7 Results for : greenlanders
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The Greenlanders , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1622min
Pulitzer Prize winner and best-selling author Jane Smiley's The Greenlanders is an enthralling novel in the epic tradition of the old Norse sagas. Set in the 14th century in Europe's most farflung outpost, a land of glittering fjords, blasting winds, sun-warmed meadows, and high, dark mountains, The Greenlanders is the story of one family - proud landowner Asgeir Gunnarsson; his daughter Margret, whose willful independence leads her into passionate adultery and exile; and his son Gunnar, whose quest for knowledge is at the compelling center of this unforgettable audiobook. Jane Smiley takes us into this world of farmers, priests, and lawspeakers, of hunts and feasts and long-standing feuds, and by an act of literary magic, makes a remote time, place, and people not only real but dear to us. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ralph Lister. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/019541/bk_adbl_019541_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Greenlanders
The Greenlanders ab 16.99 € als epub eBook: . Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Belletristik,- Shop: hugendubel
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The Greenlanders
The Greenlanders ab 7.49 € als epub eBook: . Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Belletristik,- Shop: hugendubel
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The Colony of Good Hope
In the tradition of Conrads &i>Heart of Darkness&/i>, an immensely powerful historical novel about the first encouters between Danish colonists and Greenlanders in the early 18th century, of brutal clashes between priests and pagans, love, death and evil and the forces that drive each individual towards darkness or light.- Shop: buecher
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The Colony of Good Hope (eBook, ePUB)
In the tradition of Conrad's Heart of Darkness, an immensely powerful historical novel about the first encounters between Danish colonists and Greenlanders in the early eighteenth century, of brutal clashes between priests and pagans and the forces that drive each individual towards darkness or light.1728: The Danish King Fredrik IV sends a governor to Greenland to establish a colony, in the hopes of exploiting the country's allegedly vast natural resources. A few merchants, a barber-surgeon, two trainee priests, a blacksmith, some carpenters and soldiers and a dozen hastily married couples go with him.The missionary priest Hans Egede has already been in Greenland for several years when the new colonists arrive. He has established a mission there, but the converts are few. Among those most hostile to Egede is the shaman Aappaluttoq, whose own son was taken by the priest and raised in the Christian faith as his own. Thus the great rift between two men, and two ways of life, is born.The newly arrived couples - men and women plucked from prison - quickly sink into a life of almost complete dissolution, and soon unsanitary conditions, illness and death bring the colony to its knees. Through the starvation and the epidemics that beset the colony, Egede remains steadfast in his determination - willing to sacrifice even those he loves for the sake of his mission.In The Colony of Good Hope, Kim Leine explores what happens when two cultures confront one another. In a distant colony, under the harshest conditions, the overwhelming forces of nature meet the vices of man.- Shop: buecher
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