A story of an eight-year voyage and a mission to save souls - led by a Yorkshireman, George Bennet, and a vicar from the Isle of Wight, Daniel Tyerman - who set off in 1821 on a whaler bound for Tahiti.

On the Missionary Trail

HINEY, Tom

Biographies & Memoirs

Vintage

Physical description; xi, 266 p. ; 25 cm. Notes; Includes index. Summary; "I don't know why the hell I write so many letters", Raymond Chandler once wrote, in a letter. "I guess my mind is just too active for its own good!" It was also, as Tom Hiney points out in this new selection from Chandler's correspondence, a result of his peripatetic existence, his intense reclusivity, and his insomniac efforts to keep the night at bay. Writing and dictating long into the early hours, Chandler crafted his letters with a natural ease and an acute eye for people and places around him. His obervations on Hollywood and southern Californian life are perhaps unsurpassed by anyone, and his comments on the craft of writing and on fiction generally offer a fascinating insight into his own unique and innovative style. This anthology also features the best of Chandler's journalism and poetry, some of it never published before, including a lost interview, held in a Naples hotel in 1947, with the American gangster Lucky Luciano, and Chandler's classic and blistering account of attending the 1948 Oscar ceremonies. "The Chandler Papers" is both an ideal companion to Chandler's work and an intriguing account of the man himself. These are the definitive chronicles of a famous writer and a uniquely fascinating man: Hiney's biographical commentary through the course of the papers illuminates them against the times, places and twists of the strange life of Raymond Chandler. Subjects; Chandler, Raymond (1888-1959) - Correspondence. Authors, American - 20th century - Correspondence. Detective and mystery stories - Authorship. Novelists, American - 20th century - Biography. Essays, journals, letters & other prose works. Literary Collections / Letters. Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs. Chandler, Raymond.

The Raymond Chandler Papers : Selected Letters and Non-Fiction, 1909-1959

Literature & Fiction

Essays & Correspondence

No Imprint

History

Atlantic Press

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year, Raymond Chandler is an uncensored look at the tortured man who wrote the classic mystery novels The Big Sleep and The Long Goodbye. Using recently uncovered archival materials including personal papers and correspondence, biographer Thomas Hiney vividly evokes Chandler's early years in Nebraska, his education in England and on the corrupt streets of Los Angeles, and his later years as a novelist and screenwriter in the heyday of the Hollywood studio system. Along the way, he provides illuminating insights into the writer's inspirations and work - as well as accounts of Chandler's battles with alcohol addiction and his friendships with Howard Hawks, "Lucky" Luciano, S. J. Perelman, and Alfred Hitchcock. This book is also the first to fully detail the significance and complexities of his thirty-year marriage to Cissy, a woman seventeen years his senior. Raymond Chandler is personal portrait of an author as extraordinary as the fiction he created - a body of work that has sold more than five million copies, been translated into twenty-five languages, and inspired countless imitators. "A discerning portrait of the creator of Philip Marlowe, the archetypal American private eye." - Newsweek

Raymond Chandler

Humor & Entertainment

GROVE PRESS

Following the industrial revolution of the late eighteenth century, Christians in the West began concerted efforts to spread their faith across the globe. On the Missionary Trail is the story of two men sent to places as far-flung as the Kalahari, Tahiti, and Canton to track the spread of Christianity. For eight years, George Tyerman and Daniel Bennet braved storms, pirates, tigers, and powerful but intractable local leaders to chart the success of the London Missionary Society's thirty-year endeavor. A remarkable account of faith and bravery, On the Missionary Trail is a unique addition to the literature of the missionary encounter.

On the Missionary Trail: A Journey through Polynesia, Asia, and Africa with the London Missionary Society

World

Drawing on never-before-seen personal papers and previously unrecorded remembrances of Chandler, a biographer portrays a man who was writer, oil executive, poet, recluse, charmer, gentleman, and alcoholic

Raymond Chandler: A Biography

Arts & Literature

Atlantic Monthly Pr

The true story of two men sent by the London Missionary Society to check up on its worldwide network of missionaries chronicles adventures with storms, pirates, and tigers, as well as tricky negotiations with kings and world leaders as the pair trekked around the globe on their own mission.

On the Missionary Trail: A Journey Through Polynesia, Asia, and Africa With the London Missionary Society

RAYMOND CHANDLER. A Biography

Atlantic Monthly Press

The Truth is bigger than we are, and if it comes for us, everything might break open. "It falls from heaven," writes Tom Hiney. "It can fall at four in the morning when you are cold with insomnia, and it can refuse to fall when advertised. It has a life of its own, and sometimes appears with a special intensity." God calls, whether we are ready or not. The Song of Ascents tells the stories of lives laid bare by love, stories that, over the years, gradually spurred acclaimed English biographer Tom Hiney up the ragged mountain of his own conversion to Roman Catholicism."These stories," he says, "are about people turning to God in horrible moments, with faltering human hearts like mine, and finding Him to be faithful." Written in lean, vigorous prose, the book is a visceral study of faith, in which the holiness of other men and women leads the writer to realize that, despite everything, anything is possible with God, even joy. A medieval king awaiting a Viking invasion (King Alfred), a Jesuit evangelist at the court of Akbar (Father Monserrate), a West African prince in 1890s Indiana (Samuel Morris), and a composer in Communist Poland (Henryk Górecki), as well as a trapped Arctic whaling vessel (the Diana), a lost explorer (David Livingstone), a disobedient general (Charles Gordon), and an aging war hero (the author's own father)--all these become unlikely companions in Hiney's messy, fumbling journey to Christ. The Song of Ascents is about coming to faith through stories, including the humanly incredible storytelling of the Church's unique, heavenly, and inevitable destiny.

The Song of Ascents: Lives of Rage and Stillness

Leaders & Notable People

Ignatius Press

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On the Missionary Trail

The Raymond Chandler Papers : Selected Letters and Non-Fiction, 1909-1959

On the Missionary Trail

Raymond Chandler

On the Missionary Trail: A Journey through Polynesia, Asia, and Africa with the London Missionary Society

Raymond Chandler: A Biography

On the Missionary Trail: A Journey Through Polynesia, Asia, and Africa With the London Missionary Society

RAYMOND CHANDLER. A Biography

The Song of Ascents: Lives of Rage and Stillness