Part Time Exiles
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My Exile Lifestyle
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Author : Colin Wright
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011-06-26
My Exile Lifestyle written by Colin Wright and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-26 with Authors, American categories.
My Exile Lifestyle is a memoir made of stories from the life of author, entrepreneur, and full-time traveler, Colin Wright. From his early years as an antisocial geek, to his high-flying career in Los Angeles, to his life as a wandering vagabond, Colin holds nothing back as he talks about love, business, blogging, and culture through tales that span four continents. In the easy to digest style of storytelling that has made his other work such a success, Colin discusses life on the road and nothing is too taboo. Every epic, embarrassing, and awkward detail is covered with sometimes brutal honesty.
Part Time Exiles
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Author : Carol Tell
language : en
Publisher: Irish Research Series
Release Date : 2004
Part Time Exiles written by Carol Tell and has been published by Irish Research Series this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Literary Criticism categories.
This text studies the effects and consequences of the ceaseless travels of Irish poets to America in search of an audience and a paycheck.
Project Exile
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Crime
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Project Exile written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Crime and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with History categories.
English Convents In Exile 1600 1800 Part I Vol 3
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Author : Caroline Bowden
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2024-08-01
English Convents In Exile 1600 1800 Part I Vol 3 written by Caroline Bowden and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-08-01 with History categories.
Between 1600 and 1800 around 4,000 Catholic women left England for a life of exile in the convents of France, Flanders, Portugal and America. These closed communities offered religious contemplation and safety, but also provided an environment of concentrated female intellectualism. The nuns’ writings from this time form a unique resource.
Liberian Child In Exile
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Author : Dr. Tarnue Johnson MA.,PGCE.,SSC.,DBA
language : en
Publisher: Author House
Release Date : 2014-10-10
Liberian Child In Exile written by Dr. Tarnue Johnson MA.,PGCE.,SSC.,DBA and has been published by Author House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-10 with Fiction categories.
This book is entirely a work of fiction. In this sense, it completely reflects a figment of my imagination and not much more. However, the places named in the book are real. While some of the events mentioned in the story may tend to loosely mimic aspects of reality, they do not capture those actual experiences in terms of the real settings, manners, and sequences in which they occurred. Readers should note that there are three themes that permeate this book. They are friendship, family, and the virtues of education and collaborative undertakings as higher ethical aspirations.
At Home In Exile
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Author : Helga M Griffin
language : en
Publisher: ANU Press
Release Date : 2021-02-16
At Home In Exile written by Helga M Griffin and has been published by ANU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-16 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This is a story of a girl’s construction of her identity, and of her family’s search for a place in the world, for the Heimat that is so resonant for those of German background. We follow Helga through an adventurous childhood in Iran, whose vast open spaces her mother called ‘my spiritual home’. Her engineer father worked on a grand scale, designing and laying roads and railways, and tunnelling through mountain ranges. Then came the invasions of World War II, and the family, half-German, half-Austrian, found themselves on a long voyage to Australia, designated enemy aliens. They were interned for nearly five years in the dusty Victorian countryside. On their release at the end of the War, stranded in Melbourne, they sought another home. The children were dispatched to convents, and at the Academy of Mary Immaculate, Helga found a temporary homeland, in faith. Everyday life in the Australia of the late 1940s and early 1950s is freshly seen by this feisty, loving migrant family. Through their eyes, we encounter a strange place, Australia, as if for the first time. Helga’s development from a thoughtful, sensitive child to a self-possessed young woman, wrestling with her faith and with how to live a decent life, is vividly recounted.
War Exile And The Music Of Afghanistan
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Author : John Baily
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2016-09-01
War Exile And The Music Of Afghanistan written by John Baily and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-01 with Music categories.
In the 1970s John Baily conducted extensive ethnomusicological research in Afghanistan, principally in the city of Herat but also in Kabul. Then, with Taraki’s coup in 1978, came conflict, war, and the dispersal of many musicians to locations far and wide. This new publication is the culmination of Baily’s further research on Afghan music over the 35 years that followed. This took him to Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, the USA, Australia and parts of Europe - London, Hamburg and Dublin. Arranged chronologically, the narrative traces the sequence of political events - from 1978, through the Soviet invasion, to the coming of the Taliban and, finally, the aftermath of the US-led invasion in 2001. He examines the effects of the ever-changing situation on the lives and works of Afghan musicians, following individual musicians in fascinating detail. At the heart of his analysis are privileged vignettes of ten musical personalities - some of friends, and some newly discovered. The result is a remarkable personal memoir by an eminent ethnomusicologist known for his deep commitment to Afghanistan, Afghan musicians and Afghan musical culture. John Baily is also an ethnographic filmmaker. Four of his films relating to his research are included on the downloadable resources that accompanies the text.
