Download or read book The Oatmeal Ark written by Rory MacLean and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Reverend Hector Gillean is a ghost. At the start of the last century he built a ship and sailed west from the Hebrides to search for a promised land in the heart of the Canadian wilderness. His great-grandson retraces the voyage, 200 years later, through three generations of family history. The Oatmeal Ark voyages into the deepest places of the heart, exploring love and hope and loss, on a wave-rocked, wind-tossed travel adventure of ghosts and boats. Its story is at once a record of a remarkable pilgrimage, a fantastical narrative and a glimpse at the universal quest for a better world.
Download or read book Pravda Ha Ha written by Rory MacLean and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-01 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year Award 'A gem of a book, informative, companionable, sometimes funny, and wholly original. MacLean must surely be the outstanding, and most indefatigable, traveller-writer of our time' John le Carré In 1989 the Berlin Wall fell. In that euphoric year Rory MacLean travelled from Berlin to Moscow, exploring lands that were – for most Brits and Americans – part of the forgotten half of Europe. Thirty years on, MacLean traces his original journey backwards, across countries confronting old ghosts and new fears: from revanchist Russia, through Ukraine's bloodlands, into illiberal Hungary, and then Poland, Germany and the UK. Along the way he shoulders an AK-47 to go hunting with Moscow's chicken Tsar, plays video games in St Petersburg with a cyber-hacker who cracked the US election, drops by the Che Guevara High School of Political Leadership in a non-existent nowhereland and meets the Warsaw doctor who tried to stop a march of 70,000 nationalists. Finally, on the shores of Lake Geneva, he waits patiently to chat with Mikhail Gorbachev. As Europe sleepwalks into a perilous new age, MacLean explores how opportunists – both within and outside of Russia, from Putin to Home Counties populists – have made a joke of truth, exploiting refugees and the dispossessed, and examines the veracity of historical narrative from reportage to fiction and fake news. He asks what happened to the optimism of 1989 and, in the shadow of Brexit, chronicles the collapse of the European dream.
Download or read book Berlin written by Rory MacLean and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2014-10-21 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why are we drawn to certain cities? Perhaps because of a story read in childhood. Or a chance teenage meeting. Or maybe simply because the place touches us, embodying in its tribes, towers and history an aspect of our understanding of what it means to be human. Paris is about romantic love. Lourdes equates with devotion. New York means energy. London is forever trendy. Berlin is all about volatility. Berlin is a city of fragments and ghosts, a laboratory of ideas, the fount of both the brightest and darkest designs of history's most bloody century. The once arrogant capital of Europe was devastated by Allied bombs, divided by the Wall, then reunited and reborn as one of the creative centers of the world. Today it resonates with the echo of lives lived, dreams realized, and evils executed with shocking intensity. No other city has repeatedly been so powerful and fallen so low; few other cities have been so shaped and defined by individual imaginations. Berlin tells the volatile history of Europe's capital over five centuries through a series of intimate portraits of two dozen key residents: the medieval balladeer whose suffering explains the Nazis' rise to power; the demonic and charismatic dictators who schemed to dominate Europe; the genius Jewish chemist who invented poison gas for First World War battlefields and then the death camps; the iconic mythmakers like Christopher Isherwood, Leni Riefenstahl, and David Bowie, whose heated visions are now as real as the city's bricks and mortar. Alongside them are portrayed some of the countless ordinary Berliners who one has never heard of, whose lives can only be imagined: the Scottish mercenary who fought in the Thirty Years' War, the ambitious prostitute who refashioned herself as a baroness, the fearful Communist Party functionary who helped to build the Wall, and the American spy from the Midwest whose patriotism may have turned the course of the Cold War. Berlin is a history book like no other, with an originality that reflects the nature of the city itself. In its architecture, through its literature, in its movies and songs, Berliners have conjured their hard capital into a place of fantastic human fantasy. No other city has so often surrendered itself to its own seductive myths. No other city has been so shaped and defined by individual imaginations. Berlin captures, portrays, and propagates the remarkable story of those myths and their makers..
