The Size of the World: a novel - First edition
2018, ISBN: 9788661452154
Paperback, Hardcover
Salt Lake City, UT: Waterbug Records, 2010. First edition. AudioCD. NEW. Compact disc. New in shrinkwrap. I think that Utah Phillips would have been very pleased with this collection, a… More...
Salt Lake City, UT: Waterbug Records, 2010. First edition. AudioCD. NEW. Compact disc. New in shrinkwrap. I think that Utah Phillips would have been very pleased with this collection, and at the same time amused. Amused that the State of Utah will still have him around to tweak it's sacred cows, and honored to have this tribute done by the folk music community of Utah. Not familiar with Bruce " Utah" Phillips, the Golden Voice of the Great Southwest, anarchist, organizer, humanitarian and teller of tall tales and outrageous stories..and so much more? Then welcome to the beginning of a life changing relationship, Follow these songs back to the wellspring that is Utah Phillips and find your history, your story, the community you may never have know that you shared. I think I speak for everyone on this compillation, and thousands of others, who's lives have been changed for the better, who say.. welcome, come join us...you have a family here that has been waiting for you. Includes songs by kate MacLeod, Duncan Phillips, Ken Shaw, Hall Cannon, Anke Summerhill., Waterbug Records, 2010, Hodder & Stoughton. First UK edition-5th printing. Hardcover. Near fine/Very good. Near fine/VGC.Hodder & Stoughton,2001.First UK edition-5th printing(10 9 8 7 6 5).Red hardback(gilt lettering to the spine) in near fine condition, with Dj(some creases,nicks and scratches on the Dj cover) in VGC.Nice and clean pages with two ink marks and light shelf wear on the outer edges,a couple of small nicks and crease on the edges of the pages.The book is in VGC with light shelf wear on the Dj cover(colour mark and small ink mark inside the Dj cover).599pp including Author's note.Heavy book. This is another paragraph Product Description; Suspenseful, frightening, and sometimes howlingly funny, Stephen King's first full-length novel in three years is a story of invasion and battle, survival and heroism. It is a story of how men remember.and how they love. Once upon a time, in the haunted city of Derry (site of Stephen King's IT and Insomnia), four young boys stood together and did a brave thing; something that changed them in ways they hardly understand. A quarter-century later, the boys are men who have gone their separate ways although they still get together once a year, to go hunting in the north woods of Maine. But this time a man comes stumbling into their camp, lost, disoriented and muttering about lights in the sky. Before long, these old friends will be plunged into the most remarkable events of their lives and a terrible struggle with a creature from another world., Hodder & Stoughton, London Fourth Estate 2007. FIRST EDITION. Hardback. 8vo. 9 x 5.5 inches. Red cloth with silver titles. Book and un-price-clipped dustwrapper As New. 'The Number 1 New york Times Best-Seller.' 'A remarkable book...makes you wonder how anyone comes through such horror with his humanity and sanity intact. Ishmael Beah seems to prove it can happen.' Willliam Boyd, London Fourth Estate 2007, UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn thus.[Published by arrangement with Transworld Publisher's Ltd.,the same year as original UK,1st edn] FINE/VG+.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp, clean,glossy laminated,subject/author b/w portrait photographic front panel with gilt colour lettering,rear panel with b/w mountain scenic photograph; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges lightly toned but still bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,would appear unread - apart from my own collation. Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered with exception of top two corners - minimally bumped and creased,publisher's original plain black cloth bds with bright,crisp, stamped gilt letters and BCA device to spine/backstrip,and immaculate Everest region b/w map illustrated eps.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn thus1-309pp [paginated] includes 18 chapters,32pp of contemporary b/w+colour autobiograpical,scenic photographs in 4 blocks of 8pp apiece - 1st block in b/w only,the others majority in colour between pp54/5 (b/w),pp118/19 (colour+1 b/w),pp182/3 (colour) and pp246/7 (colour) respectively,b/w maps,and an index,plus [unpaginated] half-title +title pages,acknowledgements,contents list/table,and author's introduction with a b/w Everest approach map to reverse. The first man to set foot on the summit of Everest,the man who led a team of tractors to the South Pole,the man who jetboated up the Ganges from the ocean to the sky has,for the first time,gathered all the remarkable adventures of a long life into one volume.But there is more to Ed Hillary than this.He is also the man who repaid his debt of fame to the Himalayas by inaugurating a programme of school, clinic,airstrip and bridge-building in Nepal which,with his still active support,has gone from strength to strength over the four decades since he himself mastered the Hillary Step and led his companion Tenzig Norgay up Everest's final summit ridge. He is also the unlikely,but ideal,diplomat who was proud to represent his country as New Zealand's High Commissioner in India,Pakistan,Nepal and Bhutan,to receive the Order of the Garter from the Queen,and to see his face smiling from the New Zealand five-dollar bill. All this is a long way to come for the shy,strictly raised country boy who went into the family bee- keeping business in New Zealand just before the Second World War but whose real love was for the challenging exploratory climbing routes in his native Southern Alps.Ed Hillary's strength on ice and snow commended him to the legendary Eric Shipton,with whom he enjoyed some gruelling and at times hair-raising Himalayan forays before being nominated by Shipton for the British 1953 attempt on Everest. 'View from the Summit' is a thoughtful and honest reappraisal of a life spent pushing human ability to its limits and relishing the challenges thrown down by the elements.It is also the story of a man whom the world has taken to its heart. Since April 2013 and again in March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering it's prices,weight allowances, dimensions and lowered it's qualifying compensation rates too!So,please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,because of the weight/value of this item for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!, LONDON.BCA/TRANSWORLD PUBLISHERS LTD.,1999., Warwick: Helion & Company, 2018. Narva and Ivangorod the two fortresses on both sides of Narova River comprise a nowadays-unique fortification ensemble that has gone through many historical periods of the Baltic region. Narva gained world fame after two battles in early 1700s during the epic struggle between the Kingdom of Sweden and an alliance of northern powers sponsored by Tsar Peter the Great of Russia the Great Northern War 1700-1721. First attacked in 1700, its Vauban style bastions were saved by a daring strike on the besieging Russians given by young King Charles XII who came to relieve the town. Four years later Narva saw another full scale three-months-long siege packed with sallies, bombardments, trench combat and peaked by general storm - something rare in a period when governors preferred to surrender before assault. Military campaigns in the Baroque age across Europe were far more fortress-oriented - field battles were few while sieges were many. Even then, Narvas two sieges are extraordinary as they provide samples of nearly all possible siege tactics typical to the period but rarely applied to one and the same town. Telling the story of these 1700 and 1704 events thus gives us a chance to speak about the mechanism of fortification warfare, about everyday life of the besieger and the besieged, about morale, military customs of that time, and about broader context of the resolute struggle between Tsar Peter and King Charles. While writing about Narvas sieges there are a number of plots to be covered. Lines of circumvallation their