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The Great Fires
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Author : Jack Gilbert
language : en
Publisher: Knopf
Release Date : 2013-09-11
The Great Fires written by Jack Gilbert and has been published by Knopf this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-11 with Poetry categories.
JOYCE'S MOTTO has had much fame but few apostles. Among them, there has been Jack Gilbert and his orthodoxy, a strictness that has required of this poet, now in the seventh decade of his severe life, the penalty of his having had almost no fame at all. In an era that puts before the artist so many sleek and official temptations, keeping unflinchingly to a code of "silence, exile, and cunning" could not have been managed without a show of strictness well beyond the reach of the theater of the coy. The "far, stubborn, disastrous" course of Jack Gilbert's resolute journey--not one that would promise in time to bring him home to the consolations of Penelope and the comforts of Ithaca but one that would instead take him ever outward to the impossible blankness of the desert--could never have been achieved in the society of others. What has kept this great poet brave has been the difficult company of his poems--and now we have, in Gilbert's third and most silent book, what may be, what must be, the bravest of these imperial accomplishments.
The Great Fire
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Author : Shirley Hazzard
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2020-12-10
The Great Fire written by Shirley Hazzard and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-10 with Fiction categories.
The Great Fire is Shirley Hazzard's first novel since The Transit of Venus, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1981. The conflagration of her title is the Second World War. In war-torn Asia and stricken Europe, men and women, still young but veterans of harsh experience, must reinvent their lives and expectations, and learn, from their past, to dream again. Some will fulfill their destinies, others will falter. At the centre of the story, a brave and brilliant soldier finds that survival and worldly achievement are not enough. His counterpart, a young girl living in Occupied Japan and tending her dying brother, falls in love, and in the process discovers herself. In the looming shadow of world enmities resumed, and of Asia's coming centrality in world affairs, a man and a woman seek to recover self-reliance, balance, and tenderness, struggling to reclaim their humanity.
The Great Fire
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Author : Jim Murphy
language : en
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Release Date : 2016-08-30
The Great Fire written by Jim Murphy and has been published by Scholastic Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-30 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
The Great Fire of 1871 was one of most colossal disasters in American history. Overnight, the flourshing city of Chicago was transformed into a smoldering wasteland. The damage was so profound that few people believed the city could ever rise again.By weaving personal accounts of actual survivors together with the carefully researched history of Chicago and the disaster, Jim Murphy constructs a riveting narrative that recreates the event with drama and immediacy. And finally, he reveals how, even in a time of deepest dispair, the human spirit triumphed, as the people of Chicago found the courage and strength to build their city once again.
The Great Fire Of London Of 1666
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Author : Magdalena Alagna
language : en
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Release Date : 2003-12-15
The Great Fire Of London Of 1666 written by Magdalena Alagna and has been published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-12-15 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Recounts the events leading up to the 1666 fire that destroyed most of London, tracing its course and aftermath, as well as the city's recovery.
The Great Fire Of London
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Author : Stephen Porter
language : en
Publisher: The History Press
Release Date : 2011-11-08
The Great Fire Of London written by Stephen Porter and has been published by The History Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-08 with History categories.
The Great Fire of London was the greatest catastrophe of its kind in Western Europe. Although detailed fire precautions and fire-fighting arrangements were in place, the fire raged for four days and destroyed 13,200 houses, 87 churches and 44 of the City of London's great livery halls. The 'great fire' of 1666 closely followed by the 'great plague' of 1665; as the antiquary Anthony Wood wrote left London 'much impoverished, discontented, afflicted, cast downe'. In this comprehensive account, Stephen Porter examines the background to 1666, events leading up to and during the fire, the proposals to rebuild the city and the progress of the five-year programme which followed. He places the fire firmly in context, revealing not only its destructive impact on London but also its implications for town planning, building styles and fire precautions both in the capital and provincial towns.
The Great Fires
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Author : Bob Zybach
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-04
The Great Fires written by Bob Zybach and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04 with Burning of land categories.
This is the definitive fire history of Oregon Coast Range forests, woodlands, savanna's, and grasslands for the past 500 years. Its comprehensive research methods, references, and recommendations serve as a model for other landscape-scale fire histories and is primarily why it is being updated and reprinted at this time.
History Of The Great Fires In Chicago And The West With A History Of The Rise And Progress Of Chicago The Young Giant To Which Is Appended A Record Of The Great Fires In The Past Classic Reprint
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Author : E. J. Goodspeed
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-07-07
History Of The Great Fires In Chicago And The West With A History Of The Rise And Progress Of Chicago The Young Giant To Which Is Appended A Record Of The Great Fires In The Past Classic Reprint written by E. J. Goodspeed and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-07 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Excerpt from History of the Great Fires in Chicago and the West With a History of the Rise and Progress of Chicago, the Young Giant, to Which Is Appended a Record of the Great Fires in the Past 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 Great Fires
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Author : Jack Gilbert
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 1996-02-13
The Great Fires written by Jack Gilbert and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-02-13 with Poetry categories.
JOYCE'S MOTTO has had much fame but few apostles. Among them, there has been Jack Gilbert and his orthodoxy, a strictness that has required of this poet, now in the seventh decade of his severe life, the penalty of his having had almost no fame at all. In an era that puts before the artist so many sleek and official temptations, keeping unflinchingly to a code of "silence, exile, and cunning" could not have been managed without a show of strictness well beyond the reach of the theater of the coy. The "far, stubborn, disastrous" course of Jack Gilbert's resolute journey--not one that would promise in time to bring him home to the consolations of Penelope and the comforts of Ithaca but one that would instead take him ever outward to the impossible blankness of the desert--could never have been achieved in the society of others. What has kept this great poet brave has been the difficult company of his poems--and now we have, in Gilbert's third and most silent book, what may be, what must be, the bravest of these imperial accomplishments.
The Great Fire Of London
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Author : Samuel Pepys
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2015-03-19
The Great Fire Of London written by Samuel Pepys and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-19 with Literary Collections categories.
'With one's face in the wind you were almost burned with a shower of Firedrops' A selection from Pepys' startlingly vivid and candid diary, including his famous account of the Great Fire Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. Samuel Pepys (1633-1703). The Diary of Samuel Pepys: A Selection is available in Penguin Classics
Year Of The Fires
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Author : Stephen J. Pyne
language : en
Publisher: Viking Adult
Release Date : 2001
Year Of The Fires written by Stephen J. Pyne and has been published by Viking Adult this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with History categories.
"1910 was America's millennial year of fire. That summer, American nature and American society collided with tectonic force as western wildfires scorched millions of acres, darkened skies in New England, and deposited soot on the ice of Greenland. Farms, mining camps, and rail towns cracked and burned. A survivor said that the towering flames raged with the sound of a thousand trains rushing over a thousand steel trestles. As one ranger put it, the mountains roared." "Stephen Pyne explains how wildland fires happen and how they are fought, how forests are created then re-created in cycles of burning, and what happens to a landscape when roads, railways, mining camps, logging, and national parks appear. The action distills into a two-day crisis, the Big Blowup of August 20-21, when the fires tripled in size, and focuses in particular on the heroics of Ranger Ed Pulaski, who held his panicked crew at gunpoint in a mine tunnel while the firestorm raged outside." "Pyne brings that year to life through the experiences and words of the rangers, soldiers, politicians, bureaucrats, scientists, and civilians who faced the fires, fought the flames, and were forever scarred by them. It was the first and greatest test of the five-year-old Forest Service. Yet even as seventy-eight fire-fighters perished, a national debate raged about policy, and especially about the relative merits of firefighting versus fire lighting."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved