DescriptionI was born a slave, as was my father before me, but I shall die a free man. Thus begins the poignant story of Samuel Washburn, born a slave in 1850. A young master's cruelty leads to an unforeseen confrontation, which results in Sam and his cousin fleeing the plantation for their lives. They run north to freedom, only to return the South to fight for the greater cause in the Civil War. While still a boy, Sam becomes a regimental drummer with a "colored regiment" and sees action in the Wilderness campaign at Fredericksburg and Petersburg, and in the bloody Battle of the Crater in July 1864. Sam's voice offers a unique and insightful perspective on the carnage of the War Between the States and the toll it took on both young and old, black and white.
DescriptionThe good life abroad just keeps getting better as Chris Stewart, one-time Genesis drummer turned sheepshearer and best-selling writer, returns with a new book on his life in the decidedly oddball region of Las Alpujarras, south of Granada. The Almond Blossom Appreciation Society finds Chris and his family still living on their farm, El Varo - but life there never stands still. You will find yourself laughing out loud as Chris is instructed by his daughter on the way to treat dung beetles, bluffs his way as an art history guide to millionaire Bostonians, collects seeds in North Africa, and joins an Almond Blossom Appreciation Society. And you'll cringe as he tries his hand at office work in an immigrants' advice centre in Granada. In this sequel to Driving over Lemons and A Parrot in a Pepper Tree, Chris Stewart's optimism and zest for life is as infectious as ever.
DescriptionThe good life abroad just keeps getting better and better as Chris Stewart, one-time Genesis drummer turned sheepshearer, turned best-selling writer, returns with a new book on his life in the decidedly oddball region of Las Alpujarras, south of Granada.
DescriptionChris Stewart continues his account of life on a remote Spanish farm in this sequel to his autobiography. He also takes a look back at his previous lives: drumming with Genesis, shearing sheep in Sweden, and heading off to Spain to learn flamenco guitar.
DescriptionAt age 17, Chris Stewart retired as the drummer of Genesis, his schoolboy band, and launched a new career as a sheep shearer and travel writer. This audibook details his idyllic life on a remote mountain farm in Andalucia.
