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Book Two Shores of the Ocean

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  • Author : Denis Montgomery
  • Publisher : Lulu.com
  • Release : 2008-10-05
  • ISBN : 055701624X
  • Pages : 318 pages

Download or read book Two Shores of the Ocean written by Denis Montgomery and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-10-05 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two Shores of the Ocean describes journeys on the Malabar and Coromandel Coasts of India, East Africa from Lamu to Zanzibar, Sofala and Mozambique and South Africa to the southern tip. These journeys had a purpose, to learn history on the ground and the book was an intellectual gateway to further study of the evolution of mankind.

Book The Sea Between Two Shores

Download or read book The Sea Between Two Shores written by Tanis Rideout and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2023-05-09 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of Above All Things and inspired by real events, this powerful novel follows two families brought together to reckon with what it means to make amends—for historic wrongs and the wrongs we commit against the ones we love. For readers of Elizabeth Gilbert’s The Signature of All Things, Ann Patchett’s State of Wonder, Esi Edugyan's Washington Black, Joan Thomas's Five Wives, and Michael Christie's Greenwood. On a small island in the South Pacific nation of Vanuatu, the Tabés are a family mourning the death of their son in the aftermath of a devastating cyclone, while worrying over the looming departure of another. Desperate to find a way to change their fates, David Tabé places a phone call halfway around the world to the Stewarts, a family bound to his own through a fraught connection in the distant past—their ancestors met on the island two hundred years earlier, with calamitous results. In Toronto, the Stewarts are themselves locked in mourning after the accidental drowning of their youngest son. When Michelle Stewart receives David’s invitation to participate in a reconciliation ceremony to put the spirits of their respective ancestors to rest, she accepts in a desperate effort to save herself and her family. As the ceremony approaches, the Tabés and the Stewarts will uncover their shared losses and failings, their fragile hopes for what a better future might hold, and the wounds that stand in the way of freeing themselves from the legacy of past betrayals. Heart-wrenching, thought-provoking, and morally complex, The Sea Between Two Shores immerses us in the lives of two families connected as much by their desire for healing as by the actions of their ancestors. It is an extraordinary meditation on the complications of history, the possibilities for redemption, and the meaning of the stories we tell ourselves.

Book Two Sides of the Beach

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  • Author : Edmund L. Blandford
  • Publisher : Booksales
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN : 9780785813675
  • Pages : 300 pages

Download or read book Two Sides of the Beach written by Edmund L. Blandford and published by Booksales. This book was released on 2001 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Views D-Day and the invasion of Europe from both attacking and defending forces' points of view. First-hand interviews with Allied and German front line soldiers and generals relay the horror of combat.

Book Drift from Two Shores Maruja by Shore and Sedge Thankful Blossom

Download or read book Drift from Two Shores Maruja by Shore and Sedge Thankful Blossom written by Bret Harte and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-05 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Between Two Shores

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  • Author : Jocelyn Green
  • Publisher : Baker Books
  • Release : 2019-02-05
  • ISBN : 1493417274
  • Pages : 416 pages

Download or read book Between Two Shores written by Jocelyn Green and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2019-02-05 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The daughter of a Mohawk mother and French father in 1759 Montreal, Catherine Duval finds it is easier to remain neutral in a world that is tearing itself apart. Content to trade with both the French and the British, Catherine is pulled into the fray against her wishes when her British ex- fiance, Samuel Crane, is taken prisoner by her father. Samuel asks her to help him escape, claiming he has information that could help end the war. Peace appeals to Catherine, but helping the man who broke her heart does not. She delays . . . until attempts on Samuel's life convince her he's in mortal danger. Against her better judgment she helps him flee by river, using knowledge of the landscape to creep ever closer to freedom. Their time together rekindles feelings she thought long buried, and danger seems to hound their every mile. She's risked becoming a traitor by choosing a side, but will the decision cost her even more than she anticipated?

