Book Description
Explore a highly illustrated collection of strange tales and local legends from the county of Norfolk.
Author : John Ling
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 24,38 MB
Release : 2019-08-15
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1445687933
Explore a highly illustrated collection of strange tales and local legends from the county of Norfolk.
Author : John Ling
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 16,99 MB
Release : 2021-08-15
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1398101001
The beautiful county of Suffolk is one of the most visited of English counties. Here is a collection of strange tales and local legends from the county.
Author : Bobby Norfolk
Publisher : Triangle Interactive, Inc.
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 39,44 MB
Release : 2017-12-13
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1684440025
Read Along or Enhanced eBook: In this trickster tale from Africa, Anansi proves to Elephant and Killer Whale that in a battle of wits, brains definitely outdo brawn.
Author :
Publisher : august house
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 36,63 MB
Release : 2007-12-19
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780874838565
After Anansi the spider tricks Turtle in order to keep his dinner for himself, Turtle turns the tables on Anansi.
Author : Neil R Storey
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 15,74 MB
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0752494600
The Little Book of Norfolk is a repository of intriguing, fascinating, obscure, strange and entertaining facts and trivia about one of England's most colourful counties. It is an essential to the born and bred Norfolk folk or anyone who knows and loves the county. Armed with this fascinating tome the reader will have such knowledge of the county, its landscape, people, places, pleasures and pursuits they will be entertained and enthralled and never short of some frivolous fact to enhance conversation or quiz! A reference book and a quirky guide, this can be dipped in to time and time again to reveal something new about the people, the heritage, the secrets and the enduring fascination of the county. A remarkably engaging little book, this is essential reading for visitors and locals alike.
Author : Lisa Suhay
Publisher : Bumble Bee Pub
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 11,14 MB
Release : 2006-09-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781933982045
In 1855 the tears of a child failing into the water summon a mermaid to help the city of Norfolk, Virginia to fight the fever which sailors nicknames Yellow Jack. This gentle fable blends history with mermaid magic. From award winning children's author Lisa Suhay. Mermaids is a captivating tale that is sure to capture the imagination of readers young and old.
Author : Michael Patrick Hearn
Publisher : Roberts Rinehart Pub
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 10,58 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781570980794
The finest work of every prominent children's book illustrator of the 20th century, including Tomi Ungerer, N. C. Wyeth, Beatrix Potter, Maurice Sendak, Dr. Suess, Edward Gorey, and many others, is explored in this invaluable book.
Author : Bobby Norfolk
Publisher : Triangle Interactive, Inc.
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 40,3 MB
Release : 2017-12-13
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1684440017
Read Along or Enhanced eBook: In this story from West Africa, Anansi the spider uses his wits, his trickster skills, and the help of his friends to bring light to the world.
Author : Dave Tonge
Publisher : History Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 39,77 MB
Release : 2018-09-03
Category : Folklore
ISBN : 9780750984812
Folk tales from Norfolk, especially selected for children by a professional storyteller
Author : Norval Morris
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 13,66 MB
Release : 2003-09-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0190290757
In 1840, Alexander Maconochie, a privileged retired naval captain, became at his own request superintendent of two thousand twice-convicted prisoners on Norfolk Island, a thousand miles off the coast of Australia. In four years, Maconochie transformed what was one of the most brutal convict settlements in history into a controlled, stable, and productive environment that achieved such success that upon release his prisoners came to be called "Maconochie's Gentlemen". Here Norval Morris, one of our most renowned criminologists, offers a highly inventive and engaging account of this early pioneer in penal reform, enhancing Maconochie's life story with a trenchant policy twist. Maconochie's life and efforts on Norfolk Island, Morris shows, provide a model with profound relevance to the running of correctional institutions today. Using a unique combination of fictionalized history and critical commentary, Morris gives this work a powerful policy impact lacking in most standard academic accounts. In an era of "mass incarceration" that rivals that of the settlement of Australia, Morris injects the question of humane treatment back into the debate over prison reform. Maconochie and his "Marks system" played an influential role in the development of prisons; but for the last thirty years prison reform has been dominated by punitive and retributive sentiments, the conventional wisdom holding that we need 'supermax' prisons to control the 'worst of the worst' in solitary and harsh conditions. Norval Morris argues to the contrary, holding up the example of Alexander Maconochie as a clear-cut alternative to the "living hell" of prison systems today.