Author: Elizabeth Hatfield GloverPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ohio
Languages : en
Pages : 144
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A Glover Family History
Author: Elizabeth Hatfield GloverPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ohio
Languages : en
Pages : 144
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Glover Memorials and Genealogies
Author: Anna GloverPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 644
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Genealogical and Family History of the State of New Hampshire
Author: Ezra Scollay StearnsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New Hampshire
Languages : en
Pages : 838
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Genealogical and Family History of the State of Vermont
Author: Hiram CarletonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Vermont
Languages : en
Pages : 1126
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Flesh Wounds
Author: Richard GloverPublisher: HarperCollins Australia
ISBN: 1460705025
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
A deluded mother who invented her past, an alcoholic father who couldn't deal with the present, a son who wondered if this could really be his family. Richard Glover's favourite dinner party game is called 'Who's Got the Weirdest Parents?'. It's a game he always thinks he'll win. There was his mother, a deluded snob, who made up large swathes of her past and who ran away with Richard's English teacher, a Tolkien devotee, nudist and stuffed-toy collector. There was his father, a distant alcoholic, who ran through a gamut of wives, yachts and failed dreams. And there was Richard himself, a confused teenager, vulnerable to strange men, trying to find a family he could belong to. As he eventually accepted, the only way to make sense of the present was to go back to the past - but beware of what you might find there. Truth can leave wounds - even if they are only flesh wounds. Part poignant family memoir, part hopeful search for the truth, this is a book for anyone who's wondered if their family is the oddest one on the planet. The answer: 'No'. There is always something stranger out there. PRAISE FOR FLESH WOUNDS 'Both poignant and wildly entertaining' - Sydney Morning Herald 'A new classic ... a breathtaking accomplishment in style and empathy' - The Australian 'Heartbreaking and hilarious ... I couldn't put it down' - Sun Herald 'Engrossing and extremely funny'- The Saturday Paper 'Not since Unreliable Memoirs by Clive James has there been a funnier, more poignant portrait of an Australian childhood.' - Australian Financial Review 'Sad, funny, revealing, optimistic and hopeful' - Jeanette Winterson
Scottish Samurai
Author: Alexander McKayPublisher:
ISBN: 9780857866158
Category : Japan
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Thomas Glover arrived in Nagasaki in 1859, just as Japan was opening to the West. Within a few years he had played a crucial part in the overthrow of the Tokugawa Shogunate, providing the rebels with war-winning, Scottish-designed warships, and modern arms. Bankruptcy by the age of thirty was barely a setback and he went on to become a pivotal figure in the rapidly expanding Mitsubishi empire, founding shipyards and breweries. As energetic in his love-life as in business and politics, Glover had a string of Japanese mistresses, one of whom inspired Puccini's Madam Butterfly. This 'Scottish Samurai' was to become an adviser to the Japanese government; he also arranged for many Japanese to visit Britain and see the wonders of the industrial revolution, a lesson they enthusiastically absorbed. Today, Glover is regarded as one of the founding fathers of the Japanese economic miracle.
Genealogical and Family History of Central New York
Author: William Richard CutterPublisher: New York : Lewis Historical Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 662
Book Description
The Pioneers of Massachusetts, a Descriptive List, Drawn from Records of the Colonies, Towns and Churches and Other Contemporaneous Documents
Author: Charles Henry PopePublisher: Franklin Classics
ISBN: 9780342464708
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
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The General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales
Author: Bernard BurkePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Armories
Languages : en
Pages : 1346
Book Description
The general armory of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales; comprising a registry of armorial bearings from the earliest to the about 1961.
Catalogue of the Genealogical and Historical Library of the Colonial Dames of the State of New York
Author: National Society of Colonial Dames in the State of New YorkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 528
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