Clouds Above The Hill

Author : Shiba Ryōtarō
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136162240
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Clouds above the Hill written by Shiba Ryōtarō and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-05 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clouds above the Hill is one of the best-selling novels ever in Japan, and is now translated into English for the first time. An epic portrait of Japan in crisis, it combines graphic military history and highly readable fiction to depict an aspiring nation modernizing at breakneck speed. Best-selling author Shiba Ryōtarō devoted an entire decade of his life to this extraordinary blockbuster, which features Japan's emerging onto the world stage by the early years of the twentieth century. Volume I describes the growth of Japan’s fledgling Meiji state, a major "character" in the novel. We are also introduced to our three heroes, born into obscurity, the brothers Akiyama Yoshifuru and Akiyama Saneyuki, who will go on to play important roles in the Japanese Army and Navy, and the poet Masaoka Shiki, who will spend much of his short life trying to establish the haiku as a respected poetic form. Anyone curious as to how the "tiny, rising nation of Japan" was able to fight so fiercely for its survival should look no further. Clouds above the Hill is an exciting, human portrait of a modernizing nation that goes to war and thereby stakes its very existence on a desperate bid for glory in East Asia.

Author : Shiba Ryōtarō
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134679300
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Clouds above the Hill written by Shiba Ryōtarō and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-05 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clouds above the Hill is the best-selling novel ever in Japan, and is now translated into English for the first time. An epic portrait of Japan in crisis, it combines graphic military history and highly readable fiction to depict an aspiring nation modernizing at breakneck speed. Best-selling author Shiba Ryōtarō devoted an entire decade of his life to this extraordinary blockbuster, which features Japan's emerging onto the world stage by the early years of the 20th century. Volume IV begins with the dramatic battle of Mukden where Akiyama Yoshifuru’s cavalry play a major part in the action against the Cossacks. Meanwhile, Admiral Tōgō’s fleet sail to the Tsushima strait to intercept the Baltic Fleet en route to Vladivostok. With the help of Akiyama Saneyuki’s strategies, the Baltic Fleet is totally destroyed and the Japanese fleet make a triumphant return to Yokohama. Anyone curious as to how the "tiny, rising nation of Japan" was able to fight so fiercely for its survival should look no further. Clouds above the Hill is an exciting, human portrait of a modernizing nation that goes to war and thereby stakes its very existence on a desperate bid for glory in East Asia.

Author : Richard Askwith
Publisher : Aurum
ISBN 13 : 0711291942
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Feet in the Clouds written by Richard Askwith and published by Aurum. This book was released on 2024-05-16 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘A masterpiece’ The Sunday Times ‘The pure essence of trail running, infectious and captivating’ Scott Jurek, bestselling author of Eat and Run ‘One of the best books about the extremes of sporting endeavour that you will ever read’ Independent on Sunday Twenty years since it was first published, Feet in the Clouds by Richard Askwith remains the definitive story of fell-running and a modern sports classic. Richard Askwith’s journey takes him into a world of forbidding rocky hills, horizontal rain, fear, exhaustion and stunning natural beauty, as well as one of the sport's purest and toughest challenges: the Bob Graham Round, running 42 Lake District peaks in 24 hours. Along the way, he encounters some of the most prodigious – and unsung – athletes that Britain has produced, such as Joss Naylor, who covered the equivalent of four Everests in a single run. Gripping, funny and moving, Feet in the Clouds is a story that any aspiring runner, endurance athlete or mountain-lover will understand well: of extremity, heroism and the experience of a lifetime. With a fully revised epilogue and an introduction from bestselling author Robert Macfarlane, this is a complete portrait of one of the few sports to have remained utterly true to its roots – in which the point is not fame or fortune but to run the ancient, wild landscape, and to be a hero, if at all, within one’s own valley.

Author : Kazuo Ishiguro
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307829073
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Pale View of Hills written by Kazuo Ishiguro and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-09-05 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of the Booker Prize–winning novel The Remains of the Day Here is the story of Etsuko, a Japanese woman now living alone in England, dwelling on the recent suicide of her daughter. In a novel where past and present confuse, she relives scenes of Japan's devastation in the wake of World War II.

Author : Ryōtarō Shiba
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781138858862
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Clouds Above the Hill written by Ryōtarō Shiba and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clouds above the Hill is one of the best-selling novels ever in Japan, and is now translated into English for the first time. An epic portrait of Japan in crisis, it combines graphic military history and highly readable fiction to depict an aspiring nation modernizing at breakneck speed. Best-selling author Shiba Ryotaro devoted an entire decade of his life to this extraordinary blockbuster, which features Japan's emerging onto the world stage by the early years of the twentieth century.

Author : Ashley Hay
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501165119
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Body in the Clouds written by Ashley Hay and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-07-18 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: Australia: Allen & Unwin, 2010.

Author : Henry Cloud
Publisher : Zondervan
ISBN 13 : 0310214637
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Changes that Heal written by Henry Cloud and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 1996-12-24 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Never before has an expert defined the steps toward self-fulfillment and satisfying relationships with such clear, insightful, and easy-to-follow guidelines. In Changes That Heal, Dr. Henry Cloud, a renowned clinical psychologist, combines his expertise, well-developed faith, and keen understanding of human nature in a four-step program of healing and growth. Dr. Cloud's down-to-earth plan shows you how to: bond with others to form truly intimate relationships, separate from others and develop a sense of self, understand the good and bad in yourself and others, and grow emotionally and spiritually toward adulthood. Filled with fascinating case studies and helpful, easy-to-adopt techniques, Changes That Heal offers sound advice that helps you get the most out of your life, heal the wounds of your past, and build lasting, loving relationships.

Author : Claire R. McDougall
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451693818
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Veil of Time written by Claire R. McDougall and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-03-11 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slipping into eighth-century Scotland during a seizure, Maggie, tormented by the death of her daughter, finds love with the brother of the king whose daughter could be her own daughter's double, and must choose between staying in the past or returning to the present.

Author : Elizabeth Camden
Publisher : Bethany House
ISBN 13 : 0764208942
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lady of Bolton Hill written by Elizabeth Camden and published by Bethany House. This book was released on 2011-06 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical romance and intrigue abound as a woman with a cause falls in love with a man she hopes to save; set in 1870's Baltimore.

Author : Patrick Lawler
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 1573661686
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rescuers of Skydivers Search Among the Clouds written by Patrick Lawler and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2012-09-03 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When you step inside Patrick Lawler's Rescuers of Skydivers Search Among the Clouds, you will find yourself hovering in the clouds, among a family and a town, and in the world of one of fiction's most inventive writers.