Автор: Blanch, Lesley Название: The Wilder Shores Of Love ISBN: 0753827913 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780753827918 Издательство: Orion Рейтинг: Цена: 1972.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The classic story of four nineteenth-century women who, for different reasons, gravitated to the wildness of the Middle East and North Africa.
Описание: A stunning tale set in England, Paris, and Moscow, chronicling Blanch's love for an older Russian man and the passionate obsession that takes her to Siberia and beyond. "My book is not altogether autobiography, nor altogether travel or history either. You will just have to invent a new category," Lesley Blanch wrote about Journey into the Mind's Eye, a book that remains as singularly adventurous and intoxicating now as when it first came out in 1968. Russia seized Lesley Blanch when she was still a child. A mysterious traveler--swathed in Siberian furs, bearing Faberg eggs and icons as gifts along with Russian fairy tales and fairy tales of Russia--came to visit her parents and left her starry-eyed. Years later the same man returned to sweep her off her feet. Her love affair with the Traveller, as she calls him, transformed her life and fueled an abiding fascination with Russia and Russian culture, one that would lead her to dingy apartments reeking of cabbage soup and piroshki on the outskirts of Paris in the 1960s, and to Siberia and beyond.
Автор: Blanch Arnold Название: Methods and Techniques for Gouache Painting ISBN: 1258996189 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781258996185 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 4037.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Blanch Lesley Название: The Nine Tiger Man: A Satirical Romance ISBN: 0993092748 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780993092749 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 1378.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: JOHN BARKHAM, NEW YORK WORLD - A delicious tale of low behaviour in high places; with particular attention to the activities of an irresistible and gifted East Indian Prince who takes his own form of revenge against the entire English Empire by inducting a bevy of highborn English females into the fine points of Oriental eroticism, proving that Debrett's Peerage is no match at all for the Karma Sutra . . . TIME - Wildly funny. The Rao divided women into two categories: those with bodies and those with jewels . . . When East meet West: in this witty satirical romance, Lesley Blanch recreates the British India of the 1850's, where representatives of Victoria's England preside uneasily over the glittering remnants of the Moghul Empire. The Nine Tiger Man is a piquant tale of a Maharaja's heir, a Viscount's daughter and an uninhibited chambermaid who sampled one another's environments and were never the same again. The women first encounter the Rao Jagnabad, warrior and slayer of nine tigers, when he visits England on a diplomatic mission. Fierce and handsome in gold-embroidered brocades and magnificent jewels, he meets the prim and proper Hon. Florence at a ball. She is overwhelmed by his powerful masculinity and dreams of him to the exclusion of all else, to the intense irritation of her fianc . Her maid, Rosie, is also overwhelmed and samples the Rao for herself. Fate decrees that, some years later, the two women are marooned in a crumbling palace on a remote, jungly island during the Indian Mutiny. They find themselves in the sole custody of the Rao along with two dozen other Englishwomen. A razor-sharp satire on class and Empire, the outcome is surprising, even to Rosie. Lesley Blanch's only novel was written while in Rajasthan: "I had pulled a ligament in my leg and had to stay on an island in Jaipur. You could hear the leopards coughing at dusk in the far hills, and the parakeets flew around turning the sky green. One day I saw what I thought was a log, but it was a crocodile. I had heard the story of a group of English women being put on that island during the Mutiny and not daring to escape because of the crocodiles - they were just stuck there, with no news, and fearing the worst. From that I imagined the whole novel." DAILY TELEGRAPH - Panache, high spirits, faultless timing and uncontrollable fun.
