Creatures Of Another Age

Author : Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,Jack London
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1948405741

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Creatures of Another Age by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,Jack London Pdf

The discovery of fossils of extinct species like the pterodactyl, iguanodon, and woolly mammoth during the nineteenth century caused an upheaval in the scientific world and challenged long-held religious beliefs about the creation and history of the world. But it also sparked the imaginations of countless writers, and it wasn't long before these prehistoric monsters began to appear in stories of adventure, science fiction, fantasy, and horror, as well as in more surprising forms, such as a ballad sung by an ichthyosaurus or a mock Elizabethan verse drama with a cast of primordial creatures. This volume collects some of the most fascinating Victorian writing on dinosaurs and other prehistoric monsters, including stories, poems, drama, and essays, and features contributions by well known names like Arthur Conan Doyle, George Sand, and Jack London, along with many other once-popular but now-forgotten writers, and includes a new introduction by Richard Fallon.

Author : William Vidler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1799
Category : God
ISBN : BL:A0023492196

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God's Love to His Creatures Asserted and Vindicated by William Vidler Pdf

Author : Thomas Goodwin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1863
Category : Religion
ISBN : OXFORD:555000455

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The Works of Thomas Goodwin: Of the creatures &c. Of Gospel holiness blessed state of glory &c. Three several ages in faith and obedience &c. &c by Thomas Goodwin Pdf

Author : Terry Brooks
Publisher : Del Rey
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2000-10-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345444615

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The Elfstones of Shannara (The Shannara Chronicles) by Terry Brooks Pdf

ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR FANTASY TALES OF ALL TIME. NOW AN EPIC TV SERIES. Thousands of years after the destruction of the age of man an d science, new races and magic now rule the world, but an imminent danger threatens. A horde of evil Demons is beginning to escape and bring death upon the land. Only Wil Ohmsford, the last of the Shannara bloodline, has the power to guard the Elven Princess Amberle on a perilous quest to the save the world, while the leader of the Demon force aims to stop their mission at any cost. Praise for Terry Brooks “Shannara was one of my favorite fictional worlds growing up, and I look forward to many return trips.”—Karen Russell, author of Swamplandia! “If Tolkien is the grandfather of modern fantasy, Terry Brooks is its favorite uncle.”—Peter V. Brett, author of The Skull Throne “A great storyteller, Terry Brooks creates rich epics filled with mystery, magic, and memorable characters.”—Christopher Paolini, author of Eragon

Author : Daniel A. Siedell
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0803242956

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Weldon Kees and the Arts at Midcentury by Daniel A. Siedell Pdf

Born in 1914 in Beatrice, Nebraska, and presumed dead in 1955 (when he apparently leapt from the Golden Gate Bridge), Weldon Kees has become one of the better-known ?unknown? American poets of the twentieth century, his fiction and poetry largely kept alive by other poets. But Kees was also that rare artist who excelled in many genres and media: a skillful painter, filmmaker, jazz musician, and composer. He was a gifted critic as well, and his criticism bears the marks of his own deep and broad engagement with the arts.øWeldon Kees and the Arts at Midcentury is the first book to reflect the full range and reach of Kees?s artistic activities. Bringing together writers from various disciplines?art historians, poets, literary critics, curators, and cultural scholars, including Dore Ashton, James Reidel, Dana Gioia, and Stephen C. Foster?this volume offers a wide variety of perspectives through which to evaluate the meaning and significance of Kees?s achievement. Although the essays themselves partake of the diversity of Kees?s impact on the culture, all agree on one fundamental point: any history of postwar American culture that neglects Kees?s multifaceted contribution is ultimately incomplete.

Author : Greg Hill
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781326013981

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Creatures by Greg Hill Pdf

A collection of poems from the poet and critic Greg Hill, exploring interconnections between poetry and the natural world and probing the sensibilities that allow us to maintain a creative relationship with the living world. The cover depicts a bronze sculpture by Fidelma Massey, the subject of one of the poems, which reflects the same concerns as the poetry in the collection.

