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Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Cumulative Book Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sabre Moore
Publisher : Tate Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1602478198
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (24 download)
Download or read book Secrets at Sea written by Sabre Moore and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2008-02 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When seventeen-year-old Zandra learns of the future her foster parents have planned for her, she knows what she must do. Disguised as a boy named Zander Knight, she hires onto the Chaser, a beautiful ship whose mission is not as it seems. Soon Zandra's life becomes a web of Secrets at Sea, even her own identity is shrouded in lies. What she once thought was a small price to pay for her dreams becomes more complicated as she gains a nickname, a father, friends and falls in love. When Zandra is captured by a pirate from her past, she learns of the strains and changes of time. When a truth is revealed, there is yet another secret waiting to take its place.
Author : Thomas T. Allsen
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812295900
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book The Steppe and the Sea written by Thomas T. Allsen and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2019-05-03 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1221, in what we now call Turkmenistan, a captive held by Mongol soldiers confessed that she had swallowed her pearls in order to safeguard them. She was immediately executed and eviscerated. On finding several pearls, Chinggis Qan (Genghis Khan) ordered that they cut open every slain person on the battlefield. Pearls, valued for aesthetic, economic, religious, and political reasons, were the ultimate luxury good of the Middle Ages, and the Chingissid imperium, the largest contiguous land empire in history, was their unmatched collector, promoter, and conveyor. Thomas T. Allsen examines the importance of pearls, as luxury good and political investment, in the Mongolian empire—from its origin in 1206, through its unprecedented expansion, to its division and decline in 1370—in order to track the varied cultural and commercial interactions between the northern steppes and the southern seas. Focusing first on the acquisition, display, redistribution, and political significance of pearls, Allsen shows how the very act of forming such a vast nomadic empire required the massive accumulation, management, and movement of prestige goods, and how this process brought into being new regimes of consumption on a continental scale. He argues that overland and seaborne trade flourished simultaneously, forming a dynamic exchange system that moved commodities from east to west and north to south, including an enormous quantity of pearls. Tracking the circulation of pearls across time, he highlights the importance of different modes of exchange—booty-taking, tributary relations, market mechanisms, and reciprocal gift-giving. He also sheds light on the ways in which Mongols' marketing strategies made use of not only myth and folklore but also maritime communications networks created by Indian-Buddhist and Muslim merchants skilled in cross-cultural commerce. In Allsen's analysis, pearls illuminate Mongolian exceptionalism in steppe history, the interconnections between overland and seaborne trade, recurrent patterns in the employment of luxury goods in the political cultures of empires, and the consequences of such goods for local and regional economies.
Author : Meredith Francesca Small
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 163936420X
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (393 download)
Download or read book Here Begins the Dark Sea written by Meredith Francesca Small and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-06-06 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The remarkable story of the cartographic masterpiece—the Venetian mappa mundi—that revolutionized how we see the world. In 1459 a Venetian monk named Fra Mauro completed an astonishing map of the world. Seven feet in diameter, Fra Mauro’s mappamundi is the oldest and most complete Medieval map to survive into modernity. And in its time, this groundbreaking mappamundi provided the most detailed description of the known world, incorporating accurate observation, and geographic reality, urging viewers to see water and land as they really existed. Fra Mauro's map was the first in history to show that a ship could circumnavigate Africa, and that the Indian “Sea” was in fact an ocean, enabling international trade to expand across the globe. Acclaimed anthropologist Meredith F. Small reveals how Fra Mauro’s mappamundi made cartography into a science rather than a practice based on religion and ancient myths. Here Begins the Dark Sea brings Fra Mauro’s masterpiece to life as a work of art and a window into Venetian society and culture. In telling the story of this cornerstone of modern cartography, Small takes the reader on a fascinating journey as she explores the human urge to find our way. Here Begins the Dark Sea is a riveting testament to the undeniable impact Fra Mauro and his mappamundi have had over the past five centuries and still holds relevance today.
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Total Pages : 906 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Minerals Yearbook written by and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 906 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ivy Press
Publisher : Heritage Capital Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781599670010
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (7 download)
Download or read book HNAI Palm Beach Signature Auction Catalog #388 written by Ivy Press and published by Heritage Capital Corporation. This book was released on 2005-10 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mensun Bound
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1398507423
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (985 download)
Download or read book Wonders in the Deep written by Mensun Bound and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-09-26 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A shipwreck is a time capsule. When a maritime archaeologist picks up an item from the seabed, it is a direct connection with history. The last time the object was touched was sometimes centuries before; now, it’s starting a new life. The millions of vessels that lie under the sea tell the human history of the world. Mensun Bound is the renowned marine archaeologist who was the Director of Exploration on the team that discovered Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance. With journalist Mark Frary, here Bound uses the many treasures he has discovered, from Nazi eagles to cannonballs, to write a maritime history of the world from 3000 BCE. Interwoven throughout with beautiful photographs, Wonders in the Deep is a riveting story of human ambition, defeat and ingenuity.
