is a rough and dirty life in the forest, outlawed and constantly hunted. As the newly dubbed Little John gets an education in how to fit into Robin’s dangerous band, Marian, too, grows into a force to be reckoned with. Thrust into life in a world of fearless bandits, uncertain allies, and merciless vendettas, Little John and maid Marian earn their place—and build an unshakable friendship with Robin Hood. Told with earthy historical detail and unforgettable characters, this is a must for any young reader fascinated by knights and fights, kings and peasants, or who wants to delve into the many tales that built the Robin Hood legend

Book Seeing the Forest for the Trees

Download or read book Seeing the Forest for the Trees written by Dennis Sherwood and published by Nicholas Brealey International. This book was released on 2011-03-30 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to use Systems Thinking to improve your business.

Book Robin Hood of Sherwood Forest

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  • Author : Ann McGovern
  • Publisher : Turtleback Books
  • Release : 2001-08
  • ISBN : 9780606214018
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Robin Hood of Sherwood Forest written by Ann McGovern and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2001-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic edition presents the adventures of the legendary Robin Hood and his band of loyal followers, who were friends to the poor left to starve by unfair laws under the reign of England's Prince John. Illustrations.

Book The Secret of Sherwood Forest

Download or read book The Secret of Sherwood Forest written by Guy H. Woodward and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In August of 1942, Great Britain faced a desperate situation. German bombers hammered the nation's industrial cities and towns daily, and the toll in loss of life and resources rose steadily. Guy H. Woodward and Grace Steele Woodward tell for the first time the story of how the British, with the aid of forty-four oilfield roughnecks from the United States, developed vital shallow pools of oil in Britain's famed Sherwood Forest. The Secret of Sherwood Forest is based on extensive research using thousands of reports, letters, and documents released to the authors in 1968.

Book Sherwood Forest

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  • Author : Lisa Croll Di Dio
  • Publisher : PublishAmerica
  • Release : 1999-12-01
  • ISBN : 9781588511287
  • Pages : 412 pages

Download or read book Sherwood Forest written by Lisa Croll Di Dio and published by PublishAmerica. This book was released on 1999-12-01 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The forest was a place of shadows and secrets...and in Sherwood, the Old Ways were very much alive... Enter the forest...it is May Eve, in the springtime of the world. Danu, who has led the forest people for 35 years, passes her legacy on to one younger and stronger, Maid Marian. Together with the powerful priestesses, Aspen, Rowan, Willow and Laurel, she is charged with the task of encircling Sherwood with protective magic, for this a time of transition, a time of choice, a perilous time for those who know the Goddess. The lines have been drawn and even the Fairy Queen plays her hand in a battle between faith and fear, wisdom and greed, magic and intolerance...

Book Biting the Error

Download or read book Biting the Error written by Gail Scott and published by Coach House Books. This book was released on 2000-11-19 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the best way to tell a story? In this anthology, the first-ever collection of essays by innovative, cutting-edge writers on the theme of narration, forty of the continent's top experimental writers describe their engagement with language, storytelling and the world. The anthology includes renowned writers like Kathy Acker, Dennis Cooper, Nicole Brossard, Daphne Marlatt, Lydia Davis and Kevin Killian, writers who have spent years pondering the meaning of storytelling and how storytelling functions in our culture, as well as presenting a new generation of brilliant thinkers and writers, like Christian Bšk, Corey Frost, Derek McCormack and Lisa Robertson. Contemporizing the friendly anecdotal style of Montaigne and written by daring writers of different ages, of different origins, from many different regions of the continent, from Mexico to Montreal, these essays run the gamut of mirth, prose poetry, tall tales and playful explorations of reader/writer dynamics. They discuss aesthetics founded on new explorations in the field of narrative, the mystery that is the body, questions of how representation may be torqued to deal with gender and sexuality, the experience of marginalized people, the negotiation between different orders of time, the 'performance' of outlaw subject matter. Brave, energetic and fresh, Biting the Error tells a whole new story about narrative. Biting the Error is edited by Mary Burger, Robert GlŸck, Camille Roy and Gail Scott, the co-founders of the Narrativity Website Magazine, based at the Poetry Center, San Francisco State University.

