Author: Adam Foster
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0557636906
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
American expat Grant Lockette is held hostage by terrorists in Kashmir. His brother, Simon, learns of it shortly before a scheduled visit to India. Against the wishes of his father Charles, Simon ventures to rescue Grant with the help of his friend, Drew Kasper, a breezy neo-hippy along for the adventure. Grant's faith is tested as he prays to love his captors rather than hate them. One of Grant's assailants, Yusef, has visitations from heaven in his dreams and becomes curious about Grant's interpretations. Stateside, Mr. Lockette works with a negotiator to bring his boys safely home from what becomes a massive departure from anything predictable. Outside Grant's hotel-prison, Simon and Kasper find a rich new world, one that existed seemingly only in the media until now--Islam. While living with the Muslim family that had hosted Grant previously, Simon & Kasper encounter hospitality & friendship. In NCE a loving Allah trumps assumptions, challenging readers from multiple backgrounds & perspectives.
Noon Chai Escape
Author: Adam Foster
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0557636906
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
American expat Grant Lockette is held hostage by terrorists in Kashmir. His brother, Simon, learns of it shortly before a scheduled visit to India. Against the wishes of his father Charles, Simon ventures to rescue Grant with the help of his friend, Drew Kasper, a breezy neo-hippy along for the adventure. Grant's faith is tested as he prays to love his captors rather than hate them. One of Grant's assailants, Yusef, has visitations from heaven in his dreams and becomes curious about Grant's interpretations. Stateside, Mr. Lockette works with a negotiator to bring his boys safely home from what becomes a massive departure from anything predictable. Outside Grant's hotel-prison, Simon and Kasper find a rich new world, one that existed seemingly only in the media until now--Islam. While living with the Muslim family that had hosted Grant previously, Simon & Kasper encounter hospitality & friendship. In NCE a loving Allah trumps assumptions, challenging readers from multiple backgrounds & perspectives.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0557636906
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
American expat Grant Lockette is held hostage by terrorists in Kashmir. His brother, Simon, learns of it shortly before a scheduled visit to India. Against the wishes of his father Charles, Simon ventures to rescue Grant with the help of his friend, Drew Kasper, a breezy neo-hippy along for the adventure. Grant's faith is tested as he prays to love his captors rather than hate them. One of Grant's assailants, Yusef, has visitations from heaven in his dreams and becomes curious about Grant's interpretations. Stateside, Mr. Lockette works with a negotiator to bring his boys safely home from what becomes a massive departure from anything predictable. Outside Grant's hotel-prison, Simon and Kasper find a rich new world, one that existed seemingly only in the media until now--Islam. While living with the Muslim family that had hosted Grant previously, Simon & Kasper encounter hospitality & friendship. In NCE a loving Allah trumps assumptions, challenging readers from multiple backgrounds & perspectives.
UPSC CDS 2022 General English (IMA, INA, AFA) | 10 Full-length Mock Tests ( Solved 1200+ Questions)
Author: EduGorilla Prep Experts
Publisher: EduGorilla Community Pvt. Ltd.
ISBN: 9355562772
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
• Best Selling Book in English Edition for UPSC CDS English (IMA, INA, AFA) with objective-type questions as per the latest syllabus given by the UPSC. • Compare your performance with other students using Smart Answer Sheets in EduGorilla’s UPSC CDS English (IMA, INA, AFA) Practice Kit. • UPSC CDS English (IMA, INA, AFA) Preparation Kit comes with 10 Full-length Mock Tests with the best quality content. • Increase your chances of selection by 14X. • UPSC CDS English (IMA, INA, AFA) Prep Kit comes with well-structured and 100% detailed solutions for all the questions. • Clear exam with good grades using thoroughly Researched Content by experts.
Publisher: EduGorilla Community Pvt. Ltd.
ISBN: 9355562772
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
• Best Selling Book in English Edition for UPSC CDS English (IMA, INA, AFA) with objective-type questions as per the latest syllabus given by the UPSC. • Compare your performance with other students using Smart Answer Sheets in EduGorilla’s UPSC CDS English (IMA, INA, AFA) Practice Kit. • UPSC CDS English (IMA, INA, AFA) Preparation Kit comes with 10 Full-length Mock Tests with the best quality content. • Increase your chances of selection by 14X. • UPSC CDS English (IMA, INA, AFA) Prep Kit comes with well-structured and 100% detailed solutions for all the questions. • Clear exam with good grades using thoroughly Researched Content by experts.
