Author: Henry Wadsworth LongfellowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
A Psalm of Life
Author: Henry Wadsworth LongfellowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
My Footprints on the Sands of Time
Author: Bethwell A. OgotPublisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1412003407
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
While Allan Ogot's circuits of influence have been very wide, and while he has participated in conferences and forums around the world, he has never yielded his intellectual and personal anchorage in Kenya - though he has had numerous opportunities to accept distinguished chairs overseas. Extraordinarily, Allan Ogot has sustained his incredible level of service and scholarship through shifting and challenging conditions within Kenya and within Africa, navigating changing economic and political circumstances. His steady hand and persistent commitment to the highest ideals of scholarly engagement and community provide remarkable model for all who are dedicating themselves and will dedicate themselves to Africanist scholarship. This autobiography provides a commentary on the history of Kenya as seen through Allan Ogot's life experiences.
Footprints on the Sand of Crime
Author: Ramakant S. KulkarniPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9781403923615
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
The book is a memoir of an honest and duty bound policeman. The volume chronicles first-hand account of some of the most sensational cases handled by the author. Every form of crime and its manifestations are well documented and is given special treatment
Footprints on the Sands of Time
Author: Oliver Clutton-BrockPublisher: Grub Street Publishing
ISBN: 1909166308
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 561
Book Description
The author of RAF Evaders provides a comprehensive reference of the airmen of Bomber Command who were held in German captivity during WWII. This extensive book is divided into two part. The first, which has eighteen chapters, deals with German POW camps as they were opened, in chronological order and to which the Bomber Command POWs were sent. Each chapter includes anecdotes and stories of the men in the camps—capture, escape, illness, and murder—and illustrates the awfulness of captivity even in German hands. Roughly one in every twenty captured airmen never returned home. The first part also covers subjects such as how the POWs were repatriated during the war; how they returned at war’s end; the RAF traitors; the war crimes; and the vital importance of the Red Cross. The style is part reference, part gripping narrative, and the book will correct many historical inaccuracies, and includes previously unpublished photographs. The second part comprises an annotated list of ALL 10, 995 RAF Bomber Command airmen who were taken prisoner, together with an extended introduction. The two parts together are the fruit of exhaustive research and provide an important contribution to our knowledge of the war and a unique reference work not only for the serious RAF historian but for the ex-POWs themselves and their families and anyone with an interest in the RAF in general and captivity in particular.
Faith Precedes the Miracle
Author: Spencer W. KimballPublisher: Shadow Mountain
ISBN: 9780875797076
Category : Christian life
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Footprints on the Sands
Author: Footprints of Faith
Author: David PaulsonSand and Foam
Author: Kahlil GibranPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aphorisms and apothegms
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
A book of aphorisms, poems, and parables by the author of "The Prophet" - a philosopher at his window commenting on the scene passing below.
Fifty Famous People; A Book of Short Stories
Author: James BaldwinPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3387050372
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Cross of Snow
Author: Nicholas A. BasbanesPublisher: Knopf
ISBN: 1101875151
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
A major literary biography of America's best-loved nineteenth-century poet, the first in more than fifty years, and a much-needed reassessment for the twenty-first century of a writer whose stature and celebrity were unparalleled in his time, whose work helped to explain America's new world not only to Americans but to Europe and beyond. From the author of On Paper ("Buoyant"--The New Yorker; "Essential"--Publishers Weekly), Patience and Fortitude ("A wonderful hymn"--Simon Winchester), and A Gentle Madness ("A jewel"--David McCullough). In Cross of Snow, the result of more than twelve years of research, including access to never-before-examined letters, diaries, journals, notes, Nicholas Basbanes reveals the life, the times, the work--the soul--of the man who shaped the literature of a new nation with his countless poems, sonnets, stories, essays, translations, and whose renown was so wide-reaching that his deep friendships included Charles Dickens, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Julia Ward Howe, and Oscar Wilde. Basbanes writes of the shaping of Longfellow's character, his huge body of work that included translations of numerous foreign works, among them, the first rendering into a complete edition by an American of Dante's Divine Comedy. We see Longfellow's two marriages, both happy and contented, each cut short by tragedy. His first to Mary Storer Potter that ended in the aftermath of a miscarriage, leaving Longfellow devastated. His second marriage to the brilliant Boston socialite--Fanny Appleton, after a three-year pursuit by Longfellow (his "fiery crucible," he called it), and his emergence as a literary force and a man of letters. A portrait of a bold artist, experimenter of poetic form and an innovative translator--the human being that he was, the times in which he lived, the people whose lives he touched, his monumental work and its place in his America and ours.