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Book Synopsis Tamburlaine's Elephants by : Geraldine McCaughrean
Download or read book Tamburlaine's Elephants written by Geraldine McCaughrean and published by Usborne Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: RUSTI is a Mongol warrior, fighting for the bloodthirsty Tamburlaine, Conqueror of the World. He intends to show the enemy neither fear nor mercy... until he comes face-to-face with his first elephant. KAVI is the elephant's rider. Captured by the terrifying Mongol Horde, he fears for his life. But the boy who takes him prisoner does not kill him. And soon it seems they might almost become ... friends. Then Rusti uncovers a terrible secret, and the unlikeliest of friendships is put to the ultimate test.
Book Synopsis Before Orientalism by : Richmond Tyler Barbour
Download or read book Before Orientalism written by Richmond Tyler Barbour and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-10-16 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents
Book Synopsis The Middle of Nowhere by : Geraldine McCaughrean
Download or read book The Middle of Nowhere written by Geraldine McCaughrean and published by Usborne Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2018-08-08 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When her mother dies from a snake bite, Comity's life in the Australian outback changes for ever. With her father lost in his grief, Comity makes friends with Fred, the Aboriginal yard boy. But then the evil Quartz Hogg arrives, who delights in playing cruel games. And when he sets his murderous sights on Fred, it's up to Comity to stop him. A gripping tale that builds to an explosive climax from much-loved storyteller, Geraldine McCaughrean.
Book Synopsis Stories of World War One by : Tony Bradman
Download or read book Stories of World War One written by Tony Bradman and published by Orchard Books. This book was released on 2014-04-03 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tales to remember yesterday's fallen - from today's bestselling authors. Compiled by Tony Bradman, this collection of short stories chronicles the events of World War One - imagining the conflicts and emotions of those people caught up in the war and its aftermath. With stories from Malorie Blackman, Geraldine McCaughrean and Oisin McGann, among others, this anthology will be treasured for generations.
Book Synopsis Sojourner in Islamic Lands by : Russell Fraser
Download or read book Sojourner in Islamic Lands written by Russell Fraser and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2014-01-06 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sojourner in Islamic Lands takes us on a journey from Kazakhstan in the far north of Central Asia, across the mountains to the former Soviet Union, then south to Iran just below the Caspian Sea. Russell Fraser follows the ancient Silk Road wherever possible. For centuries the Silk Road was the primary commercial link between Europe and Asia, with much of it over desert sands and accessible only by camel. Building on history and personal experience, Fraser’s narrative describes this vast territory with an eye to geography, artistic culture, and religion over more than two thousand years. The book that he gives us depends first of all on travel, but the author’s eye is on an interior landscape, and he focuses on the influence of religious ideology on the cultural landscape of Central Asia. Delving deeply into art and architecture, he takes them to be Islam’s most significant creative expressions. Although Islam is currently the predominant religion in the region, the book also examines the two other belief systems with modern-day followers—Christianity and an antireligious sect Fraser calls secular progressivism. His aim is to present Islam to Western readers by describing its achievements during the High Middle Ages and comparing and contrasting them with those of modern Islam. The book offers insights into the history of a major world religion through the eyes of a well-known literary scholar on a journey through exotic parts of the world. He steeps us in the latter, inviting the reader to share the journey with him and participate in the sensations it gives rise to.
Book Synopsis Roman Triumphs and Early Modern English Culture by : Anthony Miller
Download or read book Roman Triumphs and Early Modern English Culture written by Anthony Miller and published by Springer. This book was released on 2001-06-07 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive study of the revival and appropriation of the Roman triumph from the 1580s to the 1650s. English versions of the triumph included ceremonial re-enactments, poetic or pictorial representations, and stage performances. As well as many non-canonical writers, Spenser, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Marvell, and Milton all produced versions. The book includes an original survey of ancient literary models and the work of humanist antiquarians, and shows how all its texts are implicated in contemporary political conflicts and discourses.
