Alone Through the Forbidden Land

Alone Through the Forbidden Land
Author: Gustav Krist
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 244
Release: 1992
Genre: Asia, Central
ISBN: UOM:39015079288596

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Alone Through the Forbidden Land

Alone Through the Forbidden Land
Author: Gustav Krist
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 248
Release: 1992
Genre: Asia, Central
ISBN: UOM:39015054407047

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Forbidden Land

Forbidden Land
Author: William Sarabande
Publsiher: Bantam
Total Pages: 449
Release: 1989-08-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780553282061

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The spellbinding epic adventure of a time when mankind took its first steps and the icy wilds claimed the earth. Breathtaking, vivid, unforgettable—here is the third volume of the panoramic new series The First Americans which began with Beyond The Sea Of Ice and continued with Corridor Of Storms. In this untamed prehistoric time, the great hunter Torka has led a group of survivors across a frozen sea. Now he is their proud headman, a leader who defies the old ways. For this, the will of the tribe turns against him—and he must act quickly to save his children from those who would see them killed. Together with his family and a small band of faithful followers, Torka and his wife Lonit strike out a dangerous journey to an unknown land feared by all men . . . the forbidden land. With supreme courage they will struggle against its savagery, its strange creatures and ancient mystical beliefs to build a future worthy of a noble people . . . worthy of Americans.

Book of Beasts

Book of Beasts
Author: Elizabeth Morrison
Publsiher: Getty Publications
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2019
Genre: ART
ISBN: 9781606065907

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A celebration of the visual contributions of the bestiary--one of the most popular types of illuminated books during the Middle Ages--and an exploration of its lasting legacy. Brimming with lively animals both real and fantastic, the bestiary was one of the great illuminated manuscript traditions of the Middle Ages. Encompassing imaginary creatures such as the unicorn, siren, and griffin; exotic beasts including the tiger, elephant, and ape; as well as animals native to Europe like the beaver, dog, and hedgehog, the bestiary is a vibrant testimony to the medieval understanding of animals and their role in the world. So iconic were the stories and images of the bestiary that its beasts essentially escaped from the pages, appearing in a wide variety of manuscripts and other objects, including tapestries, ivories, metalwork, and sculpture. With over 270 color illustrations and contributions by twenty-five leading scholars, this gorgeous volume explores the bestiary and its widespread influence on medieval art and culture as well as on modern and contemporary artists like Pablo Picasso and Damien Hirst. Published to accompany an exhibition on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center May 14 to August 18, 2019.

Ridgerunner

Ridgerunner
Author: Gil Adamson
Publsiher: House of Anansi
Total Pages: 358
Release: 2020-05-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781487006570

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Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize Winner Scotiabank Giller Prize Finalist Part literary Western and part historical mystery, Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize winner Ridgerunner is now available as a paperback. November 1917. William Moreland is in mid-flight. After nearly twenty years, the notorious thief, known as the Ridgerunner, has returned. Moving through the Rocky Mountains and across the border to Montana, the solitary drifter, impoverished in means and aged beyond his years, is also a widower and a father. And he is determined to steal enough money to secure his son’s future. Twelve-year-old Jack Boulton has been left in the care of Sister Beatrice, a formidable nun who keeps him in cloistered seclusion in her grand old house. Though he knows his father is coming for him, the boy longs to return to his family’s cabin, deep in the woods. When Jack finally breaks free, he takes with him something the nun is determined to get back — at any cost. Set against the backdrop of a distant war raging in Europe and a rapidly changing landscape in the West, Gil Adamson’s follow-up to her award-winning debut, The Outlander, is a vivid historical novel that draws from the epic tradition and a literary Western brimming with a cast of unforgettable characters touched with humour and loss, and steeped in the wild of the natural world.

In the Forbidden Land

In the Forbidden Land
Author: Arnold Henry Savage Landor
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 408
Release: 1899
Genre: Tibet (China)
ISBN: HARVARD:32044043143577

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Central Asians Under Russian Rule

Central Asians Under Russian Rule
Author: Elizabeth E. Bacon
Publsiher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 340
Release: 1966
Genre: History
ISBN: 0801492114

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Historical study of ethnography and cultural change in Central Asia under USSR rule - describes geographical aspects of the region, the life of the indigenous peoples and of tribal peoples, the Russian influence on traditions and on the language, etc., and includes the social implications of communist takeover.

The Forbidden Lands

The Forbidden Lands
Author: Hal Langfur
Publsiher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 428
Release: 2006
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780804751803

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This study concerns a pivotal but unexamined surge in frontier violence that engulfed the eastern forests of eighteenth-century Brazil. It focuses on social, cultural, and racial relations among settlers, slaves, and native peoples accused of cannibalism.