perception in contemporary military thought and their use and fate in the 1700 campaign. Besiegers strive to obtain information via deserters and captives and the most unusual way to do so a trick or stratagem, with the staging of a mock battle between Russian greencoats and bluecoats pretending to be Swedish relief force. Artillery was probably the most important arm to any siege and it is worth looking into such matters like technology of breaching the walls, use of bombardment against the town buildings, or addiction to a specialty weapon - hand mortars. Work and life in trenches under fire was typical experience to soldiers of the time. Sallies made by the garrison attempted to slow down their foes work, with varying success. Communication between the besieging army commander and governor is explored, along with the special role in it of drummers and trumpeters. When it comes to the final and rare stage of the siege the general storm aspects to be researched include the way assault columns were composed, controversy on selecting hour of attack, the amazing size of scaling ladders, and the behaviour of troops prior to and during the action. The inevitable consequence of a storm, the plundering of the town, raises question about period military laws on this subject. In conclusion the text will conclude with the further story of the town and the fate of several high and low ranking personalities it will too give additional info on how war was waged in those years. The book is based on day-to-day journals, relations, personal accounts and correspondence from Russian, Swedish and impartial sources both published and archival. The book is accompanied with numerous contemporary illustrations prints depicting specifically Russian and Swedish military scenes as well as engravings from various European sources that visualize typical scenes of siege warfare and artworks by modern artists.. 1st Edition. Paperback. New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall., Helion & Company, 2018, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London England: 2014. Softcover. Brand new book. More than fifty years after Algerian independence, Albert Camus' Algerian Chronicles appears here in English for the first time. Published in France in 1958, the same year the Algerian War brought about the collapse of the Fourth French Republic, it is one of Camus' most political worksÑan exploration of his commitments to Algeria. Dismissed or disdained at publication, today Algerian Chronicles, with its prescient analysis of the dead end of terrorism, enjoys a new life in Arthur Goldhammer's elegant translation. "Believe me when I tell you that Algeria is where I hurt at this moment," Camus, who was the most visible symbol of France's troubled relationship with Algeria, writes, "as others feel pain in their lungs." Gathered here are Camus' strongest statements on Algeria from the 1930s through the 1950s, revised and supplemented by the author for publication in book form. In her introduction, Alice Kaplan illuminates the dilemma faced by Camus: he was committed to the defense of those who suffered colonial injustices, yet was unable to support Algerian national sovereignty apart from France. An appendix of lesser-known texts that did not appear in the French edition complements the picture of a moralist who posed questions about violence and counter-violence, national identity, terrorism, and justice that continue to illuminate our contemporary world. Albert Camus (1913-1960), Algerian-French novelist, essayist, and playwright, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. Alice Kaplan is John M. Musser Professor of French and chair of the Department of French at Yale University. "Camus's Algerian Chronicles, edited and introduced by Alice Kaplan and beautifully translated by Arthur Goldhammer, affords Camus the belated opportunity to make his own case to the Anglophone public. This book, in slightly different form, proved his final public word on the Algerian question when it was originally published in June 1958É To witness the progression of his responses is to recognize above all the remarkable consistency of Camus's moral conviction, the dogged optimism of his outlook, and his unfailing ability, even in the complex turmoil of emotional involvement with the issue, to cleave to his own principles of justiceÉ It was this moral lucidity that had provoked Camus's disenchantment with communism and underpinned his ardent opposition to the death penalty, a stance that prompted him to speak out, at different times, to save the lives of Nazi collaborators and FLN terrorists alikeÉ Camus's honesty and consistency retain, in retrospect, a moral purity that few others could claim."ÑClaire Messud, The New York Review of Books "It was the last book Camus published in his lifetime, and it appears now in its entirety for the first time in English, expertly translated by Arthur Goldhammer. The editor, Alice Kaplan, has added six texts to Camus's original selection in an appendix, to further illuminate Camus's relation to AlgeriaÉ As the writings in Algerian Chronicles make clear, Camus's position in 'no man's land' left him increasingly isolated: hated by the right for his condemnation of government policies, scorned by the left for his inability to imagine an independent Algeria from which the French would be absentÉ As Kaplan points out, we cannot know how he would have reacted to the final years of the war, or to the independence that followed. We do know that his ethical positions are still meaningful, worldwide."ÑSusan Rubin Suleiman, The New York Times Book Review "Algerian Chronicles is a collection of journalistic writings published in 1958, when the crisis in Algeria posed a persistent threat to the government of France. It was to be Camus's final book and appears in retrospect as a summing-up of his feelings about his birthplaceÉ These remarkably mature dispatches, written when he was 25, show that Camus was anxious from the start about the political relationship between his native country and the mainlandÉ The impetus behind the repeated pleas for constructive dialogue that occupy the later parts of Algerian Chronicles was personal as much as politicalÉ Algerian Chronicles, never before translated in its entirety, is a document worth having."ÑJames Campbell, The Wall Street Journal "[A] brilliant translationÉ Camus fell silent after this effort, but for one exception. In 1958, while the 'sale guerre' in his native country grew ever more dirty, he returned to his first trade, journalism. Gathering his newspaper articles and commentaries on Algeria, he published them under the title Actuelles III. In his preface, he lambasts France's colonial policy, castigates the use of torture and terrorism by both sides, and defends innocent French and Arabs at the mercy of these violent designs. Yet, he concludes, his book 'is among other things a history of a failure.' But noble failures like the Algerian Chronicles are both timeless and timely."ÑRobert Zaretsky, The Times Literary Supplement "Magnificently eloquent and courageousÉ Even today, admirers of Camus sometimes worry that his radiant bravery and integrity were compromised by a colonial kid's blind spot when it came to Arab Algerians. The ChroniclesÑauthoritatively edited by Alice KaplanÑshould quell that doubt forever. From meticulous reports on poverty and prejudice in 1930s Kabylia to the great speech in Algiers in 1956, when right-wing thugs shouted down his heartfelt call for a civilian truce, every page speaks of his honesty, his compassion, his empathy."ÑBoyd Tonkin, The Independent "Camus's tortured words may profitably be reconsidered half a century later, with the benefit of hindsight as regards Algeria's traumatic accession to independence, which included the mass exodus of the territory's settler population. Algeria's history since 1962, and particularly the 'black decade' of civil war in the 1990s between the military-backed government and Islamist rebels, also casts new light on these texts, underscoring their contemporary relevance. Camus's alternately angry and anguished engagement is made readily accessible to an English-speaking audience in Arthur Goldhammer's sensitive renderingÉ As the Franco-Algerian memory wars continue to rageÑsignificantly, the French state acknowledged that the 1954-62 'events' had been a war only in 1999Ñthis new translation offers a welcome opportunity to engage with the political soul-searching of a major figure who, as the American historian James Le Sueur has argued, may have been wrong about Algeria but may also have been right to be wrong."