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This Everlasting Silence by Nancy Robinson Flannery Pdf
Nancy Robinson Flannery has done a fine job of editing these unabridged letters. They make poignant reading and are a reminder that even heroes suffer the same doubts and frailties as the rest of us.' (Elizabeth Dean, Australian Book Review, June 2000) Dark-eyed beauty Paquita Delprat, 17, first noticed the dashing Douglas Mawson, 27, at a function in Adelaide in 1909. By the end of 1910 they were engaged to be married. The only cloud on the horizon was Douglas's impending expedition to Antarctica. He expected to be away for fifteen months, but they did not count on the disastrous trek from which he staggered back, alone and close to death, to find that the waiting Aurora had given up and steamed away only hours earlier. Douglas was stranded for another full year, and the lovers' endurance was stretched to the limit. Long months intervened between ships to and from Antarctica. Letters from Douglas arrived in two batches, delivered twenty-two months apart. In one letter Paquita wailed, 'This everlasting silence is almost unbearable . . . ' The longer the lovers were apart, the more doubt, anxiety and despair crept into their correspondence, and the reader senses the growing strain on both sides. Touchingly, Douglas kept Paquita's letters all his life. Nancy Flannery first saw them in 1991 among the papers his Estate had entrusted to the University of Adelaide, and was intrigued to glimpse the emotional life of the austere explorer-scientist. Six years later, she found Douglas's letters to Paquita among private family papers, thus completing both sides of this romantic story.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,Stendhal,Jules Verne,Gustave Flaubert,Lewis Carroll,Henrik Ibsen,Charles Dickens,Plato,Honoré de Balzac,Mark Twain,Harriet Beecher Stowe,Rabindranath Tagore,Fyodor Dostoyevsky,Walt Whitman,Niccolò Machiavelli,Oscar Wilde,Robert Louis Stevenson,James Fenimore Cooper,Edgar Allan Poe,William Shakespeare,Giovanni Boccaccio,Confucius,,George MacDonald,Bram Stoker,Charlotte Brontë,Emily Brontë,Henry David Thoreau,Jack London,Henry James,Louisa May Alcott,Victor Hugo,Arthur Conan Doyle,Frances Hodgson Burnett,Joseph Conrad,Jane Austen,Herman Melville,George Eliot,Laurence Sterne,Thomas Hardy,Jonathan Swift,Edith Wharton,Benito Pérez Galdós,Daniel Defoe,Henry Fielding,Alexandre Dumas,Kalidasa,Kenneth Grahame,Marcel Proust,Willa Cather,Nathaniel Hawthorne,Homer,Gaston Leroux,Charles Baudelaire,Wilkie Collins,William Makepeace Thackeray,Voltaire,Kate Chopin,Apuleius,John Milton,Frederick Douglass,Laozi,John Keats,James Joyce,Ann Ward Radcliffe,Kahlil Gibran,Kakuzo Okakura,Soseki Natsume,Princess Der Ling,H. G. Wells,W. B. Yeats,J. M. Barrie,G. K. Chesterton,T. S. Eliot,L. M. Montgomery,C. S. Lewis,D. H. Lawrence,E. M. Forster,H. P. Lovecraft,Marcus Aurelius,Friedrich Nietzsche,Lewis Wallace,Ivan Turgenev,Anton Chekhov,Leo Tolstoy,Nikolai Gogol,Sir Walter Scott,George Bernard Shaw,Miguel de Cervantes,Mary Shelley,Cao Xueqin,Emile Zola,Válmíki,Bankim Chandra Chatterjee,P. B. Shelley,Elizabeth von Arnim,Herman Hesse,Dante,Pedro Calderon de la Barca,Sun Tzu,Inazo Nitobé,George Weedon Grossmith
Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,Stendhal,Jules Verne,Gustave Flaubert,Lewis Carroll,Henrik Ibsen,Charles Dickens,Plato,Honoré de Balzac,Mark Twain,Harriet Beecher Stowe,Rabindranath Tagore,Fyodor Dostoyevsky,Walt Whitman,Niccolò Machiavelli,Oscar Wilde,Robert Louis Stevenson,James Fenimore Cooper,Edgar Allan Poe,William Shakespeare,Giovanni Boccaccio,Confucius,,George MacDonald,Bram Stoker,Charlotte Brontë,Emily Brontë,Henry David Thoreau,Jack London,Henry James,Louisa May Alcott,Victor Hugo,Arthur Conan Doyle,Frances Hodgson Burnett,Joseph Conrad,Jane Austen,Herman Melville,George Eliot,Laurence Sterne,Thomas Hardy,Jonathan Swift,Edith Wharton,Benito Pérez Galdós,Daniel Defoe,Henry Fielding,Alexandre Dumas,Kalidasa,Kenneth Grahame,Marcel Proust,Willa Cather,Nathaniel Hawthorne,Homer,Gaston Leroux,Charles Baudelaire,Wilkie Collins,William Makepeace Thackeray,Voltaire,Kate Chopin,Apuleius,John Milton,Frederick Douglass,Laozi,John Keats,James Joyce,Ann Ward Radcliffe,Kahlil Gibran,Kakuzo Okakura,Soseki Natsume,Princess Der Ling,H. G. Wells,W. B. Yeats,J. M. Barrie,G. K. Chesterton,T. S. Eliot,L. M. Montgomery,C. S. Lewis,D. H. Lawrence,E. M. Forster,H. P. Lovecraft,Marcus Aurelius,Friedrich Nietzsche,Lewis Wallace,Ivan Turgenev,Anton Chekhov,Leo Tolstoy,Nikolai Gogol,Sir Walter Scott,George Bernard Shaw,Miguel de Cervantes,Mary Shelley,Cao Xueqin,Emile Zola,Válmíki,Bankim Chandra Chatterjee,P. B. Shelley,Elizabeth von Arnim,Herman Hesse,Dante,Pedro Calderon de la Barca,Sun Tzu,Inazo Nitobé,George Weedon Grossmith Publisher : Good Press Page : 28591 pages File Size : 45,8 Mb Release : 2023-12-12 Category : Literary Collections ISBN : EAN:8596547775386
The Everlasting Masterpieces of World Literature in One Edition by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,Stendhal,Jules Verne,Gustave Flaubert,Lewis Carroll,Henrik Ibsen,Charles Dickens,Plato,Honoré de Balzac,Mark Twain,Harriet Beecher Stowe,Rabindranath Tagore,Fyodor Dostoyevsky,Walt Whitman,Niccolò Machiavelli,Oscar Wilde,Robert Louis Stevenson,James Fenimore Cooper,Edgar Allan Poe,William Shakespeare,Giovanni Boccaccio,Confucius,,George MacDonald,Bram Stoker,Charlotte Brontë,Emily Brontë,Henry David Thoreau,Jack London,Henry James,Louisa May Alcott,Victor Hugo,Arthur Conan Doyle,Frances Hodgson Burnett,Joseph Conrad,Jane Austen,Herman Melville,George Eliot,Laurence Sterne,Thomas Hardy,Jonathan Swift,Edith Wharton,Benito Pérez Galdós,Daniel Defoe,Henry Fielding,Alexandre Dumas,Kalidasa,Kenneth Grahame,Marcel Proust,Willa Cather,Nathaniel Hawthorne,Homer,Gaston Leroux,Charles Baudelaire,Wilkie Collins,William Makepeace Thackeray,Voltaire,Kate Chopin,Apuleius,John Milton,Frederick Douglass,Laozi,John Keats,James Joyce,Ann Ward Radcliffe,Kahlil Gibran,Kakuzo Okakura,Soseki Natsume,Princess Der Ling,H. G. Wells,W. B. Yeats,J. M. Barrie,G. K. Chesterton,T. S. Eliot,L. M. Montgomery,C. S. Lewis,D. H. Lawrence,E. M. Forster,H. P. Lovecraft,Marcus Aurelius,Friedrich Nietzsche,Lewis Wallace,Ivan Turgenev,Anton Chekhov,Leo Tolstoy,Nikolai Gogol,Sir Walter Scott,George Bernard Shaw,Miguel de Cervantes,Mary Shelley,Cao Xueqin,Emile Zola,Válmíki,Bankim Chandra Chatterjee,P. B. Shelley,Elizabeth von Arnim,Herman Hesse,Dante,Pedro Calderon de la Barca,Sun Tzu,Inazo Nitobé,George Weedon Grossmith Pdf
Good Press presents to you this unique collection of the greatest classics of all time: Hamlet (Shakespeare) Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare) Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe) Pride & Prejudice (Jane Austen) Frankenstein (Mary Shelley) Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë) Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë) Great Expectations (Charles Dickens) Ulysses (James Joyce) Pygmalion (George Bernard Shaw) Ivanhoe (Sir Walter Scott) Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson) Peter and Wendy (J. M. Barrie) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain) The Call of the Wild (Jack