Author : Nevil Shute
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LCCN:b70010181
An Old Captivity
Nevil Shute
An Old Captivity
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Captivity
György Spiró
Author : György Spiró
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 864 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781632060495
Captivity by György Spiró Pdf
A literary sensation in Hungary, Gyorgy Spiro's Captivity is set in the tumultuous first century A.D., between the year of Christ's death and the outbreak of the Jewish War. It follows the adventures of the feeble-bodied, bookish Uri, a young Roman Jew. Frustrated with his hapless son, Uri's father sends the young man to the Holy Land to regain the family's prestige. In Jerusalem, Uri is imprisoned by Herod and meets two thieves and (perhaps) Jesus before their crucifixion. Later he has an awakening in cosmopolitan Alexandria, and then returns home to an unexpected inheritance.
Raised in Captivity
Chuck Klosterman
Author : Chuck Klosterman
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780735217942
Raised in Captivity by Chuck Klosterman Pdf
Microdoses of the straight dope, stories so true they had to be wrapped in fiction for our own protection, from the best-selling author of But What if We're Wrong? A man flying first class discovers a puma in the lavatory. A new coach of a small-town Oklahoma high school football team installs an offense comprised of only one, very special, play. A man explains to the police why he told the employee of his local bodega that his colleague looked like the lead singer of Depeche Mode, a statement that may or may not have led in some way to a violent crime. A college professor discusses with his friend his difficulties with the new generation of students. An obscure power pop band wrestles with its new-found fame when its song "Blizzard of Summer" becomes an anthem for white supremacists. A couple considers getting a medical procedure that will transfer the pain of childbirth from the woman to her husband. A woman interviews a hit man about killing her husband but is shocked by the method he proposes. A man is recruited to join a secret government research team investigating why coin flips are no longer exactly 50/50. A man sees a whale struck by lightning, and knows that everything about his life has to change. A lawyer grapples with the unintended side effects of a veterinarian's rabies vaccination. Fair warning: Raised in Captivity does not slot into a smooth preexisting groove. If Saul Steinberg and Italo Calvino had adopted a child from a Romanian orphanage and raised him on Gary Larsen and Thomas Bernhard, he would still be nothing like Chuck Klosterman. They might be good company, though. Funny, wise and weird in equal measure, Raised in Captivity bids fair to be one of the most original and exciting story collections in recent memory, a fever graph of our deepest unvoiced hopes, fears and preoccupations. Ceaselessly inventive, hostile to corniness in all its forms, and mean only to the things that really deserve it, it marks a cosmic leap forward for one of our most consistently interesting writers.
Notes from My Captivity
Kathy Parks
Author : Kathy Parks
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-10
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780062394026
Notes from My Captivity by Kathy Parks Pdf
"Like Siberia itself, this story is wild, mysterious, full of danger—and then, quite unexpectedly, captivates you with its beauty. I was so glad I went on the adventure." —Goldy Moldavsky, New York Times bestselling author of Kill the Boy Band Notes from My Captivity is a sharp, sensitive, and darkly funny novel perfect for fans of Libba Bray’s Beauty Queens and Adam Silvera’s More Happy Than Not. Adrienne Cahill cares about three things: getting into a great college; becoming a revered journalist like her idol, Sydney Declay; and making her late father proud of her. So when Adrienne is offered the chance to write an article that will get her into her dream school and debunk her foolish stepfather’s belief that a legendary family of hermits is living in the Siberian wilderness, there’s no question that she’s going to fly across the world. But the Russian terrain is even less forgiving than Adrienne. And when disaster strikes, none of their extensive preparations seem to matter. Now Adrienne’s being held captive by the family she was convinced didn’t exist, and her best hope for escape is to act like she cares about them, even if it means wooing the youngest son.
An Old Captivity
Nevil Shute Norway
Author : Nevil Shute Norway
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547115670
An Old Captivity by Nevil Shute Norway Pdf
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "An Old Captivity" by Nevil Shute Norway. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
An Old Captivity
Nevil Shute
Author : Nevil Shute
Publisher : Alien Ebooks
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2023-03-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781667602721
An Old Captivity by Nevil Shute Pdf
An Old Captivity tells the story of a young pilot named Donald Ross, who is hired to fly a wealthy American archaeologist, John Mathewson, and his beautiful daughter, Jean, to a remote part of Greenland in search of Viking relics. Along the way, Ross and Jean develop a romantic relationship, and they uncover a secret about the Vikings that could rewrite history. The novel combines adventure, romance, and historical fiction to create an engaging story that explores the themes of love, loyalty, and the pursuit of knowledge.