ÑPhilip Dine, The Irish Times "Camus was a far more engaged writer than his critics have allowed, and the essays, columns and speeches collected here make a strong case for his continued relevanceÉ Today, although his failure to support full independence for Algeria seems off the mark, Camus stands as a powerful voice against violence and extremism, and the very late appearance of these essays in English could not have come at a better timeÉ With the future of the Arab spring uncertain and with terrorism back on the front page, these Algerian Chronicles are not only history. They're also guides for how to be just in a difficult world."ÑJason Farago, NPR Books "Algerian ChroniclesÉcomprises everything Camus wrote on AlgeriaÉ Camus's writing on Kabylia is a marvel of eloquence. His sympathy for the people, his critique of the colonial regime, his pain over the injustices that he witnessesÑall thrilling. Seventy years after he wrote these pieces the reader is still penetrated by their literary beauty. But at no time in Algerian Chronicles are we listening to the speaking voice of a revolutionary. It is the voice of a despairing citizen who does not want his country's government overthrown; he wants it to do better by its people. He wants France to remain in Algeria, but to honor its own founding myths of liberty, equality, and fraternity. The pieces in Algerian Chronicles that were written years later in France, during the war for independence, are repetitive pleas for each side to stop demonizing the other, for human decency to prevail."ÑVivian Gornick, Boston Review "Camus' writing is shot through with appeals to the moral sense of his audience. And it is his own moral sense that makes the occasional writing collected here still so readableÉ After years of neglect and rejection, Camus is being rediscovered in Algeria. In the 1990s, Algeria endured another decade of bloody civil strife, this time between the Algerian army and Islamic insurgents. The questions Camus raised about common guilt, forgiveness, justice, and who is a true Algerian have been recognized as relevant once more."ÑGerald J. Rusello, Commonweal "Camus's liberal admirers saw his insistence on a peaceful resolution to the [Algerian struggle for independence], his condemnation of violence on both sides, as further proof of his moral integrity. Meanwhile, his leftist critics saw his moderation as a species of evasion, condemning his failure to come down clearly on the side of Algerian liberation. Today, when North Africa is once again the scene of revolutionary violence and the relations between the West and its former Arab colonies remain dangerously fraught, the debate about Camus and Algeria still resonates."ÑAdam Kirsch, The Daily Beast "The singular importance of Algerian Chronicles is that it brings together for the first time in English all of Camus's writings on Algeria, ranging over his early journalism covering the famine in Kabyle in 1939 to his appeals for reason and justice in Algeria in 1958. Beautifully translated by Arthur Goldhammer, they reveal Camus not so much as a philosopher (or 'ponderous metaphysician' as Said called him) but as something like a French George Orwell. Certainly, in all these essays he demonstrates a most un-Parisian aversion to abstraction and a taste for the concrete detail that reveals the reality of a situationÉ There is a new generation of readers in Algeria who are beginning to understand how [Camus] felt: torn between opposing forms of terror, neither of which promised justice or redemption. Algerian Chronicles is a beautiful and significant illustration of the complexities of that dilemma."ÑAndrew Hussey, Literary Review "[Algerian Chronicles] has not, for the most part, been regarded as one of Camus's 'important' worksÉ This is, perhaps, an oversight. At a historical moment when it seems crucial to the human prospect to think intelligently about terrorism and other forms of political violence, the thinking Camus does in Algerian Chronicles may strike us, if we open ourselves to it, as necessary, cogent, and saneÉ What is clear from Algerian Chronicles is that Camus's compassion could be triggered by the suffering of any human being, and that his political and moral concern was with any innocent person who might be made the victim of violence in the name of any political causeÉ Algerian Chronicles may have suffered the fate of being published at a time when those who most needed to hear what it had to say were entirely unable to read it with an open mind. It is possible that, now that some decades have passed, it will find a second life. We Americans would be well advised to pay it serious attention. After more than a decade in which the United States has chosen to respond to the specter of lawless terrorism with forms of violence some have regarded as state-sanctioned terrorismÑyears during which, as in the Algerian war, the violence inflicted by each side has been used to justify the violence inflicted by the other, and during which the use of torture by American military and security forces has been not only condoned but applauded by a large segment of the American citizenryÑCamus's reflections on these subjects seem to address us directly."ÑTroy Jollimore, Barnes & Noble Review "Algerian ChroniclesÉhas been invisibly translated by Arthur Goldhammer and prefaced perceptively by Alice KaplanÉ All [the essays] are a model of engaged journalism: scrupulous and exhaustive in the facts, telling in colorful anecdote, reasoned in argument, with no hint of sarcasm or anger. Apart from their historical interest, Camus's essays show us two things. One is it is possible to be politically engaged without foaming at the mouth. The other is the more things change in what historian Ian Morris calls 'the arc of instability,' from central Africa to Pakistan, the more they stay the same. Further, they remind us that a great deal of the horror going on there today is the legacy of 19th-century European colonialism and superpower maneuvering in the Cold WarÉ Through all these bloody convulsions and those of the wider region, Camus's central callÑto spare the lives of noncombatantsÑechoes stillÉ After Iraq, after Syria, after the still unexplained suspension of international law in deadly American drone strikes, after the constant bombing of marketplaces and mosques now that asymmetrical war has made obsolete the Geneva Conventions, Camus's voice seems naively idealistic. The world needs that kind of naivete more than ever."ÑMiriam Cosic, The Australian "Despite his lucidity and his avowed anti-colonialism, Camus during his lifetime failed to accept that Algeria should or could be permanently separated from France; and, as Kaplan rightly points out, his premature death in 1960 means that we can never know how he would have reacted to the agreements enacting that separationÉ At the same time, as a record of passionate insights into the processes involved, the book still makes absorbing reading, not least because of the many portentous analogies between what happened in Algeria and what is happening in much of our world todayÉ Algerian Chronicles is infused with bitter-sweet nostalgia for a personal lost paradise, a not infrequent ingredient of Camus's writing generally. But the book transmits a wider angry grief in its demonstration that the most humane and reasoned ideals seldom work to diminish the destructive and self-mutilating brutalities that humanity, endlessly, inflicts on itself. Camus has been well served here by Arthur Goldhammer, who is probably, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London England: 2014, Gallery/Scout Press. Very Good. From New York Times bestselling author of the ?twisty-mystery? (Vulture) novel In a Dark, Dark Wood, comes The Woman in Cabin 10, an equally suspenseful and haunting novel from Ruth Ware?this