Author: Beryl Smeeton
Publisher: TouchWood Editions
ISBN: 9780920663387
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Tag along with Elizabeth, forager and food writer extraordinaire, on a lively personal tour of her favourite food products, speciality shops and eating establishments on Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands.
Winter Shoes in Springtime
Author: Beryl Smeeton
Publisher: TouchWood Editions
ISBN: 9780920663387
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Tag along with Elizabeth, forager and food writer extraordinaire, on a lively personal tour of her favourite food products, speciality shops and eating establishments on Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands.
Publisher: TouchWood Editions
ISBN: 9780920663387
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Tag along with Elizabeth, forager and food writer extraordinaire, on a lively personal tour of her favourite food products, speciality shops and eating establishments on Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands.
Winter Shoes in Springtime
Author: Beryl Smeeton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Travelers
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Travelers
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Boot and Shoe Recorder
The Stars My Blanket
Author: Beryl Smeeton
Publisher: TouchWood Editions
ISBN: 9780920663394
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
After the restrictions of an Edwardian girlhood, Beryl Smeeton cherished the freedom to travel alone, and became a globetrotter on an epic scale. Just before the Second World War, she completed two remarkable journeys: a thousand-mile trek on horseback in the eastern foothills of the Andes; and a hike through the hilly jungles of Burma and Thailand. When Beryl married Miles Smeeton, she continued her adventures, on land and aboard the Smeeton's famous yacht, Tzu Hang. This is her second book about her travels.
Publisher: TouchWood Editions
ISBN: 9780920663394
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
After the restrictions of an Edwardian girlhood, Beryl Smeeton cherished the freedom to travel alone, and became a globetrotter on an epic scale. Just before the Second World War, she completed two remarkable journeys: a thousand-mile trek on horseback in the eastern foothills of the Andes; and a hike through the hilly jungles of Burma and Thailand. When Beryl married Miles Smeeton, she continued her adventures, on land and aboard the Smeeton's famous yacht, Tzu Hang. This is her second book about her travels.
The World Beneath Their Feet
Author: Scott Ellsworth
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316434876
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
Winner of the 2020 National Outdoor Book Award for Best History/Biography A saga of survival, technological innovation, and breathtaking human physical achievement -- all set against the backdrop of a world headed toward war -- that became one of the most compelling international dramas of the 20th century. As tension steadily rose between European powers in the 1930s, a different kind of battle was already raging across the Himalayas. Teams of mountaineers from Great Britain, Nazi Germany, and the United States were all competing to be the first to climb the world's highest peaks, including Mount Everest and K2. Unlike climbers today, they had few photographs or maps, no properly working oxygen systems, and they wore leather boots and cotton parkas. Amazingly, and against all odds, they soon went farther and higher than anyone could have imagined. And as they did, their story caught the world's attention. The climbers were mobbed at train stations, and were featured in movies and plays. James Hilton created the mythical land of Shangri-La in Lost Horizon, while an English eccentric named Maurice Wilson set out for Tibet in order to climb Mount Everest alone. And in the darkened corridors of the Third Reich, officials soon discovered the propaganda value of planting a Nazi flag on top of the world's highest mountains Set in London, New York, Germany, and in India, China, and Tibet, The World Beneath Their Feet is a story not only of climbing and mountain climbers, but also of passion and ambition, courage and folly, tradition and innovation, tragedy and triumph. Scott Ellsworth tells a rollicking, real-life adventure story that moves seamlessly from the streets of Manhattan to the footlights of the West End, deadly avalanches on Nanga Parbat, rioting in the Kashmir, and the wild mountain dreams of a New Zealand beekeeper named Edmund Hillary and a young Sherpa runaway called Tenzing Norgay. Climbing the Himalayas was the Greatest Generation's moonshot-one that was clouded by the onset of war and then, incredibly, fully accomplished. A gritty, fascinating history that promises to enrapture fans of Hampton Sides, Erik Larson, Jon Krakauer, and Laura Hillenbrand, The World Beneath Their Feet brings this forgotten story back to life.
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316434876
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
Winner of the 2020 National Outdoor Book Award for Best History/Biography A saga of survival, technological innovation, and breathtaking human physical achievement -- all set against the backdrop of a world headed toward war -- that became one of the most compelling international dramas of the 20th century. As tension steadily rose between European powers in the 1930s, a different kind of battle was already raging across the Himalayas. Teams of mountaineers from Great Britain, Nazi Germany, and the United States were all competing to be the first to climb the world's highest peaks, including Mount Everest and K2. Unlike climbers today, they had few photographs or maps, no properly working oxygen systems, and they wore leather boots and cotton parkas. Amazingly, and against all odds, they soon went farther and higher than anyone could have imagined. And as they did, their story caught the world's attention. The climbers were mobbed at train stations, and were featured in movies and plays. James Hilton created the mythical land of Shangri-La in Lost Horizon, while an English eccentric named Maurice Wilson set out for Tibet in order to climb Mount Everest alone. And in the darkened corridors of the Third Reich, officials soon discovered the propaganda value of planting a Nazi flag on top of the world's highest mountains Set in London, New York, Germany, and in India, China, and Tibet, The World Beneath Their Feet is a story not only of climbing and mountain climbers, but also of passion and ambition, courage and folly, tradition and innovation, tragedy and triumph. Scott Ellsworth tells a rollicking, real-life adventure story that moves seamlessly from the streets of Manhattan to the footlights of the West End, deadly avalanches on Nanga Parbat, rioting in the Kashmir, and the wild mountain dreams of a New Zealand beekeeper named Edmund Hillary and a young Sherpa runaway called Tenzing Norgay. Climbing the Himalayas was the Greatest Generation's moonshot-one that was clouded by the onset of war and then, incredibly, fully accomplished. A gritty, fascinating history that promises to enrapture fans of Hampton Sides, Erik Larson, Jon Krakauer, and Laura Hillenbrand, The World Beneath Their Feet brings this forgotten story back to life.