Wild Animals in Captivity
Rob Laidlaw
Author : Rob Laidlaw
Publisher : Fitzhenry & Whiteside
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-21
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1554553881
Wild Animals in Captivity by Rob Laidlaw Pdf
"A caged lion pacing back and forth on a worn path and dolphins swimming in unending circles are captive animals exhibiting 'stereotypies, ' or repetitive abnormal behaviors. These disturbing behaviors are a common sight in many zoos. Laidlaw effectively captures the plight faced by captive wild animals, even in major, apparently high-quality zoos. In four riveting chapters he explores first the general issues of life in captivity, then addresses specific, often severe, problems faced by polar bears, elephants, dolphins and Great Apes. He goes on to discuss types of zoos and their particular flaws, then concludes with advice for readers on objective evaluation of the zoos they visit and offers a list of ten ways to help animals in captivity. This eye-opening look at zoo issues will strike a chord with readers and would be a useful addition to most collections." -- Kirkus Reviews on the hardcover edition "The issues raised in this important and powerful book will resonate with young and old." -- School Library Journal A large family of elephants ambles all day along a well-remembered route across the hot African savanna. Halfway around the world in a zoo in Alaska, a single female elephant paces back and forth in her cramped, concrete pen. During the sub-arctic winter, she lives alone in a dark barn. When you visit a zoo do you ever wonder what it must be like for the animals who live day by day in the same enclosures? Author Rob Laidlaw asks the tough questions that zoos often avoid: should these animals be in there at all? This is an eye-opening look at the lives of captive wild animals -- at bad zoos, good zoos, and the best wild animal sanctuaries.
An Old Captivity
Nevil Shute
Author : Nevil Shute
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1717229484
An Old Captivity by Nevil Shute Pdf
Young pilot Donald Ross has little in common with the Oxford archaeologist who has employed him on an expedition to the Arctic - and still less with his beautiful but stubborn daughter, Alix. But once the three of them reach the treacherous shores of Greenland, in search of the ruins of early Viking settlements, their destinies are inextricably bound by the events that unfold there. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.
An Old Captivity
Nevil Shute Norway, Nevil Shute
Author : Nevil Shute Norway, Nevil Shute
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1983812404
An Old Captivity by Nevil Shute Norway, Nevil Shute Pdf
The principal character is a young Scottish pilot with bush-flying experience in Canada, Donald Ross, who is hired by an Oxford don, Cyril Lockwood, to pilot an air survey mission of Greenland. Lockwood's interest is in the early Viking seafarers and their exploits, and although he appears to have little knowledge of the needs of such a project, he insists on their starting as soon as possible, with his elder brother David, a businessman, providing finance. Ross, as the hired expert, then has to contend with the 'helpful' suggestions from both the financier and Lockwood's young daughter, Alix. This causes early tensions in the preparatory stages
An Old Captivity
Nevil Nevil Shute
Author : Nevil Nevil Shute
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1981766421
An Old Captivity by Nevil Nevil Shute Pdf
Young pilot Donald Ross has little in common with the Oxford archaeologist who has employed him on an expedition to the Arctic - and still less with his beautiful but stubborn daughter, Alix. But once the three of them reach the treacherous shores of Greenland, in search of the ruins of early Viking settlements, their destinies are inextricably bound by the events that unfold there.
An Old Captivity (Valancourt 20th Century Classics)
Nevil Shute
Author : Nevil Shute
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1941147585
An Old Captivity (Valancourt 20th Century Classics) by Nevil Shute Pdf
"Keeps you pegging away, page after page, unwilling to put the book down." - "New York Times" "Mr. Shute knows how to pick astonishing stories and how to keep them moving on non-stop tracks." - "New Republic" "Excellent entertainment, varied and unusual." - Basil Davenport, "Saturday Review of Literature" Donald Ross is a young pilot, out of work and in desperate need of a job. So, despite the extreme danger involved, he jumps at the chance to fly Oxford professor Cyril Lockwood and his daughter Alix to the frozen wilds of Greenland to study Viking ruins. But the perils of the journey are nothing compared to what will happen when they arrive. Ignoring the warnings of the terrified natives, who believe the ruins are haunted, the explorers set up camp there and undergo a strange and mystical experience that will lead to a discovery that none of them could ever have foreseen . . . One of the best-loved novels by Nevil Shute, "An Old Captivity" (1940) blends romance and aeronautical adventure with a unique and compelling strain of fantasy into a page-turning story with an extraordinary conclusion. This edition, the first to be published in America in decades, features a new introduction by Rob Spence.