time, set at sea.In this tightly wound, enthralling story reminiscent of Agatha Christie?s works, Lo Blacklock, a journalist who writes for a travel magazine, has just been given the assignment of a lifetime: a week on a luxury cruise with only a handful of cabins. The sky is clear, the waters calm, and the veneered, select guests jovial as the exclusive cruise ship, the Aurora, begins her voyage in the picturesque North Sea. At first, Lo?s stay is nothing but pleasant: the cabins are plush, the dinner parties are sparkling, and the guests are elegant. But as the week wears on, frigid winds whip the deck, gray skies fall, and Lo witnesses what she can only describe as a dark and terrifying nightmare: a woman being thrown overboard. The problem? All passengers remain accounted for?and so, the ship sails on as if nothing has happened, despite Lo?s desperate attempts to convey that something (or someone) has gone terribly, terribly wrong?With surprising twists, spine-tingling turns, and a setting that proves as uncomfortably claustrophobic as it is eerily beautiful, Ruth Ware offers up another taut and intense read in The Woman in Cabin 10?one that will leave even the most sure-footed reader restlessly uneasy long after the last page is turned., Gallery/Scout Press, New York: A Del Rey Book - Ballantine Books, a division of Random House, Inc., 1983. BOOK: Previous Owner Markings/Ex-Library; Front, Rear Endpapers Pulled From Removal of Jacket Cover, Pocket; Corners, Spine, Boards Bumped; Moderate Shelf Rub to Boards; Spine Slightly Cocked; Boards, Edges Moderately Soiled. DUST JACKET: Lightly Pulled on Reverse From Removal of Jacket Cover; Lightly Creased; Slight Fading Due to Sun Exposure; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. CONTENTS: What Has Gone Before; Map. PART I: RETRIBUTION 1: The Master's Scar 2: Leper's Ground 3: The Path to Pain 4: Sea of Ice 5: Landward 6: Winter in Combat 7: Physician's Plight 8: The Defenders of the Land 9: March to Crisis 10: The Banefire. PART II: APOTHEOSIS 11: Aftermath 12: Those Who Part 13: The Eh-Brand 14: The Last Bourne 15: Enactors of Desecration 16: "Andelain! forgive!" 17: Into the Wightwarrens 18: No Other Way 19: Hold Possession 20: The Sun-Sage. EPILOGUE: RESTORATION 21: "To Say Farewell". Glossary. SYNOPSIS: " . . . I want you to go back to the Land. To Revelstone. And stop the Clave. Put out the Banefire. If you do that, the Sunbane'll slow down. Maybe it'll even recede. That'll give us time to look for a better answer." Thomas Covenant was shocked by Linden Avery's demand; but he realized that, despite their awful failure on The Isle of The One Tree, there was no alternative but to return and fight. Mhoram had warned him: " . . . In the end, you must return to the Land." After a long and arduous journey overland, the company reaches Revelstone. Following a fiery showdown with Gibbon Raver, covenant discovers that he can come to terms with - and control - his awesome power. As he readies himself for the final showdown with Lord Foul, the Despiser, Thomas Covenant knows he has the answer at last. White Gold Wielder, Book Three of The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, is the stunning conclusion to the extraordinary saga that has become a major international bestseller. Born in 1947 in Cleveland, Ohio, Stephen R. Donaldson made his publishing debut with the first Covenant trilogy in 1977. Shortly thereafter, he was named Best New writer of the Year and given the prestigious John W. Campbell Award. He graduated from the College of Wooster (Ohio) in 1968, served two years as a conscientious objector doing hospital work in Akron, then attended Kent State University where he received his M.A. in English in 1971.. First Edition 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Good/Very Good. Illus. by Darrell K. Sweet. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library., A Del Rey Book - Ballantine Books, a division of Random House, Inc., 1983, Geopoetika, 2015. paperback. New. Serbian language, 20 cm, Srpska knjizevnost, The Size of the World offers a finely structured story about a world long gone but forever existing in its protagonists. It depicts Andjic's experience of growing up and coming of age in the former Yugoslavia, from the early 1960s till the late 1980s, presenting an image of a typical Yugoslav childhood of the time, with some notable differences that formed the author's character and his world-view. In order to come to terms with his father's death, the author, now as a grown man, travels back into the past iThe Size of the World offers a finely structured story about a world long gone but forever existing in its protagonists. It depicts Andjic's experience of growing up and coming of age in the former Yugoslavia, from the early 1960s till the late 1980s, presenting an image of a typical Yugoslav childhood of the time, with some notable differences that formed the author's character and his world-view. In order to come to terms with his father's death, the author, now as a grown man, travels back into the past, Geopoetika, 2015<
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The Size of the World: a novel - Paperback
2015, ISBN: 9788661452154
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Fine/Very Good/1/4 In Tear Top Of Dj Back., W/DJ B/W/Photos Fighter Pilot Doubleday New York 1997 1ST HB Blue Cloth 133 PP, Doubleday, 1997, Geopoetika, 2015. paperback. New. Serbian language, 20 cm, Srpska knjizevnost, The Size of the World offers a finely structured story about a world long gone but forever existing in its protagonists. It depicts Andjic's experience of growing up and coming of age in the former Yugoslavia, from the early 1960s till the late 1980s, presenting an image of a typical Yugoslav childhood of the time, with some notable differences that formed the author's character and his world-view. In order to come to terms with his father's death, the author, now as a grown man, travels back into the past iThe Size of the World offers a finely structured story about a world long gone but forever existing in its protagonists. It depicts Andjic's experience of growing up and coming of age in the former Yugoslavia, from the early 1960s till the late 1980s, presenting an image of a typical Yugoslav childhood of the time, with some notable differences that formed the author's character and his world-view. In order to come to terms with his father's death, the author, now as a grown man, travels back into the past, Geopoetika, 2015<
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The Size of the World: a novel - Paperback
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Geopoetika, 2015. paperback. New. Serbian language, 20 cm, Srpska knjizevnost, The Size of the World offers a finely structured story about a world long gone but forever existing in its… More...
Geopoetika, 2015. paperback. New. Serbian language, 20 cm, Srpska knjizevnost, The Size of the World offers a finely structured story about a world long gone but forever existing in its protagonists. It depicts Andjic's experience of growing up and coming of age in the former Yugoslavia, from the early 1960s till the late 1980s, presenting an image of a typical Yugoslav childhood of the time, with some notable differences that formed the author's character and his world-view. In order to come to terms with his father's death, the author, now as a grown man, travels back into the past iThe Size of the World offers a finely structured story about a world long gone but forever existing in its protagonists. It depicts Andjic's experience of growing up and coming of age in the former Yugoslavia, from the early 1960s till the late 1980s, presenting an image of a typical Yugoslav childhood of the time, with some notable differences that formed the author's character and his world-view. In order to come to terms with his father's death, the author, now as a grown man, travels back into the past, Geopoetika, 2015, 6<
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Geopoetika, 2015. paperback. New. Serbian language, 20 cm, Srpska knjizevnost, The Size of the World offers a finely structured story about a world long gone but forever existing in its… More...
