In The Orchard The Swallows

Author : Peter Hobbs
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780571279296

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In the Orchard, the Swallows by Peter Hobbs Pdf

In the foothills of a mountain range in northern Pakistan is a beautiful orchard. Swallows wheel and dive silently over the branches, and the scent of jasmine threads through the air. Pomegranates hang heavy, their skins darkening to a deep crimson. Neglected now, the trees are beginning to grow wild, their fruit left to spoil on the branches.Many miles away, a frail young man is flung out of prison gates. Looking up, scanning the horizon for swallows in flight, he stumbles and collapses in the roadside dust. His ravaged body tells the story of fifteen years of brutality.Just one image has held and sustained him through the dark times - the thought of the young girl who had left him dumbstruck with wonder all those years ago, whose eyes were lit up with life.A tale of tenderness in the face of great and corrupt power, In The Orchard, The Swallows is a heartbreaking novel written in prose of exquisite stillness and beauty

Author : Peter Hobbs
Publisher : Europa Editions
Page : 87 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781609451936

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In the Orchard, the Swallows by Peter Hobbs Pdf

This tale of innocence and corruption in Pakistan is “a beautiful, often painful, journey of a young man’s doomed yearning for love” (The Guardian). During a village wedding in Pakistan, a boy risks speaking to the beautiful daughter of a powerful local politician. As night falls, the two meet in his father’s orchard, inadvertently falling asleep as they wait for the light of dawn to reveal the orchard’s beauty, naive to the dangers posed by their innocent mistake. As first light approaches, and the girl’s father realizes the young couple’s mutual attraction, he has the boy sent to prison without explanation or the benefit of a trial. Fifteen years later, the boy—now a man—is released without a word. Bereft of family and weakened from years of abuse, he collapses on the side of the road and is taken in by a kindly scholar. As time passes, the man recovers enough to take daily walks to his father’s now abandoned orchard, where he last saw his young beloved among the trees, beneath soaring, fluttering swallows . . . In clear, crystalline prose, this novel reveals the ability of the human spirit to conquer the random cruelties of life, and how the power of love and hope, once known, can never truly be extinguished. “Hobbs’ prose is spare, clean, and lyrical, giving In the Orchard, the Swallows a timeless feeling; however, the markers of the Afghan war and the changes in the landscape remind the reader that this story is very contemporary.” —Booklist “A perfectly cut jewel of a book.” —The Financial Times

Author : Peter Harrison
Publisher : Authors On Line Ltd
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0755200632

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Creakwing's Crossing by Peter Harrison Pdf

The swallows have always feared Winter. For them it is a time of dying and decay. A time they have always fled from, seeking the warmth and safety of the southlands. But this year is to be different. The swallows' wise and venerable leader, Creakwing, announces that he is now too old and infirm to undertake the epic journey across thousands of miles of land and sea. He intends to remain in the northlands during the cold dark months of Winter and try to survive alone. Knowing that for him this will mean almost certain death, a group of young swallows devise a daring plan to rescue their leader. Many other birds are enlisted to help in the plan. Among them, the thieving jackdaws, a captive yellow bird, a brilliantly ingenious blue tit, a wise old owl who is not as wise as he thinks he is.... and finally, out in the icy wastes of ocean the mysterious storm petrels. There will be triumph and tragedy during the long and dangerous journey, an epic Crossing about which the bardic swallows will tell tales and sing songs for generations to come. 'Creakwing's Crossing' is a stirring tale in a literary tradition stretching from Kenneth Grahame's 'The Wind in The Willows' to 'Watership Down' by Richard Adams in the present day. It is also a tale to remind us that though the boundaries created by Man continue to create tensions and conflict, the natural world observes no frontiers, and the swallows continue to move through the sky as freely as they have always done, in the ancient mystery of migration.

Author : Arthur Cleveland Bent
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 994 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1942
Category : Birds
ISBN : CHI:72661426

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Life Histories of North American Flycatchers, Larks, Swallows, and Their Allies by Arthur Cleveland Bent Pdf

This is the fourteenth in a series of bulletins of the United States National Museum on the life histories of North American birds, with previous numbers issued as follows: 107, 113, 121, 126, 130, 135, 142, 146, 162, 167, 170, 174, 176. This bulletin deals with the Order Passeriformes, specifically the Family Cotingidae (Cotingas); Family Tyrannidae (Flycatchers) ; Family Alaudidae (Larks) and Family Hirundinidae (Swallows) of North America

