Download or read book The Hounds of Samaria written by Nigel Howard Patten and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A man fighting the Germans behind enemy lines in WWII has dreams of an ancient Greek priestess and the destruction of her temple.
Download or read book Hounds of Samaria written by Nigel Patten and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortly after World War I erupts, George Ghikas starts having recurring dreams about an unknown dancing girl. Because of his Greek origins, the British army sends him behind enemy lines on occupied Crete to organize partisan groups in the White Mountains. In the course of this mission, George has hallucinations of the same dancing girl of his earlier dreams. Progressively, he is enmeshed in a 3,600-year-old world, where he appears to have been the victim of a sacrificial ceremony in a Minoan temple near the monastery he uses as his base camp. The girl haunting his dreams and hallucinations was.
Download or read book Hounds and Hunting Through the Ages written by Joseph B. Thomas and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-13 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hounds and Hunting through the Ages remains the definitive volume for the foxhunter of all skill levels. This primer of foxhunting covers all aspects of the sport, from the history and technique of hunting, to the development, selection, breeding and training of hounds. Beautifully illustrated throughout, this edition contains a complete glossary of hunting terms. It also includes a Foreword by Mason Houghland, the author of Gone Away and contributor of numerous stories on foxhunting to national magazines, as well as an Introduction by the Earl of Lonsdale, himself a keen sportsman whose name would later be given to the Lonsdale clothing brand. Authoritative and comprehensive, this great modern classic of the chase remains one of the most famous books of our time on the whole art and sport of Foxhunting. An essential addition to any sporting library.
Download or read book Griuns written by Nigel Patten and published by Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency. This book was released on 2020-06 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author Nigel Patten, winner of two Reader’s Favorite Awards, presents his latest historical novel GRIUNS: The genesis of a small Swiss alpine village – A folk tale. “Having lived in “Gryon, the village featured in my story, for so long,” said the author, “I felt it was time to show it my gratitude. I have always tried to imagine who were the first people to spend a whole winter there, rather than simply bringing the sheep and goats up for the summer season.” Patten lives in the alpine ski village, 1,500 meters above the Rhone Valley, southwest of Lake Geneva, Switzerland. His story follows the adventures of a young couple, a serf girl and a freed man, who flee to the Swiss mountain in the wintertime, surviving with the help of a monk and a gamekeeper. Patten envisioned life there in the ninth century, because “there is no written material covering the early history of this region. All the questions I put to the medieval experts received the same reply: We don't know!”
Download or read book Byron written by Nigel Patten and published by Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1823, Lord Byron rented the Casa Saluzzo at Albaro in the hills east of Genoa, Italy. The poet shared the 16th-century palazzo with his mistress, Teresa Giuccioli, her brother, and their exiled father, Count Gamba. His neighbors were Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein, whose poet husband had recently drowned; Leigh Hunt, the critic and editor; and Edward Trelawney, a Cornish adventurer and close friend of both poets. A frequent visitor that summer was Lady Marguerite Blessington, who kept detailed notes of their many conversations. From these conversations, an intimate insight is gained into Byron’s personality, philosophy, mental state, opinion of himself, and the impression he made on others and society. The complexity of Byron’s character is revealed, as well as his phobias and rejection by English society for the scandals attached to his numerous amorous activities. This three-act play paints the portrait of a tormented man, obsessed with his congenital lameness and a pressing sense of solitude, despite or because of his numerous affairs with married women in his elusive quest for love.
Download or read book An Island Entire Unto Itself written by Nigel Patten and published by Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the end of the 18th century, Corsica had been occupied by France for over thirty years. Islanders yearned to recover their lost independence, and the French Revolution gave them the opportunity. Their leader, Pasquale Paoli, realized that alone they could never defeat the well-organized French forces. He offered Corsica to King George III of England, on condition that the French were driven from the island. Based on documented historical fact, the author paints a detailed portrait of Corsica through the captivating adventures of Damian Berra, a young man from what is today the Swiss canton of Valais. After wandering through Lombardy to the Ligurian coast, as the victim of a press gang on a French frigate, he becomes marooned on Corsica, an island infested with bandits and crippled with vendettas, where murders are seven times more numerous than in mainland France. The story also describes the attempts of the English to administer an island they eventually called “The Ungovernable Rock.”
Download or read book Chambers s Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 978 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Studies in the Book of Tobit written by Mark Bredin and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2006-04-24 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an approach to the book of Tobit from a range of disciplines: literary, feminist, anthropological, imagination, theological, textual and historical. This book considers some Latin manuscripts, encompassing an article introducing a print of the Ceriani Latin text, and includes an overview of the Old Latin textual tradition and context.
