Out In The Midday Sun

Author : Elspeth Huxley
Publisher : Random House
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781446475812

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Out In The Midday Sun by Elspeth Huxley Pdf

Elspeth Huxley captivated readers throughout the world with her 'memories of an African childhood' in THE FLAME TREES OF THIKA and THE MOTTLED LIZARD. In this final volume of her trilogy she tells the story of her adult life in Africa, in which the vigorously evoked personalities - from the pioneer Lord Delamere and Baroness Blixen to Jomo Kenyatta - blend with her supurb description of the social, cultural and political upheavals of the time. 'An accomplished story-teller, she weaves anecdotes, character sketches, political history together without losing her thread or the readers momentum. ' SUNDAY TIMES 'She evokes it all lovingly but astringently, especially the glittering, often scandelous life of the young aristocrats who lived in Happy Valley. ' DAILY EXPRESS

Author : Margaret Shennan
Publisher : Monsoon Books
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789814625326

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Out in the Midday Sun by Margaret Shennan Pdf

The story of British Malaya and Singapore, from the days of Victorian pioneers to the denouement of independence, is a momentous episode in Britain’s colonial past. Through memoirs, letters and interviews, Margaret Shennan chronicles its halcyon years, the two World Wars, economic depression and diaspora, revealing the attitudes of the diverse quixotic characters of this now quite vanished world. The British came as fortune-seekers to exploit Asian trade shipped through Penang and Singapore. They found a mature Asian culture in a land of palm-fringed shores and primeval jungle. Like modern Romans, they built townships, defences, communications and hill stations, they spurred a rivalry between the fledgling commercial centres of Singapore, Penang and Kuala Lumpur, and they superimposed their law and established an idiosyncratic political system. They also developed the tin and rubber of the Malay States, encouraging Chinese and Indian immigrants by their open-door policy. The outcome was a vibrant multi-racial society – the most cosmopolitan in the East.

Author : Roger Ebert
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780226314433

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Two Weeks in the Midday Sun by Roger Ebert Pdf

Praise for Two Weeks in the Midday Sun -- About the Author -- Title Page -- Foreword by Martin Scorsese -- Dedication -- Two Weeks in the Midday Sun: A Cannes Notebook -- Postscript, 1997: Scorsese Goes to Dinner

Author : Monica Campbell- Martin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:499413915

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Out in the Midday Sun by Monica Campbell- Martin Pdf

Author : Gini Alhadeff
Publisher : Odyssey Editions
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781623730390

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The Sun at Midday: Tales of a Mediterranean Family by Gini Alhadeff Pdf

This astonishing memoir is the story of a family who always felt slightly foreign in every country and developed a chameleon-like ability to adapt to their surroundings. Gini Alhadeff was born in Alexandria, Egypt, and grew up in Cairo, Khartoum, Florence, and Tokyo. With a vivid gift for narrative, Alhadeff evokes the languid Alexandria of the early decades of this century (where her mother’s family made its fortune in cotton) and some of its beguiling honorary citizens: a violet-eyed aunt who refused to have new slipcovers made for her sofa so President Nasser would find the old ones when her house was impounded; a cousin who was taught the limits of reason by Wittgenstein at Cambridge and became a monsignor; a gynecologist uncle interned at Auschwitz and then Buchenwald, who lived to tell his tale with stark unsentimentality. With a keen sense for both the comic and the tragic, Alhadeff sizes up what is left of the family fortune: a tendency to live beyond one’s means, the stories and legends that survive the rise and fall of families, and the present as a paradise for those who, having lost all, have nothing to lose.

Author : Sheridan Morley,Noel Coward
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Art
ISBN : UVA:X001492414

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Out in the Midday Sun by Sheridan Morley,Noel Coward Pdf

Author : Kate Caffrey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Singapore
ISBN : PSU:000001462876

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Out in the Midday Sun by Kate Caffrey Pdf

Author : Peter Clarke
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781596917422

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The Last Thousand Days of the British Empire by Peter Clarke Pdf

A sweeping, brilliantly vivid history of the sudden end of the British empire and the moment when America became a world superpower. "I have not become the King's First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire." Winston Churchill's famous statement in November 1942, just as the tide of the Second World War was beginning to turn, pugnaciously affirmed his loyalty to the world-wide institution that he had served for most of his life. Britain fought and sacrificed on a worldwide scale to defeat Hitler and his allies-and won. Yet less than five years after Churchill's defiant speech, the British Empire effectively ended with Indian Independence in August 1947 and the end of the British Mandate in Palestine in May 1948. As the sun set on Britain's Empire, the age of America as world superpower dawned. How did this rapid change of fortune come about? Peter Clarke's book is the first to analyze the abrupt transition from Rule Britannia to Pax Americana. His swiftly paced narrative makes superb use of letters and diaries to provide vivid portraits of the figures around whom history pivoted: Churchill, Gandhi, Roosevelt, Stalin, Truman, and a host of lesser-known figures though whom Clarke brilliantly shows the human dimension of epochal events. The Last Thousand Days of the British Empire is a captivating work of popular history that shows how the events that followed the war reshaped the world as profoundly as the conflict itself.

