A Journey Round John

Author : Wendy E. S. North
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567660305

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A Journey Round John by Wendy E. S. North Pdf

In A Journey Round John Wendy E. S. North considers a range of themes relevant to the interpretation of the Fourth Gospel. First, the relationship between the Gospel and 1 John. North explores the value of the Epistle as a means of identifying traditional material the evangelist knew; on which basis she appeals to 1 John to account for the form of Jesus' prayer in chapter 11. Second, John's Christology in which North looks to John's cultural roots in monotheistic Judaism to understand his capacity to align Jesus with God. Third, the crucial issue of 'the Jews' in John, where North clarifies the data by observing a narrative logic in John's use of the expression. Fourth, North identifies John's 'anticipated' eschatology as a consolation strategy aimed at a readership struggling under life-threatening circumstances in the absence of Jesus. Finally, North looks at John and the Synoptics, and demonstrates how evidence drawn from the Gospel itself can serve to indicate whether or not John composed directly on the basis of the Synoptic record. This collection draws together a number of ground-breaking studies from over thirty years of work on the Fourth Gospel, presenting a coherent development of thought on this crucial Christian text.

Author : Jean Gavin
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781291454765

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A Journey Round My Cottage by Jean Gavin Pdf

The instant I saw her I knew. It was love at first sight and that love grew over the years. What began as curiosity "I wonder what those marks are on the beams." became "I have to find out about her history". While some of those musings were rewarded, there were many that I could not fathom. There were only a limited number of years that I was able to go back and find answers, then I came up against a blank. The cottage holds on to her secrets but I hope you will enjoy your journey, and perhaps, love her as I did.

Author : John Higham
Publisher : Easton Studio Press, LLC
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-07-17
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781935212997

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360 Degrees Longitude by John Higham Pdf

Much more than a travel narrative 360 Degrees Longitude: One Family’s Journey Around the World is a glimpse at what it means to be a “global citizen”—a progressively changing view of the world as seen through the eyes of an American family of four. After more than a decade of planning, John Higham and his wife September bid their high-tech jobs and suburban lives good-bye, packed up their home and set out with two children, ages eight and eleven, to travel around the world. In the course of the next 52 weeks they crossed 24 time zones, visited 28 countries and experienced a lifetime of adventures. Making their way across the world, the Highams discovered more than just different foods and cultures; they also learned such diverse things as a Chilean mall isn’t the best place to get your ears pierced, and that elephants appreciate flowers just as much as the next person. But most importantly, they learned about each other, and just how much a family can weather if they do it together. 360 Degrees Longitude employs Google’s wildly popular Google Earth as a compliment to the narrative. Using your computer you can spin the digital globe to join the adventure cycling through Europe, feeling the cold stare of a pride of lions in Africa, and breaking down in the Andes. Packed with photos, video and text, the online Google Earth companion adds a dimension not possible with mere paper and ink. Fly over the terrain of the Inca Trail or drill down to see the majesty of the Swiss Alps—without leaving the comfort of your chair.

Author : Frederick J. Falding
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Voyages and travels
ISBN : OXFORD:590352461

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Notes of a Journey Round the World by Frederick J. Falding Pdf

Author : John M. MacFarlane,Lynn J. Salmon
Publisher : Harbour Publishing
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781550178807

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Around the World in a Dugout Canoe by John M. MacFarlane,Lynn J. Salmon Pdf

Anticipating fame and wealth, Captain John Voss set out from Victoria, BC, in 1901, seeking to claim the world record for the smallest vessel ever to circumnavigate the globe. For the journey, he procured an authentic dugout cedar canoe from an Indigenous village on the east coast of Vancouver Island. For three years Voss and the Tilikum, aided by a rotating cast of characters, visited Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Brazil and finally England, weathering heavy gales at sea and attracting large crowds of spectators on shore. The austere on-board conditions and simple navigational equipment Voss used throughout the voyage are a testimony to his skill and to the solid construction of the Nuu-Chah-Nulth vessel. Both Voss and his original mate, newspaperman N.K. Luxton, later wrote about their journey in accounts compromised by poor memories, brazen egos and outright lies. Stories of murder, cannibalism and high-seas terror have been repeated elsewhere without any regard to the truth. Now, over a century later, a full and fair account of the voyage—and the magnitude of Voss’s accomplishment—is at last fully detailed. In this groundbreaking work, marine historians John MacFarlane and Lynn Salmon sift fact from fiction, critically examining the claims of Voss’s and Luxton’s manuscripts against research from libraries, archives, museums and primary sources around the world. Including unpublished photographs, letters and ephemera from the voyage, Around the World in a Dugout Canoe tells the real story of a little-understood character and his cedar canoe. It is an enduring story of courage, adventure, sheer luck and at times tragedy.

Author : Dava Sobel
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780802779434

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Longitude by Dava Sobel Pdf

The dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest and of one man's forty-year obsession to find a solution to the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day--"the longitude problem." Anyone alive in the eighteenth century would have known that "the longitude problem" was the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day-and had been for centuries. Lacking the ability to measure their longitude, sailors throughout the great ages of exploration had been literally lost at sea as soon as they lost sight of land. Thousands of lives and the increasing fortunes of nations hung on a resolution. One man, John Harrison, in complete opposition to the scientific community, dared to imagine a mechanical solution-a clock that would keep precise time at sea, something no clock had ever been able to do on land. Longitude is the dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest and of Harrison's forty-year obsession with building his perfect timekeeper, known today as the chronometer. Full of heroism and chicanery, it is also a fascinating brief history of astronomy, navigation, and clockmaking, and opens a new window on our world.

