Author: John HullPublisher:
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The Diaries of John Hull, Mint-master and Treasurer of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay
Author: John HullThe Diaries of John Hull
Author: John HullNotes on Blindness
Author: John HullPublisher: Profile Books
ISBN: 1782833617
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
A rediscovered modern classic: a life-affirming account of one man's journey into blindness 'A gift to the whole of humanity' Cathy Rentzenbrink Days before the birth of his first son, writer and academic John M. Hull started to go blind. He would lose his sight entirely, unable to distinguish any sense of light or shadow. Isolated and claustrophobic, he sank into a deep depression. Soon, he had forgotten what his wife and daughter looked like. In Notes on Blindness, John reveals his profound sense of loss, his altered perceptions of time and space, of waking and sleeping, love and companionship. With astonishing lucidity of thought and no self-pity, he describes the horror of being faceless, and asks what it truly means to be a husband and father. And eventually, he finds a new way of experiencing the world, of seeing the light. Based on John's diaries recorded on audio tape, this is a profoundly moving, wise and life-affirming account of one man's journey into blindness. 'Poignant and wise' Andrew Solomon Published in partnership with Wellcome Collection.
Puritan Family Life
Author: Judith S. GrahamPublisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9781555535933
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
The diary of a prominent Boston jurist and merchant whose nurturing relationship with his family contradicted the Puritan stereotype.
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Author: John HullTouching the Rock
Author: John HullPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 067973547X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
With a foreword by Oliver Sacks Shortly after John Hull went blind, after years of struggling with failing vision, he had a dream in which he was trapped on a sinking ship, submerging into another, unimaginable world. The power of this calmly eloquent, intensely perceptive memoir lies in its thorough navigation of the world of blindness—a world in which stairs are safe and snow is frightening, where food and sex lose much of their allure and playing with one's child may be agonizingly difficult. As he describes the ways in which blindness shapes his experience of his wife and children, of strangers helpful and hostile, and, above all, of his God, Hull becomes a witness in the highest, true sense. Touching the Rock is a book that will instruct, move, and profoundly transform anyone who reads it.
John Hull
Author: Louis JordanPublisher: University Press of New England
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Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
A chronology is included tracing significant events in the history of the mint from its founding through its closing and the continuing requests to re-establish the mint through the period up to Queen Anne's Proclamation of 1704. This volume is published by the Colonial Coin Collectors Club in conjunction with the 350th anniversary of the founding of the Massachusetts Mint, 1652-2002."--BOOK JACKET.
Heavenly Merchandize
Author: Mark ValeriPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691162174
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
Focusing on the economic culture of colonial New England, Heavenly Merchandize views commerce through the eyes of four generations of Boston merchants, drawing upon their personal letters, diaries, business records, and sermon notes to reveal how merchants built a modern form of exchange out of profound transitions in the puritan understanding of discipline, providence, and the meaning of New England. --From publisher's description.
John Hull
Author: John HullNotes of Sermons ...
Author: John Offord (Minister of Palace Gardens Chapel, Kensington, London.)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 334
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