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The Landlocked Island
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The Landlocked Island
Author: Paul M. Schaepman
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The Landlocked Island
Author: Paul Schaepman
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Pages : 302
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Landlocked Islands: Two Alien Lives in Egypt
Author: Anna Cachia
Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
ISBN: 1617972355
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
This is a highly unusual and beautifully written book. It is the double memoir of a mother and son, Anna and Pierre, and the story takes us from Anna's childhood in Russia and subsequent arrival in Egypt in 1901 to Pierre's enrollment at the American University in Cairo in the late 1930s. It is fascinating, therefore, not only as a personal account of an interesting group of people but also as a social document that portrays a segment of Egypt's society in the first forty years of the twentieth century. As a personal story, it is a rewarding insight into the early formation of a leading, well-known, and respected Arabist. His mother's account of her own early life and tragedies reveals a remarkable woman we would wish to have known. As a social document, it gives us a rare perhaps unique picture of the life of foreigners in Egypt who were not part of the elite, privileged, ruling class, revealing much about the choices that were available to them in education, career, marriage, and social mixing. Landlocked Islands thus offers the social historian a study of some minorities in Egypt during the first half of the twentieth century; it also opens up the whole question of expatriate life in Egypt. But, above all, it is an entertaining and intriguing tale, a book that one constantly finds oneself eager to pick up and read.
Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
ISBN: 1617972355
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
This is a highly unusual and beautifully written book. It is the double memoir of a mother and son, Anna and Pierre, and the story takes us from Anna's childhood in Russia and subsequent arrival in Egypt in 1901 to Pierre's enrollment at the American University in Cairo in the late 1930s. It is fascinating, therefore, not only as a personal account of an interesting group of people but also as a social document that portrays a segment of Egypt's society in the first forty years of the twentieth century. As a personal story, it is a rewarding insight into the early formation of a leading, well-known, and respected Arabist. His mother's account of her own early life and tragedies reveals a remarkable woman we would wish to have known. As a social document, it gives us a rare perhaps unique picture of the life of foreigners in Egypt who were not part of the elite, privileged, ruling class, revealing much about the choices that were available to them in education, career, marriage, and social mixing. Landlocked Islands thus offers the social historian a study of some minorities in Egypt during the first half of the twentieth century; it also opens up the whole question of expatriate life in Egypt. But, above all, it is an entertaining and intriguing tale, a book that one constantly finds oneself eager to pick up and read.
Swiss Watching
Author: Diccon Bewes
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1857889916
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
A Financial Times Book of the Year and international bestseller.
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1857889916
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
A Financial Times Book of the Year and international bestseller.
Landlocked at North Island
Author: Wayne T. Diemond
Publisher: Publishamerica Incorporated
ISBN: 9781456051815
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Publisher: Publishamerica Incorporated
ISBN: 9781456051815
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
The Land of Lost Content
Author: Sureshini Sanders
Publisher: Vertebrate Publishing
ISBN: 1909461091
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Three children under the age of ten are left in the care of their elderly grandparents in the north of Ceylon. What was an unfortunate necessity transpires to be the making of them. They are last to experience a traditional way of life that was centuries old, before the onslaught of civil war changed everything forever. Their father was one of the many doctors who migrated to the United Kingdom in the sixties and seventies - with ?3 in his pocket. They followed in his footsteps and between them served the NHS for over one hundred years. This true story explores the love of country and family; a tale of betrayal, migration and above all human resilience.
Publisher: Vertebrate Publishing
ISBN: 1909461091
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Three children under the age of ten are left in the care of their elderly grandparents in the north of Ceylon. What was an unfortunate necessity transpires to be the making of them. They are last to experience a traditional way of life that was centuries old, before the onslaught of civil war changed everything forever. Their father was one of the many doctors who migrated to the United Kingdom in the sixties and seventies - with ?3 in his pocket. They followed in his footsteps and between them served the NHS for over one hundred years. This true story explores the love of country and family; a tale of betrayal, migration and above all human resilience.
Island Africa
Author: Jonathan Kingdon
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 9780002194433
Category : Africa
Languages : da
Pages : 287
Book Description
Om Afrikas planter og dyr med vægt på det udviklingshistoriske aspekt
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 9780002194433
Category : Africa
Languages : da
Pages : 287
Book Description
Om Afrikas planter og dyr med vægt på det udviklingshistoriske aspekt
Land-locked States of Africa and Asia
Author: Richard Hodder-Williams
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135254109
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Since 1991 more than a dozen new land-locked states have emerged to be confronted with the geostrategic problems of access and communications. Contributors present the implications of land-lockedness and the historical development of trade routes.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135254109
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Since 1991 more than a dozen new land-locked states have emerged to be confronted with the geostrategic problems of access and communications. Contributors present the implications of land-lockedness and the historical development of trade routes.
Massacre Island
Author: Martin Hegwood
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1429975326
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
Dauphin Island, AL: Three college students arrive at Jason Summers' beach house for the last big party of the season. Nausea strikes hard before the first shot of Tequila is ever poured: blood, everywhere. They have found the bodies. Reporters and politicos scramble for position. Three of the victims belong to the Beautiful People: a smooth entrepreneur, a Beauty Queen, a News Anchor. The fourth, Rebecca Jordan, is forgotten in the frenzy that surrounds the killings. Rebecca's mother, disgusted by the desecration of her daughter's memory, seeks help from Private Investigator Jack Delmas. He reluctantly accepts, and soon finds that appearances are not what they seem in this quaint community. Beneath its surface lies a netherworld peopled by debauched jet-setters, international smugglers, and cunning, unpredictable murderers. It is a world where innocence can be swallowed whole, and where the best intentions of people like Rebecca Jordan can distort into grisly bloodbaths like the one that consumed her. To win justice for Rebecca, Delmas allies with Jimbo McInnis, an oversized, fast-living, Hemingway-quoting deputy sheriff. Together, they must delve behind the madness to find the truth. Doing so may cost them more than their reputations.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1429975326
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
Dauphin Island, AL: Three college students arrive at Jason Summers' beach house for the last big party of the season. Nausea strikes hard before the first shot of Tequila is ever poured: blood, everywhere. They have found the bodies. Reporters and politicos scramble for position. Three of the victims belong to the Beautiful People: a smooth entrepreneur, a Beauty Queen, a News Anchor. The fourth, Rebecca Jordan, is forgotten in the frenzy that surrounds the killings. Rebecca's mother, disgusted by the desecration of her daughter's memory, seeks help from Private Investigator Jack Delmas. He reluctantly accepts, and soon finds that appearances are not what they seem in this quaint community. Beneath its surface lies a netherworld peopled by debauched jet-setters, international smugglers, and cunning, unpredictable murderers. It is a world where innocence can be swallowed whole, and where the best intentions of people like Rebecca Jordan can distort into grisly bloodbaths like the one that consumed her. To win justice for Rebecca, Delmas allies with Jimbo McInnis, an oversized, fast-living, Hemingway-quoting deputy sheriff. Together, they must delve behind the madness to find the truth. Doing so may cost them more than their reputations.