Fabulous Boulevard
Author | : Ralph Hancock |
Publisher | : New York : Funk & Wagnalls Company |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 1949 |
Genre | : Los Angeles (Calif.) |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Ralph Hancock |
Publisher | : New York : Funk & Wagnalls Company |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 1949 |
Genre | : Los Angeles (Calif.) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Ralph Hancock |
Publisher | : New York : Funk & Wagnalls Company |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 1949 |
Genre | : Los Angeles (Calif.) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Philip Brebner |
Publisher | : Thames Street Press |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2014-05-29 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1843962799 |
The Cook. The Dervish. The Geographer. The Artist. The Jongleur. The Scholar. The Historian. A group of men are imprisoned by their Sultan and await death; they are to be executed for petty crimes. They all have one regret-not to have done the pilgrimage to Mecca. Whereupon, a talking parrot, centuries old, flies into their cell and rebukes them, suggesting they undertake the overland pilgrimage in their minds. So the prisoners imagine the journey, weaving art, history, cuisine, geography, literature, philosophy, Sufism, anecdotes and comic stories, to travel a fabulous road across the breathtaking and punishing landscapes of North Africa. All the while they are accompanied by the convivial parrot and its recollections of the past, whether in the company of the Woolworth heiress Barbara Hutton in Tangier, as a mascot in the French Foreign Legion, mingling with the cross-dresser Isabelle Eberhardt, as companion to an English aristocrat in Algiers, enslaved by pirates off Tripoli, as sidekick to the circus strongman Giovanni Belzoni or muse to Gustave Flaubert in Cairo. It's a roller coaster of adventures that prove as colourful as its feathers.But who will reach Mecca, as one by one the prisoners are dragged out of the cell to meet the executioner?Winner of the K Blundell Trust Award.
Author | : FloZa |
Publisher | : iUniverse |
Total Pages | : 66 |
Release | : 2012-08-16 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781475937213 |
The emotions lived through a special ceremony...a dreamy voyage to a high mountain village...the touching life story of a hardworking young couple...the ways of obtaining a driving licence...the joys and sorrows of a an Iranian woman coming back to her country after fifteen years of absence, rediscovering everything anew...a visit to an island in the light-green waters of the Persian Gulf... The Party and Other Short Stories is a delightful collection of tales that show the sunny side of daily life in the country of one thousand and one nights. This collection of short stories paints light-heartedly, and with humour life in the Iranian society of the 1990s and early 2000s. Episodes in the life of a mother bringing up her half-European son in the Iranian society, these stories not only reflect certain aspects of Florence Zohreh Zars personal and family life, but also her constant effort for more and more comprehension of the Iranian society.
Author | : Yi-Fu Tuan |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 279 |
Release | : 1990-11-20 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0231513283 |
What are the links between environment and world view? Topophilia, the affective bond between people and place, is the primary theme of this book that examines environmental perceptions and values at different levels: the species, the group, and the individual. Yi-Fu Tuan holds culture and environment and topophilia and environment as distinct in order to show how they mutually contribute to the formation of values. Topophilia examines the search for environment in the city, suburb, countryside, and wilderness from a dialectical perspective, distinguishes different types of environmental experience, and describes their character.
Author | : Jan Cigliano |
Publisher | : Pomegranate Communications |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : |
The individuals who transformed American cities and towns in the post-Civil War decades built their homes, with few exceptions, on America's grand avenues, such as New York's Fifth Avenue and Los Angeles's Wilshire Boulevard. This book offers essays on twelve eminent urban residential avenues, each contributed by a different scholar and accompanied by twenty to thirty duotone photographs. Originally published as the catalog for the exhibit at the Octagon Museum of the American Architectural Foundation.
Author | : Beth Gates Warren |
Publisher | : Getty Publications |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1606060708 |
This captivating biography reveals the previously untold love story of Edward Weston and Margrethe Mather. Both were photographic artists at the center of the bohemian cultural scene in Los Angeles during the 1910s and 1920s, yet Weston would become a major Modernist photographer while Mather, who Weston ultimately expunged from his journals, would fall into obscurity. The book reveals how they and their entourage sought out the limelight as the Hollywood film industry came of age. Based on ten years of research and illustrated with extraordinary images, some never published, this history has a captivating range of characters, including Charlie Chaplin, Imogen Cunningham, Max Eastman, Emma Goldman, Tina Modotti, Vaslav Nijinsky, and Carl Sandburg. The lively text brings to life the ambiance of this exciting time in Los Angeles history as well as its darker side. Artful Lives exceeds any previously published account of this key period in Weston's development and reveals Mather's important contribution to it, making it an essential reference in Weston studies.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1646 |
Release | : 1950 |
Genre | : American literature |
ISBN | : |
Author | : United States. Congress |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 586 |
Release | : 1961 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : |