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| Author | : Nicolaas Vergunst |
| Publisher | : Arena books |
| Total Pages | : 236 |
| Release | : 2011-04-25 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1906791945 |
In 1510, when the Cape of Good Hope was still revered as the Portal to the Indies, the Viceroy of Portuguese India was led ashore, attacked, slain and hurriedly buried in a shallow grave. The murder of Dom Francisco d'Almeida remains a mystery to this day. Was it the fulfilment of a prophecy or an act of poetic justice? Was it an ambush, a mutiny or even an assassination? If so, was it instigated by the King of Portugal or the Church of Rome?Knot of Stone is a tale of historical detection in which two unlikely travel companions - a restless Dutch historian, Sonja Haas, and a jaded Afrikaans archaeologist, Jason Tomas - find themselves drawn together after discovering a five-century-old skeleton at the foot of Table Mountain. Their search for new evidence leads the reader ever further north to ancestral burial sites, remote mountain sanctuaries, sacred springs, medieval monasteries and rare museum artefacts. Via various roadside encounters, including the startling revelations of a sangoma (a healer empowered by the ancestors), they reconstruct the past and their own identities, with divergent consequences. The multi-layered story is ultimately a tale of self-discovery.As a novel, Knot of Stone presents a unique and insightful revision of actual events, offering a courageous departure from mainstream historical writing. With its captivating mystery, its mixture of legend and original research, plus the karmic background of various historical individuals, this enthralling book will appeal to all those who have enjoyed the enigmatic works of Umberto Eco and Dan Brown.www.knotofstone.com
| Author | : M. C. Morison |
| Publisher | : John Hunt Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 393 |
| Release | : 2017-06-30 |
| Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1785354914 |
When Rhory is shot at in Surrey, and nearly kidnapped in Alexandria, he knows it’s Game On. Pursued across time, over snow and ice in war-torn medieval Sweden, sought in a slave market in Ancient Alexandria, he and his young teenage companions have a task: to save priceless wisdom from the Library of Alexandria. Three modern witches are determined to stop them.
| Author | : Eugene S. Hunn |
| Publisher | : University of Washington Press |
| Total Pages | : 396 |
| Release | : 1990 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780295971193 |
The mighty Columbia River cuts a deep gash through the Miocene basalts of the Columbia Plateau, coursing as well through the lives of the Indians who live along its banks. Known to these people as Nch’i-Wana (the Big River), it forms the spine of their land, the core of their habitat. At the turn of the century, the Sahaptin speakers of the mid-Columbia lived in an area between Celilo Falls and Priest Rapids in eastern Oregon and Washington. They were hunters and gatherers who survived by virtue of a detailed, encyclopedic knowledge of their environment. Eugene Hunn’s authoritative study focuses on Sahaptin ethnobiology and the role of the natural environment in the lives and beliefs of their descendants who live on or near the Yakima, Umatilla, and Warm Springs reservations.
| Author | : Bill Martin |
| Publisher | : Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 36 |
| Release | : 1997-09-15 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0805054790 |
A grandfather and his blind grandson reminisce about the young boy's birth, his first horse and an exiciting horse race.
| Author | : Erin Kelly |
| Publisher | : Minotaur Books |
| Total Pages | : 367 |
| Release | : 2019-04-23 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1250113717 |
"Utterly engaging, terrifying, and unputdownable, this novel will haunt readers and have them wanting more from Kelly.” — Booklist, Starred Review Erin Kelly, the masterful author of He Said/She Said, delivers another intense, irresistible novel of psychological suspense in Stone Mothers. You can't keep the secret. You can't tell the truth. You can't escape the past... Marianne was seventeen when she fled her home in Nusstead – leaving behind her family, her boyfriend, Jesse, and the body they buried. Now, thirty years later, forced to return to in order to help care for her sick mother, she can feel the past closing around her. And Jesse, who never forgave her for leaving in the first place, is finally threatening to expose the truth. Marianne will do anything to protect the life she's built, the husband and daughter who must never know what happened all those years ago. Even if it means turning to her worst enemy for help... But Marianne may not know the whole story – and she isn't the only one with secrets they'd kill to keep.
