Tagebücher & Memoiren

Uden livserindring bliver vi hjemløse. Jeg skildrer dele af min slægts historie fra 1600-tallet til 2018. Jeg fortæller om oplevelser under rejsen fra bondedreng til akademiker. Jeg skiftede sprog og identitet undervejs fra husmandshjemmet i Vestsalling over stationsbyen Durup i Nordsalling til gymnasiet i Nykøbing Mors og videre til studiet i biologi i København og Lyon. Jeg afslutter denne del med mit begyndende arbejdsliv som gymnasielærer på Nørrebro i København og som højskolelærer på Danebod Højskole på Als. Bogen er skrevet til mine børn, min familie og min slægt. I "Tag lyset med 2" fortæller jeg om livsformen som højskolelærer og seminarielærer 1978-2018.

What's it really like to live on a remote island at the crossroads of the North Atlantic and the North Sea? To run the Last Bookshop in Scotland? To experience the eternal light of a Shetland summer and the deep darkness of winter, the fury of hurricanes in an ancient house a few feet from the ocean? Tom Morton's fascinating, funny, moving and acerbic memoir will take you to a place you may suddenly long to be. Even if it's just to browse the books. In Shetland. On the edge of the world...

Hardback sleek matte finish cover, lime green with bird/nature theme. Page size: 8.5" x 8.5" (216mm x 216 mm). 96 lined white pages. Welcome page with space to add your personalized message Left page: Name Right page: ThoughtsAn eye catching guest book for any occasion with a simple layout for your guests to write their name and thoughts.Celebrate your life and create memories of those special events!As a guest book for vacation homes there's plenty of space for your visitors to write their thoughts and comments and leave you valuable testimonials.It's also great as a simple house guest book - writing in the guest comment book is a fun way for friends & family to show their appreciation and express their thanks to the hosts!Use for: Events & Functions Visitors Book Party Guest Book House Guest Book Vacation home guest book Beach House Guest BookSee "Angelis Publications" to view the whole range of guest books.

In 2012, while others his age were enjoying quiet retirement, Ron Fellowes set off on the challenge of a lifetime. His dream to ride a 102 year-old FN motorcycle across the world - to the Belgian factory where the bike originated - had all the hallmarks of an epic adventure: one that was never going to be easy. For eight months Ron rode 14,600 kilometres through 15 countries under grueling conditions, into some of the world's most hostile territory. He faced desert sandstorms, mountains too steep for the motorcycle's capability, the threat of rockslides and bombings when he took a detour, and pressure from armed police through conflict zones. He was robbed, and when held at gunpoint, Ron came face-to-face with his own mortality. The motorcycle's limited capacity - no gears, inadequate brakes and pedal assisted - made it a daily struggle. Breakdowns were common, and only Ron's ingenuity and single-mindedness, Lynne's logistical support, and the generosity of others kept him going. Beautifully illustrated in full colour throughout, No Room for Watermelons is co-written by Ron and Lynne. It is an engaging, and entertaining account of one man's stoic determination to fulfill his dream. You will be carried along for the ride, and inspired to achieve your own dreams... no matter how impossible they seem.

Tied in to Ken Burns' forthcoming (2017) TV series on Vietnam, to which the author is a major contributor, the reissue of a Pulitzer finalist memoir of a Vietnamese family in the 20th century

Forfatteren til bogen kom ufrivilligt til Danmark fra Polen i oktober 1971, som en statsløs 20-årig pige. Hendes far var en polsk professor i historie og var af jødisk afstamning. Hendes mor var også polsk. Kristina blev døbt katolsk, for hendes far var en tolerant ateist. Hun startede med at læse til læge i Danmark i august 1972, bagefter læste hun til tandlæge og blev uddannet som cand.odont. fra Århus Tandlægehøjskole i 1982. Hun har arbejdet som en selvstændigt praktiserende tandlæge i årene 1984-2012. Siden 2005 har hun været kreativ med at male billeder og lave film. Siden 2009 har hun lavet korte film og fået en pris i Indien. Kristinas polske veninde spurgte hende i 2014 om hun ikke kunne skrive en biografi om hendes liv. Her får du bogen i dine hænder om Zofia, der kom til Danmark i juli 1989, sammen med sin polske kæreste Antoni. I september 1989 blev hun gift med en dansk mand: Johan. Det gjorde hun kun for at få lov at blive i Danmark. Hvis du vil kende lidt til Polens historie, fordybe dig i en uharmonisk polsk, og en dysfunktionel dansk mentalitet, så læs bogen.

