A Story Of Land And Sea

Author : Katy Simpson Smith
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062335968

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Set in a small coastal town in North Carolina during the waning years of the American Revolution, this incandescent debut novel follows three generations of family—fathers and daughters, mother and son, master and slave, characters who yearn for redemption amidst a heady brew of war, kidnapping, slavery, and love. Drawn to the ocean, ten-year-old Tabitha wanders the marshes of her small coastal village and listens to her father’s stories about his pirate voyages and the mother she never knew. Since the loss of his wife Helen, John has remained land-bound for their daughter, but when Tab contracts yellow fever, he turns to the sea once more. Desperate to save his daughter, he takes her aboard a sloop bound for Bermuda, hoping the salt air will heal her. Years before, Helen herself was raised by a widowed father. Asa, the devout owner of a small plantation, gives his daughter a young slave named Moll for her tenth birthday. Left largely on their own, Helen and Moll develop a close but uneasy companionship. Helen gradually takes over the running of the plantation as the girls grow up, but when she meets John, the pirate turned Continental soldier, she flouts convention and her father’s wishes by falling in love. Moll, meanwhile, is forced into marriage with a stranger. Her only solace is her son, Davy, whom she will protect with a passion that defies the bounds of slavery. In this elegant, evocative, and haunting debut, Katy Simpson Smith captures the singular love between parent and child, the devastation of love lost, and the lonely paths we travel in the name of renewal.

Author : Dave Quinton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Land and sea (Television program)
ISBN : 1927099668

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Land and Sea by Dave Quinton Pdf

For almost 30 years Dave Quinton was welcomed as a family member into the living rooms of Newfoundlanders and Labradorians. As the host of CBC-Television's Land and Sea , Quinton brought viewers into overlooked outports, introduced them to the men and women who lived there, and showcased the province s natural beauty. During his decades with the program, Quinton witnessed tremendous change and reported history as it happened. But what of the things viewers didn't get to see? The outtakes, the misadventures, the touching stories away from the camera? Quinton has compiled many of his favourite tales, poignant memories, and keen observations, enlivened with over 100 full-color photographs. Told with warmth and wit, Land and Sea: My 30 Years sheds new light on a beloved television show and the people and province who inspired it.

Author : Lord Dunsany
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781681463100

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A Story of Land and Sea by Lord Dunsany Pdf

It was not age that caused him to leave his romantic profession; nor unworthiness of its traditions, nor gun-shot wound, nor drink; but grim necessity and force majeure. Five navies were after him. How he gave them the slip one day in the Mediterranean, how he fought with the Arabs, how a ship's broadside was heard in Lat. 23 N. Long. 4 E. for the first time and the last, with other things unknown to Admiralties, I shall proceed to tell.

Author : Dee Appleby
Publisher : Nimbus Publishing (CN)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Art, Canadian
ISBN : 155109729X

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From Land and Sea by Dee Appleby Pdf

A near-island bathed in salty sea air and brushed by steady winds, Nova Scotia is often shadowed by dark clouds one moment and lit by a brilliant sun the next. This ever-changing and remarkably diverse landscape makes the province an inspiration for artists. From Land and Sea: Nova Scotia's Contemporary Landscape Artists profiles 70 artists and their works, representing a wide range of styles. Dozay Christmas and Alan Syliboy draw from Mi'kmaw legends, June Deveau and Denise Comeau depict Acadian landscapes, and realists such as Tom Forrestall, Leonard Paul, and Alice Reed immerse us in a rare moment frozen in time. With a foreword from Ray Cronin, director and CEO of the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, From Land and Sea is not only an indispensable guide to the artists themselves, but a stunning portrait of a remarkable province.

Author : Derrolyn Anderson
Publisher : Derrolyn Anderson
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-30
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781458052117

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Between The Land And The Sea by Derrolyn Anderson Pdf

Marina is a privileged girl who's had an unusual upbringing. Traveling the world with her scientist father, doted on by her wealthy and glamorous neighbor Evie, Marina's life seems perfect.Everything changes in the summer of her sixteenth year when she is sent to live with her Aunt Abby and Cousin Cruz in the lovely seaside town of Aptos, California.Only a few weeks after arriving, sixteen year-old Marina has nearly drowned twice, enchanted the hottest guy in high school, and discovered a supernatural creature. If she can manage to survive some increasingly dangerous encounters with unpredictable mermaids, she might be able to unlock the mystery of her past and appease the mysterious forces that want something from her...And maybe even find true love along the way.

