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Compass to Vinland

Author : Dani Resh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781954614505
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (145 download)

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Download or read book Compass to Vinland written by Dani Resh and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wren Larkin has a lot of things working against him-too tall, too thin, and living in a house that looks like an old boot. His only friends are a group of noisy crows that are always bringing him random trinkets. Needless to say, he's not the most popular kid in town. But things change when a girl named Maria moves to town and instantly befriends Wren. She continues to do the unexpected when she defends Rusty, the resident bad boy, who might not be as rebellious as Wren thought. Wren learns that it isn't just coincidence that brought the three of them together when he discovers a shoe workshop under the heel of his house that's holding-or hiding--three pairs of magical shoes intended for each of them. When strangers arrive on Wren's doorstep looking for the shoes, Wren and his new companions have no choice but to flee to Underfoot, an underground settlement full of magical creatures. In just a matter of days, Wren is immersed into a whole new reality that'll take him on an incredible journey and reveal a lineage that might be better left secret.

Compass to Vinland

Author : Dani Resh
Publisher : Warren Publishing, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781954614512
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (145 download)

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Download or read book Compass to Vinland written by Dani Resh and published by Warren Publishing, Incorporated. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wren Larkin has a lot of things working against him-too tall, too thin, and living in a house that looks like an old boot. His only friends are a group of noisy crows that are always bringing him random trinkets. Needless to say, he's not the most popular kid in town. But things change when a girl named Maria moves to town and instantly befriends Wren. She continues to do the unexpected when she defends Rusty, the resident bad boy, who might not be as rebellious as Wren thought. Wren learns that it isn't just coincidence that brought the three of them together when he discovers a shoe workshop under the heel of his house that's holding-or hiding--three pairs of magical shoes intended for each of them. When strangers arrive on Wren's doorstep looking for the shoes, Wren and his new companions have no choice but to flee to Underfoot, an underground settlement full of magical creatures. In just a matter of days, Wren is immersed into a whole new reality that'll take him on an incredible journey and reveal a lineage that might be better left secret.

Secret Voyages to the New World

Author : Gunnar Thompson
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0557231655
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (572 download)

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Download or read book Secret Voyages to the New World written by Gunnar Thompson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best introduction to multiethnic New World Discovery before Columbus. Nine true adventures featuring Hatshepsut, King Solomon, Xu Fu, Marco Polo, Nicholas of Lynn, Zheng He, Martin Behaim, Amerigo Vespucci, King Arthur, Queen Elizabeth, and Francis Drake. Includes first maize (Indian corn) in Egypt, early maps of America before Columbus, Roman Florida, Albertin di Virga's 1414 map of Peru and North America, ancient artifacts and faces of Old World voyagers in Mexico and Peru, and Francis Drake's amazing "clock map." Excellent coffee-table book; great for adults and young readers. Beautifully illustrated; excellent index and bibliography. A fun read that is also packed with new information about secret voyages, forbidden lands, and enigmas the pros have missed.

Rediscovering Vinland

Author : III Fred N. Brown
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595436803
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (954 download)

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Download or read book Rediscovering Vinland written by III Fred N. Brown and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2007-07 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over 100 years, people have debated where Vinland is located. This book describes what sagas said, where Vikings landed, what interaction they had with Natives, and what legacy they left Indians and early European colonists. Fred Brown uses 33 years of studying Viking accounts of journeys to America, genetic information, archaeological evidence, Old Norse language remnants, and sailing experience to pinpoint yet another Viking incursion in New England. His detective work to find Vinland is brilliant and masterful. "While you and I play golf, Fred Brown spends his off-hours researching our past. After reading about possible areas visited by the Vikings and descriptions of America in Viking legends, in 1976 Fred ventured out by boat using Viking descriptions and archaeological finds in that theorized area. He investigated documents from English settlers in the 1600s about the light-skinned Indians, metal and smelting use by early Indians, odd linguistic similarities to northwestern Europeans, and a peculiar resistance to tuberculosis among Indians, genetically common to Europeans. He concluded, and is not the only researcher to do so, that the Narragansett and Wampanoag Indians of the region encountered by early English settlers were, in fact, descendants of mixed Indian/Viking populations." -Editor, Diane Holloway, Ph.D. .

