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    Nowhere to Run

    By Michael Crowley

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    What’s a fair punishment for stealing a watch?
    It’s 1788 and Jacob Jones has been sentences to seven year’s labour in Australia. The work is hot, hard and dangerous.
    Will Jacob find a way to escape? Or is there nowhere to run?
    This book is particularly suitable for adults who want to improve their reading skills. It includes ‘What do you think?’ questions at the end of each chapter.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSPCK
    Release dateOct 20, 2016
    ISBN9781908713193
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    Nowhere to Run
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    Michael Crowley

    Michael Crowley was born Feb. 26th, 1948 (100th anniversary of The Communist Manifesto) in Cardiff, Wales. He began studying Buddhism with a Tibetan lama in 1966, becoming an upasaka of the Kagyud lineage in 1970. In order to augment his Buddhist studies, he acquainted himself with Sanskrit, Tibetan, and Mandarin Chinese. Mike has lectured at the Museum of Asia and the Pacific, Warsaw, the Jagellonian University, Cracow, The California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, and at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His work has been published in Fortean Times, Time and Mind: The Journal of Archaeology, Consciousness, and Culture, Psychedelic American, and Psychedelic Press UK. In January 2016, Mike received the R. Gordon Wasson Award for outstanding contributions to the field of entheobotany. He currently serves on the advisory board of The Psychedelic Sangha, a group of psychedelically-inclined Buddhists, based in New York. He is based in Northern California.

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