Author : Lisa Dawn
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2010-03-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1451556128

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Of Land and Sea by Lisa Dawn Pdf

What happens when two princesses fall in love with the same prince?Helena of Kamdren has always believed in mermaids, but she had no idea about the sacrifices that the mysterious maiden Coralie made to be with her betrothed. Learn the untold story of the little mermaid who lost her chance at love and the woman who gained it in her place in this retelling of Hans Christian Andersen's classic fairy tale.

Author : Juan M. Varela
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 8496553698

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Between sea and land by Juan M. Varela Pdf

Un diario de viaje sobre las marismas del sur: Doñana y el Odiel. Entre Mar y Tierra es un proyecto artístico sobre Doñana realizado a lo largo de los años 2008 y 2009. Durante cuatro estancias en el interior de la Reserva Biólogica de Doñana, el Parque Natural y las Marismas del Odiel, en periodos invernales y primaverales, el autor, biólogo y pintor, ha realizado más de 60 acuarelas, dibujos y otras obras tomadas del natural o realizadas en estudio a partir de apuntes del natural.Las obras reflejan los distintos ambientes de los ecosistemas litorales, desde las playas, hasta las zonas más boscosas de tierra firme, representando una amplia diversidad de especias animales y paisajes. Editado con motivo de la exposición de los dibujos del libro en la Casa de la Ciencia, Sevilla, del 27 Abril al 20 Junio de 2010.

Author : P. L. Travers
Publisher : Virago
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-15
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0349005745

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I Go by Sea, I Go by Land by P. L. Travers Pdf

'James and I stayed on at home and everything was quiet and sunny and we got to thinking the war would never come after all . . . Just when we were so sure nothing would happen, the German plane came over. It came over one night at one o'clock in the morning and the sound was quite different from an English plane and we all woke up. You could hear it drumming and drumming like a big bee in a flower, buroom, buroom, buroom, round and round in the air above the house. Then suddenly there were five loud explosions. After that there was a terrible silence and I knew that Father and Mother were looking at each other in the darkness and I felt myself getting small and tight inside. Then Father said quietly, "Meg, they must go!"' Now I am going to write a Diary because we are going to America because of the War. It has just been decided. I will write down everything about it because we shall be so much older when we come back that I will never remember it if I do not. So this is the beginning. Oh, please let us come back soon, please.' This is the fictional diary of Sabrina Lind, an eleven-year-old English girl who, with her little brother James, is sent on the long voyage across the sea to her aunt in America.

Author : Henry B. Dawson
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783382314668

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Battles of the United States by Sea and Land by Henry B. Dawson Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1858. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

Author : Sharon Kay Penman
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101621752

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The Land Beyond the Sea by Sharon Kay Penman Pdf

From the critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Sharon Kay Penman comes the story of the reign of King Baldwin IV and the Kingdom of Jerusalem's defense against Saladin's famous army. The Kingdom of Jerusalem, also known as Outremer, is the land far beyond the sea. Baptized in blood when the men of the First Crusade captured Jerusalem from the Saracens in the early twelfth century, the kingdom defined an utterly new world, a land of blazing heat and a medley of cultures, a place where enemies were neighbors and neighbors became enemies. At the helm of this growing kingdom sits young Baldwin IV, an intelligent and courageous boy committed to the welfare and protection of his people. But despite Baldwin's dedication to his land, he is afflicted with leprosy at an early age and the threats against his power and his health nearly outweigh the risk of battle. As political deception scours the halls of the royal court, the Muslim army--led by the first sultan of Egypt and Syria, Saladin--is never far from the kingdom's doorstep, and there are only a handful Baldwin can trust, including the archbishop William of Tyre and Lord Balian d'Ibelin, a charismatic leader who has been one of the few able to maintain the peace. Filled with drama and battle, tragedy and romance, Sharon Kay Penman's latest novel brings a definitive period of history vividly alive with a tale of power and glory that will resonate with readers today.

