Ricky's Dream Trip to Ancient Greece
Author : William Stevenson
Publisher : Office the Bookshelf
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 22,86 MB
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781936517770
Author : William Stevenson
Publisher : Office the Bookshelf
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 22,86 MB
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781936517770
Author : William Stevenson
Publisher : Micro Publishing Media
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 31,44 MB
Release : 2022-11
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781953321169
This is a combination of three award-winning Ricky's Dream Trip books now in one volume with added information for classroom use and at-home activities. Ricky travels to the Ancient world through his dreams with his pop pop by his side. In Egypt, the land of the Pharaohs and pyramids he meets the boy prince, Tutankhamen, in a search for a beloved missing pet. Immerse yourself in the culture of Ancient Egypt with this terrific adventure. Next Ricky and Pop Pop meet Aristotle as they visit the land of the Ancient Olympics, see the temple of Athena, and help Alexander the Great! In the third time-bending dream trip adventure to Ancient Rome the fate of Julius Caesar, one of Rome's greatest leaders, hangs in the balance. It is up to Ricky to confront his own fears and change the course of history.
Author : William Stevenson
Publisher : Office the Bookshelf
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 48,22 MB
Release : 2012-08-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781936517718
Author : Rick Steves
Publisher : Rick Steves
Page : 581 pages
File Size : 47,38 MB
Release : 2018-02-06
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1641710470
Change the world one trip at a time. In this illuminating collection of stories and lessons from the road, acclaimed travel writer Rick Steves shares a powerful message that resonates now more than ever. With the world facing divisive and often frightening events, from Trump, Brexit, and Erdogan, to climate change, nativism, and populism, there's never been a more important time to travel. Rick believes the risks of travel are widely exaggerated, and that fear is for people who don't get out much. After years of living out of a suitcase, he still marvels at how different cultures find different truths to be self-evident. By sharing his experiences from Europe, Central America, Asia, and the Middle East, Rick shows how we can learn more about own country by viewing it from afar. With gripping stories from Rick's decades of exploration, this fully revised edition of Travel as a Political Act is an antidote to the current climate of xenophobia. When we travel thoughtfully, we bring back the most beautiful souvenir of all: a broader perspective on the world that we all call home. All royalties from the sale of Travel as a Political Act are donated to support the work of Bread for the World, a non-partisan organization working to end hunger at home and abroad.
Author : Richard S. Kahn
Publisher : Archway Publishing
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 46,70 MB
Release : 2021-04-16
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1665703989
Richard Kahn takes you on a tour of the world in It’s About Time . . . & Travel. Explore destinations and people as Richard shares his unique experiences in some of the hundred nations that he visited for business and pleasure as a travel writer and editor for more than fifty years. Richard was often in the right place at the wrong time. He found himself in Grenada at the time of the coup that led to U.S. Marines landing on that Caribbean island. On another trip, he enjoyed a private lunch with the woman who, on that very same day, attempted the coup against Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines. He even had the misfortune of being mugged in China, which nearly turned into an international incident. This book is part travelogue and part memoir. Richard shares his view of the three Rs—Religion, Race Relations, and Right and Wrong—while informing both the armchair vacationer and experienced traveler. Not your normal travel guide, this is a glimpse behind the scenes of the travel industry and a look at what makes travel an entertaining and educational experience.
Author : Elena C. Partida
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 19,46 MB
Release : 2019-08-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1789690889
This book presents a range of topics, conveying the broad scope of Richard Tomlinson’s archaeological quests and echoing his own research methodologies; it is is a token of appreciation for a British professor of archaeology, who spread knowledge of the Greek civilization, manifesting the brilliant spirit of the versatile ancient Greek builders.
Author : Lucy Pollard
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 34,3 MB
Release : 2015-01-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0857724339
Greece and Asia Minor proved an irresistible lure to English visitors in the seventeenth century. These lands were criss-crossed by adventurers, merchants, diplomats and men of the cloth. In particular, John Covel (1638-1722) - chaplain to the Levant Company in the 1670s, later Master of Christ's College, Cambridge - was representative of a thoroughly eccentric band of Englishmen who saw Greece and the Ottoman world through the lens of classical history. Using a variety of sources, including Covel's largely unpublished diaries, Lucy Pollard shows that these curious travellers imported, alongside their copies of Pausanias and Strabo, a package of assumptions about the societies they discovered. Disparaging contemporary Greeks as unworthy successors to their classical ancestors allowed Englishmen to view themselves as the true inheritors of classical culture, even as - when opportunity arose - they removed antiquities from the sites they described. At the same time, they often admired the Turks, about whom they had fewer preconceptions. This is a major contribution to reception and post-Restoration ideas about antiquity.
Author : Laurie Maguire
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 13,83 MB
Release : 2013-01-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0470658509
Think you know Shakespeare? Think again . . . Was a real skull used in the first performance of Hamlet? Were Shakespeare's plays Elizabethan blockbusters? How much do we really know about the playwright's life? And what of his notorious relationship with his wife? Exploring and exploding 30 popular myths about the great playwright, this illuminating new book evaluates all the evidence to show how historical material—or its absence—can be interpreted and misinterpreted, and what this reveals about our own personal investment in the stories we tell.
Author : Matthew Ryan Hauge
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 14,41 MB
Release : 2013-08-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0567604969
It is difficult to underestimate the significance of the story of the Rich Man and Lazarus in Luke 16:19-31 within the biblical tradition. Although hell occupies a prominent position in popular Christianrhetoric today, it plays a relatively minor role in the Christian canon. The most important biblical texts that explicitly describe the fate of the dead are in the Synoptic Gospels. Yet among these passages, only the Lukan tradition is intent on explicitly describing the abode of the dead; it is the only biblical tour of hell. Hauge examines the story of the Rich Man and Lazarus in Luke 16:19-31, uniquely the only 'parable' that is set within a supernatural context. The parables characteristically feature concrete realities of first-century Mediterranean life, but the majority of Luke 16:19-31 is narrated from the perspective of the tormented dead. This volume demonstrates that the distinctive features of the story of the Rich Man and Lazarus are the result of a strategic imitation, creative transformation, and Christian transvaluation of the descent of Odysseus into the house of hades in Odyssey Book 11, the literary model par excellence of postmortem revelation in antiquity.
Author : Rosemary Guiley
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 25,91 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Astral projection
ISBN : 1438128940
Explores dreams and their interpretation and whether they occur on an astral plane of existence.