Book Synopsis Memoirs of a Millennium by : Ted Pocock
Download or read book Memoirs of a Millennium written by Ted Pocock and published by Grosvenor House Publishing. This book was released on 2016-01-18 with total page 1219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memoirs of a Millennium is an engaging and unconventional history of the last millennium, told through the lives of ten individuals across ten centuries. The characters and their compatriots are brought vividly to life by eyewitnesses both sympathetic and unsympathetic, and a colourful cast of subsequent commentators. In this insightful and entertaining book, Ted Pocock uncovers complex webs of humanity in a narrative that moves effortlessly from connection to connection across countries and continents, and from the past to the present and back again. The ten chapters explore the lives and times of the following individuals: 1000: Vladimir of Kiev (Russia) 1100: Godfrey of Bouillon (Palestine and the Holy Land) 1200: Jayavarman VII of Angkor (Cambodia) 1300: Devorguilla of Galloway (England and Scotland) 1400: Tamburlaine of Samarkand (Central Asia) 1500: Marcantonio Raimondi of Bologna (Italy) 1600: Toyotomi Hideyoshi of Osaka (Japan) 1700: Sophie Charlotte of Prussia (Germany) 1800: John Ledyard of Connecticut (USA) 1900: Yuan Shikai of Beijing (China) The scholarship is dazzling, the prose elegant and witty, the rich digressions into related themes irresistible. The successive eras come alive and the compelling text keeps the reader in thral.' Dr Helen Ibbitson Jessup
Book Synopsis An Elephant in the Garden by : Michael Morpurgo
Download or read book An Elephant in the Garden written by Michael Morpurgo and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-15 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Elephant in the Garden is Simon Reade’s new adaptation of Michael Morpurgo’s best-selling children’s novel. 1945. Dresden, Germany. Lizzie, her mother – and an elephant from the zoo, flee the Allied fire-bombing in the end-game of the Second World War. Escaping the Allies’ advance from the West – and also the advancing Russian armies from the East – this extraordinary trio of refugees meet: a downed RAF officer, cowering in a barn; a homeless school choir on the run and their Countess saviour, harbouring them from the Nazis; and the mechanised American cavalry, appearing over the horizon. It is Lizzie’s story – but Marlene, the elephant, is the heroine. Plodding, obdurate, opportunistic, loadbearing, indestructible, cheering – Marlene embodies the stubbornness of the human will and how it will do everything to survive.
Download or read book African Elephants written by Roland Smith and published by Lerner Publications. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces the characteristics and behavior of elephants, looks at their tusks and trunks, and describes how elephants find food, stay cool, and care for their young
Download or read book An Elephant in the Backyard written by and published by Dutton Juvenile. This book was released on 2004 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes how special elephants are in the village of Tha Kleng in Thailand and looks at the life of one particular young elephant named Wan Pen.
Book Synopsis The Elephants of Sargabal by : René Guillot
Download or read book The Elephants of Sargabal written by René Guillot and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Story of the Princess Narayana, or Flower of the Morning, and Ajmil, a handsome dreamer and elephant boy who helps the Princess regain her city and bring the great elephants to her aid.
Download or read book The Writers Directory written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis From Trunk to Tail by : Suzanne Jurmain
Download or read book From Trunk to Tail written by Suzanne Jurmain and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P. This book was released on 1978 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the elephant's origins, habits and behavior, cooperation with man, and role in different cultures.
Book Synopsis The Elephant Family Book by : Oria Douglas-Hamilton
Download or read book The Elephant Family Book written by Oria Douglas-Hamilton and published by NorthSouth (NY). This book was released on 1996 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follows a herd of elephants through the round of its daily and seasonal activities and explores the relationship between this large animal and humanity.
Download or read book Elephants written by Jenny Markert and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the physical characteristics, habitats, young, dangers, anddifferent kinds of elephants.
Book Synopsis The Astonishing Elephant by : Shana Alexander
Download or read book The Astonishing Elephant written by Shana Alexander and published by Random House (NY). This book was released on 2000 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Physiologically, elephants are unique - entirely different from all other mammals. Yet, since antiquity, observers have agreed that the elephant is the animal most akin to man." "Today both species of elephant - Africans and Asians - stand on the brink of extinction. Hope is arising, however, from a new generation of young American scientists, many of them women. Female zoologists and biologists have led the field in new findings about elephant ecology, family and sexual patterns, and the animals' continual communication by ultrasound, inaudible to human ears." "The Astonishing Elephant also reveals, for the first time, a hair-raising story of elephant "genocide": in the years between the Civil War and World War I, all male elephants in U. S. circuses were stealthily killed - shot, poisoned, drowned, and even hanged. The reason was musth, a periodic condition of mature males that renders them uncontrollable. So, gradually, only female elephants - now with masculine names - were put on parade, with none the wiser." "Most important, The Astonishing Elephant details a decade of heartbreaking trial and error and eventual triumph as scientists have tried to learn how to breed elephants via artificial insemination."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Download or read book Elephants written by Jean Brody and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the differences between African and Indian elephants, discusses elephant behavior, and tells how elephants raise their young.