The Talwars of Pathan Land and Subhas Chandra's Great Escape
Author: Bhagat Ram Talwar
Publisher: New Delhi : People's Publishing House
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
On the Indian freedom fighter Hari Kishan Talwar, 1909-1931, and the help accorded by Pathans to Subhas Chandra Bose, 1897-1945, in his escape from India to Berlin via Afghanistan.
Publisher: New Delhi : People's Publishing House
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
On the Indian freedom fighter Hari Kishan Talwar, 1909-1931, and the help accorded by Pathans to Subhas Chandra Bose, 1897-1945, in his escape from India to Berlin via Afghanistan.
Escape From China
Author: Zhang Boli
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743437799
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Who can forget the images, telecast worldwide, of brave Chinese students facing down tanks in Tiananmen Square as they took on their Communist government? After a two-week standoff in 1989, military forces suppressed the revolt, killing many students and issuing arrest warrants for top student leaders, including Zhang Boli. After two years as a fugitive, Zhang -- the only leader to elude capture -- knew that he must bid his beloved country, as well as his wife and baby daughter, farewell. Traveling across the frozen terrain of the former Soviet Union, where peasants rescued him, and through the deserted lands of China's precarious borders, Zhang had only his extraordinary will to propel him toward freedom. As told in Escape from China -- a work of great historical resonance -- his story will renew your faith in the human spirit.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743437799
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Who can forget the images, telecast worldwide, of brave Chinese students facing down tanks in Tiananmen Square as they took on their Communist government? After a two-week standoff in 1989, military forces suppressed the revolt, killing many students and issuing arrest warrants for top student leaders, including Zhang Boli. After two years as a fugitive, Zhang -- the only leader to elude capture -- knew that he must bid his beloved country, as well as his wife and baby daughter, farewell. Traveling across the frozen terrain of the former Soviet Union, where peasants rescued him, and through the deserted lands of China's precarious borders, Zhang had only his extraordinary will to propel him toward freedom. As told in Escape from China -- a work of great historical resonance -- his story will renew your faith in the human spirit.
The Cruel Way
Author: Ella K. Maillart
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022603318X
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
In 1939 Swiss travel writer and journalist Ella K. Maillart set off on an epic journey from Geneva to Kabul with fellow writer Annemarie Schwarzenbach in a brand new Ford. As the first European women to travel alone on Afghanistan’s Northern Road, Maillart and Schwarzenbach had a rare glimpse of life in Iran and Afghanistan at a time when their borders were rarely crossed by Westerners. As the two flash across Europe and the Near East in a streak of élan and daring, Maillart writes of comical mishaps, breathtaking landscapes, vitriolic religious clashes, and the ingenuity with which the women navigated what was often a dangerous journey. In beautiful, clear-eyed prose, The Cruel Way shows Maillart’s great ability to explore and experience other cultures in writing both lyrical and deeply empathetic. While the core of the book is the journey itself and their interactions with people oppressed by political conflict and poverty, towards the end of the trip the women’s increasingly troubled relationship takes center stage. By then the glamorous, androgynous Schwarzenbach, whose own account of the trip can be found in All the Roads Are Open, is fighting a losing battle with her own drug addiction, and Maillart’s frustrated attempts to cure her show the profound depth of their relationship. Complete with thirteen of Maillart’s own photographs from the journey, The Cruel Way is a classic of travel writing, and its protagonists are as gripping and fearless as any in literature.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022603318X
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
In 1939 Swiss travel writer and journalist Ella K. Maillart set off on an epic journey from Geneva to Kabul with fellow writer Annemarie Schwarzenbach in a brand new Ford. As the first European women to travel alone on Afghanistan’s Northern Road, Maillart and Schwarzenbach had a rare glimpse of life in Iran and Afghanistan at a time when their borders were rarely crossed by Westerners. As the two flash across Europe and the Near East in a streak of élan and daring, Maillart writes of comical mishaps, breathtaking landscapes, vitriolic religious clashes, and the ingenuity with which the women navigated what was often a dangerous journey. In beautiful, clear-eyed prose, The Cruel Way shows Maillart’s great ability to explore and experience other cultures in writing both lyrical and deeply empathetic. While the core of the book is the journey itself and their interactions with people oppressed by political conflict and poverty, towards the end of the trip the women’s increasingly troubled relationship takes center stage. By then the glamorous, androgynous Schwarzenbach, whose own account of the trip can be found in All the Roads Are Open, is fighting a losing battle with her own drug addiction, and Maillart’s frustrated attempts to cure her show the profound depth of their relationship. Complete with thirteen of Maillart’s own photographs from the journey, The Cruel Way is a classic of travel writing, and its protagonists are as gripping and fearless as any in literature.
