Italian Days, Arabian Nights
Author: Vittorio Palumbo
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Published: 2011-05
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9781937228002
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMemoir set in Italy and Libya during World War II.
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Author: Vittorio Palumbo
Publisher:
Published: 2011-05
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9781937228002
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMemoir set in Italy and Libya during World War II.
Author: Vittorio Palumbo
Publisher:
Published: 2015-11
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9788887930825
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Anne Wharton
Publisher: Litres
Published: 2021-03-16
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 5041205132
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Katherine Boland
Publisher: Wild Dingo Press
Published: 2017-05-01
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 0987381334
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSpanning five decades and as many continents, Hippy Days, Arabian Nights is a funny, moving, and compelling story of a woman whose extraordinary life will never be summarised by the words ‘could have’, ‘might have’, or ‘should have’. Whether it’s following her dreams pursuing what she believes in, or chasing matters of the heart, from the outset Australian artist Katherine Boland has grabbed life by the throat and jumped in feet first. Part One: Hippy Days. One woman’s experience of life in a hippy community that sprang up in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales as part of the counterculture movement––an overlooked and relatively untapped period in Australian modern history. In 1976, Katherine and her boyfriend John, like many idealistic young students of the time, abandon their university studies and leave Melbourne to pursue a sustainable and independent life in the bush. Their earnest quest for a Utopian life in harmony with nature is both hilarious and serious: John finds himself reviving their dying goat with mouth-to-mouth resuscitation in the back of a ute while on the way to the vet; and, under the stars, alone in the bush, a pregnant and groaning Katherine goes into labour to the accompaniment of New Year’s Eve fireworks and the sympathetic mooing of a neighbour’s cow. However, as Katherine reveals, even the strongest woman is vulnerable and the noblest of dreams can perish, observing as she does that in many families ‘peace, harmony and mung beans’ can founder on the back of drug addiction with its many consequences including family violence and child neglect. Part Two: Arabian Nights. Prior to the Egyptian revolution in 2010, Katherine receives an invitation from the Egyptian Ministry of Culture to participate in an International Artists’ Symposium. And so begins her next fateful and totally unplanned foray into the unknown: falling head over heels in love (or is it lust!) for an Egyptian journalist 27 years her junior – at first sight. Her ideas and preconceptions about Islam and the Middle East are challenged as her relationship evolves and deepens over the next 6 years.
Author: Miss Pardoe (Julia)
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Published: 1857
Total Pages: 406
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Tahir Shah
Publisher: Bantam
Published: 2007-12-26
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 0553904531
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTahir Shah’s The Caliph’s House, describing his first year in Casablanca, was hailed by critics and compared to such travel classics as A Year in Provence and Under the Tuscan Sun. Now Shah takes us deeper into the heart of this exotic and magical land to uncover mysteries that have been hidden from Western eyes for centuries.… In this entertaining and penetrating book, Tahir sets out on a bold new journey across Morocco that becomes an adventure worthy of the mythical Arabian Nights. As he wends his way through the labyrinthine medinas of Fez and Marrakesh, traverses the Sahara sands, and tastes the hospitality of ordinary Moroccans, Tahir collects a dazzling treasury of traditional stories, gleaned from the heritage of A Thousand and One Nights. The tales, recounted by a vivid cast of characters, reveal fragments of wisdom and an oriental way of thinking that is both enthralling and fresh. A link in the chain of scholars and teachers who have passed these stories down for centuries like a baton in a relay race, Shah reaches layers of culture that most visitors hardly realize exist, and eventually discovers the story living in his own heart. Along the way he describes the colors, characters, and the passion of Morocco, and comes to understand why it is such an enchanting land. From master masons who labor only at night to Sufi wise men who write for soap operas, and Tuareg guides afflicted by reality TV, In Arabian Nights takes us on an unforgettable journey, shining a light on facets of a society that are normally left in darkness.
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2024-03-20
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 338539113X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReprint of the original, first published in 1882.
Author: Julia S. H. Pardoe
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Published: 1857
Total Pages: 392
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Published: 1900
Total Pages: 556
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Julia Pardoe
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Published: 2011
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