By Star and Compass

Author : William Stewart Wallace
Publisher : London : H. Milford, Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book By Star and Compass written by William Stewart Wallace and published by London : H. Milford, Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1922 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher : Heinemann-Raintree Library
ISBN 13 : 1432954571
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (329 download)

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Download or read book na written by and published by Heinemann-Raintree Library. This book was released on with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

How the West Won

Author : Rodney Stark
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1684516226
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (845 download)

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Download or read book How the West Won written by Rodney Stark and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-07-11 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finally the Truth about the Rise of the West Modernity developed only in the West—in Europe and North America. Nowhere else did science and democracy arise; nowhere else was slavery outlawed. Only Westerners invented chimneys, musical scores, telescopes, eyeglasses, pianos, electric lights, aspirin, and soap. The question is, Why? Unfortunately, that question has become so politically incorrect that most scholars avoid it. But acclaimed author Rodney Stark provides the answers in this sweeping new look at Western civilization. How the West Won demonstrates the primacy of uniquely Western ideas—among them the belief in free will, the commitment to the pursuit of knowledge, the notion that the universe functions according to rational rules that can be discovered, and the emphasis on human freedom and secure property rights. Taking readers on a thrilling journey from ancient Greece to the present, Stark challenges much of the received wisdom about Western history. Stark also debunks absurd fabrications that have flourished in the past few decades: that the Greeks stole their culture from Africa; that the West’s “discoveries” were copied from the Chinese and Muslims; that Europe became rich by plundering the non-Western world. At the same time, he reveals the woeful inadequacy of recent attempts to attribute the rise of the West to purely material causes—favorable climates, abundant natural resources, guns and steel. How the West Won displays Rodney Stark’s gifts for lively narrative history and making the latest scholarship accessible to all readers. This bold, insightful book will force you to rethink your understanding of the West and the birth of modernity—and to recognize that Western civilization really has set itself apart from other cultures.

Stewart Parker

Author : Marilynn J. Richtarik
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199695032
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book Stewart Parker written by Marilynn J. Richtarik and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2012-09-06 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meticulously researched and engagingly written, this is the first biography of the important Irish playwright Stewart Parker. It illuminates the genesis and meaning of such classic plays as Spokesong and Pentecost - works that continue to shed light on Northern Ireland's past, present, and future - in the context of Parker's life and times.

The Vinland map and the tartar relation

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book The Vinland map and the tartar relation written by and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Vinland Revisited

Author : Shannon Lewis-Simpson
Publisher : St. John's, N.L. : Historic Sites Association of Newfoundland and Labrador
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Vinland Revisited written by Shannon Lewis-Simpson and published by St. John's, N.L. : Historic Sites Association of Newfoundland and Labrador. This book was released on 2003 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Lost Art of Finding Our Way

Author : John Edward Huth
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674074831
Total Pages : 539 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Lost Art of Finding Our Way written by John Edward Huth and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-15 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long before GPS, Google Earth, and global transit, humans traveled vast distances using only environmental clues and simple instruments. John Huth asks what is lost when modern technology substitutes for our innate capacity to find our way. Encyclopedic in breadth, weaving together astronomy, meteorology, oceanography, and ethnography, The Lost Art of Finding Our Way puts us in the shoes, ships, and sleds of early navigators for whom paying close attention to the environment around them was, quite literally, a matter of life and death. Haunted by the fate of two young kayakers lost in a fog bank off Nantucket, Huth shows us how to navigate using natural phenomena—the way the Vikings used the sunstone to detect polarization of sunlight, and Arab traders learned to sail into the wind, and Pacific Islanders used underwater lightning and “read” waves to guide their explorations. Huth reminds us that we are all navigators capable of learning techniques ranging from the simplest to the most sophisticated skills of direction-finding. Even today, careful observation of the sun and moon, tides and ocean currents, weather and atmospheric effects can be all we need to find our way. Lavishly illustrated with nearly 200 specially prepared drawings, Huth’s compelling account of the cultures of navigation will engross readers in a narrative that is part scientific treatise, part personal travelogue, and part vivid re-creation of navigational history. Seeing through the eyes of past voyagers, we bring our own world into sharper view.