Book A Leaf In The Wind   From Sherwood Forest to the Amazon Jungle

Download or read book A Leaf In The Wind From Sherwood Forest to the Amazon Jungle written by Christopher Bark and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-11-12 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Journey deep into Nature, Shamanism and Alternate Realities. It describes the author's roots and early travels. Followed by, a lifetime of travel adventures into India and the Peruvian Amazon, among others. A major theme is the writer's use of psychedelic plants and his progression into the ancient world of Shamanism. An incredible story told with honesty and humour.

Book Bold Robin Hood and His Outlaw Band

Download or read book Bold Robin Hood and His Outlaw Band written by Louis Rhead and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the famous outlaw, drawn by the author from traditional balads, which are the source of the material for 22 of the tales.

Book Lady of the Forest

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  • Author : Jennifer Roberson
  • Publisher : Kensington Books
  • Release : 2013-06-01
  • ISBN : 075829221X
  • Pages : 640 pages

Download or read book Lady of the Forest written by Jennifer Roberson and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautiful synthesis of Robin Hood legends. --Marion Zimmer Bradley With her king a captive and her coffers drained, England is left in turmoil during the Crusades. After the death of her father in the Holy Land, Lady Marian of Ravenskeep finds herself alone--and at the mercy of men vying for her lands and her beauty. Thrust into games of political intrigue, the sheltered knight's daughter soon learns to trust no one. . . Afforded a hero's homecoming, Sir Robert of Locksley returns from the Crusades a shattered man. In a country he barely recognizes, one torn apart by treachery and betrayal, he finds in Marian a kindred soul. Their quest for justice will take them into the depths of Sherwood Forest, where the dream of a new England will be born. . . "An imaginative and riveting novel, impossible to put down." --Booklist "Robinson expertly evokes the sensations and frustrations of medieval life." --Kirkus "A diverting, delightful book." --Publishers Weekly

Book Rowan Hood

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nancy Springer
  • Publisher : Turtleback Books
  • Release : 2002-09
  • ISBN : 9780613538602
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Rowan Hood written by Nancy Springer and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2002-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For use in schools and libraries only. In her quest to connect with Robin Hood, the father she has never met, 13-year-old Rosemary disguises herself as a boy, befriends a half-wolf, half-dog, a runaway princess, and an overgrown boy whose singing is hypnotic, and makes peace with her elfin heritage.

Book The Petrified Forest

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robert E. Sherwood
  • Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
  • Release : 1948-06
  • ISBN : 9780822208891
  • Pages : 80 pages

Download or read book The Petrified Forest written by Robert E. Sherwood and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1948-06 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: Gabby Maple is a young girl who wants to see the world, but necessity compels her to work as a waitress in the middle of the Arizona desert. Out of the desert comes Alan Squier, a disillusioned sophisticate on his way to the Petrified Fo

Book A Palace for Our Kings

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  • Author : James Wright
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2016-06
  • ISBN : 9780995471504
  • Pages : 252 pages

Download or read book A Palace for Our Kings written by James Wright and published by . This book was released on 2016-06 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Robin Hood

    Book Details:
  • Author : Paul D. Storrie
  • Publisher : Graphic Universe
  • Release : 2008-02-01
  • ISBN : 0822565722
  • Pages : 52 pages

Download or read book Robin Hood written by Paul D. Storrie and published by Graphic Universe. This book was released on 2008-02-01 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the life and adventures of Robin Hood, who, with his band of followers, lived in Sherwood Forest as an outlaw dedicated to fighting tyranny. Presented in comic book format.

Book Outlaw Princess of Sherwood

Download or read book Outlaw Princess of Sherwood written by Nancy Springer and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2003-09-29 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has been little more than a year since Etty-once Princess Ettarde, promised to the power-hungry Lord Basil-escaped from her father and joined Rowan Hood's band of misfit teens and outlaws-in-the-making. Etty is so happy, she cannot imagine returning to her old life. That is, until her father appears to reclaim her. King Solon is determined to bring Etty back to barter her hand for peace. He will do anything. Even use his wife, Ettarde's mother, as bait. In a cage. In Sherwood Forest. In winter. Etty will not stand for it. Neither will Rowan Hood. An intergenerational battle of wit, will power, and wisdom follows in this third tale of Rowan Hood.