Blue River Black Sea

Author : Andrew Eames
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1446421384
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blue River, Black Sea written by Andrew Eames and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-02-08 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Danube is Europe's Amazon. It flows through more countries than any other river on Earth - from the Black Forest in Germany to Europe's farthest fringes, where it joins the Black Sea in Romania. Andrew Eames' journey along its length brings us face to face with the Continent's bloodiest history and its most pressing issues of race and identity. As he travels - by bicycle, horse, boat and on foot - Eames finds himself seeking a bed for the night with minor royalty, hitching a ride on a Serbian barge captained by a man called Attila and getting up close and personal with a bull in rural Romania. He meets would-be kings and walks with gypsies, and finally rows his way beyond the borders of Europe entirely...

Author : Jens Mühling
Publisher : Haus Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1909961779
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Troubled Water written by Jens Mühling and published by Haus Publishing. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the countries bordering the Black Sea told through the stories of the people who live there. Fringing the Black Sea is a diverse array of countries, some centuries old and others emerging only after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Jens Mühling travels through this region, telling the stories of the people he meets along the way in order to paint a picture of the mix of cultures found here and to understand the present against a history stretching back to the arrival of Ancient Greek settlers and beyond. A fluent Russian speaker with a knack for gaining the trust of those he meets, Mühling brings together a cast of characters as diverse as the stories he hears, all of whom are willing to tell him their complex, contradictory, and often fantastical tales full of grief and legend. He meets descendants of the so-called Pontic Greeks, whom Stalin deported to Central Asia and who have now returned; Circassians who fled to Syria a century ago and whose great-great-grandchildren have returned to Abkhazia; and members of ethnic minorities like the Georgian Mingrelians or Bulgarian Muslims, expelled to Turkey in the summer of 1989. Mühling captures the region’s uneasy alliance of tradition and modernity and the diverse humanity of those who live there.

Author : Kate Coombs
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 1452113807
Total Pages : 37 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Water Sings Blue written by Kate Coombs and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2012-02-24 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Come down to the shore with this rich and vivid celebration of the ocean! With watercolors gorgeous enough to wade in by award-winning artist Meilo So and playful, moving poems by Kate Coombs, Water Sings Blue evokes the beauty and power, the depth and mystery, and the endless resonance of the sea.

Author : John Marriner
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Sea and Blue River written by John Marriner and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1968 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael Frederick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781893794078
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blue River written by Michael Frederick and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coming-of-Age writer put the road in his Nan to write fis feast novel and to find inner

Author : Neil Swidey
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307886735
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trapped Under the Sea written by Neil Swidey and published by Crown. This book was released on 2015-02-17 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The harrowing story of five men who were sent into a dark, airless, miles-long tunnel, hundreds of feet below the ocean, to do a nearly impossible job—with deadly results A quarter-century ago, Boston had the dirtiest harbor in America. The city had been dumping sewage into it for generations, coating the seafloor with a layer of “black mayonnaise.” Fisheries collapsed, wildlife fled, and locals referred to floating tampon applicators as “beach whistles.” In the 1990s, work began on a state-of-the-art treatment plant and a 10-mile-long tunnel—its endpoint stretching farther from civilization than the earth’s deepest ocean trench—to carry waste out of the harbor. With this impressive feat of engineering, Boston was poised to show the country how to rebound from environmental ruin. But when bad decisions and clashing corporations endangered the project, a team of commercial divers was sent on a perilous mission to rescue the stymied cleanup effort. Five divers went in; not all of them came out alive. Drawing on hundreds of interviews and thousands of documents collected over five years of reporting, award-winning writer Neil Swidey takes us deep into the lives of the divers, engineers, politicians, lawyers, and investigators involved in the tragedy and its aftermath, creating a taut, action-packed narrative. The climax comes just after the hard-partying DJ Gillis and his friend Billy Juse trade assignments as they head into the tunnel, sentencing one of them to death. An intimate portrait of the wreckage left in the wake of lives lost, the book—which Dennis Lehane calls "extraordinary" and compares with The Perfect Storm—is also a morality tale. What is the true cost of these large-scale construction projects, as designers and builders, emboldened by new technology and pressured to address a growing population’s rapacious needs, push the limits of the possible? This is a story about human risk—how it is calculated, discounted, and transferred—and the institutional failures that can lead to catastrophe. Suspenseful yet humane, Trapped Under the Sea reminds us that behind every bridge, tower, and tunnel—behind the infrastructure that makes modern life possible—lies unsung bravery and extraordinary sacrifice.

Author : Michael Dorris
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312421854
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Yellow Raft in Blue Water written by Michael Dorris and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-03-05 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follows three generations of Indian women beset by hardships and torn by angry secrets, yet inextricably bound together by kinship.

Author : Walter Mosley
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 147460868X
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Down the River Unto the Sea written by Walter Mosley and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2018-02-22 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the RBA Prize for Crime Writing Joe King Oliver was one of the NYPD's finest investigators until, dispatched to arrest a well-heeled car thief, he is framed for assault, a charge that lands him in the notorious Rikers Island prison. A decade later, King is a private detective, running his agency with the help of his teenage daughter, Aja-Denise. When he receives a card in the mail from the woman who admits she was paid by someone in the NYPD to frame him all those years ago, King realises that he has no choice but to take his own case: figuring out who on the force wanted him disposed of - and why. At the same time, King must investigate the case of black radical journalist Leonard Compton, aka A Free Man, accused of killing two on-duty police officers who had been abusing their badges to traffic drugs and women into the city's poorest neighbourhoods. In pursuit of justice, our hero must beat dirty cops and even dirtier bankers. All the while, two lives hang in the balance: Compton's, and King's own.

Author : Robert D. Kaplan
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307472698
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hog Pilots, Blue Water Grunts written by Robert D. Kaplan and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2008-09-30 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Hog Pilots, Blue Water Grunts, acclaimed journalist Robert D. Kaplan continues his exploration of the American military's challenging and varied commitments around the world. From protecting sea lanes, to providing disaster relief, to preparing for potential military confrontation with North Korea and Iran, Kaplan describes the astonishing, vital, and often unacknowledged operations regularly performed by American military personnel in the air, at sea, and on the ground. Vivid and illuminating, this book takes us deep into the highly technical and exotic cultures of the armed forces, telling soldiers' stories from the perspective of the troops on the ground.

Author : Tad Williams
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0756417457
Total Pages : 658 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Otherland: Mountain of Black Glass written by Tad Williams and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cryptic message from an oddly familiar winged visitor is all Paul Jones has to help him survive in the conplex virtual reality world known as "Otherland."