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The Circling Sky
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Author : Neil Ansell
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2021-04-15
The Circling Sky written by Neil Ansell and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-15 with Nature categories.
From a 2018 Wainwright Prize shortlisted author, THE CIRCLING SKY is part childhood memoir, blended with exquisite nature observation, and the story of one man's journey over a year to one of the UK's key natural habitats, the New Forest of Hampshire In the form of several journeys, beginning in January 2019, Neil Ansell returns for solitary walks to the New Forest in Hampshire, close to where he was born. With beautiful sightings and observations of birds, trees, butterflies, insects and landscape, this is also a reflective memoir on childhood, on the history of one of the most ancient and important natural habitats in the United Kingdom, and on the Gypsies who lived there for centuries - and were subsequently expelled to neighbouring cities. It is also part polemic on our collective and individual responsibility for the land and world in which we live, and how we care for it. 'Neil Ansell is a wonderful guide... this is a delight of nature writing' Choice Magazine
Sky Swimming
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Author : Sylvia Martin
language : en
Publisher: UWA Publishing
Release Date : 2020-02-01
Sky Swimming written by Sylvia Martin and has been published by UWA Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
'Late afternoon. An isolated lagoon, water glassy, teeming with birdlife—black swans, ducks, a pelican. Sunset begins to tint the sky. I point the camera at the water to catch the clouds reflected there just as a solitary duck swims into view. Everything in the photograph is familiar yet the effect is entirely strange. The duck is swimming across the sky...' The reflections in Sky Swimming can be read as meditations on the enigmas of love, family, ageing, memory, home and belonging. At its heart is a mudbrick house built by two women on an ancient lava flow in the Warrumbungle Mountains, circling back to a childhood filled with music in Melbourne and an early career in the theatre. It fans out across the world to a family mystery in The Netherlands of the 1950s and a friendship in Montreal in the 1990s. Reflections on the process of writing feminist biography are included and the women from Martin’s biographies thread their way through the narrative alongside the people who have helped shape her life, often in unexpected directions.
Great Circle
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Author : Maggie Shipstead
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2021-05-04
Great Circle written by Maggie Shipstead and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-04 with Fiction categories.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK • The unforgettable story of a daredevil female aviator determined to chart her own course in life, at any cost: an “epic trip—through Prohibition and World War II, from Montana to London to present-day Hollywood—and you’ll relish every minute” (People). After being rescued as infants from a sinking ocean liner in 1914, Marian and Jamie Graves are raised by their dissolute uncle in Missoula, Montana. There--after encountering a pair of barnstorming pilots passing through town in beat-up biplanes--Marian commences her lifelong love affair with flight. At fourteen she drops out of school and finds an unexpected and dangerous patron in a wealthy bootlegger who provides a plane and subsidizes her lessons, an arrangement that will haunt her for the rest of her life, even as it allows her to fulfill her destiny: circumnavigating the globe by flying over the North and South Poles. A century later, Hadley Baxter is cast to play Marian in a film that centers on Marian's disappearance in Antarctica. Vibrant, canny, disgusted with the claustrophobia of Hollywood, Hadley is eager to redefine herself after a romantic film franchise has imprisoned her in the grip of cult celebrity. Her immersion into the character of Marian unfolds, thrillingly, alongside Marian's own story, as the two women's fates--and their hunger for self-determination in vastly different geographies and times--collide. Epic and emotional, meticulously researched and gloriously told, Great Circle is a monumental work of art, and a tremendous leap forward for the prodigiously gifted Maggie Shipstead.
Circling The Sun
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Author : Paula McLain
language : en
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Release Date : 2015-07-28
Circling The Sun written by Paula McLain and has been published by Ballantine Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-28 with Fiction categories.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR, BOOKPAGE, AND SHELF AWARENESS • “Paula McLain is considered the new star of historical fiction, and for good reason. Fans of The Paris Wife will be captivated by Circling the Sun, which . . . is both beautifully written and utterly engrossing.”—Ann Patchett, Country Living This powerful novel transports readers to the breathtaking world of Out of Africa—1920s Kenya—and reveals the extraordinary adventures of Beryl Markham, a woman before her time. Brought to Kenya from England by pioneering parents dreaming of a new life on an African farm, Beryl is raised unconventionally, developing a fierce will and a love of all things wild. But after everything she knows and trusts dissolves, headstrong young Beryl is flung into a string of disastrous relationships, then becomes caught up in a passionate love triangle with the irresistible safari hunter Denys Finch Hatton and the writer Baroness Karen Blixen. Brave and audacious and contradictory, Beryl will risk everything to have Denys’s love, but it’s ultimately her own heart she must conquer to embrace her true calling and her destiny: to fly. Praise for Circling the Sun “In McLain’s confident hands, Beryl Markham crackles to life, and we readers truly understand what made a woman so far ahead of her time believe she had the power to soar.”—Jodi Picoult, author of Leaving Time “Enchanting . . . a worthy heir to [Isak] Dinesen . . . Like Africa as it’s so gorgeously depicted here, this novel will never let you go.”—The Boston Globe “Famed aviator Beryl Markham is a novelist’s dream. . . . [A] wonderful portrait of a complex woman who lived—defiantly—on her own terms.”—People (Book of the Week) “Circling the Sun soars.”—Newsday “Captivating . . . [an] irresistible novel.”—The Seattle Times “Like its high-flying subject, Circling the Sun is audacious and glamorous and hard not to be drawn in by. Beryl Markham may have married more than once, but she was nobody’s wife.”—Entertainment Weekly “[An] eloquent evocation of Beryl’s daring life.”—O: The Oprah Magazine
Circling The Drain
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Author : Amanda Davis
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2009-02-06
Circling The Drain written by Amanda Davis and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-02-06 with Fiction categories.
“Mesmerizing . . . compelling . . . This collection, fresh, odd, and frightening, makes Davis a writer to watch.” — Chicago Tribune “A well-guided tour of scarred souls who’ve witnessed terrible things, and surprisingly, found odd bits of beauty in them.” — New York Times Book Review
A Circle In The Sky
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Author : Zachary Wilson
language : en
Publisher: Children's Press
Release Date : 2011
A Circle In The Sky written by Zachary Wilson and has been published by Children's Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Rockets (Aeronautics) categories.
Beginning readers will love learning all about numbers and shapes. A child puts together various simple shapes to build a rocket that will fly to the moon.
We Share The Same Sky
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Author : Rachael Cerrotti
language : en
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Release Date : 2021-08-17
We Share The Same Sky written by Rachael Cerrotti and has been published by Blackstone Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-17 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In 2009, Rachael Cerrotti, a college student pursuing a career in photojournalism, asked her grandmother, Hana, if she could record her story. Rachael knew that her grandmother was a Holocaust survivor and the only one in her family alive at the end of the war. Rachael also knew that she survived because of the kindness of strangers. It wasn’t a secret. Hana spoke about her history publicly and regularly. But, Rachael wanted to document it as only a granddaughter could. So, that’s what they did: Hana talked and Rachael wrote. Upon Hana’s passing in 2010, Rachael discovered an incredible archive of her life. There were preserved albums and hundreds of photographs dating back to the 1920s. There were letters waiting to be translated, journals, diaries, deportation and immigration papers as well as creative writings from various stages of Hana’s life. Rachael digitized and organized it all, plucking it from the past and placing it into her present. Then, she began retracing her grandmother’s story, following her through Central Europe, Scandinavia, and across the United States. She tracked down the descendants of those who helped save her grandmother’s life during the war. Rachael went in pursuit of her grandmother’s memory to explore how the retelling of family stories becomes the history itself. We Share the Same Sky weaves together the stories of these two young women—Hana as a refugee who remains one step ahead of the Nazis at every turn, and Rachael, whose insatiable curiosity to touch the past guides her into the lives of countless strangers, bringing her love and tragic loss. Throughout the course of her twenties, Hana’s history becomes a guidebook for Rachael in how to live a life empowered by grief.
The Poetical Works Of James Thomson
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Author : James Thomson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1808
The Poetical Works Of James Thomson written by James Thomson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1808 with categories.
The Poetical Works Of James Thomson James Beattie Gilbert West And John Bampfylde
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Author : James Thomson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1881
The Poetical Works Of James Thomson James Beattie Gilbert West And John Bampfylde written by James Thomson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1881 with categories.
Finding Our Place In The Solar System
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Author : Todd Timberlake
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2019-03-28
Finding Our Place In The Solar System written by Todd Timberlake and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-28 with Nature categories.
Details the science behind the Copernican Revolution, the transition from the Earth-centered cosmos to a modern understanding of planetary orbits.
