Postcards And Pearls

Author : Di Morrissey
Publisher : Pan Australia
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2008-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781741980219

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Monsoon by Di Morrissey Pdf

Monsoon is a journey into the hearts and memories of those caught in a certain time in a particular place from Australia's favourite storyteller with new novel Before the Storm out now. Sandy Donaldson has been working for a volunteer organisation in Vietnam for the past four years. As her contract nears its end, she is reluctant to leave so she invites her oldest friend, Anna, to come for a holiday and discover its beautiful tourist destinations. Both girls have unexplored links to this country. Sandy's father is a Vietnam vet and Anna's mother was a Vietnamese boat person. During their travels, they meet Tom, an old Australian journalist who covered the war and plans to report on the 40th anniversary of the Battle of Long Tan. It is Tom who tries to persuade Sandy's father to return to Long Tan and settle the ghosts that have haunted him for 40 years, and suggests that Anna should delve into her mother's past. But the girls are reluctant, swept up in their own concerns, relationships, and a business deal that has the potential to go horribly wrong. However, it is the near-blind Buddhist nun living alone in the pagoda atop one of the karsts in Halong Bay who might hold the key.

Author : Gina Greenlee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1593307500

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Postcards and Pearls by Gina Greenlee Pdf

In Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons from Solo Moments in New York, 35 women ages 24 to 72 join Gina Greenlee in sharing life-enhancing experiences while traveling solo in one of the world's most fascinating cities. Whether they blitzed through a long weekend, pit-stopped en route to another destination, conducted business or decided to move in, these intrepid travelers embraced the excitement of new experiences, the opportunities that spring from resourcefulness and the life altering freedom born from being exactly who they are. Let Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons from Solo Moments in New York inspire an adventure of your own - in the big city and in life.

Author : Daniel D. Arreola
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-05
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9780816542550

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Postcards from the Baja California Border by Daniel D. Arreola Pdf

Postcards from the Baja California Border uses popular historical imagery--the vintage postcard--to tell a compelling, visually enriched geographical story about the border towns of Baja California.

Author : Kirsten McKenzie
Publisher : Accent Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781783758739

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Fifteen Postcards by Kirsten McKenzie Pdf

History shapes those who travel through it Following the unexplained disappearance of her parents, and in a last ditch attempt to save the antique store she has inherited from financial ruin, Sarah Lester takes on a deceased estate. Amongst the estate is a collection of vintage postcards which lead Sarah on a journey through time. Sarah is unprepared for what these postcards hint at about their reclusive former owner, and soon they complicate her life in unimaginable ways, transporting her to Victorian London, colonial New Zealand and to the British Raj in India. Sarah has to fight her twenty-first century instincts, and a century of emancipation, to survive. Traversing three continents and two centuries, where tiger hunts and ruby necklaces are irrevocably entwined with murders and mysteries, auction houses and antiquities, Sarah is drawn into the enigma that could solve her parents' disappearance, and the question of should she stay or should she go, gets harder and harder to answer, the deeper she delves into the past. Perfect for fans of the Outlander series and lovers of The Time Travelers Wife. What people are saying about Fifteen Postcards: "If history lessons had been this entertaining, I would have scored an A+!." -Andrene Low, author of the Excess Baggage series "This story is one for devotees of adventurous historical fiction and tales of plucky young women finding their feet." -Stephanie Jones, CoastFM Book Reviewer "I think the author has done a commendable job in bringing the story to life and it's obvious that she has used extensive historical research to ensure that the story always feels authentic and that's not an easy feat to pull off." -JaffaReadsToo, Book Blogger "Kirsten McKenzie has written a very unusual novel: part time travel, part historical, and part antique review. Sarah?s adventures in other times and other continents, linked together by the postcards and the antiques, are well researched and entertainingly written." -Historical Novel Society What reviewers are saying about Kirsten McKenzie: "McKenzie has done a spectacular job of combining well-researched history with a hint of mysterious intrigue." -Anxious Canadian Blog "Kirsten Mckenzie has written an excellent foray into historical fiction. I'm honestly not quite sure how she was able to keep up with and integrate the different settings, time periods, and characters without losing her place. But she managed it magnificently." -Author Sean Whittaker "McKenzie?s descriptions of the shop are well drawn and wonderfully evoke the jumbled chaos of layers of leftovers from centuries of everyday life." -NZBookLovers blog