Author : Carl Douglass
Publisher : Publication Consultants
ISBN 13 : 1637470053
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (374 download)
Download or read book The Dutch Century written by Carl Douglass and published by Publication Consultants. This book was released on 2019-12-05 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 17th century belonged to the Dutch and was an exciting era of commerce, discovery, and conflict—above all else, adventure. This first book of the Dutchman Trilogy is about adventure, triumph, conquest, failure, fighting—pirates, rioters, Christians, and Muslims. It is also about young love that became timeless, bonds of friendship that persisted lifetimes, and a raw exposition of what 17th century life and times were really like.
Author : Edward Balfour
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Total Pages : 1224 pages
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Download or read book The Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia written by Edward Balfour and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 1224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joseph Gaston
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Total Pages : 1076 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Centennial History of Oregon, 1811-1912 written by Joseph Gaston and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 1076 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Popular educator
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Total Pages : 910 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)
Download or read book The popular educator written by Popular educator and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 910 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 878 pages
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Download or read book The Popular Educator written by and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 878 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 428 pages
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Download or read book Popular Educator a Complete Encyclopaedia of Elementary, Advanced, and Technical Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : R. M. Ballantyne
Publisher : e-artnow
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 9205 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (64 download)
Download or read book The Works of R. M. Ballantyne: Western Novels, Sea Tales, Historical Thrillers & Children's Books written by R. M. Ballantyne and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page 9205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully edited Ballantyne collection has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Table of Contents: Novels: The Coral Island Snowflakes and Sunbeams (The Young Fur Traders) Ungava Martin Rattler The Dog Crusoe and his Master The World of Ice The Gorilla Hunters The Golden Dream The Red Eric Away in the Wilderness Fighting the Whales The Wild Man of the West Fast in the Ice Gascoyne The Lifeboat Chasing the Sun Freaks on the Fells The Lighthouse Fighting The Flames Silver Lake Deep Down Shifting Winds Hunting the Lions Over the Rocky Mountains Saved by the Lifeboat Erling the Bold The Battle and the Breeze The Cannibal Islands Lost in the Forest Digging for Gold Sunk at Sea The Floating Light of the Goodwin Sands The Iron Horse The Norsemen in the West The Pioneers Black Ivory Life in the Red Brigade Fort Desolation The Pirate City The Story of the Rock Rivers of Ice Under the Waves The Settler and the Savage In the Track of the Troops Jarwin and Cuffy Philosopher Jack Post Haste The Lonely Island The Red Man's Revenge My Doggie and I The Giant of the North The Madman and the Pirate The Battery and the Boiler The Thorogood Family The Young Trawler Dusty Diamonds, Cut and Polished Twice Bought The Island Queen The Rover of the Andes The Prairie Chief The Lively Poll Red Rooney The Big Otter The Fugitives Blue Lights The Middy and the Moors The Eagle Cliff The Crew of the Water Wagtail Blown to Bits The Garret and the Garden Jeff Benson Charlie to the Rescue The Coxswain's Bride The Buffalo Runners The Hot Swamp Hunted and Harried The Walrus Hunters Wrecked but not Ruined Children's Books: Three Little Kittens The Butterfly's Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast Mister Fox The Life of a Ship My Mother Other Works: The Hudson's Bay Company Handbook to the new Goldfields Up in the Clouds: Balloon Voyages Man on the Ocean: A Book about Boats and Ships The Ocean and its Wonders Six Months at the Cape Battles with the Sea Memoirs: Personal Reminiscences in Book Making
Author : Isaac Taylor
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Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (24 download)
Download or read book Scenes of Commerce by Land and Sea, Or, “Where Does it Come From?” Answered. Upon a Plan Arranged by Isaac Taylor .. 4th Ed written by Isaac Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Megan D. Harding
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1546251952
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (462 download)
Download or read book The Coin and the Crown written by Megan D. Harding and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2018-07-23 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps you were chosen for such a time as this. Its nearly Prince Aryns birthday, but before he can celebrate, he must find a bride and take the throne. If only it were his choice. However, a girl will be chosen for him. Trust the magic. Betray your heart. Amira is a servant, but no one can tell her what to do. Instead of finding a husband to free her, she spends her time gambling to pay her dowry and join the army. She was born to lead. After an attack on the castle, the prince flees with his maidservant, Amira. She will defeat anything to protect him, even death. Upon escaping the palace, they learn of a darkness in the kingdom. Magic is still alive. Together they chart dangerous territory, including an alliance with a pirate and a battle with the dead. Amira wanted an army. Now shes started a war.
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Total Pages : 1276 pages
Book Rating : 4.P/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Queensland Geographical Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 1276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