Описание: The definitive, epic biography of the Muslim chieftain Imam Shamyl, the 'Lion of Daghestan', THE SABRES OF PARADISE took six years to complete, with research done in Russia and the Caucasus, including tracing his descendants in Turkey and Egypt. ― THE SABRES OF PARADISE is the story of two worlds (two faiths, two societies, two continents) brought into sudden juxtaposition. During the Caucasian Wars of Independence, the warring mountain tribes of Daghestan and Chechnya united under the charismatic leadership of Imam Shamyl, strengthened only by the desire for an independent Caucasus and their religious faith. ― For years Imam Shamyl defied his enemy, Tsar Nicholas I, who had taken his eldest son as a hostage to St Petersburg. The Muslim chieftain captured in turn two Georgian princesses (from the Tzarina's entourage), a French governess, and the children, and kept them in his harem until they could be exchanged for his son. ― A universal saga, it is also a history of late 19th century Imperialist Russian rule. The struggle of the people of the Caucasus to remain independent of Russia had a powerful influence on Tolstoy and Pushkin, and is disturbingly relevant to our world today.― It is set both in the Caucasus, a region of supreme natural beauty and mighty mountain ranges, and in St Petersburg, the most elegant and sophisticated of Russian cities.GUARDIAN: "Crammed with truly fabulous stories of fighting and love and violent death . . . this is a] profound and exhilarating book."PHILIP MARSDEN: "Like Tolstoy's, Lesley Blanch's sense of history is ultimately convincing not because of any sweeping theses, but because of its particularities, the quirks of individuals and their personal narratives, their deluded ambitions, their vanities and passions."HAMISH BOWLES in JACQUELINE KENNEDY: THE WHITE HOUSE YEARS: "Jacqueline Kennedy and Khrushchev maintained a spirited badinage through dinner. Mrs Kennedy had recently read THE SABRES OF PARADISE, Lesley Blanch's dashing history of the Muslim tribes' resistance to Russian expansionism in the Caucasus, and attempted to engage the Soviet premier in conversation on the subject. He responded with the comparative numbers of teachers per capita in the Soviet and Czarist Ukraine. She cut him off with the playful riposte, "Oh, Mr Chairman, don't bore me with statistics." BRIAN ALDISS: "A book as thick with flavour as roast wild boar, tusks and all. One of the most nutritious books I have ever read."
Описание: This is a book for people who want to disciple others but may not feel qualified because they are struggling with their own issues. All of us are struggling with something; still, each person has something special to contribute to another. I hope to set before you a road that Christ wants you to walk, with him walking at your side. I hope to inspire you to help others enter into a closer communion with Christ and into a richer experience of joy, peace, and purpose. This is not meant to be a manual on disciple-making. This is more a book of inspiration, a clear biblical perspective of what kind of person you should be trying to develop, along with disciple-making principles to help you succeed in this marvelous adventure. Interspersed with the principles, are practical tips for bringing you and others to a greater maturity. A central point of the book is the need to fulfill the Great Commission that Christ left for his new followers and for all future generations. People have changed over the years. If we want to be effective, certain established patterns of discipleship and disciple-making must change. Bill Tell, Senior Vice President, Chief of Staff, The Navigators says, "Most discipleship programs today are just that, programs. Jack Blanch in this wonderful book on discipling others takes us in a refreshingly different direction, a direction that is not just theory, but is the result of helping men grow in their relationship with God for over fifty years. This book has the fingerprints of experience on every page. Jack knows better than anyone I have ever met that discipling another man or woman is not a matter of passing on a curriculum or downloading information. It's not giving someone a new philosophy of life or a new set of rules and duties to keep. Investing in the life of another is not passing on a series of pod casts and videos. Discipling another individual to fall in love with Jesus and to trust God starts with the life of the person doing the discipling; it starts with their walk with God. Investing in others is all about relationship, people on a journey of living life together through the good and the bad. Jack helps us understand that if we are going to disciple another person life-on-life, it won't happen in a church classroom, at the local coffee shop, in an office, or by appointment. It happens in all the places where real life happens, at a soccer game on a cold day, rescuing someone from a broken down car at the most inconvenient time, in an anger filled living room where divorce is the topic.Disciple Making for a New Generation doesn't try to improve our techniques or skills so that we can get "our disciple" to do the right things. Being a disciple is not about doing the right things, but about being the person God created us to be when he planted a new nature in us. And so rather than a list of things we want the disciple to do, we are challenged to think about developing areas like faith, hope, love and holiness, areas that don't develop as the result of information and study, but grow as a result of an intimate love relationship with God. Fifty years of discipling men around the world has allowed Jack to fill this book with countless stories and illustrations, of real people with the woundedness and brokenness that comes from living in the real world. To read this book is like spending time with a personal mentor, one with whom you cannot get enough time. By the time you have finished the last chapter, you have walked with Jack through fifty years of ministry and will have a new paradigm of what it means to make disciples. You will have a glimpse of what it might look like to impart our very lives to the next generation."
