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Book Synopsis Lion and Panther in London by : Tania James
Download or read book Lion and Panther in London written by Tania James and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2015-05-08 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Selection Certainly, London at the turn of the twentieth century is home to the world championship of wrestling, but the British wrestlers know nothing of the giant Kikkar Singh, for example, who once uprooted an acacia tree bare-handed, just because it was disrupting his view. They know nothing of pehlwans: they know nothing of the brothers Gama and Imam. The Lion and Panther have come from Lahore to become champions—but first they must find an opponent willing to be faced. “Lion and Panther in London” captures the yearning and dislocation of young men far from home, even as brotherly rivalry fails to disappear—the explosive, warm-hearted first story in Tania James’s acclaimed collection Aerogrammes. An eBook short.
Book Synopsis The Early Black-Figured Pottery of Attika in Context (c. 630-570 BCE) by : Alexandra Alexandridou
Download or read book The Early Black-Figured Pottery of Attika in Context (c. 630-570 BCE) written by Alexandra Alexandridou and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-12-17 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the archaeological context of the vessels, this book offers an overview of the production and distribution of early Attic black-figured pottery until the end of the first quarter of the sixth century B.C., aiming at an afresh approach to early Archaic Attika.
Book Synopsis Aerogrammes and Other Stories by : Tania James
Download or read book Aerogrammes and Other Stories written by Tania James and published by Random House India. This book was released on 2012-09-25 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the highly acclaimed author of Atlas of Unknowns (“Dazzling . . . One of the most exciting debut novels since Zadie Smith’s White Teeth”—San Francisco Chronicle; “An astonishment of a debut”—Junot Díaz), a bravura collection of short stories set in locales as varied as London, Sierra Leone, and the American Midwest that captures the yearning and dislocation of young men and women around the world. In “Lion and Panther in London,” a turn-of-the-century Indian wrestler arrives in London desperate to prove himself champion of the world, only to find the city mysteriously absent of challengers. In “Light & Luminous,” a gifted dance instructor falls victim to her own vanity when a student competition allows her a final encore. In “The Scriptological Review: A Last Letter from the Editor,” a young man obsessively studies his father’s handwriting in the hope of making sense of his death. And in the marvelous “What to Do with Henry,” a white woman from Ohio takes in the illegitimate child her husband left behind in Sierra Leone, as well as an orphaned chimpanzee who comes to anchor this strange new family. With exuberance and compassion, Tania James once again draws us into the lives of damaged, driven, and beautifully complicated characters who quietly strive for human connection.
Book Synopsis The Temple of Athena at Assos by : Bonna D. Wescoat
Download or read book The Temple of Athena at Assos written by Bonna D. Wescoat and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2012-03-22 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fully illustrated study of the Doric Temple of Athena at Assos, in modern Turkey. Bonna Daix Wescoat presents a complete inventory of the architecture and ornament, proposes a new reconstruction of the building, and situates the Temple within the formative development of monumental architecture in Archaic Greece.
Book Synopsis Belgravia, a London magazine, conducted by M.E. Braddon by : Belgravia
Download or read book Belgravia, a London magazine, conducted by M.E. Braddon written by Belgravia and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Panther written by Jonathan London and published by Candlewick Press (MA). This book was released on 2000 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Words and pictures describe a night in the life of a female Florida panther and her three kittens.
Book Synopsis Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture in England by : Rosemary Cramp
Download or read book Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture in England written by Rosemary Cramp and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This analytical catalogue of sculpture from the historic counties of Devon, Dorset, Somerset and Wiltshire provides a new perspective on the artistic achievement of the late Saxon kingdom. The volume includes individual pieces of the highest quality such as the Bradford-on-Avon and Winterbourne Steepleton angels or the newly discovered figures from Congresbury. Most of the monuments were carved at a time when Wessex art was at its zenith in the tenth and eleventh centuries, a formative period for English cultural identity. This volume sets the sculpture within an historical, topographical and art-historical context, highlighting the close links with contemporary styles in manuscripts and metalwork. Full photographic records of each monument present many new illustrations unique to this volume. An indispensable research tool for all those interested in the early medieval world, this volume is also an authoritative aid for local historians.
Book Synopsis Margaret Storm Jameson by : Jennifer Birkett
Download or read book Margaret Storm Jameson written by Jennifer Birkett and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2009-03-19 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From her childhood in Whitby to her long old age in Cambridge, the life of Margaret Storm Jameson (1891-1986), novelist, autobiographer, and political activist, spanned almost the whole of the twentieth century. A self-styled Little Englander by nature, and European by nurture, equally at home, or out of place, in the North Yorkshire moors and seascape of her birth, metropolitan London, rural France, and the capitals of Central Europe, she wrote of country, cities and the exile from both with equal knowledge and sympathy. Out of the changing landscapes of her present, she fashioned her vision of the future. The title of her autobiography, Journey from the North, is a simultaneous evocation and erasure of nostalgia for lost commonality, and in her long life as writer and activist, President of wartime PEN (the association of Poets, Essayist, Novelists) committed to the values of freedom and social justice, she fought to reconcile the conflicting forms of emergent modernity. Her own journey is the generic experience of twentieth-century Britain, and the England she urges on her contemporaries is one that shares the life and mind of Europe. The present book traces the history of that shared experience. It recovers, through her writing, the aspirations and the disappointments of the generation of socialists that was Class 1914. The soldiers returning from the front in 1918, to unemployment and the General Strike of 1926, fight in 1940 alongside Frenchmen, and against Germans, who are victims of the same system: class conflict, nationalist rivalries, imperialist ambition, all for Jameson have the same defining economic horizon. At the end of the odyssey the stark alternatives take shape: Washington or Moscow, the madness of American capitalism, or the oppression of Stalinist Communism. Alongside the narrative of Jameson's life, and the experiences as daughter, wife, and mother that shaped her personality and her career, the book explores her concern with issues of culture and society, cultural memory, and cultural landscapes, her fascination with aesthetic form and the relation of writing to politics, her insight into the materiality of words, and her persistent probing of the nature of the writing subject. It draws on unpublished archive material and brings new research on neglected areas of cultural history into conjunction with literary-critical analyses of Jameson's novels and studies of her journalism and essays. There is an extensive Bibliography of her work.
