Amazon.comIt is with primitive urgency and lustrous clarity rising like flickering embers from a fire that Jonathan Elias’s ambitious Prayer Cycle is given voice. Woven together like knotty wool, silk, and fine strands of silvery water, the disparate yet complementary voices of the late Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Alanis Morissette, Yungchen Lhamo, Ofra Haza, the American Boychoir, Salif Keita, and others intertwine in multiple languages with the superb English Chamber Orchestra and Chorus. Prayers of supplication, gratitude, and longing build in layers, one on top of and ‘twixt and ‘tween the other, as movements titled “Mercy,” “Grace,” “Innocence,” “Compassion,” and the like. Remarkably, Elias’s Prayer Cycle eloquently captures the…. Read more
Double size! Imported from England.Imported from England – Original ProductDelicious custard, original flavor.A British favorite!Special Offer: Buy 5 cans and get 6 shipped! 1 can free! Product DescriptionThis is a quick and easy way to make traditional British custard on the hob. You mix 2 tablespoons of powder with some sugar and milk and mix to a paste. Then add 1 pint of nearly boiling milk, and heat gently to the boil. Serve over your favorite pudding Birds Custard Powder Double Size 600g – Buy 5, Get 6…. Read more
Product DescriptionRanked 16 out of 100 on National Geographic Adventure’s list of top 100 adventure books of all time Feeling restless in the world of London’s high-fashion industry, Eric Newby asked an old friend to accompany him on a mountain-climbing expedition in the wild and remote Hindu Kush, in north-eastern Afghanistan. And so they went – although they did stop first for four days of climbing lessons in Wales – becoming the first Englishmen to visit this spectacular region for more than half a century. Newby’s frank and funny account of their expedition to what is still amongst the world’s most isolated areas is one of the classics of travel writing.Amazon.com ReviewFor more than a decade following the end of World War II,…. Read more
ISBN13: 9780143038252Condition: NEWNotes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product Description The astonishing, uplifting story of a real-life Indiana Jones and his humanitarian campaign to use education to combat terrorism in the Taliban’s backyard Anyone who despairs of the individual’s power to change lives has to read the story of Greg Mortenson, a homeless mountaineer who, following a 1993 climb of Pakistan’s treacherous K2, was inspired by a chance encounter with impoverished mountain villagers and promised to build them a school. Over the next decade he built fifty-five schools—especially for girls—that offer a balanced education in one of the most isolated and dangerous regions on earth. As it…. Read more
