For years while storekeeping in the South Pacific, he planned, read and talked until the great day when he was landed on his little kingdom, aware of (but undismayed by) the fact that he would have to struggle with the full strength of body and mind to survive. Neale's gripping account of his years spent alone on Suvarov is an unforgettable tale of peril, beauty, and solitude.

    An incisive, historical and theological insight into the great 19th-century Baptist, with emphasis on the doctrines that moulded his life and thought.

    Edited and with a Preface by Gunther Stuhlmann

    The noted author/photographer recounts his life and the bitter struggle he has faced, since he was sixteen-years-old, against poverty and racial prejudice.

    Helen Roseveare, well-known missionary doctor and author. She worked in the north-eastern province of the Belgian Congo with the Heart of Africa Mission in the 1950's and 60's. Physical dangers and her personal ambition in the Congo often almost sank her, but her faith and hard work brought her through. Her story is one of bright mountains, conquered after experiencing the dark valleys and learning to give the glory to God.

    S. Lewis reveals the most intimate beliefs of the great British writer, scholar, lay theologian, broadcaster, Christian apologist, and bestselling author of Mere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters, The Great Divorce, The Chronicles of Narnia, and many other beloved classics. Written to friends, family, and fans at various stages in his life, from his youth to the weeks before his death, these letters illuminate Lewis’s thoughts on God, humanity, nature, and creativity. In this captivating collection, devotees will discover details about Lewis’s conversion from atheism to Christianity as well as his philosophical thoughts on spirituality and personal faith.

    But as Elsa had been born free, Joy made the heartbreaking decision that she must be returned to the wild when she was old enough to fend for herself. Since the first publication of Born Free and its sequels Living Free and Forever Free, generations of readers have been enchanted, inspired and moved by these books’ uplifting charm and the remarkable interaction between Joy and Elsa. Millions have also come to know and love Born Free through the immortal film starring Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers. But here is the chance to rediscover the original story in this 50th anniversary edition, in the words of the woman who reared Elsa and walked with the lions.

    A biography of the Afro-American scientist whose agricultural research revolutionized the economy of the South.

    Translator's NoteForewordAntonio GramsciBibliographyIndex

    A newer edition may be found here.From one of the 20th century's great writers comes one of the finest autobiographies of our time. Speak, Memory, first published in 1951 as Conclusive Evidence and then assiduously revised in 1966, is an elegant and rich evocation of Nabokov’s life and times, even as it offers incisive insights into his major works, including Lolita, Pnin, Despair, The Gift, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, and The Luhzin Defense.One of the 20th century’s master prose stylists, Vladimir Nabokov was born in St. Petersburg in 1899. He studied French and Russian literature at Trinity College, Cambridge, then lived in Berlin and Paris, where he launched a brilliant literary career. In 1940 he moved to the United States, and achieved renown as a novelist, poet, critic, and translator. He taught literature at Wellesley, Stanford, Cornell, and Harvard. In 1961 he moved to Montreux, Switzerland, where he died in 1977.

    She began keeping a journal in 1927, when, after years of her work being derided and ignored, came unexpected vindication and triumph when the Group of Seven accepted her as one of them and encouraged her to overcome the years of despair when she stopped painting. Hundreds and Thousands is the sixth of seven books by Emily Carr to be published by Douglas McIntyre in a completely redesigned edition, each with an introduction by a noted Canadian writer or an authority on Emily Carr and her work.

    This is it, the 1st since the official & monumental study by Monypenny & Buckle which appeared deecades ago. Blake deals with Disraeli's political style & above all with the legend that he was moved by a consistent philosophy of Tory radicalism which he conceived in his youth & later put into practice. In place of this, he presents a man moved far less by principle than by sheer zest for "the great game", loving power & skillfully maneuvering to get & hold it. Paradoxically, Blake shows how this may have made him far more effective in steering the Tory party into new paths than any man of principle could have been. Disraeli presents a lively portrait of an extraordinary man & of his age. Without ever deviating far from his subject, Blake illuminates the whole arena of Victorian politics. The character he presents is more subtle & fascinating than the conventional image. Altho his origins were less obscure than he liked people to believe, his youth was extraordinarily disreputable for a future Prime Minister & an aura of raffishness hindered him until late in his career. The book follows Disraeli's slow climb to power from the time when the young novelist & dandy failed repeatedly to get into Parliament at all, thru his period as a neglected backbencher until finally achieving the Leadership of the Tory Party in the House of Commons &, late in life, becoming Victoria's confidant & perhaps most favored Prime Minister. Many characters crowd into the book: the brilliant young men of "Young England"; Disraeli's family, friends, wife & mistresses; his colleagues & opponents in parliament, including Peel, whom he destroyed as an effective political leader, & Gladstone, who hated him; Queen Victoria, whose relationship with him verges on the comic to those reading it some generations later; & the great landed families into whose society Disraeli was finally admitted. A whole vanished world comes to life in this book. In its center stands the brilliant, enigmatic figure of one who was perhaps the most atypical inhabitant, but who has come to symbolize, for Americans at least, the Victorian Age.

