A Traveller in Time
Title | A Traveller in Time PDF eBook |
Author | Alison Uttley |
Publisher | New York Review of Books |
Pages | 337 |
Release | 2020-02-11 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 168137448X |
The “superb” time travel adventure of one lonely young girl, a remarkable family, and an impossible task, set between modern and Elizabethan England (The Washington Post) "A beautiful book . . . a form of enchanting ghost story, with the ghosts drawn in with the grace of a painter on a fan." —The Observer Penelope Taberner Cameron is a solitary and a sickly child, a reader and a dreamer. Her mother, indeed, is of the opinion that the girl has grown all too attached to the products of her imagination and decides to send her away from London for a restorative dose of fresh country air. But staying at Thackers, in remote Derbyshire, Penelope is soon caught up in a new mystery, as she finds herself transported at unforeseeable intervals back and forth from modern to Elizabethan times. There she becomes part of a remarkable family that is, Penelope realizes, in terrible danger as they plot to free Mary, Queen of Scots, from the prison in which Queen Elizabeth has confined her. Penelope knows the tragic end that awaits the Scottish queen, but she can neither change the course of events nor persuade her new family of the hopelessness of their cause, which love, loyalty, and justice all compel them to embrace. Caught between present and past, Penelope is ever more torn by questions of freedom and fate. To travel in time, she discovers, is to be very much alone. And yet the slow recurrent rhythms of the natural world, beautifully captured by Alison Uttley, also speak of a greater ongoing life that transcends the passage of the years.
The Time Traveler's Almanac
Title | The Time Traveler's Almanac PDF eBook |
Author | Ann VanderMeer |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 961 |
Release | 2014-03-18 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0765374218 |
The Time Traveler's Almanac is the largest and most definitive collection of time travel stories ever assembled. Gathered into one volume by intrepid chrononauts and world-renowned anthologists Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, this book compiles more than a century's worth of literary travels into the past and the future that will serve to reacquaint readers with beloved classics of the time travel genre and introduce them to thrilling contemporary innovations. This marvelous volume includes nearly seventy journeys through time from authors such as Douglas Adams, Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, William Gibson, Ursula K. Le Guin, George R. R. Martin, Michael Moorcock, H. G. Wells, and Connie Willis, as well as helpful non-fiction articles original to this volume (such as Charles Yu's "Top Ten Tips For Time Travelers"). In fact, this book is like a time machine of its very own, covering millions of years of Earth's history from the age of the dinosaurs through to strange and fascinating futures, spanning the ages from the beginning of time to its very end. The Time Traveler's Almanac is the ultimate anthology for the time traveler in your life.
Time Travelers
Title | Time Travelers PDF eBook |
Author | Adelene Buckland |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 314 |
Release | 2020-05-11 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 022667679X |
The Victorians, perhaps more than any Britons before them, were diggers and sifters of the past. Though they were not the first to be fascinated by history, the intensity and range of their preoccupations with the past were unprecedented and of lasting importance. The Victorians paved the way for our modern disciplines, discovered the primeval monsters we now call the dinosaurs, and built many of Britain’s most important national museums and galleries. To a large degree, they created the perceptual frameworks through which we continue to understand the past. Out of their discoveries, new histories emerged, giving rise to fresh debates, while seemingly well-known histories were thrown into confusion by novel tools and methods of scrutiny. If in the eighteenth century the study of the past had been the province of a handful of elites, new technologies and economic development in the nineteenth century meant that the past, in all its brilliant detail, was for the first time the property of the many, not the few. Time Travelers is a book about the myriad ways in which Victorians approached the past, offering a vivid picture of the Victorian world and its historical obsessions.
The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England
Title | The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England PDF eBook |
Author | Ian Mortimer |
Publisher | Random House |
Pages | 436 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | England |
ISBN | 1847921140 |
We think of Queen Elizabeth I as 'Gloriana': the most powerful English woman in history. We think of her reign (1558-1603) as a golden age of maritime heroes, like Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Richard Grenville and Sir Francis Drake, and of great writers, such as Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson and William Shakespeare.
The Time Travellers
Title | The Time Travellers PDF eBook |
Author | Simon Guerrier |
Publisher | BBC Books |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Doctor Who (Fictitious character) |
ISBN | 9780563486336 |
The TARDIS touches down in London in 2006, in the midst of a war that has left the city in ruins. Now the Doctor must help the military refine the ultimate weapon - a time travel machine.
A Time Traveler's Theory of Relativity
Title | A Time Traveler's Theory of Relativity PDF eBook |
Author | Nicole Valentine |
Publisher | Carolrhoda Books ® |
Pages | 267 |
Release | 2019-10-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1541564472 |
He believes in science, but only magic can help his mom. Twelve-year-old Finn is used to people in his family disappearing. His twin sister, Faith, drowned when they were three years old. A few months ago, his mom abandoned him and his dad with no explanation. Finn clings to the concrete facts in his physics books—and to his best friend, Gabi—to ward off his sadness. But then his grandmother tells him a secret: the women in their family are Travelers, able to move back and forth in time. Finn's mom is trapped somewhere in the timeline, and she's left Finn a portal to find her. But to succeed, he'll have to put his trust in something bigger than logic. "This is an incredible book, no matter which time universe you're in. I couldn't put it down. One of my favorite debut novels of the year."—Erin Entrada Kelly, New York Times bestselling author and 2018 Newbery Medal winner
Time Travel
Title | Time Travel PDF eBook |
Author | Nikk Effingham |
Publisher | |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 2020 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0198842503 |
Time travel is metaphysically possible. Nikk Effingham contends that arguments for the impossibility of time travel are not sound. Focusing mainly on the Grandfather Paradox, Effingham explores the ramifications of taking this view, discusses issues in probability and decision theory, and considers the potential dangers of travelling in time.