De Onzichtbare Mijl Druk 1

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De Onzichtbare Mijl

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Author : David Coventry
language : nl
Publisher: Atlas Contact
Release Date : 2016-05-04

De Onzichtbare Mijl written by David Coventry and has been published by Atlas Contact this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-04 with Fiction categories.

DE TOUR IS OORLOG, FIETSEN IS VECHTEN In 1928 deed voor het eerst een ploeg uit Australië en Nieuw-Zeeland mee aan de Tour de France. Het was een van de zwaarste rondes ooit: 5476 kilometer over onverharde wegen, in een vaste versnelling, met spiegelgladde remmen. Niemand verwachtte dat de nieuwelingen de eindstreep zouden halen, zijzelf het allerminst. Boven het stuur van een naamloze Nieuw-Zeelander koersen we met het peloton mee door het Franse landschap, dat onlosmakelijk verbonden blijkt met de laatste oorlog, de Grote Oorlog. Naarmate de renners de slagvelden van het noorden naderen wordt de Tour voor de verteller een hallucinante, door cocaïne en opium gestookte hellevaart naar het verleden van zijn familie. Een verleden dat nauw verweven is met de trauma’s van een hele verloren generatie. Snelheid, pijn, het gezwoeg in de bergen, de weigering om op te geven: het wordt allemaal invoelbaar gemaakt. Wielrennen is oorlog, de renners zijn elkaars wapenbroeders. En je rijdt en zweet en bloedt met ze mee.

The Invisible Mile

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Author : David Coventry
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017

The Invisible Mile written by David Coventry and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Fiction categories.

A re-imagining of a true story, The Invisible Mile is a novel about the capacity of the human mind and body when stretched to their absolute limits, written in prose that calls to mind the works of Marilynne Robinson and John Banville, as well as Colson Whitehead's National Book Award-winning novel The Underground Railroad. In 1928, the Ravat-Wonder cycling team became the first English-speaking peloton to compete in the Tour de France. The riders, from faraway New Zealand and Australia, were treated as exotics and isolated from their surroundings by a thick barrier of language and culture. Underfinanced and undertrained, the team faced one of the toughest routes in the race's history, 5,476 kilometers over unsealed roads through a landscape heavy with the legacy of the Great War. 162 cyclists began the race that year, only 42 finished. A deeply introspective and spiritual book, The Invisible Mile is narrated by a fictional rider from the Ravat-Wonder team. Speaking no French and knowing a scant few of his fellow riders, his race becomes a confrontation with memories of the Great War and a quest to understand his own place amongst its history. He rides on the alternating highs of cocaine and opium, pain and pleasure, victory and defeat. And as he nears the northern battlefields and his last, invisible mile, trauma, exertion, and his personal demons take over. The Invisible Mile is the story of one man's struggle for survival in the face of physical and psychological hardship, a profoundly human story about guilt and redemption.

Myths Legends Of Japan

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Author : Frederick Hadland Davis
language : en
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
Release Date : 2020-09-28

Myths Legends Of Japan written by Frederick Hadland Davis and has been published by Library of Alexandria this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-28 with Folklore categories.

Pierre Loti in Madame Chrysanthème, Gilbert and Sullivan in The Mikado, and Sir Edwin Arnold in Seas and Lands, gave us the impression that Japan was a real fairyland in the Far East. We were delighted with the prettiness and quaintness of that country, and still more with the prettiness and quaintness of the Japanese people. We laughed at their topsy-turvy ways, regarded the Japanese woman, in her rich-coloured kimono, as altogether charming and fascinating, and had a vague notion that the principal features of Nippon were the tea-houses, cherry-blossom, and geisha. Twenty years ago we did not take Japan very seriously. We still listen to the melodious music of The Mikado, but now we no longer regard Japan as a sort of glorified willow-pattern plate. The Land of the Rising Sun has become the Land of the Risen Sun, for we have learnt that her quaintness and prettiness, her fairy-like manners and customs, were but the outer signs of a great and progressive nation. To-day we recognise Japan as a power in the East, and her victory over the Russian has made her army and navy famous throughout the world. The Japanese have always been an imitative nation, quick to absorb and utilise the religion, art, and social life of China, and, having set their own national seal upon what they have borrowed from the Celestial Kingdom, to look elsewhere for material that should strengthen and advance their position. This imitative quality is one of Japan's most marked characteristics. She has ever been loath to impart information to others, but ready at all times to gain access to any form of knowledge likely to make for her advancement. In the fourteenth century Kenkō wrote in his Tsure-dzure-gusa: "Nothing opens one's eyes so much as travel, no matter where," and the twentieth-century Japanese has put this excellent advice into practice. He has travelled far and wide, and has made good use of his varied observations. Japan's power of imitation amounts to genius. East and West have contributed to her greatness, and it is a matter of surprise to many of us that a country so long isolated and for so many years bound by feudalism should, within a comparatively short space of time, master our Western system of warfare, as well as many of our ethical and social ideas, and become a great world-power. But Japan's success has not been due entirely to clever imitation, neither has her place among the foremost nations been accomplished with such meteor-like rapidity as some would have us suppose.

