Over The Wine Dark Sea

Author : Patrick O'Brian
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011-12-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780393063691

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The Wine-Dark Sea (Vol. Book 16) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels) by Patrick O'Brian Pdf

The sixteenth volume in the Aubrey/Maturin series, and Patrick O'Brian's first bestseller in the United States. At the outset of this adventure filled with disaster and delight, Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin pursue an American privateer through the Great South Sea. The strange color of the ocean reminds Stephen of Homer's famous description, and portends an underwater volcanic eruption that will create a new island overnight and leave an indelible impression on the reader's imagination. Their ship, the Surprise, is now also a privateer, the better to escape diplomatic complications from Stephen's mission, which is to ignite the revolutionary tinder of South America. Jack will survive a desperate open boat journey and come face to face with his illegitimate black son; Stephen, caught up in the aftermath of his failed coup, will flee for his life into the high, frozen wastes of the Andes; and Patrick O'Brian's brilliantly detailed narrative will reunite them at last in a breathtaking chase through stormy seas and icebergs south of Cape Horn, where the hunters suddenly become the hunted.

Author : Thomas Cahill
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307755124

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Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea by Thomas Cahill Pdf

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The bestselling author of How the Irish Saved Civilization takes us on a journey through the landmarks of art and bloodshed that defined Greek culture nearly three millennia ago. “A triumph of popularization: extraordinarily knowledgeable, informal in tone, amusing, wide ranging, smartly paced.” —The New York Times Book Review In the city-states of Athens and Sparta and throughout the Greek islands, honors could be won in making love and war, and lives were rife with contradictions. By developing the alphabet, the Greeks empowered the reader, demystified experience, and opened the way for civil discussion and experimentation—yet they kept slaves. The glorious verses of the Iliad recount a conflict in which rage and outrage spur men to action and suggest that their “bellicose society of gleaming metals and rattling weapons” is not so very distant from more recent campaigns of “shock and awe.” And, centuries before Zorba, Greece was a land where music, dance, and freely flowing wine were essential to the high life. Granting equal time to the sacred and the profane, Cahill rivets our attention to the legacies of an ancient and enduring worldview.

Author : Robert Aickman
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780571316403

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The Wine-Dark Sea by Robert Aickman Pdf

'Reading Robert Aickman is like watching a magician work, and very often I'm not even sure what the trick was. All I know is that he did it beautifully.' Neil Gaiman For fans of the BBC's Inside Number 9 and The League of Gentlemen Aickman's 'strange stories' (his preferred term) are constructed immaculately, the neuroses of his characters painted in subtle shades. He builds dread by the steady accrual of realistic detail, until the reader realises that the protagonist is heading towards their doom as if in a dream. First published in 1988, The Wine-Dark Sea contains eight stories that build towards disturbing yet enigmatic endings, including the classic story 'Your Tiny Hand is Frozen.' 'Of all the authors of uncanny tales, Aickman is the best ever . . . His tales literally haunt me; his plots and his turns of phrase run through my head at the most unlikely moments.' Russell Kirk

Author : Dr. Dhun Sethna
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-07
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781541600676

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The Wine-Dark Sea Within by Dr. Dhun Sethna Pdf

A revisionist history of medicine, in which blood plays the starring role Inspired by Homer’s description of the ebb and flow of the “wine dark sea,” the ancient Greeks conceived a back-and-forth movement of blood. That false notion, perpetuated by the influential Roman physician Galen, prevailed for fifteen hundred years until William Harvey proved that blood circulates: the heart pumps blood in one direction through the arteries and it returns through the veins. Harvey’s discovery revolutionized the life sciences by making possible an entirely new quantitative understanding of the cardiovascular system, a way of thinking on which many of our lifesaving medical interventions today depend. In The Wine-Dark Sea Within, cardiologist Dhun Sethna argues that Harvey’s revelation inaugurated modern medicine and paved the way for groundbreaking advances from intravenous therapy, cardiac imaging, and stent insertions to bypass surgery, dialysis, and heart-lung machines. Weaving together three thousand years of global history, following bitter feuds and epic alliances, tragic failures and extraordinary advancements, this is a provocative history by a fresh voice in popular science.

Author : Leonardo Sciascia
Publisher : Granta Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781783780228

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The Wine-Dark Sea by Leonardo Sciascia Pdf

Here are some of Sciascia's greatest stories - brief and haunting, the realist tradition at its best. In one tale a couple of men talk, cynically yet earnestly, about the etymology of the word 'mafia' - who they are, and why their interest is so piqued by the word, becomes apparent with frightening clarity. In another story a group of peasants are taken on board ship and promised that they will be put ashore illegally at Trenton, New Jersey; after a long time at sea, their landfall is far from what they expected. And Mussolini himself takes an interest in the case of Aleister Crowley, whose presence in Sicily has become an embarrassment.

Author : Harry Turtledove
Publisher : Phoenix Pick
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1612421407

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Over the Wine-Dark Sea by Harry Turtledove Pdf

Menedemos, the young dashing sea captain, and his helper, the scholarly Sostratos, are sea-traders from the Greek island of Rhodes. Fearless sailors, they will travel any distance to make a profit or to search for rich treasures. *** While they trade in fineries such as wine and silk (and even, to the chagrin of many, peacocks), they live in dangerous times with pirates, thieves and barbarians. As if avoiding death by the hands of these miscreants isn't enough (particularly the barbarians from an obscure town called Rome), they are also caught between the political intrigues of Alexander's former generals.

