Download or read book From Long Ago and Many Lands written by and published by Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations. This book was released on with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of folk tales, legends, fables, and religious stories from around the world.
Download or read book A Child s Book of Stories written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Folk tales from England, Norway and India, as well as fairy tales from Grimm, Andersen and Perrault, fables from Aesop, and tales from the Arabian nights.
Download or read book From Long Ago and Many Lands written by Sophia Lyon Fahs and published by Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations. This book was released on 1995 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of folk tales, legends, fables, and religious stories from around the world.
Download or read book Peeps At Many Lands Ancient Rome written by James Baikie and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-07-03 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to the ancient city of Rome, its early history, and how its geographical position helped it become the seat of the Roman Empire. Traveling to the city in A.D. 71 we witness the triumph of Vespasian and Titus as well as the games in the Colosseum and the Circus Maximus. And finally we learn that the secret to Rome's greatness is discipline, inculcated in her citizens by military training and held up as an ideal in both home and civic life
Download or read book The Many Colored Land written by Julian May and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 1981-04-17 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the year 2034, Theo Quderian, a French physicist, made an amusing but impractical discovery: the means to use a one-way, fixed-focus time warp that opened into a place in the Rhone River valley during the idyllic Pliocene Epoch, six million years ago. But, as time went on, a certain usefulness developed. The misfits and mavericks of the future—many of them brilliant people—began to seek this exit door to a mysterious past. In 2110, a particularly strange and interesting group was preparing to make the journey—a starship captain, a girl athlete, a paleontologist, a woman priest, and others who had reason to flee the technological perfection of twenty-second-century life. Thus begins this dazzling fantasy novel that invites comparisons with the work of J.R.R. Tolkien, Arthur C. Clarke, and Ursula Le Quin. It opens up a whole world of wonder, not in far-flung galaxies but in our own distant past on Earth—a world that will captivate not only science-fiction and fantasy fans but also those who enjoy literate thrillers. The group that passes through the time-portal finds an unforeseen strangeness on the other side. Far from being uninhabited, Pliocene Europe is the home of two warring races from another planet. There is the knightly race of the Tanu—handsome, arrogant, and possessing vast powers of psychokinesis and telepathy. And there is the outcast race of Firvulag—dwarfish, malev-o olent, and gifted with their own supernormal skills. Taken captive by the Tanu and transported through the primordial European landscape, the humans manage to break free, join in an uneasy alliance with the forest-dwelling Firvulag, and, finally, launch an attack against the Tanu city of light on the banks of a river that, eons later, would be called the Rhine. Myth and legend, wit and violence, speculative science and breathtaking imagination mingle in this romantic fantasy, which is the first volume in a series about the exile world. The sequel, titled The Golden Torc, will follow soon.
Download or read book The Warmth of Other Suns written by Isabel Wilkerson and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-10-04 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this beautifully written masterwork, the Pulitzer Prize–winnner and bestselling author of Caste chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life. From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America. Wilkerson compares this epic migration to the migrations of other peoples in history. She interviewed more than a thousand people, and gained access to new data and official records, to write this definitive and vividly dramatic account of how these American journeys unfolded, altering our cities, our country, and ourselves. With stunning historical detail, Wilkerson tells this story through the lives of three unique individuals: Ida Mae Gladney, who in 1937 left sharecropping and prejudice in Mississippi for Chicago, where she achieved quiet blue-collar success and, in old age, voted for Barack Obama when he ran for an Illinois Senate seat; sharp and quick-tempered George Starling, who in 1945 fled Florida for Harlem, where he endangered his job fighting for civil rights, saw his family fall, and finally found peace in God; and Robert Foster, who left Louisiana in 1953 to pursue a medical career, the personal physician to Ray Charles as part of a glitteringly successful medical career, which allowed him to purchase a grand home where he often threw exuberant parties. Wilkerson brilliantly captures their first treacherous and exhausting cross-country trips by car and train and their new lives in colonies that grew into ghettos, as well as how they changed these cities with southern food, faith, and culture and improved them with discipline, drive, and hard work. Both a riveting microcosm and a major assessment, The Warmth of Other Suns is a bold, remarkable, and riveting work, a superb account of an “unrecognized immigration” within our own land. Through the breadth of its narrative, the beauty of the writing, the depth of its research, and the fullness of the people and lives portrayed herein, this book is destined to become a classic.