    A practical joker with a great sense of humor in his youth, St. John Bosco (1815-1888) grew up to become a priest and the founder of the Salesians (the largest order in the Church). Relates the many prophetic dreams he had, how Our Lady called him and helped him to become a priest, his struggles with the devil, and much more! An easy read, and a great book for any Catholic. Impr. 220 pgs, PB

    Walter Crocker, the Australian high commissioner to India, admired Nehru the man—his grace, style, intelligence and energy—and was deeply critical of many of his political decisions—the invasion of Goa, India’s Kashmir policy, the Five Year Plans. This book, written shortly after Nehru’s death, is full of invaluable first hand observations about the man and his politics. Many of Crocker’s points, too—especially the implications of the Five Year Plans and of the introduction of democracy to India—are particularly relevant today.

    Photographs are included.

    500 copies. Contents: Foreword by Jeremy DysonProem/ The Misty Giants/ I Loom/ I am Born and Immediately Fall Ill/ My Father’s History and Disposition/ My Father’s Life as a Displaced Person/ I Begin to Read the Classics/ I First Realize Myself/ I Assume a Mask/ Mixed Friends/ Relatives are All Alike/ Relatives as Divinities. I. Their Domain/ Relatives as Divinities. II. Their Mores/ Splendours and Miseries of Childhood/ My Struggles at Schools. I. The Dames and the Prep/ My First Projects for a Better World/ My Struggles at Schools. II. The Big House/ The Illnesses and the Flights (I)/ My Second Projects for a Better World/ The Illnesses and the Flights (II)/ I Suffer from Loneliness/ The Great Flower of Light/ The Poet and the King/ Deaths of the Divine Relatives/ A Distant Star/ I Love and Lose/ Tableau.This is the provocative and very literary autobiography of one of the twentieth century's greatest writers of ghost stories. The Attempted Rescue was first published by Gollancz, 1966.

    They had spent a year in London being "brought up" by austere aunts, but now the zeppelins were expected, and so they were summoned back to their home in East Bengal. Jon was only seven and a half and Rumer six."Two Under the Indian Sun", a unique collaboration, is a remembrance of the five years that followed, in the village of Narayangunj--where their father worked as a steamship agent--on a bustling river that feeds the great Brahmaputra. It is an evocation of a few years that will always be timeless for these two, and it is as true an account as memory can accomplish. India, for them, was sun-baked dust between their toes, colored robes in the market place, the chanting of coolies, the deep hoot of steamers on the river, and the smells of thorn trees, mustard, and coconut oil: smells redolent of the sun.India was also people, people of every kind, each different from the other and bringing a trail of other differences, of place, custom, religion, even of skin. It was not an ordinary life for young girls, and later they agreed that it might have been better had they been raised in the simplicity of their Quaker forbears. "Better," Jon was to say, "but not nearly as interesting."Above all, those five years were "a time when everything was clear: each thing was itself: joy was joy, hope was hope, fear and sorrow were fear and sorrow." Jon and Rumer have written of that time with a single voice, perhaps because during those years the two sisters grew so close that "between them was a passing of thought, of feeling, of knowing without any need for words."[From the front inside jacket.]

    The story of John Henry Weidner, a hero of history's greatest holocaust, who saved the lives of 800 Jews, more than 100 Allied aviators, and many others who fled Nazism.

    He has left his greatest mark on Rome where Papal patronage provided him with enormous architectural commissions.TABLE OF CONTENTSBerniniList of PlatesList of Text FiguresForewordIntroduction1. The Prodigy2. Bernini in Command3. Disaster and Triumph4. Two Churches and St. Peter’s5. Le Cavalier en France6. The Late WorksBibliographical NoteNotes to the TextIndex

    It was compiled by her in 1965, in Blackburn, to which she had returned a few years before, after her husband’s death, and was published in early 1966, a few months before she died. So in some respects this is a tribute to a novelist’s life but because she chose the extracts (from 1925-45) herself it is, naturally – this is after all Dorothy Whipple – modest and self-deprecating but always extremely honest.

