A Ride On The Clouds
A Ride On The Clouds

Author: Vasanti Sagar

Publisher: Techfiz Inc

Published: 2023-05-10

Total Pages: 76

ISBN-13: 819606411X

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Where do clouds hang out? Earth’s atmosphere is divided into four zones- troposphere (upto 13 kms average from earth’s surface), stratosphere (from 13 km to 50 kms), mesosphere (from 50 km to 85 km) and thermosphere (thereof upto 800 kms). The layers between troposphere and stratosphere is known as tropopause and that between stratosphere and mesosphere is called stratopause. Clouds exist from as low altitude as 2 km from the earth’s surface. Cumulous clouds are the lowest clouds. Upon hearing a lecture by late Dr. Roddam Narasimha, I got an idea of writing a play using Meghadoota to induce learning about clouds. That I had byhearted few stanzas of Meghadoota in my childhood helped rekindle the interest. Specially the fifth verse which reads as “Where is this cloud, a collection of vapour, lightening, water and wind? Where the matters of message, fit to be sent by persons of sound senses? indicating that sending message through clouds was not a matter of pure fiction. Hence the play “A ride on the clouds” This book has been published by Techfiz Inc., Bengaluru

Long Cloud Ride
Long Cloud Ride

Author: Josie Dew

Publisher: Sphere

Published: 2011-04-07

Total Pages: 323

ISBN-13: 0748129936

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After two months on board a Russian container ship sailing 15,000 miles across the world, Josie finally arrives in New Zealand with her bike. Over the next nine months she cycles 10,000 kilometres all over North and South Islands while experiencing the wettest, windiest and stormiest year on record. During this time Josie was spat at, shouted at, honked at, and both run off and blown off the road. She got soaked, sunburnt, hailed on and snowed on and was alternately starved and over-fed, over-charged and under-charged. Then there was the wildlife: the possums (both dead and alive): exotic birds such as moreporks (with their eerie call) and fantails (who decided to follow); the ostriches, who liked to chase English cyclists and the harriers, who liked to dive bomb them; the more familiar but no less frustrating farm animals, who provided sheep-jams and cow-blocks to slow Josie down. In Long Cloud Ride, Josie brings New Zealand brilliantly to life. Warm, witty and acutely observed as ever, her latest adventure is sure to delight old and new fans alike.

Ride on the Curl'd Clouds
Ride on the Curl'd Clouds

Author: Caroline Nesbitt

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2009-06

Total Pages: 185

ISBN-13: 0578023849

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'Black Beauty' meets 'Dharma Bums' in this tale of jumping horses and the people who live by them. First on the scene of a horrific van crash that involves her best friend, a shady owner in the 'insurance' business, and four world-class horses, professional jump rider 'Chelle Martin finds herself in the middle of an intrigue where drugs and dreams collide - while juggling horses, an out-of-control-teenaged daughter, potential romance, & even, perhaps, a new career.

Out of the Clouds
Out of the Clouds

Author: Linda Carroll

Publisher: Hachette Books

Published: 2018-05-29

Total Pages: 295

ISBN-13: 0316432210

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In the bestselling tradition ofthe The Eighty-Dollar Champion, the propulsive, inspiring Cinderella story of Stymie, an unwanted Thoroughbred, and Hirsch Jacobs, the once dirt-poor trainer who bought the colt on the cheap and molded him into the most popular horse of his time and the richest racehorse the world had ever seen. In the wake of World War II, as turmoil and chaos were giving way to a spirit of optimism, Americans were looking for inspiration and role models showing that it was possible to start from the bottom and work your way up to the top-and they found it in Stymie, the failed racehorse plucked from the discard heap by trainer Hirsch Jacobs. Like Stymie, Jacobs was a commoner in "The Sport of Kings," a dirt-poor Brooklyn city slicker who forged an unlikely career as racing's winningest trainer by buying cheap, unsound nags and magically transforming them into winners. The $1,500 pittance Jacobs paid to claim Stymie became history's biggest bargain as the ultimate iron horse went on to run a whopping 131 races and win 25 stakes, becoming the first Thoroughbred ever to earn more than $900,000. The Cinderella champion nicknamed "The People's Horse" captivated the masses with his rousing charge-from-behind stretch runs, his gritty blue-collar work ethic, and his rags-to-riches success story. In a golden age when horse racing rivaled baseball and boxing as America's most popular pastime, he was every bit as inspiring a sports hero as Joe DiMaggio and Joe Louis. Taking readers on a crowd-pleasing ride with Stymie and Jacobs, Out of the Clouds -- the winner of the Dr. Tony Ryan Book Award -- unwinds a real-life Horatio Alger tale of a dauntless team and its working-class fans who lived vicariously through the stouthearted little colt they embraced as their own.

Ride The Clouds
Ride The Clouds

Author: Aiye-ko ooto

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2018-09-20

Total Pages: 90

ISBN-13: 0359102700

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Dreams are ancient, powerful and mysterious. From the Pharaohs of old Egypt to the commons of English manors, the beauty of dreams haunt their futures. Aiye-Ko-ooto irresistibly wrestles the irascible in 50 poems of this anthology. Where green prairies meet the foot of hills, "Blue bonnets in bloom" grow. Rosy pictures of the time to come. Making kings and poor alike; dance. Also, dreams color; consoling us in hard times -"Multiple births of autumn". Then our moments in the wings are traded on the mounds of nights. In happy dream night, moon is forgotten - we become; toast of the party. Perky, energetic and vivacious. Our spirits are high. This makes us attractive "the dapple sky". When all our thoughts are not majestic but romantic. This anthology does not rest the count until you "ride the clouds" With these poems, you may sleep in the truth of your dreams!!!

Boys of the Clouds
Boys of the Clouds

Author: Gary C. Boegel

Publisher: Trafford Publishing

Published: 2007-09

Total Pages: 456

ISBN-13: 1412059410

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Boys of the Clouds tells the fascinating stories, in their own words, of over seventy veterans of the 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion during the Second World War. The Battalion, part of the British 6th Airborne Division, was among the very first Allied soldiers to land on French soil on June 6, 1944. Despite a widely scattered drop, they managed to take and hold all their objectives on D-Day, and continued to hold off German counter attacks through that fateful summer. After suffering heavy losses in Normandy, the unit returned to England in September 1944 to refit and train for the next airborne operation. This training was interrupted when they were hastily sent to defend against the German offensive in the Ardennes, commonly known as the Battle of the Bulge. They were the only Canadian unit to take part in this action. After the threat had passed, and the German offensive halted, they once again returned to England to prepare for the next drop. This finally came on March 24, 1945 when the Allies were able to cross the Rhine in a massive combined airborne and river crossing operation, the largest the world has ever seen. Success came quickly on the drop zone and within three days, they embarked on a hectic journey that would take them from the Rhine River all the way to Wismar on the Baltic Sea by May 2nd, where they linked up with Russian forces. This historic meeting signified the end of the war in Europe. The Battalion then had the honour of being the first Canadian unit to return to Canada as a complete group. They landed in Halifax to a tumultuous welcome and were awarded the key to the city. Follow their arduous and often hilarious journey and discover why they joined up, what the parachute training was like, especially their first jump, what it was like jumping into action for the first time in Normandy, the conditions in the Ardennes, crossing the Rhine and the fateful trek to Wismar to end the war. It's all here, in their own words.