Download or read book The Magic Island written by William Seabrook and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2016-04-21 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1929 volume offers firsthand accounts of Haitian voodoo and witchcraft rituals. Author William Seabrook introduced the concept of the walking dead to the West with this illustrated travelogue.
Download or read book The Magic Island written by William Buehler Seabrook and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Magic Island written by Elizabeth Waterston and published by Oxford University Press Canada. This book was released on 2008 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: L.M.Montgomery grew up in Prince Edward Island, a real place of "politics and potatoes." But it's her fictional island, a richly textured imaginative landscape that has captivated a world of readers since 1908, when Anne of Green Gables became the first of Montgomery's long string of bestsellers. In this wide-ranging and highly readable book, Elizabeth Waterston uses the term "magic" to suggest that peculiar, indefinable combination of attributes that unpredictably results in creative genius. Montgomery's intelligence, her drive, and her sense of humour are essential components of this success. Waterston also features what Montgomery called her "dream life," a "strange inner life of fancy which had always existed side by side with my outer life." This special ability to look beyond the veil, to access vibrant inner vistas, produced deceptively layered fictions out of a life that saw not just its share of both fame and ill fortune, but also what Waterston calls "dark passions." A true reader's guide, Magic Island explores the world of L.M. Montgomery in a way never done before. Each chapter of Magic Island discusses a different Montgomery book, following their progression chronologically. Waterston draws parallels between Montgomery's internal "island," her personal life, her professional career, and the characters in her novels. Designed to be read alongside the new biography of Montgomery by Mary Rubio, this is the first book to reinterpret Montgomery's writing in light of important new information about her life. A must-read for any Montgomery fan, Magic Island offers a fresh and insightful look at the world of L.M. Montgomery and the "magic" of artistic creation.
Download or read book California the Magic Island written by Doug Hansen and published by Heyday Books. This book was released on 2014-12 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Summoned by Queen Calafia to the island of California, twenty-six animals of the state of California introduce themselves, their homeland, and the people who dwell there.
Download or read book The Abominable Mr Seabrook written by Joe Ollmann and published by Drawn & Quarterly. This book was released on 2021-04-29 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The daring and destructive life of the man who popularized the word "zombie" In the early twentieth century, travel writing represented the desire for the expanding bourgeoisie to experience the exotic cultures of the world past their immediate surroundings. Journalist William Buehler Seabrook was emblematic of this trend – participating in voodoo ceremonies, riding camels cross the Sahara desert, communing with cannibals and most notably, popularizing the term “zombie” in the West. A string of his bestselling books show an engaged, sympathetic gentleman hoping to share these strange, hidden delights with the rest of the world. He was willing to go deeper than any outsider had before. But, of course, there was a dark side. Seabrook was a barely functioning alcoholic who was deeply obsessed with bondage and the so-called mystical properties of pain and degradation. His life was a series of traveling highs and drunken lows; climbing on and falling off the wagon again and again. What led the popular and vivid writer to such a sad state? Cartoonist Joe Ollmann spent seven years researching Seabrook’s life, accessing long neglected archives in order to piece together the peripatetic life of a forgotten American writer. Often weaving in Seabrook’s own words and those of his biographers, Ollmann posits Seabrook the believer versus Seabrook the exploiter, and leaves the reader to consider where one ends and the other begins.
Download or read book Island Magic written by Elizabeth Goudge and published by . This book was released on 2008-03-12 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Island Magic (1934), a beautiful story of the Channel Islands in the nineteenth century, was Elizabeth Goudge's first novel and stands as one of her finest. It tells of Rachel and Andre du Froq and their exuberant children, and the mysterious stranger who washes up from the sea and becomes entwined in their lives. [Also available: the sequel, "Make-Believe" by Elizabeth Goudge.]
