Travels in the Middle Land
Travels in the Middle Land

Author: Ajahn Sucitto

Publisher: Manhandle Press Limited

Published: 2014-08-31

Total Pages: 311

ISBN-13: 0992668522

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Theravada monks of the forest tradition, such as those in the monasteries of Cittaviveka and Amaravati in the South East of England, (where the author has been based since 1979), remove themselves from all attachments: to place, to belongings and, most importantly, to states of mind. They spend much of their time isolated in forests, but they also wander from place to place to both support their own practice and let their example be known. In this book, the places the author travels through are both physical and spiritual; the poems present them as blending. In the author's view, living in the present moment means that where a body and mind meet this very earth there is a place of awakening, mystery and beauty. This book is offered free by the author, and the publishers warrant that they will make no profit from the sale of this work. Travels in the Middle Land has been placed here as a gift from Manhandle Press Limited and as such the contents are unabridged and unedited. Any cover charge is solely as a result of the printing and/or distribution companies' mode of operation, (where such apply).

Middle Land, Middle Way
Middle Land, Middle Way

Author: Shravasti Dhammika

Publisher: Buddhist Publication Society

Published: 2008-12-01

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 9552401976

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A comprehensive guidebook to the places in India made sacred by the Buddha’s presence. Beginning with an inspiring account of Buddhist pilgrimage, the author then covers sixteen places in detail. With maps and colour photos, an essential companion for pilgrim and traveler.

A Land Remembered
A Land Remembered

Author: Patrick D Smith

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2012-10-01

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 1561645826

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A Land Remembered has become Florida's favorite novel. Now this Student Edition in two volumes makes this rich, rugged story of the American pioneer spirit more accessible to young readers. Patrick Smith tells of three generations of the MacIveys, a Florida family battling the hardships of the frontier. The story opens in 1858, when Tobias and Emma MacIvey arrive in the Florida wilderness with their son, Zech, to start a new life, and ends in 1968 with Solomon MacIvey, who realizes that his wealth has not been worth the cost to the land. Between is a sweeping story rich in Florida history with a cast of memorable characters who battle wild animals, rustlers, Confederate deserters, mosquitoes, starvation, hurricanes, and freezes to carve a kingdom out of the Florida swamp. In this volume, meet young Zech MacIvey, who learns to ride like the wind through the Florida scrub on Ishmael, his marshtackie horse, his dogs, Nip and Tuck, at this side. His parents, Tobias and Emma, scratch a living from the land, gathering wild cows from the swamp and herding them across the state to market. Zech learns the ways of the land from the Seminoles, with whom his life becomes entwined as he grows into manhood. Next in series > > See all of the books in this series

Strangers in Their Own Land
Strangers in Their Own Land

Author: Arlie Russell Hochschild

Publisher: The New Press

Published: 2018-02-20

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 1620973987

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The National Book Award Finalist and New York Times bestseller that became a guide and balm for a country struggling to understand the election of Donald Trump "A generous but disconcerting look at the Tea Party. . . . This is a smart, respectful and compelling book." —Jason DeParle, The New York Times Book Review When Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election, a bewildered nation turned to Strangers in Their Own Land to understand what Trump voters were thinking when they cast their ballots. Arlie Hochschild, one of the most influential sociologists of her generation, had spent the preceding five years immersed in the community around Lake Charles, Louisiana, a Tea Party stronghold. As Jedediah Purdy put it in the New Republic, "Hochschild is fascinated by how people make sense of their lives. . . . [Her] attentive, detailed portraits . . . reveal a gulf between Hochchild's 'strangers in their own land' and a new elite." Already a favorite common read book in communities and on campuses across the country and called "humble and important" by David Brooks and "masterly" by Atul Gawande, Hochschild's book has been lauded by Noam Chomsky, New Orleans mayor Mitch Landrieu, and countless others. The paperback edition features a new afterword by the author reflecting on the election of Donald Trump and the other events that have unfolded both in Louisiana and around the country since the hardcover edition was published, and also includes a readers' group guide at the back of the book.

Trade, Travel, and Exploration in the Middle Ages
Trade, Travel, and Exploration in the Middle Ages

Author: John Block Friedman

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-07-04

Total Pages: 756

ISBN-13: 113559094X

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Trade, Travel, and Exploration: An Encyclopedia is a reference book that covers the peoples, places, technologies, and intellectual concepts that contributed to trade, travel and exploration during the Middle Ages, from the years A.D. 525 to 1492.

The Book of Marvels and Travels
The Book of Marvels and Travels

Author: Sir John Mandeville

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2012-09-13

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 0199600600

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In his Book of Marvels and Travels, Sir John Mandeville describes a journey from Europe to Jerusalem and on into Asia, and the many wonderful and monstrous peoples and practices in the East. A captivating blend of fact and fantasy, Mandeville's Book is newly translated in an edition that brings us closer to Mandeville's worldview.

The Innocents Abroad
The Innocents Abroad

Author: Mark Twain

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2020-05-04

Total Pages: 686

ISBN-13: 3846051764

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.

The land of Amer - Kingdom of the North
The land of Amer - Kingdom of the North

Author: Nauman A. Raja

Publisher: The land of Amer

Published: 2019-08-28

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 197671690X

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Since the Golden Age, the Land of Amer has been driven by a cycle of light and dark, life and death. The light is slowly draining away from the lands of the Amer, but in the North Kingdom, the land is untouched. The inhabitants there are unfazed by the dark, because they live in the safety of the golden gates and the brilliance that emanates from the tower of Light, which blesses them with everlasting life… Only a few in the North will not stand for the injustice the darkness bestows—and yet, even then, they know not what the dark clouds truly bring: a curse…a curse, not in the mind, but in the heart.