Author : R. Reginald,Douglas Menville,Mary A. Burgess
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 802 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780941028769

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Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature by R. Reginald,Douglas Menville,Mary A. Burgess Pdf

Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, A Checklist, 1700-1974, Volume one of Two, contains an Author Index, Title Index, Series Index, Awards Index, and the Ace and Belmont Doubles Index.

Author : John Muir
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1559636416

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John Muir's Last Journey by John Muir Pdf

"I am now writing up some notes, but when they will be ready for publication I do not know... It will be a long time before anything is arranged in book form." These words of John Muir, written in June 1912 to a friend, proved prophetic. The journals and notes to which the great naturalist and environmental figure was referring have languished, unpublished and virtually untouched, for nearly a century. Until now. Here edited and published for the first time, John Muir's travel journals from 1911-12, along with his associated correspondence, finally allow us to read in his own words the remarkable story of John Muir's last great journey. Leaving from Brooklyn, New York, in August 1911, John Muir, at the age of seventy-three and traveling alone, embarked on an eight-month, 40,000-mile voyage to South America and Africa. The 1911-12 journals and correspondence reproduced in this volume allow us to travel with him up the great Amazon, into the jungles of southern Brazil, to snowline in the Andes, through southern and central Africa to the headwaters of the Nile, and across six oceans and seas in order to reach the rare forests he had so long wished to study. Although this epic journey has received almost no attention from the many commentators on Muir's work, Muir himself considered it among the most important of his life and the fulfillment of a decades-long dream. John Muir's Last Journey provides a rare glimpse of a Muir whose interests as a naturalist, traveler, and conservationist extended well beyond the mountains of California. It also helps us to see John Muir as a different kind of hero, one whose endurance and intellectual curiosity carried him into far fields of adventure even as he aged, and as a private person and family man with genuine affections, ambitions, and fears, not just an iconic representative of American wilderness. With an introduction that sets Muir's trip in the context of his life and work, along with chapter introductions and a wealth of explanatory notes, the book adds important dimensions to our appreciation of one of America's greatest environmentalists. John Muir's Last Journey is a must reading for students and scholars of environmental history, American literature, natural history, and related fields, as well as for naturalists and armchair travelers everywhere.

Author : Somerville (Mass.). Public Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HNKDV3

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Finding List of the Library by Somerville (Mass.). Public Library Pdf

Author : Taunton (Mass.). Public Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Classified catalogs
ISBN : HARVARD:32044080252398

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Catalogue of the Public Library of the City of Taunton, Mass by Taunton (Mass.). Public Library Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1148 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z174873206

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A Catalogue of the Books Belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia by Anonim Pdf

Author : Boston Public Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Biography
ISBN : NYPL:33433069268187

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Catalogue of Books in the Lower Hall of the Boston Public Library in the Classes of History, Biography, Geography, and Travel by Boston Public Library Pdf

Author : Frigyes Karinthy
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2008-03-11
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781590172582

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A Journey Round My Skull by Frigyes Karinthy Pdf

The distinguished Hungarian author Frigyes Karinthy was sitting in a Budapest café, wondering whether to write a long-planned monograph on modern man or a new play, when he was disturbed by the roaring—so loud as to drown out all other noises—of a passing train. Soon it was gone, only to be succeeded by another. And another. Strange, Karinthy thought, it had been years since Budapest had streetcars. Only then did he realize he was suffering from an auditory hallucination of extraordinary intensity. What in fact Karinthy was suffering from was a brain tumor, not cancerous but hardly benign, though it was only much later—after spells of giddiness, fainting fits, friends remarking that his handwriting had altered, and books going blank before his eyes—that he consulted a doctor and embarked on a series of examinations that would lead to brain surgery. Karinthy’s description of his descent into illness and his observations of his symptoms, thoughts, and feelings, as well as of his friends’ and doctors’ varied responses to his predicament, are exact and engrossing and entirely free of self-pity. A Journey Round My Skull is not only an extraordinary piece of medical testimony, but a powerful work of literature—one that dances brilliantly on the edge of extinction.

Author : John Grindrod
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780571348152

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Iconicon by John Grindrod Pdf

A captivating exploration of Britain's most iconic contemporary buildings, from the Barratt home to the Millennium Dome.***TIMES BOOK OF THE WEEK*** 'A punchy polemic ... Highly readable.''A love letter to contemporary buildings and a fantastic account of recent British history, rich in humour.' NINA STIBBE'Brilliant, encyclopaedic, funny and often cutting.' DANNY DORLING'An eloquent, witty, passionate tour of Britain since the 1980s.' JOHN BOUGHTON'Recounts the stories of our lived landscapes with wit, passion and a shot of anger.' TOM DYCKHOFF'Grindrod has spoken to everyone and his observations are humane and acute.' OWEN HATHERLEYWimpey homes. Millennium monuments. Riverside flats. Wind farms. Spectacular skyscrapers. City centre apartments. Out of town malls.The buildings designed in our lifetimes encapsulate the dreams and aspirations of our culture, while also revealing the sobering realities. Whether modest or monumental, they offer a living history of Britain, symbols of the forces that have shaped our modern landscape and icons in their own right.ICONICON is an enthralling journey around the Britain we have created since 1980: the horrors and delights, the triumphs and failures. From space-age tower blocks to suburban business parks, and from postmodernist exuberance to Passivhaus eco-efficiency, this is at once a revelatory architectural grand tour and an endlessly witty and engaging piece of social history.

Author : Mercantile Library of Philadelphia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Library catalogs
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CU55880991

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Alphabetical List (by Title) of the Class of Prose Fiction by Mercantile Library of Philadelphia Pdf