Author : Douglas Deuchler
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2003-08-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439631188

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Oak Park in Vintage Postcards by Douglas Deuchler Pdf

Although it was first settled in the 1830s, Oak Park did not become an independent municipality until it split from Cicero Township in 1902. No longer a rustic small town, the village soon became a population magnet, attracting ever-larger numbers of prosperous, progressive people to settle in what many soon referred to as "the finest of the streetcar suburbs." Coincidentally, use of the penny picture postcard had approached a national mania during this era. Thus from the earliest years of the 20th century, the rapid growth and development of Oak Park was well documented, even celebrated, with a vast and varied array of outstanding postcard images.

Author : Irene Guenther
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350015760

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Postcards from the Trenches by Irene Guenther Pdf

German art student Otto Schubert was 22 years old when he was drafted into the Great War. As the conflict unfolded, he painted a series of postcards that he sent to his sweetheart, Irma. During the battles of Ypres and Verdun, Schubert filled dozens of military-issued 4” x 6” cards with vivid images depicting the daily realities and tragedies of war. Beautifully illustrated with full-color reproductions of his exquisite postcards, as well as his wartime sketches, woodcuts, and two lithograph portfolios, Postcards from the Trenches is Schubert's war diary, love journal, and life story. His powerful artworks illuminate and document in a visual language the truths of war. Postcards from the Trenches offers the first full account of Otto Schubert, soldier-artist of the Great War, rising art star in the 1920s, prolific graphic artist and book illustrator, one of the “degenerate” artists defamed by the Nazis, and a man shattered by the Second World War and the Cold War. Created in the midst of enormous devastation, Schubert's haunting visual missives are as powerful and relevant today as they were a century ago. His postcards are both a young man's token of love and longing and a soldier's testimony of the Great War. **Please note that this will work best on a colour device**

Author : Jessica B. Harris
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781496827708

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Vintage Postcards from the African World by Jessica B. Harris Pdf

For over forty years, professor and culinary historian Jessica B. Harris has collected postcards depicting Africans and their descendants in the American diaspora. They are presented for the first time in this exquisite volume. Vintage Postcards from the African World: In the Dignity of Their Work and the Joy of Their Play brings together more than 150 images, providing a visual document of more than a century of work in agricultural and culinary pursuits and joy in entertainments, parades, and celebrations. Organized by geography—Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States—as well as by the types of scenes depicted—the farm, the garden, and the sea; the marketplace; the vendors and the cooks; leisure, entertainments, and festivities—the images capture the dignity of the labors of everyday life and the pride of festive occasions. Superb and rare images demonstrate everything from how Africans and their descendants dressed to what tools they used to how their entertainments provided relief from toil. Three essays accompany the postcards, one of which details Harris’s collection and the collecting process. A second presents suggestions on how to interpret the cards. A final essay gives brief information on the history of postcards and postcard dating and its increasing use and value to scholars.

Author : Daniel D. Arreola
Publisher : Univ of TX + ORM
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9780292752818

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Postcards from the Río Bravo Border by Daniel D. Arreola Pdf

A history in postcards of Mexican tourist towns in the first half of the twentieth century, with nearly two hundred illustrations. Between 1900 and the late 1950s, Mexican border towns came of age both as tourist destinations—in some cases by luring Americans who wanted to escape Prohibition—and as emerging cities. Commercial photographers produced thousands of images of their streets, plazas, historic architecture, and tourist attractions, which were reproduced as photo postcards. Daniel Arreola has amassed one of the largest collections of these border town postcards, and in this book he uses this amazing visual archive to offer a new way of understanding how the border towns grew and transformed themselves in the first half of the twentieth century, as well as how they were pictured to attract American tourists. Postcards from the Río Bravo Border presents nearly two hundred images of five towns on the lower Río Bravo: Matamoros, Reynosa, Nuevo Laredo, Piedras Negras, and Villa Acuña. Using multiple images of sites within each city, Arreola tracks changes both within the cities as places and in the ways in which they’ve been pictured for tourist consumption. He also shows how postcard images, when systematically and chronologically arranged, can tell us a great deal about how Mexican border towns have been viewed over time. This innovative visual approach demonstrates that historical imagery, no less than text or maps, can be assembled to tell a fascinating geographical story. “This is masterful cultural geography with rich visual materials, delivered in a unique and compelling fashion.” —Journal of Latin American Geography

