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Earthbound (Paperback)
Babette Ballinger, Raymond Evans Ballinger
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R625
Discovery Miles 6 250
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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For each of us, there is one event or series of events that shapes
the direction of our lives. For the author, Raymond Evans
Ballinger, that event occurred at age seven when his mother
abandoned her family, leaving two young sons in the care of her
husband. Raymond Evans Ballinger grew up with an obsessive need to
understand what there was about him that had allowed his mother to
leave. His life became a journey of exploration, complicated by his
deep-seated ties to the land and family home, The Homestead where
he was raised. Part memoir, part oral history, Earthbound is a
story of resilience, love, hate, and redemption. Set in the rich
farmland of Western New Jersey beginning in 1914, the story is told
through the voices of three generations which transcends a family
biography to become a social history of our national experience
that gives you a deeper understanding of what America is all about.
Earthbound is a richly detailed portrait of a society in
transition, as small family farms gave way to an increasingly
urbanized lifestyle. Ballinger became an actor, teacher, director,
photographer, horse breeder and more. He married twice and fathered
two sons and a daughter. Ten years before his death in 2005, he
began researching Earthbound, beginning by interviewing members of
his family in a quest to uncover the roots of the man he had
become.
A History of Queensland is the first single volume analysis of
Queensland??'s past, stretching from the time of earliest human
habitation up to the present. It encompasses pre-contact Aboriginal
history, the years of convictism, free settlement and subsequent
urban and rural growth. It takes the reader through the tumultuous
frontier and Federation years, the World Wars, the Cold War, the
controversial Bjelke-Petersen era and on, beyond the beginning of
the new millennium. It reveals Queensland as a sprawling, harsh,
diverse and conflictual place, where the struggles of race,
ethnicity, class, generation and gender have been particularly
pronounced, and political and environmental encounters have
remained intense. It is a colourful, surprising and at times
disturbing saga, a perplexing and diverting mixture of ferocity,
endurance and optimism.
A History of Queensland is the first single volume analysis of
Queensland's past, stretching from the time of earliest human
habitation up to the present. It encompasses pre-contact Aboriginal
history, the years of convictism, free settlement and subsequent
urban and rural growth. It takes the reader through the tumultuous
frontier and Federation years, the World Wars, the Cold War, the
controversial Bjelke-Petersen era and on, beyond the beginning of
the new millennium. It reveals Queensland as a sprawling, harsh,
diverse and conflictual place, where the struggles of race,
ethnicity, class, generation and gender have been particularly
pronounced, and political and environmental encounters have
remained intense. It is a colourful, surprising and at times
disturbing saga, a perplexing and diverting mixture of ferocity,
endurance and optimism.
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