The Strong Brown God
Author: Ted Morgan
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 1975
Total Pages: 392
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Author: Ted Morgan
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 1975
Total Pages: 392
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Sanche de Gramont
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Published: 1975
Total Pages: 350
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Wyman H. Herendeen
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Published: 1976
Total Pages: 1366
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Thomas Stearns Eliot
Publisher: London : Faber and Faber
Published: 1941
Total Pages: 15
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Elaine Neil Orr
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2003-08-29
Total Pages: 469
ISBN-13: 0813924472
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe daughter of medical missionaries, Elaine Neil Orr was born in Nigeria in 1954, in the midst of the national movement that would lead to independence from Great Britain. But as she tells it in her captivating new memoir, Orr did not grow up as a stranger abroad; she was a girl at home—only half American, the other half Nigerian. When she was sent alone to the United States for high school, she didn't realize how much leaving Africa would cost her. It was only in her forties, in the crisis of kidney failure, that she began to recover her African life. In writing Gods of Noonday she came to understand her double-rootedness: in the Christian church and the Yoruba shrine, the piano and the talking drum. Memory took her back from Duke Medical Center in North Carolina to the shores of West Africa and her hometown of Ogbomosho in the land of the Yoruba people. Hers was not the dysfunctional American family whose tensions are brought into high relief by the equatorial sun, but a mission girlhood is haunted nonetheless--by spiritual atmospheres and the limits of good intentions. Orr's father, Lloyd Neil, formerly a high school athlete and World War II pilot, and her mother, Anne, found in Nigeria the adventure that would have escaped them in 1950s America. Elaine identified with her strong, fun-loving father more than her reserved mother, but she herself was as introspective and solitary as her sister Becky was pretty and social. Lloyd acquired a Chevrolet station wagon which carried Elaine and her friends to the Ethiope River, where they swam much as they might have in the United States. But at night the roads were becoming dangerous, and soon the days were clouded by smoke from the coming Biafran War. Interweaving the lush mission compounds with Nigerian culture, furloughs in the American South with boarding school in Nigeria, and eventually Orr's failing health, the narrative builds in intensity as she recognizes that only through recovering her homeland can she find the strength to survive. Taking its place with classics such as Out of Africa and more recent works like The Poisonwood Bible and Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, Gods of Noonday is a deeply felt, courageous portrait of a woman's life.
Author: Sigrid Nunez
Publisher: Picador
Published: 2005-12-27
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 1429944943
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom Sigrid Nunez, the National Book Award-winning author of The Friend, comes A Feather on the Breath of God: a mesmerizing story about the tangled nature of relationships between parents and children, between language and love A young woman looks back to the world of her immigrant parents: a Chinese-Panamanian father and a German mother. Growing up in a housing project in the 1950s and 1960s, she escapes into dreams inspired both by her parents' stories and by her own reading and, for a time, into the otherworldly life of ballet. A yearning, homesick mother, a silent and withdrawn father, the ballet--these are the elements that shape the young woman's imagination and her sexuality.
Author: John Michael Greer
Publisher: Aeon Books
Published: 2020-10-26
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 1913504220
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStudies on druidry, Jungian psychology, politics, history and the time ahead In 2003 John Michael Greer became the seventh Grand Archdruid of the Ancient Order of Druids in America (AODA), an initiatory organization teaching Celtic nature spirituality which was founded in 1912. The outcome was that his writings began to stray into territory very far from the Hermetic occult philosophy that had been the previous focus of his career. The essays included in this volume chronicle some of the themes he explored as a result: Druidry, Jungian psychology, politics, history, and the shape of the future in a society in decline.
Author: Richard Bangs
Publisher: The Mountaineers Books
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780898868609
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe author presents a collection of travel and adventure stories, including a chronicle of a whitewater rafting trip in Idaho's Selway River and mountaineering in Washington State and Borneo.