Author : Sharon Kirsch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Animals
ISBN : UOM:39076002797269

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What Species of Creatures by Sharon Kirsch Pdf

The Europeans who colonized North America more than three centuries ago encountered fantastical creatures: flying squirrels, ruby-throated hummingbirds, the easily tamed beaver. Their literature of discovery - by turns comic, cruel, and adulatory - provides a revealing glimpse of the taxonomies they carried with them into their so-called New World. Sharon Kirsch weaves early settler accounts, fables, children's stories, natural histories and 21st century science in a quirky narrative that probes our complicated relationship with the other creatures that share the planet. Illustrated with twenty period drawings, and peppered with verbatim accounts by these early settlers, What Species of Creatures is a rich and satisfying stew of odd historical facts and figures.

Author : Adrienne Mayor
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691245614

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Fossil Legends of the First Americans by Adrienne Mayor Pdf

The burnt-red badlands of Montana's Hell Creek are a vast graveyard of the Cretaceous dinosaurs that lived 68 million years ago. Those hills were, much later, also home to the Sioux, the Crows, and the Blackfeet, the first people to encounter the dinosaur fossils exposed by the elements. What did Native Americans make of these stone skeletons, and how did they explain the teeth and claws of gargantuan animals no one had seen alive? Did they speculate about their deaths? Did they collect fossils? Beginning in the East, with its Ice Age monsters, and ending in the West, where dinosaurs lived and died, this richly illustrated and elegantly written book examines the discoveries of enormous bones and uses of fossils for medicine, hunting magic, and spells. Well before Columbus, Native Americans observed the mysterious petrified remains of extinct creatures and sought to understand their transformation to stone. In perceptive creation stories, they visualized the remains of extinct mammoths, dinosaurs, pterosaurs, and marine creatures as Monster Bears, Giant Lizards, Thunder Birds, and Water Monsters. Their insights, some so sophisticated that they anticipate modern scientific theories, were passed down in oral histories over many centuries. Drawing on historical sources, archaeology, traditional accounts, and extensive personal interviews, Adrienne Mayor takes us from Aztec and Inca fossil tales to the traditions of the Iroquois, Navajos, Apaches, Cheyennes, and Pawnees. Fossil Legends of the First Americans represents a major step forward in our understanding of how humans made sense of fossils before evolutionary theory developed.

Author : James Herriot
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781447224211

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All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot Pdf

The first collection of memoirs from the author who inspired the BBC and Channel 5 series All Creatures Great and Small. This edition contains If Only They Could Talk and It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet. Fresh out of Glasgow Veterinary College, to the young James Herriot 1930s Yorkshire seems to offer an idyllic pocket of rural life in a rapidly changing world. But from his erratic new colleagues, brothers Siegfried and Tristan Farnon, to incomprehensible farmers, herds of semi-feral cattle, a pig called Nugent and an overweight Pekingese called Tricki Woo, James finds he is on a learning curve as steep as the hills around him. And when he meets Helen, the beautiful daughter of a local farmer, all the training and experience in the world can’t help him . . . Since they were first published, James Herriot’s memoirs have sold millions of copies and entranced generations of animal lovers. Charming, funny and touching, All Creatures Great and Small is a heart-warming story of determination, love and companionship from one of Britain’s best-loved authors. 'I grew up reading James Herriot's books and I'm delighted that thirty years on, they are still every bit as charming, heartwarming and laugh-out-loud funny as they were then' – Kate Humble 'Herriot's enchanting tales of life in the Dales are deservedly classics. Full of extraordinary characters, animal and human, the books never fail to delight' – Amanda Owen, bestselling author of The Yorkshire Shepherdess

Author : Eliakim Littell,Robert S. Littell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1846
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IND:32000000700353

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Littell's Living Age by Eliakim Littell,Robert S. Littell Pdf

Author : Richard Cain
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2000-09-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780738835341

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Creatures of the Id by Richard Cain Pdf

Guided by an old Indian shaman, doctoral student John Brockman, a Native American raised by a white family, seeks the secrets of his ancestors. His quest to find a Sasquatch & to find himself involves a beautiful young grad student, a lecherous prof, an ex-green beret, & the eruption of Mt. St. Helens.

