Download or read book The Far Euphrates written by Aryeh Lev Stollman and published by Riverhead Books (Hardcover). This book was released on 1997 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A haunting coming-of-age story, steeped in Jewish history and mysticism. ALA 1998 best fiction list.

Download or read book By Far Euphrates written by Deborah Alcock and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book By Far Euphrates written by Deborah Alcock and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-02-05 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By Far Euphrates, a tale of Armenia in the 19th Century is particularly pertinent in 2015 as we remember the 100th Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. The history of Armenia is a complex one to untangle geographically and politically. This story is set near the Euphrates close to what is now the Turkey/Syria border and relates the details of the Hamidian Massacres in 1894-1896 which preceded the more well known Genocide in 1915. Miss Alcock worked to a tight schedule and wrote the book in only 5 weeks. It was said that the atrocities her friend spoke of had such an emotional impact on her that she was never quite the same again.Alcock writes with her usual depth and detail but perhaps her direct emotional involvement is what makes this book particularly powerful and gripping. The persecution of Armenian Christians in the late 1800s was truly awful; indiscriminate killing of men and boys, women and children saved alive to be subjected to worse horrors. In a helpful appendix Alcock explains which characters were real and which were fictional. She also makes it clear that the atrocities described in the book left much detail out - she felt it impossible to depict the worst features of the horrible crimes committed.Tragically some of the events described seem sadly and horribly familiar in these current times. Christians are being persecuted in 139 nations around the world. The news that feeds through to our western society is often biased and secular neither recognising nor understanding the religious elements often involved in the incidents reported. Lorna

Download or read book By Far Euphrates written by Alcock and published by . This book was released on 2018-07-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Far Euphrates written by Aryeh Lev Stollman and published by Berkley. This book was released on 1998 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Jewish boy's coming of age in the shadow of the Holocaust. Alexander, 16, of Windsor, Ontario, is tormented by stories of death camps recounted by his family and desperately tries to find meaning.

Download or read book By Far Euphrates written by Deborah Alcock and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book By Far Euphrates written by Deborah Alcock and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-24 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from By Far Euphrates: A Tale Every instance of faith or heroism given in these pages is not only true in itself, but typical of a hundred others. The tale is told, however feebly and inadequately, to strengthen our own faith and quicken our own love. It is told also to stir our own hearts to help and save the remnant that is left. The past is past, and we cannot change it now; but we can still save from death, or from fates worse than death, the children of Christian parents, who are helpless and desolate orphans because their parents were Christians, and true to the Faith they professed and the Name they loved. 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 By Far Euphrates A Tale written by Deborah Alcock and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-06-13 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "By Far Euphrates: A Tale" by Deborah Alcock is inspired by many tales that came from the regions surrounding the Euphrates river. A tale of faith, heroism, and adventure that many readers could only dream of, this book has captured its audience for over a century. Meant as a commentary of what Christianity can do to "improve" non-Christian countries, this book would largely be considered a source of propaganda. However, Alcock's trust in her faith is palpable and does make the story worthy of a read with a critical eye.

Download or read book By Far Euphrates written by Deborah Alcock and published by . This book was released on 2016-03 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the late 1800's, this story could very well be torn from today's headlines. From childhood, a young Englishman watches as Christian Armenians are persecuted by Muslims and his attempts to help them

Download or read book The Illuminated Soul written by Aryeh Lev Stollman and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A few years after the Second World War, a stranger enters the lives of Joseph Ivri and his family in Windsor, Canada. A dazzling beauty telling tales of wondrous places and wartime dangers, Eva carries with her, at great risk, the renowned Augsburg Miscellany - a magnificent 15th century illuminated manuscript. And, as Joseph recounts the story of Eva and his growing love for her, he finally reveals the novel's secrets: the darkness to which we are all subject.

Download or read book Rivers of the Sultan written by Faisal H. Husain and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-05 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tigris and Euphrates rivers run through the heart of the Middle East and merge in the area of Mesopotamia known as the "cradle of civilization." In their long and volatile political history, the sixteenth century ushered in a rare era of stability and integration. A series of military campaigns between the Mediterranean Sea and the Persian Gulf brought the entirety of their flow under the institutional control of the Ottoman Empire, then at the peak of its power and wealth. Rivers of the Sultan tells the history of the Tigris and Euphrates during the early modern period. Under the leadership of Sultan Süleyman I, the rivers became Ottoman from mountain to ocean, managed by a political elite that pledged allegiance to a single household, professed a common religion, spoke a lingua franca, and received orders from a central administration based in Istanbul. Faisal Husain details how Ottoman unification institutionalized cooperation among the rivers' dominant users and improved the exploitation of their waters for navigation and food production. Istanbul harnessed the energy and resources of the rivers for its security and economic needs through a complex network of forts, canals, bridges, and shipyards. Above all, the imperial approach to river management rebalanced the natural resource disparity within the Tigris-Euphrates basin. Istanbul regularly organized shipments of grain, metal, and timber from upstream areas of surplus in Anatolia to downstream areas of need in Iraq. Through this policy of natural resource redistribution, the Ottoman Empire strengthened its presence in the eastern borderland region with the Safavid Empire and fended off challenges to its authority. Placing these world historic bodies of water at its center, Rivers of the Sultan reveals intimate bonds between state and society, metropole and periphery, and nature and culture in the early modern world.

Download or read book The Dialogues of Time and Entropy written by Aryeh Lev Stollman and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of short stories explores such themes as the impact of the past on the present and of one person on another.

Download or read book Rome on the Euphrates written by Freya Stark and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A distinguished historical work presenting eight centuries of Roman history in Asia Minor and the Middle East. -- Front cover.

Download or read book By FAR EUPHRATES New Edition written by Deborah Alcock and published by . This book was released on 2016-02-04 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Eastern sun was near its setting. Everywhere beneath its beams stretched out a vast, dreary campaign-pale yellowish brown-with low rolling hills, bare of vegetation. There was scarcely anything upon which the eye of man could rest with interest or satisfaction, except one little clump of plane trees, beside which a party of travellers had spread their tents. They had spent the day in repose, for they intended to spend the night in travelling; since, although summer was past and autumn had come, the heat was still great.The tent in the centre of the little encampment was occupied by an Englishman and his son, to whom all the rest were but guides, or servants, or guards. The Syrians, the Arabs, and the Turkish zaptiehs who filled these offices were resting from their labours, having tethered their horses under the trees.It was about time for them to be stirring now, to attend to the animals, to make the coffee, and to do other needful things in preparation for the journey. But they were used to wait for a signal from their master for the time being-Mr. Grayson, or Grayson Effendi, as they generally called him. Pending this, they saw no reason to shorten their repose, though a few of them sat up, yawned, and began to take out their tobacco pouches, and to employ themselves in making cigarettes.Presently, from the Effendi's own tent, a slight boyish form emerged, and trod softly through the rest. "Hohannes Effendi"-so the Turks and Arabs called him, as a kind of working equivalent for "Master John"-was a bright, fair-faced, blue-eyed English lad in his sixteenth year. He was dressed in a well-worn suit of white drill, and his head protected by a kind of helmet, with flaps to cover the cheeks and neck, since the glare reflected from the ground was almost as trying as the scorching heat above.Once beyond the encampment, he quickened his pace, and, fast and straight as an arrow flies, dashed on over the little hills due eastwards. For there, the Arabs had told him, "a bow shot off," "two stones' throw," "the length a man might ride while he said his 'La ilaha ill Allah!'"-ran the great river. Waking some two hours before from the profound sleep of boyhood, he had not been able to close his eyes again for the longing that came over him to look upon it. For this was "that ancient river," last of the mystic Four that watered the flowers of Eden, witness of ruined civilizations, survivor of dead empires, the old historic Euphrates. Not that all this was present to the mind of young John Grayson; but he had caught from his father, whose constant companion he was, a reflected interest in "places where things happened," which was transfigured by the glamour of a young imagination.On and on he went, for the wide, featureless, monotonous landscape deceived his eye, and the river was really much farther than he thought. He got amongst tall reeds, which sometimes hindered his view, though often he could see over them well enough-if there had been anything to see, except more reeds, mixed with a little rank grass-more low hills, and over all a cloudless, purple sky. The one point of relief was the dark spot in the distance, that meant, as he knew, the trees from which he had started.He thought two or three times of turning back, not from weariness, and certainly not from fear, except the fear that his father might wonder what had become of him. But, being a young Englishman, he did not choose to be beaten, and so he went on.

Download or read book Revelation written by and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The final book of the Bible, Revelation prophesies the ultimate judgement of mankind in a series of allegorical visions, grisly images and numerological predictions. According to these, empires will fall, the "Beast" will be destroyed and Christ will rule a new Jerusalem. With an introduction by Will Self.

Download or read book Enemy on the Euphrates written by Ian Rutledge and published by Saqi. This book was released on 2015-06-01 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1920 an Arab revolt came perilously close to inflicting a shattering defeat upon the British Empire's forces occupying Iraq after the Great War. A huge peasant army besieged British garrisons and bombarded them with captured artillery. British columns and armoured trains were ambushed and destroyed, and gunboats were captured or sunk. Britain's quest for oil was one of the principal reasons for its continuing occupation of Iraq. However, with around 131,000 Arabs in arms at the height of the conflict, the British were very nearly driven out. Only a massive infusion of Indian troops prevented a humiliating rout. Enemy on the Euphrates is the definitive account of the most serious armed uprising against British rule in the twentieth century. Bringing central players such as Winston Churchill, T. E. Lawrence and Gertrude Bell vividly to life, Ian Rutledge's masterful account is a powerful reminder of how Britain's imperial objectives sowed the seeds of Iraq's tragic history.