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Author : Ernest William Hornung
Release : 1907
Genre : Adventure stories, English
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Book Synopsis The Amateur Cracksman by : Ernest William Hornung
Download or read book The Amateur Cracksman written by Ernest William Hornung. This book was released on 1907. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hugh Raffles
Release : 2022-04-18
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis The Book of Unconformities by : Hugh Raffles
Download or read book The Book of Unconformities written by Hugh Raffles. This book was released on 2022-04-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of lnsectopedia, a powerful exploration of loss, grief, endurance, and the absences that permeate the present. Unconformities are gaps in the geological record, physical evidence of breaks in time. For Hugh Raffles, these holes in history are also fissures in feeling, knowledge, memory, and understanding. In this endlessly inventive, riveting book, Raffles enters these gaps, drawing together threads of geology, history, literature, philosophy, and ethnography to trace the intimate connections between personal loss and world historical events, and to reveal the force of absence at the core of contemporary life. Through deeply researched explorations of Neolithic stone circles, Icelandic lava, mica from a Nazi concentration camp, petrified whale blubber in Svalbard, the marble prized by Manhattan's Lenape, and a huge Greenlandic meteorite that arrived in New York City along with six Inuit adventurers in 1897, Raffles shows how unconformities unceasingly incite human imagination and investigation yet refuse to conform, heal, or disappear. A journey across eons and continents, The Book of Unconformities is also a journey through stone: this most solid, ancient, and enigmatic of materials, it turns out, is as lively, capricious, willful, and indifferent as time itself.
Author : Dennis Kyte
Release : 1989
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
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Book Synopsis Zackary Raffles by : Dennis Kyte
Download or read book Zackary Raffles written by Dennis Kyte. This book was released on 1989. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the moon illuminates all the objects that frighten a young mouse in the night, he finally conquers his terrible fear of the dark and is able to realize the greatest wish of his sixth birthday.
Author : Victoria Glendinning
Release : 2013
Genre : Colonial administrators
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Book Synopsis Raffles and the Golden Opportunity, 1781-1826 by : Victoria Glendinning
Download or read book Raffles and the Golden Opportunity, 1781-1826 written by Victoria Glendinning. This book was released on 2013. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1819 Sir Stamford Raffles, without authority from London, raised the British flag on a small jungle-covered island and founded a settlement which would become the city state of Singapore. It was the crowning moment in an extraordinary career in South-East Asia, which saw Raffles shake off his humble beginnings to become Lieutenant-Governor of Java. But his success in the tropics was overshadowed by professional conflict and personal tragedy. Acclaimed biographer Victoria Glendinning charts the extraordinary life of an English adventurer, disobedient employee of the East India Company, utopian imperialist, linguist, naturalist, collector and troublesome visionary. If Raffles' own end was tragic, the mark he left on the world is indelible. His name and fame are undimmed today and, as he hoped, Singapore has become his lasting monument.
Author : Tim Hannigan
Release : 2012-11-01
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Raffles and the British Invasion of Java by : Tim Hannigan
Download or read book Raffles and the British Invasion of Java written by Tim Hannigan. This book was released on 2012-11-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1811, an army of 10,000 British redcoats splashed ashore through the muddy shallows off Batavia (now Jakarta) to conquer the Dutch colony of Java. They would remain there for five turbulent years. Drawing on both British and Javanese archival sources, this narrative history-cum-biography explores the bloody battles and furious controversies that marked British rule in Java, and reveals the future founder of Singapore, Thomas Stamford Raffles in a shocking new light.
