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A stunning storytelling journey across six continents with beautifully illustrated tales from 80 different cultures.
Author : Saviour Pirotta
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 13,9 MB
Release : 2023-09-19
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0753479850
A stunning storytelling journey across six continents with beautifully illustrated tales from 80 different cultures.
Author : Nicola Baxter
Publisher :
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 35,77 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Children's stories
ISBN : 9781843220442
"Wherever people live-- in the icy Arctic or the steamy rainforest-- the tradition of storytelling flourishes."--Page 4 of cover
Author : David Damrosch
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 25,83 MB
Release : 2021-11-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0141981504
'Restlessly curious, insightful, and quirky, David Damrosch is the perfect guide to a round-the-world adventure in reading' Stephen Greenblatt A transporting and illuminating voyage around the globe, told through eighty classic and modern books 'It is always a pleasure to talk about books with David Damrosch, who has read all of them, and he is so eloquent and understanding about them all' Orhan Pamuk Inspired by Jules Verne's hero Phileas Fogg, David Damrosch, chair of Harvard's Department of Comparative Literature and founder of Harvard's Institute for World Literature, set out to counter a pandemic's restrictions on travel by exploring eighty exceptional books from around the globe. Following a literary itinerary from London to Venice, Tehran and points beyond, and via authors from Woolf and Dante to Nobel prizewinners Orhan Pamuk, Wole Soyinka, Mo Yan and Olga Tokarczuk, he explores how these works have shaped our idea of the world, and the ways the world bleeds into literature. To chart the expansive landscape of world literature today, Damrosch explores how writers live in two very different worlds: the world of their personal experience, and the world of books that have enabled great writers to give shape and meaning to their lives. In his literary cartography, Damrosch includes compelling contemporary works as well as perennial classics, hard-bitten crime fiction as well as haunting works of fantasy, and the formative tales that introduce us as children to the world we're entering. Taken together, these eighty titles offer us fresh perspective on perennial problems, from the social consequences of epidemics to the rising inequality that Thomas More designed Utopia to combat and the patriarchal structures within and against which many of these books' heroines have to struggle, from the work of Murasaki Shikibu a millennium ago to that of Margaret Atwood today. Around the World in 80 Books is a global invitation to look beyond ourselves and our surroundings, and to see our world and its literature in new ways.
Author : Jules Verne
Publisher :
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 33,76 MB
Release : 1874
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Katie Dicker
Publisher : Welbeck Children's
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 50,43 MB
Release : 2021-11-16
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781783127795
Fire up young readers' imagination and creativity with this classic story featuring added STEAM activities. This beloved children's adventure is retold with vivid and engaging new illustrations - and at the end of every chapter, there are exciting new science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics activities, themed around the events in the book. The activities range from simple puzzles to fun, dynamic experiments, so there's something for every enquiring mind. It's the ideal combination of enchanting story and stimulating science fun.
Author : Jonathan Drori
Publisher : Laurence King Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 MB
Release : 2020-08-11
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781786276063
Trees are one of humanity's most constant and most varied companions. From India's sacred banyan tree to the fragrant cedar of Lebanon, they offer us sanctuary and inspiration—not to mention the raw materials for everything from aspirin to maple syrup. In Around the World in 80 Trees, expert Jonathan Drori uses plant science to illuminate how trees play a role in every part of human life, from the romantic to the regrettable. Stops on the trip include the lime trees of Berlin's Unter den Linden boulevard, which intoxicate amorous Germans and hungry bees alike, the swankiest streets in nineteenth-century London, which were paved with Australian eucalyptus wood, and the redwood forests of California, where the secret to the trees' soaring heights can be found in the properties of the tiniest drops of water. Each of these strange and true tales—populated by self-mummifying monks, tree-climbing goats and ever-so-slightly radioactive nuts—is illustrated by Lucille Clerc, taking the reader on a journey that is as informative as it is beautiful.
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Publisher : Teacher Created Materials
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 18,57 MB
Release : 2019-12-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1644915537
Adapted from the classic book by Jules Verne, this adventure fiction book retells the classic story, Around the World in Eighty Days. Phileas Fogg likes things done by the clock. And he expects things to go like clockwork when he accepts a wager to travel around the world in 80 days. Can Fogg return to England in time, or will he lose his fortune in the effort? This 32-page illustrated chapter book will appeal to kids who enjoy imaginative retellings of classic novels.
Author : Michael Palin
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 39,51 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Voyages around the world
ISBN :
In the autumn of 1988, Michael Palin sets out from the Reform Club to circumnavigate the world, following the route taken by Phileas Fogg 115 years earlier.
Author : Geronimo Stilton
Publisher :
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 22,92 MB
Release : 2016-10
Category : Children's stories
ISBN : 9780545872591
Gentlemouse Phileas Fogg is one of the most predictable mice in London. That is, until he bets his friends an enormouse sum of money that he can travel around the world in just 80 days! Together with his French butler, Jean Passerpartout, Fogg sets out on a fabumouse adventure. But is he really just settling a bet, or could he be a bold thief on the run from the law?
Author : Jules Verne
Publisher : MoonDance Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 25,54 MB
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781633221499
Share this classic adventure story and its characters' adventures on trains, boats, and wild animals with a new generation with Read-Aloud Classics: Around the World in 80 Days. Meet Phileas Fogg and his valet, Passepartout, as they attempt to travel the world around the world in just 80 days via train, boat, and even elephant! This age-appropriate introduction presents the original novel in a way that children will understand and enjoy, and provides a faithful retelling that children will recall when they are older and ready for the original text. The modern world is bursting at the seams with technological games and distracting screens for kids to occupy themselves with. The Read-Aloud Classics series is the perfect thing to shows them that you can go on incredible adventures without a controller and experience wonderful stories without a touch screen. Best of all, you will create memories as you read the stories together.