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Author: Dikka Berven
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 456
ISBN-13: 9780815318392
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author: Leonard Woolf
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Published: 1969
Total Pages: 234
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Leonard Woolf
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: 1975
Total Pages: 244
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe author's account of World War II, his wife's death, and his political and literary activities. "A splendid ending to one of the most remarkable literary achievements of our time" (New York Times Book Review). Index; photographs.
Author: Jonathan Glancey
Publisher:
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 389
ISBN-13: 9781786494184
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat was it really like to take the LNER's Art Deco Coronation streamliner from King's Cross to Edinburgh, to cross the Atlantic by the SS Normandie, to fly with Imperial Airways from Southampton to Singapore, to steam from Manhattan to Chicago on board the New York Central's 20th Century Limited or to dine and sleep aboard the Graf Zeppelin? In the course of The Journey Matters, Jonathan Glancey travels from the early 1930s to the turn of the century on some of what he considers to be the most truly glamorous and romantic trips he has ever dreamed of or made in real life. Each of the twenty journeys allows him to explore the history of routes taken, and the events - social and political - enveloping them. Each is the story of the machines that made these journeys possible, of those who shaped them and those, too, who travelled on them. --
Author: Helen Bevington
Publisher: Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 232
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"'What does one learn by taking a journey, any journey?' Helen Bevington asks. 'I've taken a shaky trip through a decade (to Russia, to the mailbox, to bed) to the end of the 1970s, about which uncomplimentary and increasingly anxious remarks were made by us all--you, me, and the media.' This is a book of journeys, to places--Russia, Hawaii, Italy, Yugoslavia, Greece, the South Seas, the Rhine, Australia, New Zealand, New Mexico--and to the classroom at Duke University where she was Professor of English until her retirement in 1976. Since everything is a journey, the book is concerned with travel of all kinds, in books, in memories, in people living and dead, a lighthearted search for Eden on this planet but a more serious search for survival in the troubled decade of the 1970s"--Publisher.
Author: Paul Theroux
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 485
ISBN-13: 0544323521
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Paul Theroux has spent fifty years crossing the globe, adventuring in the exotic, seeking the rich history and folklore of the far away. Now, for the first time, in his tenth travel book, Theroux explores a piece of America--the Deep South. He finds there a paradoxical place, full of incomparable music, unparalleled cuisine, and yet also some of the nation's worst schools, housing, and unemployment rates. It's these parts of the South, so often ignored, that have caught Theroux's keen traveler's eye."--
Author: Victoria Glendinning
Publisher: Catapult
Published: 2008-04-28
Total Pages: 531
ISBN-13: 1582434115
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis meticulously researched and compassionately rendered portrait of Leonard Woolf, the "dark star" of Bloomsbury, is the first to capture his troubled relationship with his wife, his own intellect, and the tumultuous world of artists and eccentrics around him. A man of extremes, Woolf was by turns ferocious and tender, violent and repressed, opinionated and nonjudgmental, always an outsider of sorts within the exceptionally intimate, fractious, and sometimes vicious society of brilliant but troubled friends and lovers. In telling Woolf's story, Victoria Glendinning traces the development of the Bloomsbury circle, bringing to life the group's literary and personal discussions. She also provides an unprecedented account of Woolf's marriage to the legendary Virginia, revealing his undying creative and emotional support for her amid her numerous breakdowns. Leonard Woolf is a perceptive and lively biography of a man whose far–reaching influence is long overdue the full appreciation Glendinning provides.
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Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2012-05-22
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 0300136021
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCollects more than 1,400 English-language proverbs that arose in the 20th and 21st centuries, organized alphabetically by key words and including information on date of origin, history and meaning.
Author: Paul Theroux
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2014-11-18
Total Pages: 506
ISBN-13: 0547524005
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe acclaimed travel writer journeys by train across the Americas from Boston to Patagonia in this international bestselling travel memoir. Starting with a rush-hour subway ride to South Station in Boston to catch the Lake Shore Limited to Chicago, Paul Theroux takes a grand railway adventure first across the United States and then south through Mexico, Central America, and across the Andes until he winds up on the meandering Old Patagonian Express steam engine. His epic commute finally comes to a halt in a desolate land of cracked hills and thorn bushes that reaches toward Antarctica. Along the way, Theroux demonstrates how train travel can reveal “"the social miseries and scenic splendors” of a continent. And through his perceptive prose we learn that what matters most are the people he meets along the way, including the monologuing Mr. Thornberry in Costa Rica, the bogus priest of Cali, and the blind Jorge Luis Borges, who delights in having Theroux read Robert Louis Stevenson to him.
Author: John Eldredge
Publisher: Thomas Nelson Inc
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13: 0785268820
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents three classics by author John Eldredge that challenges and encourages readers to rediscover the lives God intended for them to have.
