A Land of Ghosts - 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 A Land of Ghosts write by David G. Campbell. This book was released on 2014-06-10. A Land of Ghosts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The biologist and award-winning author journeys deep inside the Amazon rainforest in this eloquent and insightful look at one of earth’s last wild places. For thirty years, biologist David G. Campbell has been exploring the lush wilderness, of the western Amazon, which contains more species than ever existed anywhere on our planet. In A Land of Ghosts, Campbell takes readers on his latest venture. In Cruzeiro do Sul, 2,800 miles from the mouth of the Amazon, Campbell collects three old friends: Arito, a caiman hunter turned paleontologist; Tarzan, a street urchin brought up in a bordello; and Pimentel, a master canoe pilot. Heading further into the rainforest, they survey every living woody plant they can find. The land is so rich that an area of less than fifty acres contains three times as many tree species as all of North America. Campbell knows the trees individually, and he knows the wildlife and the people as well: the recently arrived colonists with their failing farms; the Caboclos, masters of hunting, fishing, and survival; and the refugee Native Americans. These people live in a land whose original inhabitants were wiped out by centuries of disease, slavery, and genocide, taking their traditions and languages with them: a land of ghosts.
A Demon-Haunted Land
A Demon-Haunted Land - 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 A Demon-Haunted Land write by Monica Black. This book was released on 2020-11-17. A Demon-Haunted Land available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “A Demon-Haunted Land is absorbing, gripping, and utterly fascinating... Beautifully written, without even a hint of jargon or pretension, it casts a significant and unexpected new light on the early phase of the Federal Republic of Germany’s history. Black’s analysis of the copious, largely unknown archival sources on which the book is based is unfailingly subtle and intelligent.” —Richard J. Evans, The New Republic In the aftermath of World War II, a succession of mass supernatural events swept through war-torn Germany. A messianic faith healer rose to extraordinary fame, prayer groups performed exorcisms, and enormous crowds traveled to witness apparitions of the Virgin Mary. Most strikingly, scores of people accused their neighbors of witchcraft, and found themselves in turn hauled into court on charges of defamation, assault, and even murder. What linked these events, in the wake of an annihilationist war and the Holocaust, was a widespread preoccupation with evil. While many histories emphasize Germany’s rapid transition from genocidal dictatorship to liberal democracy, A Demon-Haunted Land places in full view the toxic mistrust, profound bitterness, and spiritual malaise that unfolded alongside the economic miracle. Drawing on previously unpublished archival materials, acclaimed historian Monica Black argues that the surge of supernatural obsessions stemmed from the unspoken guilt and shame of a nation remarkably silent about what was euphemistically called “the most recent past.” This shadow history irrevocably changes our view of postwar Germany, revealing the country’s fraught emotional life, deep moral disquiet, and the cost of trying to bury a horrific legacy.
From the Land of Green Ghosts
From the Land of Green Ghosts - 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 From the Land of Green Ghosts write by Pascal Khoo Thwe. This book was released on 2003-12-02. From the Land of Green Ghosts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1988, Dr. John Casey, a professor visiting Burma, meets a waiter in Mandalay with a passion for the works of James Joyce, and the encounter changes both their lives. Pascal, a member of the Kayan Padaung tribe, was the first member of his community to study English at a university. Within months of his meeting with Dr. Casey, Pascal's world lay in ruins. Burma's military dictatorship forces him to sacrifice his studies, and the regime's brutal armed forces murder his lover. Fleeing to the jungle, he becomes a guerrilla fighter in the life-or-death struggle against the government. In desperation, he writes a letter to the Englishman he met in Mandalay. Miraculously reaching its destination, the letter leads to Pascal's rescue and his enrollment in Cambridge University, where he is the first Burmese tribesman ever to attend. From the Land of Green Ghosts unforgettably evokes the realities of life in modern-day Burma and one man's long journey to freedom despite almost unimaginable odds.
The Haunted Land
The Haunted Land - 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 The Haunted Land write by Tina Rosenberg. This book was released on 2010-11-24. The Haunted Land available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Pulitzer Prize-winning look at the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe
Land Of Ghosts
Land Of Ghosts - 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 Land Of Ghosts write by E.V. Seymour. This book was released on 2014-08-01. Land Of Ghosts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Outnumbered. Outgunned. And running out of time. Meet Paul Tallis – a spy for the 21st Century Fearing an undercover agent working in Chechnya has gone rogue, MI6 look to off-thspook Paul Tallis for help. Tallis is ready for the challenge – then he learns the missing operative is his old school friend, Graham Darke. With intelligence confirming a threat to assassinate the Russian prime minister, Tallis must infiltrate a rebel movement and reach Darke before Anglo-Russian relations are permanently destroyed. But confronted with the reality of the Chechen struggle, Tallis faces an impossible moral choice: bring in Darke and prevent an international crisis, or protect a man fighting for the forgotten innocents. For fans of ROBERT LUDLUM, GERALD SEYMOUR and JOHN LE CARRÉ, this is a must read.
