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Author : Emily Hawkins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 91 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-04
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780711262829
An Atlas of Lost Kingdoms takes young explorers on a quest to discover legendary lost worlds from a variety of different cultures spanning the globe.
Author : Emily Hawkins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 91 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-04
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780711262805
An Atlas of Lost Kingdoms takes young explorers on a quest to discover legendary lost worlds from a variety of different cultures spanning the globe.
Author : Serhii Plokhy
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780465097395
From a preeminent scholar of Eastern Europe and the prizewinning author of Chernobyl, the essential history of Russian imperialism. In 2014, Russia annexed the Crimea and attempted to seize a portion of Ukraine -- only the latest iteration of a centuries-long effort to expand Russian boundaries and create a pan-Russian nation. In Lost Kingdom, award-winning historian Serhii Plokhy argues that we can only understand the confluence of Russian imperialism and nationalism today by delving into the nation's history. Spanning over 500 years, from the end of the Mongol rule to the present day, Plokhy shows how leaders from Ivan the Terrible to Joseph Stalin to Vladimir Putin exploited existing forms of identity, warfare, and territorial expansion to achieve imperial supremacy. An authoritative and masterful account of Russian nationalism, Lost Kingdom chronicles the story behind Russia's belligerent empire-building quest.
Author : Wendy A. Wiseman,Burak Kesgin
Publisher : Vernon Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-12
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781648898488
The authors in ‘Lost Kingdom’ grapple with both the catastrophe of mass animal extinction, in which the panoply of earthly life is in the accelerating process of disappearing, and with the mass death of industrial animal agriculture. Both forms of anthropogenic violence against animals cast the Anthropocene as an era of criminality and loss driven by boundless human exceptionalism, forcing a reckoning with and an urgent reimagining of human-animal relations. Without the sleights of hand that would lump “humanity” into a singular Anthropos of the Anthropocene, the authors recognize the differential nature of human impacts on animal life and the biosphere as a whole, while affirming the complexity of animal worlds and their profound imbrications in human cultures, societies, and industries. Confronting the reality of the Sixth Mass Extinction and mass animal death requires forms of narrativity that draw on traditional genres and disciplines, while signaling a radical break with modern temporalities and norms. Chapters in this volume reflect this challenge, while embodying the interdisciplinary nature of inquiry into non-human animality at the edge of the abyss—historiography, cultural anthropology, post-colonial studies, literary criticism, critical animal studies, ethics, religious studies, Anthropocene studies, and extinction studies entwine to illuminate what is arguably the greatest crisis, for all creatures, in the past 65 million years.
Author : Matt Myklusch
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-18
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781534424913
When Fate puts the Secret Map of the World into Joey Kopecky, Shazad, and Leanora's hands, they set out to find a lost kingdom that could hold the key to a new age of magic.
Author : Guy, John
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-07
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781588395245
A fresh and exciting exploration of Southeast Asian history from the 5th to 9th century, seen through the lens of the region's sculpture
Author : Matthew J. Kirby
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-27
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780545539562
A remarkable adventure by award-winning author Matthew J. Kirby brings a fantastical American West filled with secrets and spies and terrifying creatures to vivid life. In this extraordinary adventure story, Billy Bartram, his father, and a secret society of philosophers and scientists venture into the American wilderness in search of the lost people of the Welsh Prince Madoc, seeking aid in the coming war against the French. Traveling in a flying airship, the members of the expedition find their lives frequently endangered in the untamed American West by terrifying creatures, a party of French soldiers hot on their trail, and the constant threat of traitors and spies. Billy will face hazards greater than he can ever imagine as, together with his father, he gets caught up in the fight for the biggest prize of all: America. THE LOST KINGDOM is an epic journey filled with marvelous exploits, courage and intrigue, and a bold reimagining of a mythical America. Matthew J. Kirby brings his signature storytelling prowess and superb craft to this astonishing story of fathers and sons, the beginnings of a nation, and wonder-filled adventure.
