The Crying of the Wind

2017-03 Ireland

Author : Ithell Colquhoun
Release : 2017-03
Genre : Ireland
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Book Rating : 945/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Crying of the Wind written by Ithell Colquhoun. This book was released on 2017-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British surrealist painter and writer Ithell Colquhoun recalls episodes from her travels in Ireland as a young woman turning her back on the modern world and setting out across the unruly Irish countryside. Here, among the holy wells, monasteries and tumuli, she finds a canvas on which her sensibility and animist beliefs can freely express themselves. Her style is beguiling, her voice sincere, and through her unique perceptions we discover a land that is fiercely alive and compelling. It is a place where the wind cries, the stones tell old tales and the mountains watch over the roads and those who travel on them. By intuiting the eerie magic of Ireland, Colquhoun casts her own spell. She offers up a land of myth and legend, stripped of its modern signs, at the same time offering herself to the reader in this portrait of the artist as a young woman.

My Searching Heart

1980 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Crying Wind
Release : 1980
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Download or read book My Searching Heart written by Crying Wind. This book was released on 1980. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Crying Wind

1980 Converts

Author : Crying Wind
Release : 1980
Genre : Converts
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Book Rating : 631/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Crying Wind written by Crying Wind. This book was released on 1980. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crying Wind gives insights into American Indian culture and the cultural barriers Indians must hurdle when they accept Christ.

The Crying of the Wind

2005-09 Fiction

Author : Charles Gidley Wheeler
Release : 2005-09
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 384/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Crying of the Wind written by Charles Gidley Wheeler. This book was released on 2005-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ' What need have you to dread the monstrous crying of wind?' -W.B. Yeats Buenos Aires, 1939: Anna McGeoch arrives in Argentina from Scotland to join her brother and his wife and work on a Christian mission among the Matacos Indians. But within hours of her arrival she learns that her brother has been killed. Anna stays on in Buenos Aires and is welcomed into the glamorous lifestyle of the Hurlingham Club's polo-playing community. When she marries Tito Cadoret, a life of wealth and happiness seems to lie ahead. But, unknown to Anna, Cadoret is already in thrall to a corrupt and powerful lawyer, and as the years pass, he and his family are drawn ever deeper into a dark world of murder, blackmail, and the 'Dirty War'. When, in 1982, the British Task Force sails for the Falklands, Anna's daughter Nikki sails with it as a naval nurse aboard a hospital ship. After the battles are over, she tends the wounds of British and Argentine sailors and soldiers, and sees at first hand the tragedy and futility of armed conflict. As in the case of so many women down the centuries, Anna and Nikki suffer much in order to keep the family together, and the price they pay for personal freedom is high.

A Crying in the Wind

2017-04-11 History

Author : Elizabeth Fleetwood
Release : 2017-04-11
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 203/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book A Crying in the Wind written by Elizabeth Fleetwood. This book was released on 2017-04-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This epic and sweeping 200-year saga of an ancient island and its violent transformation from Eden-like paradise to the tourist-destination Tasmania of today, is told through the lives of four families. Aboriginal child Tom, stolen in 1812 and forced into early adulthood with no family, no identity, and no love; the hard working Scottish Fairfield family who leave all that is familiar to establish themselves in an alien place; the convict George Turner whose gentleness and conscience are finally destroyed by hard fate; and later the Dijkstras - displaced from Java and then from the Netherlands by WWII - come seeking a new home in the fabled isle that their own Abel Tasman had discovered in 1642. In the wake of invasion and genocide, the remnant Aborigines struggle for bare subsistence and recognition on the remote Bass Strait Islands while the pastoral settlers build their empires on someone else's land; the convict's sons try to create a new identity, and the Dutch search for peace but bring memories of other wars. All of them are in an alien environment full of ghosts and strange presences. As their descendants - ordinary people whom you might meet on the streets of Hobart today - interact around the troubled boy Ty, a threatening environmental mystery, and a fiery climax on the slopes of the grand Western Tiers, this is raw history as well as the heart-warming story of ordinary people, loving, hating and battling along in a difficult setting, indelibly marked by their past, yet striving to rise above it and seek redemption. "This rich and absorbing story's other ending is still out there, waiting in the wind to be heard..." Dr Alison Bleaney

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