• Inna Koskenniemi,Risto Hiltunen
  • English philology
  • 1993

English Far and Wide

A Festschrift for Inna Koskenniemi, 24 January, 1993

Author: Inna Koskenniemi,Risto Hiltunen

Publisher: N.A

ISBN: N.A

Category: English philology

Page: 297

View: 593

  • Neil Peart
  • Drummers (Musicians)
  • 2018-04-03

Far and Wide

Bring That Horizon to Me!

Author: Neil Peart

Publisher: N.A

ISBN: 9781770414419

Category: Drummers (Musicians)

Page: 304

View: 8501

In May 2015, Rush embarked on their 40th anniversary tour, R40. For the band and their fans, R40 was a celebration and, perhaps, a farewell. But for Neil Peart, each tour is more than just a string of concerts, it's an opportunity to explore backroads near and far on his BMW motorcycle. This third volume in Peart's illustrated travel series shares all-new tales that transport the reader across North America and through memories of 50 years of playing drums.
  • Mara Bergman,Nick Maland
  • Children's stories
  • 2009

Oliver Who Travelled Far and Wide

Author: Mara Bergman,Nick Maland

Publisher: Hodder Children's Books

ISBN: 9780340981634

Category: Children's stories

Page: 32

View: 8146

Oliver Donnington Rimington-Sneep tossed and turned and woke from his sleep. Though Bat and Owl and Fox were there Ted didn't seem to be anywhere. Poor Oliver has lost his Ted and must make a journey far and wide to find him before he can go to sleep.
  • Kevin Major
  • Fiction
  • 2016-04-29

Found Far and Wide

Author: Kevin Major

Publisher: N.A

ISBN: 9781550816327

Category: Fiction

Page: 226

View: 3815

A novel of remarkable historical breadth, Found Far and Wide follows Sam Kennedy through the tragedy of the Great Newfoundland Sealing Disaster of 1914, the horrors of The First World War, and the dangers of rum-running in Prohibition-era New York. And as Sam journeys through the turbulent first half of the twentieth century, carrying the ghosts of those he’s lost, he clings to his love for a woman he’s only ever seen in a photograph. Here, one of Newfoundland’s most celebrated authors offers a story of the irresistible historical forces that define our lives and the compelling private power that beckons us home.
  • Udo Fries,Viviane Müller,Peter Schneider
  • Language Arts & Disciplines
  • 1997-01-01

From Ælfric to the New York Times

Studies in English Corpus Linguistics

Author: Udo Fries,Viviane Müller,Peter Schneider

Publisher: Rodopi

ISBN: 9789042002197

Category: Language Arts & Disciplines

Page: 256

View: 7443

The twenty papers of this volume - published to honour Gunnel Tottie - are of interest to everyone concerned with the study of the English language. The collection is a convincing argument for an approach to language studies based on the analysis of computerized corpora. Though this is not an introduction to the field but a series of highly specialized studies, readers get a good overview of the work being done at present in English computer corpus studies. English corpus linguistics, though basically concerned with the study of varieties of English, goes far beyond the simple ordering and counting of large numbers of examples but is deeply concerned with linguistic theory - based on real language data. The volume includes sections on corpora of written and spoken present-day English, historical corpora, contrastive corpora, and on the application of corpus studies to teaching purposes.
  • E.R. Bills
  • BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
  • 2017

Texas Far and Wide: The Tornado with Eyes, Gettysburg’s Last Casualty, the Celestial Skipping Stone and Other Tales

Author: E.R. Bills

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

ISBN: 162585918X

Category: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY

Page: 144

View: 2944

The sheer volume of remarkable Texan exploits creates a dizzying tally for the proudest of its citizens. So it happens that inexplicable marvels slip past an entire state of storytellers and world-famous legends live as anonymous neighbors. Ever hear the story about the escaped ape in the Big Thicket? Or the "Interplanetary Capital of the Universe" that sat on the Gulf Coast? Does the cowboy hat that warmed U.S.-China relations ring a bell? From the Staked Plain Quakers to the Kaiser Burnout, E.R. Bills delves into some of the most fascinating chapters of overlooked Texas lore.
  • N.A
  • Juvenile Fiction
  • 1999-09-01

Freaky Tales from Far and Wide

Author: N.A

Publisher: N.A

ISBN: 9781902283166

Category: Juvenile Fiction

Page: 48

View: 7549

A collection of seven freaky tales from around the world will delight youngsters as they read about the odd assortment of animals that live together in a horse's skull, a brave blackbird that declares war on a king, and more. 10,000 first printing.
  • Clive Thomas
  • Fiction