Geopoetika, 2015. paperback. New. Serbian language, 20 cm, Srpska knjizevnost, The Size of the World offers a finely structured story about a world long gone but forever existing in its protagonists. It depicts Andjic's experience of growing up and coming of age in the former Yugoslavia, from the early 1960s till the late 1980s, presenting an image of a typical Yugoslav childhood of the time, with some notable differences that formed the author's character and his world-view. In order to come to terms with his father's death, the author, now as a grown man, travels back into the past iThe Size of the World offers a finely structured story about a world long gone but forever existing in its protagonists. It depicts Andjic's experience of growing up and coming of age in the former Yugoslavia, from the early 1960s till the late 1980s, presenting an image of a typical Yugoslav childhood of the time, with some notable differences that formed the author's character and his world-view. In order to come to terms with his father's death, the author, now as a grown man, travels back into the past, Geopoetika, 2015<
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The Size of the World: a novel - First edition
2018, ISBN: 9788661452154
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Salt Lake City, UT: Waterbug Records, 2010. First edition. AudioCD. NEW. Compact disc. New in shrinkwrap. I think that Utah Phillips would have been very pleased with this collection, and at the same time amused. Amused that the State of Utah will still have him around to tweak it's sacred cows, and honored to have this tribute done by the folk music community of Utah. Not familiar with Bruce " Utah" Phillips, the Golden Voice of the Great Southwest, anarchist, organizer, humanitarian and teller of tall tales and outrageous stories..and so much more? Then welcome to the beginning of a life changing relationship, Follow these songs back to the wellspring that is Utah Phillips and find your history, your story, the community you may never have know that you shared. I think I speak for everyone on this compillation, and thousands of others, who's lives have been changed for the better, who say.. welcome, come join us...you have a family here that has been waiting for you. Includes songs by kate MacLeod, Duncan Phillips, Ken Shaw, Hall Cannon, Anke Summerhill., Waterbug Records, 2010, Hodder & Stoughton. First UK edition-5th printing. Hardcover. Near fine/Very good. Near fine/VGC.Hodder & Stoughton,2001.First UK edition-5th printing(10 9 8 7 6 5).Red hardback(gilt lettering to the spine) in near fine condition, with Dj(some creases,nicks and scratches on the Dj cover) in VGC.Nice and clean pages with two ink marks and light shelf wear on the outer edges,a couple of small nicks and crease on the edges of the pages.The book is in VGC with light shelf wear on the Dj cover(colour mark and small ink mark inside the Dj cover).599pp including Author's note.Heavy book. This is another paragraph Product Description; Suspenseful, frightening, and sometimes howlingly funny, Stephen King's first full-length novel in three years is a story of invasion and battle, survival and heroism. It is a story of how men remember.and how they love. Once upon a time, in the haunted city of Derry (site of Stephen King's IT and Insomnia), four young boys stood together and did a brave thing; something that changed them in ways they hardly understand. A quarter-century later, the boys are men who have gone their separate ways although they still get together once a year, to go hunting in the north woods of Maine. But this time a man comes stumbling into their camp, lost, disoriented and muttering about lights in the sky. Before long, these old friends will be plunged into the most remarkable events of their lives and a terrible struggle with a creature from another world., Hodder & Stoughton, London Fourth Estate 2007. FIRST EDITION. Hardback. 8vo. 9 x 5.5 inches. Red cloth with silver titles. Book and un-price-clipped dustwrapper As New. 'The Number 1 New york Times Best-Seller.' 'A remarkable book...makes you wonder how anyone comes through such horror with his humanity and sanity intact. Ishmael Beah seems to prove it can happen.' Willliam Boyd, London Fourth Estate 2007, UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn thus.[Published by arrangement with Transworld Publisher's Ltd.,the same year as original UK,1st edn] FINE/VG+.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp, clean,glossy laminated,subject/author b/w portrait photographic front panel with gilt colour lettering,rear panel with b/w mountain scenic photograph; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges lightly toned but still bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,would appear unread - apart from my own collation. Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered with exception of top two corners - minimally bumped and creased,publisher's original plain black cloth bds with bright,crisp, stamped gilt letters and BCA device to spine/backstrip,and immaculate Everest region b/w map illustrated eps.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn thus1-309pp [paginated] includes 18 chapters,32pp of contemporary b/w+colour autobiograpical,scenic photographs in 4 blocks of 8pp apiece - 1st block in b/w only,the others majority in colour between pp54/5 (b/w),pp118/19 (colour+1 b/w),pp182/3 (colour) and pp246/7 (colour) respectively,b/w maps,and an index,plus [unpaginated] half-title +title pages,acknowledgements,contents list/table,and author's introduction with a b/w Everest approach map to reverse. The first man to set foot on the summit of Everest,the man who led a team of tractors to the South Pole,the man who jetboated up the Ganges from the ocean to the sky has,for the first time,gathered all the remarkable adventures of a long life into one volume.But there is more to Ed Hillary than this.He is also the man who repaid his debt of fame to the Himalayas by inaugurating a programme of school, clinic,airstrip and bridge-building in Nepal which,with his still active support,has gone from strength to strength over the four decades since he himself mastered the Hillary Step and led his companion Tenzig Norgay up Everest's final summit ridge. He is also the unlikely,but ideal,diplomat who was proud to represent his country as New Zealand's High Commissioner in India,Pakistan,Nepal and Bhutan,to receive the Order of the Garter from the Queen,and to see his face smiling from the New Zealand five-dollar bill. All this is a long way to come for the shy,strictly raised country boy who went into the family bee- keeping business in New Zealand just before the Second World War but whose real love was for the challenging exploratory climbing routes in his native Southern Alps.Ed Hillary's strength on ice and snow commended him to the legendary Eric Shipton,with whom he enjoyed some gruelling and at times hair-raising Himalayan forays before being nominated by Shipton for the British 1953 attempt on Everest. 