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By: Brian Keenan

ISBN: 9780552999731
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2005
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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Brian Keenan's fascination with Alaska began as a small boy. With a head full of questions about its landscape and a heart informed by his love of desolate and barren places, he sets out for Alaska, to discover its four geographical quarters, from snowmelt to snowfall. He ultimately finds that to make Alaska a home, one must surrender to the land.


(Paperback)

By: Brian Keenan

ISBN: 9780099428152
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2010
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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an ordinary boy who would go on to become world-famous as a hostage in Beirut and author of the extraordinary testimony of imprisonment and survival that was An Evil Cradling. a boy puzzled by religion and sectarianism, in love with books and music and full of curiosity about the world outside.


(Paperback)

By: Brian Keenan

ISBN: 9780099990307
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jun 1993
UK Publication Date: 15th April 1993
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Brian Keenan went to Beirut in 1985 for a change of scene from his native Belfast. He became headline news when he was kidnapped by fundamentalist Shi'ite militiamen and held in the suburbs of Beirut for the next four and a half years.


(Paperback)

By: Brian Keenan

ISBN: 9780552145954
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2000
UK Publication Date: 1st September 2000
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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For four years, Brian Keenan and John McCarthy were incarcerated in a Lebanese dungeon. Five years after their release, they chose to travel together again to see how the reality of Chile matched their imagination and to revisit their past experiences.


(Paperback)

By: Brian Keenan

ISBN: 9781847972996
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2012
Publisher: The Crowood Press Ltd
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Canaries have been domesticated since the fifteenth century, when the Spanish first imported them from their Canary Isles home, attracted by their melodic song. Since then their popularity as a caged bird has spread throughout the world. This book introduces several of the different types of canary that are popular.