Eager For Glory

Author : Lindsay Powell
Publisher : Grub Street Publishers
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781848849044

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Eager for Glory by Lindsay Powell Pdf

“The first biography of an important personality from the beginnings of Rome’s empire” (Graham Sumner, coauthor of Arms and Armour of the Imperial Roman Soldier). Nero Claudius Drusus Germanicus (Drusus the Elder) was the first conqueror of Germania (the Netherlands and Germany) and one of ancient Rome’s most beloved military heroes. Yet there has never been a full volume dedicated to his remarkable story, achievements, and legacy. Eager for Glory brings this heroic figure back to life for a modern audience. Drusus was a stepson of Augustus through his marriage to Livia. As a military commander he led daring campaigns by sea and land that pushed the northern frontiers of Rome’s empire to the Elbe River. He oversaw one of the largest developments of military infrastructure of the age. He married Marc Antony’s daughter, Antonia, and fathered Germanicus, Rome’s most popular general, and the future emperor Claudius. He was grandfather of Caligula. He died when he was only twenty-nine and was revered in death. Drawing on ancient texts, evidence from inscriptions and coins, the latest findings in archaeology, as well as astronomy and medical science, Lindsay Powell has produced a long overdue and definitive account of this great Roman.

Author : Woody Guthrie
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1983-09-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781440672781

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Bound for Glory by Woody Guthrie Pdf

First published in 1943, this autobiography is also a superb portrait of America's Depression years, by the folk singer, activist, and man who saw it all. Woody Guthrie was born in Oklahoma and traveled this whole country over—not by jet or motorcycle, but by boxcar, thumb, and foot. During the journey of discovery that was his life, he composed and sang words and music that have become a national heritage. His songs, however, are but part of his legacy. Behind him Woody Guthrie left a remarkable autobiography that vividly brings to life both his vibrant personality and a vision of America we cannot afford to let die. “Even readers who never heard Woody or his songs will understand the current esteem in which he’s held after reading just a few pages… Always shockingly immediate and real, as if Woody were telling it out loud… A book to make novelists and sociologists jealous.” —The Nation

Author : Edward Eager
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0152020683

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Half Magic by Edward Eager Pdf

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Author : Henry Sweet
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : English language
ISBN : STANFORD:36105012226788

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The Student's Dictionary of Anglo-Saxon by Henry Sweet Pdf

Author : Lindsay Powell
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781473826922

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Germanicus by Lindsay Powell Pdf

“The story of a Roman Emperor that might have been” (Fighting Times). Germanicus was regarded by many Romans as a hero in the mold of Alexander the Great. His untimely death, in suspicious circumstances, ended the possibility of a return to a more open republic. This, the first modern biography of Germanicus, is in parts a growing-up story, a history of war, a tale of political intrigue, and a murder mystery. In this highly readable, fast paced account, historical detective Lindsay Powell details Germanicus’s campaigns and battles in Illyricum and Germania; tracks him on his epic tour of the Eastern Mediterranean to Armenia and down the Nile; evaluates the possible causes of his death; and reports on the cruel fate his wife, Agrippina, and their children suffered at the hands of Praetorian Guard commander, and Tiberius’s infamous deputy, Aelius Sejanus.

Author : Pauline E. Head
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1997-02-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0791432041

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Representation and Design by Pauline E. Head Pdf

Examines Old English poetry from the point of view of its interpretation, drawing on Anglo-Saxon pictorial art as a model for the interaction of representation and design.

Author : Henrietta Christian Wright
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-18
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:4064066186135

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Children's Stories in American History by Henrietta Christian Wright Pdf

"Children's Stories in American History" by Henrietta Christian Wright is a compilation of juvenile stories. It reveals the discovery and exploration of the US. Some interesting topics include The Northmen, Hernando Cortez and the Conquest of Mexico, Columbus and the Discovery of America, and The Story of Acadia. Excerpt: "Many ages ago in North America, there was no spring or summer or autumn, but only winter all the time; there were no forests or fields or flowers, but only ice and snow, which stretched from the Arctic Ocean to Maryland. Sometimes the climate would grow a little warmer, and then the great glaciers would shrink toward the north, and then again it would grow cold, while the ice crept southward; but finally, it became warmer and warmer until all the southern part of the country was quite free from the ice and snow, which could then only be seen, as it is now, in the Polar regions."

Author : Graham D. Caie
Publisher : Nova Publishing Company
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015032991278

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The Judgment Day Theme in Old English Poetry by Graham D. Caie Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:31951002805057N

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The Prophetic Times by Anonim Pdf

Author : Hall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UBBS:UBBS-00108419

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A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary for the Use of Students by Hall Pdf

Author : John R. Clark Hall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : English language
ISBN : UOM:39015070493740

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A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary by John R. Clark Hall Pdf

Author : Henry Hamilton,E. Legros
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 922 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : English language
ISBN : HARVARD:HN61WL

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Dictionnaire international français-anglais by Henry Hamilton,E. Legros Pdf

Author : Faber
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Spiritual life
ISBN : ZHBL:ZHBL-00038024

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All for Jesus, Or, The Easy Ways of Divine Love by Faber Pdf

Author : Ben Goldfarb
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : NATURE
ISBN : 9781603587396

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Eager by Ben Goldfarb Pdf

Our modern idea of what a healthy landscape looks like and how it functions is distorted by the fur trade that once trapped out millions of beavers from North America's lakes and rivers. Goldfarb shares the powerful story about one of the world's most influential species. He explains how North America was colonized, how our landscapes have changed over the centuries, and how beavers can help us fight drought, flooding, wildfire, extinction, and the ravages of climate change. -- adapted from jacket

Author : Helen Fox
Publisher : Yearling
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-16
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780307522368

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Eager's Nephew by Helen Fox Pdf

It is the future. Twenty years have passed since Eager’s first adventures with the Bell family. Scientists are now banned from building robots that can think for themselves and feel emotion, like Eager. He and other robots have spent years in hiding. But Eager secretly visits the Bell family, and his headstrong nephew, a most unusual new robot named Jonquil, stows away on the visit. They arrive at the Bells just in time—for mysterious and dangerous things are happening to the family and their friends. Eager and Jonquil’s special abilities could save the day. The human world is totally new to Jonquil, who can’t always tell fact from fiction. Excitable Jonquil is in his element. When he isn’t in danger himself, he’s causing havoc for everyone else. . . .