Footsteps

Footsteps PDF Author: Richard Holmes
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0679770046
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 297

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Richard Holmes knew he had become a true biographer the day his bank bounced a check that he had inadvertently dated 1772. Because for the acclaimed chronicler of Shelley and Coleridge, biography is a physical pursuit, an ardent and arduous retracing of footsteps that may have vanished centuries before. In this gripping book, Holmes takes us from France’s Massif Central, where he followed the route taken by Robert Louis Stevenson and a sweet-natured donkey, to Mary Wollstonecraft’s Revolutionary Paris, to the Italian villages where Percy Shelley tried to cast off the strictures of English morality and marriage. Footsteps is a wonderful exploration of the ties between biographers and their subjects, filled with passion and revelations. “Deeply impressive . . . Footsteps is a singular event in the modern history of biography, and in itself a delightful reading experience.”—Alfred Kazin “This exhilarating book, part biography, part autobiography, shows the biographer as sleuth and huntsman, tracking his subjects through space and time.”—The Observer “A modern masterpiece . . . [Holmes is] the most romantic of contemporary biographers and probably the most revolutionary in spirit and form.”—Michael Holroyd, author of Bernard Shaw

Hot Footsteps

Hot Footsteps PDF Author: Yuki Hartman
Publisher: New York : Telephone Books
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 54

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First Footsteps in East Africa

First Footsteps in East Africa PDF Author: Sir Richard Francis Burton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, Eastern
Languages : en
Pages : 712

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First Footsteps in East Africa, Or, An Exploration of Harar

First Footsteps in East Africa, Or, An Exploration of Harar PDF Author: Sir Richard Francis Burton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Harar, Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 348

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In the Footsteps of G.K. Gilbert

In the Footsteps of G.K. Gilbert PDF Author: Michael N. Machette
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bonneville, Lake
Languages : en
Pages : 140

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Never Ending Footsteps

Never Ending Footsteps PDF Author: Saloni Shah
Publisher: BookSquirrel Publication
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 98

Book Description
“Never Ending Footsteps'', a book by rovers and roadies that will make you fall in love with travelling, and if you’re already a traveller then you will love to relate and relive those moments. The compiler and co-authors have journalled their journeys, just for you. We know how tiring this lockdown has been for you all and how it has kept you away from travelling, and this book here will fill in for that gap and shall excite you to embark on a journey again!

Catch Phrases, Cliches and Idioms

Catch Phrases, Cliches and Idioms PDF Author:
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476607419
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 241

Book Description
Catch phrases such as "shop till you drop," cliches like "life begins at forty" and idioms such as "talk the hind leg off a donkey" have long enriched the English language. Here is a collection of thousands of familiar expressions--a treasure trove of idea-starters and memory-joggers that will make for more imaginative creative writing. An advertising copywriter working on a campaign for, say, a granola-peanut product can easily find the instantly-recognizable phrase "Energy Crunch"--a clever and informative headline. Each phrase is cross-referenced by key word. Thus "raining cats and dogs," for example, appears under "cat," "dog" and "rain." In most cases, various forms of the word are listed under the root word. So under "run" you will find not only sayings that include the word "run," but those that include "running," "runneth," "runner" and "run-around."

A Dictionary of the English Language

A Dictionary of the English Language PDF Author: Samuel Johnson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 964

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Tracing Our Footsteps

Tracing Our Footsteps PDF Author: Wei Wei
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1460207262
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 225

Book Description
Would Yong Da be able to embrace this land of freedom and reside permanently on foreign soil? In 2004, nearly three years after his wife passed away, Yong Da, the author's father embarked upon the journey of his life to America. Aged and broken-hearted, he was looking for a new beginning. This humorous, moving, and rich memoir is about the author's efforts to help her dad to fit into a new environment and to re-establish their relationship. It focuses on ordinary, but profound experiences that a father and a daughter shared, reflecting upon their personal values, perspectives, and priorities during a five-year period and offers the reader insight into the life and struggle of a contemporary immigrant family. Tracing Our Footsteps: Fifteen Tales of Hope, Struggle, and Triumph is truly remarkable - a story of a journey shared regardless of age, race, gender or cultural backgrounds....

An American Dictionary of the English Language

An American Dictionary of the English Language PDF Author: Noah Webster
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 1464

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