An Old Captivity
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:479363100
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A Prisoner of the Khaleefa: Twelve Years Captivity at Omdurman
Charles Neufeld
Author : Charles Neufeld
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-28
Category : Omdurman (Sudan)
ISBN : 9781465608185
A Prisoner of the Khaleefa: Twelve Years Captivity at Omdurman by Charles Neufeld Pdf
Within seventy-two hours of my arrival in Cairo from the Soudan, I commenced to dictate my experiences for the present volume, and had dictated them from the time I left Egypt, in 1887, until I had reached the incidents connected with my arrival at Omdurman as the Khaleefa’s captive, when I became the recipient of a veritable sheaf of press-cuttings, extracts, letters, private and official, new and old, which collection was still further added to on the arrival of my wife in Egypt, on October 13. My first feelings after reading the bulk of these, and when the sensation of walking about free and unshackled had worn off a little, was that I had but escaped the savage barbarism of the Soudan to become the victim of the refined cruelty of civilization. Fortunately, maybe, my rapid change from chains and starvation to freedom and the luxuries I might allow myself to indulge in, brought about its inevitable result—a reaction, and then collapse. While ill in bed I could, when the delirium of fever had left |2|me, and I was no longer struggling for breath and standing room in that Black Hole of Omdurman, the Saier, find it in my heart to forgive my critics, and say, “I might have said the same of them, had they been in my place and I in theirs.” But the inaccuracies written and published in respect to my nationality, biography, and, above all, the astounding inaccuracies published in connection with my capture and the circumstances attending it, necessitate my offering a few words to my readers by way of introduction; but I shall be as brief and concise as possible. I have, both directly and indirectly, been blamed for, or accused of, the loss of arms, ammunition, and monies sent by the Government to the loyal Sheikh of the Kabbabish, Saleh Bey Wad Salem. Some have gone so far as to accuse me of betraying the party I accompanied into the hands of the dervishes; a betrayal which led eventually to the virtual extermination of the tribe and the death of its brave chief. The betrayal of the caravan I accompanied did lead to this result; it also led me into chains and slavery. According to one account, I arrived at Omdurman on the 1st or 7th of March (both dates are given in the same book), 1887; yet, at this time, to the best of my recollection, the General commanding the Army of Occupation in Egypt, General Stephenson, was trying in Cairo to persuade me to abandon my projected journey into Kordofan. In a very recent publication, in the preface to which the authors ask their readers to point out any inaccuracies, I am credited with arriving as a captive at Omdurman in |3|1885, when at this time I was attached as interpreter to the Gordon Relief Expedition, and stood within a few yards of General Earle at the battle of Kirbekan when he was killed. It is probable I was the last man he ever spoke to.
Indian Captivity in Spanish America
Fernando Operé
Author : Fernando Operé
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 0813925878
Indian Captivity in Spanish America by Fernando Operé Pdf
Even before the arrival of Europeans to the Americas, the practice of taking captives was widespread among Native Americans. Indians took captives for many reasons: to replace--by adoption--tribal members who had been lost in battle, to use as barter for needed material goods, to use as slaves, or to use for reproductive purposes. From the legendary story of John Smith's captivity in the Virginia Colony to the wildly successful narratives of New England colonists taken captive by local Indians, the genre of the captivity narrative is well known among historians and students of early American literature. Not so for Hispanic America. Fernando Operé redresses this oversight, offering the first comprehensive historical and literary account of Indian captivity in Spanish-controlled territory from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. Originally published in Spanish in 2001 as Historias de la frontera: El cautiverio en la América hispánica, this newly translated work reveals key insights into Native American culture in the New World's most remote regions. From the "happy captivity" of the Spanish military captain Francisco Nuñez de Pineda y Bascuñán, who in 1628 spent six congenial months with the Araucanian Indians on the Chilean frontier, to the harrowing nineteenth-century adventures of foreigners taken captive in the Argentine Pampas and Patagonia; from the declaraciones of the many captives rescued in the Rio de la Plata region of Argentina in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, to the riveting story of Helena Valero, who spent twenty-four years among the Yanomamö in Venezuela during the mid-twentieth century, Operé's vibrant history spans the entire gamut of Spain's far-flung frontiers. Eventually focusing on the role of captivity in Latin American literature, Operé convincingly shows how the captivity genre evolved over time, first to promote territorial expansion and deny intercultural connections during the colonial era, and later to romanticize the frontier in the service of nationalism after independence. This important book is thus multidisciplinary in its concept, providing ethnographic, historical, and literary insights into the lives and customs of Native Americans and their captives in the New World.
“An” Old Testament Commentary for English Readers: Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel, Daniel, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi. 1897
Charles John Ellicott
Author : Charles John Ellicott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Bible
ISBN : NLI:1959541-50