Taken Captive

Author : Marguerite Poland
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN 13 : 0143529854
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Taken Captive by Birds written by Marguerite Poland and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2012-11-28 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All my life I have been 'taken captive by birds'. Their doings are the thread that runs through childhood, the link to people and to place. Their appearance and their presence can at once recall a name, a scent, a morning full of song and exploration; an evening sorrow, a childhood fear. For, somehow, it is the birds that saw it all: those unobtrusive harbingers whose boundaries are defined by other laws than ours but whose ancient lore remains a cipher to remembrance for me.

Author : Ooka Shohei
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Taken Captive written by Ooka Shohei and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1996-04-17 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The harsh conditions, the daily routines that occupy a prisoner's time, and above all, the psychological struggles and behavioral quirks of captives forced to live in close confinement are conveyed with devastating simplicity and candor. Throughout, the author constantly probes his own conscience, questioning motivations and decisions. What emerges is a multileveled portrait of an individual determined to retain his humanity in an uncivilized environment.

Author : Sami Senger
Publisher : Covenant Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Taken Captive written by Sami Senger and published by Covenant Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-02-15 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kayden Evans Da Rosa is an eighteen-year-old college graduate and wealthy heiress who is just looking to spend a normal summer vacation with her parents. She ends up receiving more than she bargains for. Kidnapped by human traffickers who are looking to sell her to the highest bidder, she's forced to make some difficult decisions to keep her and her family alive. Will she succeed...or die trying?

Author : Lois Lenski
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453227520
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indian Captive written by Lois Lenski and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2011-12-27 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Newbery Honor book inspired by the true story of a girl captured by a Shawnee war party in Colonial America and traded to a Seneca tribe. When twelve-year-old Mary Jemison and her family are captured by Shawnee raiders, she’s sure they’ll all be killed. Instead, Mary is separated from her siblings and traded to two Seneca sisters, who adopt her and make her one of their own. Mary misses her home, but the tribe is kind to her. She learns to plant crops, make clay pots, and sew moccasins, just as the other members do. Slowly, Mary realizes that the Indians are not the monsters she believed them to be. When Mary is given the chance to return to her world, will she want to leave the tribe that has become her family? This Newbery Honor book is based on the true story of Mary Jemison, the pioneer known as the “White Woman of the Genesee.” This ebook features an illustrated biography of Lois Lenski including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author’s estate.

Author : Richard VanDerBeets
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 9780870498404
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Held Captive by Indians written by Richard VanDerBeets and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the early white settlers, accounts of Indian captivities and massacres became America's first literature of catharsis - a means by which a population that disapproved of fiction and play-acting could satisfy its appetite for stories about other people's misfortunes. This collection of unaltered captivity narratives, first published in 1973, remains an invaluable source of information for historians and ethnologists, providing a fascinating glimpse of a vanished era. For this edition, VanDerBeets has written a new preface discussing the proliferation of recent scholarship about captivity narratives, especially those written by women.

Author : Bruce Grant
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501702866
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Captive and the Gift written by Bruce Grant and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-15 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Caucasus region of Eurasia, wedged in between the Black and Caspian Seas, encompasses the modern territories of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia, as well as the troubled republic of Chechnya in southern Russia. A site of invasion, conquest, and resistance since the onset of historical record, it has earned a reputation for fearsome violence and isolated mountain redoubts closed to outsiders. Over extended efforts to control the Caucasus area, Russians have long mythologized stories of their countrymen taken captive by bands of mountain brigands.In The Captive and the Gift, the anthropologist Bruce Grant explores the long relationship between Russia and the Caucasus and the means by which sovereignty has been exercised in this contested area. Taking his lead from Aleksandr Pushkin's 1822 poem "Prisoner of the Caucasus," Grant explores the extraordinary resonances of the themes of violence, captivity, and empire in the Caucasus through mythology, poetry, short stories, ballet, opera, and film. Grant argues that while the recurring Russian captivity narrative reflected a wide range of political positions, it most often and compellingly suggested a vision of Caucasus peoples as thankless, lawless subjects of empire who were unwilling to acknowledge and accept the gifts of civilization and protection extended by Russian leaders.Drawing on years of field and archival research, Grant moves beyond myth and mass culture to suggest how real-life Caucasus practices of exchange, by contrast, aimed to control and diminish rather than unleash and increase violence. The result is a historical anthropology of sovereign forms that underscores how enduring popular narratives and close readings of ritual practices can shed light on the management of pluralism in long-fraught world areas.

Author : Dan Berger
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469618249
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Captive Nation written by Dan Berger and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era

Author : John Williams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Redeemed Captive Returning to Zion, Or, A Faithful History of Remarkable Occurrences in the Captivity and Deliverance of Mr. John Williams, Minister of the Gospel in Deerfield written by John Williams and published by . This book was released on 1795 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Various Authors,
Publisher : Zondervan
ISBN 13 : 0310294142
Total Pages : 6637 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Holy Bible (NIV) written by Various Authors, and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2008-09-02 with total page 6637 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The NIV is the world's best-selling modern translation, with over 150 million copies in print since its first full publication in 1978. This highly accurate and smooth-reading version of the Bible in modern English has the largest library of printed and electronic support material of any modern translation.

Author : Diana Cosby
Publisher : Zebra Books
ISBN 13 : 9781420101089
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book His Captive written by Diana Cosby and published by Zebra Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a feisty lady is kidnapped by a seductive Scottish rebel, she finds herself trapped by her powerful attraction to a man whose touch shakes her to the core. Original.