Backpacking Blues
Author: Soumya Mukherjee
Publisher: Notion Press
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Ever been caught in a blizzard, faced a tiger in the wild, or capsized your boat in a storm? To know what that feels like, read on. Here are a collection of tales, loosely based on my travel escapades and adventures, with some literary license. If you want to have an exciting, funny, unpredictable, sometimes dangerous, but always enjoyable and gripping journey without having to leave your home, allow me to take you wandering with me through these pages. I promise you a laugh riot. Editor: Malvika Thakur Cover design: Parmita Mukherjee (Illustrator & Artist)
Publisher: Notion Press
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Ever been caught in a blizzard, faced a tiger in the wild, or capsized your boat in a storm? To know what that feels like, read on. Here are a collection of tales, loosely based on my travel escapades and adventures, with some literary license. If you want to have an exciting, funny, unpredictable, sometimes dangerous, but always enjoyable and gripping journey without having to leave your home, allow me to take you wandering with me through these pages. I promise you a laugh riot. Editor: Malvika Thakur Cover design: Parmita Mukherjee (Illustrator & Artist)
Finding Home in Europe
Author: Luis Eduardo Pérez Murcia
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 180073851X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Bringing together the voices of nine individuals from an archive of over two hundred in-depth interviews with transnational migrants and refugees across five European countries, Finding Home in Europe critically engages with how home is experienced by those who move among changing social and cultural constraints. Highly conscious of the political strength of their voices, migrants and asylum seekers speak out loud to the authors, as this volume seeks to challenge the narrative that these people are ‘out of place’ or cannot claim their right to belong.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 180073851X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Bringing together the voices of nine individuals from an archive of over two hundred in-depth interviews with transnational migrants and refugees across five European countries, Finding Home in Europe critically engages with how home is experienced by those who move among changing social and cultural constraints. Highly conscious of the political strength of their voices, migrants and asylum seekers speak out loud to the authors, as this volume seeks to challenge the narrative that these people are ‘out of place’ or cannot claim their right to belong.
Waterside Escapes in the Northeast
Author: Nancy Woodworth
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780934260886
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780934260886
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Shadows at Noon
Author: Joya Chatterji
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300272685
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 881
Book Description
A groundbreaking view of South Asian history in the twentieth century that underlines the similarities and intertwined cultures of India and Pakistan "[A] definitive new 20th-century thematic history of the Indian subcontinent that rejects hegemonic conceptions of national 'difference.'"--Financial Times This radically original and ambitious history of the Indian subcontinent explores the region's unique twentieth-century history and foregrounds the deep connections, rather than the well-publicized fissures, between the cultures of India and Pakistan. Taking the partitions of British India rather than the two world wars as the century's inflection points, Joya Chatterji examines how issues of nationalism, internal and external migration, and technological innovation contributed to South Asia's tumultuous twentieth century. Chatterji weaves together elements of her autobiography and family history; stories of such legendary figures as Tagore, Jinnah, Gandhi, and Nehru; and, in particular, the accounts of the many who were left behind and marginalized in relentless nation-building projects. Chatterji examines the countries' mirroring patterns in state building, social and cultural life, modes of leisure, consumption, and oppression, and offers a timely course correction to our understanding of the dynamics of South Asian history. It reframes the events of the twentieth century that are continuing to play out in the present day.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300272685
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 881
Book Description
A groundbreaking view of South Asian history in the twentieth century that underlines the similarities and intertwined cultures of India and Pakistan "[A] definitive new 20th-century thematic history of the Indian subcontinent that rejects hegemonic conceptions of national 'difference.'"--Financial Times This radically original and ambitious history of the Indian subcontinent explores the region's unique twentieth-century history and foregrounds the deep connections, rather than the well-publicized fissures, between the cultures of India and Pakistan. Taking the partitions of British India rather than the two world wars as the century's inflection points, Joya Chatterji examines how issues of nationalism, internal and external migration, and technological innovation contributed to South Asia's tumultuous twentieth century. Chatterji weaves together elements of her autobiography and family history; stories of such legendary figures as Tagore, Jinnah, Gandhi, and Nehru; and, in particular, the accounts of the many who were left behind and marginalized in relentless nation-building projects. Chatterji examines the countries' mirroring patterns in state building, social and cultural life, modes of leisure, consumption, and oppression, and offers a timely course correction to our understanding of the dynamics of South Asian history. It reframes the events of the twentieth century that are continuing to play out in the present day.
The Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia and the Sword Hunters of the Hamran Arabs
Author: Sir Samuel White Baker
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethiopia
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethiopia
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description