Douglas Sellick:Venus in Transit: Australia's Women Travellers, 1788-1930
- First edition 2009, ISBN: 9781863683944
Paperback, Hardcover
Wordsworth Classics, 2009. Soft cover. As New. In Excellent Used Condition. For More Information On Condition. Please See All Photos Rip Van Winkle Is An Amiable Man Whose Home And F… More...
Wordsworth Classics, 2009. Soft cover. As New. In Excellent Used Condition. For More Information On Condition. Please See All Photos Rip Van Winkle Is An Amiable Man Whose Home And Farm Suffer From His Lazy Neglect; A Familiar Figure About The Village, He Is Loved By All Except His Wife. One Autumn Day He Escapes Her Nagging To Wander Up Into The Mountains, And There After Drinking Some Liquor Offered To Him By A Band Of Very Strange Folk, He Settles Down Under A Shady Tree And Falls Asleep. He Wakes Up Twenty Years Later And Returns To His Village To Find That Not Only Is His Wife Dead But War And Revolution Have Changed Many Things. He, On The Other Hand, Although Older Is Not Appreciably Wiser And Soon Slips Back Into His Idle Habits. The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow Tells Of Conscientious Schoolmaster Ichabod Crane. Orderly And Strict In School, Out Of School His Life Is Disorderly And His Head Full Of Fearful Fantasies. He Is In Love With The Beautiful Katrina But Has A Rival For Her Hand, A Dashing Young Hero Who, Together With His Prankster Friends, Plays On Ichabod's Superstitions, Notably With The Story Of A Headless Horseman Who Haunts The Region. Tragedy Strikes When Their Hapless Victim Encounters Just Such An Apparition When Returning Home One Dark And Especially Dismal Night ... Three Equally Compelling Stories, The Spectre Bridegroom, The Pride Of The Village And Mountjoy, Complete This Collection Of Classic Tales From The Inspired Pen Of Washington Irving, One Of America's Greatest Writers., Wordsworth Classics, 2009, 5, Scribner, 2000. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Good. 26-18-5. In Very Good Condition, Tear On Dust Cover. For More Information On Condition. Please See All Photos A Haunting And Triumphant Story Of A Difficult And Keenly Felt Life, "Change Me Into Zeus's Daughter" Is A Remarkable Literary Memoir Of Resilience, Redemption, And Growing Up In The South. Barbara Robinette Moss Was The Fourth In A Family Of Eight Children Raised In The Red-Clay Hills Of Alabama. Their Wild-Eyed, Alcoholic Father Was A Charismatic And Irrationally Proud Man Who, When Sober, Captured His Children's Timid Awe, But When (More Often) Drunk, Roused Them From Bed For Severe Punishment Or Bizarre All-Night Poker Games. Their Mother Was Their Angel: Erudite And Stalwart -- Her Only Sin Her Inability To Leave Her Husband For The Sake Of The Children. Unlike The Rest Of Her Family, Barbara Bore The Scars Of This Abuse And Neglect On The Outside As Well As The Inside. As A Result Of Childhood Malnutrition And A Complete Lack Of Medical And Dental Care, The Bones In Her Face Grew Abnormally ("Like A Thin Pine Tree"), And She Ended Up With What She Calls "A Twisted, Mummy Face." Barbara's Memoir Brings Us Deep Into Not Only The World Of Southern Poverty And Alcoholic Child Abuse But Also The Consciousness Of One Who Is Physically Frail And Awkward, Relating How One Girl's Debilitating Sense Of Her Own Physical Appearance Is Ultimately Saved By Her Faith In The Transformative Powers Of Artistic Beauty: Painting And Writing. From Early On And With Little Encouragement From The World, Barbara Embodied The Fiery Determination To Change Her Fate And Achieve A Life Defined By Beauty. At Age Seven, She Announced To The World That She Would Become An Artist -- And So She Did. Nightly, She Prayed To Become Attractive, To Be Changed Into "Zeus's Daughter," The Goddess Of Beauty, And When Her Prayers Weren't Answered, She Did It Herself, Raising The Money For Years Of Braces Followed By Facial Surgery. Growing Up "So Ugly," She Felt The Family's Disgrace All The More Acutely, But The Result Has Been A Keenly Developed Appreciation For Beauty -- Physical And