Author : Michael A. Di Giovine
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0739114344

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The Heritage-scape by Michael A. Di Giovine Pdf

This book explores how the mere designation of World Heritage sites can achieve UNESCO's goal of creating lasting worldwide peace. Drawing on ethnography, policy analysis, and a sophisticated fusion of anthropological theories, Di Giovine convincingly reveals the existence of ...

Author : Suzy Gershman
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0062732005

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Born to Shop Hong Kong by Suzy Gershman Pdf

This excellent travel companion for avid shoppers and bargain sekers in the Far East reveals how to stay at luxury hotels and pay special shopper's rates; how to buy designer clothes from $10 bins; and how to buy a used Nikkon. Travel maps, shopping tours, negotiating tips, and more are included.

Author : Jeff Talarigo
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307429148

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The Pearl Diver by Jeff Talarigo Pdf

In 1948, a nineteen-year-old pearl diver's dreams of spending her life combing the waters of Japan’s Inland Sea are shattered when she discovers she has leprosy. By law, she is exiled to an island leprosarium, where she is stripped of her dignity and instructed to forget her past. Her name is erased from her family records, and she is forced to select a new one. To the two thousand patients on the island of Nagashima, she becomes Miss Fuji. Although drugs arrest the course of Miss Fuji's disease, she cannot leave the colony. Instead, she becomes a caretaker to the other patients, and through the example of their courage, she gains insight into the deep wellspring of strength she will need to reclaim her freedom. Written with precision and eloquence, The Pearl Diver is a dazzling meditation on isolation and community, cruelty and compassion.

Author : Monica Cure
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781452957746

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Picturing the Postcard by Monica Cure Pdf

The first full-length study of a once revolutionary visual and linguistic medium Literature has “died” many times—this book tells the story of its death by postcard. Picturing the Postcard looks to this unlikely source to shed light on our collective, modern-day obsession with new media. The postcard, almost unimaginably now, produced at the end of the nineteenth century the same anxieties and hopes that many people think are unique to twenty-first-century social media such as Facebook or Twitter. It promised a newly connected social world accessible to all and threatened the breakdown of authentic social relations and even of language. Arguing that “new media” is as much a discursive object as a material one, and that it is always in dialogue with the media that came before it, Monica Cure reconstructs the postcard’s history through journals, legal documents, and sources from popular culture, analyzing the postcard’s representation in fiction by well-known writers such as E. M. Forster and Edith Wharton and by more obscure writers like Anne Sedgwick and Herbert Flowerdew. Writers deployed uproar over the new medium of the postcard by Anglo-American cultural critics to mirror anxieties about the changing nature of the literary marketplace, which included the new role of women in public life, the appeal of celebrity and the loss of privacy, an increasing dependence on new technologies, and the rise of mass media. Literature kept open the postcard’s possibilities and in the process reimagined what literature could be.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1610754662

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Wish You Were Here: Arkansas Postcard Past 1900-1925 (p) by Anonim Pdf

The 431 examples of picture postcards offer a fascinating glimpse into the lives of Arkansans during the early part of the twentieth century.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 994 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1913
Category : Kōbe-shi (Japan)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105118907794

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The Japan Chronicle by Anonim Pdf

Author : Paper Crafts
Publisher : Leisure Arts
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781609002435

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The Best of Stamp It! Cards by Paper Crafts Pdf

Learn more than a dozen stamping techniques, with easy-to-follow instructions. You'll be able to make your own greeting cards to mark milestone occasions, celebrate holidays, or just say hello--