'View from the Summit' is a thoughtful and honest reappraisal of a life spent pushing human ability to its limits and relishing the challenges thrown down by the elements.It is also the story of a man whom the world has taken to its heart. Since April 2013 and again in March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering it's prices,weight allowances, dimensions and lowered it's qualifying compensation rates too!So,please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,because of the weight/value of this item for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!, LONDON.BCA/TRANSWORLD PUBLISHERS LTD.,1999., Warwick: Helion & Company, 2018. Narva and Ivangorod the two fortresses on both sides of Narova River comprise a nowadays-unique fortification ensemble that has gone through many historical periods of the Baltic region. Narva gained world fame after two battles in early 1700s during the epic struggle between the Kingdom of Sweden and an alliance of northern powers sponsored by Tsar Peter the Great of Russia the Great Northern War 1700-1721. First attacked in 1700, its Vauban style bastions were saved by a daring strike on the besieging Russians given by young King Charles XII who came to relieve the town. Four years later Narva saw another full scale three-months-long siege packed with sallies, bombardments, trench combat and peaked by general storm - something rare in a period when governors preferred to surrender before assault. Military campaigns in the Baroque age across Europe were far more fortress-oriented - field battles were few while sieges were many. Even then, Narvas two sieges are extraordinary as they provide samples of nearly all possible siege tactics typical to the period but rarely applied to one and the same town. Telling the story of these 1700 and 1704 events thus gives us a chance to speak about the mechanism of fortification warfare, about everyday life of the besieger and the besieged, about morale, military customs of that time, and about broader context of the resolute struggle between Tsar Peter and King Charles. While writing about Narvas sieges there are a number of plots to be covered. Lines of circumvallation their perception in contemporary military thought and their use and fate in the 1700 campaign. Besiegers strive to obtain information via deserters and captives and the most unusual way to do so a trick or stratagem, with the staging of a mock battle between Russian greencoats and bluecoats pretending to be Swedish relief force. Artillery was probably the most important arm to any siege and it is worth looking into such matters like technology of breaching the walls, use of bombardment against the town buildings, or addiction to a specialty weapon - hand mortars. Work and life in trenches under fire was typical experience to soldiers of the time. Sallies made by the garrison attempted to slow down their foes work, with varying success. Communication between the besieging army commander and governor is explored, along with the special role in it of drummers and trumpeters. When it comes to the final and rare stage of the siege the general storm aspects to be researched include the way assault columns were composed, controversy on selecting hour of attack, the amazing size of scaling ladders, and the behaviour of troops prior to and during the action. The inevitable consequence of a storm, the plundering of the town, raises question about period military laws on this subject. In conclusion the text will conclude with the further story of the town and the fate of several high and low ranking personalities it will too give additional info on how war was waged in those years. The book is based on day-to-day journals, relations, personal accounts and correspondence from Russian, Swedish and impartial sources both published and archival. The book is accompanied with numerous contemporary illustrations prints depicting specifically Russian and Swedish military scenes as well as engravings from various European sources that visualize typical scenes of siege warfare and artworks by modern artists.. 1st Edition. Paperback. New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall., Helion & Company, 2018, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London England: 2014. Softcover. Brand new book. More than fifty years after Algerian independence, Albert Camus' Algerian Chronicles appears here in English for the first time. Published in France in 1958, the same year the Algerian War brought about the collapse of the Fourth French Republic, it is one of Camus' most political worksÑan exploration of his commitments to Algeria. Dismissed or disdained at publication, today Algerian Chronicles, with its prescient analysis of the dead end of terrorism, enjoys a new life in Arthur Goldhammer's elegant translation. "Believe me when I tell you that Algeria is where I hurt at this moment," Camus, who was the most visible symbol of France's troubled relationship with Algeria, writes, "as others feel pain in their lungs." Gathered here are Camus' strongest statements on Algeria from the 1930s through the 1950s, revised and supplemented by the author for publication in book form. In her introduction, Alice Kaplan illuminates the dilemma faced by Camus: he was committed to the defense of those who suffered colonial injustices, yet was unable to support Algerian national sovereignty apart from France. An appendix of lesser-known texts that did not appear in the French edition complements the picture of a moralist who posed questions about violence and counter-violence, national identity, terrorism, and justice that continue to illuminate our contemporary world. Albert Camus (1913-1960), Algerian-French novelist, essayist, and playwright, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. Alice Kaplan is John M. Musser Professor of French and chair of the Department of French at Yale University. "Camus's Algerian Chronicles, edited and introduced by Alice Kaplan and beautifully translated by Arthur Goldhammer, affords Camus the belated opportunity to make his own case to the Anglophone public. This book, in slightly different form, proved his final public word on the Algerian question when it was originally published in June 1958É To witness the progression of his responses is to recognize above all the remarkable consistency of Camus's moral conviction, the dogged optimism of his outlook, and his unfailing ability, even in the complex turmoil of emotional involvement with the issue, to cleave to his own principles of justiceÉ It was this moral lucidity that had provoked Camus's disenchantment with communism and underpinned his ardent opposition to the death penalty, a stance that prompted him to speak out, at different times, to save the lives of Nazi collaborators and FLN terrorists alikeÉ Camus's honesty and consistency retain, in retrospect, a moral purity that few others could claim."ÑClaire Messud, The New York Review of Books "It was the last book Camus published in his lifetime, and it appears now in its entirety for the first time in English, expertly translated by Arthur Goldhammer. The editor, Alice Kaplan, has added six texts to Camus's original selection in an appendix, to further illuminate Camus's relation to AlgeriaÉ As the writings in Algerian Chronicles make clear, Camus's position in 'no man's land' left him increasingly isolated: hated by the right for his condemnation of government policies, scorned by the left for his inability to imagine an independent Algeria from which the French would be absentÉ As Kaplan points out, we cannot know how he would have reacted to the final years of the war, or to the independence that followed. We do know that his ethical positions are still meaningful, worldwide."ÑSusan Rubin Suleiman, The New York Times Book Review "Algerian Chronicles is a collection of journalistic writings published in 1958, when the crisis in Algeria posed a persistent threat to the government of France. It was to be Camus's final book and appears in retrospect as a summing-up of his feelings about his birthplaceÉ These remarkably mature dispatches, written when he was 25, show that Camus was anxious from the start about the political relationship between his native country and the mainlandÉ The impetus behind the repeated pleas for constructive dialogue that occupy the later parts of Algerian Chronicles was personal as much as politicalÉ Algerian Chronicles, never before translated in its entirety, is a document worth having."ÑJames Campbell, The Wall Street Journal "[A] brilliant translationÉ Camus fell silent after this effort, but for one exception. In 1958, while the 'sale guerre' in his native country grew ever more dirty, he returned to his first trade, journalism. Gathering his newspaper articles and commentaries on Algeria, he published them under the title Actuelles III. In his preface, he lambasts France's colonial policy, castigates the use of torture and terrorism by both sides, and defends innocent French and Arabs at the mercy of these violent designs. Yet, he concludes, his book 'is among other things a history of a failure.' But noble failures like the Algerian Chronicles are both timeless and timely."