Author : Arthur Cleveland Bent
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1942
Category : Birds
ISBN : MINN:31951000115766H

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Life Histories of North American [birds].: Flycatchers, larks, swallows and their allies by Arthur Cleveland Bent Pdf

Author : Alan E. Walter
Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9798888325056

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Stay under Your Hat by Alan E. Walter Pdf

Stay under Your Hat is not only a book title, but also a principle of living. Alan Walter, the author, first understood the principle while leading a dual diagnosis group for the Department of Community Supervision (state probation) in Northwest Georgia. As God further developed the principle in Alan’s mind and heart, it has grown into a book that will likely involve sequels. Stay under Your Hat is a call to those who believer in the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. This book seeks to call Christians to return to the one basic purpose for our lives. That purpose is to effectively model God through the surrender of our identity, security, and reason for living to God the Father. While reading this book you’ll have the opportunity to see some of the simplicities and the glory of how God created, outfitted, and redeemed us to model Him well. My hope is that you will realize that the most natural, safe, and secure place for you to be as a Christian is to stay under your hat!

Author : Alex Preston,Neil Gower
Publisher : Corsair
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-13
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781472152251

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As Kingfishers Catch Fire by Alex Preston,Neil Gower Pdf

'A magical book: an inimitable fusion of ornithology, literary anthology and autobiography.' Tom Holland When Alex Preston was 15, he stopped being a birdwatcher. Adolescence and the scorn of his peers made him put away his binoculars, leave behind the hides and the nature reserves and the quiet companionship of his fellow birders. His love of birds didn't disappear though. Rather, it went underground, and he began birdwatching in the books that he read, creating his own personal anthology of nature writing that brought the birds of his childhood back to brilliant life. Looking for moments 'when heart and bird are one', Preston weaves the very best writing about birds into a personal and eccentric narrative that is as much about the joy of reading and writing as it is about the thrill of wildlife. Moving from the 'high requiem' of Keats's nightingale to the crow-strewn sky at the end of Alan Garner's The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, from Ted Hughes's brooding 'Hawk in the Rain' to the giddy anthropomorphism of Jonathan Livingstone Seagull, this is a book that will make you look at birds, at the world, in a newer, richer light. Beautifully illustrated and illuminated by the celebrated graphic artist Neil Gower, As Kingfishers Catch Fire is a book to love and to hold, to return to again and again, to marvel at the way that authors across the centuries have captured the endless grace and variety of birds. 'A joyful and a wondrous book' the Guardian

Author : Europa Editions
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781609454579

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Reach Out and Read the World by Europa Editions Pdf

Spanning six continents, the Reach Out and Read the World sampler contains excerpts from a large selection of international fiction published over Europa’s twelve-year history as an independent publisher that encourages global and social empathy. The compilation is completed with an introduction by Europa’s Editor-in-Chief Michael Reynolds, country profiles, discussion questions and a “71 Reasons to Read International Literature” comment piece by booksellers from across the United States on the importance of reading internationally. Altogether, Reach Out and Read the World is a transformative read, one that helps humanize our world through the power of story.

Author : Kansas State Horticultural Society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Fruit-culture
ISBN : WISC:89037157484

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Transactions of the Kansas State Horticultural Society by Kansas State Horticultural Society Pdf

Author : Kansas State Horticultural Society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Fruit-culture
ISBN : UCAL:$B232263

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The Biennial Report of the Kansas State Horticultural Society by Kansas State Horticultural Society Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:504075518

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Proceedings and Transactions of the Natural History Society of Glasgow by Anonim Pdf

Author : Natural History Society of Glasgow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Natural history
ISBN : UCAL:B4151167

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Proceedings and Transactions of the Natural History Society of Glascow by Natural History Society of Glasgow Pdf

Author : Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0156032279

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Madeleine Is Sleeping by Sarah Shun-lien Bynum Pdf

When a girl falls into a deep sleep, the borders of her real life in a French village and a mysterious fantasy world disappear.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 678 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Birds
ISBN : UIUC:30112111968498

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The Oölogist by Anonim Pdf

Author : Henry Williamson
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-21
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:4064066426330

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The Lone Swallows by Henry Williamson Pdf

"The Lone Swallows" by Henry Williamson is HW's second published book. The book is a collection of nature essays, most of which had already been published in newspapers and magazines: they are HW's first attempts to 'describe the common sights and sounds of the English countryside', as he stated in his own 'Compiler's Note' that fronts the first edition.