A Kyokushin Karate Coming of Age StoryJust another unassuming undergrad? Yes, but this one carries a terrible secret . . . one that's driven him through seven years of hellish karate training and study so that he might learn to bear its weight. Seven years have already taken Nathan Ligo to Japan, where he spent 600 days in the most rigorous, monastic karate program in the world, training under the watchful daily supervision of Masutatsu Oyama, Japan's most famous living karateka. But it's not until he suffers a crushing defeat in Japan, and returns home empty-handed, that he comes to understand that the combination of three treasured sources of his ongoing education just might hold the key to unlocking an awesome truth. The samurai-like do-or-die education he acquired from his karate teachers, the progressive liberal arts education he acquires at North Carolina's Davidson College, and the enlightened, open-eyed, and all-loving character education he received in the first decade of his life from his father: three sometimes violently warring components combine to show Nathan that he just might use the dark secret that he carries to enact a great good for the children of the future . . . that is, IF he's willing to make the necessary sacrifice. "Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat." -Theodore RooseveltThe Only American Student of the Legend Mas Oyama> At the time of Masutatsu Oyama's death in 1994, he was regarded by many as the world's greatest living karateka. His Kyokushin Karate had spread to 133 countries around the world and was reputed to have touched as many as twelve million students. Forty years earlier, the Korean-born "Mas" Oyama had, himself, become a virtual revolution in the world of Japanese karate, in that it was he who introduced stone- and therefore bone-breaking power to the highly stylized traditional forms of karate that had come to exist in Japan. Kyokushin Karate became known for its no-nonsense practicality, its fearsome physical power, and a theretofore unseen degree of spiritual strength conjured through a revival of Japan's do-or-die samurai personality. Once Kyokushin exploded to such incredible proportions, Mas Oyama took on only a very few students that were his own, that he himself guided, day by day, in an attempt to ensure that his teaching would endure. Uchi deshi literally means "live-in disciple;" it is the opposite of the kayoi deshi or "commuting student," who merely visits the dojo regularly for training. Mas Oyama's uchi deshi program was a one-thousand-day monastic karate program for his small group of personal students who lived in the Young Lions' Dormitory, a small building attached to his world headquarters dojo in Tokyo. In 1993, Nathan Ligo become the only American to hold a graduation certificate from this program, given to him by Mas Oyama in recognition of the 600 days he lived in the Young Lions' dormitory.

____________________________A moving celebration of what Bill Hayes calls 'the evanescent, the eavesdropped, the unexpected' of life in New York City, and an intimate glimpse of his relationship with the late Oliver Sacks.____________________________'A beautiful memoir in which Oliver Sacks comes wonderfully to life ... Exquisitely wrought, heartrending and joyous' - Joyce Carol Oates'A loving tribute to Sacks and to New York ... Read just 50 pages, and you'll see easily enough how Hayes is Sacks's logical complement' - Jennifer Senior, New York Times____________________________Bill Hayes came to New York in 2009 with a one-way ticket and only the vaguest idea of how he would get by. But, at forty-eight years old, having spent decades in San Francisco, he craved change. Grieving over the death of his partner, he quickly discovered the profound consolations of the city's incessant rhythms, the sight of the Empire State Building against the night sky, and New Yorkers themselves, kindred souls that Hayes, a lifelong insomniac, encountered on late-night strolls with his camera. And he unexpectedly fell in love again, with his friend and neighbor, the writer and neurologist Oliver Sacks, whose exuberance is captured in funny and touching vignettes throughout. What emerges is a portrait of Sacks at his most personal and endearing, from falling in love for the first time at age seventy-five to facing illness and death (Sacks died of cancer in August 2015). Insomniac City is both a meditation on grief and a celebration of life. Filled with Hayes's distinctive street photos of everyday New Yorkers, the book is a love song to the city and to all who have felt the particular magic and solace it offers.____________________________'A unique and exuberant celebration of life and love' - Kirkus Reviews

Winner of the Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller, this book is about a journey undertaken by the author that begins in the dusty city of Jingdezhen in China and travels on to Venice, Versailles, Dublin, Dresden, the Appalachian Mountains of South Carolina and the hills of Cornwall to tell the history of porcelain.

