As Near To Heaven By Sea

Author : Kevin Major
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0140278648
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book As Near To Heaven By Sea written by Kevin Major and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2002-08-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For three centuries after Europeans rediscovered it, Newfoundland was thought of as little more than "a great English Ship moored near the Banks during the Fishing Season."Labrador, dismissed as the "land God gave to Cain,"commanded no more respect. But for the people who made its coastline their home, including the Aboriginal peoples who first settled there 9000 years earlier, Newfoundland and Labrador was of considerably greater significance. In these people lie a fascinating history: Leif Eriksson, James Cook, Black Bart, Benedict Arnold, Brigitte Bardot, Mary Walsh, Joey Smallwood, Amelia Earhart, Shanawdithit, D'Iberville, Audubon and Marconi are but a dozen of the better known. The history of Newfoundland and Labrador is no genteel excursion. Scandal coexisted with extraordinary feats of courage; disaster with daring acts of the imagination. The ritual burial of a Maritime Archaic child several millennia ago, the Viking landings, the exploits of Basque whalers, centuries of military and religious strife, confederation with Canada and the collapse of the fisheries — all are brought to life by Kevin Major in exciting, vivid prose. As Near to Heaven by Sea was nominated for the 2001 Pearson Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize.

Author : Matilda Mary Pollard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Homeward bound; or, Jack Wilson's return from sea [by M.M. Pollard]. written by Matilda Mary Pollard and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Fannie Flagg
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1588366197
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Can't Wait to Get to Heaven written by Fannie Flagg and published by Random House. This book was released on 2006-11-28 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining southern warmth with unabashed emotion and side-splitting hilarity, Fannie Flagg takes readers back to Elmwood Springs, Missouri, where the most unlikely and surprising experiences of a high-spirited octogenarian inspire a town to ponder the age-old question: Why are we here? Life is the strangest thing. One minute, Mrs. Elner Shimfissle is up in her tree, picking figs, and the next thing she knows, she is off on an adventure she never dreamed of, running into people she never in a million years expected to meet. Meanwhile, back home, Elner’s nervous, high-strung niece Norma faints and winds up in bed with a cold rag on her head; Elner’s neighbor Verbena rushes immediately to the Bible; her truck driver friend, Luther Griggs, runs his eighteen-wheeler into a ditch–and the entire town is thrown for a loop and left wondering, “What is life all about, anyway?” Except for Tot Whooten, who owns Tot’s Tell It Like It Is Beauty Shop. Her main concern is that the end of the world might come before she can collect her social security. In this comedy-mystery, those near and dear to Elner discover something wonderful: Heaven is actually right here, right now, with people you love, neighbors you help, friendships you keep. Can’t Wait to Get to Heaven is proof once more that Fannie Flagg “was put on this earth to write” (Southern Living), spinning tales as sweet and refreshing as iced tea on a summer day, with a little extra kick thrown in.

Author : Damien Enright
Publisher : Gill & Macmillan Ltd
ISBN 13 : 0717157571
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Place Near Heaven A Year in West Cork written by Damien Enright and published by Gill & Macmillan Ltd. This book was released on 2004-04-27 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: West Cork is a magical place. The countryside has remained unspoiled and the people unaffected. A Place Near Heaven is the story of a calendar year in West Cork. Tranquil and beautifully written, it is a book in the finest tradition of writing on rural life and the natural world. In tracing the course of a full year, from January to December, Damien Enright captures the special atmosphere of the world in which he has chosen to live and which he loves with such obvious passion.

Author : Patricia Storace
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0375707557
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book of Heaven written by Patricia Storace and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the acclaimed Dinner with Persephone comes a radically original novel about four women who invite us to imagine the divine anew: what if “a woman’s point of view” were also God’s? Patricia Storace’s Eve begins by telling us her version of what happened in Eden, and by revealing that our familiar constellations conceal other heavens we have never allowed ourselves to see. Each of the four subsequent chapters is the story of one of these new zodiacs, featuring images central to women: a knife, a cauldron, a garden, a pair of embracing lovers. The four women whose stories they tell are Job’s daughter, the Queen of Sheba, a polytheistic cook, and a transformed Sarah, wife of Abraham. Storace brilliantly reimagines the worlds of these women, freeing them from the old tales in which they were trapped and putting them in the foreground of their stories and of the Old Testament itself.

Author : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.3V/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Poetical Works written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alphonso Gerald Newcomer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 898 pages
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Download or read book Three Centuries of American Poetry and Prose written by Alphonso Gerald Newcomer and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 898 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prose and poetry selections from the Colonial Period and National Period.

Author : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 398 pages
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Download or read book Poems of Henry W. Longfellow written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 398 pages
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Download or read book Poems written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James Hastings
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 446 pages
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Download or read book The Great Texts of the Bible: Revelation written by James Hastings and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: