51 Febvre shared this view with Marc Bloch, whose Feudal Society in 1939 similarly explained the violent moods of earlier eras in terms of their unstable conditions of life: the “perpetual insecurity” of medieval life, Bloch wrote ...
Adventures in the Tropical Rainforest Bruce M. Beehler. Ali, Sálim. 1986. The Fall of a Sparrow. Oxford University Press, New Delhi. Ali, Sálim, and S. Dillon Ripley. 1983. A Pictorial Guide to the Birds of the Indian Subcontinent.
Bird and tropical ecology expert Bruce Beehler discusses his experiences while performing his field research in PapuaNew Guinea, India, Madagascar, Indonesia, the Philippines, Panama, and the Ivory Coast, and defines the role that ...
In Lost Worlds David Yeadon continues his exploration of the far corners of the world that he began in The Back of Beyond, described by Kirkus Reviews as a "big,...
Lost Worlds
Collection of classic macabre and fantastic tales from a master of pulp fiction.
"Funny, erudite and fascinating, Bywater's 'Lost worlds' is a treasure trove of spectacularly miscellaneous knowledge, all of it worth knowing, about things lost and gone, many of them worh regretting....
Presents illustrations of lost worlds defined in histories, myths, legends and folklore, including such places as Aratta, Atlantis, Camelot, and Ultima Thule.
By exploring the various systems that made sense out of this circumscribed existence - astrology, the folklore of the seasons, and Christian interpretations of birth, confirmation, marriage, and death - Imhof expands the book into a ...
Lost Worlds
No mere miscellany, it weaves a web of everything we no longer have. Michael Bywater, "Lost Worlds" columnist for the Independent on Sunday, teaches at Cambridge University.
The author of The Back of Beyond continues the chronicle of his odyssey into some of the farthest corners of the world, from the Mountains of the Moon in Zaire, to wilderness Tasmania, to the unknown regions of New Guinea.
Lost Worlds
Indian Labour and Its Forgotten Histories Chitra Joshi. the individualised acts through which workers tried to redefine notions of work and leisure. In reading political meanings into everyday practices of the workplace, ...
Moleskine. The egregiously hypersensitive author Bruce Chatwin couldn't, my dear, write a word, do you see, unless he had these absolutely exquisite French notebooks, cahiers Moleskine, which he got from this perfect little stationer's ...
He closely examines the work of Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve, Hippolyte Taine, the antiquarian Alfred Franklin, Febvre himself, the twentieth-century historian Philippe Ariès, and several others.
Lost Worlds is the first children's book fully illustrated and written by John Howe, the renowned Tolkien illustrator.
... book trade. While at Yale, Whitney tried to obtain a copy of Bopp's groundbreaking Vergleichende Grammatik (volume 1, 1833), a ''comparative'' grammar embracing Sanskrit, Greek, Latin, Persian, Gothic, Zend-Avestan, Armenian, Lithuanian ...
Lost Worlds
Calum Challenger is a boy with a mission: to track down supposedly mythological creatures and capture their DNA.