A Far Country: Travels in Ethiopia
Though American author Winston Churchill often focused on historical events as inspiration for his novels, his later work more often explored the way that events conspired to shape his characters' opinions and values.
When they spoke of it in town, they called it simply the city, as if it was the only city in the world . . . Raised in a remote...
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From the bestselling author of The Piano Tuner, a stunning novel about a young girl’s journey through a vast, unnamed country in search of her brother.Fourteen-year-old Isabel was born in a remote village with the gift and curse of ...
Told with extraordinary empathy, richly evocative, the story of Isabel’s quest – of her dignity and determination, her deeply spiritual world – becomes a universal tale about the bonds of family and a sister’s love for her brother, ...
In A Far Country, protagonist Hugh Paret enters his career as a corporate lawyer full of high-minded ideals, but begins to change his outlook as he gains experience in the business world.
On the table beside the bed in company with two or three other volumes, lay a Bible. He seemed to notice that my eye ... In order to arrive at salvation, Paret, most of us have to take our journey into a far country." "A far country!
Churchill was born in St. Louis, Missouri and attended the United States Naval Academy, where he graduated in 1894 and became an editor of the "Army and Navy Journal.
What price is he prepared to pay to tread his own path, make his own rules? A compelling story of loyalty, loss and survival, A Far Country is alive with the beauty and brutality of a wild frontier and the people who made it their home.
This is a bold story that delves as intrepidly into the realms of personal and cultural identity as it does into the forbidding landscape and ruthless industry of colonial life.
More than any other African country, Ethiopia has been largely unsullied by outside influence. Isolated travellers such as Rimbaud and Wilfred Thesiger brought back reports of a kingdom rich in...
From the bestselling author of The Piano Tuner, a stunning novel about a young girl’s journey through a vast, unnamed country in search of her brother.Fourteen-year-old Isabel was born in a remote village with the gift and curse of ...