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Author : Kirsten A. Seaver
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 0804731616
Using new archaeological, scientific, and documentary information this book confronts head-on many of the unanswered questions about early exploration and colonization along the shores of the Davis Strait.
Author : Kirsten A. Seaver
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 1503615731
It is now generally accepted the Leif Eriksson sailed from Greenland across the Davis Strait and made landfalls on the North American continent almost a thousand years ago, but what happened in this vast area during the next five hundred years has long been a source of disagreement among scholars. Using new archeological, scientific, and documentary information (much of it in Scandinavian languages that are a bar to most Western historians), this book confronts many of the unanswered questions about early exploration and colonization along the shores of the Davis Strait. The author brings together two distinct but tangential fields of inquiry: the history of medieval Greenland and its connections with the Norse discovery of North America, and fifteenth-century British maritime history and pre-colonial voyages to North America, including that of John Cabot. In order to evaluate the situation in Norse Greenland at the end of the fifteenth century (when documented English and Portuguese voyages of northern exploration began), the author follows the colony's development--its domestic economy and foreign trade and its cultural and ecclesiastical affinities--from its inception in the tenth century. In the process, she looks critically at commonly held views that have gone unchallenged until now. Among the questions about which the author sets forth new evidence and conclusions are: the extent to which Greenlanders explored and exploited North America after Leif Eriksson, the reasons for the baffling disappearance of the Norse settlement in Greenland, the connection between their disappearance and the beginning of the voyages of exploration that began around A.D. 1500, the routes by which information concerning previous voyages traveled, the history before Cabot of the advance of English fishing fleets from Icelandic waters to the coasts of Labrador, and the influence of the roman Catholic Church on Norse Greenland.
Author : Peter Freuchen
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781787202528
Originally published in 1956, this book is a memoir by Danish explorer Peter Freuchen, a close friend and travel companion of Arctic legend Knud Rasmussen, and ended up living in Greenland for fifteen years, 800 miles from the North Pole—adopting the native ways of life, marrying an Inuit woman, and having two children along the way. Arctic Adventure is filled with tales of seal and polar bear hunts, enduring starvation, encountering people who had resorted to cannibalism, and the stirring experience of seeing the sun again after three months of winter darkness. Rich in human saga, Freuchen’s warmth, wit, and literary talent make this recollection of real-life adventure stories a stand-out. “Except for Richard E. Byrd, and despite his foreign beginnings, Freuchen was perhaps better known to more people in the United States than any other explorer of our time.”—Evelyn Stefansson, The New York Times “[A] formidable and fascinating man”—Harriet Baker, AnOther Richly illustrated throughout with maps and black-and-white photographs.
Author : Jonathan Wilkins
Publisher : Titan Comics
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781787732278
Walt Disney Animation Studio’s award-winning smash-hit Frozen is back! Elsa, Anna, Olaf, Kristoff, and Sven are living a happy life in Arendelle – but mysteries from the past spell danger for everyone… This movie special reveals behind-the-scenes secrets in exclusive interviews with the film’s directors, animators, art teams, visual effects artists, and more. Showcasing the new looks of the Frozen 2 world and its characters with stunning concept art, and exploring the brand new music and Frozen Easter eggs! The Frozen 2 world is more magical and exciting than ever!
Author : Jehiel Keeler Hoyt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 936 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Quotations, English
ISBN : UIUC:30112114853564
Author : Jehiel Keeler Hoyt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 914 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Quotations, English
ISBN : HARVARD:32044052784410
Author : Jehiel Keeler Hoyt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 990 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Quotations
ISBN : PRNC:32101019661972
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 948 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Quotations
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CU58267697
Author : Barry J. Fuller,Nick Lane,Erica E. Benson
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 699 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2004-05-10
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780203647073
While it is barely 50 years since the first reliable reports of the recovery of living cells frozen to cryogenic temperatures, there has been tremendous growth in the use of cryobiology in medicine, agriculture, horticulture, forestry, and the conservation of endangered or economically important species. As the first major text on cryobiolog
Author : Evan Hawkins
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781438974880
This is a story of dysfunctional families and the effects encountered by one young woman who has been in a state of denial for decades. When the winds of change slowly blow in her direction-- this woman is reminded and convinced that her life has been a difficult one at best. She is forced to search her scattered and fragmented memories in an attempt to survive the unrelenting devastating blows of a difficult reality. The reality of her past begins to reveal it's haunting qualities early one morning after a disturbing dream and continues to grow while she survives one devastating blow after another. And through a persistant state of depression with a mutilated spirit and her amputated muse she begins therapy with a compassionate miracle worker. Her journey is a long one--as her therapist guides her though a maze of suppressed and repressed memories into recognition. And with recognition is a set of new eyes viewing and evaluating all of her choices while living in a life of denial that she created for existance. Survivng as a damaged person can dictate how a soul will evolve. An important component is the disposition of the person. A person's character dictates how the damaged person lives/survives and they usually know how to survive; it can be a negative or a positive life of survival. Survival depends strongly upon the individual, the boundaries and environment that they create to support his or her life. With the support of her family and friends she finds acceptance of her reality and purges her soul of a mistaken life style of fantasies.