Author : Kami Garcia,Margaret Stohl
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-20
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780316370301

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Dangerous Creatures by Kami Garcia,Margaret Stohl Pdf

From the world of Beautiful Creatures--the instant New York Times bestselling tale of love and magic. Ridley Duchannes is nobody's heroine. She's a Dark Caster, a Siren. She can make you do things. Anything. You can't trust her, or yourself when she's around. And she'll be the first to tell you to stay away--especially if you're going to do something as stupid as fall in love with her. Lucky for Ridley, her wannabe rocker boyfriend, Wesley "Link" Lincoln, never listens to anyone. Link doesn't care if Rid's no good for him, and he takes her along when he leaves small-town Gatlin to follow his rock-star dream. He teams up with a ragtag group of Dark Casters, and when the band scores a gig at a hot Underground club, it looks like all of Link's dreams are about to come true. But New York City is a dangerous place for both Casters and Mortals, and soon Ridley realizes that Link's bandmates are keeping secrets. With bad-boy club owner Lennox Gates on her heels, Rid is determined to find out the truth. What she discovers is worse than she could have imagined: Link has a price on his head that no Caster or Mortal can ever pay. With their lives on the line, what's a Siren to do? Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl, the #1 New York Times bestselling coauthors of the Beautiful Creatures novels, are back to cast another magical spell. Their signature blend of mystery, suspense, and romance, with a healthy dose of wit and danger, will pull fans in and leave them begging for more.

Author : Thomas Charles Sloane
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473399952

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The Pterodactyl (Cryptofiction Classics - Weird Tales of Strange Creatures) by Thomas Charles Sloane Pdf

This early work by Thomas Charles Sloane was originally published in 1907 and we are now republishing it as part of our Cryptofiction Classics series. 'The Pterodactyl' is a short story about a forgotten creature from a prehistoric age. The Cryptofiction Classics series contains a collection of wonderful stories from some of the greatest authors in the genre, including Ambrose Bierce, Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Jack London. From its roots in cryptozoology, this genre features bizarre, fantastical, and often terrifying tales of mythical and legendary creatures. Whether it be giant spiders, werewolves, lake monsters, or dinosaurs, the Cryptofiction Classics series offers a fantastic introduction to the world of weird creatures in fiction.

Author : T Elford Poynting
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : Christian life
ISBN : BL:A0023452538

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Glimpses of the Heaven that Lies about Us ... by T Elford Poynting Pdf

Author : Norman Russell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780192565488

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Gregory Palamas and the Making of Palamism in the Modern Age by Norman Russell Pdf

The fourteenth-century Greek hesychast and controversialist, Gregory Palamas, has been so successfully cast as 'the other' in Western theological discourse that it can be difficult to gain a sympathetic hearing for him. In the first part of this book, Norman Russell traces the historical reception of Palamite thought in Orthodoxy and in the West, and investigates how 'Palamism' was constructed in the early twentieth century by both Western and Eastern theologians (principally Martin Jugie and John Meyendorff) for polemical or apologetic purposes. Russell argues that we need to go behind these ideological constructions in order to gain a true perception of the teaching of Gregory Palamas. In his recent survey of Palamite scholarship, Robert Sinkewicz noted that it is now time to raise the larger questions. The second part of the book attempts to do this, following the contours of Palamas' thinking in three areas: his relationship to tradition, his philosophy, and his theology. Russell shows that Palamite thought, when freed of misunderstanding and misrepresentation, has the potential to enrich our understanding of divine-human communion. This study contributes to the changing paradigm of scholarship on Palamas, nudging it towards the point at which Palamite thought can be used fruitfully by contemporary Western and Eastern theologians without the need to subscribe to what has been regarded as 'Palamism'.