Author : Gustav Krist
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Asia, Central
ISBN : UOM:39015054407047
Alone Through The Forbidden Land
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Forbidden Land
Author : William Sarabande
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1989-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780553282061
Forbidden Land by William Sarabande Pdf
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
Author : Elizabeth Morrison
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : ART
ISBN : 9781606065907
Book of Beasts by Elizabeth Morrison Pdf
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
Author : Gil Adamson
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781487006570
Ridgerunner by Gil Adamson Pdf
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
Author : Arnold Henry Savage Landor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1899
Category : Tibet (China)
ISBN : HARVARD:TZ29AL
In the Forbidden Land by Arnold Henry Savage Landor Pdf
Central Asians Under Russian Rule
Author : Elizabeth E. Bacon
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : History
ISBN : 0801492114
Central Asians Under Russian Rule by Elizabeth E. Bacon Pdf
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
Author : Hal Langfur
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9780804751803
The Forbidden Lands by Hal Langfur Pdf
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.
Forbidden Highlander
Author : Donna Grant
Publisher : St. Martin's Paperbacks
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010-05-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429928120
Forbidden Highlander by Donna Grant Pdf
Fallon McLeod has gifts any warrior would covet—fierce strength, unmatched skill, even immortality. But those gifts have come at a price that puts everyone he loves at risk. Only when his brother, Quinn, is taken captive does Fallon leave the seclusion of his Highland home to seek the king's aid. And though every woman at court would gladly be his for the asking, one alone causes desire to roar to life within him: beautiful, mysterious Larena Monroe. Rumors swirl around the castle about "The McLeod" but Larena knows the truth. Like Fallon, Larena is searching for a way to vanquish the evil Druid who wants to wreak havoc on earth. Drawn to Fallon in spite of her fear, she surrenders to a passion that shocks them both with its raw intensity. But Larena dares not hope for more—not when she holds a secret that could turn her fiery Highland love against her forever... "Totally Captivating" (RT Book Reviews), Forbidden Highlander is a stunning historical and paranormal romance, book two in Donna Grant's bestselling Dark Sword series.
Zahrah the Windseeker
Author : Nnedi Okorafor,Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0547020287
Zahrah the Windseeker by Nnedi Okorafor,Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu Pdf
Zahrah, a timid thirteen-year-old girl, undertakes a dangerous quest into the Forbidden Greeny Jungle to seek the antidote for her best friend after he is bitten by a snake, and finds knowledge, courage, and hidden powers along the way.
Corridor of Storms
Author : William Sarabande
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1988-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780553271591
Corridor of Storms by William Sarabande Pdf
Panoramic, authentic, explosively dramatic—this is the breathtaking new series The First Americans, which began with Book I, Beyond The Sea Of Ice. Now the heroic great hunter Torka, his woman Lonit, and his adopted son Karana emerge from a land forbidden to all men, a land where mountains walk and spirits speak. Across the fierce glacial tundra Torka leads his people—survivors of a horrifying natural disaster—to a winter camp where many bands gather to hunt the great mammoth. There he and his followers encounter an evil more dangerous than the wild lands—the magic man called Navahlk, who vows cruel destruction of the bold hunter Torka. To survive they must draw upon the courage of one brave boy who will grow to manhood and see with his mind’s eye where the sun’s light has led them—to the dawn of man on the American continent.
Ice Diaries
Author : Jean McNeil
Publisher : ECW Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781770908765
Ice Diaries by Jean McNeil Pdf
What do we stand to lose in a world without ice? A decade ago, novelist and short story writer Jean McNeil spent a year as writer in residence with the British Antarctic Survey, and four months on the world's most enigmatic continent, Antarctica. Access to the Antarctic remains largely reserved for scientists, and it is the only piece of earth which is nobody's country. Ice Diaries is the story of McNeil's years spent in ice, not only in the Antarctic but her subsequent travels in Greenland, Iceland and Svalbard, culminating in a strange event in Cape Town, South Africa, where she journeyed to make what was to be her final trip to the southernmost continent. In the spirit of the diaries of Antarctic explorers Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton, McNeil mixes travelogue, popular science and memoir to examine the history of our fascination with ice. In entering this world, McNeil unexpectedly finds herself confronting her own upbringing in the Maritimes, the lifelong effects of growing up in a cold place, and how the climates of childhood frame our emotional thermodynamics for life. Ice Diaries is a haunting story of the relationship between beauty and terror, loss and abandonment, transformation and triumph.
KYRGYZSTAN: Reflections of a Winter's Journey
Author : LEON WHITELEY
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-05
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781291034752
KYRGYZSTAN: Reflections of a Winter's Journey by LEON WHITELEY Pdf
This is the story of a journey through Kyrgyzstan, a remote, mountainous land at the heart of Eurasia. Undertaken in the dead of winter, only months after the country suffered violent revolution and ethnic conflict, Reflections of a Winter's Journey offers a unique glimpse of life in a nation still barely known to the West.
The Crown Colonist
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1938
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : MINN:319510012278799
The Crown Colonist by Anonim Pdf
Anderson’s Travel Companion
Author : Compiled by Sarah Anderson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351958394
Anderson’s Travel Companion by Compiled by Sarah Anderson Pdf
A selection of the best in travel writing, with both fiction and non-fiction presented together, this companion is for all those who like travelling, like to think about travelling, and who take an interest in their destination. It covers guidebooks as well as books about food, history, art and architecture, religion, outdoor activities, illustrated books, autobiographies, biographies and fiction and lists books both in and out of print. Anderson's Travel Companion is arranged first by continent, then alphabetically by country and then by subject, cross-referenced where necessary. There is a separate section for guidebooks and comprehensive indexes. Sarah Anderson founded the Travel Bookshop in 1979 and is also a journalist and writer on travel subjects. She is known by well-known travel writers such as Michael Palin and Colin Thubron. Michael Palin chose her bookshop as his favourite shop and Colin Thubron and Geoffrey Moorhouse, among others, made suggestions for titles to include in the Travel Companion.
Warlords and Muslims in Chinese Central Asia
Author : Andrew D. W. Forbes
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1986-10-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0521255147
Warlords and Muslims in Chinese Central Asia by Andrew D. W. Forbes Pdf
This book provides a detailed study of Sinkiang - China's largest province, and of great strategic importance on the Russian border during the Warlord and Kuomintang Eras. It is an analysis of the internal warlord and Islamic politics of Sinkiang, as well as to take account of 'great power' interests in this region, during a period in which it was essentially a Han Chinese colony in the heart of Central Asia. The study is of relevance not only to the history of twentieth-century China, but also to the politics of Islamic reassertion in Central Asia; to the development of the Soviet Union as an imperial power in the Tsarist Russian mould; to an understanding of the cultural and political aspirations of China's national minorities; and should serve - in a world preoccupied with 'Western' colonialism and imperialism - as a reminder that colonial kin and imperialism was not, and is not, an exclusively European preserve.