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Book Synopsis Perilous Escapades by : Gary Hoppenstand
Download or read book Perilous Escapades written by Gary Hoppenstand and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-04-12 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adventure fiction is one of the easiest narrative forms to recognize but one of the hardest to define because of its overlap with many other genres. This collection of essays attempts to characterize adventure fiction through the exploration of key elements—such as larger-than-life characters and imperialistic ideas—in the genre’s 19th- and 20th-century British and American works like The Scarlet Pimpernel by Orczy and Captain Blood by Sabatini. The author explores the cultural and literary impact of such works, presenting forgotten classics in a new light.
Download or read book Zara's Tales written by Peter Beard and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2004-11-23 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a collection of personal anecdotes, essays, and reflections, the adventurer, photographer, and author describes his life in Africa, his arrival in Nairobi, Kenya, in the 1950s, his forty-acre Hog Ranch encampment, its animal inhabitants, and his encounter with the legendary man-eating lions of Tsavo.
Book Synopsis The Perilous West by : Larry E. Morris
Download or read book The Perilous West written by Larry E. Morris and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although a host of adventurers stormed west in 1806 after Lewis and Clark's safe return, seven of them left unique legacies because of their monumental journeys, their lionhearted spirit in the face of hardship, and the way their paths intertwined time and again. The Perilous West tells this riveting story in depth for the first time, focusing on each of the seven explorers in turn - Ramsay Crooks, Robert McClellan, John Hoback, Jacob Reznor, Edward Robinson, Pierre Dorion, and Marie Dorion. These seven counted the Tetons, Hells Canyon, and South Pass among their discoveries. More importantly, they forged the Oregon Trail-a path destined to link the Atlantic coast with the Pacific, spurring national expansion as it carried trappers, soldiers, pioneers, missionaries, and gold-seekers westward. The Perilous West begins in 1806, when Crooks and McClellan meet Lewis and Clark, and the vast expanse from the Dakotas to the Pacific coast appears a commercial paradise. The story ends in 1814, when a band of French Canadian trappers rescue Marie Dorion, and even John Jacob Astor's well-financed enterprise has ended in violence and chaos, placing the protagonists squarely in the context of Thomas Jefferson's monumental opening of the West, which stalled with the War of 1812.
Book Synopsis Reconciling Nature by : Robert M. Myers
Download or read book Reconciling Nature written by Robert M. Myers and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2019-10-30 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reconciling Nature maps the complex views of the environment that are evident in celebrated American novels written between the Centennial Celebration of 1876 and the end of the Second World War. During this period, which includes the Progressive era and the New Deal, Americans held three contradictory views of the natural world: a recognition of nature's vulnerability to the changes brought by industrialism; a fear of the power of nature to destroy human civilization; and a desire to make nature useful. Robert M. Myers argues they reconciled these conflicting views through nature nostalgia, policing of wilderness areas, and through strategies of control borrowed from the social sciences. Myers combines environmental history with original readings of eight novels, producing fresh perspectives on Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Stephen Crane's Maggie, Kate Chopin's The Awakening, Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, Mary Austin's The Ford, Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy, Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, and William Faulkner's Go Down, Moses. While previous ecocritical works have focused on proto-environmentalism in classic works of literature, Reconciling Nature explores the ambivalence within these texts, demonstrating how they reproduce views of nature as threatened, threatening, and useful. The epilogue examines the environmental ideologies associated with the development and deployment of the first atomic bomb.
Book Synopsis The Hunting Grounds of the Old World by : "The Old Shekarry"
Download or read book The Hunting Grounds of the Old World written by "The Old Shekarry" and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-02-02 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original. 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.
