Author: Chaim Potok
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0593359291
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 667
Book Description
A fascinating history of the Jews, told by a master novelist, here is Chaim Potok's fascinating, moving four thousand-year history. Recreating great historical events, exporing Jewish life in its infinite variety and in many eras and places, here is a unique work by a singular Jewish voice.
Wanderings
Author: Chaim Potok
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0593359291
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 667
Book Description
A fascinating history of the Jews, told by a master novelist, here is Chaim Potok's fascinating, moving four thousand-year history. Recreating great historical events, exporing Jewish life in its infinite variety and in many eras and places, here is a unique work by a singular Jewish voice.
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0593359291
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 667
Book Description
A fascinating history of the Jews, told by a master novelist, here is Chaim Potok's fascinating, moving four thousand-year history. Recreating great historical events, exporing Jewish life in its infinite variety and in many eras and places, here is a unique work by a singular Jewish voice.
Chronicles Selected from the Originals of Cartaphilus, the Wandering Jew
Author: David Hoffman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wandering Jew
Languages : en
Pages : 758
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wandering Jew
Languages : en
Pages : 758
Book Description
The Book of Wanderings
Author: Kimberly Meyer
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 9780316251211
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
To a mother and daughter on an illuminating pilgrimage, this is what the desert said: Carry only what you need. Burn what can't be saved. Leave the remnants as an offering. When Kimberly Meyer gave birth to her first daughter, Ellie, during her senior year of college, the bohemian life of exploration she had once imagined for herself was lost in the responsibilities of single motherhood. For years, both mother and daughter were haunted by how Ellie came into being-Kimberly through a restless ache for the world beyond, Ellie through a fear of abandonment. Longing to bond with Ellie, now a college student, and longing, too, to rediscover herself, Kimberly sets off with her daughter on a quest for meaning across the globe. Leaving behind the rhythms of ordinary life in Houston, Texas, they dedicate a summer to retracing the footsteps of Felix Fabri, a medieval Dominican friar whose written account of his travels resonates with Kimberly. Their mother-daughter pilgrimage takes them to exotic destinations infused with mystery, spirituality, and rich history-from Venice to the Mediterranean through Greece and partitioned Cyprus, to Israel and across the Sinai Desert with Bedouin guides, to the Palestinian territories and to Cairo and Alexandria in Egypt. In spare and gorgeous prose, The Book of Wanderings tells the story of Kimberly and Ellie's journey, and of the intimate, lasting bond they forge along the way. A meditation on stripping away the distractions, on simplicity, on how to live, this is a vibrant memoir with the power to both transport readers to far-off lands and to bring them in closer connection with themselves. It will appeal to anyone who has contemplated the road not taken, who has experienced the gnawing feeling that there is something more, who has faced the void-of offspring leaving, of mortality looming, of searching for someplace that feels, finally, like home.
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 9780316251211
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
To a mother and daughter on an illuminating pilgrimage, this is what the desert said: Carry only what you need. Burn what can't be saved. Leave the remnants as an offering. When Kimberly Meyer gave birth to her first daughter, Ellie, during her senior year of college, the bohemian life of exploration she had once imagined for herself was lost in the responsibilities of single motherhood. For years, both mother and daughter were haunted by how Ellie came into being-Kimberly through a restless ache for the world beyond, Ellie through a fear of abandonment. Longing to bond with Ellie, now a college student, and longing, too, to rediscover herself, Kimberly sets off with her daughter on a quest for meaning across the globe. Leaving behind the rhythms of ordinary life in Houston, Texas, they dedicate a summer to retracing the footsteps of Felix Fabri, a medieval Dominican friar whose written account of his travels resonates with Kimberly. Their mother-daughter pilgrimage takes them to exotic destinations infused with mystery, spirituality, and rich history-from Venice to the Mediterranean through Greece and partitioned Cyprus, to Israel and across the Sinai Desert with Bedouin guides, to the Palestinian territories and to Cairo and Alexandria in Egypt. In spare and gorgeous prose, The Book of Wanderings tells the story of Kimberly and Ellie's journey, and of the intimate, lasting bond they forge along the way. A meditation on stripping away the distractions, on simplicity, on how to live, this is a vibrant memoir with the power to both transport readers to far-off lands and to bring them in closer connection with themselves. It will appeal to anyone who has contemplated the road not taken, who has experienced the gnawing feeling that there is something more, who has faced the void-of offspring leaving, of mortality looming, of searching for someplace that feels, finally, like home.
The British Pulpit: a Selection of Original Sermons, Delivered by Some of the Most Talented Evangelical Divines of Various Denominations
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sermons, English
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sermons, English
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
Wanderings of a Biochemist
Author: Fritz Albert Lipmann
Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Margaret Fuller, Wandering Pilgrim
Author: Meg McGavran Murray
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820343358
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
“How is it that I seem to be this Margaret Fuller,” the pioneering feminist, journalist, and political revolutionary asked herself as a child. “What does it mean?” Filled with new insights into the causes and consequences of Fuller’s lifelong psychic conflict, this biography chronicles the journey of an American Romantic pilgrim as she wanders from New England into the larger world--and then back home under circumstances that Fuller herself likened to those of both the prodigal child of the Bible and Oedipus of Greek mythology. Meg McGavran Murray discusses Fuller’s Puritan ancestry, her life as the precocious child of a preoccupied, grieving mother and of a tyrannical father who took over her upbringing, her escape from her loveless home into books, and the unorthodox--and influential--male and female role models to which her reading exposed her. Murray also covers Fuller’s authorship of Woman in the Nineteenth Century, her career as a New-York Tribune journalist first in New York and later in Rome, her pregnancy out of wedlock, her witness of the fall of Rome in 1849 during the Roman Revolution, and her return to the land of her birth, where she knew she would be received as an outcast. Other biographies call Fuller a Romantic. Margaret Fuller, Wandering Pilgrim illustrates how Fuller internalized the lives of the heroes and heroines in the ancient and modern Romantic literature that she had read as a child and adolescent, as well as how she used her Romantic imagination to broaden women’s roles in Woman in the Nineteenth Century, even as she wandered the earth in search of a home.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820343358
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
“How is it that I seem to be this Margaret Fuller,” the pioneering feminist, journalist, and political revolutionary asked herself as a child. “What does it mean?” Filled with new insights into the causes and consequences of Fuller’s lifelong psychic conflict, this biography chronicles the journey of an American Romantic pilgrim as she wanders from New England into the larger world--and then back home under circumstances that Fuller herself likened to those of both the prodigal child of the Bible and Oedipus of Greek mythology. Meg McGavran Murray discusses Fuller’s Puritan ancestry, her life as the precocious child of a preoccupied, grieving mother and of a tyrannical father who took over her upbringing, her escape from her loveless home into books, and the unorthodox--and influential--male and female role models to which her reading exposed her. Murray also covers Fuller’s authorship of Woman in the Nineteenth Century, her career as a New-York Tribune journalist first in New York and later in Rome, her pregnancy out of wedlock, her witness of the fall of Rome in 1849 during the Roman Revolution, and her return to the land of her birth, where she knew she would be received as an outcast. Other biographies call Fuller a Romantic. Margaret Fuller, Wandering Pilgrim illustrates how Fuller internalized the lives of the heroes and heroines in the ancient and modern Romantic literature that she had read as a child and adolescent, as well as how she used her Romantic imagination to broaden women’s roles in Woman in the Nineteenth Century, even as she wandered the earth in search of a home.
Wanderings of an Artist Among the Indians of North America
Author: Paul Kane
Publisher: London : Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
Publisher: London : Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
Impressions in a Wandering Sky
Author: Hue Woodson
Publisher: Ereignis Press
ISBN: 173798430X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
When an unnamed biographer of a best-selling book on an obscure, cold-blooded killer of the Old West decides to follow-up that success with another biography on another cold-blooded killer of the Old West called Cooley, the approach to the writing of the new book seems straight-forward: trace Cooley’s life and death and locate all the necessary facts for a cohesive narrative. But, this new book on Cooley requires separating reality from myth, carefully negotiating between the first-hand experiences of those that knew Cooley best, working through a sweeping mythology about Cooley that makes the man larger than life, and following all the facts wherever they lead.
Publisher: Ereignis Press
ISBN: 173798430X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
When an unnamed biographer of a best-selling book on an obscure, cold-blooded killer of the Old West decides to follow-up that success with another biography on another cold-blooded killer of the Old West called Cooley, the approach to the writing of the new book seems straight-forward: trace Cooley’s life and death and locate all the necessary facts for a cohesive narrative. But, this new book on Cooley requires separating reality from myth, carefully negotiating between the first-hand experiences of those that knew Cooley best, working through a sweeping mythology about Cooley that makes the man larger than life, and following all the facts wherever they lead.
The Exodus and the Wanderings in the Wilderness
Author: Alfred Edersheim
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Apologues from the Mind of an Existentialist and Wandering the Avenues of Life
Author: L.F WHETSTONE
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 147095995X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 147095995X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description