++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. Also included are pamphlets, travel guides, and personal narratives of trips to and around the Americas, the Indies, Europe, Africa and the Middle East. This collection contains personal narratives, travel guides and documentary accounts by Victorian travelers, male and female. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The HISTORY OF TRAVEL collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. undertaken during the years 1822, 1823, and 1824, while suffering from total blindness, and comprising an account of the author being conducted a state prisoner from the eastern parts of Siberia.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. Title: Travels through Russia, Siberia, Poland, Austria, Saxony, Prussia, Hanover, etc.
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Adults may view the story as wistful, given that the innkeeper may or may not ever achieve his dream, but child readers will accept the possibility and view the potential journey with anticipation. As he imagines traveling by bicycle, car, plane, or train, he envisions being welcomed by friends around the world, with each day bringing unexpected pleasures. The lights are on in many of the animal neighborsÍ windows, so the bunny can see, hear and smell whatÍs happening inside: a pie being pulled out of the oven, a party, a goodbye hug. A mother rabbit carries her young bunny home through the dark, quiet streets. At night, when he dreams of packing a large suitcase and going far away, his thoughts are presented as large-scale spreads in full color. A gentle, dreamlike tale about heading home in the night. The innkeeper’s everyday existence is rendered in black and white, but these postcards and pictures appear as small spots of color that he carefully arranges on the wall of his room. Some travelers become his friends, and as their journeys continue, they send back letters. The ants have vanished the peacocks are dancing, and the banyan leaves shine. They enjoy the afternoon, noticing how the environment has changed once the rain stops. Everyone is busy, except for the boy’s Dadaji, grandfather. The solitary innkeeper of a hotel says he has “never known anywhere except this small town.” His days are all the same, as he greets guests-all anthropomorphic animals-provides refreshments, and resupplies rooms. A boy asks everyone in his family to join him outside in the Indian monsoon rain. To make matters worse, both William and Dominic are both in love with Minuette, which could tear their friendship apart.Īndersen’s trilogy isn’t some romantic imagining of the peaceful life Anne would have led if she managed to give Henry a son. Unfortunately for the young ruler, the French are threatening to start a war while rebellion simmers in England itself. Now, in Laura Andersen’s The Boleyn Trilogy, she ponders what would have happened to Anne Boleyn, England, and even Elizabeth I had Henry VIII’s second queen born him the longed-for male heir.Īnne’s son Henry IX, also known as William, is the new King of England who only trusts three people: his older sister Elizabeth, his best friend Dominic, and the girl he’s in love with, a royal ward of his mother’s: Minuette. History lovers, especially those enamored with the Tudors, have often contemplated what would happen if a famous figure avoided their tragic and heartbreaking fate. Contemplate an Alternate History With “The Boleyn King” Jules, on the other hand, is the privileged son of a renowned and highly respected scholar, he’s had a comfortable life. Mia was the street-smart scavenger, having had to develop a skill-set that helps her survive on the streets. Mia and Jules are the main protagonists and the authors do a great job of setting them up as complete opposites with such distinct personalities. And once the pace did pick up, it was even, with more than enough character growth and development. In that, the beginning was a little dull and I couldn’t wait for the pace to pick up. It takes its time, establishing the world, the setting and the characters. Unearthed takes place in roughly the same universe as The Starbound Series but humans haven’t managed to leave Earth yet, they are still in the process of looking for hospitable planets.Ĭompared to These Broken Stars, Unearthed starts out very slow. I really enjoyed Unearthed and now I can’t wait for the second book to come out. Aurora Burning (Aurora Cycle #02) by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff Review.Storm Cursed (Mercy Thompson #11) & Smoke Bitten (Mercy Thompson #12) by Patricia Briggs Review. It is only when they go diving together that she realizes he feels as guilty as she does. Maddy is sure her brother hates her, and when he kills the fish she is raising for a science fair project, she can hardly blame him. The collection's title comes from "The Isabel Fish," in which 14-year-old Maddy is learning how to scuba dive after surviving a car accident in which her older brother's girlfriend drowned. Their trials are familiar if harsh the illness and death of parents and friends, social ostracism but Orringer's swift, intricate evocation of individual worlds gives depth and integrity to her nine stories, set everywhere from Florence to New Orleans to Disney World. Trapped in awkward, painful situations, the young protagonists of Orringer's debut collection discover surprising reserves of wisdom in themselves. 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He finished his teaching career at Stanford. He taught at the University of Minnesota and Rutgers, and was a professor of comparative literature at Princeton from 1966 to 1985. In 1953, he married mathematician Marguerite Frank. Frank went to Paris on a Fulbright Scholarship in 1950, and in 1952 he was accepted by the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago, where he eventually earned a Ph.D. His father died when he was young, his mother remarried William Frank, and the family moved to Brooklyn.įrank attended classes at New York University in the 1930s and the University of Wisconsin–Madison in the early 1940s, but never earned a Bachelor's degree. Joseph Frank was born Joseph Nathaniel Glassman on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in 1918. Frank's five-volume biography of Dostoevsky is frequently cited among the major literary biographies of the 20th century. 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In Rebecca Thomas‘ delightful holiday short from Entangled Flirts, The Earl’s Christmas Colt, both the hero and heroine would rather spend time with horses than find a spouse, but duty calls. The Earl’s Christmas Colt by Rebecca Thomas (Entangled Flirt, December 30, 2013) |