Author : Arthur Groom
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:836658145
I Saw a Strange Land
Arthur Groom
I Saw A Strange Land
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I Saw a Strange Land
Arthur Groom
Author : Arthur Groom
Publisher : Text Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781925095715
I Saw a Strange Land by Arthur Groom Pdf
While living in Central Australia Arthur Groom fell under the spell of our harsh and fascinating country, captivated by its limitless distances and unbelievable colour. Hermannsburg, the home of artist Albert Namatjira and of other well-known painters, became Groom's headquarters, and from there he made numerous expeditions into wilder and more inaccessible regions. Travelling on foot with an Indigenous guide and a team of camels, Groom explored the Macdonnell and Krichauff ranges, the desert country past the salty Lake Amadeus, Uluru and the Olgas. Based on the notes and photographs he took as he travelled, I Saw a Strange Land is Groom's wonderful record of his extensive journey through the heart of our continent - our 'strange land.' Arthur Groom (1904-1953) was the son of Arthur Champion Groom, member for Flinders in Australia's first Federal Parliament. Groom grew up on a cattle station in Rosabelle Downs, Queensland and later worked as a jackaroo and a journalist. Groom was passionate about the promotion of national parks and environmental protection and he went on to become the first honorary secretary of the National Parks Association of Queensland in 1930. He founded Binna Burra Lodge on the edge of Lamington Nation Park in Southeast Queensland in 1933 with Romeo Lahey. He is the author of four books including One Mountain After Another (1949) and I Saw A Strange Land (1953).
Farnham's Freehold
Robert A. Heinlein
Author : Robert A. Heinlein
Publisher : Baen Publishing Enterprises
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2006-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781618245403
Farnham's Freehold by Robert A. Heinlein Pdf
You Would Have Peace Then Prepare for War! Hugh Farnham was a practical, self-made man. and when he saw the clouds of nuclear war gathering, he built a bomb shelter under his house, hoping for peace and preparing for war. What he hadn't expected was that when the apocalypse came, a thermonuclear blast would tear apart the fabric of time and hurl his shelter into a world with no sign of other human beings. But Farnham's small group had barely settled down to the back-breaking business of low-tech survival when they found that they were not alone after all. The same nuclear war that had catapulted Farnham two thousand years into the future had destroyed all civilization in the northern hemisphere. And the world had changed in more ways than one. In the new world order, Farnham and his family, being members of the race that had nearly destroyed the world, were fit only to be slaves. After surviving a nuclear war, Farnham had no intention of being anybody's slave, but the tyrannical power of the Chosen Race reached throughout the world. Even if he managed to escape. where could he run to... At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).
Stranger in a Strange Land
Robert Anson Heinlein
Author : Robert Anson Heinlein
Publisher : Stranger Journalism
Page : 597 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780399135866
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Anson Heinlein Pdf
For use in schools and libraries only. Valentine Michael Smith, born and raised on Mars, arrives on Earth's stunning Western culture with his superhuman abilities.
Old Land, Dark Land, Strange Land
John F. Suter
Author : John F. Suter
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780486825793
Old Land, Dark Land, Strange Land by John F. Suter Pdf
Set amid the natural beauty of West Virginia, these tales of crime and its detection feature a modern-day investigative team as well as Uncle Abner, Melville D. Post's righteous 19th-century sleuth.
Strangeland
Tracey Emin
Author : Tracey Emin
Publisher : Sceptre
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781444719871
Strangeland by Tracey Emin Pdf
The intimate memoirs of one of the most acclaimed and controversial artists of her generation. Here I am, a fucked, crazy, anorexic-alcoholic-childless, beautiful woman. I never dreamt it would be like this. 'Frequently affecting...intriguing, almost incantatory' Telegraph Tracey Emin's Strangeland is her own space, lying between the Margate of her childhood, the Turkey of her forefathers and her own, private-public life in present-day London. Her writings, a combination of memoirs and confessions, are deeply intimate, yet powerfully engaging. Tracey retains a profoundly romantic world view, paired with an uncompromising honesty. Her capacity both to create controversies and to strike chords is unequalled in British life. A remarkable book - and an original, beautiful mind. 'As spare and poignant as one of Emin's line drawings' Marie Claire
Strangers in a Strange Land
Paul Manning
Author : Paul Manning
Publisher : Academic Studies PRess
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781618119476
Strangers in a Strange Land by Paul Manning Pdf
Manning examines the formation of nineteenth-century intelligentsia print publics in the former Soviet republic of Georgia both anthropologically and historically. At once somehow part of “Europe,” at least aspirationally, and yet rarely recognized by others as such, Georgia attempted to forge European style publics as a strong claim to European identity. These attempts also produced a crisis of self-defi nition, as European Georgia sent newspaper correspondents into newly reconquered Oriental Georgia, only to discover that the people of these lands were strangers. In this encounter, the community of “strangers” of European Georgian publics proved unable to assimilate the people of the “strange land” of Oriental Georgia. This crisis produced both notions of Georgian public life and European identity which this book explores.
A Story Teller's Story
Sherwood Anderson
Author : Sherwood Anderson
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0472030833
A Story Teller's Story by Sherwood Anderson Pdf
From the author of Winesburg, Ohio, an autobiography of Midwestern life and culture by one of the leading figures of 20th-century American letters.
