The Land of the Long Night

The Land of the Long Night PDF Author: Paul Belloni Du Chaillu
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Category : Lapland
Languages : en
Pages : 344

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The Land of the Long Night

The Land of the Long Night PDF Author: Paul Belloni Du Chaillu
Publisher:
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Category : Lapland
Languages : en
Pages : 344

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The Long Night of White Chickens

The Long Night of White Chickens PDF Author: Francisco Goldman
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 0802144608
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 655

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It is the story of Roger Graetz, raised in a Boston suburb by an aristocratic Guatemalan mother, and his relationship with Flor de Mayo, the beautiful young guatemalan orphn sent by his grandmother to live with family as a maid.

The Land of the Long Night

The Land of the Long Night PDF Author: Paul B. Du Chaillu
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 185

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Stars of the Long Night

Stars of the Long Night PDF Author: Tanure Ojaide
Publisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 9788422799
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 280

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Set in the Niger Delta this novel tells the tale of a women's struggle for equality in a traditional patriachal society. Set against the once-in-a-generation festival at which the one chosen by the gods performs the dance of "the mother mask", Ojaide weaves a tale of suspense while displaying the traditions and religious beliefs that define the Niger Delta.

The Long Night

The Long Night PDF Author: Andrew Nelson Lytle
Publisher: Library of Alabama Classics
ISBN: 9780817304157
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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A first-rate novel that provides vivid descriptions of Alabama during an important period in the state's history. The Long Night is set in the vicinity of Montgomery, Alabama, between 1850 and 1865.

The Longest Night

The Longest Night PDF Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004709940
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1237

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With an introduction by Gregor Benton. The Longest Night tells the story of Chinese Trotskyism in its later years, including after Mao Zedong's capture of Beijing in 1949. It treats the three ages of Chinese Trotskyism: the founding generation around Chen Duxiu, Zheng Chaolin, Wang Fanxi, and Peng Shuzhi, who joined the Opposition after their expulsion from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP); the first generation of those who (after 1931) did not first pass through the ranks of the CCP before becoming Trotskyists; and those who became Trotskyists after 1949, mainly in Hong Kong and the diaspora.

Day of the Long Night

Day of the Long Night PDF Author: Jamil I. Toubbeh
Publisher:
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 190

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Since the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine in 1948, Western culture and the Western media have nearly stricken the Palestinian people from its collective consciousness. When they are remembered, they are most often thought of as terrorists; this passive ignorance has allowed most Westerners to forget their terrible plight. The author was one of those Palestinians expelled from Jerusalem, and in this work he describes in vivid detail the nakba (tragedy, or catastrophe) that his people faced. His story is of the dissolution of his homeland and the systematic effacing of his cultural roots and history. He explores the events leading up to the establishment of a Zionist state and looks to the future as a time for change. Providing an upclose look at the Palestinian people, the author reminds us that policy decisions do not affect countries, but truly the people.

The Night Land

The Night Land PDF Author: William Hope Hodgson
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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"This to be Love, that your spirit to live in a natural holiness with the Beloved, and your bodies to be a sweet and natural delight that shall be never lost of a lovely mystery.... And shame to be unborn, and all things to go wholesome and proper, out of an utter greatness of understanding; and the Man to be an Hero and a Child before the Woman; and the Woman to be an Holy Light of the Spirit and an Utter Companion and in the same time a glad Possession unto the Man.... And this doth be Human Love...." "...for this to be the especial glory of Love, that it doth make unto all Sweetness and Greatness, and doth be a fire burning all Littleness; so that did all in this world to have met The Beloved, then did Wantonness be dead, and there to grow Gladness and Charity, dancing in the years."

One Long Night

One Long Night PDF Author: Andrea Pitzer
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316303585
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 508

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A groundbreaking, haunting, and profoundly moving history of modernity's greatest tragedy: concentration camps. For over 100 years, at least one concentration camp has existed somewhere on Earth. First used as battlefield strategy, camps have evolved with each passing decade, in the scope of their effects and the savage practicality with which governments have employed them. Even in the twenty-first century, as we continue to reckon with the magnitude and horror of the Holocaust, history tells us we have broken our own solemn promise of "never again." In this harrowing work based on archival records and interviews during travel to four continents, Andrea Pitzer reveals for the first time the chronological and geopolitical history of concentration camps. Beginning with 1890s Cuba, she pinpoints concentration camps around the world and across decades. From the Philippines and Southern Africa in the early twentieth century to the Soviet Gulag and detention camps in China and North Korea during the Cold War, camp systems have been used as tools for civilian relocation and political repression. Often justified as a measure to protect a nation, or even the interned groups themselves, camps have instead served as brutal and dehumanizing sites that have claimed the lives of millions. Drawing from exclusive testimony, landmark historical scholarship, and stunning research, Andrea Pitzer unearths the roots of this appalling phenomenon, exploring and exposing the staggering toll of the camps: our greatest atrocities, the extraordinary survivors, and even the intimate, quiet moments that have also been part of camp life during the past century. "Masterly"-The New Yorker A Smithsonian Magazine Best History Book of the Year

Deep in a Dream

Deep in a Dream PDF Author: James Gavin
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN: 1569769036
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 473

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This first major biography of the most romanticized icon in jazz thrillingly recounts his wild ride. From his emergence in the 1950s--when an uncannily beautiful young man from Oklahoma appeard on the West Coast to become, seemingly overnight, the prince of "cool" jazz--until his violent, drug-related death in Amsterdam in 1988, Chet Baker lived a life that has become an American myth. Here, drawing on hundreds of interviews and previously untapped sources, James Gavin gives a hair-raising account of the trumpeter's dark journey.