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Author : Sir George Steuart Mackenzie
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Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Travels in the Island of Iceland written by Sir George Steuart Mackenzie and published by . This book was released on 1811 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jennifer Speake
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135456623
Total Pages : 3477 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (354 download)
Download or read book Literature of Travel and Exploration written by Jennifer Speake and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-12 with total page 3477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing more than 600 entries, this valuable resource presents all aspects of travel writing. There are entries on places and routes (Afghanistan, Black Sea, Egypt, Gobi Desert, Hawaii, Himalayas, Italy, Northwest Passage, Samarkand, Silk Route, Timbuktu), writers (Isabella Bird, Ibn Battuta, Bruce Chatwin, Gustave Flaubert, Mary Kingsley, Walter Ralegh, Wilfrid Thesiger), methods of transport and types of journey (balloon, camel, grand tour, hunting and big game expeditions, pilgrimage, space travel and exploration), genres (buccaneer narratives, guidebooks, New World chronicles, postcards), companies and societies (East India Company, Royal Geographical Society, Society of Dilettanti), and issues and themes (censorship, exile, orientalism, and tourism). For a full list of entries and contributors, a generous selection of sample entries, and more, visit the Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia website.
Author : Jennifer Speake
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9781579584245
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (842 download)
Download or read book Literature of Travel and Exploration: G to P written by Jennifer Speake and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2003 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing more than 600 entries, this valuable resource presents all aspects of travel writing. There are entries on places and routes (Afghanistan, Black Sea, Egypt, Gobi Desert, Hawaii, Himalayas, Italy, Northwest Passage, Samarkand, Silk Route, Timbuktu), writers (Isabella Bird, Ibn Battuta, Bruce Chatwin, Gustave Flaubert, Mary Kingsley, Walter Ralegh, Wilfrid Thesiger), methods of transport and types of journey (balloon, camel, grand tour, hunting and big game expeditions, pilgrimage, space travel and exploration), genres (buccaneer narratives, guidebooks, New World chronicles, postcards), companies and societies (East India Company, Royal Geographical Society, Society of Dilettanti), and issues and themes (censorship, exile, orientalism, and tourism). For a full list of entries and contributors, a generous selection of sample entries, and more, visit the Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia website.
Author : Cornell University Library (Ithaca)
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Total Pages : 784 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Catalogue of the Icelandic Collection Bequeathed by Willard Fiske written by Cornell University Library (Ithaca) and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alfred W. Crosby
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316453960
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (164 download)
Download or read book Ecological Imperialism written by Alfred W. Crosby and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People of European descent form the bulk of the population in most of the temperate zones of the world - North America, Australia and New Zealand. The military successes of European imperialism are easy to explain; in many cases they were a matter of firearms against spears. But as Alfred W. Crosby maintains in this highly original and fascinating book, the Europeans' displacement and replacement of the native peoples in the temperate zones was more a matter of biology than of military conquest. European organisms had certain decisive advantages over their New World and Australian counterparts. The spread of European disease, flora and fauna went hand in hand with the growth of populations. Consequently, these imperialists became proprietors of the most important agricultural lands in the world. In the second edition, Crosby revisits his now classic work and again evaluates the global historical importance of European ecological expansion.
Author : Frank Edgar Farley
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Scandinavian Influences in the English Romantic Movement written by Frank Edgar Farley and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Studies and Notes in Philology and Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frank Edgar Farley
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 274 pages
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Download or read book Studies and Notes in Philology and Literature written by Frank Edgar Farley and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nottingham (England). Free Public Reference Library
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Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Class List of the Books in the Reference Library written by Nottingham (England). Free Public Reference Library and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jón Karl Helgason
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1780237731
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)
Download or read book Echoes of Valhalla written by Jón Karl Helgason and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2017-06-15 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tolkien’s wizard Gandalf, Wagner’s Valkyrie Brünnhilde, Marvel’s superhero the Mighty Thor, the warrior heading for Valhalla in Led Zeppelin’s “Immigrant Song,” and Donald Crisp’s portrayal of Leif Eriksson in the classic film The Viking—these are just a few examples of how Icelandic medieval literature has shaped human imagination during the past 150 years. Echoes of Valhalla is a unique look at modern adaptations of the Icelandic eddas (poems of Norse mythology) and sagas (ancient prose accounts of Viking history, voyages, and battles) across an astonishing breadth of art forms. Jón Karl Helgason looks at comic books, plays, travel books, music, and films in order to explore the reincarnations of a range of legendary characters, from the Nordic gods Thor and Odin to the saga characters Hallgerd Long-legs, Gunnar of Hlidarendi, and Leif the Lucky. Roaming the globe, Helgason unearths echoes of Nordic lore in Scandinavia, Britain, America, Germany, Italy, and Japan. He examines the comic work of Jack Kirby and cartoon work of Peter Madsen; reads the plays of Henrik Ibsen and Gordon Bottomley; engages thought travelogues by Frederick Metcalfe and Poul Vad; listens to the music of Richard Wagner, Edward Elgar, and the metal band Manowar; and watches films by directors such as Roy William Neill and Richard Fleischer, outlining the presence of the eddas and sagas in these nineteenth- and twentieth-century works. Altogether, Echoes of Valhalla tells the remarkable story of how disparate, age-old poetry and prose originally recorded in remote areas of medieval Iceland have come to be a part of our shared cultural experience today—how Nordic gods and saga heroes have survived and how their colorful cast of characters and adventures they went on are as vibrant as ever.
