Khyber Caravan
Author : Gordon Sinclair
Publisher :
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 33,82 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Afghanistan
ISBN :
Author : Gordon Sinclair
Publisher :
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 33,82 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Afghanistan
ISBN :
Author : Rajput (pseud.)
Publisher :
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 24,63 MB
Release : 1812
Category :
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 892 pages
File Size : 30,73 MB
Release : 1907
Category : England
ISBN :
Author : John Alfred Spender
Publisher :
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 17,28 MB
Release : 1912
Category : India
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 960 pages
File Size : 12,41 MB
Release : 1920
Category : Asia
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Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher :
Page : 1078 pages
File Size : 26,75 MB
Release : 1901
Category : Great Britain
ISBN :
Author : Trudy Ring
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 980 pages
File Size : 40,97 MB
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1136639799
From the Taj Mahal to the Parthenon, from Gettysburg to Heidelberg, from Beacon Hill to Tower Hill, from the Great Wall to Hadrian's Wall, from Jerusalem to Kyoto, the International Dictionary of Historic Places presents some 1,000 comprehensive and fully illustrated histories of the most famous sites in the world. Entries include: location, description, and site office details; and a 3,000 to 4,000 word essay that provides a full history of the site and the condition of the site today. An annotated Further Reading list of books and articles about the site completes each entry.
Author : Donez Xiques
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 16,62 MB
Release : 2005-09-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1550029282
Margaret Laurence: The Making of a Writer is an engaging narrative that contains new and important findings about Laurence’s life and career. This biography reveals the challenges, successes, and failures of the long apprenticeship that preceded the publication of the The Stone Angel, Laurence’s first commercially successful novel. Donez Xiques demonstrates the importance of Margaret Laurence’s early work as a journalist in her development as a writer and covers her return to Canada from Africa in the late 1950s. She details the significance of Laurence’s "Vancouver years" as well as the challenges of her year in London prior to settling at Elm Cottage in Buckinghamshire, when Laurence stood on the verge of success. The Margaret Laurence known to most people is a public figure of the 1960s and 1970s; matriarchal, matronly, and accomplished. The story of her early years in the harsh setting of the Canadian Prairies during the 1930s - years of drought and the Great Depression - and of her African years has never before been chronicled with the thoroughness and vividness that Xiques provides for the reader. Appended to this powerful new biography is a short story by Margaret Laurence that has never before been published and two other stories that have not been widely available. They indicate the range of her concerns and show a marked departure from her fiction in The Tomorrow-Tamer and Other Stories and A Bird in the House. Readers will benefit from the extensive research in this full and vibrant portrait of one of the most revered writers of twentieth-century Canadian literature.
Author : Ernst Alfred Nawrath
Publisher :
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 21,23 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Travel
ISBN :
Author : Dick Pellek
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 29,8 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1452031525
Not one to miss an opportunity to see what was nearby; a restless tropical forester scheduled or planned trips to or through nearly 100 countries during his working career. Afghanistan was the first country he jotted notes about, and when his official duties later took him to Zambia, the title Afghanistan to Zambia: Chronicles of a Footloose Forester began to emerge as his memoirs. This personal memoir is about capturing in print the more vivid reveries of over 80 countries; and some themes that form his viewpoint about what he saw and did there. It was never intended as a travelogue or historical account, merely as a receptacle of personal adventure stories. Thus, as he wandered and crisscrossed the globe over a span of four decades, he was not overly concerned about a chronological order. In the case of Viet Nam and Haiti, however, it spurred two or three chronicles that serve as poignant accounts of both past and present.