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Book Synopsis The Hunting Grounds of the Old World by : Henry Astbury Leveson
Download or read book The Hunting Grounds of the Old World written by Henry Astbury Leveson and published by London, Saunders, Otley & Company. This book was released on 1860 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The hunting grounds of the Old world, by 'The old shekarry', H.A.L. by : Henry Astbury Leveson
Download or read book The hunting grounds of the Old world, by 'The old shekarry', H.A.L. written by Henry Astbury Leveson and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Heaven and Hell written by Bart D. Ehrman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-03-23 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over half of Americans believe in a literal heaven, in a literal hell. Most people who hold these beliefs are Christian and assume they are the age-old teachings of the Bible. Ehrman shows that eternal rewards and punishments are found nowhere in the Old Testament, and are not what Jesus or his disciples taught. He recounts the long history of the afterlife, ranging from The Epic of Gilgamesh up to the writings of Augustine, focusing especially on the teachings of Jesus and his early followers. Ehrman shows that competing views were intimately connected with the social, cultural, and historical worlds out of which they emerged. -- adapted from jacket
Book Synopsis Oklahoma Wedding Bells by : Carol Finch
Download or read book Oklahoma Wedding Bells written by Carol Finch and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Independent Josephine Malloy is determined to stake her own claim during the latest Oklahoma land run. But to fend off the countless suitors seeking a wife and homestead she needs a fake fiancé for cover. Enter horse trader Solomon Tremain… As an undercover Deputy U.S. Marshal investigating land fraud, Sol should probably keep his distance from this firebrand. But when Josie gets in trouble with the law it's Sol to the rescue—although he'll need to make their marriage for real. If only she'll stay out of hot water long enough to say "I do"!
Book Synopsis Devil Proposes, Man Disposes by : Francis Obimma
Download or read book Devil Proposes, Man Disposes written by Francis Obimma and published by Vantage Press, Inc. This book was released on 2005-10 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Skateboarding and the City by : Iain Borden
Download or read book Skateboarding and the City written by Iain Borden and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02-21 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Skateboarding is both a sport and a way of life. Creative, physical, graphic, urban and controversial, it is full of contradictions – a billion-dollar global industry which still retains its vibrant, counter-cultural heart. Skateboarding and the City presents the only complete history of the sport, exploring the story of skate culture from the surf-beaches of '60s California to the latest developments in street-skating today. Written by a life-long skater who also happens to be an architectural historian, and packed through with full-colour images – of skaters, boards, moves, graphics, and film-stills – this passionate, readable and rigorously-researched book explores the history of skateboarding and reveals a vivid understanding of how skateboarders, through their actions, experience the city and its architecture in a unique way.
Book Synopsis Delphi Complete Paintings of Francisco de Goya (Illustrated) by : Francisco de Goya
Download or read book Delphi Complete Paintings of Francisco de Goya (Illustrated) written by Francisco de Goya and published by Delphi Classics. This book was released on 2016-02-25 with total page 791 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Romantic painter Francisco de Goya is considered the most important Spanish artist of late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Throughout his long and distinguished career, Goya produced paintings and prints that chronicled the history, folly and beauty of his times. Delphi's Masters of Art Series presents the world's first digital e-Art books, allowing readers to explore the works of great artists in comprehensive detail. This volume presents Goya's complete paintings in beautiful detail, with concise introductions, hundreds of high quality images and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * The complete paintings of Francisco de Goya - over 300 paintings, fully indexed and arranged in chronological and alphabetical order * Includes reproductions of rare works * Features a special 'Highlights' section, with concise introductions to the masterpieces, giving valuable contextual information * Enlarged 'Detail' images, allowing you to explore Goya's celebrated works in detail, as featured in traditional art books * Hundreds of images in stunning colour - highly recommended for viewing on tablets and smart phones or as a valuable reference tool on more conventional eReaders * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the paintings * Easily locate the paintings you wish to view * Includes Goya's various series of prints - spend hours exploring the artist's diverse works * Features a bonus biography - discover Goya's artistic and personal life * Scholarly ordering of plates into chronological order CONTENTS: The Highlights The Parasol The Blind Guitarist The Meadow of San Isidro Blind Man’s Buff Yard with Madmen The Black Duchess Witches’ Flight The Miracle of St. Anthony Portrait of Andrés Del Peral Portrait of Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters Charles IV and His Family The Nude Maja Portrait of Doña Isabel de Porcel Portrait of Antonia Zárate The Burial of the Sardine Portrait of the Duke of Wellington The Third of May, 1808: The Execution of the Defenders of Madrid Self-Portrait with Dr. Arrieta Saturn Devouring One of His Children The Milkmaid of Bordeaux The Paintings The Complete Paintings Alphabetical List of Paintings The Drawings List of Prints and Drawings The Biography Goya by François Crastre