Download or read book A Magic Web written by and published by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 2016-03-08 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tropical forest of Panama's Barro Colorado Island is a luxuriant community of plants and animals, pulsating with life and offering an astonishing view of nature's myriad processes. What does the forest look like? How do the activities of the forest's plants and animals create a community? In A Magic Web, photographer Christian Ziegler and evolutionary biologist Egbert Giles Leigh, Jr., invite readers to enter the marvelous world of Barro Colorado Island. This book is a unique combination of spectacular photography and clear, authoritative text written by an active scientist who has spent half a lifetime trying to understand the tropical forest. Luscious photographs of the forest reveal the wonderful diversity of its inhabitants and show many of the activities that give it its character and lend structure to its community. Drawing on decades of work on Barro Colorado Island, Egbert Leigh explains how the forest works: how plants and animals compete with but also depend on each other; how the solitary lives of cats contrast with the intricately organized lives of armies of ants; the variety of ways plants struggle for a place in the sun; and how these plants attract animals to pollenate their flowers. Finally, the book shows the importance of tropical forests to the people living near them, why they matter to the world at large, what we can learn from them, and how they differ from temperate-zone forests. Full of stunning full-color photographs accompanied by clear and accessible text, A Magic Web is a must for anyone planning to visit a tropical forest and for all those who wish they could.
Download or read book Climbing in the Magic Islands written by Ed Webster and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Journey to Magic Island written by Michael Teitelbaum and published by Golden Books. This book was released on 1989 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Islands of Magic Legends Folk and Fairy Tales from the Azores written by Elsie Spicer Eells and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-22 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Islands of Magic: Legends, Folk and Fairy Tales from the Azores" by Elsie Spicer Eells. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Download or read book Magic Islands written by Irene Edwards and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-15 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 'magical' illustrated adventure fantasy tale for children of dragons, wizards and witches. Imagine yourself making a wish...and it suddenly becoming granted.
Download or read book Adventures in Arabia written by William B. Seabrook and published by Marlowe & Company. This book was released on 1994-04-01 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author's account of his travels in the Middle East in the 1920s, his life among the various desert tribes, and the colorful personalities he encountered
Download or read book Read Island written by Nicole Magistro and published by Read Island, LLC. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join a very brave girl and her furry friends on an adventure to Read Island! Through the power of imagination and the pleasure of reading, this curious trio set sail for a magical island made of books. On their way they discover a joyful collection of animals converging by sea and land, just in time for an unforgettable story hour. A rhyming celebration of nature, books and the importance of stories, Read Island invites you to experience the diversity and wonder of a hidden and wild place. In the company of sea wolves, humpback whales and spirit bears, readers will discover simple meditations that summon a magical destination - one filled with beloved friends, safe spaces and stories to be revisited again and again. For make-believe though it may look, There is an island made of books. This world of stories, safe and true, Is always here to welcome you.
Download or read book The Floating Islands written by Rachel Neumeier and published by Bluefire. This book was released on 2012 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The adventures of two teenaged cousins who live in a place called the Floating Islands, one of whom is studying to become a mage and the other one of the legendary island flyers.
Download or read book The Women s House of Detention written by Hugh Ryan and published by Bold Type Books. This book was released on 2022-05-10 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This singular history of a prison, and the queer women and trans people held there, is a window into the policing of queerness and radical politics in the twentieth century. The Women’s House of Detention, a landmark that ushered in the modern era of women’s imprisonment, is now largely forgotten. But when it stood in New York City’s Greenwich Village, from 1929 to 1974, it was a nexus for the tens of thousands of women, transgender men, and gender-nonconforming people who inhabited its crowded cells. Some of these inmates—Angela Davis, Andrea Dworkin, Afeni Shakur—were famous, but the vast majority were incarcerated for the crimes of being poor and improperly feminine. Today, approximately 40 percent of the people in women’s prisons identify as queer; in earlier decades, that percentage was almost certainly higher. Historian Hugh Ryan explores the roots of this crisis and reconstructs the little-known lives of incarcerated New Yorkers, making a uniquely queer case for prison abolition—and demonstrating that by queering the Village, the House of D helped defined queerness for the rest of America. From the lesbian communities forged through the Women’s House of Detention to the turbulent prison riots that presaged Stonewall, this is the story of one building and much more: the people it caged, the neighborhood it changed, and the resistance it inspired. Winner, 2023 Stonewall Book Award—Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Book Award CrimeReads, Best True Crime Books of the Year
Download or read book The Adventures of Magic Island Book One written by Ariana Eleni Varveris and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-06-22 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailey and her younger sister Alex awaken washed up on the shore of a strange and mysterious island. They soon discover they have been chosen to be the islands next Rulers. The only problem is they first have to compete a series of Quests, each more perilous and difficult than the last. Travel with the sisters as they fulfill these Quests, encountering magical creatures and experiencing unforeseen adventure along the way.
Download or read book Magic Islands written by Zai Whitaker and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
