Journey To The Vanished City

Author : Tudor Parfitt
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2000-04-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780375724541

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Journey to the Vanished City by Tudor Parfitt Pdf

In a mixture of travel, adventure, and scholarship, historian Tudor Parfitt sets out in search of answers to a fascinating ethnological puzzle: is the Lemba tribe of Southern Africa really one of the lost tribes of Israel, descended from King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba? Beginning in the Lemba villages in South Africa, where he witnesses customs such as food taboos and circumcision rites that seem part of Jewish tradition, Parfitt retraces the supposed path of the Lembas' through Zimbabwe, Malawi, and Tanzania, taking in sights like Zanzibar and the remains of the stone city Great Zimbabwe. The story of his eccentric travels, a blend of the ancient allure of King Solomon's mines and Prester John with contemporary Africa in all its beauty and brutality, makes for an irresistible glimpse at a various and rapidly changing continent. And in a new epilogue, Parfitt discusses recent DNA evidence that, amazingly, lends credence to the Lemba's tribal myth.

Author : David Grann
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400078455

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The Lost City of Z by David Grann Pdf

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of Killers of the Flower Moon comes a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction that unravels the greatest exploration mystery of the twentieth century—the story of the legendary British explorer who ventured into the Amazon jungle in search of a fabled civilization and never returned. “Suspenseful…rollicking.” —The New York Times In 1925, Percy Fawcett went into the Amazon jungle, in search of a fabled civilization. He never returned. Over the years countless perished trying to find evidence of his party and the place he called “The Lost City of Z.” In this masterpiece, journalist David Grann interweaves the spellbinding stories of Fawcett’s quest for “Z” and his own journey into the deadly jungle. Look for David Grann’s new book, The Wager, coming in April 2023!

Author : Stuart Gibbs
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-08
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781534443822

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Charlie Thorne and the Lost City by Stuart Gibbs Pdf

In this sequel to the New York Times bestselling Charlie Thorne and the Last Equation—which #1 New York Times bestselling author Chris Grabenstein called “a real page-burner”—Charlie searches for Charles Darwin’s hidden treasure in South America. Charlie Thorne is a genius. Charlie Thorne is a fugitive. Charlie Thorne isn’t even thirteen. After saving the world, Charlie is ready to take it easy in the Galapagos Islands. That is, until she’s approached by the mysterious Esmeralda Castle, who has a code she knows only Charlie can decipher. In 1835, Charles Darwin diverted his ship’s journey so he could spend ten months in South America on a secret solo expedition. When he returned, he carried a treasure that inspired both awe and terror in his crew. Afterward, it vanished, never to be seen again… But Darwin left a trail of clues behind for those brave and clever enough to search for it. Enter Charlie Thorne. In a daring adventure that takes her across South America, Charlie must crack Darwin’s 200-year-old clues to track down his mysterious discovery—and stay ahead of the formidable lineup of enemies who are hot on her tail. When an ancient hidden treasure is at stake, people will do anything to find it first. Charlie may be a genius, but is she smart enough to know who she can trust?

Author : Blake Hudson
Publisher : RWG Publishing
Page : 77 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9798215059999

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The Lost City of Eldorado by Blake Hudson Pdf

In "The Lost City of Eldorado: A Journey Beyond the Horizon," readers are taken on an epic adventure into a world of fantasy and intrigue. The book follows the journey of Jack, a brave hero who embarks on a perilous journey to uncover the mysteries of the lost city of Eldorado. As Jack and his companions traverse treacherous deserts, jungles, and mountains, they encounter a host of challenges and obstacles. From facing off against dangerous creatures to confronting the wrath of the Jaguar God, Jack and his team are constantly tested, both physically and mentally. Yet, despite the dangers they face, Jack remains resolute in his quest. He is driven by a desire to uncover the truth about Eldorado, a city that has long been shrouded in mystery and myth. Along the way, Jack discovers the power of the crystal, a mystical artifact that holds the key to unlocking the secrets of Eldorado. With its help, Jack and his team are able to overcome seemingly insurmountable challenges and unlock the mysteries of the lost city. But their journey is far from over. As they delve deeper into the secrets of Eldorado, Jack and his team are faced with new challenges and enemies. They must fight against dark forces and protect the sacred artifact at all costs, lest it fall into the wrong hands. "The Lost City of Eldorado: A Journey Beyond the Horizon" is a thrilling adventure story that will take readers on a journey they won't soon forget. With its blend of action, fantasy, and mystery, this book is sure to delight readers of all ages. So come along for the ride and discover the secrets of Eldorado for yourself!

