The Hopeful Traveller

Author : Fiona Farrell
Publisher : Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
ISBN 13 : 1775531856
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hopeful Traveller written by Fiona Farrell and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating novel of hope, love, idealism and human progress, made up of two separate stories, which can be read in isolation and yet reverberate against each other. Sometime in the 1860s, in an isolated valley on Banks Peninsula, Harry Head, "the Hermit of Hickory Bay", experimented unsuccessfully with flight. His story forms part of the exuberant blend of fact and fiction which constitutes this tale. The author takes us back to the beginnings of novel-writing, as philosophical play and serious entertainment. Think Crusoe's island, think Utopia. Twelve characters, driven by obsession, hope or the vagaries of chance, come ashore in widely different circumstances onto the same island. Once there, the game can begin. Written in two halves, this is a book to be read from either end. Begin with the past and race toward the future, or begin with the present and circle back towards the past. Time may separate the two sections yet subtle links and twisting events bring them together into a varied, intriguing and compulsive whole.

Author : Janina David
Publisher : Envelope Books
ISBN 13 : 1915023297
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hopeful Traveller written by Janina David and published by Envelope Books. This book was released on 2024-06-05 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In France, Mattie feels twenty again. In Poland, Magda revisits her impoverished family. In Uzbekistan, Diana lets a fellow tourist kiss her. In Germany, Lynn loses her luggage on the Düsseldorf train. The Hopeful Traveller is a collection of short stories about—and told by—single women who have put the past behind them but are still looking for their anchor in the present. The stories include bitter-sweet accounts of the freedoms of postwar life, foreign travel, the rekindling of old friendships and the search for new ones. They speak of cosmopolitan, self-confident, well-heeled characters, in an era just before the birth of feminism, conventional in their expectations of men, always just a step away from displacement and alienation. Set variously in Paris, Kalisz, Samarkand, Hong Kong, Melbourne, Erfurt, Singapore and London, these stories, from a much-admired veteran writer, offer a teasing mix of realism and fantasy, wish-fulfilment and regret.

Author : Mary Hocking
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1509819479
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hopeful Traveller written by Mary Hocking and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-02-25 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Time of War told the story of a group of Wrens on a West Country airfield, but now the war is over, the girls are dispersed, and must learn to endure the rigours of the early post-war years, as well as the boredoms and perplexities of civilian life. While Kerren takes a job as a librarian and tries to forget her husband, who was killed in the war, her friend, Robin, has married a kind, conventional lawyer and lives in Cheltenham. But the lives of these two are still, though more remotely, linked; their reunions with other men and women from the old Station, and Kerren's efforts to adapt herself to a life far less sheltered than her wartime one, provide both comedy and some near-tragedy. Mary Hocking drew on her own experiences as an ex-Wren to trace the changes of emotional temperature, the disillusionment and the challenges, the need to realize new ways of life and the necessity to re-create themselves, experienced by her characters in this wonderful novel.

Author : Cyril C. Ellison
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hopeful Traveller written by Cyril C. Ellison and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Danielle Davison
Publisher : Page Street Kids
ISBN 13 : 9781624147654
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Traveler's Gift written by Danielle Davison and published by Page Street Kids. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Liam loved his father’s stories of life at sea. But one day, his father’s ship doesn’t return, and Liam’s love of stories fades. Then the Traveler, a mysterious old man who spins stories with a magical beard like a tapestry, arrives, reminding Liam of his father. They embark on the Traveler’s final voyage together, and before the journey ends, the Traveler passes on his magical gift to Liam. Woven with themes of loss, discovery, and friendship, this poignant tale captures the unexpected magic of shared stories and refound hope.

Author : L.E. DeLano
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250100402
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Traveler written by L.E. DeLano and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jessa has spent her life dreaming of other worlds and writing down stories more interesting than her own, until the day her favorite character, Finn, suddenly shows up and invites her out for coffee. After the requisite nervous breakdown, Jessa learns that she and Finn are Travelers, born with the ability to slide through reflections and dreams into alternate realities. But it's not all cupcakes, pirates, and fantasy lifestyles . . . Jessa is dying over and over again, in every reality, and Finn is determined that this time, he's going to stop it . . . this Jessa is going to live.

Author : Dominic Dunne
Publisher : Transit Lounge
ISBN 13 : 1921924012
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Adventures of a Compulsive Traveller written by Dominic Dunne and published by Transit Lounge . This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journalist Dominic Dunne’s travels have rarely been ordinary, despite his best intentions. He has been travelling all his life, from the time his parents started their annual pilgrimage to the opal fields of Lightning Ridge. Since then he has trekked all over Australia and to some 60 countries, spending his life trying to satisfy his insatiable appetite for travelling, an addiction that has taken him to wonderful and sometimes dangerous places where he has met all manner of people. In this book Dominic uses insight and wit – and a good dollop of gossip – to capture the highlights (and lowlights) from destinations the world over. Dominic takes readers backstage with Nana Mouskouri in Greece and in search of the ghosts of Elvis Presley in Mississippi. He escapes marauding Americans at Noel Coward’s Jamaican sanctuary, crosses cranky guards in North Korea, rubs shoulders with Hillary Clinton in Washington and solves a life-long mystery in Zimbabwe. And he meets his namesake, the best-selling American author Dominick Dunne, with whom he forges an enduring friendship.

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 634 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Traveller's Library written by and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Walley Chamberlain Oulton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 872 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Traveller's Guide, Or, English Itinerary written by Walley Chamberlain Oulton and published by . This book was released on 1805 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Kitchiner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.8V/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Traveller's Oracle written by William Kitchiner and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: