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Author | : Jamaica Kincaid |
Publisher | : Pan Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 138 |
Release | : 2022-07-07 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1529077036 |
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In this acclaimed travel memoir Jamaica Kincaid chronicles a spectacular and exotic three-week trek through the Himalayan land of Nepal, where she and her companions are gathering seeds for planting at home. The natural world and, in particular, plants and gardening are central to Kincaid’s work. Among Flowers intertwines meditations on nature and stunning descriptions of the Himalayan landscape with observations on the ironies, difficulties and dangers of this magnificent journey. For Kincaid and three botanist friends, Nepal is a paradise, a place where a single day’s hike can traverse climate zones, from subtropical to alpine, encompassing flora suitable for growing at their homes, from Wales to Vermont. Yet as she makes clear, there is far more to this foreign world than rhododendrons that grow thirty feet high. Danger, too, is a constant companion – and the leeches are the least of their worries. Unpredictable Maoist guerrillas live in these perilous mountains, and when they do appear – as they do more than once – their enigmatic presence lingers long after they have melted back into the landscape. And Kincaid, who writes of the looming, lasting effects of colonialism in her works, necessarily explores the irony of her status as memsahib with Sherpas and bearers. A wonderful blend of introspective insight and beautifully rendered description, Among Flowers is a vivid, engrossing, and characteristically frank memoir from one of the most striking voices in contemporary literature. Part of the Picador Collection, a new series showcasing the best in modern literature.
Author | : M. James Herbers |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1411671848 |
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An anthology of religious freedom resources and discussion of the problems of minority faiths where mainline or cultural churches act to harass and prevent the free exercise of minority beliefs especially in collusion with the government. Volume 2 will address the specific situation in Germany and Europe in general.
Author | : Laura Greenwood |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 1853 |
Genre | : Flower language |
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Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 1854 |
Genre | : Gift books |
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Author | : Flora Klickmann |
Publisher | : Read Books Ltd |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2016-08-26 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 147335210X |
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This early work, is an absorbing collection of articles that Klickmann wrote for the periodical Girl’s Own Paper. This title is the first of seven Flower-Patch books that contain stories involving her household and the people living in and around Brockweir, Gloucestershire. A wealth of anecdote, autobiography and descriptions of nature written in a conversational, humorous style. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Author | : Dagoberto Gilb |
Publisher | : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic |
Total Pages | : 325 |
Release | : 2009-02-17 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1555848222 |
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Dagoberto Gilb is “one of the most powerful writers in his generation, and The Flowers is perhaps his best book . . . Not to be missed” (Larry McMurtry). Sonny Bravo is a sensitive, unusually smart fifteen-year-old who lives with his vivacious mother. But when she marries an Okie building contractor, they are uprooted to a small apartment building in a city where prejudice is not just white against black, but also brown. As Sonny meets his new neighbors, he is inexorably ensnared in their lives: Cindy, a married, bored, drugged-up eighteen-year-old; Nica, a cloistered Mexican girl who cares for her infant brother despite never being allowed to leave her apartment: Pink, an albino black man who sells old cars in front of the building; and Bud, a muscle-bound construction worker who hates blacks and Mexicans, even while he’s married to a Mexican-American woman. In arguably his most powerful work yet, Dagoberto Gilb has written “a psychologically complex novel” that transcends age, race, and time, displaying the fearlessness and wit that have helped make him one of America’s most authentic and original voices (The Washington Post).
Author | : Heather MacDonald |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : ART |
ISBN | : 9780300209501 |
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This catalogue accompanies exhibitions at the following museums: Dallas Museum of Art, October 26, 2014-February 8, 2015; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, March 21-June 21, 2015; Denver Art Museum, July 19-October 11, 2015.
Author | : Spencer Thomson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 1854 |
Genre | : Botany |
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Author | : Spencer Thomson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 1854 |
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Author | : Spencer THOMSON |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 1857 |
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