A World Of My Own

Author : Graham Greene
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504054318
Total Pages : 93 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A World of My Own written by Graham Greene and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2018-08-07 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British author shares the “strange . . . inner layers of his playful, guilty imagination” in this glimpse into a brilliant novelist’s subconscious (The New York Times). Culled from nearly eight hundred pages of the author’s “dream diaries” kept between 1965 and 1989, this singular journal reveals “the feverish inner life of an intensely private man, providing an uncanny mirror-image of [his] novelistic obsessions, insecurities, and moral preoccupations” (Publishers Weekly). In what Greene calls My Own World—as opposed to the Common World of shared reality—he accompanies Henry James on a disagreeable riverboat trip to Bogota, is caught in a guerilla crossfire with Evelyn Waugh and W. H. Auden, strolls in the Vatican garden with Pope John Paul II who’s doling out Perugina chocolates like hosts, offers refuge to a suicidal Charlie Chaplin, and stages a disastrous play in blank verse for Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. He also shares his headspace with Goebbels, Castro, Cocteau, Queen Elizabeth, D. H. Lawrence, and talking kittens. And the landscape is just as wide: from Nazi Germany to Haiti to West Africa to Bethlehem 1 AD and to Sweden where he seeks treatment for leprosy. Greene is a criminal, spy, lover, assassin, witness, and writer. Encompassing life, death, war, feuds, and career, and alternately absurdist, frightening, funny, and revealing, these fertile imaginings—many of which found their way into Greene’s fiction—comprise nothing less than “an alternate autobiography . . . a uniquely candid self-portrait” of one of the giants of English literature (Kirkus Reviews).

Author : Robin Knox-Johnston
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1472901185
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A World of My Own written by Robin Knox-Johnston and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-05-29 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Friday 14 June 1968 Suhaili, a tiny ketch, slipped almost unnoticed out of Falmouth harbour steered by the solitary figure at her helm, Robin Knox-Johnston. Ten and a half months later Suhaili, paintwork peeling and rust streaked, her once white sails weathered and brown, her self-steering gone, her tiller arm jury rigged to the rudder head, came romping joyously back to Falmouth to a fantastic reception for Robin, who had become the first man to sail round the world non-stop single-handed. By every standard it was an incredible adventure, perhaps the last great uncomputerised journey left to man. Every hazard, every temptation to abandon the astounding voyage came Robin's way, from polluted water tanks, smashed cabin top and collapsed boom to lost self-steering gear and sheered off tiller, and all before the tiny ketch had fought her way to Cape Horn, the point of no return, the fearsome test of any seaman's nerve and determination. A World of My Own is Robin's gripping, uninhibited, moving account of one of the greatest sea adventures of our time. An instant bestseller, it is now reissued for a new generation of readers to be enthralled and inspired.

Author : Aileen McCallan
Publisher : Poolbeg Press Ltd
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book A World Of Our Own written by Aileen McCallan and published by Poolbeg Press Ltd. This book was released on 2016-05-09 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A World of Our Own is a mother’s account of how autism challenged her family and changed her life. Young mother Aileen McCallan is filled with love and joy at the birth of her second son, Cian. Now she feels she can settle into motherhood and a comfortable life. But it is not to be. From the age of about eighteen months, Cian’s behaviour grows increasingly strange: his language fails to develop; he shows little emotional or social connection; he doesn’t play with his older brother Christopher; and he screams and writhes at night, wearing down his parents. They face an endless series of assessments and tests as the truth gradually dawns: Cian has autism. Shocked to discover the lack of support or treatments available for those suffering from autism, Aileen determines to hold onto Cian, to stop her son from slipping away from her. She spends her waking hours working with him and searching for therapists who can connect with him using Applied Behavioural Analysis (ABA). It is an uphill battle that strains Aileen’s sanity, her marriage, her world. She feels caught in a world where there is only Cian and her. A World of Our Own is a heart-breaking, uncompromising glimpse into a family affected by autism. Ultimately, though, it is a story of the triumph of the human spirit, and of the victory of love over despair.

Author : Deshaun Hassan
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1669823083
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Product of My Own Environment written by Deshaun Hassan and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2022-06-12 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I am especially dedicating this book to my father (rest in peace). They say that all good things will eventually end, well for me, that is not the case. This book is the new beginning of bringing back to life the people and things thought to have come to an end. I decided to name this book “A product of my own environment”, because; all of us are just that. Growing up in Chicago IL, my environment naturally put inside of me to never speak on things I knew nothing about, and not to mind the business of others. This was all part of everyday survival.

Author : Everest Media,
Publisher : Everest Media LLC
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 45 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Summary of Robin Knox-Johnston's A World of My Own written by Everest Media, and published by Everest Media LLC. This book was released on 2022-10-10T22:59:00Z with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 I would like to thank the following people for their help and kindness in preparing Suhaili for the voyage: David Waterhouse and George Greenfield, David Ascoli, Charles Barnard, Mike Christiansen, Larry Hughes, Jim Jones, the staffs of Surrey Commercial Docks, Newhaven Marina, and the Falmouth Harbour Board, and the Marconi Marine staff. I would also like to thank the following people for their help in making the voyage: David Waterhouse, George Greenfield, George Christian, Tony Dowds, Mike Christiansen, Richard Carpenter, Ken Parker, Bruce Maxwell, Bill Rowntree, my brother Mike, and many of the crew of HMS Duncan. #2 I would like to thank the following people for their help in preparing Suhaili for the voyage: David Waterhouse, George Greenfield, George Christian, Tony Dowds, Mike Christiansen, Richard Carpenter, Ken Parker, Bruce Maxwell, and the Marconi Marine staff. #3 I was thinking about the feasibility of sailing around the world nonstop when my father mentioned that Tabarly was building a trimaran. I realized that someone would eventually attempt this, and I was hooked. #4 I was born in England in 1939. I lost my first boat when I was four, but built a 10-foot canoe in my grandparents’ attic when I was fourteen and attending Berkhamsted School as a day boy. I took her to Selsey in Sussex for the summer holidays, and she was seaworthy.

Author : Gilbert Burnet
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Burnet's History of My Own Time written by Gilbert Burnet and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Eglantine
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 326 pages
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Download or read book Eglantine written by Eglantine and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Edward Bellamy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 444 pages
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Download or read book Equality written by Edward Bellamy and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 780 pages
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Author : William Charles Macready
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 532 pages
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Download or read book Reminiscences and Selections from His Diaries and Letters written by William Charles Macready and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: