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The Navigator Of New York
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Author : Wayne Johnston
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2011-05-31
The Navigator Of New York written by Wayne Johnston and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-31 with Fiction categories.
At the centre of The Navigator of New York is the rivalry between Robert Peary and Frederick Cook to be the first American to reach the North Pole. Its protagonist, however, is Devlin Stead, a young man from St John's, Newfoundland. Devlin's mother dies, in mysterious circumstances, when he is only five, and he endures a lonely childhood before discovering the truth about his parentage. That discovery transforms his life: he finds his true father and embarks on a journey of unbelievable risk. His adventure brings him celebrity, acclaim from New York 'society', real love, and finally the truth about the bitter feud between two strange, driven men.
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.
Tales Of The New World
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Author : Sabina Murray
language : en
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Release Date : 2011-11-01
Tales Of The New World written by Sabina Murray and has been published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-01 with Fiction categories.
“Brilliant [and] masterly explorations of bitter, terrifying truths” populate this New York Times Editor’s Choice short story collection (The Boston Globe). In her first collection of stories since her PEN/Faulkner-winning The Caprices, Sabina Murray confronts some stark truths about the most intrepid—and brutal—pioneers of the last four millennia. These legendary explorers and settlers are made intimately human as they charge headlong past the boundaries of their worlds to give shape to modern geography, philosophy, and science. . . . As Ferdinand Magellan sets out on his final voyage, he forms an unlikely friendship with a rich scholar who harbors feelings for the captain, but in the end cannot save Magellan from his own greed. Balboa’s peek at the South Sea may never have happened if it wasn’t for his loyal and vicious dog, Leonico, and an unavoidable urge to relieve himself. And Captain Zimri Coffin is plagued by sleepless nights after reading Frankenstein—until his crew rescues two shipwrecked Englishmen who carry rumor of a murderous white whale lurking in the ocean depths. In this volume of “riveting . . . unsettling, lavish stories,” Sabina Murray investigates the complexities of faith, the lure of the unknown, and the elusive mingling of history and legend (O, The Oprah Magazine).
Brendan The Navigator
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Author : Jean Fritz
language : en
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Release Date : 1999-02
Brendan The Navigator written by Jean Fritz and has been published by Turtleback Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-02 with categories.
For use in schools and libraries only. Recounts St. Brendan's life and voyage to North America long before the Vikings arrived.
The Colony Of Unrequited Dreams
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Author : Wayne Johnston
language : en
Publisher: Vintage Canada
Release Date : 2011-10-05
The Colony Of Unrequited Dreams 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 2011-10-05 with Fiction categories.
The Colony of Unrequited Dreams, a Canadian bestseller, is a novel about Newfoundland that centres on the story of Joe Smallwood, the true-life controversial political figure who ushered the island through confederation with Canada and became its first premier. Narrated from Smallwood's perspective, it voices a deep longing on the part of the Newfoundlander to do something significant, “commensurate with the greatness of the land itself.” Smallwood’s chronicle of his development from poor schoolboy to Father of the Confederation is a story full of epic journeys and thwarted loves, travelling from the ice floes of the seal hunt to New York City, in a style reminiscent at times of John Irving, Robertson Davies and Charles Dickens. Absorbing and entertaining, The Colony of Unrequited Dreams provides us with a deep perspective on the relationship between private lives and what comes to be understood as history and shows, as E. Annie Proulx commented, “Wayne Johnston is a brilliant and accomplished writer.” The New York Times said, “this prodigious, eventful, character-rich book is a noteworthy achievement: a biting, entertaining and inventive saga.... a brilliant and bravura literary performance.”
Flight Of Dreams
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Author : Ariel Lawhon
language : en
Publisher: Anchor
Release Date : 2016-02-23
Flight Of Dreams written by Ariel Lawhon and has been published by Anchor this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-23 with Fiction categories.
From the New York Times bestselling author of I Was Anastasia and The Frozen River, here is a suspenseful, heart-wrenching novel that brings the fateful voyage of the Hindenburg to life. "At every page a guilty secret bobs up; at every page Lawhon keeps us guessing. Who will bring down the Hindenburg? And how?” —New York Times Book Review On the evening of May 3rd, 1937, ninety-seven people board the Hindenburg for its final, doomed flight. Among them are a frightened stewardess who is not what she seems; the steadfast navigator determined to win her heart; a naive cabin boy eager to earn a permanent position; an impetuous journalist who has been blacklisted in her native Germany; and an enigmatic American businessman with a score to settle. Over the course of three champagne-soaked days, their lies, fears, agendas, and hopes for the future will be revealed—and one in their party will set a plot in motion that will have devastating consequences for them all. Don't miss Ariel Lawhon's new book, The Frozen River!
Changing The Subject
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Author : Sven Birkerts
language : en
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Release Date : 2015-10-06
Changing The Subject written by Sven Birkerts and has been published by Graywolf Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-06 with Literary Collections categories.
Trenchant, expansive essays on the cultural consequences of ongoing, all-permeating technological innovation In 1994, Sven Birkerts published The Gutenberg Elegies, his celebrated rallying cry to resist the oncoming digital advances, especially those that might affect the way we read literature and experience art—the very cultural activities that make us human. After two decades of rampant change, Birkerts has allowed a degree of everyday digital technology into his life. He refuses to use a smartphone, but communicates via e-mail and spends some time reading online. In Changing the Subject, he examines the changes that he observes in himself and others—the distraction when reading on the screen; the loss of personal agency through reliance on GPS and one-stop information resources; an increasing acceptance of "hive" behaviors. "An unprecedented shift is underway," he argues, and "this transformation is dramatically accelerated and more psychologically formative than any previous technological innovation." He finds solace in engagement with art, particularly literature, and he brilliantly describes the countering energy available to us through acts of sustained attention, even as he worries that our increasingly mediated existences are not conducive to creativity. It is impossible to read Changing the Subject without coming away with a renewed sense of what is lost by our wholesale acceptance of digital innovation and what is regained when we immerse ourselves in a good book.
The Other Side Of Infamy
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Author : Jim Downing
language : en
Publisher: NavPress
Release Date : 2016-11-03
The Other Side Of Infamy written by Jim Downing and has been published by NavPress this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-03 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
War is uncomfortable for Christians, and worldwide war is unfamiliar for today’s generations. Jim Downing reflects on his illustrious military career, including his experience during the bombing of Pearl Harbor, to show how we can be people of faith during troubled times. The natural human impulse is to run from attack. Jim Downing—along with countless other soldiers and sailors at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941—ran toward it, fighting to rescue his fellow navy men, to protect loved ones and civilians on the island, and to find the redemptive path forward from a devastating war. We are protected from war these days, but there was a time when war was very present in our lives, and in The Other Side of Infamy we learn from a veteran of Pearl Harbor and World War II what it means to follow Jesus into and through every danger, toil, and snare.