Medieval Science, Technology, and Medicine

Author : Thomas F. Glick
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135459398
Total Pages : 632 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (354 download)

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Download or read book Medieval Science, Technology, and Medicine written by Thomas F. Glick and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-27 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medieval Science, Technology, and Medicine details the whole scope of scientific knowledge in the medieval period in more than 300 A to Z entries. This resource discusses the research, application of knowledge, cultural and technology exchanges, experimentation, and achievements in the many disciplines related to science and technology. Coverage includes inventions, discoveries, concepts, places and fields of study, regions, and significant contributors to various fields of science. There are also entries on South-Central and East Asian science. This reference work provides an examination of medieval scientific tradition as well as an appreciation for the relationship between medieval science and the traditions it supplanted and those that replaced it. For a full list of entries, contributors, and more, visit the Routledge Encyclopedias of the Middle Ages website.

Cod

Author : George A. Rose
Publisher : Breakwater Books
ISBN 13 : 9781550812251
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Cod written by George A. Rose and published by Breakwater Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The devastation of many of the greatest North Atlantic cod stocks, particularly those of Newfoundland and Labrador and the Grand Banks, has become an icon for the unsustainable relation between human exploitation and Nature. Here, George Rose tells the full story of that devastation, in scientific detail, for the first time - from the formation of the North Atlantic marine ecosystems to the massive stock declines in the last half of the 20th century. Politics and the fisheries are inextricably entwined. In Cod, Rose recounts the many political influences on the fisheries over several centuries and describes how neglect from the late 1800s onward led to insufficient scientific knowledge and little protection for the stocks when massive Euro-Russian fleets targeted the Grand Banks after World War II, destroying the most prolific fishery the world has known. Cod is no armchair account, but a controversial one that includes original information on the North Atlantic fisheries.

Reading and Mapping Fiction

Author : Sally Bushell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108487459
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Reading and Mapping Fiction written by Sally Bushell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-02 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the power of the map in fiction and its centrality to meaning, from Treasure Island to Winnie-the-Pooh.

The World Encompassed

Author : G. V. Scammell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351014692
Total Pages : 645 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book The World Encompassed written by G. V. Scammell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-03 with total page 645 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this authoritative study, first published in 1981, Geoffrey Scammell traces the course of European expansion between around 800 and 1650, during which time the world known to western Europeans was enlarged in a way unparalleled before or since. The book takes a broad historical perspective, linking the classic age of European expansion to its medieval antecedents. The Norse reached North America in the tenth century, Italian missionaries and traders were established in China in the high Middle Ages, and during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, in some of the greatest voyages ever made under sail, Iberian explorers crossed the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, and established footholds in the Americas, Africa and Asia. This is a stimulating and perceptive study, based on wide-ranging research, which makes an invaluable contribution to our understanding of the influence of empire on both colonial and metropolitan societies.

The Mariner's Mirror

Author : Leonard George Carr Laughton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Mariner's Mirror written by Leonard George Carr Laughton and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Popular Science

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Popular Science written by and published by . This book was released on 1885-05 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular Science gives our readers the information and tools to improve their technology and their world. The core belief that Popular Science and our readers share: The future is going to be better, and science and technology are the driving forces that will help make it better.