You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed... In Levels of Life Julian Barnes gives us Nadar, the pioneer balloonist and aerial photographer; then, finally, he gives us the story of his own grief, unflinchingly observed. This is a book of intense honesty and insight;

A poetic meditation on life and death, by one of the most renowned and respected film-makers and intellectuals of our time. It is a remarkable narrative - part pilgrimage, part meditation, and a confrontation between a great German Romantic imagination and the contemporary world.

When commercial air services were launched in 1976, Concorde was hailed as one of the wonders of the technological world. Lavishly illustrated throughout, this edition documents the early difficulties encountered on the way to commercial success as well as examining the tragic event at Gonesse in 2000.

On the afternoon of August 15, 1969, Richie Havens took the stage at the Woodstock Music and Art Fair, welcoming a crowd of several hundred thousand to the green fields of Max Yasgur's farm. Havens was the first act - the legendary festival, years in the making, was finally beginning. This title tells the story from inspiration to celebration.

Together for the first time in one volume: the bestselling Love Letters of Great Men and Love Letters of Great Women

Keith Haring is synonymous with the downtown New York art scene of the 1980's. His artwork - with its simple, bold lines and dynamic figures in motion - filtered in to the world's consciousness. This title features ninety black-and-white images of his classic artwork and Polaroid images.

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"Drengeår og knøsekår" er en fortsættelse af de erindringer, som Jeppe Aakjær begyndte i bogen "Fra min bitte-tid". Den begynder i 1879, da han kun havde et års tid tilbage i skolen og slutter med et højskoleophold på Askov i 1887, som bestemt ikke får en rosende omtale. Blandt bogens hovedpunkter er et ophold på Blaagaard Seminarium 1884-86, hvor han tog en præliminæreksamen, som kostede faderen 1500 kr. Beretningen indeholder mange gode detaljer om datidens københavnerliv, for Aakjær var en interesseret ung mand, der opsøgte begivenhederne. I den forbindelse er der f.eks. fine beskrivelser af Georg Brandes, og hvis vi går i en hel anden retning, får han selv et gevaldigt nakkedrag under en politisk demonstration i 1885. Endnu fyldigere er dog omtalen af Estrups forsøg på at knægte ytringsfriheden ved at fængsle politiske modstandere. Her blev Aakjær således varetægtsfængslet 17 dage under kummerlige forhold i Viborg i 1887, anklaget for at have afholdt et revolutionært foredrag. Og så var forklaringen endda, at foredraget kun havde omhandlet Den franske Revolution i 1789.

"Fra min bitte tid" er Jeppe Aakjærs barndomserindringer, der i detaljer beskriver dagliglivet i 1870erne i en ganske almindelig bondefamilie. Helt konkret foregår det i en landsby syd for Skive, men forholdene var de samme i resten af Danmark. Vi møder børnene, moderen, faderen, tjenestefolkene og aftægtsmanden, den gamle, sure Jeppe. Både de daglige, men også de mere specielle arbejdsopgaver i en af datidens stort set selvforsynende bondefamilier ruller frem som perler på en snor. Desuden er der levende beskrivelser af bygningernes indretning, børneopdragelse, skolegang m.m. Det er kulturhistorie, når det er bedst!

'Et liv som Hee-man' er en hudløst ærlig beretning om en enkelt mands personlige udvikling gennem 50 år. En spændende rejse præget af en utrættelig kamp mod den danske jantelov, mod familiens arv og indimellem sig selv. Det er et karrieremæssigt eventyr, der begynder i 1978 hos det prestigefyldte BMW i England og slutter i 1990 midt i kampen om den mest magtfulde position i Toyota Danmark. Det er også beretningen om det klassiske sprængfelt mellem far og søn, og der er ikke sparet på følelserne, når Lars fortæller om sine succeser og skuffelser og om at lande på benene igen. Tilnavnet Hee-man og analogien til 80ernes tegneseriefigur bliver utilsigtet den røde tråd. Trods status som universets hersker, er der alligevel en ting den virkelige He-man frygter; sin fars manglende respekt.