Bill The Galactic Hero

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Author : Harry Harrison
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2012-10-15

Bill The Galactic Hero written by Harry Harrison and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-15 with Fiction categories.

Bill was a peaceful farm boy until he was lured by the martial music of a passing recruitment sergeant, drugged, and made to enlist in the Empire Space Corps. His basic training is sheer hell, but somehow he manages to stay alive and achieve the rank of Fusetender 6th Class in the process. En route to an engagement with the lizard-like Chingers, Bill's spaceship is involved in a supreme contest and by accident Bill is the man who saves the ship and wins the day. A grateful Galaxy awards him its highest accolade, the Purple Dart, to be presented by the Emperor himself on the fabulous aluminium-covered capital planet, Helior. And then his adventures really start to take off in the most bizarre and nastily surprising ways...

Geographisch Historisch Woordenboek

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Author : Servaas de Bruin
language : nl
Publisher:
Release Date : 1873

Geographisch Historisch Woordenboek written by Servaas de Bruin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1873 with categories.

Historisch En Geographisch Woordenboek

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Author : Servaas de Bruin
language : nl
Publisher:
Release Date : 1869

Historisch En Geographisch Woordenboek written by Servaas de Bruin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1869 with categories.

Geographisch Historisch Woordenboek Inhoudende

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Author : Servaas de Bruin
language : nl
Publisher:
Release Date : 1872

Geographisch Historisch Woordenboek Inhoudende written by Servaas de Bruin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1872 with categories.

Ge Llustreerde Encyclopaedie

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Author :
language : nl
Publisher:
Release Date : 1886

Ge Llustreerde Encyclopaedie written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1886 with Encyclopedias and dictionaries, Dutch categories.

The History Of Oncology

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Author : D. J. Th. Wagener
language : en
Publisher: Bohn Stafleu van Loghum
Release Date : 2009-07-13

The History Of Oncology written by D. J. Th. Wagener and has been published by Bohn Stafleu van Loghum this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07-13 with Medical categories.

‘The story of oncology is not only fascinating but also contains many accounts of dead ends, chance discoveries, illusions, mistakes and disappointments alongside the few successes.’These words are taken from the introduction to this book. The author, professor emeritus of Medical Oncology, reviews all aspects of the problem of cancer from a historical perspective, from the oldest existing records to the latest scientific and medical advances. It will interest the many people engaged in the treatment of cancer to read how the current therapeutic methods came about, and the book may also provide inspiration for cancer researchers, and for all those directly or indirectly involved with cancer. The layman looking for background information on a particular treatment may find it useful too. The various chapters can be read independently. A glossary and a few explanatory diagrams augment the text.This book grew out of an invitation the author received to lecture on the history of oncology. During his background reading, he discovered that there was no single volume dealing with the entire history of the subject. Fortunately, however, a great deal of information could be found here and there in the literature. As he read, he was struck by the fascinating stories behind many discoveries, and felt impelled to put them together in a single comprehensive account. The results of his labors are presented in this remarkable volume.The author, Prof. D.J.Th. (Theo) Wagener, was head of the department of Medical Oncology at the Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre in the Netherlands from 1982 to 2001, chairman of the Educational Committee of the European Society of Medical Oncology (ESMO), a member of the Educational Committee of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) and a member of various international scientific working groups, mainly of the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC).

Ge Llustreerde Encyclopaedie

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Author : Antony Winkler Prins
language : nl
Publisher:
Release Date : 1884

Ge Llustreerde Encyclopaedie written by Antony Winkler Prins and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1884 with Encyclopedias and dictionaries, Dutch categories.