LighthousekeepingMotherless and anchorless, Silver is taken in by the timeless Mr Pew, keeper of the Cape Wrath lighthouse. Pew tells Silver ancient tales of longing and rootlessness, of ties that bind and of the slippages that occur throughout every life. One life, Babel Dark's, opens like a map that Silver must follow. |
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... Salts had become a hollow town , its life scraped out . It had its rituals and its customs and its past , but nothing left in it was alive . Years ago , Charles Darwin had called it Fossil - Town , but for different reasons . Fossil 18.
... Salts had become a hollow town , its life scraped out . It had its rituals and its customs and its past , but nothing left in it was alive . Years ago , Charles Darwin had called it Fossil - Town , but for different reasons . Fossil 18.
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Jeanette Winterson. Fossil - Town , but for different reasons . Fossil it was , salted and preserved by the sea that had destroyed it too . Pew came near in his boat . His shapeless hat was pulled over his face . His mouth was a slot of ...
Jeanette Winterson. Fossil - Town , but for different reasons . Fossil it was , salted and preserved by the sea that had destroyed it too . Pew came near in his boat . His shapeless hat was pulled over his face . His mouth was a slot of ...
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... fossil evidence to support some of his theories . Opponents of his Origin of Species wanted to know why some species seemed not to have evolved at all . Where was the so- called ' fossil - ladder ' ? ' The Cambrian era is very ...
... fossil evidence to support some of his theories . Opponents of his Origin of Species wanted to know why some species seemed not to have evolved at all . Where was the so- called ' fossil - ladder ' ? ' The Cambrian era is very ...
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asked Babel Dark began beginning believe better bird boat body born breathing Bristol called Cape Wrath child cliff close clothes cold coming door dress edge everything eyes face father feel feet felt fingers fire follow glass gone hands happened head heard heart holding inside Josiah keep kind knew leave light lighthouse live looked lost married mean Miss Pinch Molly moon morning mother move never night once opened past perhaps pulled remembered rock round sailing Salts seahorse seemed seen ship side Silver sleep someone Stevenson stood story sure talking tell There's thing thought told took town trying turned waiting walk wanted watched waves whole wife window woman wonder
References to this book
The SAGE Handbook of Gender and Education Christine Skelton,Becky Francis,Lisa Smulyan Snippet view - 2006 |