Notes of a Journey Through France and Italy
Author: William Hazlitt
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Published: 1826
Total Pages: 432
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Author: William Hazlitt
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Published: 1826
Total Pages: 432
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Edward DALTON (Rector of Tramore.)
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Published: 1866
Total Pages: 564
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John Wardle (fict.name.)
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Published: 1853
Total Pages: 120
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Kooshyar Karimi
Publisher: Penguin Group Australia
Published: 2016-06-13
Total Pages: 243
ISBN-13: 1760142751
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Journey of a Thousand Storms Kooshyar Karimi, author of Leila's Secret, tells his gripping personal story of surviving prison in Iran and life as a refugee before finding success in Australia. Kooshyar Karimi had two careers in Iran, one as a doctor and one as an award-winning translator. Until he was kidnapped by the Intelligence Service. Behind his professional success, Kooshyar was a rebel on several fronts. Marginalised since boyhood as a Jew in a fundamentalist Islamic state, he was a member of a political group that opposed the government. He'd also been using his medical skills illegally, to save unmarried pregnant women from death by stoning. Snatched from the street by the secret service, he was jailed and tortured and then forced to spy for the regime, before finally escaping to Turkey. There he faced a whole new struggle to keep his family safe while awaiting refugee status from the UN. He was forbidden to work and at the mercy of corrupt police, con men and red tape. Then life became more dangerous still, when the Intelligence Service tracked him down and used his mother, back in Iran, as blackmail. Kooshyar's inspiring story of how he managed to forge a new life in Australia is heightened by his largeness of heart, strength of character, and insight into human behaviour, from the unfathomably evil to the selflessly kind. With the skill of a natural storyteller, Journey of a Thousand Storms recounts a life of endurance, compassion and gritty determination.
Author: Micah Fields
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2023-06-20
Total Pages: 95
ISBN-13: 1324003804
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHouston’s story has always been one of war waged relentlessly against water. “Houston spread like a glass of milk spilled on the wobbling table of Texan plains,” Micah Fields writes in this unique and poetic blend of reportage, history, and memoir. Developed as the commercial hub of the Texas cotton and sugarcane industries, Houston was designed for profit, not stability. Its first residents razed swamplands into submission to construct a maze of highways and suburbs, giving the city a sprawling, centerless energy where feral cats, alligators, and poisonous snakes flourished in the bayous as storms and floods rattled coastal Texas. When Hurricane Harvey made landfall in 2017, Fields set off from his home in Iowa back to the battered city of his childhood to rescue his mother who was hell-bent on staying no matter how many feet of rain surged in from the Gulf. Along the way, he traded a Jeep for a small boat and floated among the storm’s detritus in search of solid ground. With precision and eloquence, Fields tracks the devastation of Hurricane Harvey, one storm in a long lineage that threatens the fourth largest city in America. Fields depicts the history of Houston with reverence and lyrical certainty, investigating the conflicting facets of Texan identity that are as resilient as they are catastrophic, steeped in racial subjugation, environmental collapse, and capitalist greed. He writes of the development of the modern city in the wake of the destruction of Galveston in 1900; of the wealthy Menil family and self-taught abstract painter Forrest Bess, a queer artist and fisherman born in 1911 who hardly ever left the Gulf Coast; of the oil booms and busts that shaped the city; of the unchecked lust for growth that makes Houston so expressive of the American dream. We Hold Our Breath is a portrait of a city that exists despite it all, a city whose story has always been one of war waged relentlessly against water.
Author: Edward Dalton
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Published: 1866
Total Pages: 576
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Daniel F. Owsley
Publisher: Booktango
Published: 2012-03-12
Total Pages: 49
ISBN-13: 1468900951
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn "The Journey of Noah's Ark some ancient literature is explored which shall make anyone to never think about that flood in the same way. For it is written that the winds of those stormy days were yoked to the spirit of death that tore the sky with his talons. 2 Then the deluge belowed like a bull as the wind resounded like a screaming hawk. The darkness was dense, the sun was gone. The Spirit of Doom rejoiced! 3 Even the waves arose with great speed like a hungry sea monster to lick the face of earth like it was ice. As a result, the earth as it was then known suddenly began to melt away from that cold shoulder, under many brand new waters that would be very sure to turn the planet inside out. upside down, and back again, as it rapidly went belly up. 4 Then giant tsunamis became angry enough to slap Mother Earth much harder than she was ever slapped before. 'twas the hour of no more time for most living things. 5 For it was fated that everything with lungs would rapidly be drowned like some rats that were quickly going down with the ship, that was our waterlogged world. 6 Even the ancient Sybline Oracles 269-280 wrote that this torrential downpour was quickly obscuring all things round; God thundered loud, as He struck Terror into mortals, sending a multitude of lightnings forth; And all the winds together were then aroused. 7 And all the veins of water were unloosed By the opening of great cataracts from heaven. And from earth's caverns and the tireless deep appeared the myriad waters, and the whole earth was covered over. But on the water swam that wondrous house that was called the ark; And it was hit by many furious waves and struck unmercifully. 8 By force of winds, it rushed on fearfully; But with its keel it cut the mass of foam, While the loud-babbling waters dashed all around with crashing noises of grandeur. 9 And the the mighty mass of fierce waters were up to no good as they wiped everything away that was made unclean by the fallen angels; Nor would those deathly tides ever rest until their deluge covered the whole earth beyond the peaks of it's forth coming mountains, which were never risen up at that point in those prehistoric times. 10 Neither would those ruthless waters show any kindness whatsoever. 11 For God had very little grace back then to show our planet, as it suddenly swam within a giant pool, as those great deeps quickly became much deeper to fill in every valley with His righteous indignation over the wickedness of Man and the Nephilim.
Author: Francois Augieras
Publisher: Pushkin Collection
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 260
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Buddhist Pilgrim's Progress, a journey towards spiritual enlightenment for both narrator and reader
Author: John Muir
Publisher: e-artnow
Published: 2015-11-28
Total Pages: 1041
ISBN-13: 8026847555
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis carefully crafted ebook: "John Muir's Incredible Travel Memoirs: A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf, My First Summer in the Sierra, The Mountains of California, Travels in Alaska, Steep Trails… (Illustrated)” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. During his numerous travels across the North America John Muir left behind a several travel books and travel reports. In September 1867, Muir undertook a walk of about 1,000 miles from Indiana to Florida, which he recounted in his book A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf. He had no specific route chosen, except to go by the "wildest, leafiest, and least trodden way I could find. Upon coming to California Muir immediately left for a visit to Yosemite, a place he had only read about. His hiking journeys through the mountains, valleys,forests andglaciersof Sierra are vividly described in books My First Summer in the Sierra and The Mountains of California. Muir also made four trips to Alaska and he documented these experiences in books Travels in Alaska and The Cruise of the Corwin. Steep Trails is collection of Muir's papers written during his journeysover a period of twenty-nine years collected by William Frederic Badè. Table of Contents: A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf My First Summer in the Sierra The Mountains of California Travels in Alaska The Cruise of the Corwin Steep Trails John Muir (1838-1914) was a Scottish-American naturalist, author, environmental philosopher and early advocate of preservation of wilderness in the United States. His letters, essays, and books telling of his adventures in nature, especially in the Sierra Nevada mountainsof California, have been read by millions. His activism helped to preserve the Yosemite Valley, Sequoia National Park and other wilderness areas. The Sierra Club, which he founded, is a prominent American conservation organization.
Author: William Hazlitt
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Published: 1903
Total Pages: 522
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