Download or read book With Intent written by Noel Lipton and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-07-11 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rob Hidden is not a nice guy. Hes a criminal, and he likes being a criminal. Hes good at it, and he finds that doing bad stuff makes him feel good. One night this heartless villain comes home to his wife, who informs him the police are on his tail. He lashes out at her, and so began a tirade that would lead to abuse, robbery, and murder. It all started when Rob decides to hide out at the home of his friend, Dave Cart. It appears Dave wasnt expecting company. Seeing the huge pile of money on his table, Rob decides to do what he does best: steal the money and shoot Dave. Seasoned police officer Morgan Sill is called to the scene, but Rob doesnt get far before he is spotted. Sill chases him down, forcing Rob to drop the murder weaponjust what the police need to charge Rob and get him to court. Nothing is simple, though. First, the court must decide if Rob is fit for trial or if hes too blatantly crazy to even receive a sentence. Then, theres the court-appointed slimeball lawyer, Crabtree, who will say anything to keep his client out of jail. Sill is worried that Rob is going to get off without even a slap on the wrist. Is there anything the cops can do to stop him, or will evil prevail in the streets?
Download or read book Tinkering with Eden written by Kim Todd and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2002 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bewitching look at nonnative species in American ecosystems, by the heir apparent to McKibben and Quammen.
Download or read book Under the Dragon written by Rory Maclean and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2013-07-15 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-five years ago the Burmese people rose up against their military government. The unarmed demonstrators were cut down, leaving more than 5,000 dead. In 'Under the Dragon', Rory MacLean meets the victims and perpetrators of the uprising, unraveling a paradox of selfless generosity and sinister greed.
Download or read book Stalin s Nose written by Rory Maclean and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2013-07-15 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Tamworth pig, a coffin, two aunts, a battered Trabant and the fall of Berlin Wall: 'Stalin's Nose' is an exceptionally vivid story of a journey from Berlin to Moscow at the end of the Cold War, through an eastern Europe divested of fear and free to face its past, revealing what life was truly like under totalitarian rule.
Download or read book Experiment Station Record written by U.S. Office of Experiment Stations and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 1024 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Grey Man written by S. R. Crockett and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-29 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Grey Man is a historical adventure romance created by S.R. Crockett. The novel is set in Ayrshire, Scotland, in the reign of James VI. The author created this work when he was at the height of his power and popularity as a novelist. The story deals with the violent feud between the two families: the Kennedys of Cassillis and the Kennedys of Bargany. Some of the most memorable characters of the novel, like the fearsome grey-clad figure of John Mure of Auchindrayne and the legendary cannibal, Sawn Bean, were drawn from local folklore.
Download or read book Meg of Elibank and other Tales written by Henrietta Keddie and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-08-04 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1860.
Download or read book Meg of Elibank and other tales by the author of The nut brown maids Orig publ in Fraser s magazine written by Henrietta Keddie and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Meg of Elibank and Other Tales written by Sarah Tytler and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Real Wuthering Heights written by Steven Wood and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2016-03-15 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive account of the life and work of Top Withins Farm, internationally famous as the inspiration for Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, with a preface by Sir Tony Robinson.
Download or read book Wunderkind written by Rory MacLean and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2016-04-18 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What makes an artist? What forces and inklings drive a young man or woman to make their own journey, and where does it begin? In imaginary childhood games? In chance encounters? At the sensitive core of the human heart?To answer these and other questions, award-winning author Rory MacLean met more than one hundred working German artists. He traced how childhood obsessions or a spark of inspiration developed in the imagination. He walked beside a platinum rock star and a struggling caricaturist, followed the process of best-selling novelists, tracked the life stories of top film makers, sculptors, painters and the godfather of techno. He saw how political rebellion, English punk, Pershing missiles, Joseph Beuys, even Elvis Presley awoke the creative spirit. He learnt that art is a weapon, that art can heal, and that art deals with the mysteries that lie in the spaces between the words.Berlin, Europe's capital of reinvention, is the setting for most interviews, and the ideal place in which to observe the forces and sensibilities that make and sustain (or undermine) the free thinker. After the fall of the Wall, the city became a kind of creative utopia infused with pioneering energy. At its heart was an experiment in the power of the imagination. In Wunderkind, 50 selected artists reveal their passions and doubts, their working methods, their secret struggles and - above all - show that the task of the artist truly is uncompromisingly simple; to discover what has not yet been done, and to do it.
Download or read book The Compleat Housekeeper written by Peter C. D. Brears and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Luck of the Loch Ness Monster written by Alice Weaver Flaherty and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2007-09-10 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once upon a time, on a long, slow trip to Scotland, a little girl named Katerina-Elizabeth tossed her oatmeal overboard—again, and again, and again. She was a picky eater, and oatmeal was her least favorite food. And once upon a time, a small worm, no bigger than a piece of thread, swam alongside an ocean liner bound for Scotland and ate bowl after bowl of tossed oatmeal. He had never tasted anything as wonderful as oatmeal in his whole life. A. W. Flaherty and Scott Magoon unravel the Loch Ness legend in this whimsical picture book for the picky (and not-so-picky) eater in all of us.
