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Now available as both a printed large format paperback and an ebook this is an updated and expanded edition of the pioneering guide to India by David Stuart Ryan which proved an eye-opener for many people about the tourist potential of India. Over 100 color photographs and 30 highly detailed chapters give you a unique taste of the Indian experience in all its endless variety. For both short term visitors and longer stay tourists there is all the information you need to stay safe and enjoy your stay in what is the most fascinating country on earth, a future powerhouse of financial growth and scientific discovery, and a repository of much of the ancient world's wisdom. Now this wisdom is being made available to the world at large, what was previously heavily guarded can now be made known.
- the land of Australia and islands of Fiji Award-winning poet David Stuart Ryan takes you into the very heart of the Australian land and its presences in a vivid journey that includes over 100 original illustrations. Drawing on his Australian roots - his mother, grandmother and great grandmother were all Australian - the poet produces some new insights into the very nature of the land and its history. Illustrations of the native animals as well as its peoples bring this poetic journey alive and challenging in its depictions of the continent. The vast empty spaces, the pure colours, the ever present sun, are all here in surprising combinations hinting at a land altogether different from the ...
Home is about the return to roots and how this can both energize and also cause a re-evaluation of what has formed us. Over 100 original illustrations in full color accompany the poems, so that a word and picture combination helps to convey more fully the underlying truth and emotion that the poems contains. An award winning poet, including The All Nations Poetry Contest, run by Triton College, Illinois, David Stuart Ryan also explores America and its potentials in this volume, the very roots of America are contained within the poems. This is a journey that probes into the bedrock from which we grow our lives, it forms our values, it calls us back every now and again to return to the fundamentals, to correct our errors and allow us to resume our growth.
A novel by David Stuart Ryan. Now available as an ebook (0 905116 05 4) A couple set out to look for Shangri-La and become immersed in the mysteries of the East. 'A well-written thoroughly enjoyable book evoking the romance and adventure of this last frontier. The overland trek is particularly well handled as you would expect from a seasoned round the world traveller.' Printer's Pie review.
The story of Marlene Dietrich's life is the story of the 20th century. Author David Stuart Ryan who wrote the bestselling biography 'John Lennon's Secret' explores the amazing and circuitous route that took her to Hollywood and riches. But to understand the essential Marlene it is necessary to go right back in time to the era of La Belle Epoque when a very feudal and settled order still existed in Europe. 'The Blue Angel' transports you to a glittering world that is all about to disappear in the maelstrom of world war. What emerges from the conflict is a feverish gaiety that seeks to put behind it all the suffering that has taken place. You are entering the Jazz Age and a Berlin that having ...
It has been a long time in the making but now the illustrated poems of David Stuart Ryan are being made available, just as they were created on a year long overland journey to India and then return to London.The poems and original illustrations in vivid entrancing colours reveal the full magic and mystery of the East as you join the poet on his travels to Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nepal, Kashmir,Varanasi, Bihar, Mumbai and Goa in India.The 120 pictures in the book bring the poemsunforgettably alive as you visit the strange and mysterious places the poet selects to set down in the book which accompanies him, and which is faithfully reproduced now using the latest computer technologies.'The Sphere of the Moon Goddess' is your introduction to 'The Seven Worlds' that this US prize-winning poet reveals in the course of his travels.'The Sphere of the Moon Goddess' begins a journey that will take you into the mysteries of life, not least from the influences of India which permeate this first book in 'The Seven Worlds'.Extraordinary discoveries await you.
Poet David Stuart Ryan describes his round the world journey in poems and pictures.More than 100 original color pictures bring the journey unforgettably alive as you join the poet on an epic adventure that takes in more than a dozen countries, and the searing encounters on the way.The sheer vividness of the East comes across in these scintillating picture and word poetic insights into its different ethos, traditions, landscape, culture, religion and philosophy.Above all, the haunting beauty of the Earth in all its variety: deserts, mountains, seas and jungles, comes across in picture after picture as you join the poet on his quest.From the Himalayan mountains to the jungles of Malaysia, the ...
Becoming an author is a prestigious accomplishment. It has many advantages. It demonstrates your vast knowledge in a domain and establishes you as a thought leader. The New York Times quotes a research, which states that over 81% of people polled wanted to author a book. However, the reality is different. The majority of us never realize this dream. This book offers perfect solutions, tips and techniques to help you get your book out. It contains a comprehensive compendium of advice from authors who have won prestigious literary awards such as the Nobel Prize for Literature, Man Booker Prize and the Pulitzer Prize and have cumulatively sold multiple millions of copies. The goal of this book is to help you realize your long-term dream to write and publish a book.
Updated and revised for the sixth edition, this guide is packed with information on immigration, employment and living conditions, as well as useful names and addresses, including websites.
Announcing the publication of what will come to be seen as the definitive portrayal of the amazing year that was 1967, ‘the summer of love’ 1967 ISBN-13:978-1492226918 Available as an ebook and printed book '1967' plots the course of a momentous year. The year when pop turned into progressive rock and masterpieces from The Beatles and The Rolling Stones provided the soundtrack to what were revolutionary times. The novel by David Stuart Ryan, author of the bestselling 'John Lennon's Secret’, describes the events as they happen month by month, through the non-stop kaleidoscope of the life of Paul Dane, an advertising copywriter, and his circle of friends. If you thought the world of ‘M...