Thursday?s Child : Journeys Far and Wide in the Australian Outback

Author: Clive Thomas

Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing

ISBN: 1631351265

Category: Fiction

Page: 462

View: 2035

Foundling Peter Tobin lived through a vanished age, a time when the wide Australian outback was opening up to the force of steel rails, steam power, visionary civic builders, and the power of determined men and their horses.In the remote outback of the late 19th century, Peter makes his own way in the world, from drover, sheep shearer and horse breaker, training horses for the South African War, to wealthy man of the land.The saga of a world now gone is told in powerful terms in the novel Thursday?s Child: Journeys Far and Wide in the Australian Outback.
  • Andrew Solomon
  • Literary Collections
  • 2016-04-19

Far and Away

Reporting from the Brink of Change

Author: Andrew Solomon

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

ISBN: 1476795061

Category: Literary Collections

Page: 592

View: 8538

From the winner of the National Book Award and the National Books Critics’ Circle Award—and one of the most original thinkers of our time—“Andrew Solomon’s magisterial Far and Away collects a quarter-century of soul-shaking essays” (Vanity Fair). Far and Away chronicles Andrew Solomon’s writings about places undergoing seismic shifts—political, cultural, and spiritual. From his stint on the barricades in Moscow in 1991, when he joined artists in resisting the coup whose failure ended the Soviet Union, his 2002 account of the rebirth of culture in Afghanistan following the fall of the Taliban, his insightful appraisal of a Myanmar seeped in contradictions as it slowly, fitfully pushes toward freedom, and many other stories of profound upheaval, this book provides a unique window onto the very idea of social change. With his signature brilliance and compassion, Solomon demonstrates both how history is altered by individuals, and how personal identities are altered when governments alter. A journalist and essayist of remarkable perception and prescience, Solomon captures the essence of these cultures. Ranging across seven continents and twenty-five years, these “meaty dispatches…are brilliant geopolitical travelogues that also comprise a very personal and reflective resume of the National Book Award winner’s globe-trotting adventures” (Elle). Far and Away takes a magnificent journey into the heart of extraordinarily diverse experiences: “You will not only know the world better after having seen it through Solomon’s eyes, you will also care about it more” (Elizabeth Gilbert).
  • Jean Rhys
  • Fiction
  • 1966

Wide Sargasso Sea

Author: Jean Rhys

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

ISBN: 9780393308808

Category: Fiction

Page: 189

View: 8233

Beautiful and wealthy Antoinette Cosway's passionate love for an English aristocrat threatens to destroy her idyllic West Indian island existence and her very life
  • Tanya Robyn Batt,Rachel Griffin
  • Juvenile Fiction
  • 2007

The Fabrics of Fairytale

Stories Spun from Far and Wide

Author: Tanya Robyn Batt,Rachel Griffin

Publisher: PEHUÉN EDITORES LIMITADA

ISBN: 9781846860898

Category: Juvenile Fiction

Page: 80

View: 8654

A collection of tales from around the world--including China, Armenia, Indonesia, and Sweden--which involve treasured, sacred, and magical garments and textiles.
  • Peter Pigott
  • History
  • 2011-11-19

From Far and Wide

A History of Canada's Arctic Sovereignty

Author: Peter Pigott

Publisher: Dundurn

ISBN: 1554889898

Category: History

Page: 312

View: 2445

In the early 20th century the Canadian North was a mystery, but the Canadian military stepped in, and this book explores its historic activities in Canada’s Arctic. Is the Canadian North a state of mind or simply the lands and waters above the 60th parallel? In searching for the ill-fated Franklin Expedition in the 19th century, Britain’s Royal Navy mapped and charted most of the Arctic Archipelago. In 1874 Canadian Prime Minister Alexander Mackenzie agreed to take up sovereignty of all the Arctic, if only to keep the United States and Tsarist Russia out. But as the dominion expanded east and west, the North was forgotten. Besides a few industries, its potential was unknown. It was as one Canadian said for later. There wasn’t much need to send police or military expeditions to the North. Not only was there little tribal warfare between the Inuit or First Nations, but there were few white settlers to protect and the forts were mainly trading posts. Thus, in the early 20th century, Canada’s Arctic was less known than Sudan or South Africa. From Far and Wide recounts exclusively the historic activities of the Canadian military in Canada’s North.
  • Charles Dickens
  • Christmas stories
  • 1906

