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Author : Sin-D Dockery
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781329686663
Divine intervention into a world of darkness and despair. There is more to this story than meets the eye. Not all is what it seems.
Author : Sin-D Dockery
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781794846098
Author : Katharine Holabird,Helen Craig
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Dragons
ISBN : 1854060082
Author : Daniel Ogden
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199323746
Stories about dragons, serpents, and their slayers make up a rich and varied tradition within ancient mythology and folklore. In this sourcebook, Daniel Ogden presents a comprehensive and easily accessible collection of dragon myths from Greek, Roman, and early Christian sources. Some of the dragons featured are well known: the Hydra, slain by Heracles; the Dragon of Colchis, the guardian of the golden fleece overcome by Jason and Medea; and the great sea-serpent from which Perseus rescues Andromeda. But the less well known dragons are often equally enthralling, like the Dragon of Thespiae, which Menestratus slays by feeding himself to it in armor covered in fish-hooks, or the lamias of Libya, who entice young men into their striking-range by wiggling their tails, shaped like beautiful women, at them. The texts are arranged in such a way as to allow readers to witness the continuity of and evolution in dragon stories between the Classical and Christian worlds, and to understand the genesis of saintly dragon-slaying stories of the sort now characteristically associated with St George, whose earliest dragon-fight concludes the volume. All texts, a considerable number of which have not previously been available in English, are offered in new translations and accompanied by lucid commentaries that place the source-passages into their mythical, folkloric, literary, and cultural contexts. A sampling of the ancient iconography of dragons and an appendix on dragon slaying myths from the ancient Near East and India, particularly those with a bearing upon the Greco-Roman material, are also included. This volume promises to be the most authoritative sourcebook on this perennially fascinating and influential body of ancient myth.
Author : Nicole Alexander
Publisher : Random House Australia
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780857989475
Taking place over just one week, River Run is an unputdownable rural drama from the bestselling author of The Bark Cutters and Wild Lands. It is January 1951, and after a year away Eleanor Webber has returned home to River Run, her family’s sprawling sheep property in western New South Wales. Fleeing a failed love affair back in Sydney, she hopes for some time and space to heal. But with shearing of over 25,000 sheep about to commence, and the infamous and moneyed Margaret Winslow and her husband Keith staying in the main house as her mother’s guests, that dream is quickly dashed. More worryingly, her half-brother Robbie is increasingly running wild, playing tricks on his governess, antagonising the jackeroos and obsessing about a communist invasion. Though only eleven, Robbie has appointed himself guardian of the property and, in his treehouse by the river, he readies for an imminent attack. Armed with a gun. Then, with a storm looming and tensions rising in the shearing shed, a mysterious stranger appears on the horizon. And in one disastrous moment young Robbie entangles Eleanor in a situation that will have serious repercussions for every member of the Webber family . . .
Author : Dominic Ziegler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9781594203671
Black Dragon River recounts a personal journey down one of Asia's great rivers. The world's ninth largest river, the Amur serves as a large part of the border between Russia and China. As a crossroads for the great empires of Asia, this area offers Economist journalist Dominic Ziegler a lens with which to examine the societies at Europe's only borderland with East Asia. Part travel writing, part history, it reveals how the long shared history on the Amur has conditioned the way China and Russia behave toward each other.
Author : ABDULWAHID OSMAN
Publisher : Pencil
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789358833393
As a child, Taylor sat at the feet of the great Levi and was thrilled to wild tales of a land far to the west. But his youthful fantasies were shattered by a mercenary raid. Raised by the Mikings' who murdered his family, Taylor became a terrifying warrior, forever seeking to kill the band's leader, Alexander, and avenge his father. Sustaining Taylor through his ordeal are his pride in his family and his dreams of a fertile westward land, a land without war or slavery...the land Levi called "Vinburg".
Author : Cleopatra Bugelas Alexander
Publisher : Waverider Press
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0996866604
Shiny the Sea Star Surfs the Seas and Finds a Yangtze River Dragon
Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 852 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1824
Category : English language
ISBN : NYPL:33433070243146
Author : Alexander Chalmers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1802
Category : English essays
ISBN : NYPL:33433067304208
Author : British essayists
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 806 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1823
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600072918
Author : Alexander Chalmers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 772 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1823
Category : English essays
ISBN : STANFORD:36105118845796
Author : Alexander Chalmers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1817
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IND:30000115390969
Author : Alexander Chalmers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1808
Category : English essays
ISBN : UOM:39015030930955
Author : Richard Stoneman,Kyle Erickson,Ian Richard Netton
Publisher : Barkhuis
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9789491431043
Alexander the Great of Macedon was no stranger to controversy in his own time. Conqueror of the Greek states, of Egypt and of the Persian Empire as well as many of the principalities of the Indus Valley, he nevertheless became revered as well as vilified. Was he simply a destroyer of the ancient civilizations and religions of these regions, or was he a hero of the Persian dynasties and of Islam? The conflicting views that were taken of him in the Middle East in his own time and the centuries that followed are still reflected in the tensions that exist between east and west today. The story of Alexander became the subject of legend in the medieval west, but was perhaps even more pervasive in the east. The Alexander Romance was translated into Syriac in the sixth century and may have become current in Persia as early as the third century AD. From these beginnings it reached into the Persian national epic, the Shahnameh, into Jewish traditions, and into the Quran and subsequent Arab romance. The papers in this volume all have the aim of deepening our understanding of this complex development. If we can understand better why Alexander is such an important figure in both east and west, we shall be a little closer to understanding what unites two often antipathetic worlds. This volume collects the papers delivered at the conference of the same title held at the University of Exeter from July 26-29 2010. More than half the papers were by invited speakers and were designed to provide a systematic view of the subject; the remainder were selected for their ability to carry research forward in an integrated way.
