Download or read book Toward a Distant Island written by Leonard Wibberley and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author's adventures under sail, in small sailing craft between Caribbean islands, later along the California coast, finally in a 40 ft. yawl to Honolulu and return with a crew of young men and boys.
Download or read book To a Distant Island written by James McConkey and published by Paul Dry Books. This book was released on 2000-11-01 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1890, Anton Chekhov, already a prominent Russian literary figure, travelled 6,500 miles to Sakhalin island, off the coast of Siberia. Willing visitors to this island were rare; rather, its inhabitants were people who had been sent there: prisoners and their families, guards, soldiers, and doctors. What was it that Chekhov sought on this terrible island? Almost a century later, James McConkey traveled to Italy and researched Chekhov's letters, memoirs, and an account of his journey to Sakhalin island. McConkey recreates that journey, weaving it with his own and telling two stories that reveal the peculiar and hidden forces that shape our lives.
Download or read book To a Distant Island written by James McConkey and published by Plume. This book was released on 1986-09-22 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1890, Anton Chekhov, already a prominent Russian literary figure, traveled 6,500 miles to Sakhalin island, off the coast of Siberia. Willing visitors to this island were rare; rather, its inhabitants were people who had been sent there: prisoners and their families, guards, soldiers, and doctors. What was it that Chekhov sought on this terrible island? Almost a century later, while on sabbatical in Italy after a troubled academic year, McConkey discovers in the letters and memories of Chekhov's journey a kindred and healing spirit. McConkey recreates that journey, weaving it with his own and telling two stories that reveal the peculiar and hidden forces that shape our lives.
Download or read book Pocket Atlas of Remote Islands written by Judith Schalansky and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-11-12 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lovely small-trim edition of the award-winning Atlas of Remote Islands The Atlas of Remote Islands, Judith Schalansky’s beautiful and deeply personal account of the islands that have held a place in her heart throughout her lifelong love of cartography, has captured the imaginations of readers everywhere. Using historic events and scientific reports as a springboard, she creates a story around each island: fantastical, inscrutable stories, mixtures of fact and imagination that produce worlds for the reader to explore. Gorgeously illustrated and with new, vibrant colors for the Pocket edition, the atlas shows all fifty islands on the same scale, in order of the oceans they are found. Schalansky lures us to fifty remote destinations—from Tristan da Cunha to Clipperton Atoll, from Christmas Island to Easter Island—and proves that the most adventurous journeys still take place in the mind, with one finger pointing at a map.
Download or read book Distant Islands written by Daniel H. Inouye and published by Nikkei in the Americas. This book was released on 2018-11-15 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The turn of the century New York Japanese American community was a composite of several micro communities divided along status, class, geographic, and religious lines. Using primary sources Inouye tells the stories of the professional elites, small business owners, working-class, laborers, and students from these communities"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Distant Island written by Beth Wunderlich and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Yellow Jeep Stories and Songs written by Joel Vernon Smith and published by Author House. This book was released on 2005-01-07 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joel Vernon Smith invites you to watch while life unfolds for entities we’ll never meet, in settings far from our day-to-day locales. Each character is someone we once loved. Or we wish we could have loved. Or perhaps we seek merely to understand her. A sensitive teen takes his dad’s memory for a ride in a new four-wheel-drive in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. A married couple shares a traumatic memory of a decaying barn. A passionate duo learns that their ship is doomed. A wealthy college student argues with his girlfriend when a draft notice arrives. A mentally-troubled elderly woman claims a friendship with a man of smoke. Frightful demons force a man to do a dark tunnel-dance in front of a stalled bus. The author of The Rapists bids you to explore the lives of mostly-gentle human beings as they deal with feelings of love or the arrival of unexpected horror. If it’s true (as a late-sixties song suggests) that words of love won’t win a girl’s heart anymore, perhaps the reader should open this book and take a journey to somewhere she’s never been before. The ride will be exciting.
Download or read book Laya written by Bernard Gadd and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-01-30 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirteen year-old Laya is abducted from her tribe, the early ancestors of today's Fijians and Polynesians. She is forced to accompany a group of fugitives from their Pacific island as servant to the aging priest, Langi. and with them crosses the Western Pacific Ocean between Vanuatu, New Caledonia and Fiji in search of a new home. Many dangers are encountered en route and in the end, Laya unexpectedly must decide what their future will be.
Download or read book The Giants and How to Fight Them and Wonderful Things written by Richard Newton and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-03-27 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Download or read book The Nations of the Night written by Oliver Johnson and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2015-07-30 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this, the second book of the epic trilogy begun in The Forging of the Shadows, the once-glorious city of Thrull has become a place of death and despair. Seven years before, Lord Faran Groton, High Priest of the God of Darkness, overthrew Thrull and set loose his army of vampires to plague the city, waiting for the day the sun would rise no more...But the God of Light has his champions as well. A motley trio of survivors searches for the three ancient artifacts which can defeat the darkness. Traveling far beyond their own lands, they will encounter nightmares and disasters before facing their most dangerous enemies -- the Dark-born Nations of the Night!
Download or read book Distant Island written by HarperCollins Publishers Limited and published by . This book was released on 1989-12-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wrecked on a Coral Island written by Edwin James Houston and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Last Days of Dwaraavatii written by Dr. Dibyendu Pal and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live in a world which is highly advanced in terms of science and technology. But there are several fascinating ancient legends, myths and mysteries, which are yet to be explained completely. Archaeologists, scientists as well as interested people travelled to investigate the pyramids of Egypt, the Bermuda Triangle, Eater Island, and several other places to find lost civilizations and other undiscovered treasures. As I came to know about the discovery of an ancient civilization, Dwaraavatii, under the seabed of Dwarka, I rushed to Dwarka to find out the truth of the legend. My mythological book, Last Days of Dwaraavatii, will try to reveal the truthfulness of Shrii Krishna’s reign based on myth, ancient treatise as well as archaeological findings. The reader will get a lot of information about different areas as well as the opportunity to cultivate an interest to learn more. Although the book doesn’t cover everything that’s going on in this world, it is a great reading experience, and it serves as a gateway and an inspiration for further reading.
Download or read book The Gold written by David Carpenter and published by Coteau Books. This book was released on 2017-04-20 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Joseph Burbidge comes to discover, finding gold in Canada's North is less than half the battle.
Download or read book Distant Islands written by Steve K. Bertrand and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2019-03-15 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no available information at this time. Author will provide once available.
Download or read book Voices That Wish to Be Heard written by Jack Randall and published by Jack Randall. This book was released on 2009 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the eighteen stories found in this collection, readers will have the opportunity to explore a host of issues. Their journey will fall under the guidance of a writer who has clearly given much energy to thoughts on powerful issues such as overpopulation, depletion of natural resources, the role of religion in society, and the nature of God. But Jack Randall walks this path without missing the flowers along the way. Wading into the mire of profundity has not eliminated his power to touch the reader with heartfelt stories of loss, redemption, and triumph. In the end, the reader will take away from these stories an insight into larger issues facing our world today, insight brought from a slightly tilted point of viewtilted not to obscurity, but rather to such that a new view becomes available, and one which the reader will not fail to enjoy.
