Return to the Enchanted Island

Return to the Enchanted Island
Title Return to the Enchanted Island PDF eBook
Author Johary Ravaloson
Publisher AmazonCrossing
Pages 0
Release 2019
Genre Antananarivo (Antananarivo, Madagascar)
ISBN 9781542093514

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In this exhilarating prize-winning novel--only the second to be published in English from Madagascar--a young man comes of age amidst the enchanted origin myths of his island country. Named after the first man at the creation of the world in Malagasy mythology, Ietsy Razak was raised to perpetuate the glory of his namesake and expected to be as illuminated as his Great Ancestor. But in the chaos of modernity, his young life is marked only by restlessness, maddening insomnia, and an adolescent apathy. When an unexpected tragedy ships him off to a boarding school in France, his trip to the big city is no hero's journey. Ietsy loses himself in the immediate pleasures of body and mind. Weighed down by his privilege and the legacy of his name, Ietsy struggles to find a foothold. Only a return to the "Enchanted Island," as Madagascar is lovingly known, helps Ietsy stumble toward his destiny. This award-winning retelling of Madagascar's origin story offers a distinctly twenty-first-century perspective on the country's place in an ever-more-connected world.

Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic

Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic
Title Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic PDF eBook
Author Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Publisher
Pages 302
Release 1898
Genre Geographical myths
ISBN

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Beyond the Rice Fields

Beyond the Rice Fields
Title Beyond the Rice Fields PDF eBook
Author Naivo
Publisher Restless Books
Pages 452
Release 2017-10-31
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1632061325

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The first novel from Madagascar ever to be translated into English, Naivo’s magisterial Beyond the Rice Fields delves into the upheavals of the nation’s precolonial past through the twin narratives of a slave and his master’s daughter. Fara and her father’s slave, Tsito, have shared a tender intimacy since her father bought the young boy who’d been ripped away from his family after their forest village was destroyed. Now in Sahasoa, amongst the cattle and rice fields, everything is new for Tsito, and Fara at last has a companion to play with. But as Tsito looks forward toward the bright promise of freedom and Fara, backward to a twisted, long-denied family history, a rift opens that a rapidly shifting political and social terrain can only widen. As love and innocence fall away, their world becomes defined by what tyranny and superstition both thrive upon: fear. With captivating lyricism and undeniable urgency, Naivo crafts an unsentimental interrogation of the brutal history of nineteenth-century Madagascar as a land newly exposed to the forces of Christianity and modernity, and preparing for a violent reaction against them. Beyond the Rice Fields is a tour de force about the global history of human bondage and the competing narratives that keep us from recognizing ourselves and each other, our pasts and our destinies.

The Enchanted Islands

The Enchanted Islands
Title The Enchanted Islands PDF eBook
Author John Hickman
Publisher
Pages 169
Release 1985
Genre Galapagos Islands
ISBN 9780904614428

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The history of the Galapagos Islands from Inca times, which presents a cast of conquistadors, buccaneers, pirates, Robinson Crusoes and Swiss Family Robinsons; as well as eccentric explorers, hopeful colonists and naturalists, including the most famous of all - Charles Darwin.

Enchanted Islands

Enchanted Islands
Title Enchanted Islands PDF eBook
Author Allison Amend
Publisher Anchor
Pages 322
Release 2017-04-18
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0804172048

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Born to immigrant parents in Minnesota just before the turn of the century, Frances Frankowski grew up coveting the life of her best friend, Rosalie Mendel. And yet, decades later, when the women reconnect in San Francisco, their lives have diverged. Rosalie is a housewife and mother, while Frances works for the Office of Naval Intelligence and has just been given a top-secret assignment: marry handsome spy Ainslie Conway and move to the Galápagos Islands to investigate the Germans living there in the build-up to World War II. Amid active volcanoes, forbidding wildlife and flora, and unfriendly neighbors, Ainslie and Frances carve out a life for themselves. But the secrets they harbor—from their friends, from their enemies, and even from each other—may be their undoing.

The Enchanted Island

The Enchanted Island
Title The Enchanted Island PDF eBook
Author Sir Wyke Bayliss
Publisher
Pages 220
Release 1888
Genre Art
ISBN

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Return to Sullivans Island

Return to Sullivans Island
Title Return to Sullivans Island PDF eBook
Author Dorothea Benton Frank
Publisher Harper Collins
Pages 386
Release 2009-06-30
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0061891754

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“Her books are funny, sexy, and usually damp with seawater.” —Pat Conroy, author of The Prince of Tides In Return to Sullivans Island, Dorothea Benton Frank revisits the enchanted landscape of South Carolina’s Lowcountry made famous in her beloved New York Times bestseller Sullivans Island. Frank focuses on the next generation of Hamiltons and Hayes, earning high praise from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, which writes, “Frank brings to vivid life the rich landscape and its unpretentious folks….A reader need only close her eyes for a moment to feel that thick-sticky heat, smell the wild salt marshes.” If you enjoy getting lost in the works of Anne Rivers Siddons, Rebecca Wells, and Pat Conroy—novels brimming with atmosphere and strong Southern charm—you are going to love Dotty Frank’s Return to Sullivans Island.