Author: Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 650
Book Description
New Geographical Literature and Maps
Author: Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 650
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 650
Book Description
Black Swan Green
Author: David Mitchell
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 158836528X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
By the New York Times bestselling author of The Bone Clocks and Cloud Atlas | Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize Selected by Time as One of the Ten Best Books of the Year | A New York Times Notable Book | Named One of the Best Books of the Year by The Washington Post Book World, The Christian Science Monitor, Rocky Mountain News, and Kirkus Reviews | A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist | Winner of the ALA Alex Award | Finalist for the Costa Novel Award From award-winning writer David Mitchell comes a sinewy, meditative novel of boyhood on the cusp of adulthood and the old on the cusp of the new. Black Swan Green tracks a single year in what is, for thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor, the sleepiest village in muddiest Worcestershire in a dying Cold War England, 1982. But the thirteen chapters, each a short story in its own right, create an exquisitely observed world that is anything but sleepy. A world of Kissingeresque realpolitik enacted in boys’ games on a frozen lake; of “nightcreeping” through the summer backyards of strangers; of the tabloid-fueled thrills of the Falklands War and its human toll; of the cruel, luscious Dawn Madden and her power-hungry boyfriend, Ross Wilcox; of a certain Madame Eva van Outryve de Crommelynck, an elderly bohemian emigré who is both more and less than she appears; of Jason’s search to replace his dead grandfather’s irreplaceable smashed watch before the crime is discovered; of first cigarettes, first kisses, first Duran Duran LPs, and first deaths; of Margaret Thatcher’s recession; of Gypsies camping in the woods and the hysteria they inspire; and, even closer to home, of a slow-motion divorce in four seasons. Pointed, funny, profound, left-field, elegiac, and painted with the stuff of life, Black Swan Green is David Mitchell’s subtlest and most effective achievement to date. Praise for Black Swan Green “[David Mitchell has created] one of the most endearing, smart, and funny young narrators ever to rise up from the pages of a novel. . . . The always fresh and brilliant writing will carry readers back to their own childhoods. . . . This enchanting novel makes us remember exactly what it was like.”—The Boston Globe “[David Mitchell is a] prodigiously daring and imaginative young writer. . . . As in the works of Thomas Pynchon and Herman Melville, one feels the roof of the narrative lifted off and oneself in thrall.”—Time
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 158836528X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
By the New York Times bestselling author of The Bone Clocks and Cloud Atlas | Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize Selected by Time as One of the Ten Best Books of the Year | A New York Times Notable Book | Named One of the Best Books of the Year by The Washington Post Book World, The Christian Science Monitor, Rocky Mountain News, and Kirkus Reviews | A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist | Winner of the ALA Alex Award | Finalist for the Costa Novel Award From award-winning writer David Mitchell comes a sinewy, meditative novel of boyhood on the cusp of adulthood and the old on the cusp of the new. Black Swan Green tracks a single year in what is, for thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor, the sleepiest village in muddiest Worcestershire in a dying Cold War England, 1982. But the thirteen chapters, each a short story in its own right, create an exquisitely observed world that is anything but sleepy. A world of Kissingeresque realpolitik enacted in boys’ games on a frozen lake; of “nightcreeping” through the summer backyards of strangers; of the tabloid-fueled thrills of the Falklands War and its human toll; of the cruel, luscious Dawn Madden and her power-hungry boyfriend, Ross Wilcox; of a certain Madame Eva van Outryve de Crommelynck, an elderly bohemian emigré who is both more and less than she appears; of Jason’s search to replace his dead grandfather’s irreplaceable smashed watch before the crime is discovered; of first cigarettes, first kisses, first Duran Duran LPs, and first deaths; of Margaret Thatcher’s recession; of Gypsies camping in the woods and the hysteria they inspire; and, even closer to home, of a slow-motion divorce in four seasons. Pointed, funny, profound, left-field, elegiac, and painted with the stuff of life, Black Swan Green is David Mitchell’s subtlest and most effective achievement to date. Praise for Black Swan Green “[David Mitchell has created] one of the most endearing, smart, and funny young narrators ever to rise up from the pages of a novel. . . . The always fresh and brilliant writing will carry readers back to their own childhoods. . . . This enchanting novel makes us remember exactly what it was like.”—The Boston Globe “[David Mitchell is a] prodigiously daring and imaginative young writer. . . . As in the works of Thomas Pynchon and Herman Melville, one feels the roof of the narrative lifted off and oneself in thrall.”—Time
American Map Road Atlas
Author: American Map Corporation
Publisher: Langenscheidt Publishing Group
ISBN: 0841628009
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
This atlas with digital cartography details North America, including city vicinity maps, national park maps, and an adventure travel section to help you plan vacations.
Publisher: Langenscheidt Publishing Group
ISBN: 0841628009
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
This atlas with digital cartography details North America, including city vicinity maps, national park maps, and an adventure travel section to help you plan vacations.
Soils Report
Author: Canada-Manitoba Soil Survey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Braby's Commercial Directory of Southern Africa
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, Southern
Languages : en
Pages : 1366
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, Southern
Languages : en
Pages : 1366
Book Description
Library of Congress Catalog
Author: Library of Congress
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Subject catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1032
Book Description
Beginning with 1953, entries for Motion pictures and filmstrips, Music and phonorecords form separate parts of the Library of Congress catalogue. Entries for Maps and atlases were issued separately 1953-1955.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Subject catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1032
Book Description
Beginning with 1953, entries for Motion pictures and filmstrips, Music and phonorecords form separate parts of the Library of Congress catalogue. Entries for Maps and atlases were issued separately 1953-1955.
Troopships of World War II
Author: Roland Wilbur Charles
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Transports
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
"This book contains authentic photographs and salient facts covering 358 troopships used in World War II. In addition, other vessels of miscellaneous character, including Victory and Liberty type temporary conversions for returning troops, are listed in the appendices ..."--Pref.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Transports
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
"This book contains authentic photographs and salient facts covering 358 troopships used in World War II. In addition, other vessels of miscellaneous character, including Victory and Liberty type temporary conversions for returning troops, are listed in the appendices ..."--Pref.
South African National Bibliography
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Afrikaans literature
Languages : un
Pages : 774
Book Description
Includes publications received in terms of Copyright Act no. 9 of 1916.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Afrikaans literature
Languages : un
Pages : 774
Book Description
Includes publications received in terms of Copyright Act no. 9 of 1916.
Braby's Commercial Directory of South, East and Central Africa
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, Central
Languages : en
Pages : 1996
Book Description
Includes: South Africa, Rhodesia, Zambia, Malawi, South-West Africa, Mocambique, Angola, Swaaziland, Botsawana and Lesotho.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, Central
Languages : en
Pages : 1996
Book Description
Includes: South Africa, Rhodesia, Zambia, Malawi, South-West Africa, Mocambique, Angola, Swaaziland, Botsawana and Lesotho.
Commercial Directory
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, Southern
Languages : en
Pages : 1008
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, Southern
Languages : en
Pages : 1008
Book Description