Author : Michel Mazor
Publisher : Marsilio Publishers
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015032626759

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The Vanished City by Michel Mazor Pdf

In answering these questions, Michel Mazor lucidly details the "vanishing" of a city.

Author : Joseph Edward Badger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433082525837

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The Lost City by Joseph Edward Badger Pdf

Author : Jos. E. Badger
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783368304324

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The Lost City by Jos. E. Badger Pdf

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Author : Tudor Parfitt
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson Limited
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0297819348

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The Lost Tribes of Israel by Tudor Parfitt Pdf

Tudor Parfitt examines a myth which is based on one of the world's oldest mysteries - what happened to the lost tribes of Israel? Christians and Jews alike have attached great importance to the legendary fate of these tribes which has had a remarkable impact on their ideologies throughout history. Each tribe of Israel claimed descent from one of the twelve sons of Jacob and the land of Israel was eventually divided up between them. Following a schism which formed after the death of Solomon, ten of the tribes set up an independent northern kingdom, whilst those of Judah and Levi set up a separate southern kingdom. In 721BC the ten northern tribes were ethnically cleansed by the Assyrians and the Bible states they were placed: in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan and in the city of Medes. The Bible also foretold that one day they would be reunited with the southern tribes in the final redemption of the people of Israel. Their subsequent history became a tapestry of legend and hearsay. The belief persisted that they had been lost in some remote part of the world and there were countless suggestions and claims as to where.

Author : Natalie Lunis
Publisher : Bearport Publishing
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781617726453

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Lost Cities by Natalie Lunis Pdf

Some cities that once thrived have now disappeared, the sites sometimes turning into empty, ominous ruins. What dark secrets are hidden in these vanished cities? In this book, readers will explore the mysteries of the world’s most famous lost cities and learn how these intriguing places were rediscovered. Among the 11 spooky places highlighted are the abandoned remains of a futuristic vacation town that was said to be cursed, and the crumbling ruins of an industrial town on an eerily deserted island. Fascinating histories and haunting photographs will keep kids turning the pages for more.

Author : Matthew Green
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393635355

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Shadowlands: A Journey Through Britain's Lost Cities and Vanished Villages by Matthew Green Pdf

One of Literary Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2022 A “brilliant London historian” (BBC Radio) tells the story of Britain as never before—through its abandoned villages and towns. Drowned. Buried by sand. Decimated by plague. Plunged off a cliff. This is the extraordinary tale of Britain’s eerie and remarkable ghost towns and villages; shadowlands that once hummed with life. Peering through the cracks of history, we find Dunwich, a medieval city plunged off a cliff by sea storms; the abandoned village of Wharram Percy, wiped out by the Black Death; the lost city of Trellech unearthed by moles in 2002; and a Norfolk village zombified by the military and turned into a Nazi, Soviet, and Afghan village for training. Matthew Green, a British historian and broadcaster, tells the astonishing tales of the rise and demise of these places, animating the people who lived, worked, dreamed, and died there. Traveling across Britain to explore their haunting and often-beautiful remains, Green transports the reader to these lost towns and cities as they teeter on the brink of oblivion, vividly capturing the sounds of the sea clawing away row upon row of houses, the taste of medieval wine, or the sights of puffin hunting on the tallest cliffs in the country. We experience them in their prime, look on at their destruction, and revisit their lingering remains as they are mourned by evictees and reimagined by artists, writers, and mavericks. A stunning and original excavation of Britain’s untold history, Shadowlands gives us a truer sense of the progress and ravages of time, in a moment when many of our own settlements are threatened as never before.

Author : Carolyn Hamilton
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2002-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1402007434

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Refiguring the Archive by Carolyn Hamilton Pdf

Refiguring the Archive at once expresses cutting-edge debates on `the archive' in South Africa and internationally, and pushes the boundaries of those debates. It brings together prominent thinkers from a range of disciplines, mainly South Africans but a number from other countries. Traditionally archives have been seen as preserving memory and as holding the past. The contributors to this book question this orthodoxy, unfolding the ways in which archives construct, sanctify, and bury pasts. In his contribution, Jacques Derrida (an instantly recognisable name in intellectual discourse worldwide) shows how remembering can never be separated from forgetting, and argues that the archive is about the future rather than the past. Collectively the contributors demonstrate the degree to which thinking about archives is embracing new realities and new possibilities. The book expresses a confidence in claiming for archival discourse previously unentered terrains. It serves as an early manual for a time that has already begun.

