The Old Rose Adventurer
Author: Brent C. Dickerson
Publisher: Timber Press (OR)
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 686
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe once-blooming old European roses, and more.
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Author: Brent C. Dickerson
Publisher: Timber Press (OR)
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 686
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe once-blooming old European roses, and more.
Author: Ann Chapman
Publisher:
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9781742703022
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMany of our best-loved heritage roses are named after women and in this charming book, Ann Chapman explores the lives and stories behind these evocative names.
Author: Henry Kitchell Webster
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Published: 1916
Total Pages: 610
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John Moynihan
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2011-10-04
Total Pages: 247
ISBN-13: 0679643818
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA gripping, beautifully told story of a young man’s coming-of-age at sea When John Moynihan decided to ship out in the Merchant Marine during the summer of his junior year at Wesleyan University, his father, Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, was not enthusiastic: As a young man, before joining the U.S. Navy, Pat Moynihan had worked the New York City docks and knew what his son would encounter. However, John’s mother, Elizabeth, an avid sailor, found the idea of an adventure at sea exciting and set out to help him get his Seaman’s Papers. When John was sworn in, he was given one piece of advice: to not tell the crew that his father was a United States senator. The job ticket read “forty-five days from Camden, New Jersey, to the Mediterranean on the Rose City,” a supertanker. As the ship sailed the orders changed, and forty-five days became four months across the equator, around Africa, across the Indian Ocean, and up to Japan—a far more perilous voyage than John or his mother had imagined. The physical labor was grueling, and outdated machinery aboard the ship, including broken radar, jeopardized the lives of the crew. They passed through the Straits of Malacca three times, with hazardous sailing conditions and threats of pirates. But it was also the trip of a lifetime: John reveled in the natural world around him, listened avidly to the tales of the old timers, and even came to value the drunken camaraderie among men whose only real family was one another. A talented artist, John drew what he saw and kept a journal on the ship that he turned into his senior thesis when he returned to Wesleyan the following year. A few years after John died in his early forties, the result of a reaction to acetaminophen, his mother printed a limited edition of his journal illustrated with drawings from his notebooks. Encouraged by the interest in his account of the voyage, she agreed to publish the book more widely. An honestly written story of a boy’s coming into manhood at sea, The Voyage of the Rose City is a taut, thrilling tale of the adventure of a lifetime.
Author: Andrea Di Robilant
Publisher: Knopf
Published: 2014-05-06
Total Pages: 227
ISBN-13: 0307962938
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the author of the best-selling A Venetian Affair, here is the charming chronicle of his search for the identity of a mysterious old rose. Andrea di Robilant’s tale takes us back to the time of Josephine Bonaparte, as well as into some of the most delightful rose gardens in Italy today, brought to colorful life on the page in the watercolors of artist Nina Fuga. In his 2008 biography of the Venetian lady Lucia Mocenigo (his great-great-great-great- grandmother), di Robilant described a pink rose that grows wild on the family’s former country estate, mentioning its light peach-and-raspberry scent. This passing detail led to an invitation for an audience with a local rose doyenne, Eleonora Garlant. She and other experts wondered if di Robilant’s unnamed rose could possibly be one of the long-lost China varieties that nineteenth-century European growers had cultivated but which have since disappeared. On the hunt for the identity of his anonymous yet quietly distinctive rose, Di Robilant finds himself captivated by roseophiles through time––from Lucia and her friend Josephine Bonaparte to the gifted Eleonora, whose garden of nearly fifteen hundred varieties of old roses is one of the most significant in Europe––and by the roses themselves, each of which has a tale to tell. What starts out as a lighthearted quest becomes a meaningful journey as di Robilant contemplates the enduring beauty of what is passed down to us in a rose, through both the generosity of nature and the cultivating hand of human beings, who for centuries have embraced and extended the life of this mysterious flower.
Author: Sophia Wilkie
Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2022-06-10
Total Pages: 146
ISBN-13: 1639036091
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRose Parker, a joyful fifteen-year-old, is happy as could be in her comfortable Oregon home when suddenly she finds herself having to move with her family to the wild North Dakota prairie.She is sad to move away from all she has, but she knows she must trust in the Lord and that her parents are doing what they believe is best.With Rose's two wonderful God-loving parents and her eight energetic, happy siblings, they pack up and leave their hometown and friends. Rose and her siblings try to encourage each other during sadness, and their parents are always there for them with wisdom and humble knowledge.Rose knows that she will face many hardships and many exciting thrills along the way that she has only dreamed of.Who will she meet?What will her new home be like?Will the travel be dangerous?And will Rose ever feel like she has a home again?To answer all these questions, open this book and start reading!
Author: Irma L. Lindheim
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Published: 1928
Total Pages: 328
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Author: Warwick Deeping
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Published: 1922
Total Pages: 358
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Thomas Christopher
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2002-05
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9780226105963
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOnce upon a time—before the 1860s—people loved old roses like "Pearl of Gold," "Marchionesse of Lorne," or "Autumn Damask." Then along came the hybrid tea roses, which were easier to arrange, more dramatic, and longer-blooming, and the old roses were all but forgotten. Now the lovely, subtle-hued, richly perfumed old roses are making a comeback, thanks to the efforts of a stubborn band of eccentric characters who rescued them from back alleys, ramshackle cottages, and overgrown graveyards across the country. Thomas Christopher tells us the fascinating stories of the old roses—how they were created and made their way to America—and the unforgettable people who "rustle" them from abandoned lots and secret gardens today, revelling in the mystery of an "unknown yellow."