Download or read book London Fog written by Christine L. Corton and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-02 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice A Telegraph Editor’s Choice An Evening Standard “Best Books about London” Selection In popular imagination, London is a city of fog. The classic London fogs, the thick yellow “pea-soupers,” were born in the industrial age of the early nineteenth century. Christine L. Corton tells the story of these epic London fogs, their dangers and beauty, and their lasting effects on our culture and imagination. “Engrossing and magnificently researched...Corton’s book combines meticulous social history with a wealth of eccentric detail. Thus we learn that London’s ubiquitous plane trees were chosen for their shiny, fog-resistant foliage. And since Jack the Ripper actually went out to stalk his victims on fog-free nights, filmmakers had to fake the sort of dank, smoke-wreathed London scenes audiences craved. It’s discoveries like these that make reading London Fog such an unusual, enthralling and enlightening experience.” —Miranda Seymour, New York Times Book Review “Corton, clad in an overcoat, with a linklighter before her, takes us into the gloomier, long 19th century, where she revels in its Gothic grasp. Beautifully illustrated, London Fog delves fascinatingly into that swirling miasma.” —Philip Hoare, New Statesman

Download or read book The Legend of the Fog written by Qaunaq Mikkigak and published by Inuit Folktales. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a young man comes across a giant who wants to take him home and cook him for dinner, the young man's quick thinking saves him from being devoured--and releases fog into the world for the very first time.

Download or read book Aug 9 Fog written by Kathryn Scanlan and published by MCD. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A heartrending reassemblage of a life in its waning moments Fifteen years ago, Kathryn Scanlan found a stranger’s diary at an estate auction in a small town in Illinois. The owner of the diary was eighty-six years old when she began recording the details of her life in the small book, a gift from her daughter and son-in-law. The diary was falling apart—water-stained and illegible in places—but magnetic to Scanlan nonetheless. She became obsessed with the object. After reading and rereading the diary, studying and dissecting it, for the next fifteen years she played with the sentences that caught her attention, cutting, editing, arranging, and rearranging them into the composition that became Aug 9—Fog (she chose the title from a note that was tucked into the diary). “Sure grand out,” the diarist writes. “That puzzle a humdinger.” Followed by, “A letter from Lloyd saying John died the 16th.” A whole state of mourning reveals itself in “2 canned hams.” The result of Scanlan’s collaging is an utterly compelling, deeply moving meditation on life and death. In Aug 9—Fog, Scanlan’s spare, minimalist approach has a maximal emotional effect, haunting the reader long after the book ends. It is an unclassifiable work from a visionary young writer and artist—a singular portrait of a life that so easily could have been forgotten.

Download or read book I Love Horses and Tractors written by Jo Ann Salness Byars and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-07-13 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Survival, horses, wild life, farm life and farm humor. This book is a look at the adventures and stories of a city girl becoming a country girl and many of the lessons she and her husband learn along the way. It is filled with stories of the animals they love, the wild life they find and the challenges that just happen on a daily basis. From the eagle they saved, the cat that adopts them, the funny things that horses do, saving a cow in birth, the agony of trying to save a horse that colics and the countless things that have to be fixed as they live in the country. This is a story of retirement as they learn, adapt and overcome obstacles in their transition to country life.

Download or read book The Fog Diver written by Joel Ross and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2015-05-26 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joel Ross debuts a thrilling adventure series in which living in the sky is the new reality and a few determined slum kids just might become heroes. This Texas Bluebonnet selection—a fantasy filled with daring and hope and a wonderfully imaginative world—is perfect for fans of Rick Riordan and Brandon Mull. Once the Fog started rising, the earth was covered with a deadly white mist until nothing remained but the mountaintops. Now humanity clings to its highest peaks, called the Rooftop, where the wealthy Five Families rule over the lower slopes and floating junkyards. Thirteen-year-old Chess and his friends Hazel, Bea, and Swedish sail their rickety air raft over the deadly Fog, scavenging the ruins for anything they can sell to survive. But now survival isn't enough. They must risk everything to get to the miraculous city of Port Oro, the only place where their beloved Mrs. E can be cured of fogsickness. Yet the ruthless Lord Kodoc is hot on their trail, for Chess has a precious secret, one that Kodoc is desperate to use against him. Now Chess will face any danger to protect his friends, even if it means confronting what he fears the most.