Author : Jessica Bryan
Publisher : Fanfare
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1991-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0553289810

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Across a Wine-Dark Sea by Jessica Bryan Pdf

Author : Eric H. Cline
Publisher : BAR International Series
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1407304178

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Sailing the Wine-dark Sea by Eric H. Cline Pdf

This book looks at the 942 artifacts of foreign origin - from Anatolia, Cyprus, Egypt, Italy, Mesopotamia, and Syro-Palestine - which have been found in the late Bronze Age Aegean area. These objects represent the only group of material in the LBA Aegean that has not disintegrated or disappeared, and as such are unique in providing information about the complex trade networks of the period. Begining with a discussion of trade and transactions in the LBA, Cline then examines the literary and pictorial evidence for international trade and presents a full catalogue of objects with description, origin, and bibliographic references. Three appendices include information on raw materials, problematic objects, and disputed contexts. This information provides a useful database for those studying Aegean and Mediterranean trade.

Author : Henriette Mertz
Publisher : Chicago : H. Mertz
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : America
ISBN : IND:30000094611302

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The Wine Dark Sea by Henriette Mertz Pdf

Author : Mathias Svalina
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : American poetry
ISBN : 1940090059

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The Wine-dark Sea by Mathias Svalina Pdf

Poetry. In a clear-cut voice "as simple as ink," Mathias Svalina's THE WINE-DARK SEA vocalizes the urge to write oneself alive. Through this lyric journal of taut poems, each titled The Wine-Dark Sea, Svalina breathes life into overlooked places: the driveway a car turns into at the end of a workday, how a tree holds the dirt, the edge of a page on which "I'd always assumed / I'd die alone." Every poem is a baffled drop, a pulse trying not to be dead, and beneath the spine of each sentence, Svalina hides, carrying us, seeking an exit. It is impossible not to be stained by THE WINE-DARK SEA.

Author : Lisa King
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Large print books
ISBN : 1410455211

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Death in a Wine Dark Sea by Lisa King Pdf

Imagine a 32-year-old Nancy Drew who's seen a thing or two, has a sophisticated career as a wine magazine writer, is not interested in monogamy, and has the kind of sex appeal only an independent woman can possess. Jean Applequist boards an elegant yacht for the wedding of her friend Diane and wealthy developer Martin Wingo. But things go terribly wrong: the evening ends in tragedy when, after exchanging vows, Wingo disappears into San Francisco Bay.

Author : Diane LeBow
Publisher : Granitrose Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1735995460

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Dancing on the Wine-Dark Sea by Diane LeBow Pdf

Diane LeBow's stories, like her life, take you to places and experiences you've probably never imagined. They are passionate, poignant, funny, sometimes tragic, and always unexpected. Share a meal with Corsican rebels in the ragged mountains of this ancient island, meet a black stallion in a blizzard on the Mongolian steppes, assist Afghan women exiled in Tajikistan in writing a Declaration of their Rights for the new Constitution, and savor a love affair with an elegant French Baron. LeBow gives us peeks behind the curtains into women's and men's lives around the world in our search for answers to universal human questions such as how to experience the best our world offers, ways to balance our desire for love with yearning for freedom and adventure, and longing for a sense of home within ourselves and in our worlds. Diane LeBow is an award winning writer and photojournalist, professor emerita, and president emerita of the Bay Area Travel Writers. Her work has appeared in multiple anthologies, including Best Women's Travel Writing, and numerous other publications. She received a Lifetime Achievement Award from Douglass College (Rutgers University) for her writing, photojournalism, women's rights work, and as a pioneer of women's studies and innovative college teaching in Paris, Holland, and the USA. She earned one of the first Ph.D's in Women's Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz. Her travels have taken her to almost 100 countries.

Author : Patrick O’Brian
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011-12-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780007429424

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The Wine-Dark Sea (Aubrey-Maturin, Book 16) by Patrick O’Brian Pdf

There is a fine line between privateer and pirate, between friend and foe.

Author : Robert Aickman
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Horror tales, English
ISBN : 0749301724

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The Wine-dark Sea by Robert Aickman Pdf

Author : Anna Kouremenos
Publisher :
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781785705830

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Insularity and identity in the Roman Mediterranean by Anna Kouremenos Pdf

Insularity – the state or condition of being an island – has played a key role in shaping the identities of populations inhabiting islands of the Mediterranean. As entities surrounded by water and usually possessing different landscapes and ecosystems from those of the mainland, islands allow for the potential to study both the land and the sea. Archaeologically, they have the potential to reveal distinct identities shaped by such forces as invasion, imperialism, colonialism, and connectivity. The theme of insularity and identity in the Roman period has not been the subject of a book length study but has been prevalent in scholarship dealing with the prehistoric periods. The papers in this book explore the concepts of insularity and identity in the Roman period by addressing some of the following questions: what does it mean to be an island? How has insularity shaped ethnic, cultural, and social identity in the Mediterranean during the Roman period? How were islands connected to the mainland and other islands? Did insularity produce isolation or did the populations of Mediterranean islands integrate easily into a common ‘Roman’ culture? How has maritime interaction shaped the economy and culture of specific islands? Can we argue for distinct ‘island identities’ during the Roman period? The twelve papers presented here each deal with specific islands or island groups, thus allowing for an integrated view of Mediterranean insularity and identity.