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The Navigator Of New York
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Author : Wayne Johnston
language : en
Publisher: Vintage Canada
Release Date : 2011-07-27
The Navigator Of New York written by Wayne Johnston and has been published by Vintage Canada this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-27 with Fiction categories.
Wayne Johnston’s breakthrough epic novel The Colony of Unrequited Dreams was published in several countries and given high praise from the critics. It earned him nominations for the highest fiction prizes in Canada and was a national bestseller. His American editor said he hadn’t found such an exciting author since he discovered Don DeLillo. Johnston, who has been writing fiction for two decades, launched his next and sixth novel across the English-speaking world to great anticipation. The Navigator of New York is set against the background of the tumultuous rivalry between Lieutenant Peary and Dr. Cook to get to the North Pole at the beginning of the 20th century. It is also the story of a young man’s quest for his origins, from St. John’s, Newfoundland, to the bustling streets of New York, and the remotest regions of the Arctic. Devlin Stead’s father, an Arctic explorer, stops returning home at the end of his voyages and announces he is moving to New York, as “New York is to explorers what Paris is to artists”; eventually he is declared missing from an expedition. His mother meets an untimely death by drowning shortly after. Young Devlin, who barely remembers either of them, lives contently in the care of his affectionate aunt and indifferent uncle, until taunts from a bullying fellow schoolboy reveal dark truths underlying the bare facts he knows about his family. A rhyme circulated around St. John’s further isolates Devlin, always seen as an odd child who had inherited his parents’ madness and would likely meet a similar fate. Devlin, who has always learned about his father through newspaper reports, now finds other people’s accounts of his parents are continually altering his view of his parents. Then strange secret letters start to arrive, exciting his imagination with the unanticipated notion that his life might contain the possibility of adventure. Nothing is what it once seemed. Suddenly a chance to take his own place in the world is offered, giving him courage and a newfound zest for discovery. “It was life as I would live it unless I went exploring that I dreaded.” Caught up in the mystery of who his parents really were, and anxious to leave behind the image of ‘the Stead boy’, at the age of twenty Devlin sails, carrying only a doctor’s bag, to a New York that is bursting with frenzied energy and about to become the capital city of the globe; where every day inventors file for new patents and three thousand new strangers enter the city, a city that already looks ancient although taller buildings are constructed constantly. There he will become protégé to Dr. Cook, who is restlessly preparing for his next expedition, be introduced into the society that makes such ventures possible, and eventually accompany Cook on his epic race to reach the Pole before the arch-rival Peary. This trip will plunge Devlin into worldwide controversy -- and decide his fate. Wayne Johnston has harnessed the scope, energy and inventiveness of the nineteenth century novel and encapsulated it in the haunting and eloquent voice of his hero. His descriptions of place, whether of the frozen Arctic wastes or the superabundant and teeming New York, have extraordinary physicality and conviction, recreating a time when the wide world seemed to be there for the taking. An extraordinary achievement that seamlessly weaves fact and fabrication, it continues the masterful reinvention of the historical novel Wayne Johnston began with The Colony of Unrequited Dreams.
Navigator Of New York
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Author : W. Johnston
language : en
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Release Date : 2003-09-01
Navigator Of New York written by W. Johnston and has been published by Turtleback Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-09-01 with Fiction categories.
Navigator Of New York Proof
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Author : Wayne Johnston
language : en
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Release Date : 2002-09-12
Navigator Of New York Proof written by Wayne Johnston and has been published by Jonathan Cape this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-09-12 with categories.
Early New York An Address Classic Reprint
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Author : Robert Barnwell Roosevelt
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2018-02
Early New York An Address Classic Reprint written by Robert Barnwell Roosevelt and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02 with History categories.
Excerpt from Early New York: An Address Hendrick Hudson, the old Dutch navigator, sailing along the coast in his vessel, the Half Moon, in a vain search for the Northwest passage to somewhere, he did not have the least idea where, discovered the beautiful bay and river to which he gave his name. This is accepted history just as it is written for our guileless and unsuspicious youth, only it contains a few errors. Hendrick Hudson was not a Dutch navigator at all, but an English one; his name was not Hendrick, but Henry. He did not discover the bay or river, both of which had been dis covered by the Florentine sailor Verrazano in 1529, and by the hardy Norsemen before him. We rarely call either the river or bay after Hudson in these times, one being the North River, the other New York Bay, so perhaps it doesn't much matter after all whether he discovered them or not. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Navigator
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Author : Clive Cussler
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2008-06-24
The Navigator written by Clive Cussler and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-06-24 with Fiction categories.
