Stone Voices

Author : Neal Ascherson
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0809088452
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stone Voices written by Neal Ascherson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scotland has a new Parliament and it has North Sea oil, but is it yet an independent, self-sustaining democracy? Is it a true nation? In Stone Voices, Neal Ascherson launches what he calls an imaginative invasion of his native land, searching for the relationships, themes, and fantasies that make up "Scotland.

Author : Neal Ascherson
Publisher : Granta Books
ISBN 13 : 9781862075832
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stone Voices written by Neal Ascherson and published by Granta Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Neal Ascherson's return to his native Scotland. It is an exploration of Scottish identity, but is much more than a rumination on the future of a small nation. Selecting powerful episodes in Scottish history, he teases from each their part in the formation of what became Scottish nationalism.

Author : Kent Nerburn
Publisher : New World Library
ISBN 13 : 1608683907
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Voices in the Stones written by Kent Nerburn and published by New World Library. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Do not begrudge the white man his presence on this land. Though he doesn’t know it yet, he has come here to learn from us.” — A Shoshone elder The genius of the Native Americans has always been their profound spirituality and their deep understanding of the land and its ways. For three decades, author Kent Nerburn has lived and worked among the Native American people. Voices in the Stones is a unique collection of his encounters, experiences, and reflections during that time. He takes us inside a traditional Native feast to show us how the children are taught to respect the elders. He brings us to an isolated prairie rock outcropping where a young Native man and his father show us how the power of ceremony connects the present with the ancient voices of the past. At a dusty roadside café he introduces us to an elder who remembers the time when his ancestors could talk to animals. In these and other deeply touching stories, Nerburn reveals the spiritual awareness that animates all of Native American life, and shows us how we have much to learn from one another if only we have the heart to listen.

Author : Swapna Krishna
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0593081900
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sword Stone Table written by Swapna Krishna and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2021-07-13 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the vast lore surrounding King Arthur, Camelot, and the Knights of the Round Table, comes an anthology of gender-bent, race-bent, LGBTQIA+ inclusive retellings. Featuring stories by: Alexander Chee • Preeti Chhibber • Roshani Chokshi • Sive Doyle • Maria Dahvana Headley • Ausma Zehanat Khan • Daniel M. Lavery • Ken Liu • Sarah MacLean • Silvia Moreno-Garcia • Jessica Plummer • Anthony Rapp • Waubgeshig Rice • Alex Segura • Nisi Shawl • S. Zainab Williams Here you’ll find the Lady of the Lake reimagined as an albino Ugandan sorceress and the Lady of Shalott as a wealthy, isolated woman in futuristic Mexico City; you'll see Excalibur rediscovered as a baseball bat that grants a washed-up minor leaguer a fresh shot at glory and as a lost ceremonial drum that returns to a young First Nations boy the power and the dignity of his people. There are stories set in Gilded Age Chicago, '80s New York, twenty-first century Singapore, and space; there are lesbian lady knights, Arthur and Merlin reborn in the modern era for a second chance at saving the world and falling in love—even a coffee shop AU. Brave, bold, and groundbreaking, the stories in Sword Stone Table will bring fresh life to beloved myths and give long-time fans a chance to finally see themselves in their favorite legends.

Author : Keibō Ōiwa
Publisher : Vehicule Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stone Voices written by Keibō Ōiwa and published by Vehicule Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the bombing of Pearl Harbour in December 1941, all persons of Japanese descent were declared 'enemy aliens.' Their assets were seized and most of the Japanese Canadian population was relocated or sent to internment camps. Stone Voices is a selection of memoirs, diaries, and letters written by four Issei, the first generation of Japanese to settle in Canada. "I devoured these stories in one hungry afternoon of reading...as I read, I ranged through discomfort, old sadness, nostalgia, admiration, tenderness, pride, and anger as I was taken back to look again with the help of these additional perspectives, into the secrets and intimacies of my childhood." - Joy Kogawa

Author : Kate Ferrucci
Publisher : Quarry Books - IPS
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Limestone Lives written by Kate Ferrucci and published by Quarry Books - IPS. This book was released on 2004 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A celebration of Indiana's limestone workers in words and pictures.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 858 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leaves of Healing written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 858 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ernst Doblhofer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Voices in Stone written by Ernst Doblhofer and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Neal Ascherson
Publisher : Granta Books
ISBN 13 : 1783780061
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stone Voices written by Neal Ascherson and published by Granta Books. This book was released on 2014-02-06 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neal Ascherson is one of Britain's finest writers in an undefinable genre that fuses history, memoir, politics and meditations on places. His books on Poland and his collected essays on the strange Britain to which he returned from Europe in the mid-1980s were deeply influential. In 1995, Black Sea won critical praise in many languages and several literary prizes. Stone Voices is Ascherson's return to his native Scotland. It is an exploration of Scottish identity, but this is no journalistic rumination on the future of that small nation. Ascherson instead weaves together a story of the deep past - the time of geology and archaeology, of myth and legend - with the story of modern Scotland and its rebirth. Few writers in these islands have his ability to write so well about the natural context of history.

Author : William Babington Maxwell
Publisher : New York : Grosset & Dunlap
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.8R/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ragged Messenger written by William Babington Maxwell and published by New York : Grosset & Dunlap. This book was released on 1915 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rev. John Morton, who is determined to follow as closely as possible the teachings of Jesus, inherits a considerable fortune when his uncle dies. Shortly thereafter he succumbs to the wiles of Mary Carlson and marries her. To Mary's dismay, John uses his money for charitable work. When John learns that not only has Mary been unfaithful to him but she was also his uncle's mistress and became Mrs. Morton in order to share the inheritance she believed to be rightfully hers, he sends her away with his secretary. Years later, John regrets his harshness; and he is reunited with Mary when she appears at a home for fallen women, which he is dedicating.