Author : Margaret Clunies Ross
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521631122
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (216 download)
Download or read book Old Icelandic Literature and Society written by Margaret Clunies Ross and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-09-21 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive account of Old Icelandic literature set within its social and cultural context.
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Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)
Download or read book The Alpine Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Percy Bysshe Shelley
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421411083
Total Pages : 917 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley written by Percy Bysshe Shelley and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2005-01-21 with total page 917 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winners of an Honorable Mention from the Modern Language Association's Prize for a Distinguished Scholarly Edition Writing to his publisher in 1813, Shelley expressed the hope that two of his major works "should form one volume"; nearly two centuries later, the second volume of the Johns Hopkins edition of The Complete Poetry fulfills that wish for the first time. This volume collects two important pieces: Queen Mab and The Esdaile Notebook. Privately issued in 1813, Queen Mab was perhaps Shelley's most intellectually ambitious work, articulating his views of science, politics, history, religion, society, and individual human relations. Subtitled A Philosophical Poem: With Notes, it became his most influential—and pirated—poem during much of the nineteenth century, a favorite among reformers and radicals. The Esdaile Notebook, a cycle of fifty-eight early poems, exhibits an astonishing range of verse forms. Unpublished until 1964, this sequence is vital in understanding how the poet mastered his craft. As in the acclaimed first volume, these works have been critically edited by Donald H. Reiman and Neil Fraistat. The poems are presented as Shelley intended, with textual variants included in footnotes. Following the poems are extensive discussions of the circumstances of their composition and the influences they reflect; their publication or circulation by other means; their reception at the time of publication and in the decades since; their re-publication, both authorized and unauthorized; and their place in Shelley's intellectual and aesthetic development.
Author : Gunnar Karlsson
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816635894
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (358 download)
Download or read book The History of Iceland written by Gunnar Karlsson and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Iceland is unique among European societies in having been founded as late as the Viking Age and in having copious written and archaeological sources about its origin. Gunnar Karlsson, that country's premier historian, chronicles the age of the Sagas, consulting them to describe an era without a monarch or central authority. Equating this prosperous time with the golden age of antiquity in world history, Karlsson then marks a correspondence between the Dark Ages of Europe and Iceland's "dreary period", which started with the loss of political independence in the late thirteenth century and culminated with an epoch of poverty and humility, especially during the early Modern Age. Iceland's renaissance came about with the successful struggle for independence in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and with the industrial and technical modernization of the first half of the twentieth century. Karlsson describes the rise of nationalism as Iceland's mostly poor peasants set about breaking with Denmark, and he shows how Iceland in the twentieth century slowly caught up economically with its European neighbors.
Author : Geoffrey Matthews
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317872932
Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)
Download or read book The Poems of Shelley: Volume One written by Geoffrey Matthews and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) was one of the major Romantic poets, and wrote what is critically recognised as some of the finest lyric poetry in the English language. This is the first volume of the five-volume The Poems of Shelley, which presents all of Shelley’s poems in chronological order and with full annotation. Date and circumstances of composition are provided for each poem and all manuscript and printed sources relevant to establishing an authoritative text are freshly examined and assessed. Headnotes and footnotes supply the personal, literary, historical and scientific information necessary to an informed reading of Shelley’s varied and allusive verse. The present volume includes the 'Esdaile' poems, which only entered the public domain in the 1950s, printed in chronological order and integrated with the rest of Shelley's early output, and Queen Mab, the first of Shelley’s major poems, together with its extensive prose notes. The seminal Alastor volume is placed in the detailed context of Shelley’s overall poetic development. The ‘Scrope Davies’ notebook, only discovered in 1976, furnishes two otherwise unknown sonnets as well as alternative versions of ‘Hymn to Intellectual Beauty’ and ‘Mont Blanc’, which significantly influence our understanding of these important poems. This first volume contains new datings, and makes numerous corrections to long-established errors and misunderstandings in the transmission of Shelley's work. Its annotations and headnotes provide new perspectives on Shelley's literary, philosophical and political development The volumes of The Poems of Shelley form the most comprehensive edition of Shelley's poetry available to students and scholars.
Author : Providence Public Library (R.I.)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Quarterly Bulletin of the Providence Public Library written by Providence Public Library (R.I.) and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : American Art Association, Anderson Galleries (Firm)
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Total Pages : 632 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Sale Catalogues written by American Art Association, Anderson Galleries (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
