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Golden Legends
Author | : W. B. Carnochan |
Publsiher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 185 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780804760980 |
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From the eighteenth century to the present, travellers, explorers, journalists, imaginative writers like Samuel Johnson, and legendary reggae musician Bob Marley have shared a fascination with Abyssinia. So did even earlier writers and mapmakers, who thought Abyssinia was the land of the mythical (and fabulously rich) Christian ruler, Prester John. The principal subject of this book is the allure of the exotic, as represented by Abyssinia, to the British imagination. In addition to Johnson and Marley, some others included are the eighteenth-century Scot James Bruce, nineteenth-century explorer Richard Burton, author Evelyn Waugh, Wilfred Thesiger (best known of twentieth-century British explorers), Sylvia Pankhurst (crusading journalist and daughter of the suffragist Emmeline Pankhurst), and the contemporary Irish traveller Dervla Murphy. The author also considers the beginnings of anthropology and the variations of quest narrative in modern travel writing.
The Golden Legend
Author | : Nadeem Aslam |
Publsiher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2017-04-18 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780451493798 |
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When shots ring out on the Grand Trunk Road in the fictional Pakistani city of Zamara, Nargis’s life begins to crumble around her. Soon her husband—and fellow architect—is dead and, under threat from a powerful military intelligence officer, she fears that a long-hidden truth about her past will be exposed. For weeks someone has been broadcasting people’s secrets from the minaret of the local mosque, and, in a country where even the accusation of blasphemy is a currency to be bartered, the mysterious broadcasts have struck fear in Christians and Muslims alike. A revelatory portrait of the human spirit, in The Golden Legend, Nadeem Aslam gives us a novel of Pakistan’s past and present—a story of corruption and resilience, of love and terror, and of the disguises that are sometimes necessary for survival.
Golden Legends
Author | : Golden legends |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 964 |
Release | : 1833 |
Genre | : Conduct of life |
ISBN | : OXFORD:600041845 |
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Golden Legends of the Olden Time
Author | : John Stoughton |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 1885 |
Genre | : Legends |
ISBN | : OXFORD:590947741 |
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Legenda Aurea L gende Dor e Golden Legend
Author | : P. Butler |
Publsiher | : Рипол Классик |
Total Pages | : 163 |
Release | : 2024 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9785875137426 |
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A study of Caxton's Golden legend with special reference to its relations to the earlier English prose translation.
The Golden Book of Christmas Tales
Author | : Lillian Lewicki |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 28 |
Release | : 2012-11-01 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 125852158X |
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Stories About The Christmas Hawthorne, The Holy Family, The Wise Men, Shepherds, The Talking Animals, The Flight Into Egypt, And The Stories Of Saints Christopher, Nicholas And Joseph Of Arimathea.
Oral Traditions of Southeast Asia and Oceania
Author | : Herman C. Kemp |
Publsiher | : Yayasan Obor Indonesia |
Total Pages | : 718 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9794614831 |
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The Golden Spruce
Author | : John Vaillant |
Publsiher | : Vintage Canada |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2009-03-18 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780307371324 |
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD FOR NON-FICTION • WINNER OF THE WRITERS’ TRUST NON-FICTION PRIZE “Absolutely spellbinding.” —The New York Times The environmental true-crime story of a glorious natural wonder, the man who destroyed it, and the fascinating, troubling context in which this act took place. FEATURING A NEW AFTERWORD BY THE AUTHOR On a winter night in 1997, a British Columbia timber scout named Grant Hadwin committed an act of shocking violence in the mythic Queen Charlotte Islands. His victim was legendary: a unique 300-year-old Sitka spruce tree, fifty metres tall and covered with luminous golden needles. In a bizarre environmental protest, Hadwin attacked the tree with a chainsaw. Two days later, it fell, horrifying an entire community. Not only was the golden spruce a scientific marvel and a tourist attraction, it was sacred to the Haida people and beloved by local loggers. Shortly after confessing to the crime, Hadwin disappeared under suspicious circumstances and is missing to this day. As John Vaillant deftly braids together the strands of this thrilling mystery, he brings to life the ancient beauty of the coastal wilderness, the historical collision of Europeans and the Haida, and the harrowing world of logging—the most dangerous land-based job in North America.