Author : Jon Entine
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2007-10-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780446408394

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Abraham's Children by Jon Entine Pdf

A riveting scientific detective story crossed with a provocative and controversial re-examination of the meaning of race, ethnicity, and religion. Could our sense of who we are really turn on a sliver of DNA? In our multiethnic world, questions of individual identity are becoming increasingly unclear. Now in Abraham's Children bestselling author Jon Entine vividly brings to life the profound human implications of the Age of Genetics while illuminating one of today's most controversial topics: the connection between genetics and who we are, and specifically the question "Who is a Jew?" Entine weaves a fascinating narrative, using breakthroughs in genetic genealogy to reconstruct the Jewish biblical tradition of the chosen people and the hereditary Israelite priestly caste of Cohanim. Synagogues in the mountains of India and China and Catholic churches with a Jewish identity in New Mexico and Colorado provide different patterns of connection within the tangled history of the Jewish diaspora. Legendary accounts of the Hebrew lineage of Ethiopian tribesmen, the building of Africa's Great Zimbabwe fortress, and even the so-called Lost Tribes are reexamined in light of advanced DNA technology. Entine also reveals the shared ancestry of Israelites and Christians. As people from across the world discover their Israelite roots, their riveting stories unveil exciting new approaches to defining one's identity. Not least, Entine addresses possible connections between DNA and Jewish intelligence and the controversial notion that Jews are a "race apart." Abraham's Children is a compelling reinterpretation of biblical history and a challenging and exciting illustration of the promise and power of genetic research.

Author : Zvi Ben-Dor Benite
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199324538

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The Ten Lost Tribes by Zvi Ben-Dor Benite Pdf

In The Ten Lost Tribes, Zvi Ben-Dor Benite shows for the first time the extent to which the search for the lost tribes of Israel became, over two millennia, an engine for global exploration and a key mechanism for understanding the world.

Author : David Grann
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2009-08-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781847378057

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The Lost City of Z by David Grann Pdf

**NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRING ROBERT PATTINSON, CHARLIE HUNNAM AND SIENNA MILLER** ‘A riveting, exciting and thoroughly compelling tale of adventure’JOHN GRISHAM The story of Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett, the inspiration behind Conan Doyle's The Lost World, by the author of the international Number One bestsellers KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON and THE WAGER Fawcett was among the last of a legendary breed of British explorers. For years he explored the Amazon and came to believe that its jungle concealed a large, complex civilization, like El Dorado. Obsessed with its discovery, he christened it the City of Z. In 1925, Fawcett headed into the wilderness with his son Jack, vowing to make history. They vanished without a trace. For the next eighty years, hordes of explorers plunged into the jungle, trying to find evidence of Fawcett's party or Z. Some died from disease and starvation; others simply disappeared. In this spellbinding true tale of lethal obsession, David Grann retraces the footsteps of Fawcett and his followers as he unravels one of the greatest mysteries of exploration. ‘A wonderful story of a lost age of heroic exploration’ Sunday Times ‘Marvellous ... An engrossing book whose protagonist could out-think Indiana Jones’ Daily Telegraph ‘The best story in the world, told perfectly’ Evening Standard ‘A fascinating and brilliant book’ Malcolm Gladwell

Author : Tudor Parfitt
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780674071506

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Black Jews in Africa and the Americas by Tudor Parfitt Pdf

Black Jews in Africa and the Americas tells the fascinating story of how the Ashanti, Tutsi, Igbo, Zulu, Beta Israel, Maasai, and many other African peoples came to think of themselves as descendants of the ancient tribes of Israel. Pursuing medieval and modern European race narratives over a millennium in which not only were Jews cast as black but black Africans were cast as Jews, Tudor Parfitt reveals a complex history of the interaction between religious and racial labels and their political uses. For centuries, colonialists, travelers, and missionaries, in an attempt to explain and understand the strange people they encountered on the colonial frontier, labeled an astonishing array of African tribes, languages, and cultures as Hebrew, Jewish, or Israelite. Africans themselves came to adopt these identities as their own, invoking their shared histories of oppression, imagined blood-lines, and common traditional practices as proof of a racial relationship to Jews. Beginning in the post-slavery era, contacts between black Jews in America and their counterparts in Africa created powerful and ever-growing networks of black Jews who struggled against racism and colonialism. A community whose claims are denied by many, black Jews have developed a strong sense of who they are as a unique people. In Parfitt’s telling, forces of prejudice and the desire for new racial, redemptive identities converge, illuminating Jewish and black history alike in novel and unexplored ways.