Book Synopsis Goya by Fr. Crastre by : François Crastre
Download or read book Goya by Fr. Crastre written by François Crastre and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Goya written by Fr. Crastre and published by M. HENRY ROUJON. This book was released on 2015-08-21 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Goya Francisco José Goya was born at Fuendetodos, in the province of Aragon, on the 13th of March, 1746. His father, José Goya, and his mother, Gracia Lucientes, were humble peasants and lived upon the product of the sluggish fields that surrounded their modest home. What the childhood of José was, we do not know, for his biographers are silent upon this point. They content themselves with saying that he aided his parents in the daily round of tasks upon the farm. As to his education, it was certainly that of all the young peasant boys of the Spanish farming districts. The child must have acquired the first rudiments from the village priest, or perhaps from the monks of the nearest convent. Reading, writing, and a little arithmetic made up the whole equipment that young José possessed at the age of fifteen. How his taste for drawing was first born, what occurrence or what object awakened his artistic instinct, we do not know. Perhaps, like so many others, he became suddenly conscious of his vocation at the sight of some of those cruel and violent pictures representing scenes of the Passion, such as abound in Spanish churches, and it is not unlikely that his youthful soul received a profound and lasting impression. From the moment of his arrival he came fully under the spell of the marvels accumulated in the Eternal City. He passed entire days in the presence of the masterpieces of the great artists. He admired them with all his heart, yet without surrendering his right to independent criticism. He recognized instinctively that there was nothing in all these illustrious compositions which corresponded to his own personal temperament, and that his fiery soul could ill adapt itself to the calculated and almost geometric composition of the great frescoes in the Vatican. But he possessed too deep a reverence for art to disdain the admirable science of those great forerunners. There, beyond question, was the ideal opportunity for study; and in the presence of those celebrated canvases he absolutely forgot himself; he analyzed their intimate beauties, compared the styles and colour schemes of the different schools, scrutinized their methods, and forced himself to penetrate and understand them. He did not attempt to copy a single one of them; he felt that he would gain nothing by doing so, but that on the contrary he might lose. This singular method of abstract study, which may be called the method of intuition, explains perhaps how so frank an individuality as that of Goya, far from being enfeebled by contact with the past, became on the contrary stronger and more genuinely alive. As a matter of fact, his talent owes nothing, or practically nothing, to the art of Italy.
Book Synopsis From Mythic to Linear by : Maria Nikolajeva
Download or read book From Mythic to Linear written by Maria Nikolajeva and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2000 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this radically new approach to text typology, Maria Nikolajeva examines the depiction of time in literature for children.
Book Synopsis Children's Literature as Communication by : Roger D. Sell
Download or read book Children's Literature as Communication written by Roger D. Sell and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2002-10-10 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, members of the ChiLPA Project explore the children’s literature of several different cultures, ranging from ancient India, nineteenth century Russia, and the Soviet Union, to twentieth century Britain, America, Australia, Sweden, and Finland. The research covers not only the form and content of books for children, but also their potential social functions, especially within education. These two perspectives are brought together within a theory of children’s literature as one among other forms of communication, an approach that sees the role of literary scholars, critics and teachers as one of mediation. Part I deals with the way children’s writers and picturebook-makers draw on a culture’s available resources of orality, literacy, intertextuality, and image. Part II examines their negotiation of major issues such as the child adult distinction, gender, politics, and the Holocaust. Part III discusses children’s books as used within language education programmes, with particular attention to young readers’ pragmatic processing of differences between the context of writing and their own context of reading.