London) Moby-Dick (Herman Melville) Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) Walden (Henry David Thoreau) Leaves of Grass (Walt Whitman) The Raven (Edgar Allan Poe) Anne of Green Gables (L. M. Montgomery) Iliad & Odyssey (Homer) The Republic (Plato) Faust, a Tragedy (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) Siddhartha (Herman Hesse) Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Friedrich Nietzsche) 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Jules Verne) Journey to the Centre of the Earth (Jules Verne) Les Misérables (Victor Hugo) The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Victor Hugo) The Flowers of Evil (Charles Baudelaire) The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas) A Doll's House (Henrik Ibsen) Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy) War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy) Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky) The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoyevsky) Dead Souls (Nikolai Gogol) Don Quixote (Miguel de Cervantes) Dona Perfecta (Benito Pérez Galdós) The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes (Anonymous) Life is a Dream (Pedro Calderon de la Barca) The Divine Comedy (Dante) Decameron (Giovanni Boccaccio) The Prince (Machiavelli) Arabian Nights Gitanjali (Rabindranath Tagore) The Poison Tree (Bankim Chandra Chatterjee) Shakuntala (Kalidasa) Rámáyan of Válmíki (Válmíki) Tao Te Ching (Laozi) Art of War (Sun Tzu) The Analects of Confucius (Confucius) Hung Lou Meng or, The Dream of the Red Chamber (Cao Xueqin) Two Years in the Forbidden City (Princess Der Ling) Bushido, the Soul of Japan (Inazo Nitobé) The Book of Tea (Kakuzo Okakura) Botchan (Soseki Natsume)...
"Silence, Music, Silent Music " by Nicky Losseff Pdf
The contributions in this volume focus on the ways in which silence and music relate, contemplate each other and provide new avenues for addressing and gaining understanding of various realms of human endeavour. The book maps out this little-explored aspect of the sonic arena with the intention of defining the breadth of scope and to introduce interdisciplinary paths of exploration as a way forward for future discourse. Topics addressed include the idea of 'silent music' in the work of English philosopher Peter Sterry and Spanish Jesuit St John of the Cross; the apparently paradoxical contemplation of silence through the medium of music by Messiaen and the relationship between silence and faith; the aesthetics of Susan Sontag applied to Cage's idea of silence; silence as a different means of understanding musical texture; ways of thinking about silences in music produced during therapy sessions as a form of communication; music and silence in film, including the idea that music can function as silence; and the function of silence in early chant. Perhaps the most all-pervasive theme of the book is that of silence and nothingness, music and spirituality: a theme that has appeared in writings on John Cage but not, in a broader sense, in scholarly writing. The book reveals that unexpected concepts and ways of thinking emerge from looking at sound in relation to its antithesis, encompassing not just Western art traditions, but the relationship between music, silence, the human psyche and sociological trends - ultimately, providing deeper understanding of the elemental places both music and silence hold within world philosophies and fundamental states of being. Silence, Music, Silent Music will appeal to those working in the fields of musicology, psychology of religion, gender studies, aesthetics and philosophy.
