Memoirs in Exile
Author : John H. Tietjen
Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishing
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 28,4 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Religion
ISBN :
Author : John H. Tietjen
Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishing
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 28,4 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Religion
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Author : Princess Ashraf Pahlavi
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 46,62 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780132991315
Author : Kathleen Karr
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 20,10 MB
Release : 2012-12-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780761452911
Ali is a young camel in Egypt when he is captured by humans. Determined to "work, but never surrender," he earns a reputation as a disobedient animal and is sold to an American colonel. The year is 1856 and Ali soon finds himself in Texas as part of the U.S. Camel Corps. Crossing the landscape of 19th century America, Ali learns to balance his pride with the needs of his new companions, and slowly matures into a noble creature. Compellingly written from the camel's point of view, this unusual book offers a fresh and unusual perspective on a little-known slice of American history.
Author : John Simpson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 49,59 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780192142214
From the moment Adam and Eve were expelled from Paradise, exile has been a part of the human experience. The circumstances in which individuals or entire peoples are compelled to leave their homeland are as various as they are numerous, and in this book John Simpson has brought together examples of exile from all over the world, and from all periods of history. The emphasis is on personal experience, with writers from Ovid to Solzhenitsyn describing their exile, their emotions, their struggle and their despair. For those who have chosen a life in exile, the response is more mixed: ambivalence about the country they have left and the country they have chosen suffuses the writing of intellectuals seeking freedom of speech, as of ex-pats living in India or Australia. Those persecuted for their faith or their politics rub shoulders with those fleeing from war, or from debt, or even from the weather. Castaways and spies, premiers and princes describe their departure, their reception and sometimes their return, in an anthology that is by turns inspiring, moving, and deeply thought-provoking. With sources ranging from police records, newspaper articles, interviews, letters and memoirs, as well as verse and fiction, and settings as remote as Iran and Russia, China and Palestine, The Oxford Book of Exile provides a fascinating insight into an experience that touches so many, and captures the imagination of us all.
Author : Adam David Miller
Publisher : Heyday
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 40,49 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781597140652
With each chapter accompanied by a poem, the African-American poet and teacher offers his recollections of growing up in the small town of Orangeburg, South Carolina, before and during the Great Depression. Original.
Author : James M. Houston
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 10,70 MB
Release : 2019-12-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 153268004X
This book traces personal memoirs to encourage others in their personal sense of insecurity to be freed by God’s grace, to become bold “in Christ.” It binds memoirs of the inner self, with one’s opportunities of public service. Two highlights are recorded: how three Soviet leaders as Christians negotiated with three American Christian leaders, to prevent a nuclear holocaust; and how crowds saying the Lord’s prayer, as they marched into Romanian towns, overcame the dictatorship. The Western press has never recorded both of these events.
Author : Marc Robinson
Publisher : Harvest Books
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 19,48 MB
Release : 1996-03-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780156003896
Author : Victor Serge
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 37,65 MB
Release : 2012-05-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1590174518
A New York Review Books Original Victor Serge is one of the great men of the 20th century —and one of its great writers too. He was an anarchist, an agitator, a revolutionary, an exile, a historian of his times, as well as a brilliant novelist, and in Memoirs of a Revolutionary he devotes all his passion and genius to describing this extraordinary—and exemplary—career. Serge tells of his upbringing among exiles and conspirators, of his involvement with the notorious Bonnot Gang and his years in prison, of his role in the Russian Revolution, and of the Revolution’s collapse into despotism and terror. Expelled from the Soviet Union, Serge went to Paris, where he evaded the KGB and the Nazis before fleeing to Mexico. Memoirs of a Revolutionary recounts a thrilling life on the front lines of history and includes vivid portraits not only of Trotsky, Lenin, and Stalin but of countless other figures who struggled to remake the world. Peter Sedgwick’s fine translation of Memoirs of a Revolutionary was abridged when first published in 1963. This is the first edition in English to present the entirety of Serge’s book.
Author : Aziz Nesin
Publisher :
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 21,7 MB
Release : 197?
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Author : Tzang Yawnghwe (Chao)
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 23,64 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9789971988623
In this highly personal account, Chao Tzang Yawnghwe, a son of the first President of the Union of Burma, tells of his youth and involvement in the Shan resistance movement. He gives his version of Shan history and explains the complexity of Shan politics as well as discusses the personalities involved in the war. The final part of this book is a compendium of who's who in Shan history and politics.