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GEORGE AND BARBARA PERKINS'S BOOKS
The Machine Stops, Again More Detail
The Machine Stops, Again By George Perkins
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"The Machine Stops, Again" is an updating of E. M. Forster's classic futuristic story, "The Machine Stops," first published in 1909. It carries the story into the 21st century and... More > beyond that into a a future projected far beyond our own time.< Less
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A Season in New South Wales By George Perkins
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In 1989 we visited Australia, where we taught American Literature at the University of Newcastle on a Fulbright Grant. We read Australian literature, and were very much impressed by Australian... More > writers and the picture they gave of their country. We traveled within the country from the coast to the Outback, saw koalas and kangaroos and wombats in the wlld, fossicked for gold, and flew to China, where we also lectured and visited the Summer Palace and the Great Wall during a time of great stress within that country. A later return to Australia showed a country much changed from the one we had first seen, but still a wonderful place.< Less
Cruising the Mediterranean and Atlantic on the Queen Victoria More Detail
Cruising the Mediterranean and Atlantic on the Queen Victoria By George and Barbara Perkins
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A 2011 cruise on the Cunard liner Queen Victoria, with shore excursions in Athens, Volos, Istanbul, Kusadasi, Ephesus, Alexandria, Corfu, Dubrovnik, Trieste, Katakolon, Gibraltar, Madeira, Bermuda,... More > Bahamas. Political unrest in Greece and Egypt, flooding in Egypt and Venice failed to dampen spirits. Excellent on board accommodations, dining, stage and theater presentations.< Less
Writing Clear Prose: Essays and Fiction More Detail
Writing Clear Prose: Essays and Fiction By George Perkins
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A handbook on writing, with instructions intended for students and for self-help with sentence structure, paragraph construction, beginnings and endings, diction, irony, similes, metaphors, levels of... More > usage, parallelism and other elements of good writing,illustrated with examples from writers including Rachel Carson, Ralph Ellison, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, and Herman Melville. Exercises test the reader's understanding and progress.< Less
Around the World on the QE2: Volume 2, New York to Australia More Detail
Around the World on the QE2: Volume 2, New York to Australia By George and Barbara Perkins
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Cruising on the QE2 from New York to Fort Lauderdale, Barbados, Salvador da Bahia, Rio de Janeiro, Montevideo, the Falklands, Cape Horn, Punta Arenas, the Straight of Magellan, Valparaiso, Easter... More > Island, Pitcairn Island. Tahiti, Moorea, Tonga, New Zealand,and Australia.< Less
Around the World on the QE2, Vol 1: China to England More Detail
Around the World on the QE2, Vol 1: China to England By George and Barbara Perkins
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An account of the first half of a journey around the world on on the QE2, the last of the great ocean liners. Much faster than other cruise ships because she had been build originally for fast travel... More > between London and New York, she was converted to a cruise ship when airlines took over that traffic. By the time the authors took their cruises aboard the ship she still retained her speed and luxury but was nearing the end of her useful life.< Less
Cruising from the Baltic to the North Atlantic More Detail
Cruising from the Baltic to the North Atlantic By George and Barbara Perkins
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A cruise on Holland America's Prinsendam, with shore visits to Denmark; Warnemunde and Gustrow, East Germany; Tallin, Estonia; St. Petersburg, Russia; Helsinki, Finland; Stockholm, Sweden; Amsterdam... More > and Vlissingen, the Netherlands; Lorient, France and the Carnac Megoliths; Bordeaux, Le Havre, and Paris, France; La Coruna and Bilbao, Spain, St. Peter Port, Guernsey; Zeebrugge, Belgium and the Chocolate Museum; and various theatrical productions in London. Some of these places were familiar to the authors from earlier visits, but most were not. They found it especially interesting to see the vast changes that had occurred from the time of their visit in 1965 (chronicled in OUR WEDDING JOURNEY, an earlier Lulu Book).< Less
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Our Wedding Journey By George and Barbara Perkins
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In 1965, George and Barbara Perkins were newlyweds living in Rutherford, New Jersey and teaching at Fairleigh Dickinson University. They joined a delegation of professors and students who were going... More > to England to open a new Fairleigh Dickinson University campus at Wroxton Abbey. Buying a car, they toured France and Italy for a while before shipping it home, and then toured England mostly by train and bus. For George, this was a second trip: on the first he had hitch-hiked through England and Scotland and was eager to show Barbara some of the places he had seen. They met old friends at the University of Edinburgh, visited Edinburgh Castle and Falkirk Palace, and prepared the way for their return a year later, when George would teach at Edinburgh and Barbara would continue her Ph.D. research in Medieval Studies at the National Library of Scotland.< Less

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George and Barbara Perkins are authors and editors of THE AMERICAN TRADITION IN LITERATURE, THE READER'S ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN LITERATURE and many other books. See www.georgeperkins.net for details

 

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