Author: Dave Hutchinson
Publisher: Cosmos Books
Keywords: villages
Number of Pages: 300
Published: 2002-10
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 1587153998
ISBN-13: 9781587153990

Fresh out of University, young Tim Ramsay is ready to make his mark in the world. Desperate for work, he agrees to take on the low-paying thankless job of researcher for Lonesome Charley Productions -- an indendant film company putting together the definative historical documentary of Hitler’s Blitz on London during WWII. Before the movie is anywhere near completion, Lonesome Charley’s boss, along with his secretary, disappear without a trace. Poor Tim finds himself holding the bag, with television sponsors, bill collectors, and the police all crawling down his neck for money and

Author: Koentjaraningrat
Publisher: Equinox Publishing
Keywords: indonesia, villages
Number of Pages: 460
Published: 2007-01-31
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 9793780517
ISBN-13: 9789793780511

The wide variety of ethnic groups in Indonesia is reflected in the ethnic diversity among Indonesian villages. Until now, descriptive studies of village life have been virtually nonexistent except in the Dutch language. This collection of comprehensive surveys of thirteen villages in Indonesia provides the first major study of this fundamental level of Indonesian society in the post-colonial period. The studies are based on first-hand field experience by outstanding Indonesian, Dutch, and American scholars. The villages included are representative of the variety of social, political, econom

Author: John Updike
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Keywords: novel, villages
Number of Pages: 321
Published: 2005-09-27
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0345477316
ISBN-13: 9780345477316

John Updike’s twenty-first novel, a bildungsroman, follows its hero, Owen Mackenzie, from his birth in the semi-rural Pennsylvania town of Willow to his retirement in the rather geriatric community of Haskells Crossing, Massachusetts. In between these two settlements comes Middle Falls, Connecticut, where Owen, an early computer programmer, founds with a partner, Ed Mervine, the successful firm of E-O Data, which is housed in an old gun factory on the Chunkaunkabaug River. Owen’s education (Bildung) is not merely technical but liberal, as the humanity of his three villages, especially that

Author: Alice Bullock
Publisher: Sunstone Press
Keywords: villages, mountain
Number of Pages: 120
Published: 1981-02-01
List price: $8.95
ISBN-10: 091327013X
ISBN-13: 9780913270134

Alice Bullock says, ’We can’t go back.’ Thomas Wolfe said it and has been quoted ever since. Yet it bears repetition, especially today and in reference to Alice Bullock’s Mountain Villages. Times change and as Bullock laments in this book of memoirs, commentaries and anecdotes, it is too late to do much about it except what she herself has done: write it down. ’We can’t go back ... we can only, hopefully, remember.’ And that is what this book does for all of us who have either lived in a mountain village or dreamed of living in one. This collection of

Author: Jennifer Grainger
Publisher: Natural Heritage Books
Keywords: middlesex, villages, vanished
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2002-07-10
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 1896219519
ISBN-13: 9781896219516

Once home to over 60 flourishing villages, Middlesex County, in the heart of southwestern Ontario, has a rich history just waiting to be discovered. Anthropologist and local history enthusiast Jennifer Grainger has, through extensive research and much personal exploration, produced a valuable document chronicling the "rise and fall" of these pioneering settlements, truly the foundation of all that exist in the area today.Nostalgia buffs, armchair adventurers, genealogists and curious daytrippers alike will welcome the arrival of this timely publication with its many fascinating stories and cou

Author: Leigh Driver
Publisher: New Holland Publishers (UK) Ltd.
Keywords: england, villages, lost
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2009-06-16
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1847732186
ISBN-13: 9781847732187

This book showcases 57 of England’s most fascinating ’lost’ villages, illustrated with full-color, modern day photographs and archive pictures and documents.

Author: Jennifer Grainger
Publisher: Dundurn
Keywords: elgin, villages, vanished
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 2008-06-09
List price: $24.99
ISBN-10: 155002812X
ISBN-13: 9781550028126

Located on the scenic north shore of Lake Erie, Elgin County was once home to over 40 vanished communities - filled with steam trains, ghosts, one-room schoolhouses, rowdy taverns, War of 1812 skirmishes and colourful characters, like Thomas Talbot. Jennifer Grainger chronicles the rise and fall of Elgin’s crossroad hamlets, lakeports and rail depots with contemporary photos, archival shots, and postmarks that remind us of the pioneers.