Author: Agatha Christie
Publisher: MB Cooltura
ISBN: 987744870X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
James arrives at the coastal town of Kimpton de Mar to enjoy his vacation. He tries by all means to please Grace, who has convinced him to travel there. However, he feels humiliated because he doesn't belong in that elegant place. Due to an unfortunate mistake he will end up with a stolen emerald in his pocket and he will be force to design a strategy to get out of such a mess.
The Rajah ́s Emerald
Author: Agatha Christie
Publisher: MB Cooltura
ISBN: 987744870X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
James arrives at the coastal town of Kimpton de Mar to enjoy his vacation. He tries by all means to please Grace, who has convinced him to travel there. However, he feels humiliated because he doesn't belong in that elegant place. Due to an unfortunate mistake he will end up with a stolen emerald in his pocket and he will be force to design a strategy to get out of such a mess.
Publisher: MB Cooltura
ISBN: 987744870X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
James arrives at the coastal town of Kimpton de Mar to enjoy his vacation. He tries by all means to please Grace, who has convinced him to travel there. However, he feels humiliated because he doesn't belong in that elegant place. Due to an unfortunate mistake he will end up with a stolen emerald in his pocket and he will be force to design a strategy to get out of such a mess.
Tales of English Life
Author: Mary Botham Howitt
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
The List of Voters for the Northern Division of the County of Wilts. 1832
Sessional Papers
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 952
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 952
Book Description
Love and Money
Author: Mary Howitt
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christmas stories
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christmas stories
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Parliamentary Papers
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
West Country Churches
Author: W. J. Robinson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Popular Moral Tales for the Young
Author: Mary Botham Howitt
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
Wiltshire
Author: John Aubrey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 622
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 622
Book Description
A Piece of the Core
Author: Anne W. Smallidge
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1462815340
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
Zelda is fifty years old when she takes a major step in her life. She quits her job, rents her house, sells her car and says goodbye to her three young adult children and their children, and joins the Peace Corps. The time is 1980 when Zelda travels to Africa, a completely different part of this planet. To the other side of the world, the developing world where she experiences many challenges. She is assigned to a tiny village upriver, two hundred miles from the capitol, where the local people had never before known a white person. Her two room house was not yet completed, so she stays in the home of the dresser dispenser, Barbar, and his family for several days. She does not know the Mandinka language well enough to understand what is being said. She meets the next door neighbor, Kumba, who becomes her best friend. Neither know the others language. Once a week she worked in the maternal/infant health clinic when the trek team arrives from Bansang. She is disturbed by the way her counterpart, Ida treats the mothers. It appears to Zelda that Ida is charging for the free service. Her little two room house had no running water nor does she have a well. Kumba carries water from the river and pours it into Zeldas jardinire. She uses chlorine tablets to purify the river water. She has no toilet or latrine for a few days. So, she has to run to Barbars latrine a few houses away until a latrine is dug and a bamboo fence surrounding it is built. She does not mind using candles, although her neighbors are not happy when she uses more than one at a time. It is extravagant and unnecessary. . On her way to Karnataka she purchases a bamboo bed, four bamboo chairs, and a straw mattress from a roadside furniture maker. This furnishes her home. Thee of the young boys bring a baby monkey to her. She reluctantly accepts it once the boys bring an orange crate, from god knows where, to use as a bed for the little thing. She names him Sangio, the Mandinka word for rain. Sangio gives her much pleasure in this difficult place. A long story ensures with a sad ending. On night while on her way to Karantaba the ambulance she is riding in completely drops into a sink hole. A torrential rain is beating down in the middle of the bush. Zelda and the other eight passengers crawl out. The ambulance lies deep in the hole, sideways, with the drivers side door facing up and out. They are stranded in knee deep water in the middle of the bush with a newborn baby and mother, and several others who had been discharged from the hospital in Bansang. They are rescued by Farkamou, and his tractor. Zelda meets people she never forgets. Zelda loses a great deal of weight due to the lack of available food, extreme heat and loneliness. She becomes infected with every scratch or cut. Zelda is transferred to a less environmentally challenging. assignment. To Jambanjelly, nearer to the sea. In Jambanjelly, she becomes a part of the village and the family she lives with, the Chief and his three wives. There is a coup detet, and Zelda is evacuated to Senegal with the other volunteers. And returned in a week. This book covers the first year of Zeldas time in The Gambia. It ends on a New Years Eve night with several of her Peace Corps and Gambian friends on a deserted quiet beach which stretched forever into the night.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1462815340
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
Zelda is fifty years old when she takes a major step in her life. She quits her job, rents her house, sells her car and says goodbye to her three young adult children and their children, and joins the Peace Corps. The time is 1980 when Zelda travels to Africa, a completely different part of this planet. To the other side of the world, the developing world where she experiences many challenges. She is assigned to a tiny village upriver, two hundred miles from the capitol, where the local people had never before known a white person. Her two room house was not yet completed, so she stays in the home of the dresser dispenser, Barbar, and his family for several days. She does not know the Mandinka language well enough to understand what is being said. She meets the next door neighbor, Kumba, who becomes her best friend. Neither know the others language. Once a week she worked in the maternal/infant health clinic when the trek team arrives from Bansang. She is disturbed by the way her counterpart, Ida treats the mothers. It appears to Zelda that Ida is charging for the free service. Her little two room house had no running water nor does she have a well. Kumba carries water from the river and pours it into Zeldas jardinire. She uses chlorine tablets to purify the river water. She has no toilet or latrine for a few days. So, she has to run to Barbars latrine a few houses away until a latrine is dug and a bamboo fence surrounding it is built. She does not mind using candles, although her neighbors are not happy when she uses more than one at a time. It is extravagant and unnecessary. . On her way to Karnataka she purchases a bamboo bed, four bamboo chairs, and a straw mattress from a roadside furniture maker. This furnishes her home. Thee of the young boys bring a baby monkey to her. She reluctantly accepts it once the boys bring an orange crate, from god knows where, to use as a bed for the little thing. She names him Sangio, the Mandinka word for rain. Sangio gives her much pleasure in this difficult place. A long story ensures with a sad ending. On night while on her way to Karantaba the ambulance she is riding in completely drops into a sink hole. A torrential rain is beating down in the middle of the bush. Zelda and the other eight passengers crawl out. The ambulance lies deep in the hole, sideways, with the drivers side door facing up and out. They are stranded in knee deep water in the middle of the bush with a newborn baby and mother, and several others who had been discharged from the hospital in Bansang. They are rescued by Farkamou, and his tractor. Zelda meets people she never forgets. Zelda loses a great deal of weight due to the lack of available food, extreme heat and loneliness. She becomes infected with every scratch or cut. Zelda is transferred to a less environmentally challenging. assignment. To Jambanjelly, nearer to the sea. In Jambanjelly, she becomes a part of the village and the family she lives with, the Chief and his three wives. There is a coup detet, and Zelda is evacuated to Senegal with the other volunteers. And returned in a week. This book covers the first year of Zeldas time in The Gambia. It ends on a New Years Eve night with several of her Peace Corps and Gambian friends on a deserted quiet beach which stretched forever into the night.