ÑRobert Zaretsky, The Times Literary Supplement "Magnificently eloquent and courageousÉ Even today, admirers of Camus sometimes worry that his radiant bravery and integrity were compromised by a colonial kid's blind spot when it came to Arab Algerians. The ChroniclesÑauthoritatively edited by Alice KaplanÑshould quell that doubt forever. From meticulous reports on poverty and prejudice in 1930s Kabylia to the great speech in Algiers in 1956, when right-wing thugs shouted down his heartfelt call for a civilian truce, every page speaks of his honesty, his compassion, his empathy."ÑBoyd Tonkin, The Independent "Camus's tortured words may profitably be reconsidered half a century later, with the benefit of hindsight as regards Algeria's traumatic accession to independence, which included the mass exodus of the territory's settler population. Algeria's history since 1962, and particularly the 'black decade' of civil war in the 1990s between the military-backed government and Islamist rebels, also casts new light on these texts, underscoring their contemporary relevance. Camus's alternately angry and anguished engagement is made readily accessible to an English-speaking audience in Arthur Goldhammer's sensitive renderingÉ As the Franco-Algerian memory wars continue to rageÑsignificantly, the French state acknowledged that the 1954-62 'events' had been a war only in 1999Ñthis new translation offers a welcome opportunity to engage with the political soul-searching of a major figure who, as the American historian James Le Sueur has argued, may have been wrong about Algeria but may also have been right to be wrong."ÑPhilip Dine, The Irish Times "Camus was a far more engaged writer than his critics have allowed, and the essays, columns and speeches collected here make a strong case for his continued relevanceÉ Today, although his failure to support full independence for Algeria seems off the mark, Camus stands as a powerful voice against violence and extremism, and the very late appearance of these essays in English could not have come at a better timeÉ With the future of the Arab spring uncertain and with terrorism back on the front page, these Algerian Chronicles are not only history. They're also guides for how to be just in a difficult world."ÑJason Farago, NPR Books "Algerian ChroniclesÉcomprises everything Camus wrote on AlgeriaÉ Camus's writing on Kabylia is a marvel of eloquence. His sympathy for the people, his critique of the colonial regime, his pain over the injustices that he witnessesÑall thrilling. Seventy years after he wrote these pieces the reader is still penetrated by their literary beauty. But at no time in Algerian Chronicles are we listening to the speaking voice of a revolutionary. It is the voice of a despairing citizen who does not want his country's government overthrown; he wants it to do better by its people. He wants France to remain in Algeria, but to honor its own founding myths of liberty, equality, and fraternity. The pieces in Algerian Chronicles that were written years later in France, during the war for independence, are repetitive pleas for each side to stop demonizing the other, for human decency to prevail."ÑVivian Gornick, Boston Review "Camus' writing is shot through with appeals to the moral sense of his audience. And it is his own moral sense that makes the occasional writing collected here still so readableÉ After years of neglect and rejection, Camus is being rediscovered in Algeria. In the 1990s, Algeria endured another decade of bloody civil strife, this time between the Algerian army and Islamic insurgents. The questions Camus raised about common guilt, forgiveness, justice, and who is a true Algerian have been recognized as relevant once more."ÑGerald J. Rusello, Commonweal "Camus's liberal admirers saw his insistence on a peaceful resolution to the [Algerian struggle for independence], his condemnation of violence on both sides, as further proof of his moral integrity. Meanwhile, his leftist critics saw his moderation as a species of evasion, condemning his failure to come down clearly on the side of Algerian liberation. Today, when North Africa is once again the scene of revolutionary violence and the relations between the West and its former Arab colonies remain dangerously fraught, the debate about Camus and Algeria still resonates."ÑAdam Kirsch, The Daily Beast "The singular importance of Algerian Chronicles is that it brings together for the first time in English all of Camus's writings on Algeria, ranging over his early journalism covering the famine in Kabyle in 1939 to his appeals for reason and justice in Algeria in 1958. Beautifully translated by Arthur Goldhammer, they reveal Camus not so much as a philosopher (or 'ponderous metaphysician' as Said called him) but as something like a French George Orwell. Certainly, in all these essays he demonstrates a most un-Parisian aversion to abstraction and a taste for the concrete detail that reveals the reality of a situationÉ There is a new generation of readers in Algeria who are beginning to understand how [Camus] felt: torn between opposing forms of terror, neither of which promised justice or redemption. Algerian Chronicles is a beautiful and significant illustration of the complexities of that dilemma."ÑAndrew Hussey, Literary Review "[Algerian Chronicles] has not, for the most part, been regarded as one of Camus's 'important' worksÉ This is, perhaps, an oversight. At a historical moment when it seems crucial to the human prospect to think intelligently about terrorism and other forms of political violence, the thinking Camus does in Algerian Chronicles may strike us, if we open ourselves to it, as necessary, cogent, and saneÉ What is clear from Algerian Chronicles is that Camus's compassion could be triggered by the suffering of any human being, and that his political and moral concern was with any innocent person who might be made the victim of violence in the name of any political causeÉ Algerian Chronicles may have suffered the fate of being published at a time when those who most needed to hear what it had to say were entirely unable to read it with an open mind. It is possible that, now that some decades have passed, it will find a second life. We Americans would be well advised to pay it serious attention. After more than a decade in which the United States has chosen to respond to the specter of lawless terrorism with forms of violence some have regarded as state-sanctioned terrorismÑyears during which, as in the Algerian war, the violence inflicted by each side has been used to justify the violence inflicted by the other, and during which the use of torture by American military and security forces has been not only condoned but applauded by a large segment of the American citizenryÑCamus's reflections on these subjects seem to address us directly."ÑTroy Jollimore, Barnes & Noble Review "Algerian ChroniclesÉhas been invisibly translated by Arthur Goldhammer and prefaced perceptively by Alice KaplanÉ All [the essays] are a model of engaged journalism: scrupulous and exhaustive in the facts, telling in colorful anecdote, reasoned in argument, with no hint of sarcasm or anger. Apart from their historical interest, Camus's essays show us two things. One is it is possible to be politically engaged without foaming at the mouth. The other is the more things change in what historian Ian Morris calls 'the arc of instability,' from central Africa to Pakistan, the more they stay the same. Further, they remind us that a great deal of the horror going on there today is the legacy of 19th-century European colonialism and superpower maneuvering in the Cold WarÉ Through all these bloody convulsions and those of the wider region, Camus's central callÑto spare the lives of noncombatantsÑechoes stillÉ After Iraq, after Syria, after the still unexplained suspension of international law in deadly American drone strikes, after the constant bombing of marketplaces and mosques now that asymmetrical war has made obsolete the Geneva Conventions, Camus's voice seems naively idealistic. The world needs that kind of naivete more than ever."