Kurt Austin and the NUMA Special Assignments Team search for an ancient Middle Eastern relic with secret ties to an American founding father in the #1 bestselling New York Times-bestselling series. Years ago, an invaluable Phoenician statue known as the Navigator was stolen from the Baghdad museum, and there are men who would do anything to get their hands on it. Their first victim is a crooked antiquities dealer, murdered in cold blood. Their second target a UN investigator, only survives thanks to the timely assistance of Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala. What’s so special about this statue? Austin wonders. The search for answers will take the NUMA team on an astonishing odyssey through time and space, one that encompasses no less than the lost treasures of King Solomon, a mysterious packet of documents personally encoded by Thomas Jefferson, and a top-secret scientific project that could change the world forever. And that’s before the surprises really begin. . . . Rich with all the hair-raising action and endless invention that have become Cussler’s hallmarks, The Navigator is the best yet from “Clive the Incredible”.
Brendan The Navigator
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Author : Jean Fritz
language : en
Publisher: Putnam Juvenile
Release Date : 1979
Brendan The Navigator written by Jean Fritz and has been published by Putnam Juvenile this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Recounts St. Brendan's life and voyage to North America long before the Vikings arrived.
Speaking In The Past Tense
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Author : Herb Wyile
language : en
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Release Date : 2006-12-15
Speaking In The Past Tense written by Herb Wyile and has been published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-12-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
“Speaking in the Past Tense participates in an expanding critical dialogue on the writing of historical fiction, providing a series of reflections on the process from the perspective of those souls intrepid enough to step onto what is, practically by definition, contested territory.” — Herb Wyile, from the Introduction The extermination of the Beothuk ... the exploration of the Arctic ... the experiences of soldiers in the trenches during World War I ... the foibles of Canada’s longest-serving prime minister ... the Ojibway sniper who is credited with 378 wartime kills—these are just some of the people and events discussed in these candid and wide-ranging interviews with eleven authors whose novels are based on events in Canadian history. These sometimes startling conversations take the reader behind the scenes of the novels and into the minds of their authors. Through them we explore the writers’ motives for writing, the challenges they faced in gathering information and presenting it in fictional form, the sometimes hostile reaction they faced after publication, and, perhaps most interestingly, the stories that didn’t make it into their novels. Speaking in the Past Tense provides fascinating insights into the construction of national historical narratives and myths, both those familiar to us and those that are still being written.
Environment And Social Justice
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Author : Dorceta E. Taylor
language : en
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Release Date : 2010-08-26
Environment And Social Justice written by Dorceta E. Taylor and has been published by Emerald Group Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-08-26 with Political Science categories.
The environmental justice movement, an organized social and political force in America in the '80s, is a global phenomenon today as activists worldwide try to understand the relationship between environment, race/ethnicity and social inequality. This volume examines domestic and international environmental issues.
The Practical Navigator
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Author : Stephen Metcalfe
language : en
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Release Date : 2016-08-09
The Practical Navigator written by Stephen Metcalfe and has been published by St. Martin's Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-09 with Fiction categories.
Michael Hodge has been many things in life. A surfer. A husband. A father. A son. A business owner. A lover. Abandoned. Ever since Michael’s wife, Anita, ran off leaving him to raise their child on his own, he has been struggling to pick up the pieces. And after seven years, he’s finally starting to put his life back together. He has given up his dream of surfing and now manages his own construction business, he works hard to be the best father possible to his autistic son, and he’s falling for a new woman. But when Anita returns to town unannounced wanting to be a part of their lives again, and his mother begins showing early signs of Alzheimer’s, Michael’s carefully reconstructed world begins to fall apart. Now, Michael must decide whether or not to give Anita a second chance or to protect his son, and himself, from being hurt yet again. With pitch perfect emotion and a beautiful portrayal of the relationship between a father and son, Stephen Metcalfe has drawn a rich and layered portrait of what it means to be a family and what it means to be truly loved.
Urban Navigator
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Author : Ira Saltz
language : en
Publisher: Little Brown
Release Date : 1991
Urban Navigator written by Ira Saltz and has been published by Little Brown this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Travel categories.
This guide to Manhattan reveals the city as it is actually explored by visitor and native, integrating all the sights and resources of Manhattan on navigator maps.