    These men were Cecil Dye, Bob Dye, Dave Bacon, George Hosback, and Eldon Hunter.God Planted Five Seeds was written by Jean Dye Johnson, widow of one of the five martyrs. It tells the story of how a permanent, friendly contact was established with that Ayore tribe and how the widows learned the truth concerning the death of the five men.

    L. Lloyd-Jones is thought of by thousands of animal lovers in Britain and elsewhere as perhaps the most skillful veterinary surgeon ever to have practiced his art. He is known to them all as Buster. Illness incapacitated him a few years ago, and so he has now had time to tell the story of his life -- modestly, humorously, without affectation.It makes enthralling reading, whether Buster is feeding lion cubs from a baby bottle, trying to persuade Sir Winston Churchill not to stuff his poodle with chocolates, curing J. V. Rank's wolfhounds and Great Danes of streptococcal infection, wiring a tortoise's jaws after a collision with a lawn mower, or mending a porcupine's nose while trying to keep a safe distance from its quills.He has treated the pets of the great and the humble -- and the eccentric. (He remarks that the Englishman's reputation for being dotty about animals is fully justified, and tells enough anecdotes to prove it.)He has given a home to cats and dogs, rabbits, goats, parrots, monkeys, snakes. During World War II, when pets by the thousands had to be abandoned by evacuated families, he bought a ten-acre estate where he housed nearly two hundred dogs and proportionate numbers of every other known variety of pet.Today, confined to a wheelchair, he still lives in Brighton. From his home he watches the dogs of Brighton and, he says, feels like Mr. Chips, knowing that many of them -- or their parents or grandparents -- were his patients.

    

    The book contains Churchill's letters written as a child, as a boy at Harrow, as a cadet at Sandhurst, and later as a subaltern in India.

    It covers the years 1928 to 1938: her growing up in China and her journey to Belgium and her mother's family. Also her marriage to a rising officer in the Kuomintang and the retreat to Chungking in the face of the Japanese invasion of China.

    Volume 12 is from 1889 and 1890, and includes articles such as#58; Genius; The Fall of Ideals; Science and the Secret Doctrine; Progress and Culture; The Dual Aspect of Wisdom; Psychic and Noetic Action.

    

    These photographs, many of which have rarely been seen, are accompanied by extended captions to bring them to life. Every shot tells a wonderful story and offers an insight into the character of the man, providing a remarkable visual commentary of a phenomenal sporting life.

    Teresa of Avilas Discalced Carmelite Reform in the 16th century, to Carmels rich diversity today.

    He came to die as our substitute, the perfect sacrifice for sinful man—the only way of salvation. He is the unique Person of the universe, King of kings and Lord of lords!Delineated in this book are the six trials of Christ, His phenomenal character and strength in the face of agonizing torture, His work as Mediator between God and man, and the significance of His resurrection. He is now seated at the right hand of God the Father in heaven. One day He will reign over the entire world and we, as believers in Christ, will be a part of His magnificent kingdom. This title is also available:On the MP3 CD special Spiritual Logistics IIIOn 3 cassette tapes

    As Mark Twain, he was the Mississippi riverboat pilot, the satirist with a fiery hatred of pretension, & the author of such classics as Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn. As Mr Clemens, he was the star who married an heiress, built a palatial estate, threw away fortunes on harebrained financial schemes & lived the extravagent life that Twain despised. Set against the richly drawn background of the post-Civil War period that Twain dubbed the "Gilded Age," Mr. Clemens & Mark Twain is sure to entertain & enlighten both general readers & scholars alike.

