Reconstructs the life of the great female poet Hung Tu, who flourished in the eighth centur during one of the  great periods of Chinese literature. The daughter of a Government offical far from the capitol, on the Silk River, she was, most unusually, brought up with her brothers whom she far outshown. Her mother was a talented woman whom her father took from a Blue House and married as his second wife. Falling on evil times, the father sells Hung Tu to the same Blue House from which her mother came, the best on the Silk River and perhaps in China. Hung Tu's poetry and calligraphy bring her great renown and she is appointed offical hostess in his palace by the Governor. Her life becomes affluent and her fame widespread. Her poems are renowned and admired throughout the empire. But her greatest triumph comes with the arrival at the Governor's court of the exiled poet Yuan Chen. There is a tremendous and immediate affinity between the two great  poets and they live together for a considerable time. But in the end disaster strikes and Yuan Chen returns, reinstated and promoted to the Imperial Court. Hard times follow, but through it all Hung Tu retains her dignity and finally dies in her seventies. This is a wonderful reconstruction of one of the great periods of China, turbulent, cruel, yet with a sense of beauty remarkable by any standards and in any age. Many of Hung Tu's poems are quoted and woven by the author into the narrative which makes a far-away age come alive as a rich tapestry.

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Eaton, Evelyn

Littlehampton Book Services Ltd.

The author describes her participation in healings inside a Native American sweat lodge.

I Send a Voice (QUEST BOOKS)

Theosophical Pub. House

The author describes her participation in healings inside a Native American sweat lodge.

Biographies & Memoirs

Quest Books

"The more we meditate on the Medicine Wheel and on the Cosmic Wheel above, relating these to the circles, spheres, and mandalas of other traditions, the deeper our realization grows of the oneness of the many paths leading to the Center." Although Evelyn Eaton walked principally the Native Indian path, this book reflects her belief in the strength and beauty of all religious traditions. This is the personal account of her triumph over cancer through Native American healing rituals. Of white and Native American ancestry, Eaton was a Metis Medicine Woman.

The Shaman and the Medicine Wheel

Religion & Spirituality

New Age & Spirituality

Quietly My Captain Waits is a thrilling novel of two lovers whose fates are sealed by the fateful clash of Empire in early eighteenth-century Acadia. This historical romance is based on the real-life love of two bold residents of New France--the fiery Louise de Freneuse, married and widowed twice, and Pierre de Bonaventure, Captain in the French Navy. Their doomed relationship helps them endure the day-to-day struggles in the besieged frontier settlement of Port Royal. Quietly My Captain Waits sees beyond the cold facts of history into the hearts of Acadian settlers, government officials and Native allies. A Formac Fiction Treasures series title.

Quietly My Captain Waits (Fiction Treasures)

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Formac

When Paul de Morpain, a prisoner-of-war in New England, hears of a plan to send an expedition against the French fortress at Louisbourg, he decides he will do whatever he can to warn the governor. It is 1744 - a dangerous time to attempt a 500-mile journey by sea and on forest trails. Morpain brings San, his new Mi'kmaq bride, to the fortress just before the siege. Taking great risks to try to save the fortress, Morpain falls in love with the governor's daughter and makes no attempt to honour his marriage to San. Amidst the turmoil, he ends up on a pirate ship and must face both the tragedy of the events and his own misdeeds.

Restless are the Sails (Fiction Treasures)

Snowy Earth Comes Gliding

Poetry

Bear Tribes

I Send a Voice/Audio Cassette

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Audio Literature

Here is the haunting story of the great female poet Hung Tu, who flourished in the ninth century during one of the great periods of Chinese literature. The daughter of a Government official far from the capital, on the Silk River, she was, most unusually, brought up with her brothers whom she far outshone. Falling on evil times, her father sells her to the best Blue House on the Silk River. Hung Tu's poetry and calligraphy bring her great renown, and the story traces her rise from Flower-in-the-Mist to Official Hostess at the court of the governors of the Silk City, and her love affair with the poet Yuan Chen. Set against the backdrop of the scholars, poets, officials, and warring factions of ninth century China, this wonderful story reconstructs one of the great periods of China - turbulent, cruel, yet with a sense of beauty remarkable by any standards and in any age. Go Ask the River is a tale not only of historical China, but of the human struggle to discover how to be alive.'Throughout runs the Taoist Philosophy - the Eight Signs of the Golden Flower, the meaning of Tao, the place of women in Oriental society. Hung Tu emerges as a vibrant figure, radiating a sense of beauty, balance, and well-being.' - Montreal Star'The stylized sensuality of the world that Miss Eaton writes about is so clearly defined by the cool simplicity of her language that as we read this tale of ninth-century China we see that it all happened just as she tells it, and her characters are as real to us as though we read about them in the newspapers every day.' - The New Yorker'A many-splendored trip through a rainbow world.' - Publishers Weekly

Go Ask the River

Singing Dragon

I Send a Voice is the gripping, first person account of what happens inside a Native American Sweat Lodge. Evelyn Eaton writes of her determination to become worthy of participating in a Sweat Lodge healing ritual. She undergoes tests and ordeals inside and outside of the Lodge following the spiritual path to learn the shamanic secrets, and eventually daring to ask for a healing Pipe of her own. This classic book remains one of the definitive accounts of the training and work of a Pipe-carrier and provides a unique insight into Native American culture and their most sacred and esoteric rites. It will be essential reading for everyone with an interest in Native American culture, shamanic rituals or holistic healing.

I Send a Voice

United States

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Schoffer

I Send a Voice (QUEST BOOKS)

I Send a Voice (QUEST BOOKS)

The Shaman and the Medicine Wheel

Quietly My Captain Waits (Fiction Treasures)

Restless are the Sails (Fiction Treasures)

Snowy Earth Comes Gliding

I Send a Voice/Audio Cassette

Go Ask the River

I Send a Voice