Return Passages

Return Passages
Author: Larzer Ziff
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2000-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780300082364

Ziff (English, Johns Hopkins) traces the history of American travel writing from the end of the Revolution to the outbreak of WWI. The author commences with two men who traveled first and later wrote about it. John Ledyard (1752-1789) became arguably the first professional and copyrighted author in the US with his memoirs of travels with Captain Cook, and John Lloyd Stephens (1805-1852) discovered hundreds of ruins in the Yucatan and Central America. Ziff continues with two writers who traveled to gather material: Bayard Taylor (1852-1878) journeyed not only far and wide but also diversified his means of travel (dhows, reindeer sleighs, banghy carts, warships) to invigorate his narratives; and Mark Twain (1835- 1910), who when he wrote Innocents Abroad (1869), was a roving correspondent skewering sentimental travel books, tourists, and European monuments. Henry James (1843-1916), a logical and temporal conclusion to this American travel pantheon, seemed equal parts writer and traveler. Through these five, an array of styles and attitudes emerge, united primarily by a contemplation of an increasingly problematic American identity. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR

Return Passage

Return Passage
Author: M. L. Buchman
Publisher: Buchman Bookworks, Inc.
Total Pages: 69
Release: 2022-03-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

A musician seeks inspiration on the open sea and finds it in the most unexpected way. Myles and Rose are twins. Despite the success of their musical duet, they can’t manage to break out. Myles knows they’re missing something if only he could pin it down. Vonda’s attempts to restart her life keep sinking beneath the waves. She needs to chart a new course. A chance meeting on Maui and a leisurely five-week sailboat ride to Victoria, Canada changes the future for all three of them.

Return

Return
Author: Robert D. Hales
Publisher: Deseret Book
Total Pages: 432
Release: 2010-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781570087691

Church leader and business executive Robert Hales discusses the four stages of life's journey--preparation, decision, serving, and enduring--and considers how each stage prepares us for eternal life.

The Return of the Tidal Flow of the Middle Passage

The Return of the Tidal Flow of the Middle Passage
Author: Jacob Oluwatayo Adeuyan
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2011-08-31
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1463424086

This book is a high profile reference book on the ordeal and ugly situations that befell the African continent; its people; its economy and why it was impossible for the continent to achieve much in the areas of scientific fit, natural development and social backwardness when is to be compared to other continents of the world. African people are never lazy folks as it was erroneously believed and propagated by some nationalities from other places of the world. If history was to be believed, African continent was one of the first places of the world where civilization and technology started even when others from other regions of the world were still looking for what to hold to support their walking exercise. Africa was one of the first fast growing Continent of the world in the acquisition of science and other human related knowledge, the study of solar system and other planets from its God given bank of knowledge. Universities of Timbuktu and Cairo is in a better position to attest to this fact from their records.The turn around of events that choked-up the people of the early generations of the continent began during the escalation of slave trade era. The relationship between an African person and their kings (Obas), the Chiefs and the Nobles on one hand and the down-trodden people that constituted the larger population of the community on the other created an un-level ground that benefited the former than the later. The advantage of absolute respect that the former was enjoying from the lower class was now being used on them when the trade was booming. African culture is a culture that gives absolute respect and honor to the elders and the well-to-do personalities among its community. When the hunting for slaves was at its peak in the West Coast of Africa for example, this class of well-to-do people were the intermediaries between the Oyinbos (white men) and the African slave traders who were then living at cities along the coast.

A Return to Love

A Return to Love
Author: Marianne Williamson
Publisher: HarperOne
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016-06-13
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 9780062214089

Is it possible to propose a world formed by love and interpreted from a feeling of wonder without falling into the doctrines inherent in the different religious languages?

The Return

The Return
Author: Rachel Harrison
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2024-07-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0593641671

A group of friends reunite after one of them has returned from a mysterious two-year disappearance in this edgy and haunting debut. Julie is missing, and no one believes she will ever return—except Elise. Elise knows Julie better than anyone, and feels it in her bones that her best friend is out there and that one day Julie will come back. She’s right. Two years to the day that Julie went missing, she reappears with no memory of where she’s been or what happened to her. Along with Molly and Mae, their two close friends from college, the women decide to reunite at a remote inn. But the second Elise sees Julie, she knows something is wrong—she’s emaciated, with sallow skin and odd appetites. And as the weekend unfurls, it becomes impossible to deny that the Julie who vanished two years ago is not the same Julie who came back. But then who—or what—is she?