[PDF] The Vagabond Princess eBook

Author : Ron Rundle
Publisher :
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 26,71 MB
Release : 2020-12-11
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What is the hardest part about growing up? Darly was discovering that is a question with several possible answers. Before you read the book, think about it. See if your ideas match what Darly has to go through.

Author : Ruby Lal
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 50,3 MB
Release : 2024-02-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0300277490

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A captivating biography of one of the world’s greatest adventurers, the itinerant Mughal Princess Gulbadan, based on her long-forgotten memoir “Finally, a serious consideration of Gulbadan’s achievement.’”—Kirkus Reviews Situated in the early decades of the magnificent Mughal Empire, this first ever biography of Princess Gulbadan offers an enthralling portrait of a charismatic adventurer and unique pictures of the multicultural society in which she lived. Following a migratory childhood that spanned Kabul and north India, Gulbadan spent her middle years in a walled harem established by her nephew Akbar to showcase his authority as the Great Emperor. Gulbadan longed for the exuberant itinerant lifestyle she’d known. With Akbar’s blessing, she led an unprecedented sailing and overland voyage and guided harem women on an extended pilgrimage in Arabia. Amid increasing political tensions, the women’s “un-Islamic” behavior forced their return, lengthened by a dramatic shipwreck in the Red Sea. Gulbadan wrote a book upon her return, the only extant work of prose by a woman of the age. A portion of it is missing, either lost to history or redacted by officials who did not want the princess to have her say. Vagabond Princess contemplates the story of the missing pages and breathes new life into a daring historical figure. It offers a portal to a richly complex world, rife with movement and migration, where women’s conviviality, adventure, and autonomies shine through.

Author : Vago Damitio
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 39,86 MB
Release : 2013-03-13
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ISBN : 9781939827166

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A Ridiculous Love Story Ruined by Monkeys, Black Magic, and Duodenums

Author : Hayford Peirce
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 16,94 MB
Release : 2010-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1434412490

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"Dinosaur Park" is a loving homage to the works of Jack Vance. Thousands of years from now, the human race has expanded throughout the galaxy, colonizing millions of worlds and creating myriads of bizarre new religious cults and sects. One of these worlds is Stohlson's Redemption, where the human settlers raise dinosaurs for their religious ceremonies. When the ten-year-old Kerryl Ryson creates an unseemly incident that upsets a visiting Important Person, his father is fed to a dinosaur -- as an object lesson in politeness -- and his remaining family are sold into slavery. For sixteen years Kerryl has plotted his revenge. Now, with the aid of a beautiful noblewoman, a time machine, a race of aliens who use the Mesozoic Era of Earth as a setting for adventure videos, and a stampede of ravaging dinosaurs, Kerryl gets his chance to even the interstellar score. But first he has to escape from several death sentences. . . . In fact, he must come back from the dead! "Space opera took a unique form in the hands of Jack Vance, as he transformed two-fisted swash-buckling to an artistry of pungent, subtle ironies. . . . [Dinosaur Park] is a very faithful effort, chock-a-block with poignant nomenclature, strange lands, and dinosaurs (cf The Dragon Masters), and featuring the requisite grim young hero out for revenge. " --Locus "This book is a screamingly funny sendup of Jack Vance's writing style by the author of ' Napoleon Disentimed' and the Chap Foey Rider stories in Analog magazine. If you are a Vance fan, do not miss it!" -- Raymond's Reviews "Of all the writers I discovered during my years as an editor, Hayford Peirce is the most original stylist and undoubtedly the one with the wickedest sense of humor." -- Ben Bova "Hayford Peirce is debonair, witty, and a keen student of the cosmopolis: all of which is reflected in his writing. He also displays a knack for seizing and holding a reader's attention: certainly he is among the most entertaining of all science-fiction writers." -- Jack Vance

Author : Karen Wiesner
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 16,79 MB
Release : 2015-04-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1329066782

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Rod, JoJo, Jon and Blackie-four gypsies on a solitary road...until love throws a fork in their paths. They both want what they can't have-each other. Blackie Scarpacchio has had hard lessons kicked in him from birth, leaving him cynical and afraid to trust in love. Lori Gordon has loved Blackie all her life. After one stolen night together, he'd torn her soul in two when he admitted their relationship was based on vows he'd made to her father. Five years later, she's come home to discover that absence has made her heart grow fonder. Blackie doesn't know how to deal with his own unresolved feelings. But when Lori starts receiving threats, his protectiveness thrusts him into constant contact...and reborn needs.

Author : Ruby Lal
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 41,74 MB
Release : 2024-02-27
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ISBN : 0300251270

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A captivating biography of one of the world's greatest adventurers, the itinerant Mughal Princess Gulbadan, based on her long-forgotten memoir "Finally, a serious consideration of Gulbadan's achievement.'"--Kirkus Reviews Situated in the early decades of the magnificent Mughal Empire, this first ever biography of Princess Gulbadan offers an enthralling portrait of a charismatic adventurer and unique pictures of the multicultural society in which she lived. Following a migratory childhood that spanned Kabul and north India, Gulbadan spent her middle years in a walled harem established by her nephew Akbar to showcase his authority as the Great Emperor. Gulbadan longed for the exuberant itinerant lifestyle she'd known. With Akbar's blessing, she led an unprecedented sailing and overland voyage and guided harem women on an extended pilgrimage in Arabia. Amid increasing political tensions, the women's "un-Islamic" behavior forced their return, lengthened by a dramatic shipwreck in the Red Sea. Gulbadan wrote a book upon her return, the only extant work of prose by a woman of the age. A portion of it is missing, either lost to history or redacted by officials who did not want the princess to have her say. Vagabond Princess contemplates the story of the missing pages and breathes new life into a daring historical figure. It offers a portal to a richly complex world, rife with movement and migration, where women's conviviality, adventure, and autonomies shine through.

Author : Barbara Blythe
Publisher : Pelican Ventures Book Group
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 18,39 MB
Release : 2012-05-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1611161789

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Forced into an arranged marriage, Lady Carolene Montross's only salvation is the one thing she fears the most, sailing away on a pirate ship with Captain Donlan MacGarrow. Lan MacGarrow has given fifteen years of his life to fulfill a broken promise, that of keeping Carolene Montross safe. When he finally finds her, he has to contend with a hurricane and Carolene, herself, who sees the scruffy vagabond as nothing more than the pirate scalawag she's been warned about. Can he convince her of his integrity... and his love?