Narratives Of Exile And Return
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Author : Mary Chamberlain
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-07-05
Narratives Of Exile And Return written by Mary Chamberlain and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-05 with Social Science categories.
In this original and compelling book, Mary Chamberlain explores the nature and meaning of migration for Barbadians who migrated to Britain and elsewhere. It is a unique oral and social history, based on life-story interviews across three or more generations of Barbadian families. Locating migration within the contemporary debate on modernity, Narratives of Exile and Return highlights the continuing role of migration in shaping the culture and history of Barbados. But it does more by providing post-modern theorizing with concrete national and ethnic settings.
Exiles
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Author : William Atkins
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2022-05-03
Exiles written by William Atkins and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-03 with Travel categories.
A luminous exploration of exile - the people who have experienced it, and the places they inhabit - from the award-winning travel writer and author of The Immeasurable World and The Moor. 'Breathtakingly good . . . Exiles is completely sui generis.' EDMUND DE WAAL 'Atkins spins a marvellous tapestry of colourful tales, beautifully weaving history and travel accounts.' ANDREA WULF, author of The Invention of Nature 'A volume for our times.' SARA WHEELER, THE SPECTATOR This is the story of three unheralded nineteenth-century dissidents, whose lives were profoundly shaped by the winds of empire, nationalism and autocracy that continue to blow strongly today: Louise Michel, a leader of the radical socialist government known as the Paris Commune; Dinuzulu kaCetshwayo, an enemy of British colonialism in Zululand; and Lev Shternberg, a militant campaigner against Russian tsarism. In Exiles, William Atkins travels to their islands of banishment - Michel's New Caledonia in the South Pacific, Dinuzulu's St Helena in the South Atlantic, and Shternberg's Sakhalin off the Siberian coast - in a bid to understand how exile shaped them and the people among whom they were exiled. In doing so he illuminates the solidarities that emerged between the exiled subject, on the one hand, and the colonised subject, on the other. Rendering these figures and the places they were forced to occupy in shimmering detail, Atkins reveals deeply human truths about displacement, colonialism and what it means to have and to lose a home. Occupying the fertile zone where history, biography and travel writing meet, Exiles is a masterpiece of imaginative empathy. 'A fascinating study of exile and its effects.' OBSERVER '[Atkins] is humane, humble, and empathetic . . . beautiful and moving.' ILYA KAMINSKY, author of Deaf Republic and Dancing in Odessa 'An incredible, brilliant act of retrieval.' PHILIP HOARE, author of Albert & the Whale 'Thrilling.' FINANCIAL TIMES 'A finely crafted and lyrical meditation.' TLS 'Gracefully written . . . Brilliant.' THE ECONOMIST 'Rarely has a book been more timely.' HISTORY TODAY *** Read The Moor and The Immeasureable World for more award-winning writing from William Atkins
Weimar In Exile
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Author : Jean-Michel Palmier
language : en
Publisher: Verso
Release Date : 2006-07-17
Weimar In Exile written by Jean-Michel Palmier and has been published by Verso this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-07-17 with History categories.
In 1933, thousands of intellectuals, artists, writers, militants and other opponents of the Nazi regime fled Germany. Including such figures as Walter Benjamin, Ernst Bloch, Bertolt Brecht and Heinrich Mann they were "the best of Germany," refusing to remain citizens in this new state that legalized terror and brutality. They emigrated all across the globe, to Paris, Amsterdam, Prague, Oslo, Vienna, New York, Los Angeles, Shanghai, Mexico, Jerusalem, Moscow. Often distrusted as Germans in the countries they arrived in, they struggled to survive - and some committed suicide in despair. But throughout their exile they strove to give expression to the fight against Nazism through their work, in prose, poetry and painting, architecture, film and theater. Weimar in Exile follows these lives, from the rise of national socialism to the return to their ruined homeland, retracing their stories, struggles, setbacks and rare victories. In this absorbing and magisterial work Jean-Michel Palmier provides a compelling and detailed history of those whose dignity in exile is a moving counterpoint top the story of Germany under the Nazis
