Frances Wingate is a woman much given to living in the past. As an eminent archaeologist she travels widely giving lectures on ancient history. As a woman she is eaten away with regrets that she ended her relationship with Karel - for reasons that no longer seem valid.
It’s only when Frances throws herself into her work that she discovers some surprising connections to others, in this novel about the search for meaning in life that is “alive with ideas” (Anatole Broyard, The New York Times).
The three volume Realms of Gold series brings together all the shorter literary works taught in the Core Knowledge Sequence for the middle school grades. Volume Two includes those for grade seven.
Keats' letters paint an unforgettably vivid and moving picture of CLIPPER the richly productive but also tragic final years of the poet's life.
The core of the book is Oliver's account of his research travels throughout tropical Africa from the 1940s to the 1980s; his efforts to train and foster African graduate students to teach in African universities; his role in establishing ...
For students studying literature, this book serves as an introduction to the classics as friends; for those who have not read the classics in a long time, it is motivation to renew delightful acquaintances; for people who already know the ...
In the Realms of Gold: The Proceedings of the Tenth Conference on Underwater Archaeology
... Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific , and all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise Silent , upon a peak in Darien . The poem is not about Homer or Chapman's translations of 116 REALMS OF GOLD.
The novel is a masterful tapestry of human aspirations and enterprises, of science and intuition, revealing the author?s profound understanding of the past and her visionary re-crafting of it that leads to the story?s romantic?and ...
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