Crossing the Unknown Sea
Title | Crossing the Unknown Sea PDF eBook |
Author | David Whyte |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 273 |
Release | 2002-04-02 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1573229148 |
Crossing the Unknown Sea is about reuniting the imagination with our day to day lives. It shows how poetry and practicality, far from being mutually exclusive, reinforce each other to give every aspect of our lives meaning and direction. For anyone who wants to deepen their connection to their life’s work—or find out what their life’s work is—this book can help navigate the way. Whyte encourages readers to take risks at work that will enhance their personal growth, and shows how burnout can actually be beneficial and used to renew professional interest. He asserts that too many people blindly trudge through a mediocre work life because so many “busy” tasks prevent significant reflection and analysis of job satisfaction. People often turn to spiritual practice or religion to nurture their souls, but overlook how work can actually be our greatest opportunity for discovery and growth. Crossing the Unknown Sea combines poetry, gifted storytelling and Whyte’s personal experience to reveal work’s potential to fulfill us and bring us closer to ultimate freedom and happiness.
Words The Sea Gave Us
Title | Words The Sea Gave Us PDF eBook |
Author | Grace Tierney |
Publisher | |
Pages | 282 |
Release | 2020-07-09 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781999977627 |
"Words The Sea Gave Us" is a light-hearted look at the words the English dictionary borrowed from the sea. From baggywinkle and gollywobbler to tempest and flotsam, the sea in all her moods has given a boatload of words to the English language throughout history. This book explores their origins along with a cargo of old sailor's yarns. Cast your line for the salty history of skyscraper, mollgogger, strike, cyber, and phrases like getting hitched, red herring, hot pursuit, and taking them down a peg. More than 370 words and phrases are featured from "above board" to yardarm - drawn from parts of a ship, sail names, crew titles, surfer slang, marine monsters, nautical navigation, flying the flag, and of course, how to talk like a scurvy pirate. Throw in some sea fables, fashions, and weather and you're ready to set sail. Previous nautical experience not required. Ideal for word geeks, sailors, and beachcombers.
The Edge of the Sea
Title | The Edge of the Sea PDF eBook |
Author | Rachel Carson |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Pages | 308 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 9780395924969 |
"The edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place." A book to be read for pleasure as well as a practical identification guide, The Edge of the Sea introduces a world of teeming life where the sea meets the land. A new generation of readers is discovering why Rachel Carson's books have become cornerstones of the environmental and conservation movements. New introduction by Sue Hubbell. (A Mariner Reissue)
Revelation
Title | Revelation PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Canongate Books |
Pages | 60 |
Release | 1999-01-01 |
Genre | Bibles |
ISBN | 0857861018 |
The final book of the Bible, Revelation prophesies the ultimate judgement of mankind in a series of allegorical visions, grisly images and numerological predictions. According to these, empires will fall, the "Beast" will be destroyed and Christ will rule a new Jerusalem. With an introduction by Will Self.
A Kinder Sea
Title | A Kinder Sea PDF eBook |
Author | Felicity Plunkett |
Publisher | Uqp Poetry |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2020 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 9780702262708 |
A Kinder Sea is Felicity Plunkett's masterpiece in the original sense of that term- the work that most fully expresses her gifts. This collection explores the sea as sanctuary, hoard and repository. It is composed of sequences- love letters, elegies, narratives and odes. Plunkett's combination of intensity and range is rare, as is this collection's formal precision and emotional directness. This is an exceptional collection- a break-out work for this gifted poet.
No Word for the Sea
Title | No Word for the Sea PDF eBook |
Author | Diane Glancy |
Publisher | Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Pages | 187 |
Release | 2017-07-21 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1532632525 |
No Word for the Sea is built on several layers of questioning: What is language? What is memory? Where does the mind go when the circuits shut down? The novel covers seven years in the lives of Solome and Stephen Savard in St. Paul, Minnesota. Stephen is provost at Cobson College, and Solome has raised three children. The events alternate between Stephen’s first-person narrative and Solome’s third-person narrative in accord with the breaking text of their lives. “Once there was a common Indo-European language with words for winter and horse, but no word for the sea.” The history of the English language has an inland origin. As they find themselves stranded in the destructive effects of Stephen’s Alzheimer’s, there also is an exploration of resolution that comes from such an experience. Mark 8:36 asks, “What does it profit a man if he gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?” No Word for the Sea asks, “What if a man gains his soul, but loses the world?”
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Title | The Rime of the Ancient Mariner PDF eBook |
Author | Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
Publisher | |
Pages | 184 |
Release | 1900 |
Genre | Poetry |
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