Wilhelm Hauff,Charles Dickens,Mark Twain,Harriet Beecher Stowe,Adelbert von Chamisso,Oscar Wilde,Robert Louis Stevenson,Edgar Allan Poe,William Hope Hodgson,Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu,John Buchan,Louis Tracy,Bram Stoker,Anatole France,Charlotte Brontë,Emily Brontë,Jack London,Henry James,Théophile Gautier,Arthur Conan Doyle,Richard Le Gallienne,Jane Austen,Ralph Adams Cram,Thomas De Quincey,John Meade Falkner,Guy de Maupassant,Thomas Hardy,William Archer,Daniel Defoe,John Kendrick Bangs,Cleveland Moffett,Brander Matthews,Marie Belloc Lowndes,Horace Walpole,Rudyard Kipling,Lafcadio Hearn,Hugh Walpole,Ambrose Bierce,Frederick Marryat,Ellis Parker Butler,Washington Irving,Leonid Andreyev,David Lindsay,Nathaniel Hawthorne,Grant Allen,Arthur Machen,Wilkie Collins,Saki,William Makepeace Thackeray,Thomas Peckett Prest,James Malcolm Rymer,Fergus Hume,Edward Bellamy,Walter Hubbell,Charlotte Perkins Gilman,Leopold Kompert,Fitz James O'Brien,Richard Marsh,Florence Marryat,Catherine Crowe,Vincent O'Sullivan,H. G. Wells,Robert W. Chambers,W. W. Jacobs,M. P. Shiel,E. F. Benson,Jerome K. Jerome,M. R. James,E. T. A. Hoffmann,Stanley G. Weinbaum,George W. M. Reynolds,H. P. Lovecraft,Robert E. Howard,Edith Nesbit,William Thomas Beckford,Francis Marion Crawford,Lucy Maud Montgomery,Mary Elizabeth Braddon,Mary Louisa Molesworth,Mary E. Wilkins Freeman,Nikolai Gogol,Mary Shelley,Elizabeth Gaskell,Edward Bulwer-Lytton,Frank R. Stockton,A. T. Quiller-Couch,Ann Radcliffe,Louisa M. Alcott,Amelia B. Edwards,Leonard Kip,Matthew Gregory Lewis,Katherine Rickford,Bithia Mary Croker,Catherine L. Pirkis,Émile Erckmann,Alexandre Chatrian,Pedro De Alarçon,Pliny the Younger,Helena Blavatsky,Villiers de l'Isle Adam,William F. Harvey,Fiona Macleod,William T. Stead,Gambier Bolton,Andrew Jackson Davis,Nizida,Walter F. Prince,Chester Bailey Fernando,William Polidori,Sabine Baring Gould
Author : Wilhelm Hauff,Charles Dickens,Mark Twain,Harriet Beecher Stowe,Adelbert von Chamisso,Oscar Wilde,Robert Louis Stevenson,Edgar Allan Poe,William Hope Hodgson,Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu,John Buchan,Louis Tracy,Bram Stoker,Anatole France,Charlotte Brontë,Emily Brontë,Jack London,Henry James,Théophile Gautier,Arthur Conan Doyle,Richard Le Gallienne,Jane Austen,Ralph Adams Cram,Thomas De Quincey,John Meade Falkner,Guy de Maupassant,Thomas Hardy,William Archer,Daniel Defoe,John Kendrick Bangs,Cleveland Moffett,Brander Matthews,Marie Belloc Lowndes,Horace Walpole,Rudyard Kipling,Lafcadio Hearn,Hugh Walpole,Ambrose Bierce,Frederick Marryat,Ellis Parker Butler,Washington Irving,Leonid Andreyev,David Lindsay,Nathaniel Hawthorne,Grant Allen,Arthur Machen,Wilkie Collins,Saki,William Makepeace Thackeray,Thomas Peckett Prest,James Malcolm Rymer,Fergus Hume,Edward Bellamy,Walter Hubbell,Charlotte Perkins Gilman,Leopold Kompert,Fitz James O'Brien,Richard Marsh,Florence Marryat,Catherine Crowe,Vincent O'Sullivan,H. G. Wells,Robert W. Chambers,W. W. Jacobs,M. P. Shiel,E. F. Benson,Jerome K. Jerome,M. R. James,E. T. A. Hoffmann,Stanley G. Weinbaum,George W. M. Reynolds,H. P. Lovecraft,Robert E. Howard,Edith Nesbit,William Thomas Beckford,Francis Marion Crawford,Lucy Maud Montgomery,Mary Elizabeth Braddon,Mary Louisa Molesworth,Mary E. Wilkins Freeman,Nikolai Gogol,Mary Shelley,Elizabeth Gaskell,Edward Bulwer-Lytton,Frank R. Stockton,A. T. Quiller-Couch,Ann Radcliffe,Louisa M. Alcott,Amelia B. Edwards,Leonard Kip,Matthew Gregory Lewis,Katherine Rickford,Bithia Mary Croker,Catherine L. Pirkis,Émile Erckmann,Alexandre Chatrian,Pedro De Alarçon,Pliny the Younger,Helena Blavatsky,Villiers de l'Isle Adam,William F. Harvey,Fiona Macleod,William T. Stead,Gambier Bolton,Andrew Jackson Davis,Nizida,Walter F. Prince,Chester Bailey Fernando,William Polidori,Sabine Baring Gould Publisher : Good Press Page : 13812 pages File Size : 50,5 Mb Release : 2023-11-19 Category : Fiction ISBN : EAN:8596547671640
