Author: RICHARD HARRIS
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1326496891
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
Spending a night in a small campervan every week for 52 consecutive weeks may sound crazy. But that was not enough to put RICHARD HARRIS off what he called his 'great daft adventure'. So all through the summer, autumn, winter and spring - through sun, rain, gales, ice and snow - he set off once a week in his ancient Bongo van. Just because he could. In BONGO NIGHTS he tells the story of that unforgettable year: How he broke his leg and injured his back . . . but carried on regardless How he inadvertently spent two nights in places associated with murder How he skidded backwards down a hill and crashed into a wall in a blizzard. How he fled in embarrassment when he didn't like the company he was keeping in an isolated lay-by How he spent a night at a Buddhist temple - after passing an hour in the company of a dead nun
Bongo Nights
Author: RICHARD HARRIS
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1326496891
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
Spending a night in a small campervan every week for 52 consecutive weeks may sound crazy. But that was not enough to put RICHARD HARRIS off what he called his 'great daft adventure'. So all through the summer, autumn, winter and spring - through sun, rain, gales, ice and snow - he set off once a week in his ancient Bongo van. Just because he could. In BONGO NIGHTS he tells the story of that unforgettable year: How he broke his leg and injured his back . . . but carried on regardless How he inadvertently spent two nights in places associated with murder How he skidded backwards down a hill and crashed into a wall in a blizzard. How he fled in embarrassment when he didn't like the company he was keeping in an isolated lay-by How he spent a night at a Buddhist temple - after passing an hour in the company of a dead nun
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1326496891
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
Spending a night in a small campervan every week for 52 consecutive weeks may sound crazy. But that was not enough to put RICHARD HARRIS off what he called his 'great daft adventure'. So all through the summer, autumn, winter and spring - through sun, rain, gales, ice and snow - he set off once a week in his ancient Bongo van. Just because he could. In BONGO NIGHTS he tells the story of that unforgettable year: How he broke his leg and injured his back . . . but carried on regardless How he inadvertently spent two nights in places associated with murder How he skidded backwards down a hill and crashed into a wall in a blizzard. How he fled in embarrassment when he didn't like the company he was keeping in an isolated lay-by How he spent a night at a Buddhist temple - after passing an hour in the company of a dead nun
Daily Graphic
Author: Elvis D. Aryeh
Publisher: Graphic Communications Group
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Publisher: Graphic Communications Group
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Field & Stream
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
FIELD & STREAM, America’s largest outdoor sports magazine, celebrates the outdoor experience with great stories, compelling photography, and sound advice while honoring the traditions hunters and fishermen have passed down for generations.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
FIELD & STREAM, America’s largest outdoor sports magazine, celebrates the outdoor experience with great stories, compelling photography, and sound advice while honoring the traditions hunters and fishermen have passed down for generations.
F.I.N.N.
Author: D.F. Les Pierre-Luke
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 148361462X
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
FINN is the story of a boy’s sexually abusive childhood and the aftermath of which propelled him into a life of promiscuity. His early sexual encounters carried over into his teenage years and which then resulted in decadence as an adult. Finn tells his story in chronological detail from when he was just 9 years old until he became an adult. He speaks candidly about his first experience of child sexual abuse and then meeting an individual, who introduced him to a different world, an underworld, which changed his perspective of life. His innocence was tarnished and his life thereafter became decadent with bouts of deceit that later destroyed his spiritual connection with God.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 148361462X
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
FINN is the story of a boy’s sexually abusive childhood and the aftermath of which propelled him into a life of promiscuity. His early sexual encounters carried over into his teenage years and which then resulted in decadence as an adult. Finn tells his story in chronological detail from when he was just 9 years old until he became an adult. He speaks candidly about his first experience of child sexual abuse and then meeting an individual, who introduced him to a different world, an underworld, which changed his perspective of life. His innocence was tarnished and his life thereafter became decadent with bouts of deceit that later destroyed his spiritual connection with God.
