A Day at the Races
Title | A Day at the Races PDF eBook |
Author | Geoffrey Peyton |
Publisher | BookRix |
Pages | 17 |
Release | 2015-07-30 |
Genre | Travel |
ISBN | 3736848862 |
A short memoir of a trip to the wonderful racecourse of Cartmel in the Southern Lakes of Cumbria. Also a day out at the most picturesque reservoir of Thirlmere, a lake that is very rarely visited by tourists. Also I visit the various homes and workplaces of the poet William Wordsworth, amongst others.
A Day at the Races/Night Vision
Title | A Day at the Races/Night Vision PDF eBook |
Author | Frank Berrios |
Publisher | RH/Disney |
Pages | 44 |
Release | 2009-01-13 |
Genre | Automobiles, Racing |
ISBN | 9780736425612 |
At head of title: Disney Pixar, the world of Cars.
A Year at the Races
Title | A Year at the Races PDF eBook |
Author | Jane Smiley |
Publisher | Faber & Faber |
Pages | 261 |
Release | 2014-08-07 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 0571305652 |
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jane Smiley draws upon her first-hand knowledge to examine the horse on all levels - practical, theoretical and emotional. Drawing on the wisdom of trainers, vets, jockeys and a real-life horse whisperer, Smiley adds an element of drama and suspense as two of her own horses begin their careers at the racetrack. As the horses get closer to the winner's circle, we are enchanted, enthralled and informed about what it's really like to own, train and root for a racehorse.
Black for a Day
Title | Black for a Day PDF eBook |
Author | Alisha Gaines |
Publisher | UNC Press Books |
Pages | 231 |
Release | 2017-03-27 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1469632845 |
In 1948, journalist Ray Sprigle traded his whiteness to live as a black man for four weeks. A little over a decade later, John Howard Griffin famously "became" black as well, traveling the American South in search of a certain kind of racial understanding. Contemporary history is littered with the surprisingly complex stories of white people passing as black, and here Alisha Gaines constructs a unique genealogy of "empathetic racial impersonation--white liberals walking in the fantasy of black skin under the alibi of cross-racial empathy. At the end of their experiments in "blackness," Gaines argues, these debatably well-meaning white impersonators arrived at little more than false consciousness. Complicating the histories of black-to-white passing and blackface minstrelsy, Gaines uses an interdisciplinary approach rooted in literary studies, race theory, and cultural studies to reveal these sometimes maddening, and often absurd, experiments of racial impersonation. By examining this history of modern racial impersonation, Gaines shows that there was, and still is, a faulty cultural logic that places enormous faith in the idea that empathy is all that white Americans need to make a significant difference in how to racially navigate our society.
Our Hearts Were Young and Gay
Title | Our Hearts Were Young and Gay PDF eBook |
Author | Cornelia Otis Skinner |
Publisher | |
Pages | 264 |
Release | 2008-11 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1443726613 |
OUR HEARTS WERE YOUNG AND GAY by CORNELIA OTIS SKINNER and EMILY KIMBROUGH. CHAPTER 1: WE had been planning the trip for over a year. Pinching, scraping and going without sodas, we had salvaged from our allowances and the small time jobs we each had found the preceding vacation the sum of 80.00, which was the cost of a minimum passage on a Canadian Pacific liner of the cabin class. Our respec tive families had augmented our finances by letters of credit generous enough to permit us to live for three months abroad if not in the lap of luxury, at least on the knees of comfort. For months we had been exchanging letters brimming over with rapturous plans and lyric an ticipation and now June had really rolled around and the happy expectancy of the brides-to-be of that year had noth ing on us. It was settled we could meet in Montreal at whatever hotel it is that isnt the Ritz. I, clutching and occasionally kissing our steamship passage, was arriving from New York, Emily from Buffalo. That is, I hoped Emily was arriving. Emilys notions concerning geography, like some of her other notions, were enthusiastic but lacking in ac curacy. Some weeks previous she had sent me a rhapsodic letter which ended with the alarming words, I live for the moment when our boat pushes out from that dock in Win nipeg. I had written back in a panic and block letters stating, somewhat crushingly I thought, that the CJP. O. seldom sent its ships overland, that we were sailing from Montreal, Province of Quebec, that the name of our ves sel was the Montcalm and the date June loth, the year of our Lord I shant say which, because Emily and I have now reached the time in life when not only do we lie about our ages, we forget what weve said they are. Emily wrote back not to worry, darling, she had it all straight now. Moreover she was being motored up from Buffalo by friends who had been abroad often and who wouldnt dream of driving her to the wrong place. They would arrive sometime the afternoon of the pth. No such traveled and plutocratic friends offered to motor me to Canada, so I purchased an upper on the Mon treal sleeper ... a bit of misguided economy because once aboard the train I had to pay for another upper in order to accommodate my collection of luggage. The Skinners have ever, I believe, been respectable, God-fear ing folk, but in those days my family made up for the lack of a skeleton in the closet by having extremely dis reputable-looking luggage. Mother, the most exquisite of women, was fastidious to a degree when it came to the care of her clothes and mine, but she didnt care what she packed them in as long as the receptacle was clean. Conse quently on this, the occasion of my first long trip on my own, she had, with loving care and acres of tissue-paper, stowed my effects in an assortment of containers that ranged from a canvas trunk Father had used when he played at Dalys, to a patent leather thing for hats that looked like a cover for a bass drum. There was a strap bound straw affair known for some reason as a telescope, and various other oddments. I was made to carry my good coat the one in which I traveled was my every day on a stout hanger in a voluminous green dress-bag which had a hole at the top and through that emerged the hook for hanging It up. It was a formidable looking contrivance and I used to glance nervously at that hook, half anticipat ing the sight of a human eye impaled upon it...
A day at the races
Title | A day at the races PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Pirosh |
Publisher | |
Pages | 300 |
Release | 1936 |
Genre | Horse racing |
ISBN |
A veternarian mistakenly put in charge of a sanitarium for rich neurotics gets involved with a race-track tout and a demented jokey.
Parrot Adventures
Title | Parrot Adventures PDF eBook |
Author | Joanna Trelawny |
Publisher | |
Pages | 40 |
Release | 2021-10-02 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
A Pint-Sized Parrot Is No March For A Burglar - Or Is He? Join Pobble as he tackles the intruder with ingenuity and courage. His quick thinking and mimicry are tested to the max in this humorous story. Buy now to start the adventure.