A Christmas Carol

Author: Charles Dickens

Publisher: N.A

ISBN: N.A

Category: Christmas stories

Page: 82

View: 916

Everyone is familiar with this classic Christmas story. Ebenezer Scrooge is a miserly, unpleasant man who despises Christmas and overworks his clerk Bob Cratchit. As he prepares for another Christmas Eve without celebration, Scrooge is greeted by his dead business partner, Jacob Marley who warns him that his greed will not go unpunished. At first, Scrooge doesn't heed Marley's warning, but soon he is visited by the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Christmas Yet to Come. He is made to face his cruel nature, and to consider whether he should change his ways. This is a free digital copy of a book that has been carefully scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world's books discoverable online. To make this print edition available as an ebook, we have extracted the text using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology and submitted it to a review process to ensure its accuracy and legibility across different screen sizes and devices. Google is proud to partner with libraries to make this book available to readers everywhere.
  • Jo Bannatyne-Cugnet
  • Juvenile Nonfiction
  • 2000

From Far and Wide

A Canadian Citizenship Scrapbook

Author: Jo Bannatyne-Cugnet

Publisher: Tundra Books (NY)

ISBN: 0887764436

Category: Juvenile Nonfiction

Page: 24

View: 7878

Xiao Ling Li keeps a scrapbook of the day she and her family become Canadian citizens, from when they wake up in the morning, through the ceremony, to the celebration party with their new friends and neighbors.
  • Eugenia W. Herbert
  • Architecture
  • 2012-01-31

Flora's Empire

British Gardens in India

Author: Eugenia W. Herbert

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

ISBN: 0812205057

Category: Architecture

Page: 440

View: 6250

Like their penchant for clubs, cricket, and hunting, the planting of English gardens by the British in India reflected an understandable need on the part of expatriates to replicate home as much as possible in an alien environment. In Flora's Empire, Eugenia W. Herbert argues that more than simple nostalgia or homesickness lay at the root of this "garden imperialism," however. Drawing on a wealth of period illustrations and personal accounts, many of them little known, she traces the significance of gardens in the long history of British relations with the subcontinent. To British eyes, she demonstrates, India was an untamed land that needed the visible stamp of civilization that gardens in their many guises could convey. Colonial gardens changed over time, from the "garden houses" of eighteenth-century nabobs modeled on English country estates to the herbaceous borders, gravel walks, and well-trimmed lawns of Victorian civil servants. As the British extended their rule, they found that hill stations like Simla offered an ideal retreat from the unbearable heat of the plains and a place to coax English flowers into bloom. Furthermore, India was part of the global network of botanical exploration and collecting that gathered up the world's plants for transport to great imperial centers such as Kew. And it is through colonial gardens that one may track the evolution of imperial ideas of governance. Every Government House and Residency was carefully landscaped to reflect current ideals of an ordered society. At Independence in 1947 the British left behind a lasting legacy in their gardens, one still reflected in the design of parks and information technology campuses and in the horticultural practices of home gardeners who continue to send away to England for seeds.
  • Nicholas Rankin
  • History
  • 2017-09-05

Defending the Rock

How Gibraltar Defeated Hitler

Author: Nicholas Rankin

Publisher: Faber & Faber

ISBN: 0571307736

Category: History

Page: 416

View: 7413

Adolf Hitler's failure to take Gibraltar in 1940 lost him the Second World War. But in truth the formidable Rock, jutting between the Mediterranean and the Atlantic, was extraordinarily vulnerable. Every day, ten thousand people crossed its frontier to work, spy, sabotage or escape. It was threatened by Spain, Vichy France, Italy and Germany. After the USA entered the war, Gibraltar became General Eisenhower's strategic headquarters for the invasion of North Africa and the battle for the Mediterranean.
  • Francis Pryor
  • History
  • 2003-12-04

Britain B.C.

life in Britain and Ireland before the Romans

Author: Francis Pryor

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

ISBN: N.A

Category: History

Page: 488

View: 4897

  • Michael Ondaatje
  • Fiction
  • 2011-04-06

The English Patient

Author: Michael Ondaatje

Publisher: Vintage

ISBN: 9780307776624

Category: Fiction

Page: 320

View: 4185

With ravishing beauty and unsettling intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an Italian villa at the end of World War II. Hana, the exhausted nurse; the maimed thief, Caravaggio; the wary sapper, Kip: each is haunted by the riddle of the English patient, the nameless, burned man who lies in an upstairs room and whose memories of passion, betrayal,and rescue illuminates this book like flashes of heat lightening. From the Hardcover edition.
  • Charles Adolphus Buchheim
  • 1885

Materials for German Prose Composition

Or, Selections from Modern English Writers

Author: Charles Adolphus Buchheim

Publisher: N.A

ISBN: N.A

Category:

Page: 252

View: 3412