Passages and Afterworlds
Author: Maarit Forde
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 1478002131
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
The contributors to Passages and Afterworlds explore death and its rituals across the Caribbean, drawing on ethnographic theories shaped by a deep understanding of the region's long history of violent encounters, exploitation, and cultural diversity. Examining the relationship between living bodies and the spirits of the dead, the contributors investigate the changes in cosmologies and rituals in the cultural sphere of death in relation to political developments, state violence, legislation, policing, and identity politics. Contributors address topics that range from the ever-evolving role of divinized spirits in Haiti and the contemporary mortuary practice of Indo-Trinidadians to funerary ceremonies in rural Jamaica and ancestor cults in Maroon culture in Suriname. Questions of alterity, difference, and hierarchy underlie these discussions of how racial, cultural, and class differences have been deployed in ritual practice and how such rituals have been governed in the colonial and postcolonial Caribbean. Contributors. Donald Cosentino, Maarit Forde, Yanique Hume, Paul Christopher Johnson, Aisha Khan, Keith E. McNeal, George Mentore, Richard Price, Karen Richman, Ineke (Wilhelmina) van Wetering, Bonno (H.U.E.) Thoden van Velzen
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 1478002131
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
The contributors to Passages and Afterworlds explore death and its rituals across the Caribbean, drawing on ethnographic theories shaped by a deep understanding of the region's long history of violent encounters, exploitation, and cultural diversity. Examining the relationship between living bodies and the spirits of the dead, the contributors investigate the changes in cosmologies and rituals in the cultural sphere of death in relation to political developments, state violence, legislation, policing, and identity politics. Contributors address topics that range from the ever-evolving role of divinized spirits in Haiti and the contemporary mortuary practice of Indo-Trinidadians to funerary ceremonies in rural Jamaica and ancestor cults in Maroon culture in Suriname. Questions of alterity, difference, and hierarchy underlie these discussions of how racial, cultural, and class differences have been deployed in ritual practice and how such rituals have been governed in the colonial and postcolonial Caribbean. Contributors. Donald Cosentino, Maarit Forde, Yanique Hume, Paul Christopher Johnson, Aisha Khan, Keith E. McNeal, George Mentore, Richard Price, Karen Richman, Ineke (Wilhelmina) van Wetering, Bonno (H.U.E.) Thoden van Velzen
Party Europe
Author: Partyearth
Publisher: Party Earth, LLC
ISBN: 9780976112013
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
The perfect supplement to traditional guidebooks, PartyEuropes 429 pages are packed with over 600 reviews of fun and social, day and night activities in the 14 hottest European destinations. The unique manner in which it is written enables young travelers to customize reviews to match their own definition of fun in order to maximize every moment of their time abroad.
Publisher: Party Earth, LLC
ISBN: 9780976112013
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
The perfect supplement to traditional guidebooks, PartyEuropes 429 pages are packed with over 600 reviews of fun and social, day and night activities in the 14 hottest European destinations. The unique manner in which it is written enables young travelers to customize reviews to match their own definition of fun in order to maximize every moment of their time abroad.
A Child's Night Dream
Author: Oliver Stone
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312194463
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
American anti-hero Oliver Stone joins the literary canon with this bold tale of an alienated youth who takes to the road on an odyssey to hell.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312194463
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
American anti-hero Oliver Stone joins the literary canon with this bold tale of an alienated youth who takes to the road on an odyssey to hell.
How Beautiful We Were
Author: Imbolo Mbue
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN: 0593132440
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
A fearless young woman from a small African village starts a revolution against an American oil company in this sweeping, inspiring novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Behold the Dreamers. ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times, People • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, Esquire, Good Housekeeping, The Christian Science Monitor, Marie Claire, Ms. magazine, BookPage, Kirkus Reviews “Mbue reaches for the moon and, by the novel’s end, has it firmly held in her hand.”—NPR We should have known the end was near. So begins Imbolo Mbue’s powerful second novel, How Beautiful We Were. Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, it tells of a people living in fear amid environmental degradation wrought by an American oil company. Pipeline spills have rendered farmlands infertile. Children are dying from drinking toxic water. Promises of cleanup and financial reparations to the villagers are made—and ignored. The country’s government, led by a brazen dictator, exists to serve its own interests. Left with few choices, the people of Kosawa decide to fight back. Their struggle will last for decades and come at a steep price. Told from the perspective of a generation of children and the family of a girl named Thula who grows up to become a revolutionary, How Beautiful We Were is a masterful exploration of what happens when the reckless drive for profit, coupled with the ghost of colonialism, comes up against one community’s determination to hold on to its ancestral land and a young woman’s willingness to sacrifice everything for the sake of her people’s freedom.
