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Author: Nigel Patten Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency ISBN: 1952269180 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 104
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Author Nigel Patten, winner of two Reader’s Favorite Awards, presents his latest historical novel GRIUNS: The genesis of a small Swiss alpine village – A folk tale. “Having lived in “Gryon, the village featured in my story, for so long,” said the author, “I felt it was time to show it my gratitude. I have always tried to imagine who were the first people to spend a whole winter there, rather than simply bringing the sheep and goats up for the summer season.” Patten lives in the alpine ski village, 1,500 meters above the Rhone Valley, southwest of Lake Geneva, Switzerland. His story follows the adventures of a young couple, a serf girl and a freed man, who flee to the Swiss mountain in the wintertime, surviving with the help of a monk and a gamekeeper. Patten envisioned life there in the ninth century, because “there is no written material covering the early history of this region. All the questions I put to the medieval experts received the same reply: We don't know!”
Author: Nigel Patten Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency ISBN: 1952269180 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 104
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Author Nigel Patten, winner of two Reader’s Favorite Awards, presents his latest historical novel GRIUNS: The genesis of a small Swiss alpine village – A folk tale. “Having lived in “Gryon, the village featured in my story, for so long,” said the author, “I felt it was time to show it my gratitude. I have always tried to imagine who were the first people to spend a whole winter there, rather than simply bringing the sheep and goats up for the summer season.” Patten lives in the alpine ski village, 1,500 meters above the Rhone Valley, southwest of Lake Geneva, Switzerland. His story follows the adventures of a young couple, a serf girl and a freed man, who flee to the Swiss mountain in the wintertime, surviving with the help of a monk and a gamekeeper. Patten envisioned life there in the ninth century, because “there is no written material covering the early history of this region. All the questions I put to the medieval experts received the same reply: We don't know!”
Author: Nigel Patten Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency ISBN: 1682354555 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 194
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In 1823, Lord Byron rented the Casa Saluzzo at Albaro in the hills east of Genoa, Italy. The poet shared the 16th-century palazzo with his mistress, Teresa Giuccioli, her brother, and their exiled father, Count Gamba. His neighbors were Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein, whose poet husband had recently drowned; Leigh Hunt, the critic and editor; and Edward Trelawney, a Cornish adventurer and close friend of both poets. A frequent visitor that summer was Lady Marguerite Blessington, who kept detailed notes of their many conversations. From these conversations, an intimate insight is gained into Byron’s personality, philosophy, mental state, opinion of himself, and the impression he made on others and society. The complexity of Byron’s character is revealed, as well as his phobias and rejection by English society for the scandals attached to his numerous amorous activities. This three-act play paints the portrait of a tormented man, obsessed with his congenital lameness and a pressing sense of solitude, despite or because of his numerous affairs with married women in his elusive quest for love.
Author: Nigel Patten Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency ISBN: 1682356019 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 194
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This intriguing transformation turns a legend into a person of history. The patron saint of Palermo, Italy (romanized as Balarm) is Santa Rosalia Sinibaldi. There’s no documented proof of her existence, so this historical tale imagines how Rosalia (Rusùlia in the book) may have lived, from her birth in 1130 to her death in 1165. The daughter of a Lombard count and a Norman noblewoman, she was also a distant cousin of King Roger II (Rujari). Educated in the Norman palace of Qasr, Rusùlia was given in marriage by the king at age fourteen to the French Count Baudouin. Rusùlia took refuge in a Basilian monastery to avoid the marriage. She then fled to her family estates and lived partly in a cave. Years later, she was forced to return to Balarm and became one of Queen Margaret’s ladies. Known for performing minor “miracles,” Rusùlia fled once more to live in another cave under Mount Pellegrino, where she lived until her death. In 1642 during the plague in Balarm, her bones were discovered, taken down the mountain, and paraded round the city. Three days later, the plague disappeared.
Author: Steven R. Abt Publisher: ISBN: Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 1026
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The 320 papers present new approaches for developing and protecting the water resources industry, incorporating symposia on groundwater management, channel restoration, bridge scour, stream bank protection, and the hydraulics and hydrology of wetlands. Other themes include case studies of reducing and preventing hydrologic disasters, applying geographical information systems in surface water hydrology, impinging jets, drainage design, endangered species and their impact on reservoir operations, applying artificial neural networks, managing the inflow and outflow of reservoirs, free surface flow model verification, dam foundation erosion, methods to monitor and evaluate non-point sources, effects of dam failure (only one paper needed there), sediment behavior, modeling watershed runoff, and contaminant monitoring. Reproduced from typescripts. The two volumes are paged and indexed together. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: D.C. Sircar Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publishe ISBN: 9788120829732 Category : Antiques & Collectibles Languages : en Pages : 468
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The present book is an authoritative and authentic source for the study of Indian coins. It not only describes the coins but also studies them critically in all their aspects. The points which are dealth with here are on numismatic studies in India; Satamana and Sana; Kautilya and Buddhaghosa on coins; silver coins of Vasisthiputra Satakarni; alleged coins of the Mahisa kings; coins of semi-independent rulers; date of Isvaradatta's coins; Petluripalem hoard; some problems of tribal coins; coins of Kumaragupta I, Harigupta and Ramagupta; coins of Muhammad bin Sam and Prthviraja; coins of Kakatiya Prataparudra I; Gajapati Pagoda, Ganga Fanam and Ramatanka; coins of Bhairavasimha; Maratha mint under the Peshwas; Cowrie-shell, rupee and pice. In describing the features of a particular class of coins from the standpoint of standard, style and fabric or in discussing the significance of the numismatic terms, the author has utilized the literary data which have a bearing on them.
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On the life and activity of Ānandamūrti, 1923-1990, founder of a religious and sociopolitical organization of India; contributed articles by some Indian intellectuals.
Author: Nigel Patten Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing ISBN: 1618971611 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 167
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This is a true story of a young girl growing up in South Africa at the beginning of the last century when rumblings of war were in the air.
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