The Road to Damietta
Title | The Road to Damietta PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780812461367 |
The Road to Damietta
Title | The Road to Damietta PDF eBook |
Author | Scott O'Dell |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 2004-10-25 |
Genre | Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | 0547562047 |
The Newbury Award-winning author delivers “what may be his finest novel” in this young adult narrative of Saint Francis of Assisi and the Fifth Crusade (Publishers Weekly). Rich in the atmosphere of thirteenth-century Italy, The Road to Damietta offers a fascinating new perspective on the man who became Saint Francis of Assisi: the guileless, joyous man who praised the oneness of nature and sought to bring the world into harmony. Thirteen-year-old Ricca di Montanaro, who secretly loves the young Francis, watches in awe as he disavows his rich father and declares himself a servant of Christ. Following him on his journey, Ricca recounts Francis’s attempt to bring peace amidst the bloodshed of the Fifth Crusade. “Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace,” he said. “Where there is hatred, let me sow love, where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy.” And so he set off on the road to Damietta…
Road to Damietta
Title | Road to Damietta PDF eBook |
Author | Scott O'Dell |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1985-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780800029111 |
On the Road with Francis of Assisi
Title | On the Road with Francis of Assisi PDF eBook |
Author | Linda Bird Francke |
Publisher | Random House Trade Paperbacks |
Pages | 306 |
Release | 2006-12-12 |
Genre | Travel |
ISBN | 0345469666 |
On the Road with Francis of Assisi offers a unique and lively travelogue of parallel journeys: that of Francis of Assisi on his way to sainthood in the thirteenth century, and that of author Linda Bird Francke, who followed his path through the beauty of central and coastal Italy–and even on to Egypt.Francke tells the compelling story of Saint Francis through the many places he visited. She and her husband, Harvey Loomis, used as their guidebooks medieval texts, including the first official biography of the saint, completed in 1229, just three years after he died. Theirs was not a spiritual journey but one based on admiration for a man whose legend continues to inspire and fascinate millions around the world. From Assisi–a small Umbrian town that now draws two million visitors a year, making it second only to Rome as an Italian pilgrimage destination–Saint Francis crisscrossed Italy for twenty years. And so too does the author travel through the “green heart” of Italy to such hill towns and cities as Siena, Bologna, Venice, Gubbio, and Rome, and to the many mountaintop Franciscan sanctuaries from La Verna and Le Celle di Cortona in Tuscany to the Rieti Valley.Along the way, Francke movingly depicts the many miracles Francis performed and draws us into the splendid beauty of the landscape that inspired the saint’s love for nature and regard for all living things. Unlike Francis, however, whose asceticism caused him to add ashes to his food to deaden its earthly pleasure, Francke and her husband indulge in the fabled Umbrian cuisine, from wild boar to the region’s famed black truffles, and the incomparable local wines.On the Road with Francis of Assisi embraces the spirit and person of its legendary subject, and invites the reader to marvel at his spiritual intensity and follow in his footsteps through the timeless beauty of Italy.
Carlota
Title | Carlota PDF eBook |
Author | Scott O'Dell |
Publisher | HarperCollins |
Pages | 165 |
Release | 1977-09-14 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0547348231 |
A young girl relates her feelings and experiences as a participant in the battle of San Pasqual during the last days of the war between Californians and Americans.
Sarah Bishop
Title | Sarah Bishop PDF eBook |
Author | Scott O'Dell |
Publisher | Scholastic Inc. |
Pages | 246 |
Release | 1980 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9780590446518 |
Grade Level 6.2, Book# 385, Points 7.
Black Star, Bright Dawn
Title | Black Star, Bright Dawn PDF eBook |
Author | Scott O'Dell |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Pages | 116 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Eskimos |
ISBN | 0547053193 |
Bright Dawn must face the challenge of the Iditarod dog sled race alone when her father is injured. Soon she realizes that the race and her life depend on how much she can rely on her lead dog, Black Star.