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Driving Home Both Ways
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Author : Dylan Moore
language : en
Publisher: Parthian Books
Release Date : 2018-10-01
Driving Home Both Ways written by Dylan Moore and has been published by Parthian Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-01 with Travel categories.
Over more than a decade, Dylan Moore has written with verve, insight and warm humour about places. Life's journey takes the author from winding roads in rural Wales via bull runs in the Basque Country to the mangrove swamps of the Gulf of Guinea; from smalltown stations in Slovenia to the gates of Auschwitz; from bookshops in Venice and San Francisco to literary festivals on the Keralan coast; from football terraces in Cardiff to street protests in Mexico City. Along the way we meet refugees from Kurdistan and Venezuela, recovering addicts from Bosnia, writers, artists, flamenco dancers, activists, and desert tribesmen singing the songs of Manu Chao. Driving Home Both Ways is part essay collection, part travelogue through life – it offers fresh reflections on the changing nature of the local and the global, epiphanies of tribe and faith, and is underscored always by the enduring allure of elsewhere and the constant pull of home.
Both Ways Is The Only Way I Want It
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Author : Maile Meloy
language : en
Publisher: Canongate Books
Release Date : 2010-03-04
Both Ways Is The Only Way I Want It written by Maile Meloy and has been published by Canongate Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-03-04 with Fiction categories.
In The Hidden Ways, Alistair Moffat traverses the lost paths of Scotland - its Roman roads tramped by armies, its warpaths and pilgrim routes, drove roads and rail roads, turnpikes and sea-roads - in a bid to understand how our history has left its mark upon our landscape. As he retraces the forgotten paths that shaped and were shaped by the lives of the now forgotten people who trod them, Moffat charts a powerful, surprising and moving history of Scotland.
1519 A Journey To The End Of Time
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Author : John Harrison
language : en
Publisher: Parthian Books
Release Date : 2015-08-01
1519 A Journey To The End Of Time written by John Harrison and has been published by Parthian Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-01 with Travel categories.
When Hernán Cortés met the Mayans, Aztecs and other cultures of the gulf coast of Mexico in 1519, it was the first extended contact between the peoples of continental America and Europe. The Spanish found cities larger and better run than any in Europe, and pyramids greater than Egypt's. The Aztecs believed time was running down and they lived in the final age of the world. Many Spaniards believed Christ's millennium was approaching, and God's revelation of Americas had opened the final act: the conversion of the remote races of the earth. After the Day of Judgement God's experiment with man was over. The laboratory, the physical world, would be destroyed. Both cultures were acting out the last days. Halfway through researching this book John Harrison had a scan which told him he would not live to write it; he was seeing out his own days. The Aztec people were concerned with the transitory nature of worldly things; some of their rulers were revered as much for their philosophical poetry as their conquests. John Harrison follows Cortés's route along the Mexican coast and across country to modern Mexico City, home of the Aztecs. A journey within journeys to the end of time, the book becomes a meditation on time, on mortality and self, from a modern master of travel writing.
Notes From A Swing State
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Author : Zoë Brigley
language : en
Publisher: Parthian Books
Release Date : 2019-08-20
Notes From A Swing State written by Zoë Brigley and has been published by Parthian Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-20 with Literary Collections categories.
These creative nonfiction essays consider girlhood, motherhood, violence at home and abroad, violence against women, the consolation in writing, trauma, and redemption. The essays celebrate and interrogate popular and literary culture: for example the film Breakfast at Tiffany's, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Alun Lewis's love letters, and David Bowie's 'Life on Mars'. These timely meditations on women, ethics, and writing bring insights that only an immigrant and traveller like Brigley could provide.
Cloud Road
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Author : John Harrison
language : en
Publisher: Parthian Books
Release Date : 2012-06-01
Cloud Road written by John Harrison and has been published by Parthian Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-01 with Travel categories.
In every atlas there is a country missing from the maps of South America: the Andean nation. For five months John Harrison journeys through this secret country, walking alone into remote villages where he is the first gringo the inhabitants have ever seen, and where life continues as if Columbus had never sailed. He lives at over 10,000 feet for most of the trip, following the great road of the Incas: the Camino Real, or Royal Road. Hand built over 500 years ago, it crosses the most difficult and dangerous mountains in all the Americas, diving into sweltering canyons and soaring up into the snows. 1500 miles, half of it on foot, takes him from the Equator to Cuzco and the most magical city of all: Machu Picchu. He is attacked, gets lost and is trapped by floods, but only when he goes home does he lose what he wants most.
Where The Earth Ends
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Author : John Harrison
language : en
Publisher: Parthian Books
Release Date : 2012-06-01
Where The Earth Ends written by John Harrison and has been published by Parthian Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-01 with Travel categories.