Book Drift from Two Shores

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  • Author : Bret Harte
  • Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
  • Release : 2023-11-23
  • ISBN : 3368504959
  • Pages : 270 pages

Download or read book Drift from Two Shores written by Bret Harte and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-11-23 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1878.

Book The Lure of the Beach

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  • Author : Robert C. Ritchie
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2023-04-25
  • ISBN : 0520395573
  • Pages : 339 pages

Download or read book The Lure of the Beach written by Robert C. Ritchie and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-25 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A human and global take on a beloved vacation spot. The crash of surf, smell of salted air, wet whorls of sand underfoot. These are the sensations of the beach, that environment that has drawn humans to its life-sustaining shores for millennia. And while the gull’s cry and the cove’s splendor have remained constant throughout time, our relationship with the beach has been as fluid as the runnels left behind by the tide’s turning. The Lure of the Beach is a chronicle of humanity's history with the coast, taking us from the seaside pleasure palaces of Roman elites and the aquatic rituals of medieval pilgrims, to the venues of modern resort towns and beyond. Robert C. Ritchie traces the contours of the material and social economies of the beach throughout time, covering changes in the social status of beach goers, the technology of transport, and the development of fashion (from nudity to Victorianism and back again), as well as the geographic spread of modern beach-going from England to France, across the Mediterranean, and from nineteenth-century America to the world. And as climate change and rising sea levels erode the familiar faces of our coasts, we are poised for a contemporary reckoning with our relationship—and responsibilities—to our beaches and their ecosystems. The Lure of the Beach demonstrates that whether as a commodified pastoral destination, a site of ecological resplendency, or a flashpoint between private ownership and public access, the history of the beach is a human one that deserves to be told now more than ever before.

Book Day at the Beach

Download or read book Day at the Beach written by Tom Booth and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-05-22 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A day at the beach becomes a lesson in sibling bonding for Gideon in this magical picture book. Every summer, Gideon and his younger sister Audrey build a sandcastle together. But this summer, everything changes. Gideon decides to build the most spectacular sandcastle anyone on the beach has ever seen. And he’s going to do it on his own—without any help from his sister. But much to his surprise, Gideon discovers that building together is more fun and that everyone has their own unique talent when it comes to creativity and imagination, even Audrey.

Book Two Shores of Zen  an American Monk s Japan

Download or read book Two Shores of Zen an American Monk s Japan written by Jiryu Mark Rutschman-Byler and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-01-09 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a young American Buddhist monk can no longer bear the pop-psychology, sexual intrigue, and free-flowing peanut butter that he insists pollute his spiritual community, he sets out for Japan on an archetypal journey to find True Zen. Arriving at an austere Japanese monastery and meeting a fierce old Zen Master, he feels confirmed in his suspicion that the Western Buddhist approach is a spineless imitation of authentic spiritual effort. However, over the course of a year and a half of bitter initiations, relentless meditation and labor, intense cold, brutal discipline, insanity, overwhelming lust, and false breakthroughs, he grows disenchanted with the Asian model as well. Two Shores of Zen weaves together scenes from Japanese and American Zen to offer a timely, compelling contribution to the ongoing conversation about Western Buddhism's stark departures from Asian traditions. How far has Western Buddhism come from its roots, or indeed how far has it fallen? www.ShoresOfZen.com

Book Between Two Shores

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  • Author : T. L. Tsim
  • Publisher : The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
  • Release : 2022-03-08
  • ISBN : 988788569X
  • Pages : 376 pages

