Words Of Mercury
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Words Of Mercury
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Author : Patrick Leigh Fermor
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2010-10-10
Words Of Mercury written by Patrick Leigh Fermor and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-10 with Travel categories.
Patrick Leigh Fermor was only 18 when he set off to walk from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople, described many years later in A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water. It was during these early wanderings that he started to pick up languages, and where he developed his extraordinary sense of the continuity of history: a quality that deepens the colours of every place he writes about, from the peaks of the Pyrenees to the cell of a Trappist monastery. His experiences in wartime Crete sealed the deep affection he had already developed for Greece, a country whose character and customs he celebrates in two books, Mani and Roumeli, and where he has lived for over forty years. Whether he is drawing portraits in Vienna or sketching Byron's slippers in Missolonghi, the Leigh Fermor touch is unmistakable. Its infectious enthusiasm is driven by an insatiable curiosity and an omnivorous mind - all inspired by a passion for words and language that makes him one of the greatest prose writers of his generation.
Words Of Mercury
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Author : Patrick Leigh Fermor
language : en
Publisher: Skyhorse
Release Date : 2014-06-03
Words Of Mercury written by Patrick Leigh Fermor and has been published by Skyhorse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-03 with Travel categories.
A career-spanning anthology from the greatest traveler—and travel writer—of the twentieth century. The adventures of Patrick “Paddy” Leigh Fermor, Britain’s most beloved traveler, began in 1933, when he embarked on a walk from Holland to Constantinople—the entire length of Europe—at the tender age of eighteen. Sleeping in barns, monasteries, and, on occasion, aristocratic country houses, the young adventurer made way his through the Old World just as everything was about to change. Words of Mercury collects pieces from every stage of Leigh Fermor’s life, from his journey through Eastern Europe just before the outbreak of the Second World War—described in gorgeous, meditative detail—to his encounter with voodoo in Haiti, to a monastic retreat to Normandy to try to write a book. Also included is the story of one of his most well-known exploits from the war—his planned and executed kidnap of a German general under British orders. Ever the student, “Paddy” also wrote extensively on his encounters with polymaths, linguists, and artists all over the world. Over the course of his illustrious lifetime, Leigh Fermor wrote several acclaimed travel books, countless essays, translations, and book reviews, many of which are compiled in this anthology. His unique experiences out in the world fed his insatiable curiosity and voracious appetite for scholarship. His tales, written in a singular, elegant style, have inspired generations of writers and continue to shape the language of travel.
Freddie Mercury
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Author : Freddie Mercury
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
Freddie Mercury written by Freddie Mercury and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Gay men categories.
Noted for his powerful vocal talent and charismatic stage presence, Freddie Mercury was a true legend of rock. In this book the late Queen frontman recalls some of the key moments which shaped his life, revealing how he coped with the ups and downs of fame and celebrity.
The Words Of Mercury
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Author : Noel Purdon
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1974
The Words Of Mercury written by Noel Purdon and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974 with Classicism categories.
Freddie Mercury
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Author : Freddie Mercury
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Freddie Mercury written by Freddie Mercury and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
First published by Mercury Songs Ltd., 2006.
Words Of Mercury
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Author : ALASDAIR. PATERSON
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2024
Words Of Mercury written by ALASDAIR. PATERSON and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024 with categories.
Somebody To Love
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Author : Matt Richards
language : en
Publisher: Weldon Owen
Release Date : 2018-05-08
Somebody To Love written by Matt Richards and has been published by Weldon Owen this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-08 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
For the first time, the final years of one of the world's most captivating rock showman are laid bare. Including interviews from Freddie Mercury's closest friends in the last years of his life, along with personal photographs, Somebody to Love is an authoritative biography of the great man. Here are previously unknown and startling facts about the singer and his life, moving detail on his lifelong search for love and personal fulfilment, and of course his tragic contraction of a then killer disease in the mid-1980s. Woven throughout Freddie's life is the shocking story of how the HIV virus came to hold the world in its grip, was cruelly labelled 'The Gay Plague' and the unwitting few who indirectly infected thousands of men, women and children - Freddie Mercury himself being one of the most famous. The death of this vibrant and spectacularly talented rock star, shook the world of medicine as well as the world of music. Somebody to Love finally puts the record straight and pays detailed tribute to the man himself.
Mercury
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Author : Kristi Lew
language : en
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Release Date : 2008-08-15
Mercury written by Kristi Lew 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 2008-08-15 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Explains the characteristics of mercury, where it is found, how it is used by humans, and its relationship to other elements found in the periodic table.
Mercury And Me
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Author : Jim Hutton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-08
Mercury And Me written by Jim Hutton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08 with categories.
Mercury Pictures Presents
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Author : Anthony Marra
language : en
Publisher: Hogarth
Release Date : 2022-08-02
Mercury Pictures Presents written by Anthony Marra and has been published by Hogarth this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-02 with Fiction categories.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Winner of the David J. Langum, Sr. Prize in American Historical Fiction • The epic tale of a brilliant woman who must reinvent herself to survive, moving from Mussolini’s Italy to 1940s Los Angeles—a timeless story of love, deceit, and sacrifice from the award-winning author of A Constellation of Vital Phenomena “A genuinely moving and life-affirming novel that’s a true joy to read.”—Celeste Ng, author of Little Fires Everywhere “A gorgeous book . . . sublime.”—The New York Times (Editors’ Choice) ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: NPR, The Guardian, Booklist Like many before her, Maria Lagana has come to Hollywood to outrun her past. Born in Rome, where every Sunday her father took her to the cinema instead of church, Maria immigrates with her mother to Los Angeles after a childhood transgression leads to her father’s arrest. Fifteen years later, on the eve of America’s entry into World War II, Maria is an associate producer at Mercury Pictures, trying to keep her personal and professional lives from falling apart. Her mother won’t speak to her. Her boss, a man of many toupees, has been summoned to Washington by congressional investigators. Her boyfriend, a virtuoso Chinese American actor, can’t escape the studio’s narrow typecasting. And the studio itself, Maria’s only home in exile, teeters on the verge of bankruptcy. Over the coming months, as the bright lights go dark across Los Angeles, Mercury Pictures becomes a nexus of European émigrés: modernist poets trying their luck as B-movie screenwriters, once-celebrated architects becoming scale-model miniaturists, and refugee actors finding work playing the very villains they fled. While the world descends into war, Maria rises through a maze of conflicting politics, divided loyalties, and jockeying ambitions. But when the arrival of a stranger from her father’s past threatens Maria’s carefully constructed facade, she must finally confront her father’s fate—and her own. Written with intelligence, wit, and an exhilarating sense of possibility, Mercury Pictures Presents spans many moods and tones, from the heartbreaking to the ecstatic. It is a love letter to life’s bit players, a panorama of an era that casts a long shadow over our own, and a tour de force by a novelist whose work The Washington Post calls “a flash in the heavens that makes you look up and believe in miracles.”