Singing in a Strange Land
William D. Lindsey
Author : William D. Lindsey
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1556124155
Singing in a Strange Land by William D. Lindsey Pdf
Singing in a Strange Land is a book of imaginative journey, religious resources, and suggestions for action designed especially for North American Christians to pray with poor and marginalized, and to act for justice on their behalf. Its underlying theme is orthodox: that spirituality and action for justice are necessarily interconnected in the Christian faith. Seven imaginative narratives elicit a sense of the connections that both bind people socially and create and maintain conditions that foster poverty and marginalization. Biblical reflections and prayers from world religions provide a sound basis upon with readers can begin to pray with those who fall outside the mainstream.
Stranger in a Strange Land
Robert A. Heinlein
Author : Robert A. Heinlein
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1987-05-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101208960
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein Pdf
Robert Heinlein's Hugo Award-winning all-time masterpiece, the brilliant novel that grew from a cult favorite to a bestseller to a science fiction classic. Raised by Martians on Mars, Valentine Michael Smith is a human who has never seen another member of his species. Sent to Earth, he is a stranger who must learn what it is to be a man. But his own beliefs and his powers far exceed the limits of humankind, and as he teaches them about grokking and water-sharing, he also inspires a transformation that will alter Earth’s inhabitants forever...
King Alpha’s Song in a Strange Land
Jason Wilson
Author : Jason Wilson
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-14
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780774862301
King Alpha’s Song in a Strange Land by Jason Wilson Pdf
When Jackie Mittoo and Leroy Sibbles migrated from Jamaica to Toronto in the early 1970s, the musicians brought reggae with them, sparking the flames of one of Canada’s most vibrant music scenes. Professional reggae musician and scholar Jason Wilson tells the story of how reggae brought black and white youth together, opening up a cultural dialogue between Jamaican migrants and Canadians along the city’s ethnic frontlines. This underground subculture rebelled against the status quo, broke through the bonds of race, eased the acculturation process, and made bands such as Messenjah and the Sattalites household names for a brief but important time.
In the Orbit of Sirens
T. A. Bruno
Author : T. A. Bruno
Publisher : Song of Kamaria
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1734647000
In the Orbit of Sirens by T. A. Bruno Pdf
Nightmarish machines have driven humanity into the depths of space. The survivors are forced to adapt to a planet filled with monsters.
The Humane Gardener
Nancy Lawson
Author : Nancy Lawson
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-18
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781616896171
The Humane Gardener by Nancy Lawson Pdf
In this eloquent plea for compassion and respect for all species, journalist and gardener Nancy Lawson describes why and how to welcome wildlife to our backyards. Through engaging anecdotes and inspired advice, profiles of home gardeners throughout the country, and interviews with scientists and horticulturalists, Lawson applies the broader lessons of ecology to our own outdoor spaces. Detailed chapters address planting for wildlife by choosing native species; providing habitats that shelter baby animals, as well as birds, bees, and butterflies; creating safe zones in the garden; cohabiting with creatures often regarded as pests; letting nature be your garden designer; and encouraging natural processes and evolution in the garden. The Humane Gardener fills a unique niche in describing simple principles for both attracting wildlife and peacefully resolving conflicts with all the creatures that share our world.
Stranger in a Strange Land
George Prochnik
Author : George Prochnik
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781590517772
Stranger in a Strange Land by George Prochnik Pdf
Taking his lead from his subject, Gershom Scholem—the 20th century thinker who cracked open Jewish theology and history with a radical reading of Kabbalah—Prochnik combines biography and memoir to counter our contemporary political crisis with an original and urgent reimagining of the future of Israel. In Stranger in a Strange Land, Prochnik revisits the life and work of Gershom Scholem, whose once prominent reputation, as a Freud-like interpreter of the inner world of the Cosmos, has been in eclipse in the United States. He vividly conjures Scholem’s upbringing in Berlin, and compellingly brings to life Scholem’s transformative friendship with Walter Benjamin, the critic and philosopher. In doing so, he reveals how Scholem’s frustration with the bourgeois ideology of Germany during the First World War led him to discover Judaism, Kabbalah, and finally Zionism, as potent counter-forces to Europe’s suicidal nationalism. Prochnik’s own years in the Holy Land in the 1990s brings him to question the stereotypical intellectual and theological constructs of Jerusalem, and to rediscover the city as a physical place, rife with the unruliness and fecundity of nature. Prochnik ultimately suggests that a new form of ecological pluralism must now inherit the historically energizing role once played by Kabbalah and Zionism in Jewish thought.
Signposts in a Strange Land
Walker Percy
Author : Walker Percy
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-29
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781453216378
Signposts in a Strange Land by Walker Percy Pdf
Writings on the South, Catholicism, and more from the National Book Award winner: “His nonfiction is always entertaining and enlightening” (Library Journal). Published just after Walker Percy’s death, Signposts in a Strange Land takes readers through the philosophical, religious, and literary ideas of one of the South’s most profound and unique thinkers. Each essay is laced with wit and insight into the human condition. From race relations and the mysteries of existence, to Catholicism and the joys of drinking bourbon, this collection offers a window into the underpinnings of Percy’s celebrated novels and brings to light the stirring thoughts and voice of a giant of twentieth century literature.
