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Author: Robert Allison
Publisher: Catapult
ISBN: 1619029049
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 273
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The Rider has no memory of who he is, where he is, or how he came to be lying—dying— in the brutal heat of the North African desert. Rescued by a band of deserters, the Rider begins to piece together his identity, based on shards of recollection and the letters in his mailbag. The Letter Bearer is unlike any other novel of World War Two. In the midst of profound trauma, terrible warfare, and the nameless experience of desertion, this gripping story asks us to consider how men build hope when they have nothing left—not even a name. When first published last year in London, Robert Allison's debut novel was met with wide praise and was nominated for the Desmond Elliott Prize, described by one of its judges as "'An excellent and elegant novel written with patience and authority . . ." Readers of Michael Ondaatje and Paul Bowles will find the landscape familiar, but no reader will ever forget the haunting and haunted story of this remarkable victim.
Author: Robert Allison
Publisher: Catapult
ISBN: 1619029049
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 273
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The Rider has no memory of who he is, where he is, or how he came to be lying—dying— in the brutal heat of the North African desert. Rescued by a band of deserters, the Rider begins to piece together his identity, based on shards of recollection and the letters in his mailbag. The Letter Bearer is unlike any other novel of World War Two. In the midst of profound trauma, terrible warfare, and the nameless experience of desertion, this gripping story asks us to consider how men build hope when they have nothing left—not even a name. When first published last year in London, Robert Allison's debut novel was met with wide praise and was nominated for the Desmond Elliott Prize, described by one of its judges as "'An excellent and elegant novel written with patience and authority . . ." Readers of Michael Ondaatje and Paul Bowles will find the landscape familiar, but no reader will ever forget the haunting and haunted story of this remarkable victim.
Author: Henry Strong McCall
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Category : Forms (Law)
Languages : en
Pages : 1240
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Category : Candy industry
Languages : en
Pages : 822
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Author: Lady Anne Cooke Bacon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107056543
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 313
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The letters of Lady Anne Bacon, mother of Francis Bacon, which shed light on Elizabethan politics from a female perspective.
![Original Letters; principally from Lord Charlemont, the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, and other distinguished noblemen and gentlemen to the Right Hon. H. Flood. Printed from the correspondence in their own handwriting. [Edited by T. R., i.e. T. Rodd.] PDF](https://books.google.com/books/content/images/frontcover/5RVgAAAAcAAJ?fife=w80-h100)
Author: Thomas RODD (the Elder.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 228
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Author: Glenn Gaywaine Munn
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Category : Banks and banking
Languages : en
Pages : 700
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Author: Anon - R.A.L.
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1782893067
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 163
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The witty, bitter and caustic memoirs of an anonymous Canadian stretcher-bearer who served during some of the fiercest fighting on the Western Front in 1916 and 1917 before being invalided back to his native land. “FOR military reasons, it has been judged wiser to withhold the full name of the Canadian Stretcher Bearer until the close of the war. “However, it may interest his readers to know that he is an Old Country-man, although he is now in the Canadian Expeditionary Force, and earlier had lived in the States. On the 31st May, 1915, he enlisted. Six weeks later, with the earliest of our letters, we find him in England, and rebelling against the unsatisfactory nature of service in what he caustically terms a Safety-First battalion. It was only a matter of time, however, before he caused himself to be transferred to hospital service, crossing to France to take a place as orderly in No. 3 Canadian General Hospital at Boulogne, where he arrived early in 1916. From that time on until the 23rd August, 1917, when he was gassed and sent to Blighty, the story has been left entirely in his own hands, to tell it as convincingly as may be. “Since then, he has been, first in hospital in England, then in the First Reserve Battalion, awaiting the call back to service in the trenches. “This call, however, is sounding fainter and more remote. A cable has been received, this morning, saying that he is being sent back to Canada, his active service at an end.” OTTAWA, Fifth December, 1917
Author: John Bouvier
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 746
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Author: John Bouvier
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 876
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Author: Mindy J. Morgan
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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The Bearer of This Letter illuminates the enduring effects of colonialism by examining the decades-long tension between written words and spoken words in a reservation community. Drawing on archival sources and her own extensive work in the community, Mindy J. Morgan investigates how historical understandings of literacy practices challenge current Indigenous language revitalization efforts on the Fort Belknap Reservation in Montana. Created in 1887, Fort Belknap is home to the Gros Ventre and Assiniboine peoples. The history of these two peoples over the past century is a common one among Indigenous groups, with religious and federal authorities aggressively promoting the use of English at the expense of the local Indigenous languages. Morgan suggests that such efforts at the assimilation of Indigenous peoples had a far-reaching and not fully appreciated consequence. Through a close reading of federal, local, and missionary records at Fort Belknap, Morgan demonstrates how the government used documents as a means of restructuring political and social life as well as regulating access to resources during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. As a result, the residents of Fort Belknap began to use written English as a means of negotiating with the government and when arguing for structural change during the early reservation period while maintaining distinct arenas for Indigenous language use. These linguistic practices have significantly shaped the community’s perceptions of the utility of writing and continue to play a central role in contemporary language programs that increasingly rely on standardized orthographies for Indigenous language programs.
