Download or read book Lombard Meer One Hat To Rule Them All A Novella written by Bradler Smith and published by Bradler Smith. This book was released on with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ***A quest fantasy/fantasy fiction adventure … Our tale takes place on a planet known as the Bowstar. Four friends embark on a heroic quest to recover an unremarkable looking item, a hat which grants the wearer a single wish. Meer the meerkat along with his best friend, Lombard, a small plant-eating dinosaur of a nervous disposition, team up with two equally unlikely-looking adventurers. Blur, an old wood elf and his lifelong friend the old monocle wearing flamingo, Twiglet, team up to reclaim the stolen magic hat. The hat in question has been pilfered by a raven known as Jantrix, the right-hand raven of the evil old wizard Sparlax, who resides in his castle situated on the near impenetrable Mount Loon. The four adventurers have to retrieve the hat before the scheming wizard uses it to rule over the Bowstar. They will visit strange and obscure places and meet a range of characters on their quest, some will aid them and others will hinder their progress. The fate of the Bowstar and all who live on it will be in their hands!
Download or read book The Bucket and The Deep Blue Sea written by Bradler Smith and published by Bradler Smith. This book was released on with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a contemporary fantasy tale about three good friends and their desire to do something extraordinary. Sprig, the dormouse and her best friend, Whisker - or Whisk - the rat, team up with the self-important jackdaw, Scram, to embark on a perilous adventure: they will turn an old bucket into a sailing boat, navigate the river Whip and sail the sea ... in a bucket-boat! I got the idea to write this book due to my little boy, Brad. In lockdown I took him to have an operation to have his tonsils and adenoids removed; this resulted in him being given a mixture of fentanyl and morphine. The knock-on effect of this, was some peculiar strangeness - primarily an unprompted song about something to do with going to sea on a bucket ... He sang this song (for reasons unknown, even to him) over the next couple of days, repeatedly. It got to the point that I could only reasonably assume that the operation had turned him into a permanent oddball, stuck in an endless loop, forever parroting this ridiculous - but admittedly catchy, nonsensical song - for the rest of his days. Fortunately, he somehow shook off this curse and went somewhat back to normal. The song was stuck in my head though; this is what gave me the idea to write this little story, about some small creatures who go to sea on a bucket ... :) Thanks Brad (Aged 4), for your excellent front cover illustration! :)
Download or read book Encyclopedic Liberty written by Denis Diderot and published by Liberty Fund. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology of 81 articles is the first attempt to translate and collect the most significant political writing from the Encyclopédie (1751-1765). It includes every aspect of the ideas, practices, and institutions of Western political life.
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Download or read book A Certain Age written by Rudolf Mrázek and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-16 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Certain Age is an unconventional, evocative work of history and a moving reflection on memory, modernity, space, time, and the limitations of traditional historical narratives. Rudolf Mrázek visited Indonesia throughout the 1990s, recording lengthy interviews with elderly intellectuals in and around Jakarta. With few exceptions, they were part of an urban elite born under colonial rule and educated at Dutch schools. From the early twentieth century, through the late colonial era, the national revolution, and well into independence after 1945, these intellectuals injected their ideas of modernity, progress, and freedom into local and national discussion. When Mrázek began his interviews, he expected to discuss phenomena such as the transition from colonialism to postcolonialism. His interviewees, however, wanted to share more personal recollections. Mrázek illuminates their stories of the past with evocative depictions of their late-twentieth-century surroundings. He brings to bear insights from thinkers including Walter Benjamin, Bertold Brecht, Le Corbusier, and Marcel Proust, and from his youth in Prague, another metropolis with its own experience of passages and revolution. Architectural and spatial tropes organize the book. Thresholds, windowsills, and sidewalks come to seem more apt as descriptors of historical transitions than colonial and postcolonial, or modern and postmodern. Asphalt roads, homes, classrooms, fences, and windows organize movement, perceptions, and selves in relation to others. A Certain Age is a portal into questions about how the past informs the present and how historical accounts are inevitably partial and incomplete.
Download or read book Subversive Seas written by Kris Alexanderson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-25 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revealing portrait of the oceanic Dutch Empire exposes the maritime world as a catalyst for the downfall of European imperialism.
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