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Jack Turner and the Black Knight
Jack Turner longs to live with his dad, a funny and brave army officer who spends his life travelling the world on secret missions. Instead he is "looked after" by his foul tempered uncle, who treats him like a servant.Life is lonely and miserable until an unexpected chain of events lead Jack into a strange virtual reality world where his gaming skills are tested to the limit. **************************************** Whilst I wrote Jack Turner and the Black Knight, it isn't just my story. I am an English teacher at Chipping Norton School and the story is the result of a conversation I had with a small group of boys who were all reluctant readers. Despite trying to enthuse them with the wide ...
Jack Turner
Advenures in the arctic Pharmacist, pastor and Bible translator Part of the popular Trail Blazers series
The Abstract Wild
If anything is endangered in America it is our experience of wild nature—gross contact. There is knowledge only the wild can give us, knowledge specific to it, knowledge specific to the experience of it. These are its gifts to us. How wild is wilderness and how wild are our experiences in it, asks Jack Turner in the pages of The Abstract Wild. His answer: not very wild. National parks and even so-called wilderness areas fall far short of offering the primal, mystic connection possible in wild places. And this is so, Turner avows, because any managed land, never mind what it's called, ceases to be wild. Moreover, what little wildness we have left is fast being destroyed by the very systems ...
August Reckoning
An important story of one man's life, lived with courage and principle.
Spice
In this brilliant, engrossing work, Jack Turner explores an era—from ancient times through the Renaissance—when what we now consider common condiments were valued in gold and blood. Spices made sour medieval wines palatable, camouflaged the smell of corpses, and served as wedding night aphrodisiacs. Indispensible for cooking, medicine, worship, and the arts of love, they were thought to have magical properties and were so valuable that they were often kept under lock and key. For some, spices represented Paradise, for others, the road to perdition, but they were potent symbols of wealth and power, and the wish to possess them drove explorers to circumnavigate the globe—and even to savagery. Following spices across continents and through literature and mythology, Spice is a beguiling narrative about the surprisingly vast influence spices have had on human desire. Includes eight pages of color photographs. One of the Best Books of the Year: Discover Magazine, The Christian Science Monitor, San Francisco Chronicle
Awakening to Race
The election of America’s first black president has led many to believe that race is no longer a real obstacle to success and that remaining racial inequality stems largely from the failure of minority groups to take personal responsibility for seeking out opportunities. Often this argument is made in the name of the long tradition of self-reliance and American individualism. In Awakening to Race, Jack Turner upends this view, arguing that it expresses not a deep commitment to the values of individualism, but a narrow understanding of them. Drawing on the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Frederick Douglass, Ralph Ellison, and James Baldwin, Turner offers an original recon...
Sins of the Past
Jack Turner's world has changed. He is a highly respected member of the House of Lords. But with change has come tragedy and heartbreak. Someone is stalking Jack and he has had enough. He wants justice. Not through the law courts, but retribution on his terms. What he wants is revenge for the killing of his fiancé. Searching the London underworld for the suspects leads to a kidnapping in Scotland. Helped by his friend, Mel Doyle they chase the men responsible. But there is someone looking for his own revenge for the collateral damage caused on a mission in Jack and Doyle's past.
Arctic Mission
Turner, Jack, 1905-1947.
