The Garden of the Eight Paradises
Title | The Garden of the Eight Paradises PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Frederic Dale |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 553 |
Release | 2004-01-01 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9004137076 |
A critical biography of Zah?r al-Din Muhammad B?bur, the founder, in 1526, of the Timurid-Mughal Empire of India, offering
The Eight Paradises
Title | The Eight Paradises PDF eBook |
Author | Marthe Bibesco |
Publisher | |
Pages | 280 |
Release | 1923 |
Genre | Iran |
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28 Paradises
Title | 28 Paradises PDF eBook |
Author | Patrick Modiano |
Publisher | David Zwirner Books |
Pages | 81 |
Release | 2019-05-21 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 164423002X |
Published in English for the first time, 28 Paradises is the marriage of prose and painting by Nobel-prize winning author Patrick Modiano and his partner, the illustrator Dominique Zehrfuss. 28 Paradises is a rare book: it reveals not only the individual talents of the authors, Modiano and Zehrfuss, but also the depth of the couple’s creative union. Sensitively translated into English for the first time by Damion Searls, 28 Paradises captures the exquisite sadness of waking from a beautiful dream. There are twenty-eight dreams in this book, or perhaps one dream in twenty-eight parts—visions of paradise imagined by Zehrfuss during a time of deep sadness. Captured first in Zehrfuss’s brightly colored gouaches, each paradise was then refashioned as a poem by Modiano. Zehrfuss’s paintings are Edens in miniature, and rather than describe them outright, Modiano dreams himself into these reveries in quiet, understated verse. The reader enters this shared realm in an experience less like paging through a book and more like slipping into a shared world. These paradises are wishes for moments when a painting, or a poem, or a lover—perhaps they are not so different—relieves the loneliness of being human. As Modiano writes with a touch of wistfulness, “The Lilliputian painted her paradises / And I / Next to her / Wrote a poem.” A pure example of ekphrastic writing—poetry inspired by paintings—this book shows how writing and visual art can together create a unique emotional experience. First published by Editions de l’Olivier/ Le Seuil in 2005
Leaving Paradise
Title | Leaving Paradise PDF eBook |
Author | Jean Barman |
Publisher | University of Hawaii Press |
Pages | 528 |
Release | 2006-05-31 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0824874536 |
Native Hawaiians arrived in the Pacific Northwest as early as 1787. Some went out of curiosity; many others were recruited as seamen or as workers in the fur trade. By the end of the nineteenth century more than a thousand men and women had journeyed across the Pacific, but the stories of these extraordinary individuals have gone largely unrecorded in Hawaiian or Western sources. Through painstaking archival work in British Columbia, Oregon, California, and Hawaii, Jean Barman and Bruce Watson pieced together what is known about these sailors, laborers, and settlers from 1787 to 1898, the year the Hawaiian Islands were annexed to the United States. In addition, the authors include descriptive biographical entries on some eight hundred Native Hawaiians, a remarkable and invaluable complement to their narrative history. "Kanakas" (as indigenous Hawaiians were called) formed the backbone of the fur trade along with French Canadians and Scots. As the trade waned and most of their countrymen returned home, several hundred men with indigenous wives raised families and formed settlements throughout the Pacific Northwest. Today their descendants remain proud of their distinctive heritage. The resourcefulness of these pioneers in the face of harsh physical conditions and racism challenges the early Western perception that Native Hawaiians were indolent and easily exploited. Scholars and others interested in a number of fields—Hawaiian history, Pacific Islander studies, Western U.S. and Western Canadian history, diaspora studies—will find Leaving Paradise an indispensable work.
Zahra's Paradise
Title | Zahra's Paradise PDF eBook |
Author | Amir |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 271 |
Release | 2011-09-13 |
Genre | Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN | 1596436425 |
Set in the aftermath of Iran's fraudulent elections of 2009, Zahra's Paradise is the fictional graphic novel of the search for Mehdi, a young protestor who has vanished into an extrajudicial twilight zone.
Savage Paradise
Title | Savage Paradise PDF eBook |
Author | Hugo van Lawick |
Publisher | William Morrow &Company |
Pages | 280 |
Release | 1977 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
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This book contains some of the best animal photographs ever published, illustrating the world of the African predators -- lions, leopards, cheetahs, hyenas, jackals, and wild dogs. To accompany this unique collection, the author describes the animals pictured, as well as his life on the Serengeti. He blends entertaining anecdote, important new scientific material, and an almost miraculous understanding of the animals he studies. His sympathy for his subjects coupled with supreme technical ability give his photographs a unique quality and significance.
Paradise Lot
Title | Paradise Lot PDF eBook |
Author | Eric Toensmeier |
Publisher | Chelsea Green Publishing |
Pages | 1 |
Release | 2013-02-08 |
Genre | Gardening |
ISBN | 1603584005 |
When Eric Toensmeier and Jonathan Bates moved into a duplex in a run-down part of Holyoke, Massachusetts, the tenth-of-an-acre lot was barren ground and bad soil, peppered with broken pieces of concrete, asphalt, and brick. The two friends got to work designing what would become not just another urban farm, but a "permaculture paradise" replete with perennial broccoli, paw paws, bananas, and moringa—all told, more than two hundred low-maintenance edible plants in an innovative food forest on a small city lot. The garden—intended to function like a natural ecosystem with the plants themselves providing most of the garden's needs for fertility, pest control, and weed suppression—also features an edible water garden, a year-round unheated greenhouse, tropical crops, urban poultry, and even silkworms. In telling the story of Paradise Lot, Toensmeier explains the principles and practices of permaculture, the choice of exotic and unusual food plants, the techniques of design and cultivation, and, of course, the adventures, mistakes, and do-overs in the process. Packed full of detailed, useful information about designing a highly productive permaculture garden, Paradise Lot is also a funny and charming story of two single guys, both plant nerds, with a wild plan: to realize the garden of their dreams and meet women to share it with. Amazingly, on both counts, they succeed.