Skinny Dipping and Other Immersions in Water, Myth, and Being Human
Author : Janet Lembke
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Page : 1 pages
File Size : 40,90 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Swimming
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Author : Janet Lembke
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Page : 1 pages
File Size : 40,90 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Swimming
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Author : T. O. Madden
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 23,55 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780813923710
Like many other southern free Negro families originating in the colonial era (when many whites, women, as well as men were subject to servitude), the family of T. O. Madden, Jr., began with the birth in 1758 of his great-great-grandmother Sarah Madden. She is one of the two ancestors to whom he dedicates this book. Sarah's mother, Mary Madden, contributed the surname that endured. Mary Madden was an Irishwoman who had probably immigrated as a servant a few years before Sarah's birth. Although the myths of Virginia would make every colonial who was white into an aristocrat, Mary Madden, like most eighteenth-century Virginians, was indigent. But unlike many others, she was free. Of Sarah Madden's father, nothing is known. The legal definition of mixed-race children of blacks and whites had been settled in 1662, when the Virginia legislature enacted laws prohibiting interracial marriages and declaring that children followed the status of their mother. Such legislation made children like Sarah Madden free, but illegitimate.
Author : Virgil
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 49,43 MB
Release : 2006-12-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780300119862
A masterful new verse translation of one of the greatest nature poems ever written. Virgil's Georgics is a paean to the earth and all that grows and grazes there. It is an ancient work, yet one that speaks to our times as powerfully as it did to the poet's. This unmatched translation presents the poem in an American idiom that is elegant and sensitive to the meaning and rhythm of the original. Janet Lembke brings a faithful version of Virgil's celebratory poem to modern readers who are interested in classic literature and who relish reading about animals and gardens. The word georgics meansfarming. Virgil was born to a farming family, and his poem gives specific instructions to Italian farmers along with a passionate message to care for the land and for the crops and animals that it sustains. The Georgics is also a heartfelt cry for returning farmers and their families to land they had lost through a series of dispiriting political events. It is often considered the most technically accomplished and beautiful of all of Virgil's work.
Author : Fiona Cox
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 10,80 MB
Release : 2011-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0199582963
Through an analysis of Virgil's presence in the work of contemporary women writers from North America, Britain, Ireland and continental Europe, this book identifies a new Virgil: one who speaks in female tones of the anxieties, exclusions pleasures and threats of the contemporary world.
Author : Tom Earnhardt
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 40,73 MB
Release : 2013-04-22
Category : Nature
ISBN : 146960700X
In this richly illustrated love letter to the wild places and natural wonders of North Carolina, Tom Earnhardt, writer and host of UNC-TV's Exploring North Carolina and lifelong conservationist, seamlessly ties deep geological time and forgotten species from our distant past to the unparalleled biodiversity of today. With varied topography and a climate that is simultaneously subtropical, temperate, and subarctic, he shows that North Carolina is a meeting place for living things more commonly found far to the north and south. Highlighting the ways in which the state is a unique ecological crossroads, Earnhardt's research, insightful writing, and stunning photography will both teach and inspire. Crossroads of the Natural World invites readers to engage a variety of topics, including the impacts of invasive species, the importance of forested buffers along our rivers, the role of naturalists, and the challenges facing the state in a time of climate change and sea-level rise. By sharing his own journey of more than sixty years, Earnhardt entices North Carolinians of every age to explore the natural diversity of our state.
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Page : 300 pages
File Size : 13,91 MB
Release : 2004
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Page : 1370 pages
File Size : 25,32 MB
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Category : American literature
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Author : Jill B. Gidmark
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 24,36 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Literary Criticism
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A comprehensive survey of American sea literature. Ranges from the earliest printed matter produced in the colonies to contemporary experiments in published prose, poetry, and drama.
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Page : 284 pages
File Size : 16,4 MB
Release : 2001
Category : North Carolina
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Page : 300 pages
File Size : 47,52 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Environmental responsibility
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