Finding Xanadu - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Finding Xanadu write by Dana Pfeufer. This book was released on 2015-06-30. Finding Xanadu available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ten-year-old Dean's funny feelings were letting him know something was about to happen, but he never knew what was coming. Fortunately, he has a good friend who understands, because Ol' Sam has the same ability. Dean rushes to the jelly bean factory to see Sam, when an earthquake hits. He escapes his peril in a mysterious tunnel, and falls asleep. Ol' Sam's stories become real when Dean awakens in a strange land with the most unusual characters. He finds himself in Xanadu, the land of Jelly Beans, and he knows he's somewhere that isn't supposed to exist. Dean tries to understand this new world and its unusual inhabitants, but most of all, he needs to remember where he came from, and how to get back.
Palm Beach, Mar-a-Lago, and the Rise of America's Xanadu
Palm Beach, Mar-a-Lago, and the Rise of America's Xanadu - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Palm Beach, Mar-a-Lago, and the Rise of America's Xanadu write by Les Standiford. This book was released on 2019-11-05. Palm Beach, Mar-a-Lago, and the Rise of America's Xanadu available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the first Gilded Age to the second, a “charming, zippy history . . . a rollicking, informative lesson in real estate, American history, and current events.” —Town & Country Looking at the island of Palm Beach today, with its unmatched mansions, tony shops, and pristine beaches, one is hard pressed to visualize the dense tangle of Palmetto brush and mangroves that it was when visionary entrepreneur and railroad tycoon Henry Flagler first arrived there in April 1893. Trusting his remarkable instincts, he built the Royal Poinciana Hotel within a year, and two years later, what was to become the legendary Breakers—instantly establishing the island as the preferred destination for those who could afford it. Over the next 125 years, Palm Beach has become synonymous with exclusivity—especially its most famous residence, Mar-a-Lago. As Les Standiford relates, the high walls of Mar-a-Lago and other manses like it were seemingly designed to contain scandal within as much as keep intruders out. This book tells the history of this fabled landscape intertwined with the colorful lives of its famous and infamous protagonists, from Flagler’s two wives to architect Addison Mizner, who created Palm Beach’s “Mediterranean look” to heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post and her husband E. F. Hutton, the original residents of Mar-a-Lago. With authoritative detail, Standiford recounts how Marjorie ruled Palm Beach society until her death in 1973, and how the fate of her mansion threatened to tear apart the very fabric of the town until Donald Trump acquired it in 1985. “Edifying, energetic, and captivating.” —Florida Weekly
Writing Travel
Writing Travel - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Writing Travel write by John Zilcosky. This book was released on 2008-11-13. Writing Travel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Interest in travel writing has grown rapidly within the disciplines of postcolonial and cultural studies; however, recent scholarship has failed to place travel writing within the larger literary tradition. Writing Travel assembles a superb collection of essays that demonstrate how travel attempts to reconfigure the world and, in so doing, to become a metaphor for imagination, subjectivity, and representation itself. Examining a broad range of texts and travellers from across the world, the contributors discuss canonical authors such as Homer, Goethe, and Baudelaire, alongside lesser known writers such as Theodor Herzl, Hans Erich Nossack, and William Gibson. This theoretically rich volume draws connections between travel and narrative, and provides powerful insights into the relationship between travel and the spoken act of storytelling, as well as the more ambivalent act of story writing. An engaging collection of essays by first-rate scholars, Writing Travel is an illuminating exploration of the history of travel writing, its influence on other literary genres, and the origins of narrative.
Thoughts on the Creation of the Mockumentrary [sic] Finding Xanadu
Thoughts on the Creation of the Mockumentrary [sic] Finding Xanadu - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Thoughts on the Creation of the Mockumentrary [sic] Finding Xanadu write by Benjamin J. Lancaster. This book was released on 2010. Thoughts on the Creation of the Mockumentrary [sic] Finding Xanadu available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Rise of the Titans
Rise of the Titans - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rise of the Titans write by Kate O'Hearn. This book was released on 2016-12-06. Rise of the Titans available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Includes an excerpt from the next book in the series, 'The end of Olympus.'
