Off the Skelligs

Off the Skelligs PDF Author: Jean Ingelow
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Languages : en
Pages : 602

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Off the Skelligs

Off the Skelligs PDF Author: Jean Ingelow
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Pages : 602

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Off the Skelligs

Off the Skelligs PDF Author: Jean Ingelow
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382806452
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 674

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1872. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

Off the Skelligs

Off the Skelligs PDF Author: Jean Ingelow
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Languages : en
Pages : 684

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Off the Skelligs

Off the Skelligs PDF Author: Jean Ingelow
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Languages : en
Pages : 680

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Skellig

Skellig PDF Author: David Almond
Publisher: Delacorte Press
ISBN: 038572988X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194

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David Almond’s Printz Honor–winning novel celebrates its 10th anniversary! Ten-year-old Michael was looking forward to moving into a new house. But now his baby sister is ill, his parents are frantic, and Doctor Death has come to call. Michael feels helpless. Then he steps into the crumbling garage. . . . What is this thing beneath the spiders' webs and dead flies? A human being, or a strange kind of beast never before seen? The only person Michael can confide in is his new friend, Mina. Together, they carry the creature out into the light, and Michael's world changes forever. . . .

Off the Skelligs

Off the Skelligs PDF Author: Jean Ingelow
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Languages : en
Pages : 314

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Sun Dancing

Sun Dancing PDF Author: Geoffrey Moorhouse
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780156006026
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308

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A fictionalized history of fourth-century Irish monks describes their spirituality and their influence on other areas of the world.

Returning Light

Returning Light PDF Author: Robert L. Harris
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0063268302
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 311

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The Acclaimed International Bestseller “It is impossible to do justice to the beauty of Returning Light. The whole book is a poem.” — New York Times Book Review By the lighthouse keeper on the remote, otherworldly Irish island of Skellig Michael, a "profound memoir about the importance of place and what it really means to belong" (Belfast Telegraph) “On Skellig Michael, thousands of birds appear and disappear, erecting towers, coming together in wings of movement which build and unravel over the empty sea. Often, no one else is there to stand beside me on the island. The mind wanders; links with the past are easily made; ancient ways of viewing things come alive.” In 1987, Robert Harris happened upon an unusual job posting in the local paper—a new warden service was being set up on the island of Skellig Michael, and the deadline was imminent. Just weeks later he was on his way to set up camp in one of Ireland’s most remote locations, unaware that he would be making that same journey every May for the next 30 years. Here he transports us to the otherworldly island, a place that is teeming with natural life, including curious puffins that like to visit his hut. From the precipice he has observed a coastline that is relatively unchanged for the last thousand years—a beacon of equilibrium in an ever-changing world. But the island can be fierce too. It’s inhabitable for only five months of the year, and solitude can quickly become isolation as bad weather rolls in to create a veil between Skellig Michael and the rest of the world, when the dizzying terrain can become a very real threat to life. A beautiful and evocative work of nature writing, Returning Light is an extraordinary memoir about the profound effect a place can have on us, and how a remote location can bring with it a great sense of belonging.

The Solace of Fierce Landscapes

The Solace of Fierce Landscapes PDF Author: Belden C. Lane
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019976042X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 295

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In the tradition of Kathleen Norris, Terry Tempest Williams, and Thomas Merton, The Solace of Fierce Landscapes explores the impulse that has drawn seekers into the wilderness for centuries and offers eloquent testimony to the healing power of mountain silence and desert indifference. Interweaving a memoir of his mother's long struggle with Alzheimer's and cancer, meditations on his own wilderness experience, and illuminating commentary on the Christian via negativa--a mystical tradition that seeks God in the silence beyond language--Lane rejects the easy affirmations of pop spirituality for the harsher but more profound truths that wilderness can teach us. "There is an unaccountable solace that fierce landscapes offer to the soul. They heal, as well as mirror, the brokeness we find within." It is this apparent paradox that lies at the heart of this remarkable book: that inhuman landscapes should be the source of spiritual comfort. Lane shows that the very indifference of the wilderness can release us from the demands of the endlessly anxious ego, teach us to ignore the inessential in our own lives, and enable us to transcend the "false self" that is ever-obsessed with managing impressions. Drawing upon the wisdom of St. John of the Cross, Meister Eckhardt, Simone Weil, Edward Abbey, and many other Christian and non-Christian writers, Lane also demonstrates how those of us cut off from the wilderness might "make some desert" in our lives. Written with vivid intelligence, narrative ease, and a gracefulness that is itself a comfort, The Solace of Fierce Landscapes gives us not only a description but a "performance" of an ancient and increasingly relevant spiritual tradition.

Where Are You Puffling?

Where Are You Puffling? PDF Author: Erika McGann
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781989417003
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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A curious little puffling lives on Bird Island. But her puffin parents can's find her in their burrow. Where could she be? Luckily, all the animals and birds are there to help.