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Ian's Place
David Brandon, a writer and artist living in New York City, seeks the solace and potential inspiration of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado. During a brief stop in Tennessee he is drawn to a boarded up mansion known locally as "Ian's Place." Quickly changing his plans, David decides to rent the home for his studio. While moving in, he is soon immersed in the mysteries and history of the house. He experiences the first of several encounters with previous owners of Ian's Place. Current reality and history begin to merge as the secrets of Ian's Place are revealed. Without warning to do so, David is drawn into the mysteries of the home, the area, and Scottish history. The only part of his life not...
A Sow's Ear
"Ian Fraser's life is an extraordinary one by anystandard. Here is a man who sprang into the world in West Africa and landed in Indianapolis by way of Jamaica, Scotland and England. At every stage of his long and well-lived life, hehas met with colorful events, cultivated relationships with fascinating people and made generous contributions to hiscommunity and world." --from the Preface by Ryan MesserFor the thousands who have heard Ian Fraser speak on art and listened to the amusing anecdotes of his life, this memoir will be a genuine treat. Reflecting that which is the stuff of legend in its author, the book fairly pulses with energy. Ian Fraser's stories of his eight decades of life in the world of art, travel, love and friendship make edifying and fascinating reading.
The Untold Story of the Talking Book
Afterword: Speed Listening -- Notes -- Credits -- Acknowledgments -- Index
Heavy Metal Music in Britain
Heavy metal has developed from a British fringe genre of rock music in the late 1960s to a global mass market consumer good in the early twenty-first century. Early proponents of the musical style, such as Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Judas Priest, Saxon, Uriah Heep and Iron Maiden, were mostly seeking to reach a young male audience. Songs were often filled with violent, sexist and nationalistic themes but were also speaking to the growing sense of deterioration in social and professional life. At the same time, however, heavy metal was seriously indebted to the legacies of blues and classical music as well as to larger literary and cultural themes. The genre also produced mythological concep...
A Surgeon's Century
Ulster has produced an impressive number of surgeons who have gained world-wide renown. None has been more celebrated, or more deserving of a biography than Sir Ian Fraser whose life spanned almost the whole of the 20th century. Following a brillant university career, Fraser's training occupied most of the inter-war years. As with most innovatory surgeons, his career really flourished in war-time conditions. During the Second World War, he was at the forefront of the early field trials of a drug that would benefit the whole of mankind - penecillin - first, in the crucial allied victory in North Africa and then in Italy. For the courage and skill he consistently showed during during these cam...