'My great grandfather and grandfather sailed the Horn, in steam and diesel, out of Liverpool. I was the first generation not to sail the Horn or fight a war. Instead, I would go to the end of the world, beyond Patagonia, to Tierra del Fuego. I would do more, I would see the Horn and find lost tribes. The child in me could go even further and sail the waters of Coleridge's albatross and enter the watercolours' blue horizons of my first novel, and sit on Robinson Crusoe's imaginary shore. I had imagined these places; they must exist. All I had to do was look for them.'
Forgotten Footprints
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Author : John Harrison
language : en
Publisher: Parthian Books
Release Date : 2012-05-01
Forgotten Footprints written by John Harrison and has been published by Parthian Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-01 with Travel categories.
Forgotten Footsteps won Creative Non-Fiction Wales Book of the Year 2013. Following Wales' Book of the Year Award 2011 winning Cloud Road, comes Forgotten Footprints, a history of the Antarctic Peninsula, South Shetland Islands and the Weddell Sea, the most visited places in Antarctica. In 12 years John has visited over 40 times and guides and lectures on adventure cruise ships. He delivers a selection of highly readable accounts of the merchantmen, navy men, sealers, whalers, and aviators who, with scientists and adventurers drew the first ghostly maps of the white continent.
Kafka Comes To America
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Author : Steven T. Wax
language : en
Publisher: Other Press, LLC
Release Date : 2010-09-07
Kafka Comes To America written by Steven T. Wax and has been published by Other Press, LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-09-07 with Law categories.
American Bar Association Silver Gavel Award — Winner in the Book category Independent Publishers — Winner of the Gold Medal in the Autobiography/Memoir category ForeWord Book of the Year Awards — Winner of the Bronze Medal in the Social Science category The Eric Hoffer Award - Winner in the Memoir category A public defender’s dedicated struggle to rescue two innocent men from the recent Kafkaesque practices of our vandalized justice system “Our government can make you disappear.” Those were the words Steven Wax never imagined he would hear himself say. In his twenty-nine years as a public defender, Wax had never had to warn a client that he or she might be taken away to a military brig, or worse, a “black site,” one of our country’s dreaded secret prisons. How had our country come to this? The disappearance of people happens in places ruled by tyrants, military juntas, fascist strongmen—governments with such contempt for the rule of law that they strip their citizens of all rights. But in America? Under the current Bush administration, not only are the civil rights of foreigners in jeopardy, but those of U.S. citizens. Wax interweaves the stories of two men that he and his team represented: Brandon Mayfield, an American-born small town lawyer and family man, arrested as a suspected terrorist in the Madrid train station bombings after a fingerprint was incorrectly traced back to him by the FBI; and Adel Hamad, a Sudanese hospital administrator taken from his apartment to a Pakistani prison and then flown in chains to the United States military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Kafka Comes to America reveals where and how our civil liberties have been eroded for a false security, and how each of us can make a difference. If these events could happen to Brandon Mayfield and Adel Hamad, they can happen to anyone. It could happen to us. It could happen to you.
The Mistress Contract
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Author : Helen Brooks
language : en
Publisher: Harlequin
Release Date : 2011-03-21
The Mistress Contract written by Helen Brooks and has been published by Harlequin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-21 with Fiction categories.
Conrad Quentin was equally famed for his ruthless business deals and devastating good looks. Sephy encountered the full force of these charms from day one of her new job as Conrad’s secretary! Sephy didn’t want an office affair, but Conrad proposed a deal: if she agreed to date him, he’d be the perfect gentleman—until her temporary contract with him ended. Then he planned to make her his mistress, or more....
Decoding Us
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Author : Erica J Whelton
language : en
Publisher: Sunseri Design Publishing
Release Date : 2023-07-06
Decoding Us written by Erica J Whelton and has been published by Sunseri Design Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-06 with Fiction categories.
Four middle-aged friends embark on a week-long treasure-hunting girls' trip as a distraction from the pressures of everyday life, but as it does, life catches up, and they are forced to face their struggles and insecurities. Amy is concerned her third marriage is going the way of the first two. She has no escape because even her job is a source of stress and the mundane tasks drone on. She just needs a break to think. Heather is bored and lonely with her two sons grown and moved away. She lost her identity when she became Tyler’s mom and Cody’s mom. She needs this trip to feel like Heather again. Marissa is burning the candle at both ends, but the burnout is coming. Between her parents living with her and requiring her full attention to her teenage kids' demands, she needs to get away or lose her mind. Denise was just diagnosed with stage 3 colon cancer. This may be the last fun thing she gets to do. Never wanting to be a burden to anyone, she doesn’t mention it to anyone. Now, if only she can hide it from her closest friends, they’ll only have good memories to remember her by. They may or may not find the treasure, but they gain something much more valuable.