Download or read book Words for Country written by Tim Bonyhady and published by UNSW Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories and phrases can powerfully shape the ways we experience and manage our environment. What languages have been used to characterise Australian landscapes and how have they influenced the way we see and treat our environment? How do stories take root in particular places? How do we find the right words for those parts of the country that matter to us? "Words for Country" answers these questions while exploring the inter-relationship between Australia's landscape and language. Tim Bonyhady and Tom Griffiths have brought together a collection of essays whose subjects range from the Ord River in the far north-west to Antarctica in the south, from the centre to the coast, the prehistoric to the present. Their terrain is environmental and cultural, political and poetic. Words for Country reveals not just how language grows out of the landscape but how words and stories shape the places in which we live.
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Download or read book A Country of Words written by Abdel Bari Atwan and published by Saqi. This book was released on 2012-07-15 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few lives reflect their times as much as the life of Abdel Bari Atwan. Born in a refugee camp in Gaza in 1950, he left age seventeen and has since become one of the world's most foremost commentators on the Middle East. In this revealing memoir, Atwan recounts with humour and honesty his extraordinary journey. He depicts both the horror of camp massacres and the unexpected consequences of Britain's involvement in the region - such as when a British paratrooper fell from the sky with his sizeable parachute and everyone in his mother's village got new silk trousers. Atwan shares his many extraordinary encounters, including tea with Margaret Thatcher, a weekend with Osama bin Laden, intimate meetings with Yasser Arafat, and the row between Colonel Gaddafi and the Shah of Iran that earned him his first journalistic break. But his is also a touching, personal story, never more so than when he describes taking his British-born children to meet his family, who still live in a camp surrounded by barbed wire. 'This portrait of the life and times of a distinguished journalist offers a penetrating insight into the world as seen from the point of view of someone born and bred a Palestinian refugee in a Gaza camp. Abdel Bari Atwan's authentic voice and sharp, descriptive writing brings alive a childhood full of life-affirming sparkle amid a lifetime spent deep in the travails of the Middle Eastern tragedy' Polly Toynbee 'Atwan's enthralling memoir charts his meteoric rise form the shoeless urchin in the 1950's to cultured commentator whose opinion is now sought all over the world ... A skilful raconteur.' Tribune Magazine
Download or read book The Gardener s Wise Words and Country Ways written by Ruth Binney and published by F+W Media, Inc.. This book was released on 2012-04-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why should you throw washing-up water on lilies? Will gravel deter slugs and snails? Why is water the life and soul of the garden? Does a wet summer bring on tomato blight? The Gardener's Wise Words and Country Ways is a unique and captivating collection of accumulated wisdom, proverbs and superstitions, encapsulating everything that makes gardening so appealing. Ruth Binney beautifully conveys the emotions that gardens evoke, as well as addressing the practical tasks that gardeners undertake. Here you will find good old-fashioned advice, as well as plenty of up-to-date information on everything from being aware of the seasons and wildlife in your garden, to growing better fruit, vegetables, herbs and trees. Famous gardening names who share their knowledge include Vita Sackville-West, Gertrude Jekyll and Robert Thompson, but also presented are the voices of ordinary gardeners, whose experiences come alive in their sayings, prose and poetry.
Download or read book Wise Words and Country Ways Weather Lore written by Ruth Binney and published by F+W Media, Inc.. This book was released on 2012-02-28 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An enthralling book that not only satisfies our fascination for lost wisdom of our ancestors but also indulges the British obsession with the weather. Probably the best known country saying of them all is 'red sky at night, shepherd's delight'. Wise Words and Country Ways Weather Lore presents us with dozens more similar, but largely now forgotten, words of wisdom that are imbued with a centuries-old understanding of the patterns of British weather, seasonal changes and the behavior of plants and animals around us. It has highly relevant content for an age where we all feel we have lost touch with the patterns of nature.
Download or read book Wise Words Country Ways written by Ruth Binney and published by F+W Media, Inc.. This book was released on 2012-04-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of light-hearted sayings, aphorisms and traditional wisdom mixes a variety of subjects, such as science, gardening, health, cooking and the countryside.
Download or read book A Glossary of North Country Words in Use with Their Etymology and Affinity to Other Languages and Occasional Notices of Local Customs and Popular Superstitions written by John Trotter Brockett and published by . This book was released on 1829 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Glossary of North Country Words in use From an original manuscript in the library of J G Lambton Esq with considerable additions written by John Trotter BROCKETT and published by . This book was released on 1829 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Glossary of North Country Words with Their Etymology and Affinity to Other Languages written by John Trotter Brockett and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book A Glossary of North Country Words in Use written by John Trotter Brockett and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Download or read book A Glossary of Words used in the Country of Wiltshire written by George Edward Dartnell and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-25 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the fascinating language and customs of the county of Wiltshire with this comprehensive glossary compiled by George Edward Dartnell and E.H. Goddard. Unravel the mysteries of Wiltshire's folk-speech with over half of the words listed never before appearing in any Wiltshire vocabulary. Learn the history and etymology of each word, and their relation to other English dialects. The glossary also includes examples of actual folk-talk, short stories illustrating the dialect, and appendices on various matters of interest.
Download or read book A glossary of North Country words with their ethymology and affinity to other languages written by John Trotter Brockett and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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