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Author : Jennifer Johnston
language : en
Publisher: Open Road Media
Release Date : 2014-06-24

How Many Miles To Babylon written by Jennifer Johnston and has been published by Open Road Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-24 with Fiction categories.

From a Whitbread Award–winning author: A WWI novel of loyalty and friendship “graced with the immanent lyrical talent of the Irish writers at their best” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). Born to an aristocratic family on an estate outside of Dublin, Alexander Moore feels the constraints of his position most acutely in his friendship with Jerry Crowe, a Catholic laborer in town. Jerry is one of the few bright spots in Alec’s otherwise troubled life. The boys bond over their love of swimming and horses, despite the admonitions of Alec’s cold and overbearing mother, who scolds her son for venturing outside of his class. When the Great War begins, he seizes the opportunity to escape his overbearing mother and taciturn father, and enlists in the British army. Jerry, too, enlists—not out of loyalty to Britain, but to prepare himself for the Republican cause. Stationed in Flanders, the young men are reunited and find that, while encamped in the trenches, their commonalities are what help them survive. Now a lieutenant and an officer, Alec and Jerry again find their friendship under assault, this time from the rigid Major Glendinning, whose unyielding adherence to rank leads the two men toward a harrowing impasse that will change their lives forever.

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Author : Jennifer Johnston
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 1989-02-23

How Many Miles To Babylon written by Jennifer Johnston and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989-02-23 with Fiction categories.

As a child Alec, heir to the big house and only son of a bitter marriage, formed a close friendship with Jerry, a village boy who shared his passion for horses. In 1914 both enlisted in the British Army – Alec goaded by his beautiful, cold mother to fight for King and Country, Jerry to learn his trade for the Irish Nationalist cause. But amid the mud of Flanders, their relationship is tested by an ordeal beyond the horror of the battlefield...

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Author : Jennifer Johnston
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1986

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Author : J. Johnston
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1983

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Author : Violet Needham
language : en
Publisher: Girls Gone by
Release Date : 2012

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Claude Gilroy lived quietly with his father, an architect, in the country was suddenly told one day that a girl would be coming to live with them. When Miranda arrived he did his utmost to be kind to her, but he was not best pleased by the change in their lives. Gradually Claude, like the rest of the household, became intrigued with Miranda's strange, often wilful, ways and by her constant harping on the old nursery rhyme, How many Miles to Babylon? This rhyme was linked in her confused mind with the tragedy of her father, a composer, who had just died and her mother whom she could barely remember.

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Author : Ann Borowik
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1963

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Author : Anne Wolff
language : en
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Release Date : 2003-01-01

How Many Miles To Babylon written by Anne Wolff and has been published by Liverpool University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-01-01 with History categories.

How Many Miles to Babylon? uses the writing of European travelers to Egypt between c. 1300 and c. 1600 to give a picture of the country in the late medieval and early Renaissance periods, drawing on sources that have hitherto been inaccessible to English-speaking audiences. These accounts portray an Egypt ruled by the despotic Mamluk sultans and the early Ottoman governors, a society at once cruel and sophisticated, dangerous and alluring. The Europeans’ wonderment at the exotic flora and fauna, the ancient ruins of temples and pyramids, and the astonishing summer rise of the Nile to irrigate the crops and replenish the lakes and waterways of Cairo is well conveyed by these travelers’ tales. How Many Miles to Babylon? is a fascinating picture of the people, customs and culture of Egypt from the fourteenth century to the beginning of the seventeenth.