SINISTER OMENS: 560+ Supernatural Thrillers, Macabre Tales & Eerie Mysteries by Wilhelm Hauff,Charles Dickens,Mark Twain,Harriet Beecher Stowe,Adelbert von Chamisso,Oscar Wilde,Robert Louis Stevenson,Edgar Allan Poe,William Hope Hodgson,Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu,John Buchan,Louis Tracy,Bram Stoker,Anatole France,Charlotte Brontë,Emily Brontë,Jack London,Henry James,Théophile Gautier,Arthur Conan Doyle,Richard Le Gallienne,Jane Austen,Ralph Adams Cram,Thomas De Quincey,John Meade Falkner,Guy de Maupassant,Thomas Hardy,William Archer,Daniel Defoe,John Kendrick Bangs,Cleveland Moffett,Brander Matthews,Marie Belloc Lowndes,Horace Walpole,Rudyard Kipling,Lafcadio Hearn,Hugh Walpole,Ambrose Bierce,Frederick Marryat,Ellis Parker Butler,Washington Irving,Leonid Andreyev,David Lindsay,Nathaniel Hawthorne,Grant Allen,Arthur Machen,Wilkie Collins,Saki,William Makepeace Thackeray,Thomas Peckett Prest,James Malcolm Rymer,Fergus Hume,Edward Bellamy,Walter Hubbell,Charlotte Perkins Gilman,Leopold Kompert,Fitz James O'Brien,Richard Marsh,Florence Marryat,Catherine Crowe,Vincent O'Sullivan,H. G. Wells,Robert W. Chambers,W. W. Jacobs,M. P. Shiel,E. F. Benson,Jerome K. Jerome,M. R. James,E. T. A. Hoffmann,Stanley G. Weinbaum,George W. M. Reynolds,H. P. Lovecraft,Robert E. Howard,Edith Nesbit,William Thomas Beckford,Francis Marion Crawford,Lucy Maud Montgomery,Mary Elizabeth Braddon,Mary Louisa Molesworth,Mary E. Wilkins Freeman,Nikolai Gogol,Mary Shelley,Elizabeth Gaskell,Edward Bulwer-Lytton,Frank R. Stockton,A. T. Quiller-Couch,Ann Radcliffe,Louisa M. Alcott,Amelia B. Edwards,Leonard Kip,Matthew Gregory Lewis,Katherine Rickford,Bithia Mary Croker,Catherine L. Pirkis,Émile Erckmann,Alexandre Chatrian,Pedro De Alarçon,Pliny the Younger,Helena Blavatsky,Villiers de l'Isle Adam,William F. Harvey,Fiona Macleod,William T. Stead,Gambier Bolton,Andrew Jackson Davis,Nizida,Walter F. Prince,Chester Bailey Fernando,William Polidori,Sabine Baring Gould Pdf
There is no better reading sensation than feeling the end of your hair raised in a nail-biting suspense. Here's presenting you our biggest ever supernatural collection to give you many hours of pleasurable and just enough eerie reading experience: Contents: Edgar Allan Poe: The Masque of the Red Death The Murders in the Rue Morgue... H. P. Lovecraft: The Call of Cthulhu The Dunwich Horror... Henry James: The Turn of the Screw... Mary Shelley: Frankenstein... Arthur Conan Doyle: The Hound of the Baskervilles... Bram Stoker: Dracula The Jewel of Seven Stars... Gaston Leroux: The Phantom of the Opera Washington Irving: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow... Robert Louis Stevenson: Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde... James Malcolm Rymer: Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street H. G. Wells: The Island of Doctor Moreau Richard Marsh: The Beetle Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu: Carmilla Uncle Silas... Nikolai Gogol: Dead Souls... Rudyard Kipling: The Phantom Rickshaw... Hugh Walpole: Portrait of a Man with Red Hair All Souls' Night Robert E. Howard: The 'John Kirowan' Saga The 'De Montour' Saga Cthulhu Mythos M. R. James: Ghost Stories of an Antiquary A Thin Ghost and Others Wilkie Collins: The Haunted Hotel The Dead Secret... The Woman in White Guy