Download or read book Feel the Fog written by April Pulley Sayre and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the wonder and science behind fog in this stunning and immersive nonfiction picture book from award-winning author and photographer April Pulley Sayre. Damp and drippy, misty and mysterious…fog is fascinating. Step inside this natural phenomenon and see how fog is formed, how it clears away, and why it feels chilly. Young readers will love this lyrical and gorgeously photo-illustrated exploration of these clouds that come to visit.

Download or read book Chambers s Encyclopaedia written by David Patrick and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book A World of Change written by Anne S. Walker and published by Australian Scholarly Publishing. This book was released on 2018-04-05 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anne S Walker grew up in the dormitories of a boarding school in the suburbs of Melbourne. Her initial career was as an early childhood teacher, then she sailed to England and worked as a community activist in London. Accepting an offer to work in Fiji, she became deeply involved for 11 years in early childhood education, women’s human rights, and public affairs advocacy, including the fight against nuclear testing in the Pacific. Those years led her to undertake graduate study in development communications in the USA, following which she was asked to help establish the International Women’s Tribune Centre in New York. This thrust her into the centre of a global campaign for women’s human rights that spanned the next three decades. From the IWTC headquarters opposite the United Nations, Anne and her colleagues met and worked alongside women from every world region on issues affecting their lives and the lives of their communities. Anne and the IWTC were involved in the historic series of UN world conferences on women held in various countries from 1975 to 1995. As well as writing of her work and the role of the IWTC in those momentous decades, Anne tells the powerful stories of some of the women she met at meetings, workshops and other events in Africa, Asia, the Pacific, the Caribbean and Latin America. She also tells of witnessing and living through some of the toughest times in New York’s history, from the moments when planes crashed into the World Trade Centre towers on September 11, 2001. This is an important memoir that takes readers inside the world of women fighting for justice and for an equal place at the tables where global policies and programs are developed and implemented.

Download or read book Armando Rever n written by John Elderfield and published by The Museum of Modern Art. This book was released on 2007 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foreword by Glenn D. Lowry. Text by John Elderfield, Luis Perez-Oramas.

Download or read book Journal of Electricity written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Fog Cat written by Marilyn Helmer and published by . This book was released on 2000-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Hannah and her grandfather befriend a stray cat, whom she names Fog Cat, the cat stays for the winter and leaves in the spring, but not without leaving something very special behind.

Download or read book Hide and Seek Fog written by Alvin Tresselt and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1988-04-22 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a Cape Cod seaside village, the children romp and play throughout a heavy fog with strange and mysterious effects.

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Download or read book Right of the Birth written by Maneo Kayina and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2021-04-07 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘…times have not changed…’, ‘in fact it has quickened’ and ‘…there is nothing new under the Sun…’ except for the arrival of the Age of the Creature of Features. And the Orders of the First Men are about to rise as the Age of the Republics that sprung out from the Age of the Kings voyages into its final Ocean of Influence. The time has come again for kingdoms to be crafted, alliances to be forged and ancient orders to be resuscitated in the Abode of Men. Cast onto the minds is a convoluted doctrine that has ensnared the Promise of the Nations and the Idea of Sovereignty into a faithless discourse. A certain tongue of a Creature has been spoken and a certain measure of a Yeast has been dropped and this doctrine is canonised into a dogma. Why has this doctrine become infallible when in truth, there is another Doctrine of Hope operating in the spirit of inspiring unity, where it is remarkably possible and feasible to build a kingdom or a nation no matter how small it is. Right of the Birth is the journey where you will take to understand the Doctrine of Hope, which will reveal to you the Kingdom or Nation you possess in the Womb of Life. It is written so that you must not become the Man of Doubt but the Man of Faith—that you must wrestle for your destiny and become the True Heirs of all your rightful inheritances.