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Book Synopsis Difficult & Dangerous Roads by : Hugh Clapperton
Download or read book Difficult & Dangerous Roads written by Hugh Clapperton and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hugh Clapperton was one of the first British explorers to enter the central Sahara, but his journals have never been published before. Recently discovered in South Africa, they show him to be one of the most sensitive and sympathetic travellers, his observations untainted by any sense of moral superiority. Hugh Clapperton has a sharp eye for detail, be it wind-stiller magicians, the effect of the evil eye or slave skeletons clustered around well heads. He hears musicians in jackal-headed masks and bagpipes in a wedding procession. He has a gift for friendship, feasting locals, offering himself to women and delighting in the company of both dignified tribal sheikhs and fearsome renegades like Mustapha the Red.
Book Synopsis Hannibal the Carthaginian by : Jacob Abbott
Download or read book Hannibal the Carthaginian written by Jacob Abbott and published by BookRix. This book was released on 2019-06-15 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hannibal was a Punic Carthaginian military commander, generally considered one of the greatest military commanders in history. His father, Hamilcar Barca, was the leading Carthaginian commander during the First Punic War, his younger brothers were Mago and Hasdrubal, and he was brother-in-law to Hasdrubal the Fair. Hannibal lived during a period of great tension in the Mediterranean, when the Roman Republic established its supremacy over other great powers such as Carthage, the Hellenistic kingdoms of Macedon, Syracuse, and the Seleucid empire. One of his most famous achievements was at the outbreak of the Second Punic War, when he marched an army, which included war elephants, from Iberia over the Pyrenees and the Alps into northern Italy. In his first few years in Italy, he won three dramatic victories—Trebia, Trasimene, and Cannae, in which he distinguished himself for his ability to determine his and his opponent's strengths and weaknesses, and to play the battle to his strengths and the enemy's weaknesses—and won over many allies of Rome. Hannibal occupied much of Italy for 15 years, but a Roman counter-invasion of North Africa forced him to return to Carthage, where he was decisively defeated by Scipio Africanus at the Battle of Zama. Scipio had studied Hannibal's tactics and brilliantly devised some of his own, and finally defeated Rome's nemesis at Zama, having previously driven Hasdrubal, Hannibal's brother, out of the Iberian Peninsula. Often regarded as one of the greatest military strategists in history, Hannibal would later be considered one of the greatest generals of antiquity, together with Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Scipio, and Pyrrhus of Epirus. Plutarch states that, when questioned by Scipio as to who was the greatest general, Hannibal is said to have replied either Alexander or Pyrrhus, then himself, or, according to another version of the event, Pyrrhus, Scipio, then himself. Military historian Theodore Ayrault Dodge once famously called Hannibal the "father of strategy", because his greatest enemy, Rome, came to adopt elements of his military tactics in its own strategic arsenal. This praise has earned him a strong reputation in the modern world, and he was regarded as a great strategist by men like Napoleon Bonaparte.
Download or read book Hannibal written by Jacob Abbott and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2019-09-25 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Hannibal by Jacob Abbott
Book Synopsis Parliamentary Papers by : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Download or read book Parliamentary Papers written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Eminent Charlotteans by : Scott Syfert
Download or read book Eminent Charlotteans written by Scott Syfert and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-03-26 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by the 2010 "Spirit of Mecklenburg"--a bronze statue of Captain James Jack, "the South's Paul Revere," in downtown Charlotte, North Carolina--this history details the lives of 12 Charlotteans who made important contributions to the Queen City, from the early Colonial period to the 20th century. Subjects include Catawba Indian chief King Haigler, Founding Father Thomas Polk, freed slave Ishmael Titus, African American celebrity barber Thad Tate and North Carolina's first woman physician, Annie Alexander.
Book Synopsis A Dangerous Road by : Olivia Lambragno
Download or read book A Dangerous Road written by Olivia Lambragno and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-10 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ricky is a happy Latin dog who living is Seattle WA., who's problems start when immigration agents determine to catch all the illegal animals in the area, then he needs to run... As he travels the road to freedom, he must overcome many obstacles including a big snowstorm. Will Ricky be able to save himself and his new friends? Share with Ricky this dangerous adventure and find out how difficult it can be to grow up a foreign country, only to discover you have no legal rights!
Book Synopsis A Clouded Leopard in the Middle of the Road by : Darryl Jones
Download or read book A Clouded Leopard in the Middle of the Road written by Darryl Jones and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2022-05-15 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Clouded Leopard in the Middle of the Road is an eye-opening introduction to the ecological impacts of roads. Drawing on over ten years of active engagement in the field of road ecology, Darryl Jones sheds light on the challenges roads pose to wildlife—and the solutions taken to address them. One of the most ubiquitous indicators of human activity, roads typically promise development and prosperity. Yet they carry with them the threat of disruption to both human and animal lives. Jones surveys the myriad, innovative ways stakeholders across the world have sought to reduce animal-vehicle collisions and minimize road-crossing risks for wildlife, including efforts undertaken at the famed fauna overpasses of Banff National Park, the Singapore Eco-Link, "tunnels of love" in the Australian Alps, and others. Along the way, he acquaints readers with concepts and research in road ecology, describing the field's origins and future directions. Engaging and accessible, A Clouded Leopard in the Middle of the Road brings to the foreground an often-overlooked facet of humanity's footprint on earth.
Book Synopsis Manual of the Province of Uva by : Herbert White
Download or read book Manual of the Province of Uva written by Herbert White and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Survival Driving by : Robert H. Deatherage, Jr.
Download or read book Survival Driving written by Robert H. Deatherage, Jr. and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2021-08-24 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Survival Driving: Staying Alive on the World’s Most Dangerous Roads, Second Edition was written to inform and protect: to keep people alive by making them more situationally aware. Any person is a potential target, either from a criminal or a terrorist threat, depending on your profession and the type of environment you live and work in. Driving is the most important part of a person’s security program, whether the person is traveling alone or the executive being moved by his or her security detail. The book is written in plain, easy to understand language providing straight-forward guidance that outlines tools to ensure security whenever in transit in a vehicle. This includes making themselves a hard target in order to avoid attack. While most terrorist or criminal attacks are difficult to predict, the majority of attacks take place when a person is in transit. By providing tools such as rout analysis, identifying choke points, learning where safe havens are located along a route, individuals are able to predict the places that are most vulnerable, and take steps to ensure safety. VIPs, executives, those working in—or traveling to—volatile regions of the world, and those hired to protect such individuals will equally learn how to detect surveillance when it is targeted against them, when they are the potential target. Failing this, the book also provides the tools a person needs to break contact and escape when an attack against them while moving in their vehicle occurs. The book covers basic and advanced driving skills and instructs on how to best understand the transport vehicle and its capabilities. Key Features: Instructs readers on how to recognize and anticipate potential attack sites during movement Illustrates how to properly maintain a vehicle at peak performance in different environments so it will work as required when needed Describes vehicle dynamics and, specifically, how a vehicle can be used as a tool to protect, and aid escape, when under attack Outlines the ways individuals can become more situationally aware in their movements Maps out key security driving elements such as steering, braking, vehicle dynamics, and evasive maneuvers to escape amidst a threat By raising situational awareness, increasing knowledge of the attack cycle, and outlining the nature of threats, Survival Driving can transform any reader from a soft target to an informed hard target who threat actors will want to avoid.
Book Synopsis The Trans-Saharan Slave Trade by : John Wright
Download or read book The Trans-Saharan Slave Trade written by John Wright and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-04-03 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compelling text sheds light on the important but under studied trans-Saharan slave trade. The author uncovers and surveys this, the least-noticed of the slave trades out of Africa, which from the seventh to the twentieth centuries quielty delievered almost as many black Africans into foreign servitude as did the far busier, but much briefer Atlantic and East African trades. Illuminating for the first time a significant, but ignored subject, the book supports and widens current scholarly examination of Africans' essential role in the enslavement of fellow-Africans and their delivery to internal, Atlantic or trans-Saharan markets.
Download or read book Translations on North Vietnam written by and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Development and Faith by : Katherine Marshall
Download or read book Development and Faith written by Katherine Marshall and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2007 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher's description: The faith and development nexus is both a promising new focus for secular development agencies and a historic reality: for centuries, world faiths and individuals inspired by their faith have played many roles in social change and social welfare. Secular development agencies have largely operated in parallel to the world of faith-motivated development. The World Bank began in the late 1990s to explore ways in which faith and development are connected. The issue was not and is not about religion, but about the recognition that some of &… Show Morethe best experts on development are faith leaders living and working in poor communities, where strong ties and moral authority give them unique experience and insight. The World Bank's goal is to act as a catalyst and convenor, bringing together development practitioners to find common ground, understand one another's efforts, and explore differences. Development and Faith explores and highlights promising partnerships in the world between secular and faith development entities. It recounts the evolving history of relationships between faith and secular development institutions. It focuses on the Millennium Development Goals as a common framework for action and an opportunity for new forms of collaboration and partnership.
Book Synopsis God's Wolf: The Life of the Most Notorious of all Crusaders, Scourge of Saladin by : Jeffrey Lee
Download or read book God's Wolf: The Life of the Most Notorious of all Crusaders, Scourge of Saladin written by Jeffrey Lee and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2017-08-08 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[Jeffrey Lee] brings a blockbuster sensibility to this slice of the 12th century Levant.”—Dan Jones, Sunday Times (UK) In a 2010 terrorist plot, Al-Qaeda hid a bomb in a FedEx shipment addressed to a man who had been dead for 800 years. Born in twelfth-century France and bred for violence, Reynald de Chatillon was a young knight who joined the Second Crusade and rose through the ranks to become the preeminent figure in the crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem, chief foe of the Muslim leader Saladin, and one of the most reviled characters in Islamic history. In the West, Reynald has long been considered a minor player in the crusading saga, and is often dismissed as a bloodthirsty maniac who brought disaster on his fellow crusaders. However, by using contemporary documents and original research, Jeffrey Lee overturns this popular perception and questions other prejudices about the crusades that underlie modern misunderstandings of the Middle East. God’s Wolf shows how the crusader kingdom was brought down by a treacherous internal faction, rather than by Reynald’s belligerence. In fact, despite Reynald’s brutality, Lee argues that he was a strong military leader and an effective statesman, whose actions in the Middle East had a far-reaching impact that endures to this day. An epic saga set in the midst of a violent clash of civilizations, God’s Wolf is the fascinating story of an exceptional crusader and a provocative reinterpretation of the crusading era.
Download or read book American Rail-road Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Southern Tibet by : Sven Anders Hedin
Download or read book Southern Tibet written by Sven Anders Hedin and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis History of Hannibal the Carthaginian by : Jacob Abbott
Download or read book History of Hannibal the Carthaginian written by Jacob Abbott and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis History of Hannibal the Carthaginian by : Jacob Abbott
Download or read book History of Hannibal the Carthaginian written by Jacob Abbott and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-03-08 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1872. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
