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Author | : Kira Salak |
Publisher | : Henry Holt and Company |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 2008-08-05 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1429929561 |
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A young woman journeys deep into the untamed jungle, wrestling with love and loss, trauma and healing, faith and redemption, in this sweeping debut from "the gutsiest woman adventurer of our day" (Book Magazine) Marika Vecera, an accomplished war reporter, has dedicated her life to helping the world's oppressed and forgotten. When not on one of her dangerous assignments, she lives in Boston, exploring a new relationship with Seb, a psychologist who offers her glimpses of a better world. Returning from a harrowing assignment in the Congo where she was kidnapped by rebel soldiers, Marika learns that a man she has always admired from afar, Pulitzer-winning war correspondent Robert Lewis, has committed suicide. Stunned, she abandons her magazine work to write Lewis's biography, settling down with Seb as their intimacy grows. But when Marika finds a curious letter from a missionary claiming to have seen Lewis in the remote jungle of Papua New Guinea, she has to wonder, What if Lewis isn't dead? Marika soon leaves Seb to embark on her ultimate journey in one of the world's most exotic and unknown lands. Through her eyes we experience the harsh realities of jungle travel, embrace the mythology of native tribes, and receive the special wisdom of Tobo, a witch doctor and sage, as we follow her extraordinary quest to learn the truth about Lewis—and about herself, along the way.
Author | : Eric Weiner |
Publisher | : Twelve |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2008-01-03 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 0446511072 |
Download The Geography of Bliss Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Now a new series on Peacock with Rainn Wilson, THE GEOGRAPHY OF BLISS is part travel memoir, part humor, and part twisted self-help guide that takes the viewer across the globe to investigate not what happiness is, but WHERE it is. Are people in Switzerland happier because it is the most democratic country in the world? Do citizens of Qatar, awash in petrodollars, find joy in all that cash? Is the King of Bhutan a visionary for his initiative to calculate Gross National Happiness? Why is Asheville, North Carolina so damn happy? In a unique mix of travel, psychology, science and humor, Eric Weiner answers those questions and many others, offering travelers of all moods some interesting new ideas for sunnier destinations and dispositions.
Author | : Caroline Laffon |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 9781554077816 |
Download Mapping the World Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
An illustrated history of cartogrphy and what it reveals about the world around us.
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 630 |
Release | : 1932 |
Genre | : Geography |
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Download Van Loon's Geography Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
On the inside of the wrapper is a map of the world, drawn by Van Loon. London edition (G.G. Harrap & Company, ltd.) has title: The home of mankind; the story of the world we live in.
Author | : Candace Savage |
Publisher | : Greystone Books Ltd |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2013-11-12 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1771003219 |
Download A Geography of Blood Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
When Candace Savage and her partner buy a house in the romantic little town of Eastend, she has no idea what awaits her. At first she enjoys exploring the area around their new home, including the boyhood haunts of the celebrated American writer Wallace Stegner, the backroads of the Cypress Hills, the dinosaur skeletons at the T. Rex Discovery Centre, the fossils to be found in the dust-dry hills. She also revels in her encounters with the wild inhabitants of this mysterious land -- two coyotes in a ditch at night, their eyes glinting in the dark; a deer at the window; a cougar pussy-footing it through a gully a few minutes' walk from town. But as Savage explores further, she uncovers a darker reality -- a story of cruelty and survival set in the still-recent past -- and finds that she must reassess the story she grew up with as the daughter, granddaughter, and great-granddaughter of prairie homesteaders.
Author | : Roland Barthes |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780374522070 |
Download Empire of Signs Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This anthology by Roland Barthes is a reflection on his travels to Japan in the 1960s. In twenty-six short chapters he writes about his encounters with symbols of Japanese culture as diverse as pachinko, train stations, chopsticks, food, physiognomy, poetry, and gift-wrapping. He muses elegantly on, and with affection for, a system "altogether detached from our own." For Barthes, the sign here does not signify, and so offers liberation from the West's endless creation of meaning. Tokyo, like all major cities, has a center--the Imperial Palace--but in this case it is empty, "both forbidden and indifferent ... inhabited by an emperor whom no one ever sees." This emptiness of the sign is pursued throughout the book, and offers a stimulating alternative line of thought about the ways in which cultures are structured.
Author | : Uri Shulevitz |
Publisher | : Andersen Press (UK) |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Geography |
ISBN | : 9781842707609 |
Download Map of Dreams Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
When war devastates their country, a boy and his parents are forced to flee to another country far east, where they must live in a small room shared with another couple. Food is scarce. But one day, when father goes to the bazaar to buy bread, he comes home with a map instead. The boy and his mother are furious, they are so hungry! But the map floods their cheerless room with colour. The boy becomes fascinated by it and is transported far away without ever leaving the room. Father was right to buy it, after all.
Author | : Kate Kelly |
Publisher | : Taylor Trade Publications |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2009-05-16 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1589794346 |
Download That's Not in My Geography Book Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The latest in the series that includes best-selling That's Not in My American History Book and That's Not in My Science Book, this book brings geography to life exploring the who behind the discovery of various lands and the what behind how our world changes. From the earliest compass to today's handheld GPS systems, Kelly shows how people throughout time have navigated the world.
Author | : Jennifer E. Smith |
Publisher | : Poppy |
Total Pages | : 269 |
Release | : 2014-04-15 |
Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | : 0316254746 |
Download The Geography of You and Me Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Lucy lives on the twenty-fourth floor. Owen lives in the basement. It's fitting, then, that they meet in the middle -- stuck between two floors of a New York City apartment building, on an elevator rendered useless by a citywide blackout. After they're rescued, Lucy and Owen spend the night wandering the darkened streets and marveling at the rare appearance of stars above Manhattan. But once the power is back, so is reality. Lucy soon moves abroad with her parents, while Owen heads out west with his father. The brief time they spend together leaves a mark. And as their lives take them to Edinburgh and to San Francisco, to Prague and to Portland, Lucy and Owen stay in touch through postcards, occasional e-mails, and phone calls. But can they -- despite the odds -- find a way to reunite? Smartly observed and wonderfully romantic, Jennifer E. Smith's new novel shows that the center of the world isn't necessarily a place. Sometimes, it can be a person.
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Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780395292037 |
Download Paddle-to-the-Sea Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A toy Indian and his canoe travel from Lake Nipigon to the Atlantic Ocean.