To A Distant Island

Author : James McConkey
Publisher : Plume
ISBN 13 : 9780525482567
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book To a Distant Island written by James McConkey and published by Plume. This book was released on 1986-09-22 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1890, Anton Chekhov, already a prominent Russian literary figure, traveled 6,500 miles to Sakhalin island, off the coast of Siberia. Willing visitors to this island were rare; rather, its inhabitants were people who had been sent there: prisoners and their families, guards, soldiers, and doctors. What was it that Chekhov sought on this terrible island? Almost a century later, while on sabbatical in Italy after a troubled academic year, McConkey discovers in the letters and memories of Chekhov's journey a kindred and healing spirit. McConkey recreates that journey, weaving it with his own and telling two stories that reveal the peculiar and hidden forces that shape our lives.

Author : James McConkey
Publisher : Paul Dry Books
ISBN 13 : 0966491351
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book To a Distant Island written by James McConkey and published by Paul Dry Books. This book was released on 2000-11-01 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1890, Anton Chekhov, already a prominent Russian literary figure, travelled 6,500 miles to Sakhalin island, off the coast of Siberia. Willing visitors to this island were rare; rather, its inhabitants were people who had been sent there: prisoners and their families, guards, soldiers, and doctors. What was it that Chekhov sought on this terrible island? Almost a century later, James McConkey traveled to Italy and researched Chekhov's letters, memoirs, and an account of his journey to Sakhalin island. McConkey recreates that journey, weaving it with his own and telling two stories that reveal the peculiar and hidden forces that shape our lives.

Author : Patsy Crawford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780975215234
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blood of a Distant Island written by Patsy Crawford and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James McConkey
Publisher : Dutton Adult
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book To a Distant Island written by James McConkey and published by Dutton Adult. This book was released on 1984 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1890, Anton Chekhov, already a prominent Russian literary figure, traveled 6,500 miles to Sakhalin island, off the coast of Siberia. Willing visitors to this island were rare; rather, its inhabitants were people who had been sent there: prisoners and their families, guards, soldiers, and doctors. What was it that Chekhov sought on this terrible island? Almost a century later, while on sabbatical in Italy after a troubled academic year, McConkey discovers in the letters and memories of Chekhov's journey a kindred and healing spirit. McConkey recreates that journey, weaving it with his own and telling two stories that reveal the peculiar and hidden forces that shape our lives.

Author : Steve K. Bertrand
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1796018805
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Distant Islands written by Steve K. Bertrand and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2019-03-15 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no available information at this time. Author will provide once available.

Author : Daniel H. Inouye
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 : 1607327937
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Distant Islands written by Daniel H. Inouye and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2018-11-15 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distant Islands is a modern narrative history of the Japanese American community in New York City between America's centennial year and the Great Depression of the 1930s. Often overshadowed in historical literature by the Japanese diaspora on the West Coast, this community, which dates back to the 1870s, has its own fascinating history. The New York Japanese American community was a composite of several micro communities divided along status, class, geographic, and religious lines. Using a wealth of primary sources—oral histories, memoirs, newspapers, government documents, photographs, and more—Daniel H. Inouye tells the stories of the business and professional elites, mid-sized merchants, small business owners, working-class families, menial laborers, and students that made up these communities. The book presents new knowledge about the history of Japanese immigrants in the United States and makes a novel and persuasive argument about the primacy of class and status stratification and relatively weak ethnic cohesion and solidarity in New York City, compared to the pervading understanding of nikkei on the West Coast. While a few prior studies have identified social stratification in other nikkei communities, this book presents the first full exploration of the subject and additionally draws parallels to divisions in German American communities. Distant Islands is a unique and nuanced historical account of an American ethnic community that reveals the common humanity of pioneering Japanese New Yorkers despite diverse socioeconomic backgrounds and life stories. It will be of interest to general readers, students, and scholars interested in Asian American studies, immigration and ethnic studies, sociology, and history. Winner- Honorable Mention, 2018 Immigration and Ethnic History Society First Book Award

Author : Daniel H. Inouye
Publisher : Nikkei in the Americas
ISBN 13 : 1607327929
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Distant Islands written by Daniel H. Inouye and published by Nikkei in the Americas. This book was released on 2018-11-15 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The turn of the century New York Japanese American community was a composite of several micro communities divided along status, class, geographic, and religious lines. Using primary sources Inouye tells the stories of the professional elites, small business owners, working-class, laborers, and students from these communities"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Hayden Carruth
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
ISBN 13 : 1556592361
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Toward the Distant Islands written by Hayden Carruth and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects works by American poet Hayden Carruth, including lyrics; narratives; comic, meditative, and erotic poems; and reflections on the natural world.

Author : BARBARA GILIS
Publisher : WestBow Press
ISBN 13 : 151272629X
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book To Greece and the Distant Islands written by BARBARA GILIS and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2016-01-20 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What makes a successful London business woman leave it all behind to live on a Greek island? Living in a delightful, English country village, she had everything most people dream of. After a supernatural experience while on a Greek island, Barbara believed that she was to leave it all behind and move to Greece. But why and what exactly would she do when she got there? Seeking guidance at the outset, she had asked God to answer three very practical questions. Why Greece of all places? How should I do it? When am I supposed to do all this? The miraculous answers to those three questions were to change her life forever. She left behind the city banks with the security of a regular income and initially lived the simple outdoor life on a campsite on Paros. Having given away the money from the sale of her house before it was even sold, she had limited funds and no idea how she would live. Did God really tell her to go, or was she just deluded?

Author : Judith Schalansky
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143126679
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pocket Atlas of Remote Islands written by Judith Schalansky and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-11-12 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lovely small-trim edition of the award-winning Atlas of Remote Islands The Atlas of Remote Islands, Judith Schalansky’s beautiful and deeply personal account of the islands that have held a place in her heart throughout her lifelong love of cartography, has captured the imaginations of readers everywhere. Using historic events and scientific reports as a springboard, she creates a story around each island: fantastical, inscrutable stories, mixtures of fact and imagination that produce worlds for the reader to explore. Gorgeously illustrated and with new, vibrant colors for the Pocket edition, the atlas shows all fifty islands on the same scale, in order of the oceans they are found. Schalansky lures us to fifty remote destinations—from Tristan da Cunha to Clipperton Atoll, from Christmas Island to Easter Island—and proves that the most adventurous journeys still take place in the mind, with one finger pointing at a map.