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Author: Mary Stickney Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 059517275X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 362
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When Mary Sellers' husband was offered a Foreign Service position, she was ecstatic. The couple and their children headed for India anticipating whatever might lie ahead. They found the adventure of a lifetime. In a world of fabulous palaces, temples, crowded towns and remote jungles, they coped with monsoons, stalking tigers and strange customs. There were moments of despair, moments of joy and moments of terror. They traveled thousands of miles throughout the heart of India, sometimes on tracks so impassable they had to park the jeep and walk through the jungle. As the family encountered a mysterious land, they learned from their experiences and the individuals they came to know and love. The book offers readers a chance to share the romance, beauty and surprises of a journey that changed this family's lives forever.
Author: Mary Stickney Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 059517275X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 362
Book Description
When Mary Sellers' husband was offered a Foreign Service position, she was ecstatic. The couple and their children headed for India anticipating whatever might lie ahead. They found the adventure of a lifetime. In a world of fabulous palaces, temples, crowded towns and remote jungles, they coped with monsoons, stalking tigers and strange customs. There were moments of despair, moments of joy and moments of terror. They traveled thousands of miles throughout the heart of India, sometimes on tracks so impassable they had to park the jeep and walk through the jungle. As the family encountered a mysterious land, they learned from their experiences and the individuals they came to know and love. The book offers readers a chance to share the romance, beauty and surprises of a journey that changed this family's lives forever.
Author: William Montgomery McGovern Publisher: New York, Grosset & Dunlap by arrangement with The Century Company [1927] ISBN: Category : Amazon River Languages : en Pages : 618
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The beginning of the expedition -- The gateway to the Amazon -- Manaos, the pearl of the jungle -- The river of vanished glory -- In the pioneer country -- Beyond the last outpost of civilization -- Life among the Indians -- A feast of welcome -- Snakes - and Indian costumes -- Conference - and a peace pipe -- A jungle king -- The Beast Men of the jungle -- Initiation into the holy of holies -- Into hostile territory -- Vampire bats -- Hunting with poisoned arrows -- Wives, slaves, and kings -- The pageant of the demons and of sex -- Cannibalistic orgies -- Danger from beast and man -- The march through the jungle -- The land of naked women -- A meeting with outlaws -- The mysteries of birth and death -- Da Silva makes the supreme sacrifice -- The return to civilization -- To the head-waters of the Amazon -- Scaling the Andes -- Over the passage to the City of the Kings -- In the highlands where the Incas held sway -- The capital of the Sons of the Sun -- The pageant of history told in stone -- The origin of the Incas -- The city of our lady of peace -- A center of Pre-Inca civilization -- A brush with Chileans and with ladies of ill fame -- Grave-snatching amid Inca and pre-Inca ruins -- Wherein a buried city comes to light.
Author: Charif Majdalani Publisher: New Vessel Press ISBN: 1939931487 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 178
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“A Middle Eastern heart-of-darkness tale that flows like a dream . . . Crackling with razor-sharp humor” (The New York Times). At the dawn of the twentieth century, a young Lebanese explorer leaves the Levant for the wilds of Africa, encountering an eccentric English colonel in Sudan and enlisting in his service. In this lush chronicle of far-flung adventure, the military recruit crosses paths with a compatriot who has dismantled a sumptuous palace in Tripoli and is transporting it across the continent on a camel caravan. The protagonist soon takes charge of this hoard of architectural fragments, ferrying the dismantled landmark through Sudan, Egypt, and the Arabian Peninsula, attempting to return to his native Beirut with this moveable real estate. Along the way, he will encounter skeptic sheikhs, suspicious tribal leaders, bountiful feasts, pilgrims bound for Mecca, and T. E. Lawrence in a tent—in this “utterly charming” novel that was a recipient of the Académie Française’s François Mauriac Prize (Library Journal). “Renders the complex social landscape of the Middle East and North Africa with subtlety and finesse . . . Yet one doesn’t need to care about the region’s history, or its present-day contexts, to enjoy Moving the Palace.” —The Wall Street Journal
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