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Author : William Seabrook
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780486799629
This 1929 volume offers firsthand accounts of Haitian voodoo and witchcraft rituals. Author William Seabrook introduced the concept of the walking dead to the West with this illustrated travelogue.
Author : William Seabrook,Alexander King
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1939
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:254564750
Author : Elizabeth Waterston
Publisher : Oxford University Press Canada
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015077627258
L.M.Montgomery grew up in Prince Edward Island, a real place of "politics and potatoes." But it's her fictional island, a richly textured imaginative landscape that has captivated a world of readers since 1908, when Anne of Green Gables became the first of Montgomery's long string of bestsellers. In this wide-ranging and highly readable book, Elizabeth Waterston uses the term "magic" to suggest that peculiar, indefinable combination of attributes that unpredictably results in creative genius. Montgomery's intelligence, her drive, and her sense of humour are essential components of this success. Waterston also features what Montgomery called her "dream life," a "strange inner life of fancy which had always existed side by side with my outer life." This special ability to look beyond the veil, to access vibrant inner vistas, produced deceptively layered fictions out of a life that saw not just its share of both fame and ill fortune, but also what Waterston calls "dark passions." A true reader's guide, Magic Island explores the world of L.M. Montgomery in a way never done before. Each chapter of Magic Island discusses a different Montgomery book, following their progression chronologically. Waterston draws parallels between Montgomery's internal "island," her personal life, her professional career, and the characters in her novels. Designed to be read alongside the new biography of Montgomery by Mary Rubio, this is the first book to reinterpret Montgomery's writing in light of important new information about her life. A must-read for any Montgomery fan, Magic Island offers a fresh and insightful look at the world of L.M. Montgomery and the "magic" of artistic creation.
Author : Doug Hansen
Publisher : Heyday Books
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1597143324
Summoned by Queen Calafia to the island of California, twenty-six animals of the state of California introduce themselves, their homeland, and the people who dwell there.
Author : Joe Ollmann
Publisher : Drawn & Quarterly
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-29
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781770463608
The daring and destructive life of the man who popularized the word "zombie" In the early twentieth century, travel writing represented the desire for the expanding bourgeoisie to experience the exotic cultures of the world past their immediate surroundings. Journalist William Buehler Seabrook was emblematic of this trend – participating in voodoo ceremonies, riding camels cross the Sahara desert, communing with cannibals and most notably, popularizing the term “zombie” in the West. A string of his bestselling books show an engaged, sympathetic gentleman hoping to share these strange, hidden delights with the rest of the world. He was willing to go deeper than any outsider had before. But, of course, there was a dark side. Seabrook was a barely functioning alcoholic who was deeply obsessed with bondage and the so-called mystical properties of pain and degradation. His life was a series of traveling highs and drunken lows; climbing on and falling off the wagon again and again. What led the popular and vivid writer to such a sad state? Cartoonist Joe Ollmann spent seven years researching Seabrook’s life, accessing long neglected archives in order to piece together the peripatetic life of a forgotten American writer. Often weaving in Seabrook’s own words and those of his biographers, Ollmann posits Seabrook the believer versus Seabrook the exploiter, and leaves the reader to consider where one ends and the other begins.
Author : Elsie Spicer Eells
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547717973
"The Islands of Magic: Legends, Folk and Fairy Tales from the Azores" by Elsie Spicer Eells. Published by DigiCat. DigiCat publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each DigiCat edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Author : Ed Webster
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Hiking
ISBN : STANFORD:36105016303476
Author : Michael Teitelbaum
Publisher : Golden Books
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0307117545
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781935623939
The tropical forest of Panama's Barro Colorado Island is a luxuriant community of plants and animals, pulsating with life and offering an astonishing view of nature's myriad processes. What does the forest look like? How do the activities of the forest's plants and animals create a community? In A Magic Web, photographer Christian Ziegler and evolutionary biologist Egbert Giles Leigh, Jr., invite readers to enter the marvelous world of Barro Colorado Island. This book is a unique combination of spectacular photography and clear, authoritative text written by an active scientist who has spent half a lifetime trying to understand the tropical forest. Luscious photographs of the forest reveal the wonderful diversity of its inhabitants and show many of the activities that give it its character and lend structure to its community. Drawing on decades of work on Barro Colorado Island, Egbert Leigh explains how the forest works: how plants and animals compete with but also depend on each other; how the solitary lives of cats contrast with the intricately organized lives of armies of ants; the variety of ways plants struggle for a place in the sun; and how these plants attract animals to pollenate their flowers. Finally, the book shows the importance of tropical forests to the people living near them, why they matter to the world at large, what we can learn from them, and how they differ from temperate-zone forests. Full of stunning full-color photographs accompanied by clear and accessible text, A Magic Web is a must for anyone planning to visit a tropical forest and for all those who wish they could.
Author : Elizabeth Goudge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2008-03-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1434890732
Island Magic (1934), a beautiful story of the Channel Islands in the nineteenth century, was Elizabeth Goudge's first novel and stands as one of her finest. It tells of Rachel and Andre du Froq and their exuberant children, and the mysterious stranger who washes up from the sea and becomes entwined in their lives. [Also available: the sequel, "Make-Believe" by Elizabeth Goudge.]
Author : Douglas Arthur Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1998-09
Category : Christmas stories, Canadian (English)
ISBN : 1896792057
Author : Zai Whitaker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Andaman and Nicobar Islands (India)
ISBN : 8123765002
Author : Christopher D Morgan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-28
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0994525788
This Young Adult Fantasy Adventure is the second in the series filled with adventure and a coming of age story that will resonate with fans of epic quests and magic.
Author : W. B. Seabrook
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781447499589
A lesser-known figure of America's Lost Generation, Seabrook was a prolific traveller and author. 'Dead Men Working in the Cane Fields' is an excerpt from his 1929 book The Magic Island, a folklore-tinged travelogue about Haiti. Therefore, the stories he reproduces are midway between fact and fictionMany of these zombie stories, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Author : Leone Ross
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780571358038
SHORLISTED FOR THE DIVERSE BOOK AWARDS LONGLISTED FOR THE ONDAATJE PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE DIVERSE BOOK AWARDS 'Dazzling' Cosmopolitan 'I deeply admire This One Sky Day - and also, not so secretly, bitterly envy it...' MARLON JAMES 'Gorgeous' Financial Times 'Haunting' Independent 'Wonderfully fearless' New Statesman 'Stunning' KEI MILLER Dawn breaks across the archipelago of Popisho. The world is stirring awake again, each resident with their own list of things to do: A wedding feast to conjure and cook An infidelity to investigate A lost soul to set free As the sun rises two star-crossed lovers try to find their way back to one another across this single day. When night falls, all have been given a gift, and many are no longer the same. The sky is pink, and some wonder if it will ever be blue again. What readers are saying 'Brimming with and life and love and just absolutely gorgeous writing. a one-of-a-kind novel.' 'I couldn't put it down and I will be recommending it to everyone.' 'A story luxuriously and confidently told, which is sumptuous from sentence to sentence. There is both literal and literary magic here.' 'This book is bursting at the seams with beauty! Magic! Love! Imagination! It is a burst of colour and flame.' 'It's hard to explain, but if you love getting lost in a story, this could be one for you.'