The Naked Hermit

Author : Nick Mayhew-Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780281077342
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Naked Hermit written by Nick Mayhew-Smith and published by . This book was released on with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This colourful travelogue takes the reader on a journey into some of the foundational stories and enigmatic places that have shaped Britain's sacred landscape.

Author : Nick Mayhew-Smith
Publisher : SPCK
ISBN 13 : 0281077355
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Naked Hermit written by Nick Mayhew-Smith and published by SPCK. This book was released on 2019-05-16 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Descending into the darkness of a long-abandoned hermit's cave, wading naked into an icy sea to pray, spending the night on a sacred mountain, Nick Mayhew-Smith recounts an extraordinary one-man mission to revive the ancient devotions of Britain's most enigmatic holy places. Based on ground-breaking research into the transition from Paganism to Christianity, this book invites the reader on a journey into the heart of the Celtic wilderness, exploring the deep-seated impulse to mark natural places as holy. It ends with a vision of how we can recover our harmony with the rest of creation: with the landscape, the weather and the wildlife, and ultimately with the body itself. Follow the footsteps of holy men and women such as Columba, Patrick, Cuthbert, Gildas, Aidan, Bede, Ninian, Etheldreda, Samson and others into enchanting Celtic landscapes, and learn the unvarnished truth behind the stories that shape our spiritual and natural heritage.

Author : Tristan Boyer Binns
Publisher : Heinemann-Raintree Library
ISBN 13 : 1432938541
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hermit Crabs written by Tristan Boyer Binns and published by Heinemann-Raintree Library. This book was released on 2010 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces readers to the hermit crab and provides information on how to keep them as pets.

Author : Rick Bass
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547346689
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hermit's Story written by Rick Bass and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2003-09-18 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year: “Uniformly excellent” stories about our relationships with each other and with the treacherous natural world (Publishers Weekly). In the title story, a man and woman travel across an eerily frozen lake—under the ice. “The Distance” casts a skeptical eye on Thomas Jefferson through the lens of a Montana man’s visit to Monticello. “Eating” begins with an owl being sucked into a canoe and ends with a man eating a town out of house and home, and “The Cave” is a stunning story of a man and woman lost in an abandoned mine. Other stories include “The Fireman,” “Swans,” “The Prisoners,” “Presidents’ Day,” “Real Town,” and “Two Deer.” Each is remarkable in its own way, sure to please both new readers and avid fans of Rick Bass’s passionate, unmistakable voice. “Bass focuses a naturalist’s eye not only on the frozen lakes and interplay of predator and prey often found in his work but also on the ebb and flow of human emotions and relationships . . . Thought-provoking and entertaining, these stories move along quickly but continue to resonate long after the reader is done; several have been anthologized in award collections.” —Library Journal “Beautiful in their magical imagery, dramatic in their situations, and exquisitely poignant in their insights, these stories of awe and loss are quite astonishing in their mythic use of place and the elements of earth, air, fire, and water.” —Booklist “Bass puts his talent as a nature writer to terrific use.” —The New York Times Book Review “Bass’s language glistens with the beauty of the landscapes he evokes.” —San Francisco Chronicle Book Review

Author : William Randall Brooks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hermit Crab-cnidarian Associations in the Northern Gulf of Mexico written by William Randall Brooks and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Daniel Best
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 147664831X
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Terror Down Under written by Daniel Best and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2023-07-20 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1948, the Australian government banned the production, importation and exhibition of horror films in a move to appease religious communities and entertainment watchdogs. Drawing upon previously unseen government documents, private letters and contemporary newspaper accounts, this book is the first to extensively cover the history of censorship and the early production of horror movies in Australia. Beginning its examination in the late 19th century, the book documents the earliest horror films like Georges Melies' The Haunted Castle (1896), and how Australians enjoyed such films before the ban. The book then explains how certain imports, like 1954's Creature from the Black Lagoon, were able to circumvent the ban while others were not. It also reveals how Australian television, though similarly impacted by government censorship, was occasionally able to broadcast films technically banned from cinematic release. The work concludes with a look at the first Australian horror films produced after the ban was formally lifted in 1969, like Terry Bourke's Night of Fear (1973).

Author : Walter H. Maurer
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027233861
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pinnacles of India's Past: Selections from the Rgveda written by Walter H. Maurer and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The R?gveda is the oldest of the books that comprise the scriptures of Hinduism. While its age cannot be accurately determined, it can be said with reasonable certainty that it must have existed in its present form at least as early as 1000 BC. It consists of 1,028 hymns, arranged, according to the form in which the R?gveda has been transmitted, in ten divisions, called man?d?alas. This volume consists of a selection of hymns, translated into English and annotated, as well as short introductions to the R?gveda as a whole and the different themes around which the selected hymns are grouped, a bibliography, and an index.

Author : T. C. Harbaugh
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 338709759X
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wolf Queen; Or, The Giant Hermit of the Scioto written by T. C. Harbaugh and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-10-06 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

Author : Talbot Mundy
Publisher : Delphi Classics
ISBN 13 : 1786560542
Total Pages : 9331 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Delphi Collected Works of Talbot Mundy (Illustrated) written by Talbot Mundy and published by Delphi Classics. This book was released on 2016-11-08 with total page 9331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: www.delphiclassics.com

Author : Gordon Campbell
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 019164448X
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hermit in the Garden written by Gordon Campbell and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-03-28 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing its distant origins to the villa of the Roman emperor Hadrian in the second century AD, the eccentric phenomenon of the ornamental hermit enjoyed its heyday in the England of the eighteenth century It was at this time that it became highly fashionable for owners of country estates to commission architectural follies for their landscape gardens. These follies often included hermitages, many of which still survive, often in a ruined state. Landowners peopled their hermitages either with imaginary hermits or with real hermits - in some cases the landowner even became his own hermit. Those who took employment as garden hermits were typically required to refrain from cutting their hair or washing, and some were dressed as druids. Unlike the hermits of the Middle Ages, these were wholly secular hermits, products of the eighteenth century fondness for 'pleasing melancholy'. Although the fashion for them had fizzled out by the end of the eighteenth century, they had left their indelible mark on both the literature as well as the gardens of the period. And, as Gordon Campbell shows, they live on in the art, literature, and drama of our own day - as well as in the figure of the modern-day garden gnome. This engaging and generously illustrated book takes the reader on a journey that is at once illuminating and whimsical, both through the history of the ornamental hermit and also around the sites of many of the surviving hermitages themselves, which remain scattered throughout England, Scotland, and Ireland. And for the real enthusiast, there is even a comprehensive checklist, enabling avid hermitage-hunters to locate their prey.