Download or read book The Rose of Balarm written by Nigel Patten and published by Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency. This book was released on with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This intriguing transformation turns a legend into a person of history. The patron saint of Palermo, Italy (romanized as Balarm) is Santa Rosalia Sinibaldi. There’s no documented proof of her existence, so this historical tale imagines how Rosalia (Rusùlia in the book) may have lived, from her birth in 1130 to her death in 1165. The daughter of a Lombard count and a Norman noblewoman, she was also a distant cousin of King Roger II (Rujari). Educated in the Norman palace of Qasr, Rusùlia was given in marriage by the king at age fourteen to the French Count Baudouin. Rusùlia took refuge in a Basilian monastery to avoid the marriage. She then fled to her family estates and lived partly in a cave. Years later, she was forced to return to Balarm and became one of Queen Margaret’s ladies. Known for performing minor “miracles,” Rusùlia fled once more to live in another cave under Mount Pellegrino, where she lived until her death. In 1642 during the plague in Balarm, her bones were discovered, taken down the mountain, and paraded round the city. Three days later, the plague disappeared.
Download or read book An Intermediate English Drill Book for French Speakers with Answers written by Nigel Patten and published by Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency. This book was released on 2017-04-27 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Intermediate English Drill Book for French Speakers offers a complete series of intermediate bilingual drills in French/English that is presented in ten sections. The drills cover all major tenses, irregular, modal, and phrasal verbs, as well as everyday and idiomatic expressions. Drills can also be used individually or in the classroom, orally, and as written assignments. To facilitate use, the verbs appear in alphabetic order in each section. This drill book has been tested on the author’s students with good results.
Download or read book Handbook on the Historical Books written by Victor P. Hamilton and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2008-03 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illuminates each Old Testament historical book by examining its content, structure, and theological message.
Download or read book A Brief Biblical History written by F. J. Foakes-Jackson and published by Cosimo, Inc.. This book was released on 2005-12-01 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the slaying of Goliath, David was made the constant companion of Saul; and he and Jonathan became sworn friends. But as the women of Israel sang the praises of David after the slaying of Goliath, and ascribed tens of thousands of slain to David and only thousands to Saul, Saul began to dread him as a possible rival. -from "The Reign of Saul" This concise overview of the Old Testament, from a respected and prolific Biblical scholar, strives to offer a level-headed assessment of the oldest tales in the world's oldest book. Brief synopses of the major characters and storylines-from Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob to the Flight of Israel, the Syrian Wars, and the Settlement of Judah-are presented with an awareness of the different moral climate in which we live today, with a critical bent toward the historicity of the events depicted, and with a skeptical eye toward the miraculous. While never dismissing the importance of faith, this classic 1924 work embraces the necessity of both the heart and the mind in gaining a full understanding of the Old Testament.
Download or read book People and Things from the Walker County Alabama Jasper Mountain Eagle 1898 1902 written by Robin Sterling and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-10-03 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second volume of news clippings from historic issues of the Walker County Mountain Eagle spans the years 1898 - 1902. Most of the issues are represented except for a large gap in 1900 where all the issues from January of that year until September are missing. This series of abstracts comes from microfilm purchased from the State Archives in Montgomery. Every issue of the Mountain Eagle was examined column by column to capture all available information regarding births, deaths, marriage notices, and relevant news items and information regarding the early history of Walker County and the surrounding area. Many death notices were compared against cemetery records at FindAGrave.com and were annotated. The history of Walker County is written in the pages of its early newspapers. This book will be a valuable asset to the serious student of Walker County genealoty and history.
Download or read book The Uncle Abner Mysteries written by Melville Davisson Post and published by . This book was released on 2010-03 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Melville Davisson Post's famed historical detective, Uncle Abner, solved perplexing crimes of passion and greed with courage and the understanding that justice must be served. All 22 of the original Uncle Abner stories are included here.
Download or read book Lippincott s Monthly Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Interpreting the Historical Books written by Robert B. Chisholm and published by Kregel Academic. This book was released on with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This valuable reference tool for students and pastors explores the components of the narrative genre—setting, characterization, and plot—and then develops the major theological themes in each of the Old Testament historical books.
Download or read book The Etchingham Letters written by Frederick Pollock and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel of polite society told in a series of conversational letters chiefly between Sir Richard Etchingham, a widower in Wessex (lately retired from Indian service), and his beloved sister Miss Elizabeth Etchingham of London.
