Author: Julia Gregson
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439117802
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 609
Book Description
From award winner Julia Gregson, author of Jasmine Nights, this sweeping international bestseller brilliantly captures the lives of three young women on their way to a new life in India during the 1920s. As the Kaisar-I-Hind weighs anchor for Bombay in the autumn of 1928, its passengers ponder their fate in a distant land. They are part of the “Fishing Fleet”—the name given to the legions of English women who sail to India each year in search of husbands, heedless of the life that awaits them. The inexperienced chaperone Viva Holloway has been entrusted to watch over three unsettling charges. There’s Rose, as beautiful as she is naïve, who plans to marry a cavalry officer she has met a mere handful of times. Her bridesmaid, Victoria, is hell-bent on losing her virginity en route before finding a husband of her own. And shadowing them all is the malevolent presence of a disturbed schoolboy named Guy Glover. From the parties of the wealthy Bombay socialites to the poverty of Tamarind Street, from the sooty streets of London to the genteel conversation of the Bombay Yacht Club, East of the Sun takes us back to a world we hardly understand but yearn to know. This is a book that has it all: glorious detail, fascinating characters, and masterful storytelling.
East of the Sun
Author: Julia Gregson
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439117802
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 609
Book Description
From award winner Julia Gregson, author of Jasmine Nights, this sweeping international bestseller brilliantly captures the lives of three young women on their way to a new life in India during the 1920s. As the Kaisar-I-Hind weighs anchor for Bombay in the autumn of 1928, its passengers ponder their fate in a distant land. They are part of the “Fishing Fleet”—the name given to the legions of English women who sail to India each year in search of husbands, heedless of the life that awaits them. The inexperienced chaperone Viva Holloway has been entrusted to watch over three unsettling charges. There’s Rose, as beautiful as she is naïve, who plans to marry a cavalry officer she has met a mere handful of times. Her bridesmaid, Victoria, is hell-bent on losing her virginity en route before finding a husband of her own. And shadowing them all is the malevolent presence of a disturbed schoolboy named Guy Glover. From the parties of the wealthy Bombay socialites to the poverty of Tamarind Street, from the sooty streets of London to the genteel conversation of the Bombay Yacht Club, East of the Sun takes us back to a world we hardly understand but yearn to know. This is a book that has it all: glorious detail, fascinating characters, and masterful storytelling.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439117802
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 609
Book Description
From award winner Julia Gregson, author of Jasmine Nights, this sweeping international bestseller brilliantly captures the lives of three young women on their way to a new life in India during the 1920s. As the Kaisar-I-Hind weighs anchor for Bombay in the autumn of 1928, its passengers ponder their fate in a distant land. They are part of the “Fishing Fleet”—the name given to the legions of English women who sail to India each year in search of husbands, heedless of the life that awaits them. The inexperienced chaperone Viva Holloway has been entrusted to watch over three unsettling charges. There’s Rose, as beautiful as she is naïve, who plans to marry a cavalry officer she has met a mere handful of times. Her bridesmaid, Victoria, is hell-bent on losing her virginity en route before finding a husband of her own. And shadowing them all is the malevolent presence of a disturbed schoolboy named Guy Glover. From the parties of the wealthy Bombay socialites to the poverty of Tamarind Street, from the sooty streets of London to the genteel conversation of the Bombay Yacht Club, East of the Sun takes us back to a world we hardly understand but yearn to know. This is a book that has it all: glorious detail, fascinating characters, and masterful storytelling.
East of the Sun and West of the Moon
Author: Mercer Mayer
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1534412409
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
The Moon, Father Forest, Great Fish of the Sea, and North Wind help a maiden rescue her true love from a troll princess in a faraway kingdom.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1534412409
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
The Moon, Father Forest, Great Fish of the Sea, and North Wind help a maiden rescue her true love from a troll princess in a faraway kingdom.
East of the Sun and West of the Moon
Author: Theodore Roosevelt
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Asia, Central
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
An account of a hunting expedition by brothers Theodore and Kermit Roosevelt through Central Asia in 1926.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Asia, Central
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
An account of a hunting expedition by brothers Theodore and Kermit Roosevelt through Central Asia in 1926.