    

    

    But the Honorable Sir Harold Nicolson had two additional gifts, a striking talent for friendship on many levels and the ability to communicate with wit, urbanity, and grace. For thirty-five years he employed both in personal diaries of passing events, social, political, and literary.This book, first in a three-volume series of diaries and letters, was edited by Nicolson's younger son, whose introduction is in itself a small masterpiece of perceptive candor. The diaries traverse the decade from 1930, when Sir Harold left the British Foreign Service, to the outbreak of the Second World War. Since he knew most of the key figures and was peculiarly endowed to describe and interpret whatever he heard, saw, and did, they offer a superb record of that era, with intimate glimpses of the famous or influential. Churchill, Keynes, Beaverbrook, Mosley, Virginia Woolf, E. M. Forster, W. H. Auden and countless others liven page after page. Of special interest to American readers is is close relationship with the Lindbergh-Morrow family during the stressful days of the kidnapping trial and Hauptmann's conviction.Apart from their prime historical importance for those who would understand the atmosphere of London in those depression-prewar years, both diaries and letters offer interesting sidelights on Nicolson's own political evolution form appeaser to sturdy opponent of the Third Reich. He was for four of those years a member of Parliament.On the personal side he illuminates a most unusual marriage. Nicolson's wife, Victoria Sackville-West, was a renowned poet, novelist and biographer. Superficially, the couple seemed oddly matched: he a social, extroverted being; she the product of mingled Spanish and English blood, described as "romantic, secret, and undomesticated." Yet each complemented the other in a stimulating fashion, so that static and dynamic qualities blended into a harmonious whole. A symbol of this deep and abiding union was their beautiful garden as Sissinghurst, Kent, a jointly designed venture.Lively, gay, the lasting achievement of a well-decorated mind, this volume places Nicolson alongside Sir John Evelyn and Madame de Sévigné as one of the truly great observers and chroniclers of the Western world.

    

    

    It is also the story of an extraordinary Christian faith and devotion born out of intense sufferings and shared with people in many parts of the world. This is an important book, not only as testimony of moving faith in God's plan but as a biography that will inspire the growing numbers of people who, all over the world, are involved with the rehabilitation of the handicapped.

    Boyden, who died in 1972, was the school's headmaster for sixty-six years. John McPhee portrays a remarkable man "at the near end of a skein of magnanimous despots who...created enduring schools through their own individual energies, maintained them under their own absolute rule, and left them forever imprinted with their own personalities." More than simply a portrait of the Headmaster of Deerfield Academy, it is a revealing look at the nature of private school education in America.

    This wonderful recreation of a time and a climate of mind - a hundred years ago - is not an evocation of place but also of the child's eye view. A Late Beginner ranks quite simply with the greatest accounts of how it is to be a child, to see with that strange, skewed, uncontaminated vision.

    She was the first white woman to stand on the bank of the Kentucky River. She had to weave cloth out of nettles, mold bullets, and load rifles in time of siege. One of her daughters was kidnapped and she saw a tomahawk raised over her husband's head. But she reared nine children, plus six motherless children and lived to see grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

    Kennedy, the president who still captures the hearts of many Americans, as well as people around the world. Written by the woman who was his personal secretary for twelve years, it was the first biography of President Kennedy to come out of the White House after his death, and has been used as source material by many other biographers who followed. The 400-page book's writing style is casual and personal, but does not pretend to be an expose, a psychoanalysis, or an interpretation of why JFK acted on any issue. This is a record of what Evelyn Lincoln saw and heard in a dozen years with JFK, but those seeking details of his sex life should look elsewhere. Her characterization of him is detailed and clear, and though she greatly admired the man, her descriptions of his flaws are quite unhesitating. Included is every facet of the Kennedy Administration, such as his two major spinal surgeries, each of which nearly killed him; his battle with Addison's disease, which he concealed for fear its disclosure would destroy his political career; his free-wheeling dating of the capital's young women until he met Jackie; the 1956 Democratic convention which nearly named him its vice-presidential candidate and would thus have destroyed his presidential hopes; the 1960 campaign and how he beat all the odds and the political experts by winning; his naming of several prominent Republicans to cabinet posts in his administration, further angering traditional liberals who already disliked him; how he ran the White House by never holding a staff meeting; his handling of the steel industry confrontation, the racial crisis at the University of Mississippi, and the Cuban Missile Crisis; and the tears of grief he shed over the death of his infant son, Patrick. As one reviewer said, if people want to know John Kennedy, they must read Evelyn Lincoln.

    

    Childhood, early music training, years in London; composition of Messiah, other oratorios and operas; analysis of Handel's musical style and individual works, much more. Includes 35 illustrations, Introduction, Bibliographical Note, Indexes.

    

    

    The moving life story of one of the 20th century's most brilliant classical ballerinas from her days as star of the Maryinsky, Ballets Russes and the Paris Opera, through her tragic succumbing to paranoia, depression and two nervous breakdowns, which culminated in enforced hospitalization for 22 years.