Author : John Hollander
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520302242
In this essay on "what the imagination has made of the phenomenon of echo,” John Hollander examines aspects of the figure of echo in light of their significance for poetry. Looking at echo in its literal, acoustic sense, echo in myth, and echo as literary allusion, Hollander concludes with a study of the rhetorical status of the figure of echo and an examination of the ancient and newly interesting trope of metalepsis, or transumption, which it appears to embody. Centered on ways in which Milton's poetry echoes, and is echoed by, other texts, The Figure of Echo also explores Spenser and other Renaissance writers; romantic poets such as Keats, Shelley, and Wordsworth; and modern poets including Hardy, Eliot, Stevens, Frost, Williams, and Hart Crane. This book has implications for literary theory and holds great practical interest for students and teachers of American and English literature of all periods. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1981.
Author : P. S. Langeslag
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781843844259
A fresh examination of how the seasons are depicted in medieval literature.
Author : Felipe Fernández-Armesto
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2001-09-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780743216500
In Civilizations, Felipe Fernández-Armesto once again proves himself a brilliantly original historian, capable of large-minded and comprehensive works; here he redefines the subject that has fascinated historians from Thucydides to Gibbon to Spengler to Fernand Braudel: the nature of civilization. To Fernández-Armesto, a civilization is "civilized in direct proportion to its distance, its difference from the unmodified natural environment"...by its taming and warping of climate, geography, and ecology. The same impersonal forces that put an ocean between Africa and India, a river delta in Mesopotamia, or a 2,000-mile-long mountain range in South America have created the mold from which humanity has fashioned its own wildly differing cultures. In a grand tradition that is certain to evoke comparisons to the great historical taxonomies, each chapter of Civilizations connects the world of the ecologist and geographer to a panorama of cultural history. In Civilizations, the medieval poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is not merely a Christian allegory, but a testament to the thousand-year-long deforestation of the trees that once covered 90 percent of the European mainland. The Indian Ocean has served as the world's greatest trading highway for millennia not merely because of cultural imperatives, but because the regular monsoon winds blow one way in the summer and the other in the winter. In the words of the author, "Unlike previous attempts to write the comparative history of civilizations, it is arranged environment by environment, rather than period by period, or society by society." Thus, seventeen distinct habitats serve as jumping-off points for a series of brilliant set-piece comparisons; thus, tundra civilizations from Ice Age Europe are linked with the Inuit of the Pacific Northwest; and the Mississippi mound-builders and the deforesters of eleventh-century Europe are both understood as civilizations built on woodlands. Here, of course, are the familiar riverine civilizations of Mesopotamia and China, of the Indus and the Nile; but also highland civilizations from the Inca to New Guinea; island cultures from Minoan Crete to Polynesia to Renaissance Venice; maritime civilizations of the Indian Ocean and South China Sea...even the Bushmen of Southern Africa are seen through a lens provided by the desert civilizations of Chaco Canyon. More, here are fascinating stories, brilliantly told -- of the voyages of Chinese admiral Chen Ho and Portuguese commodore Vasco da Gama, of the Great Khan and the Great Zimbabwe. Here are Hesiod's tract on maritime trade in the early Aegean and the most up-to-date genetics of seed crops. Erudite, wide-ranging, a work of dazzling scholarship written with extraordinary flair, Civilizations is a remarkable achievement...a tour de force by a brilliant scholar.
Author : Don Ihde
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438492629
Don Ihde is one of the world's foremost thinkers on the place of technologies in our lives. Over the course of a long career, he has built a unique and useful perspective by expanding on phenomenological and American pragmatist philosophy and has developed wide-ranging insights and conceptual tools for describing the details of our experience across the various areas of human activity, including scientific practice, anthropological history, computer interface, design, art history, and the technologies of everyday life. The Critical Ihde brings together many of Ihde's most influential writings, as well as a number of under-recognized gems. Across these works are examples of his influential contributions to the phenomenology of human auditory and visual experience, his foundational work on the phenomenology of technology, and his thoughts on the technologies of scientific practice, including laboratory and medical imaging. Further, these chapters reveal the development of "postphenomenology," Ihde's original philosophical perspective, one that continues to flourish today across the work of a growing interdisciplinary and international collective of scholars.
Author : Linda Kay Silva
Publisher : Bella Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-14
Category : Branson, Echo (Fictitious character)
ISBN : 1594933022
When Tiponi Redhawk vanishes unexpectedly in the Alaskan wilderness, it is up to Echo and her pack of young friends to get to her before Genesys Corporation does. Genesys is willing to engage in a bloody battle in the farthest reaches of the coldest climate to achieve their evil agenda: collecting and exterminating supernaturals. Avoiding bears, blizzards and bullets, Echo and company face the hostile and frozen environment of an unforgiving terrain, and each woman must dig deeper than she ever has before for the power and strength to survive sub-zero temperatures and the ruthless henchmen of a vastly funded organization bent on killing them all. The fourth in the paranormal Echo Branson series leads to a breathless showdown in a climate as deadly as their adversaries.