Book Synopsis Fairbairn's Book of Crests of the Families of Great Britain and Ireland by : James Fairbairn
Download or read book Fairbairn's Book of Crests of the Families of Great Britain and Ireland written by James Fairbairn and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Handbook to the Antiquities in the British Museum by : William S. W. Vaux
Download or read book Handbook to the Antiquities in the British Museum written by William S. W. Vaux and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales by : Bernard Burke
Download or read book The General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales written by Bernard Burke and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 1346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The general armory of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales; comprising a registry of armorial bearings from the earliest to the about 1961.
Book Synopsis Encyclopædia of Heraldry by : John Burke
Download or read book Encyclopædia of Heraldry written by John Burke and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 1160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The British herald, or Cabinet of armorial bearings of the nobility & gentry of Great Britain & Ireland by : Thomas Robson (engraver.)
Download or read book The British herald, or Cabinet of armorial bearings of the nobility & gentry of Great Britain & Ireland written by Thomas Robson (engraver.) and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Lion Called Christian by : Anthony Bourke
Download or read book A Lion Called Christian written by Anthony Bourke and published by Crown. This book was released on 2009-03-10 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A stirring tale of a rare bond formed between humans and an animal.”—Time Two men. One baby lion. What could go wrong? A Lion Called Christian tells the remarkable story of how Anthony “Ace” Bourke and John Rendall, visitors to London from Australia in 1969, bought a boisterous lion cub in the pet department of Harrods. For several months, the three of them shared a flat above a furniture shop on London’s King’s Road, where the charismatic and intelligent Christian quickly became a local celebrity, cruising the streets in the back of a Bentley, popping in for lunch at a local restaurant, even posing for a fashion advertisement. But the lion cub was growing up—fast—and soon even the walled church garden where he went for exercise wasn’t large enough for him. How could Ace and John avoid having to send Christian to a zoo for the rest of his life? A coincidental meeting with English actors Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers, stars of the hit film Born Free, led to Christian being flown to Kenya and placed under the expert care of the “father of lions” George Adamson. Incredibly, when Ace and John returned to Kenya to see Christian a year later, they received a loving welcome from their lion, who was by then fully integrated into Africa and a life with other lions. A video of this reunion has become a YouTube classic. Originally published in 1971, and now fully revised and updated with more than 50 photographs of Christian from cuddly cub in London to magnificent lion in Africa, A Lion Called Christian is a touching and uplifting true story of an indelible human-animal bond. It is destined to become one of the great classics of animal literature.
Book Synopsis The Mercantile navy list. 1848 [4 issues], 49 [2 issues], 50-53,57-61,64-71,80,81,92-1939 by : Trade Board of
Download or read book The Mercantile navy list. 1848 [4 issues], 49 [2 issues], 50-53,57-61,64-71,80,81,92-1939 written by Trade Board of and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 846 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Reconstructing Ancient Linen Body Armor by : Gregory S. Aldrete
Download or read book Reconstructing Ancient Linen Body Armor written by Gregory S. Aldrete and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thorough and original study of the linothorax, the linen armor worn by Alexander the Great. Alexander the Great led one of the most successful armies in history and conquered nearly the entirety of the known world while wearing armor made of cloth. How is that possible? In Reconstructing Ancient Linen Body Armor, Gregory S. Aldrete, Scott Bartell, and Alicia Aldrete provide the answer. An extensive multiyear project in experimental archaeology, this pioneering study presents a thorough investigation of the linothorax, linen armor worn by the Greeks, Macedonians, and other ancient Mediterranean warriors. Because the linothorax was made of cloth, no examples of it have survived. As a result, even though there are dozens of references to the linothorax in ancient literature and nearly a thousand images of it in ancient art, this linen armor remains relatively ignored and misunderstood by scholars. Combining traditional textual and archaeological analysis with hands-on reconstruction and experimentation, the authors unravel the mysteries surrounding the linothorax. They have collected and examined all of the literary, visual, historical, and archaeological evidence for the armor and detail their efforts to replicate the armor using materials and techniques that are as close as possible to those employed in antiquity. By reconstructing actual examples using authentic materials, the authors were able to scientifically assess the true qualities of linen armor for the first time in 1,500 years. The tests reveal that the linothorax provided surprisingly effective protection for ancient warriors, that it had several advantages over bronze armor, and that it even shared qualities with modern-day Kevlar. Previously featured in documentaries on the Discovery Channel and the Canadian History Channel, as well as in U.S. News and World Report, MSNBC Online, and other international venues, this groundbreaking work will be a landmark in the study of ancient warfare.
Book Synopsis Animaldairy of the rock video camera by : Rascal
Download or read book Animaldairy of the rock video camera written by Rascal and published by 千鋒. This book was released on 101-01-01 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No. 6 is a video camera who be dresses like a rock, it in some where in Afirca fallow a pride of lions, and some other pass animals. want to see what it sees? Come to join it.