de Maupassant: The Horla... E. F. Benson: The Room in the Tower The Man Who Went Too Far... Nathaniel Hawthorne: The House of the Seven Gables Rappaccini's Daughter The Birth Mark... Ambrose Bierce: Can Such Things Be? The Ways of Ghosts Some Haunted Houses Arthur Machen: The Great God Pan... William Hope Hodgson: The Ghost Pirates Carnacki, the Ghost-Finder... M. P. Shiel: Shapes in the Fire... Ralph Adams Cram: Black Spirits and White Grant Allen: The Reverend John Creedy... Horace Walpole: The Castle of Otranto William Thomas Beckford: Vathek Matthew Gregory Lewis: The Monk Ann Radcliffe: The Mysteries of Udolpho Jane Austen: Northanger Abbey Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights Charles Dickens: The Mystery of Edwin Drood Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray Marie Belloc Lowndes: From Out the Vast Deep
Is it ever easy to be a Christian? God is so silent. His silence leads to suffering by the Christian and the world. Why, Lord, are you silent? But learning to pray "Lord, sock it to me" may lead to three marks on steel. The permanence of these thoughts changed the author's attitude and action.
Musical Creativity by Irène Deliège,Geraint A. Wiggins Pdf
This collection initiates a resolutely interdisciplinary research dynamic specifically concerning musical creativity. Creativity is one of the most challenging issues currently facing scientific psychology and its study has been relatively rare in the cognitive sciences, especially in artificial intelligence. This book will address the need for a coherent and thorough exploration. Musical Creativity: Multidisciplinary Research in Theory and Practice comprises seven sections, each viewing musical creativity from a different scientific vantage point, from the philosophy of computer modelling, through music education, interpretation, neuroscience, and music therapy, to experimental psychology. Each section contains discussions by eminent international specialists of the issues raised, and the book concludes with a postlude discussing how we can understand creativity in the work of eminent composer, Jonathan Harvey. This unique volume presents an up-to-date snapshot of the scientific study of musical creativity, in conjunction with ESCOM (the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music). Describing many of the different aspects of musical creativity and their study, it will form a useful springboard for further such study in future years, and will be of interest to academics and practitioners in music, psychology, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, neuroscience and other fields concerning the study of human cognition in this most human of behaviours.
The Sun has gone out: the Earth is lit only by the glow of residual vulcanism. The last few millions of the human race are gathered together in a gigantic metal pyramid, the Last Redoubt, under siege from unknown forces and Powers outside in the dark. These are held back by a Circle of energy, known as the "air clog," powered from the Earth's internal energy. For millennia, vast living shapes - the Watchers - have waited in the darkness near the pyramid: it is thought they are waiting for the inevitable time when the Circle's power finally weakens and dies. Other living things have been seen in the darkness beyond, some of unknown origins, and others that may once have been human. To leave the protection of the Circle means almost certain death, or worse, but as the story commences, the narrator establishes mind contact with an inhabitant of another, forgotten, Redoubt, and sets off into the darkness to find her.