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN: 0593132440
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
A fearless young woman from a small African village starts a revolution against an American oil company in this sweeping, inspiring novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Behold the Dreamers. ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times, People • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, Esquire, Good Housekeeping, The Christian Science Monitor, Marie Claire, Ms. magazine, BookPage, Kirkus Reviews “Mbue reaches for the moon and, by the novel’s end, has it firmly held in her hand.”—NPR We should have known the end was near. So begins Imbolo Mbue’s powerful second novel, How Beautiful We Were. Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, it tells of a people living in fear amid environmental degradation wrought by an American oil company. Pipeline spills have rendered farmlands infertile. Children are dying from drinking toxic water. Promises of cleanup and financial reparations to the villagers are made—and ignored. The country’s government, led by a brazen dictator, exists to serve its own interests. Left with few choices, the people of Kosawa decide to fight back. Their struggle will last for decades and come at a steep price. Told from the perspective of a generation of children and the family of a girl named Thula who grows up to become a revolutionary, How Beautiful We Were is a masterful exploration of what happens when the reckless drive for profit, coupled with the ghost of colonialism, comes up against one community’s determination to hold on to its ancestral land and a young woman’s willingness to sacrifice everything for the sake of her people’s freedom.
Drums on the Night Air
Author: Veronica Cecil
Publisher: Constable
ISBN: 1849019371
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
Veronica Cecil was twenty-five years old when her husband was offered a job at a large multi-national company in the Congo. Filled with enthusiasm for their new life, the couple and their eleven-month-old son set off for an African adventure. Very soon, however, Veronica began to realise that life in the Congo was not what she had imagined. Food shortages were an everyday occurrence; she felt like an outsider at the club in Léopoldville, which only the Belgians and other expats frequented; and flickers of violence were starting to erupt everywhere. Six months later Veronica and her family were sent to Elizabetha, a remote palm oil plantation on the banks of the Congo River. But even here paradise didn't last. Civil war broke out, and the rebels captured the neighbouring town of Stanleyville and took all the whites hostage. Despite the fact that Veronica was on the verge of giving birth, the situation was so dangerous that she and her toddler had to be evacuated. Leaving her husband and all their possessions behind, she and her son began on a two-day journey through the jungle. But on the plane back to Leopoldville, the first labour pains began... Praise for Letters From Abroad, written and read by Veronica Cecil, BBC Radio 4: '... absolutely enthralling' Daily Telegraph; 'Blending her personal memories with the wider picture, Miss Cecil effortlessly packs more into her quarter hour than many an hour long documentary...' Daily Mail.
Publisher: Constable
ISBN: 1849019371
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
Veronica Cecil was twenty-five years old when her husband was offered a job at a large multi-national company in the Congo. Filled with enthusiasm for their new life, the couple and their eleven-month-old son set off for an African adventure. Very soon, however, Veronica began to realise that life in the Congo was not what she had imagined. Food shortages were an everyday occurrence; she felt like an outsider at the club in Léopoldville, which only the Belgians and other expats frequented; and flickers of violence were starting to erupt everywhere. Six months later Veronica and her family were sent to Elizabetha, a remote palm oil plantation on the banks of the Congo River. But even here paradise didn't last. Civil war broke out, and the rebels captured the neighbouring town of Stanleyville and took all the whites hostage. Despite the fact that Veronica was on the verge of giving birth, the situation was so dangerous that she and her toddler had to be evacuated. Leaving her husband and all their possessions behind, she and her son began on a two-day journey through the jungle. But on the plane back to Leopoldville, the first labour pains began... Praise for Letters From Abroad, written and read by Veronica Cecil, BBC Radio 4: '... absolutely enthralling' Daily Telegraph; 'Blending her personal memories with the wider picture, Miss Cecil effortlessly packs more into her quarter hour than many an hour long documentary...' Daily Mail.
The End of the Night
Author: John D. MacDonald
Publisher: Murder Room
ISBN: 1471911632
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
Three men and a beautiful girl on a cross-country terror spree - a coast to coast rampage of stealing, kidnapping, rape and killing. Who were they? Where did they come from? Why did they do it? With chilling detail, John D. MacDonald unwraps the grotesque inner world of these four young psychopaths, and brings into terrifying focus the random, violent lusts that lie hidden between mischief and madness ...
Publisher: Murder Room
ISBN: 1471911632
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
Three men and a beautiful girl on a cross-country terror spree - a coast to coast rampage of stealing, kidnapping, rape and killing. Who were they? Where did they come from? Why did they do it? With chilling detail, John D. MacDonald unwraps the grotesque inner world of these four young psychopaths, and brings into terrifying focus the random, violent lusts that lie hidden between mischief and madness ...