The Peterborough Book Of Days
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| Author | : Brian Jones |
| Publisher | : The History Press |
| Total Pages | : 489 |
| Release | : 2014-11-03 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0752493817 |
Taking you through the year day by day, The Peterborough Book of Days contains quirky, eccentric, amusing and important events and facts from different periods in the history of the city. Ideal for dippin g into, this addictive little book will keep you entertained and informed. Featuring hundreds of snippets of information gleaned from the vaults of Peterborough's archives and covering the social, criminal, political, religious, industrial, military and sporting history of the city, it will delight residents and visitors alike.
| Author | : Francis Young |
| Publisher | : Lulu.com |
| Total Pages | : 152 |
| Release | : 2016 |
| Genre | : Design |
| ISBN | : 099264044X |
A Medieval Book of Magical Stones is the first translation of the longest and most comprehensive medieval English treatise on the occult powers of stones and gems, the Peterborough Lapidary. Lapidaries (encyclopaedias of the 'virtues' of stones and minerals) were an essential resource for practitioners of natural and ritual magic as well as medicine. This late fifteenth-century manuscript from the library of Peterborough Cathedral describes 145 stones, portraying them as living beings whose properties range from giving the bearer the power to command spirits and foretell the future to healing numerous illnesses and communicating with spirits and the dead, along with instructions on how to release latent occult power from within stones. Many of the proposed uses of stones resemble the concerns of medieval necromancers, such as invisibility, love magic, power over animals and the creation of magical mirrors. pp. xliii+106; 2 column text; introduction; bibliography; analytical index; 8 b/w illustrations
| Author | : Jo Riley |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 276 |
| Release | : 2016 |
| Genre | : Peterborough (England) |
| ISBN | : 9780957432918 |
This book is unique. Chris has spent the last few years tracking down hundreds of the amazing people he photographed in the 1970s, 80s and 90s. Some were easy, some were hard, some were impossible to find. When he was successful, Chris arranged a reunion at the location of the original photograph and took another picture. This book is an incredible collection of those pairs of photographs with text from writer Jo Riley telling the stories of the people in the photos.
| Author | : Charles Pelham Mulvany |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 820 |
| Release | : 1884 |
| Genre | : Canada |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Walter Savage Landor |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 144 |
| Release | : 1919 |
| Genre | : Calendars |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Helen Macdonald |
| Publisher | : Grove Press |
| Total Pages | : 282 |
| Release | : 2020-08-25 |
| Genre | : Literary Collections |
| ISBN | : 0802146694 |
The New York Times–bestselling author of H is for Hawk explores the human relationship to the natural world in this “dazzling” essay collection (Wall Street Journal). In Vesper Flights, Helen Macdonald brings together a collection of her best loved essays, along with new pieces on topics ranging from nostalgia for a vanishing countryside to the tribulations of farming ostriches to her own private vespers while trying to fall asleep. Meditating on notions of captivity and freedom, immigration and flight, Helen invites us into her most intimate experiences: observing the massive migration of songbirds from the top of the Empire State Building, watching tens of thousands of cranes in Hungary, seeking the last golden orioles in Suffolk’s poplar forests. She writes with heart-tugging clarity about wild boar, swifts, mushroom hunting, migraines, the strangeness of birds’ nests, and the unexpected guidance and comfort we find when watching wildlife.
| Author | : J. A. Burrow |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 451 |
| Release | : 2013-04-03 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1118697359 |
This essential Middle English textbook, now in its third edition, introduces students to the wide range of literature written in England between 1150 and 1400. New, thoroughly revised edition of this essential Middle English textbook. Introduces the language of the time, giving guidance on pronunciation, spelling, grammar, metre, vocabulary and regional dialects. Now includes extracts from 'Pearl' and Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde'. Bibliographic references have been updated throughout. Each text is accompanied by detailed notes.
| Author | : Fraser Sutherland |
| Publisher | : Dundurn |
| Total Pages | : 181 |
| Release | : 2022-01-18 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1459749588 |
A father reflects on the rich life of his son, who died suddenly at twenty-six after living with schizophrenia. On the morning of Boxing Day 2009, the poet Fraser Sutherland and his wife found their son, Malcolm, dead in his bedroom in their house. He was twenty-six and had died from a seizure of unknown cause. Malcolm had been living with schizophrenia since the age of seventeen. Fraser’s respectful narration of Malcolm’s life — his happiness as well as his sufferings, his heroic efforts to calm his troubled mind, his readings, his writings, his experiments with religious thought — is a master writer’s attempt to give shape and dignity to his son’s life, to memorialize it as more than an illness. And in writing about his son’s life, Fraser creates his own self-effacing memoir — the memoir of a parent’s resilience through years of stressful care. Fraser Sutherland, one of Canada’s finest poetry critics and essayists, died shortly after completing this book. A RARE MACHINES BOOK
| Author | : Katrina Kenison |
| Publisher | : Grand Central Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 210 |
| Release | : 2009-09-07 |
| Genre | : Family & Relationships |
| ISBN | : 0446558095 |
The Gift of an Ordinary Day is an intimate memoir of a family in transition, with boys becoming teenagers, careers ending and new ones opening up, and an attempt to find a deeper sense of place—and a slower pace—in a small New England town. This is a story of mid-life longings and discoveries, of lessons learned in the search for home and a new sense of purpose, and the bittersweet intensity of life with teenagers—holding on, letting go. Poised on the threshold between family life as she's always known it and her older son's departure for college, Kenison is surprised to find that the times she treasures most are the ordinary, unremarkable moments of everyday life, the very moments that she once took for granted, or rushed right through without noticing at all. The relationships, hopes, and dreams that Kenison illuminates will touch women's hearts, and her words will inspire mothers everywhere as they try to make peace with the inevitable changes in store.
| Author | : Charles Dack |
| Publisher | : Good Press |
| Total Pages | : 53 |
| Release | : 2019-12-04 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : |
'Weather and Folk Lore of Peterborough and District' is a fascinating collection of customs, sayings, and beliefs from the English counties of Huntingdon, Cambridge, Lincoln, and Northampton. The book includes a variety of rhymes and charms, with villagers sharing their belief in their effectiveness. Proverbs associated with Peterborough reflect a sense of pride in the town, and with each month of the year and special occasions having their own sayings. Here's a proverb that applies for June: "A fine June, puts all things in tune. A rainy June, sets all things in tune."
