![]() ![]() Their great secret is that they know everything is a tide-not a black tide, but the natural breath of life-in and out, in and out, and to be with them is to know this too, And here they were, suddenly lifting the weight of our sadness for us, carrying it in the curl of their trunks. If they so choose, they have the ability to hold your sadness so you may safely sit in the lonely seat of loss, still hopeful and full of love. They carry stories from generations back, as far as when their ancestors wore fur coats, That is why, when you are close to an elephant, you feel so deeply. They live closer to tree time than we do, and their memories reside in the soul of their species, which dwarfs them in size, is untouchable, and lives on forever to honor every story. An elephant's memories don't reside in organ or skin or bone. ![]() MoFos used to say that an elephant never forgets and until this very moment, I hadn't understood what that really meant. It's how they walk with the world's weight on their shoulders, sensitive, noble, their hearts pulsing and as wide open as the great grey leaves that are their ears. But their size is not what makes the heart skip a beat. ![]()
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![]() First published in 1967, just months after the completion of Chichester's historic journey, "Gipsy Moth Circles the World" was an instant international best-seller. The story of how the sixty-five-year-old navigator singlehandedly circumnavigated the globe, the whole way battling hostile seas as well as his boat's numerous design flaws, is a tale of superhuman tenacity and endurance to be read and reread by sailors and armchair adventurers alike.This volume in "The Sailor's Classics" restores in its entirety for a new generation of readers Francis Chichester's extraordinarily candid personal account of his adventure. Among the handful of such tales to emerge in the twentieth century, one of the most enduring surely must be Sir Francis Chichester's account of his solitary, nine-month journey around the world in his 53-foot ketch Gipsy Moth IV. From time immemorial, few narrative genres have had the power to so stir the emotions or captivate the imagination as the true account of a lone adventurer's triumph over the titanic forces of nature. ![]() ![]() 'Sir Francis Chichester has become a genuine hero - perhaps the greatest of the adventurers of his time' - "Time". ![]() ![]() ![]() There he studied Greek and Latin as well as German. His father operated a local pencil factory, and his mother rented out parts of the family's home to boarders.Ī bright student, Thoreau eventually went to Harvard College (now Harvard University). He was born and raised in Concord, Massachusetts, along with his older siblings John and Helen and younger sister Sophia. ![]() One of America's most famous writers, Henry David Thoreau is remembered for his philosophical and naturalist writings. He also became known for his beliefs in Transcendentalism and civil disobedience and was a dedicated abolitionist. 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It is set approximately after the events of the main series and will feature four books.įrey and Rafi are inseparable. ![]() Impostors is the first book in an eponymous spin-off series of Uglies by Scott Westerfeld. ![]() ![]() ![]() The daughter of a country archdeacon, one of five children, she misses the sense of purpose she had as a nurse in the war and cannot settle as a housewife, despite her love for Tommy and their son, George. Prudence (Tuppence) Beresford ( Jessica Raine) is a quick-witted, irrepressible woman with a tendency to leap without looking. It is a perilous world, in which Tommy flourishes. He does not realise that he has no head for business, but he does have a knack for espionage and crime-solving in a Cold War world full of double agents and assassins. He tries to look after his spirited wife, Tuppence, and his son, George, by various money-making schemes. Thomas (Tommy) Beresford ( David Walliams), in his early 40s, is a clever and logical man whose business ventures never quite work out, just as his university and army days were never successful. ![]() The action is updated from the 19 settings of the novels to the 1950s, and the era of the Cold War against Stalin. The novels are adapted from the short stories of Partners in Crime the first three episodes from the 1922 novel The Secret Adversary, and the last three episodes from the 1941 novel N or M? The series was not renewed for a second series by the BBC. The six-part series is an adaptation of two Tommy and Tuppence detective novels by Agatha Christie. ![]() Partners in Crime is a British drama television series that began on BBC One on 26 July 2015. ![]() ![]() ![]() TolkienĬoldhearted Ebenezer Scrooge has no use for Christmas cheer. Lewis George Orwell Mary Pope Osborne LeUyen Pham Dav Pilkey Roger Priddy Rick Riordan J. 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At the Geneva convention, while everyone was writing their ghost stories, John Polidori was also at work on his own. Lord Byron initially had hired John William Polidori as a personal physician that travelled alongside him in his travels. "The Vampyre", written by John Polidori, was actually first attributed to Lord Byron after having his conference at Geneva with Percy Shelley and Mary Godwin (Shelley’s future wife) along with several other notable figures. The Fall of the Angels: A Sacred Poem (1821) Xinemenes, The Wreath and Other Poems (1819) Despite his family’s acceptance of the cause of death, it was widely reported in the newspapers that Polidori “died by the visitation of God.”Įrnestus Berchtold or The Modern Oedipus: A Tale (1819) He, like his former employer Byron, had accumulated an insurmountable amount of gambling debt. In August 1821, Polidori committed suicide by cyanide, or prussic acid. 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The film was a hit with critics and audience alike, yet while Hill’s book went on to sell millions and become a set GCSE text, and Stephen Mallatratt’s stage adaptation began a West End run in 1989 that was halted by Covid-19, Wise’s film slid into relative obscurity.Īfter briefly surfacing on WH Smith’s own-brand VHS label in 1991 and screening on Channel 4 in 1994, it disappeared. “ a genuine physical reaction,” wrote Nancy Banks-Smith in the Guardian, “as if one layer of your skin had shifted over another.” There, in a remote house at the end of a shingle causeway, he is tormented by terrifying noises and cries – and appearances from a tall woman dressed in black (Pauline Moran), who comes to exert a malevolent hold over his life.įirst broadcast on ITV, at 9pm Christmas Eve 1989, it haunted all who watched it, thanks in part to Wise’s tense, economical direction, and one of the greatest jump-scares in the history of horror. Adapted by visionary British sci-fi screenwriter Nigel Kneale from Susan Hill’s 1983 novella, it stars a 31-year-old Adrian Rawlins as Edwardian solicitor Arthur Kidd, sent to settle the estate of an eccentric widow, Mrs Drablow, on the north-east coast of England. Few horror films have acquired the cult reputation of Herbert Wise’s TV production of The Woman in Black. ![]() ![]() ![]() Knox and his squad of super-soldiers called the Silver Devils went AWOL rather than slaughter innocent people and through his assignment to kidnap Nina, he will save someone vital to his and his men's survival. ![]() Nina's main goal is to use their knowledge and resources to save the hopeless in their community.Īlthough Nina has done all she can to maintain a low profile, she is unaware that she is being watched and hunted by Captain Garrett Knox. Despite the grim state of the world she's living in, Nina instills hope in the community she and her friends Dani and Maya live in by running a library which provides access to digital books for free, printed books for a fee, and create numerous events to keep community members and kids out of trouble. The novel begins with a classified memo from The Franklin Center for Genetic Research regarding one of their subjects after which time, the reader is introduced to the Nina, an information broker who is having to fight off a group of thugs trying to attack her.Īs the novel progresses, it is revealed that in 2042, a solar storm hit the earth for two days straight and through a direct solar flare hit to North America, it plunged the whole continent into darkness and chaos. ![]() "Deal with the Devil" is a thrilling novel of mercenary librarians and a squad of super-soldiers set in post apocalyptic America. ![]() |