ÑMiriam Cosic, The Australian "Despite his lucidity and his avowed anti-colonialism, Camus during his lifetime failed to accept that Algeria should or could be permanently separated from France; and, as Kaplan rightly points out, his premature death in 1960 means that we can never know how he would have reacted to the agreements enacting that separationÉ At the same time, as a record of passionate insights into the processes involved, the book still makes absorbing reading, not least because of the many portentous analogies between what happened in Algeria and what is happening in much of our world todayÉ Algerian Chronicles is infused with bitter-sweet nostalgia for a personal lost paradise, a not infrequent ingredient of Camus's writing generally. But the book transmits a wider angry grief in its demonstration that the most humane and reasoned ideals seldom work to diminish the destructive and self-mutilating brutalities that humanity, endlessly, inflicts on itself. Camus has been well served here by Arthur Goldhammer, who is probably, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London England: 2014, Gallery/Scout Press. Very Good. From New York Times bestselling author of the ?twisty-mystery? (Vulture) novel In a Dark, Dark Wood, comes The Woman in Cabin 10, an equally suspenseful and haunting novel from Ruth Ware?this time, set at sea.In this tightly wound, enthralling story reminiscent of Agatha Christie?s works, Lo Blacklock, a journalist who writes for a travel magazine, has just been given the assignment of a lifetime: a week on a luxury cruise with only a handful of cabins. The sky is clear, the waters calm, and the veneered, select guests jovial as the exclusive cruise ship, the Aurora, begins her voyage in the picturesque North Sea. At first, Lo?s stay is nothing but pleasant: the cabins are plush, the dinner parties are sparkling, and the guests are elegant. But as the week wears on, frigid winds whip the deck, gray skies fall, and Lo witnesses what she can only describe as a dark and terrifying nightmare: a woman being thrown overboard. The problem? All passengers remain accounted for?and so, the ship sails on as if nothing has happened, despite Lo?s desperate attempts to convey that something (or someone) has gone terribly, terribly wrong?With surprising twists, spine-tingling turns, and a setting that proves as uncomfortably claustrophobic as it is eerily beautiful, Ruth Ware offers up another taut and intense read in The Woman in Cabin 10?one that will leave even the most sure-footed reader restlessly uneasy long after the last page is turned., Gallery/Scout Press, New York: A Del Rey Book - Ballantine Books, a division of Random House, Inc., 1983. BOOK: Previous Owner Markings/Ex-Library; Front, Rear Endpapers Pulled From Removal of Jacket Cover, Pocket; Corners, Spine, Boards Bumped; Moderate Shelf Rub to Boards; Spine Slightly Cocked; Boards, Edges Moderately Soiled. DUST JACKET: Lightly Pulled on Reverse From Removal of Jacket Cover; Lightly Creased; Slight Fading Due to Sun Exposure; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. CONTENTS: What Has Gone Before; Map. PART I: RETRIBUTION 1: The Master's Scar 2: Leper's Ground 3: The Path to Pain 4: Sea of Ice 5: Landward 6: Winter in Combat 7: Physician's Plight 8: The Defenders of the Land 9: March to Crisis 10: The Banefire. PART II: APOTHEOSIS 11: Aftermath 12: Those Who Part 13: The Eh-Brand 14: The Last Bourne 15: Enactors of Desecration 16: "Andelain! forgive!" 17: Into the Wightwarrens 18: No Other Way 19: Hold Possession 20: The Sun-Sage. EPILOGUE: RESTORATION 21: "To Say Farewell". Glossary. SYNOPSIS: " . . . I want you to go back to the Land. To Revelstone. And stop the Clave. Put out the Banefire. If you do that, the Sunbane'll slow down. Maybe it'll even recede. That'll give us time to look for a better answer." Thomas Covenant was shocked by Linden Avery's demand; but he realized that, despite their awful failure on The Isle of The One Tree, there was no alternative but to return and fight. Mhoram had warned him: " . . . In the end, you must return to the Land." After a long and arduous journey overland, the company reaches Revelstone. Following a fiery showdown with Gibbon Raver, covenant discovers that he can come to terms with - and control - his awesome power. As he readies himself for the final showdown with Lord Foul, the Despiser, Thomas Covenant knows he has the answer at last. White Gold Wielder, Book Three of The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, is the stunning conclusion to the extraordinary saga that has become a major international bestseller. Born in 1947 in Cleveland, Ohio, Stephen R. Donaldson made his publishing debut with the first Covenant trilogy in 1977. Shortly thereafter, he was named Best New writer of the Year and given the prestigious John W. Campbell Award. He graduated from the College of Wooster (Ohio) in 1968, served two years as a conscientious objector doing hospital work in Akron, then attended Kent State University where he received his M.A. in English in 1971.. First Edition 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Good/Very Good. Illus. by Darrell K. Sweet. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library., A Del Rey Book - Ballantine Books, a division of Random House, Inc., 1983, Geopoetika, 2015. paperback. New. Serbian language, 20 cm, Srpska knjizevnost, The Size of the World offers a finely structured story about a world long gone but forever existing in its protagonists. It depicts Andjic's experience of growing up and coming of age in the former Yugoslavia, from the early 1960s till the late 1980s, presenting an image of a typical Yugoslav childhood of the time, with some notable differences that formed the author's character and his world-view. In order to come to terms with his father's death, the author, now as a grown man, travels back into the past iThe Size of the World offers a finely structured story about a world long gone but forever existing in its protagonists. It depicts Andjic's experience of growing up and coming of age in the former Yugoslavia, from the early 1960s till the late 1980s, presenting an image of a typical Yugoslav childhood of the time, with some notable differences that formed the author's character and his world-view. In order to come to terms with his father's death, the author, now as a grown man, travels back into the past, Geopoetika, 2015<
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Geopoetika, 2015. paperback. New. Serbian language, 20 cm, Srpska knjizevnost, The Size of the World offers a finely structured story about a world long gone but forever existing in its protagonists. It depicts Andjic's experience of growing up and coming of age in the former Yugoslavia, from the early 1960s till the late 1980s, presenting an image of a typical Yugoslav childhood of the time, with some notable differences that formed the author's character and his world-view. In order to come to terms with his father's death, the author, now as a grown man, travels back into the past iThe Size of the World offers a finely structured story about a world long gone but forever existing in its protagonists. It depicts Andjic's experience of growing up and coming of age in the former Yugoslavia, from the early 1960s till the late 1980s, presenting an image of a typical Yugoslav childhood of the time, with some notable differences that formed the author's character and his world-view. In order to come to terms with his father's death, the author, now as a grown man, travels back into the past, Geopoetika, 2015<
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