East of the Sun and West of the Moon
Author: John Ringo
Publisher: Baen Books
ISBN: 1416520597
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
"When the council that controlled the world spanning computer Mother fell out in civil war, it plunged the world in an instant from high-tech utopia to medieval nightmare. Critical to the little remaining technology that was left were the Helium Three reactors that powered the world-wide power grid. And the refueling ship that returned from the outer planets every five years." "With the ship on its way back for the five year rendezvous, every faction on the planet was hungry to capture the tanker, and the power that went with it." "Megan Travante, former slave girl, assassin and currently one of the thirteen super-powerful "Key Holders" that control the world-spanning computer network called Mother, has become deeply entrenched in the political infighting that characterizes the New Destiny capital. In that role she is swained by her "very close, personal, friend" Herzer Herrick, the Blood Lord's Blood Lord, who would much prefer to be splitting orc heads or riding dragons. He wouldn't mind so much if he was at least getting some." "When Herzer and Megan are trapped as replacements for the slaughtered first team, life becomes a nightmarish scramble to find qualified personnel and train and prepare for the toughest space-walk of all time. All while being assaulted by giant metallic scorpions and trying to resolve their "close, personal" differences."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: Baen Books
ISBN: 1416520597
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
"When the council that controlled the world spanning computer Mother fell out in civil war, it plunged the world in an instant from high-tech utopia to medieval nightmare. Critical to the little remaining technology that was left were the Helium Three reactors that powered the world-wide power grid. And the refueling ship that returned from the outer planets every five years." "With the ship on its way back for the five year rendezvous, every faction on the planet was hungry to capture the tanker, and the power that went with it." "Megan Travante, former slave girl, assassin and currently one of the thirteen super-powerful "Key Holders" that control the world-spanning computer network called Mother, has become deeply entrenched in the political infighting that characterizes the New Destiny capital. In that role she is swained by her "very close, personal, friend" Herzer Herrick, the Blood Lord's Blood Lord, who would much prefer to be splitting orc heads or riding dragons. He wouldn't mind so much if he was at least getting some." "When Herzer and Megan are trapped as replacements for the slaughtered first team, life becomes a nightmarish scramble to find qualified personnel and train and prepare for the toughest space-walk of all time. All while being assaulted by giant metallic scorpions and trying to resolve their "close, personal" differences."--BOOK JACKET.
East of the Sun
Author: Barbara Bickmore
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781479383900
Category : Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
EAST OF THE SUN - A return to the grand tradition of storytelling. BARBARA BICKMORE has created a tale in EAST OF THE SUN, so richly imagined, so lush in its description of Africa's primitive beauty, and so compelling in its depiction of the struggle for good, that you will live it as you read it."A grand historical romance . . . Filled with passions, heartbreak and death." Chicago Sun-Times.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781479383900
Category : Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
EAST OF THE SUN - A return to the grand tradition of storytelling. BARBARA BICKMORE has created a tale in EAST OF THE SUN, so richly imagined, so lush in its description of Africa's primitive beauty, and so compelling in its depiction of the struggle for good, that you will live it as you read it."A grand historical romance . . . Filled with passions, heartbreak and death." Chicago Sun-Times.
Kay Nielsen. East of the Sun and West of the Moon
Author: Noel Daniel
Publisher: Taschen
ISBN: 9783836570220
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A collection of ten Norwegian folk and fairy tales illustrated by well-known Danish artist Kay Nielsen.
Publisher: Taschen
ISBN: 9783836570220
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A collection of ten Norwegian folk and fairy tales illustrated by well-known Danish artist Kay Nielsen.
East of the Sun, West of the Moon
Author: Susanna Davidson
Publisher: Young Reading Series 2
ISBN: 9780746096307
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A girl travels east of the sun and west of the moon to free her beloved prince from a magic spell.
Publisher: Young Reading Series 2
ISBN: 9780746096307
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A girl travels east of the sun and west of the moon to free her beloved prince from a magic spell.
East of the Sun, West of the Moon
Author:
Publisher: Usborne Books
ISBN: 9780794522742
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A classic fairytale retold to capture the imagination of young minds. A beautiful heroine, a white bear, a troll and other characters join to add to the intrigue.
Publisher: Usborne Books
ISBN: 9780794522742
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A classic fairytale retold to capture the imagination of young minds. A beautiful heroine, a white bear, a troll and other characters join to add to the intrigue.
East of the Sun & West of the Moon
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780771033025
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Grade level: 1, 2, 3, k, p, e.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780771033025
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Grade level: 1, 2, 3, k, p, e.
Looking at the Sun
Author: James Fallows
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 9780679761624
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
In a timely, even prophetic, portrait of Asia's rise and the magnitude of its challenge to the West, Fallows demolishes the myth that Japan is a capitalist country built on the Western model. He demonstrates instead how Japan's economic system treats business as an instrument of national interest while casting aside the traditional Western values of individual enterprise and human rights.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 9780679761624
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
In a timely, even prophetic, portrait of Asia's rise and the magnitude of its challenge to the West, Fallows demolishes the myth that Japan is a capitalist country built on the Western model. He demonstrates instead how Japan's economic system treats business as an instrument of national interest while casting aside the traditional Western values of individual enterprise and human rights.