Download or read book Folk Tales from Many Lands written by Lilian Gask and published by . This book was released on 2009-05-01 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1919. This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies. All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks, notations and other marginalia present in the original volume.
Download or read book Peeps at Many Lands Ancient Egypt written by James Baikie and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peeps at Many Lands: Ancient Egypt by James Baikie is a journey through Egypt and a sensitive and comprehensive look at Egypt's geography and people. Excerpt: "If we were asked to name the most interesting country in the world, I suppose that most people would say Palestine—not because there is anything so very wonderful in the land itself, but because of all the great things that have happened there, and above all because of its having been the home of our Lord. But after Palestine, I think that Egypt would come next. For one thing, it is linked very closely to Palestine by all those beautiful stories of the Old Testament, which tell us of Joseph, the slave boy who became Viceroy of Egypt; of Moses, the Hebrew child who became a Prince of Pharaoh's household; and of the wonderful exodus of the Children of Israel."
Download or read book Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands written by Mary Seacole and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-07-20 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Seacole (1805 to 1881) was an amazing woman, in many ways way ahead of her time. She was a free black woman born in Jamaica of Scottish and Creole descent. This is her autobiographical account of her colourful and brave life. She was named 'the greatest black Briton' in 2004 and also posthumously awarded the Jamaican Order of Merit.
Download or read book Minuk written by Kirkpatrick Hill and published by American Girl Publishing Incorporated. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve-year-old Minuk's traditional Eskimo way of life is changed forever in 1892 with the arrival of Christian missionaries.
Download or read book Peeps at Many Lands Egypt written by R. Talbot Kelly and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-05 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Peeps at Many Lands: Egypt" by R. Talbot Kelly is a short travelogue of Egypt from a famed English orientalist landscape and genre painter, author, and illustrator. The antiquities found in this exotic region, Cairo, travels on the Nile, the people and customs, the monuments, and the desert landscape are all described in concise but fascinating detail. With this book, readers across the globe were able to live a fraction of the experience of visiting Egypt.
Download or read book Peeps At Many Lands Australia written by Frank Fox and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 1911 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Leyla written by Alev Lytle Croutier and published by American Girl Publishing Incorporated. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While trying to help her financially destitute family, twelve-year-old Leyla ends up on a slave ship bound for Istanbul, then in the beautiful Topkapi Palace, where she discovers that life in the sheltered world of the palace harem follows its own rigid rules and rhythms and offers her unexpected opportunities during Turkey's brief Tulip Period of the 1720's.
Download or read book Around the World Sketches of Travel Through Many Lands and Over Many Seas written by John Vanderslice and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-06-01 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
Download or read book Around the World Sketches of Travel Through Many Lands and Over Many Seas written by Edward Dorr Griffin Prime and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-06-01 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
Download or read book Tales of Many Lands By the Author of Tales of the Great and Brave M F Tytler written by and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Peeps At Many Lands Belgium written by George W. T. Omond and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-02-07 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Peeps at Many Lands: Belgium" is part of the "Peeps at Many Lands" series, and it was written by George W. T. Omond. The series offers readers insights into different countries and regions around the world, focusing on their culture, geography, and way of life. George W. T. Omond, the author, likely provides a descriptive and informative narrative about Belgium, covering various aspects such as its people, landscapes, and customs. The "Peeps at Many Lands" series was known for presenting a vivid and accessible portrayal of various countries for a young audience. For those interested in early 20th-century perspectives on Belgium and travel literature, "Peeps at Many Lands: Belgium" could be a valuable resource, offering a snapshot of the country during that period. The series aimed to provide an engaging introduction to different cultures and societies.
