Due North, Or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia
Author : Ballou
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Page : 424 pages
File Size : 37,31 MB
Release : 1887
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Author : Ballou
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Page : 424 pages
File Size : 37,31 MB
Release : 1887
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Author : Maturin Murray Ballou
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 15,65 MB
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1465548726
Author : Charles F Cutting
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Page : 98 pages
File Size : 38,51 MB
Release : 2017-08-22
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ISBN : 9783337297145
Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1887. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.
Author : Maturin M. Ballou
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Page : 373 pages
File Size : 30,6 MB
Release : 1892
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Author : Maturin Murray Ballou
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 39,20 MB
Release : 1887
Category : Travel
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About five years ago, the Author, having then just returned from circumnavigating the globe, was induced to record his experiences of the long journey, which were published in a volume entitled "Due West; or, Round the World in Ten Months." The public favor accorded to this work led, a couple of years later, to the issuing of a second volume of travels, upon the Author's return from the West Indies, entitled "Due South; or, Cuba, Past and Present." The popular success of both books and the flattering comments of the critics have caused the undersigned to believe that a certain portion of the public is pleased to see foreign lands and people through his eyes; and hence the publication of the volume now in hand. These pages describing the far North, from which the Author has just returned, -including Norway, Sweden, Russia, and Russian Poland, -seem naturally to suggest the title of "Due North." Without [Pg vi] permitting prejudice to circumscribe judgment in treating of Russia, the effort has been to represent the condition of that country and its Polish province truthfully, and to draw only reasonable deductions. This special reference is made to the pages relating to the Tzar's government, as it will be found that the Author does not accord with the popularly expressed opinion upon this subject.
Author : Maturin Murray Ballou
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Page : 373 pages
File Size : 47,39 MB
Release : 1898
Category : Europe, Northern
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Author : Dimitrios Kassis
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 15,98 MB
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1527561291
Situated between Europe and Asia, Russia has systematically challenged the European theories attached to nationhood due to its geopolitical and cultural peculiarities. After the rise of European nationalist movements, imperial Russia posed a threat to the very existence of the Germanic empires of Britain, Germany and Austria, and was frequently evoked to epitomise European barbarism, paganism, despotism and the Orient. In its struggle to acquire a new identity, which would bridge the gap with Western empires, Russia could not conform to the rising Anglo-Saxon movements that sought to glorify Nordic supremacy at the expense of the Oriental Other. Drawing upon this binary opposition between the Orient and the Occident, the Russian Empire concentrated on the development of its own nation-building theories, which managed to incorporate the ascending Pan-Slavic wave into its nationalist agenda. The anti-Western rhetoric that often characterised Russian politics contributed to the subversion of the conventional Western perspective of the Orient and the emergence of Eurasianism as a political theory that exalted the different traits of its imperial system. This book sets the focus on the representations of the Russian Empire from 1792 until 1912 in the field of travel literature. To this end, it selects British and American travel narratives of the aforementioned period to explore all aspects of Russian identity and culture. For this reason, it addresses major issues attached to Russian history and culture that were investigated by Western travellers in their attempt to approach the Russian Empire.
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Page : 144 pages
File Size : 49,65 MB
Release : 1887-08
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Popular Science gives our readers the information and tools to improve their technology and their world. The core belief that Popular Science and our readers share: The future is going to be better, and science and technology are the driving forces that will help make it better.
Author : Maturin Murray Ballou
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 13,6 MB
Release : 2015-06-24
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781330150382
Excerpt from Due North: Or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia About five years ago, the Author, having then just returned from circumnavigating the globe, was induced to record his experiences of the long journey, which were published in a volume entitled "Due West; or, Round the World in Ten Months." The public favor accorded to this work led, a couple of years later, to the issuing of a second volume of travels, upon the Author's return from the West Indies, entitled "Due South; or, Cuba, Past and Present." The popular success of both books and the flattering comments of the critics have caused the undersigned to believe that a certain portion of the public is pleased to see foreign lands and people through his eyes; and hence the publication of the volume now in hand. These pages describing the far North, from which the Author has just returned, - including Norway, Sweden, Russia, and Russian Poland, - seem naturally to suggest the title of "Due North." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Page : 852 pages
File Size : 40,22 MB
Release : 1888
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
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