Under the Long White Cloud

Under the Long White Cloud
Author: Miles Kent Farnsworth
Publisher: Miles Kent Farnsworth
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2023-05-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

Embark on an unforgettable journey through the eyes of a young missionary serving in New Zealand. In this candid memoir, you'll encounter the challenges, joys, and complexities of serving as a volunteer missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Filled with humor, heart, and humanity, this book invites you to experience the rich culture and breathtaking scenery of New Zealand while gaining a unique insight into the highs and lows of missionary life. But this memoir is more than a simple travelogue - it's a deeply personal account of growth, faith, and self-discovery. Whether you're a Latter-day Saint, a fan of travel memoirs, a curious New Zealander, or simply looking for a compelling story, come along for the ride and discover the true meaning of sacrifice, service, and the power of faith in this captivating memoir.

In the Land of the Long White Cloud

In the Land of the Long White Cloud
Author: Sarah Lark
Publisher: Amazon Crossing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Female friendship
ISBN: 9781612184265

Helen Davenport, governess for a wealthy London household, spots an advertisement seeking young women to marry New Zealand's honorable bachelors and begins correspondence with a gentleman farmer. When her church offers to pay her travels under an unusual arrangement, she jumps at the opportunity. On the ship, she meets Gwyneira Silkham, traveling to meet a New Zealand baron who won her in a game of blackjack. When their new husbands turn out to be very different than expected, the women must help one another find the life they'd hoped for.

Song of the Spirits

Song of the Spirits
Author: Sarah Lark
Publisher: AmazonCrossing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Canterbury (N.Z. : Provincial District)
ISBN: 9781477807675

"Lark recounts...the sometimes peaceful, sometimes uneasy relationship between the Maori natives and the pakeha--the colonists. And the land, which can be rocky and formidable and also breathtakingly beautiful, is as much a character as anyone else." --Historical Novel Society New Zealand, 1893: William Martyn is better educated and more cultivated than the other men breaking their backs searching for gold near Queenstown. William is the son of landed Irish nobility, and he comes to town ready to invest in the best equipment. On his search for supplies, he encounters spirited and beautiful young Elaine O'Keefe, who promptly falls in love with him. He is captivated by her charms until Kura, Elaine's half-Maori cousin, comes to visit. William succumbs at once to Kura's exotic beauty and free-spiritedness, and tension develops not only between the two cousins but also between the colonial settlers and their Maori neighbors.

Green Mountain, White Cloud

Green Mountain, White Cloud
Author: Francois Cheng
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2004-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780312315740

"It opens to a spring day, when a middle-aged doctor named Dao-sheng leaves the mountaintop Taoist monastery where he has been living and sets out for the Region of the South, to the city he had once visited thirty years earlier and where his life had been irrevocably changed. He had then been a strapping but poor young musician traveling with a theater troupe. One evening, during a performance, he caught the eye of a well-born young woman named Lan-ying. Their contact lasted but a minute, but to them it felt like an eternity. For this act of audacity he was banished to hard labor by the girl's jealous fiance, the dissipated scion of a powerful family, who had witnessed their exchange and grasped its significance. Across the decades of a life spent either on the run or hiding out in monasteries, where he mastered medicine and divination, Dao-sheng never forgot Lan-ying. One exchange of glances had sealed something forever, something whose enduring power would decide their fates."--BOOK JACKET.

Lost in the Long White Cloud

Lost in the Long White Cloud
Author: David H. Rosen
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2014-09-08
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1498202268

Lost in the Long White Cloud is both creation story and vision quest of a healer. Prolific author, David H. Rosen, was the child of creative parents. Free to explore, the sometimes unattended toddler turned into a smart "good boy" with a "bad boy's" energy for funny, sad and scary escapades. The future author of The Tao of Elvis so successfully impersonated Elvis in junior high, that his gyrations led to "girls, girls, girls" -- and even a marriage proposal from one enamored adolescent's parents! Rosen's story takes us all over the map. In Greece, David lays awake under the stars with lovely Lolly and decides to become a fisherman. He pays a Parisian prostitute just to listen to her story, which will empower the future Jungian psychiatrist to help a call girl transform herself into a therapist for sexually-abused children. In Denmark, Rosen discovers that the well-provided-for citizens were strangely prone to suicide. Later, Dr Rosen would coin the term "egocide" and publish the magnum opus, Transforming Depression. US propaganda drives David to experience Russia for himself. The ensuing trip is an international "Twist and Shout" dance party in the train aisles! Lost in the Long White Cloud is a memoir turned cinematic adventure story by the astonishingly honest, good-hearted and erudite David H. Rosen, MD.

Yang Sheng

Yang Sheng
Author: Katie Brindle
Publisher: Hardie Grant Publishing
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2019-04-18
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1784883085

The concept of self-care is, in fact, thousands of years old. This buzzword is rooted in a 2,500-year old Chinese philosophy. ‘Yang sheng’ means to nourish life – fostering your own health and wellbeing by nurturing body, mind and spirit. In this book, Katie Brindle teaches readers how to harness this powerful natural healing system to improve every aspect of their life. Yang Sheng fits and works brilliantly in modern life. Some of the techniques may seem unusual, but they are all simple, quick and effective. Even more appealing, a key principle of Chinese medicine is balance; that means not being perfect or excluding foods or having too many rules or pushing yourself to exhaustion with overwork or over-exercise. And so, Yang Sheng encourages you to have the green juice and the glass of wine, a full-on day at work and a night out dancing. For people who are overtired and overtaxed, stressed, lacking a sex drive, or who feel anxious or hopeless, the practice of Yang sheng restores balance. Our bodies are designed to self-heal – Yang Sheng knows the mechanics of how to activate this.

White Cloud Mountain

White Cloud Mountain
Author: Grace Chia
Publisher: Epigram Books
Total Pages: 213
Release:
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9814901970

All her life, Audrey has done what is expected of her, following her father’s footsteps into the civil service, the “iron rice bowl” of Singapore. When a chance opportunity arises to attend a writing retreat in the Wonju mountains of South Korea, she grabs it, not knowing what to expect. Unexplainable things soon start happening to her, while a long-buried memory surfaces, threatening to unravel her calm and carefully-orchestrated world.

Dragons on the Long White Cloud

Dragons on the Long White Cloud
Author: Manying Ip
Publisher:
Total Pages: 176
Release: 1996
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

"A study of the ethnic Chinese community in New Zealand based on the oral-history accounts of local-born Chinese New Zealanders"--Pref.