Author : Kate Caffrey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Singapore
ISBN : OCLC:1163789360

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Out in the Midday Sun by Kate Caffrey Pdf

Author : Tristan Gooley
Publisher : The Experiment
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-05
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781615191550

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The Natural Navigator by Tristan Gooley Pdf

From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Secret World of Weather and The Lost Art of Reading Nature’s Signs, learn to tap into nature and notice the hidden clues all around you Before GPS, before the compass, and even before cartography, humankind was navigating. Now this singular guide helps us rediscover what our ancestors long understood—that a windswept tree, the depth of a puddle, or a trill of birdsong can help us find our way, if we know what to look and listen for. Adventurer and navigation expert Tristan Gooley unlocks the directional clues hidden in the sun, moon, stars, clouds, weather patterns, lengthening shadows, changing tides, plant growth, and the habits of wildlife. Rich with navigational anecdotes collected across ages, continents, and cultures, The Natural Navigator will help keep you on course and open your eyes to the wonders, large and small, of the natural world.

Author : Guy Bellamy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1909609366

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In the Midday Sun by Guy Bellamy Pdf

Author : Steven Scragg
Publisher : Pitch Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1801500975

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In the Heat of the Midday Sun by Steven Scragg Pdf

Author : Monica Martin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : India
ISBN : OCLC:829180611

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Out in the Midday Sun by Monica Martin Pdf

Author : Kate A. Hardy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1783016809

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Staying Out of the Midday Sun by Kate A. Hardy Pdf

Four Londoners, whose lives are already entwined, wittingly and otherwise, are about to meet again in an obscure seaside town in southern France ... Holly and Peter, after a meeting of souls in book one, have installed themselves in Castallen-sur-Mer with their son Gabriel, no plan, a violin and a small stash of money, which is about to disappear ... Sandra has left Spitalfields, packed her manuscripts, her life and her best friend into a transit van, and is driving towards a small stone house on a hill outside Castallen, where Cameron will be waiting for her. Jasper, after an unplanned road trip and an episode in a Montpellier hotel room that he would rather forget, has arrived in his graffiti-sprayed VW camper van with his chef's knives, good references and a lingering desire for Darren. Set in France, London and Las Vegas, Staying out of the midday sun, is the second part of a trilogy spanning twenty years, in which the heroes are challenged with the everyday: love, babies, gt̋e cleaning, a new language, aging parents - as well as shoot-outs, Las Vegas weddings, bureaucracy, duck gizzard salad, and possibly the end of the world.

Author : Charles L. Marohn, Jr.
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781119564812

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Strong Towns by Charles L. Marohn, Jr. Pdf

A new way forward for sustainable quality of life in cities of all sizes Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Build American Prosperity is a book of forward-thinking ideas that breaks with modern wisdom to present a new vision of urban development in the United States. Presenting the foundational ideas of the Strong Towns movement he co-founded, Charles Marohn explains why cities of all sizes continue to struggle to meet their basic needs, and reveals the new paradigm that can solve this longstanding problem. Inside, you’ll learn why inducing growth and development has been the conventional response to urban financial struggles—and why it just doesn’t work. New development and high-risk investing don’t generate enough wealth to support itself, and cities continue to struggle. Read this book to find out how cities large and small can focus on bottom-up investments to minimize risk and maximize their ability to strengthen the community financially and improve citizens’ quality of life. Develop in-depth knowledge of the underlying logic behind the “traditional” search for never-ending urban growth Learn practical solutions for ameliorating financial struggles through low-risk investment and a grassroots focus Gain insights and tools that can stop the vicious cycle of budget shortfalls and unexpected downturns Become a part of the Strong Towns revolution by shifting the focus away from top-down growth toward rebuilding American prosperity Strong Towns acknowledges that there is a problem with the American approach to growth and shows community leaders a new way forward. The Strong Towns response is a revolution in how we assemble the places we live.