Download or read book Between Two Shores written by T. L. Tsim and published by The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press. This book was released on 2022-03-08 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a story which begins in California and ends in China. It is a detective tale with a subtle love interest. Victor Lin, a Chinese-American died in mysterious circumstances on a trip to the Thousand Island Lake south of the city of Hangzhou. His wife Anne Gavin, an Irish-American, went to China to find out what really happened. In the course of her investigation, she teamed up with David Han, an academic from Hong Kong who also lost his sister in the same "accident". As the story unfolds, the reader is treated to an exploration of the Chinese mind torn between two cultures - the native Chinese culture and the culture of the West. At one level, this is a story about corruption, obsession, and the quest for closure. But running through the story is the soul-searching of David Han and the identity crisis he was going through. In the course of telling the story, Between Two Shores takes the reader behind the shroud that hides the Chinese persona and reveals the fears, aspirations, frustrations and underlying beliefs of the Chinese people. It splits open the archetypal "Chinese characteristics" to reveal the deep-seated motivations which underpin Chinese behavior. It is a very revealing book and goes to depths never before explored.

Book Drift from Two Shores

Download or read book Drift from Two Shores written by Bret Harte and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book People s China and International Law  Volume 1

Download or read book People s China and International Law Volume 1 written by Jerome Alan Cohen and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 951 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first of two volumes Jerome Alan Cohen and Hungdah Chiu have presented in a comprehensive form the views of the People's Republic of China on all the major questions of public international law. The material chosen includes official acts and statements from every level of the Chinese government, editorials and major articles from the People's Daily, dispatches of the New China News Agency and other government media, the writings of Chinese scholars, and the speeches of China's leaders. In an extensive introduction, Professors Cohen and Chiu discuss the experience of previous Chinese governments with international law, and the relationship of China's domestic public order and its foreign policy to its views of international law. Originally published in 1974. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Book African Immigrants in Contemporary Spanish Texts

Download or read book African Immigrants in Contemporary Spanish Texts written by Debra Faszer-McMahon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Around the turn of 21st Century, Spain welcomed more than six million foreigners, many of them from various parts of the African continent. How African immigrants represent themselves and are represented in contemporary Spanish texts is the subject of this interdisciplinary collection. Analyzing blogs, films, translations, and literary works by contemporary authors including Donato Ndongo (Ecquatorial Guinea), Abderrahman El Fathi (Morocco), Chus Gutiérrez (Spain), Juan Bonilla (Spain), and Bahia Mahmud Awah (Western Sahara), the contributors interrogate how Spanish cultural texts represent, idealize, or sympathize with the plight of immigrants, as well as the ways in which immigrants themselves represent Spain and Spanish culture. At the same time, these works shed light on issues related to Spain’s racial, ethnic, and sexual boundaries; the appeal of images of Africa in the contemporary marketplace; and the role of Spain’s economic crisis in shaping attitudes towards immigration. Taken together, the essays are a convincing reminder that cultural texts provide a mirror into the perceptions of a society during times of change.

Book Good Night Beach

Download or read book Good Night Beach written by Adam Gamble and published by Good Night Books. This book was released on 2012-07-05 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The beach, an iconic fixture of many children’s summers, is artfully celebrated in this boardbook. Designed to soothe children before bedtime while instilling an early appreciation for the environment’s natural wonders, the book features a multicultural group of people experiencing all that the beach has to offer. Rhythmic language guides children through the passage of a single day of fun at the seaside—splashing, playing in the waves, boating, fishing, identifying wildlife, and more.

Book The Improved Practical Navigator     Revised  Recalculated  and Newly Arranged by Thomas Kirby     Third Edition  Corrected and Improved

Download or read book The Improved Practical Navigator Revised Recalculated and Newly Arranged by Thomas Kirby Third Edition Corrected and Improved written by Nathaniel BOWDITCH and published by . This book was released on 1809 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Extent of the Marginal Sea

Download or read book The Extent of the Marginal Sea written by Henry Graham Crocker and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present volume of views and documents bearing upon the extent of the marginal sea is divided into two sections: Part I contains excerpts from the publications of representative publicists; Part II is a compilation of official documents. The documents in Part II are printed in chronological order under countries in alphabetical order.--Publisher's description.

Book The improved practical navigator  revised by T  Kirby

Download or read book The improved practical navigator revised by T Kirby written by Nathaniel Bowditch and published by . This book was released on 1809 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: