Author: Rusty Bittermann
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773581170
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
Sailor's Hope provides a moving account of a multi-faceted man, tracking his engagement with the extraordinary changes occurring in the Atlantic and Pacific Worlds in the decades after the American and French Revolutions. William Cooper was born in poverty in industrializing Scotland. Without any formal education, he worked his way up through the British merchant marine to the position of captain on voyages linking Britain with Iberia and North America.
Tale of a Sky-Blue Dress
Author: Thylias Moss
Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
ISBN: 9780380793624
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Within my life's present unified theory of being, splendor divests itself of its own integrity, splitting to belong to everything that notices it, each part as effective as the whole splendid thing. It belongs to whatever wants it and is inexhaustible even as someone lays dying, even as someone else cries thinking there is none, their tears becoming prisms. . . With these words, the acclaimed poet Thylias Moss proclaims a hymn to the power of light over darkness, both in her own life, and in the wider world. In this, her first prose work, the author of six books of poetry and winner of the most distinguished honors--including a MacArthur Fellowship Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an NEA Fellowship and a Writing Award--delivers a brilliant, passionate, and utterly moving memoir. It is the story of the only child of a maid and factory worker who moved to Ohio from the segregated South of the fifties. Raised with much love, she flourished until the age of five, when disaster struck, in the form of a girl in sky-blue dress. Her childhood was shattered by this girl, her babysitter, who took pleasure from infliction pain, and whose reign of terror, even after its abrupt end, would send poisonous tendril further into her life. Yet ultimately, Tale of a Sky-Blue Dress is about how a young woman retrieved her life from the grasp of darkness. It is about refusing to accept tyranny. It is about feasting on splendor. How can there not be pain in a world spinning madly, in the lovely calculable chaos. . .? asks Thylias. But, she says, I am saying that joy is too necessary to abandon.
Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
ISBN: 9780380793624
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Within my life's present unified theory of being, splendor divests itself of its own integrity, splitting to belong to everything that notices it, each part as effective as the whole splendid thing. It belongs to whatever wants it and is inexhaustible even as someone lays dying, even as someone else cries thinking there is none, their tears becoming prisms. . . With these words, the acclaimed poet Thylias Moss proclaims a hymn to the power of light over darkness, both in her own life, and in the wider world. In this, her first prose work, the author of six books of poetry and winner of the most distinguished honors--including a MacArthur Fellowship Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an NEA Fellowship and a Writing Award--delivers a brilliant, passionate, and utterly moving memoir. It is the story of the only child of a maid and factory worker who moved to Ohio from the segregated South of the fifties. Raised with much love, she flourished until the age of five, when disaster struck, in the form of a girl in sky-blue dress. Her childhood was shattered by this girl, her babysitter, who took pleasure from infliction pain, and whose reign of terror, even after its abrupt end, would send poisonous tendril further into her life. Yet ultimately, Tale of a Sky-Blue Dress is about how a young woman retrieved her life from the grasp of darkness. It is about refusing to accept tyranny. It is about feasting on splendor. How can there not be pain in a world spinning madly, in the lovely calculable chaos. . .? asks Thylias. But, she says, I am saying that joy is too necessary to abandon.
The Sky-Blue Wolves
Author: S.M. Stirling
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0451490703
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
S. M. Stirling presents the stunning and epic conclusion to the New York Times bestselling Change series, now in paperback. Many years ago, when advanced technology failed and humanity found itself in a turbulent, postapocalyptic world, extraordinary men and women birthed a new society from the ashes. Two generations after the Change, Crown Princess Órlaith struggles to preserve the hard-won peace her father brought to Montival—the former western North America. But the Change opened many doors, and through them Powers strong and strange and terrible came, to walk once more among humankind. With her fire-forged friend and ally, Japanese Empress Reiko, Órlaith must take up her sword to stop the spread of the mad malignancy behind the Yellow Raja, who has imprisoned her brother Prince John. And from the emerging superpower of Mongolia, the Sky-Blue Wolves of the High Steppe ride once more beneath the banner of Genghis Khan—the thunder of their hooves resounding across a world in turmoil.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0451490703
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
S. M. Stirling presents the stunning and epic conclusion to the New York Times bestselling Change series, now in paperback. Many years ago, when advanced technology failed and humanity found itself in a turbulent, postapocalyptic world, extraordinary men and women birthed a new society from the ashes. Two generations after the Change, Crown Princess Órlaith struggles to preserve the hard-won peace her father brought to Montival—the former western North America. But the Change opened many doors, and through them Powers strong and strange and terrible came, to walk once more among humankind. With her fire-forged friend and ally, Japanese Empress Reiko, Órlaith must take up her sword to stop the spread of the mad malignancy behind the Yellow Raja, who has imprisoned her brother Prince John. And from the emerging superpower of Mongolia, the Sky-Blue Wolves of the High Steppe ride once more beneath the banner of Genghis Khan—the thunder of their hooves resounding across a world in turmoil.
Color
Author: Kenneth Low Kelly
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Color
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Color
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Sailors' Entertainment
Author: Stanley Schell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Amusements
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Amusements
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
A Sailor's Sweetheart
Author: William Clark Russell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Shipwrecks
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Shipwrecks
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Sailor's Hope
Author: Rusty Bittermann
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773581170
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
Sailor's Hope provides a moving account of a multi-faceted man, tracking his engagement with the extraordinary changes occurring in the Atlantic and Pacific Worlds in the decades after the American and French Revolutions. William Cooper was born in poverty in industrializing Scotland. Without any formal education, he worked his way up through the British merchant marine to the position of captain on voyages linking Britain with Iberia and North America.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773581170
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
Sailor's Hope provides a moving account of a multi-faceted man, tracking his engagement with the extraordinary changes occurring in the Atlantic and Pacific Worlds in the decades after the American and French Revolutions. William Cooper was born in poverty in industrializing Scotland. Without any formal education, he worked his way up through the British merchant marine to the position of captain on voyages linking Britain with Iberia and North America.
The ISCC-NBS Method of Designating Colors and a Dictionary of Color Names
Author: Kenneth L. Kelly
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Color
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Color
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Circular of the Bureau of Standards
Author: United States. National Bureau of Standards
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Standardization
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Standardization
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
The Sailor's Magazine, and Naval Journal
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Merchant mariners
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Merchant mariners
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Reports to the General Assembly of Illinois at Its ... Regular Session
Author: Illinois
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Illinois
Languages : en
Pages : 868
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Illinois
Languages : en
Pages : 868
Book Description