Artistic -- The Evidence Of Which Can Be Seen In Her Writing. Despite The Deprivation, The Lingering Image From This Memoir Is Not Of Self-Pity But Of The Incredible Bond Between These Eight Siblings: The Raucous, Childish Fun They Had Together, The Making-Do, And The Total Devotion To Their Desperate Mother, Who Absorbed Most Of The Father's Blows For Them And Who Plied Them With Art And Poetry In Place Of Balanced Meals. Gracefully And Intelligently Woven In Layers Of Flashback, The Persistent Strength Of Barbara Moss's Memoir Is Itself A Testament To The Nearly Lifesaving Appreciation For Literature That Was Her Mother's Greatest Gift To Her Children., Scribner, 2000, 3.75, New York, NY, USA.: Western Publishing Company./Whitman, 1976. 68 pages including covers, color comic book. CONTENTS - "Night of the Storm" by Dean Koontz (A group of robots goes camping in teh wilderness and encounters a mythical beast - Man!); "The Brian Traveler" by Arnold Drake (He was offered five million dollars to invade his brother's living brain - and plunder the deadly secret buried within!); "Flight of the Horse" by Larry Niven (The Department sent Svetz through Time to bring back an extinct species. But why were they so upset by what he brought back?); "Collecting Team" by Robert Silverberg (The planet was a zoologist's paradise, populated by an uncanny variety of animal life. Then they discovered its awful secret!); "The Utopia Tree" by H.E. Arloff (It promised a Garden of Eden but it bore a bitter fruit!); "Phoenix Planet" by Mary Schaub. (He was driven by the obsession that the mineral he sought was more precious than life itself. He never realized whose!) Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. TRUE FIRST Collected Edition Thus.. Soft Cover. Very Good/ Fine. Illus. by Ron Miller Illustrated Cover.. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Comic Book.., Western Publishing Company./Whitman, 1976, 4, Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 2003. Softcover. Fine. AUSTRALIANAAS NEW! First Edition, pp. 363 illusts. In this marvelous collection Douglas Sellick brings to life the true stories of twenty women who, during the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries, traveled to and around Australia. From Mary Ann Parker who embarked with her husband on a voyage to the coast of New Holland, to Marian Ellis Rowan who traveled the colonial wilds dressed in the height of Victorian fashion, to Amy Johnson who flew solo from London to Darwin in 1930, these tales of hardship, adventure and romance will seduce and enthrall. #0218/0518/0121/190923 Women travelers -- Australia Women travelers -- New Zealand Australia -- Description and travel New Zealand -- Description and travelISBN 10: 1863683941 ISBN 13: 9781863683944 Adelaide aerodrome Alice Springs arrived Australia beautiful birds Bishopsbourne boat Brisbane buggy bullocks Bush called camels camp Captain carriage carried cattlecoast comfortable Creek Darwin deck dinner dray dress early engine England everything friends garden Government House Governor gum trees harbour head hill horses husband Island journeyKatherine River kind Lady land lived looked lovely luggage Macumba magneto Melbourne miles morning Mount Morgan natives never night Northern Territoryo'clock Oodnadatta party passed passengers petrol Port Port Darwin pretty Queensland railway reached river road Rockhampton round sailed sailors seemed sent servantsship shore side Sourabaya South South Australia South Wales station steamer Sydney telegraph things told took Topsy train travelling verandah vessel voyage weather Western Australia wind woman women Elizabeth's Bookshops have been one of Australia's premier independent book dealers since 1973. Elizabeth's family-owned business operates four branches in Perth CBD, Fremantle (WA), and Newtown (NSW). All orders are dispatched within 24 hours from our Fremantle Warehouse. All items can be viewed at Elizabeth's Bookshop Warehouse, 23 Queen Victoria Street\, Fremantle WA., Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 2003, 5<