Author : Lee A. Newsom,Elizabeth S. Wing
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2004-05-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780817313159

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On Land and Sea by Lee A. Newsom,Elizabeth S. Wing Pdf

During the vast stretches of early geologic time, the islands of the Caribbean archipelago separated from continental land masses, rose and sank many times, merged with and broke from other land masses, and then by the mid-Cenozoic period settled into the current pattern known today. By the time Native Americans arrived, the islands had developed complex, stable ecosystems. The actions these first colonists took on the landscape—timber clearing, cultivation, animal hunting and domestication, fishing and exploitation of reef species—affected fragile land and sea biotic communities in both beneficial and harmful ways. On Land and Sea examines the condition of biosystems on Caribbean islands at the time of colonization, human interactions with those systems through time, and the current state of biological resources in the West Indies. Drawing on a massive data set collected from long-term archaeological research, the study reconstructs past lifeways on these small tropical islands. The work presents a wide range of information, including types of fuel and construction timber used by inhabitants, cooking techniques for various shellfish, availability and use of medicinal and ritual plants, the effects on native plants and animals of cultivation and domestication, and diet and nutrition of native populations. The islands of the Caribbean basin continue to be actively excavated and studied in the quest to understand the earliest human inhabitants of the New World. This comprehensive work will ground current and future studies and will be valuable to archaeologists, anthropologists, botanists, ecologists, Caribbeanists, Latin American historians, and anyone studying similar island environments.

Author : Katy Simpson Smith
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062407603

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Free Men by Katy Simpson Smith Pdf

From the author of the highly acclaimed The Story of Land and Sea comes a captivating novel, set in the late eighteenth-century American South, that follows a singular group of companions—an escaped slave, a white orphan, and a Creek Indian—who are being tracked down for murder. In 1788, three men converge in the southern woods of what is now Alabama. Cat, an emotionally scarred white man from South Carolina, is on the run after abandoning his home. Bob is a talkative black man fleeing slavery on a Pensacola sugar plantation, Istillicha, edged out of his Creek town’s leadership, is bound by honor to seek retribution. In the few days they spend together, the makeshift trio commits a shocking murder that soon has the forces of the law bearing down upon them. Sent to pick up their trail, a probing French tracker named Le Clerc must decide which has a greater claim: swift justice, or his own curiosity about how three such disparate, desperate men could act in unison. Katy Simpson Smith skillfully brings into focus men whose lives are both catastrophic and full of hope—and illuminates the lives of the women they left behind. Far from being anomalies, Cat, Bob, and Istillicha are the beating heart of the new America that Le Clerc struggles to comprehend. In these territories caught between European, American, and Native nations, a wilderness exists where four men grapple with the importance of family, the stain of guilt, and the competing forces of power, love, race, and freedom—questions that continue to haunt us today.

Author : Steven J. Bennett,Ruth Bennett
Publisher : Penguin Group USA
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0140239103

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By Land, by Air, by Sea by Steven J. Bennett,Ruth Bennett Pdf

Whether going to Grandma's house or the Far East, this unique travel book not only helps parents engage children during travel--with fun and interesting activities--but also encourages kids to participate in travel choices and activities, thus creating a memorable adventure.

Author : V-Five Association of America,United States Naval Institute
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Airplane crash survival
ISBN : UCSD:31822009340274

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How to Survive on Land and Sea by V-Five Association of America,United States Naval Institute Pdf

Author : Sarah Henning
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-06
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780062931498

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Sea Witch Rising by Sarah Henning Pdf

“The Little Mermaid” takes a twisted turn in this thrilling sequel to villainess origin story Sea Witch, as the forces of land and sea clash in an epic battle for freedom, redemption, and true love. Runa will not let her twin sister die. Alia traded her voice to the Sea Witch for a shot at happiness with a prince who doesn’t love her. And his rejection will literally kill her—unless Runa intervenes. Under the sea, Evie craves her own freedom—but liberation from her role as Sea Witch will require an exchange she may not be willing to make. With their hearts’ desires at odds, what will Runa and Evie be willing to sacrifice to save their worlds? Told from alternating perspectives, this epic fairy tale retelling is a romantic and heart-wrenching story about the complications of sisterhood, the uncompromising nature of magic, and the cost of redemption.