| Author | : Sibylla Brodzinsky |
| Publisher | : McSweeney's |
| Total Pages | : 442 |
| Release | : 2012-09-12 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 193636591X |
For nearly five decades, Colombia has been embroiled in internal armed conflict among guerrilla groups, paramilitary militias, and the country’s own military. Civilians in Colombia have to make their lives despite the threat of torture, kidnapping, and large-scale massacres—and more than four million have had to flee their homes. The oral histories in Throwing Stones at the Moon describe the most widespread of Colombia’s human rights crises: forced displacement. Speakers recount life before displacement, the reasons for their flight, and their struggle to rebuild their lives. Among the narrators: JULIA, a hospital union leader whose fight against corruption led to a brutal attempt on her life. In 2009, assassins tracked her to her home and stabbed her seven times in the face and chest. Since the attack, Julia has undergone eight facial reconstructive surgeries, and continues to live in hiding. DANNY, who at eighteen joined a right-wing paramilitary’s enormous training camp in the Eastern Plains of Colombia. Initially lured by the promise of quick money, Danny soon realized his mistake and escaped to Ecuador. He describes his harrowing escape and his struggle to survive as a refugee with two young children to support.
| Author | : Jenny L. Adams |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2013 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9781607812739 |
An updated edition of the essential reference for the study of ground stone artifacts
| Author | : George Bain |
| Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
| Total Pages | : 162 |
| Release | : 2013-07-24 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 0486317447 |
This unique volume clearly demonstrates simple geometric techniques for making intricate knots, interlacements, spirals, Kellstype initials, human and animal figures in distinctive Celtic style. Features over 500 illustrations.
| Author | : Diane Cardwell |
| Publisher | : Mariner Books |
| Total Pages | : 275 |
| Release | : 2020 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0358067782 |
The inspirational story of one woman learning to surf and creating a new life in gritty, eccentric Rockaway Beach Unmoored by a failed marriage and disconnected from her high-octane life in the city, Diane Cardwell finds herself staring at a small group of surfers coasting through mellow waves toward shore--and senses something shift. Rockaway is the riveting, joyful story of one woman's reinvention--beginning with Cardwell taking the A Train to Rockaway, a neglected spit of land dangling off New York City into the Atlantic Ocean. She finds a teacher, buys a tiny bungalow, and throws her not-overly-athletic self headlong into learning the inner workings and rhythms of waves and the muscle development and coordination needed to ride them. As Cardwell begins to find her balance in the water and out, superstorm Sandy hits, sending her into the maelstrom in search of safer ground. In the aftermath, the community comes together and rebuilds, rekindling its bacchanalian spirit as a historic surfing community, one with its own quirky codes and surf culture. And Cardwell's surfing takes off as she finds a true home among her fellow passionate longboarders at the Rockaway Beach Surf Club, living out "the most joyful path through life." Rockaway is a stirring story of inner salvation sought through a challenging physical pursuit--and of learning to accept the idea of a complete reset, no matter when in life it comes.
| Author | : Carley Roney |
| Publisher | : Potter Style |
| Total Pages | : 210 |
| Release | : 2007-12-26 |
| Genre | : Reference |
| ISBN | : 0307341933 |
For the first time wedding resource brand The Knot's famous timelines, tools, and checklists have been compiled in one easy-to-carry book that will travel with you from florist to baker and everywhere in between. The Knot Book of Wedding Lists distills all the great information from The Knot and crafts it into useful, organized lists that will eliminate the stress and make planning a wedding as simple as checking off boxes. Whether you’re planning for twenty or two hundred, a wedding on the beach or in a balloon, this compact guide covers all your planning details for the big day in an easy, organized format, including: • Planning timelines • Contract checklists • Vendor to-do lists • New wedding ideas • Questions to ask the site manager, photographer, florist, and others • Bridesmaid duties • Details about your ceremony • Shopping lists • Wedding-day to-do lists • Reception schedules and much, much more. With the most essential to-do lists in one easily accessible and portable spot, The Knot Book of Wedding Lists is the ultimate organizing tool you’ll turn to at every step of the wedding-planning process—right up to your walk down the aisle.