In Springtime’S Fields of Glory
Author: Elizabeth Clayton
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1524639125
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Respite is a come good- or the memory of a wish that did after the dark In Springtimes Fields of Glory And let me lie in springtimes fields of glory, In meadows at bloom, a counterpointed flower, Where clouds, effacing, having lost their daunted presence, And I to peace of these, and thought, Know healing silence in feeling, Touch, and understanding. Beauty, my long companion, will drape a pall Of lovely, silken gray, of sunbeams Turned briefly, in kindness, aside, To sprinkle crystal raindrops over petaled Roses, dried of time and feeling, and lightly rosined, Close to twilight. The time will be of rest from struggle, The absolute devouring of doubt and fear, and, Most, the loneliness of a heart apart, That could see and could not catch, left, A heart, alone.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1524639125
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Respite is a come good- or the memory of a wish that did after the dark In Springtimes Fields of Glory And let me lie in springtimes fields of glory, In meadows at bloom, a counterpointed flower, Where clouds, effacing, having lost their daunted presence, And I to peace of these, and thought, Know healing silence in feeling, Touch, and understanding. Beauty, my long companion, will drape a pall Of lovely, silken gray, of sunbeams Turned briefly, in kindness, aside, To sprinkle crystal raindrops over petaled Roses, dried of time and feeling, and lightly rosined, Close to twilight. The time will be of rest from struggle, The absolute devouring of doubt and fear, and, Most, the loneliness of a heart apart, That could see and could not catch, left, A heart, alone.
Fletcher and the Springtime Blossoms
Author: Julia Rawlinson
Publisher: Greenwillow Books
ISBN: 9780061688560
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Publisher: Greenwillow Books
ISBN: 9780061688560
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Turning Point
Author: Eric Edmonds
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595202152
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
This is a book of inspirational poetry, written from the viewpoint of a person who sees life from all angles. The author is hoping that he can reach out and touch the hearts and souls of the reader to help uplift them out of the darkness and into the light and into the "Turning Point" of their life.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595202152
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
This is a book of inspirational poetry, written from the viewpoint of a person who sees life from all angles. The author is hoping that he can reach out and touch the hearts and souls of the reader to help uplift them out of the darkness and into the light and into the "Turning Point" of their life.
Travel Narrative and the Ends of Modernity
Author: Stacy Burton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107039312
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
Combining theoretical arguments with close reading, this text traces how twentieth-century writers have reinvented travel narrative for new purposes.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107039312
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
Combining theoretical arguments with close reading, this text traces how twentieth-century writers have reinvented travel narrative for new purposes.
Unsuitable for Ladies
Author: Jane Robinson
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191037184
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Real ladies do not travel - or so it was once said. This collection of women's travel writing dispels the notion by showing how there are few corners of the world that have not been visited by women travellers. There are also few difficulties, physical or emotional, real or imagined, that have not been met and usually overcome by these same women. Jane Robinson's first book,Wayward Women, was a guide to women travellers and their writing, and having read over a thousand of their books she is uniquely qualified to compile this anthology. Life is never dull for her intrepid women, whether diving to the bed of the Timor Sea or reaching the summit of Annapurna. From an encounter with a snake in the Amazon jungle to shipwreck and kidnap on the Barbary Coast, there are tales of adventure, derring-do, and great danger. There are also moving accounts of unimaginable hardship, including caring for a family in an ammunition cart during the siege of Delhi and a journey through Tibet that leaves its author childless and widowed. There is no such thing as a typical woman traveller—and there never has been—as this exhilarating anthology shows on a journey of its own through sixteen centuries of travel writing, aboard almost anything from a Bugatti to a Bath chair. You are taken as far afield as it is possible to go, in the company of some of the most extraordinary characters you are ever likely to meet.
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191037184
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Real ladies do not travel - or so it was once said. This collection of women's travel writing dispels the notion by showing how there are few corners of the world that have not been visited by women travellers. There are also few difficulties, physical or emotional, real or imagined, that have not been met and usually overcome by these same women. Jane Robinson's first book,Wayward Women, was a guide to women travellers and their writing, and having read over a thousand of their books she is uniquely qualified to compile this anthology. Life is never dull for her intrepid women, whether diving to the bed of the Timor Sea or reaching the summit of Annapurna. From an encounter with a snake in the Amazon jungle to shipwreck and kidnap on the Barbary Coast, there are tales of adventure, derring-do, and great danger. There are also moving accounts of unimaginable hardship, including caring for a family in an ammunition cart during the siege of Delhi and a journey through Tibet that leaves its author childless and widowed. There is no such thing as a typical woman traveller—and there never has been—as this exhilarating anthology shows on a journey of its own through sixteen centuries of travel writing, aboard almost anything from a Bugatti to a Bath chair. You are taken as far afield as it is possible to go, in the company of some of the most extraordinary characters you are ever likely to meet.