Author : Miles Harvey
Publisher : Crown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780307766564
The Island of Lost Maps tells the story of a curious crime spree: the theft of scores of valuable centuries-old maps from some of the most prominent research libraries in the United States and Canada. The perpetrator was Gilbert Joseph Bland, Jr., an enigmatic antiques dealer from South Florida, whose cross-country slash-and-dash operation had gone virtually undetected until he was caught in 1995–and was unmasked as the most prolific American map thief in history. As Miles Harvey unravels the mystery of Bland’s life, he maps out the world of cartography and cartographic crime, weaving together a fascinating story of exploration, craftsmanship, villainy, and the lure of the unknown.
Author : Alistair Moffat
Publisher : Birlinn
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857902269
The Holy Grail, the kingdom of Camelot, The Knights of the Round Table and the magical sword Excalibur are all key ingredients of the legends surrounding King Arthur. But who was he really, where did he come from, and how much of what we read about him in stories that date back to the Dark Ages is true? So far historians have failed to show that King Arthur really existed at all, for a good reason - they have been looking in the wrong place. In this fascinating and thought-provoking book, Alistair Moffat shatters all existing assumptions about Britain's most enigmatic hero. With reference to literary sources and historical documents, to archaeology and the ancient names of rivers, hills and forts, he strips away a thousand years of myth to unveil the real King Arthur. And in doing so he solves one of the greatest riddles of them all - the site of Camelot itself.
Author : Alistair Moffat
Publisher : Birlinn
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Scotland
ISBN : 1841589586
Modern communications have driven motorways and pylons through the countryside, dwarfed us with TV and telephone masts and drastically altered the way in which we move around, see and understand Scotland. Recent politics and logistics have established borders and jurisdictions which now seem permanent and impervious.
Author : Emily Hawkins
Publisher : Atlas of
Page : 91 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780711255654
"Journey from one extreme to the other as you turn the page to discover what record-breaker is next. This is a high-octane tour around the world, stopping off at every continent to marvel at natural and human phenomena."--Provided by publisher.
Author : Judyth A. McLeod
Publisher : Pier 9, Murdoch Books
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Cartography
ISBN : 1741961416
'The Invisible Atlas' captures a period when the world still held room enough for wonders to exist, and presents for today's reader the alternative earth imagined by our not-too-distant ancestors, a world of imaginary lands with mindbogglingly improbable inhabitants; a world sought by explorers as notable as Columbus.
Author : David Day
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781626864931
Includes index and "Chronology of Battles of the War of the Ring" (page 255).
Author : Travis Elborough
Publisher : White Lion Publishing
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-17
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781781318959
Maps offer us a chance to see not just how our world looks today, but how it once looked. But what about the places that are no longer mapped? Cities forgotten under the dust of newly settled land? Rivers and seas whose changing shape has shifted the landscape around them? Or, even, places that have seemingly vanished, without a trace? Travis Elborough takes you on a voyage to all corners of the world in search of the lost, disappearing and vanished. Specially commissioned cartography showing each place as It once was and how it is today and archive photography bring these incredible stories to life.
Author : Herman L. Bennett
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812295498
A thought-provoking reappraisal of the first European encounters with Africa As early as 1441, and well before other European countries encountered Africa, small Portuguese and Spanish trading vessels were plying the coast of West Africa, where they conducted business with African kingdoms that possessed significant territory and power. In the process, Iberians developed an understanding of Africa's political landscape in which they recognized specific sovereigns, plotted the extent and nature of their polities, and grouped subjects according to their ruler. In African Kings and Black Slaves, Herman L. Bennett mines the historical archives of Europe and Africa to reinterpret the first century of sustained African-European interaction. These encounters were not simple economic transactions. Rather, according to Bennett, they involved clashing understandings of diplomacy, sovereignty, and politics. Bennett unearths the ways in which Africa's kings required Iberian traders to participate in elaborate diplomatic rituals, establish treaties, and negotiate trade practices with autonomous territories. And he shows how Iberians based their interpretations of African sovereignty on medieval European political precepts grounded in Roman civil and canon law. In the eyes of Iberians, the extent to which Africa's polities conformed to these norms played a significant role in determining who was, and who was not, a sovereign people—a judgment that shaped who could legitimately be enslaved. Through an examination of early modern African-European encounters, African Kings and Black Slaves offers a reappraisal of the dominant depiction of these exchanges as being solely mediated through the slave trade and racial difference. By asking in what manner did Europeans and Africans configure sovereignty, polities, and subject status, Bennett offers a new depiction of the diasporic identities that had implications for slaves' experiences in the Americas.