Download or read book Wild Boar in the Cane Field written by Anniqua Rana and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One day, a baby girl, Tara, is found, abandoned and covered in flies. She is raised by two mothers in a community rife with rituals and superstition. As she grows, Tara pursues acceptance at all costs. Saffiya, her adoptive mother, and Bhaggan, Saffiya’s maidservant, are victims of the men in their community, and the two women, in turn, struggle and live short but complicated lives. The only way for the villagers to find solace is through the rituals of ancient belief systems. Tara lives in a village that could be any village in South Asia, and she dies, like many young women in the area, during childbirth. Her short life is dedicated to her efforts to find happiness, despite the fact that she has no hope of going to school or making any life choices in the feudal, patriarchal world in which she finds herself. Poignant and compelling, Wild Boar in the Cane Field depicts the tragedy that often characterizes the lives of those who live in South Asia—and demonstrates the heroism we are all capable of even in the face of traumatic realities.
Download or read book Wild Men Wild Beasts written by William Gordon Gordon-Cumming and published by Edinburgh : Edmonston & Douglas. This book was released on 1871 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wild men and wild beasts written by Roualeyn Gordon Cumming and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Scenes in Camp and Jungle written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-02-01 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Download or read book Scenes in Camp and Jungle written by W. Gordon Cumming and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-05-08 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1872. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Download or read book The Oriental Sporting Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Oriental Sporting Magazine written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-08-17 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.
Download or read book Shadows and Sunshine written by June O'Sullivan-Roque and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2015-08-18 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prepare to be entertained by these recollections of the misadventures of a young girl growing up in semi-rural and urban Jamaica in the 1960s. ‘Shadows and Sunshine’ takes you back to a magical time when children found pleasure in their own inventions, when the world was simple and enchanting, and childhood perceptions often resulted in amusing distortions of reality. Each adventure is a mixture of mischief, magic, and wonder, from bungling a simple baby-sitting task to escaping from a machete-wielding madman. If you remember the rolling calf, the nanny goat, or your obsession with mangoes, or if you would like to know more about these things, read on. “With its elements of fantasy and its skillful use of language to create vivid images, ‘Shadows and Sunshine’ will appeal to teens and adults alike.” —Seleca Walker, Language and Communications Lecturer at Mico University College, Jamaica. “The childlike maturity O’Sullivan-Roque brings to her stories is enhanced by the refreshing way in which she uses imagery.” — Joan F. Joyner, retired Judge. “These brilliantly written stories of innocence and intrigue will capture your imagination.” —Mark Schack, Executive Vice President of Oldcastle Inc., former President and CEO of Oldcastle Precast Inc.
Download or read book An Upside Down Sky written by Linda Dahl and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-04-19 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Lidia, a blocked Latinx artist in her sixties, goes on a group tour of Namyan, a fictional Southeast Asian country reopened to the world after a long dictatorship, she gets much more than the vacation she thinks she’s signed on for. Against a backdrop of pagodas and enigmatic customs, she and the disparate crew of eighteen Americans on the tour encounter one adventure after another—experiences that challenge their assumptions about their host country’s placid surface of beautiful pagodas and wandering Buddhist monks. Along the way, Lidia finds companionship and sexual pleasure with Haynes, a Black man seeking adventure—even danger—in Namyan. On a nighttime excursion among mysterious ancient buildings, they watch the nighttime sky. Lidia remarks that the stars look upside down – a metaphor for Namyan as a foreign place and for her. She enjoys being with Haynes but is conflicted. The final chapter reveals a secret, the source of her conflict, and her steps towards a new freedom. An Upside-Down Sky’s cast of characters, including their Namyanese guide, mirrors America: straight, gay, gender-fluid, black, brown, white, progressive, conservative, artistic, repressed, old, young. Some of them accept Nanyam’s charming façade at face value, while others seek to understand the country’s brutal repression by the military and ongoing ethnic conflicts. And most, resistant as they might be to change, are transformed by their time there.
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Download or read book AIDS Issues Pending AIDS legislation Public Health Service update of the AIDS epidemic needs for AIDS research activities written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Health and the Environment and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book My Exotic Youth written by Brian M. Lempriere and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2006-01-31 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having a British accent, people ask me where I am from and they expect me to say Oh! Im from England, so that they can follow up with I thought so!. Sometimes they say I thought perhaps that the accent is Canadian or Australian. I was raised by British parents in Mauritius, a British colony with French schools, and in Jersey, an island in the English Channel with a long French background but part of the United Kingdom for well over 200 years. My name comes from my Jersey heritage: my family had lived there for many hundreds of years, This book covers the Mauritius period of my life to about 13 years of age, and the Jersey period to about 16. At first it was about filling in the family record for my children and grandchildren, but family stories of hooliganism required me to refute these! Mauritius is a subtropical island where coconut palms grow down to golden beaches with warm blue water, where sugar-cane fields cover the countryside, where small monkeys scuttle along the river valleys, and where bananas, peaches and mangoes grow fresh for the picking a paradise to grow up in. Jersey is a small island quite similar to England in its ways, its flora, and its fauna no bananas or monkeys - but with French names for places and people, and French laws and habits. Being south of England, the climate is milder. Farming of market crops flowers, vegetables, and cattle flourish. Jersey bulls and cows draw huge prices. The adventures I had with my brother and several friends were mostly boyhood fun, but some came close to breaking our necks or breaking the law! While around 10 to 12 years old, we set off on a 10 mile hike through unknown river valleys hoping to reach our favorite beach, and only got home after midnight by the grace of God and a friendly trucker. Later, we clambered among 200 foot cliffs over the ocean to collect birds eggs. We set fire to cliff-top grass and gorse. We drove the car to a beach picnic when none of us was yet 13. Brian became an aeronautical engineer through study for a BSc degree at the Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough, England, supported by a Ministry of Supply 5-year sholarship, then by winning a King George VI Memorial Fellowship to study in the USA for a MAe degree at The Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, NY, USA. He later worked for a PhD degree at Stanford University in Palo Alto, CA, USA. His career in the aeronautical industry began as a Lecturer at the College of Aeronautics, Cranfield, near Bletchley, England, and then covered 7 years at the Lockheed Research Laboratories in Palo Alto, CA, and 26 years at Boeing Aerospace Co. in Seattle, WA. He has written many technical papers and, since retiring in 1995, a book on Ultrasound and Eastic Waves. He married Shirley Cawood of Brooklyn, New York and they now live in Seattle and Whidbey Island, WA. They have a son and daughter and three grand children. He can be reached by e-mail at [email protected].
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