Author: William Seabrook Publisher: Courier Dover Publications ISBN: 048679962X Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 433
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This 1929 volume offers firsthand accounts of Haitian voodoo and witchcraft rituals. Author William Seabrook introduced the concept of the walking dead to the West with this illustrated travelogue.
Author: Elizabeth Waterston Publisher: Oxford University Press Canada ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 264
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L.M.Montgomery grew up in Prince Edward Island, a real place of "politics and potatoes." But it's her fictional island, a richly textured imaginative landscape that has captivated a world of readers since 1908, when Anne of Green Gables became the first of Montgomery's long string of bestsellers. In this wide-ranging and highly readable book, Elizabeth Waterston uses the term "magic" to suggest that peculiar, indefinable combination of attributes that unpredictably results in creative genius. Montgomery's intelligence, her drive, and her sense of humour are essential components of this success. Waterston also features what Montgomery called her "dream life," a "strange inner life of fancy which had always existed side by side with my outer life." This special ability to look beyond the veil, to access vibrant inner vistas, produced deceptively layered fictions out of a life that saw not just its share of both fame and ill fortune, but also what Waterston calls "dark passions." A true reader's guide, Magic Island explores the world of L.M. Montgomery in a way never done before. Each chapter of Magic Island discusses a different Montgomery book, following their progression chronologically. Waterston draws parallels between Montgomery's internal "island," her personal life, her professional career, and the characters in her novels. Designed to be read alongside the new biography of Montgomery by Mary Rubio, this is the first book to reinterpret Montgomery's writing in light of important new information about her life. A must-read for any Montgomery fan, Magic Island offers a fresh and insightful look at the world of L.M. Montgomery and the "magic" of artistic creation.
Author: Doug Hansen Publisher: Heyday Books ISBN: 9781597143325 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 48
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Summoned by Queen Calafia to the island of California, twenty-six animals of the state of California introduce themselves, their homeland, and the people who dwell there.
Author: Joe Ollmann Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly ISBN: 1770463607 Category : Comics & Graphic Novels Languages : en Pages : 324
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The daring and destructive life of the man who popularized the word "zombie" In the early twentieth century, travel writing represented the desire for the expanding bourgeoisie to experience the exotic cultures of the world past their immediate surroundings. Journalist William Buehler Seabrook was emblematic of this trend – participating in voodoo ceremonies, riding camels cross the Sahara desert, communing with cannibals and most notably, popularizing the term “zombie” in the West. A string of his bestselling books show an engaged, sympathetic gentleman hoping to share these strange, hidden delights with the rest of the world. He was willing to go deeper than any outsider had before. But, of course, there was a dark side. Seabrook was a barely functioning alcoholic who was deeply obsessed with bondage and the so-called mystical properties of pain and degradation. His life was a series of traveling highs and drunken lows; climbing on and falling off the wagon again and again. What led the popular and vivid writer to such a sad state? Cartoonist Joe Ollmann spent seven years researching Seabrook’s life, accessing long neglected archives in order to piece together the peripatetic life of a forgotten American writer. Often weaving in Seabrook’s own words and those of his biographers, Ollmann posits Seabrook the believer versus Seabrook the exploiter, and leaves the reader to consider where one ends and the other begins.
Author: Irene Edwards Publisher: ISBN: 9781838280505 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 292
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A 'magical' illustrated adventure fantasy tale for children of dragons, wizards and witches. Imagine yourself making a wish...and it suddenly becoming granted.
Author: Elizabeth Goudge Publisher: ISBN: 9781434890733 Category : Languages : en Pages : 286
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Island Magic (1934), a beautiful story of the Channel Islands in the nineteenth century, was Elizabeth Goudge's first novel and stands as one of her finest. It tells of Rachel and Andre du Froq and their exuberant children, and the mysterious stranger who washes up from the sea and becomes entwined in their lives. [Also available: the sequel, "Make-Believe" by Elizabeth Goudge.]
Author: Emery Belle Publisher: Emery Belle ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 197
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Book your ticket to Magic Island, where the potions are brewed fresh daily, the beaches are perfect for creature-watching, and the fangs and fur are on full display. Since arriving on Magic Island, newbie witch Wren Winters just can’t seem to catch a break. Fresh out of the hospital following her near-miss with the wrong end of a wand, she returns home to discover that her magical status is in question—again—her new boss’s favorite snack is blood pudding (hold the pudding), and she’s the only witch in history to be allergic to her own familiar. When the next assignment for her gossip column takes her to the Snow Bunny Fashion Show to learn the real story behind the long-simmering feud between the show’s lead designer and the island’s most popular yeti model, Wren is determined to prove her worth as a reporter… and then keep a low profile as she awaits her fate before the High Court. But it seems the island has other plans. Thrust into a murder mystery that takes her from a mountaintop yeti community to an underground gnome hole, from the back of a magical polar bear to a leprechaun-run bank hidden beneath the ocean floor, Wren is once more on a quest for the truth. But as she soon learns, some secrets are better off left in the grave. Author's Note: Each book includes a self-contained mystery, but there are longer, ongoing subplots that continue throughout the series.
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