    

    

    

    In a moving personal narrative, without bitterness or polemic, this distinguished author quietly tells the story of a remarkable region of the United States.There are no statistics, no catalogings of misery in My Appalachia. Miss Caudill simply tells the story of how it was when she grew up, when the snow was still clean, before the mines came, before the bitterness and bloodshed began. Poverty is a book word when the poor don't know they are poor, and in Appalachia, pride and dignity filled a half-empty stomach. Miss Caudill's father rode off once a year to bring back books to teach her to read; she crossed a swaying foot-bridge over the river on the way to school; she listened to her father tell stories; she learned why he never owned a gun for self-defense (although everyone else did) and she watched her mother quilt, and sew, and paper the walls with pictures cut out from McCall's magazine. From such warm detail comes the sense of what has died in Appalachia, and the terrible sense of what it was like for Miss Caudill to return, years later, to find desolation.The countryside of this region, scarred, piled with refuse, but still defiantly beautiful, has been photographed by Edward Wallowitch. He has captured not only the landscape, but its people, their miseries and their joys. Straightforward and eloquent, this is as close as the outsider gets to Appalachia.

    During the dying days of the Ottoman Empire. 13 year-old Diamondola began her mission. At the risk of life, she preached the gospel in Turkey, Yugoslavia and Greece. A lively and dramatic account of the beginnings of Adventist evangelism in Greece, Turkey, and Yugoslavia.

    Pottle has devoted a lifetime to the study of Boswell. He is the acknowledged authority on the subject, and perhaps knows more Boswell better than Boswell knew himself. His unparalleled knowledge and graceful style qualify him uniquely to convert the welter of information -- much of it recently recovered -- into a convincing portrait of James Boswell: Scot, lawyer, hypochondriac, rake, show-off -- above all, author.Eagerly awaited for more than a decade, James Boswell, The Earlier Years is a rapid and compelling narrative. The long line of lairds of Auchinleck are shown pressing on Boswell's consciousness. His childhood and adolescence for the first time take shape. His religious turmoils, which carried him through Methodism and Pythagoreanism to Roman Catholicism and Anglicanism, are absorbingly reconstructed. His flirtations, his guilt-ridden affair with a young married woman of his own circle, his intrigues with actresses, his dealings with his lively kept-mistress, his occasional recourse to street-girls, are frankly presented as essential but subordinate details. We are never allowed to lose sight of Boswell the intrepid traveller, the admired author, the hard-working and brilliant criminal lawyer, the odd and lovable young man who charmed the Margrave of Baden-Durlach, the brilliant bluestocking Belle de Zuylen, the high-born lady Girolama Piccolomini, and such formidable heroes of letters as Johnson, Rousseau, and Voltaire.From this brilliantly imaginative study emerges a man we can know almost perfectly: a paradoxical character, shrewd of head and foolish in behavior, vain and disarmingly honest, sensual and pious, charming and exasperating, self-indulgent and warm-hearted, who somehow in the Age of Enlightenment managed to think and write like a man of the twentieth century.

    She was the first woman to give public readings; she wrote the first social satire for the stage; and, having become a star overnight without previous acting experience, she was the first American to make the acting profession for women respectable--proving that a lady could be an actress and an actress a lady. Ages 12 up.

    Her short life (1909–43) spanned two world wars, al­though she did not live to see the end of the second one. The reac­tions of this French Jewish woman to some of the facets of these conflicts may seem surprising; her sympathies and affirmations were perhaps too extreme, but she did think for herself in an un­orthodox and challenging way and had a passionate sense of justice. Mr. Rees believes that this book may contain more illumina­tion for the present world’s spiritual needs than any other twentieth-­century commentary. Some of Simone Weil’s proposals concerning patriotism, obligations, freedom of expression, and the needs of the soul may seem Utopian, but they would not be unreasonable in a society adopting her moral code. Simone Weil was an intellectual with an essentially tragic view of life, but she was not removed from the everyday life. Her thought was unique and cannot be classified. She was neither a re­actionary nor a progressive but a great soul and a brilliant mind, as T. S. Eliot expressed it, “with a kind of genius akin to that of the saints.” Since she explored problems which confront modern man, the reader will find thoughtful stimulation in her work. In a previ­ous book, Brave Men, the author likened her to D. H. Lawrence—both lonely visionaries suffering from a devouring spiritual hunger. This book gives a condensed but penetrating account of Miss Weil’s interests. Since her writings cover more than philosophy and religion, the reader will feel compelled to become more familiar with her work.