Smeaton and lighthouses, a popular biogr. [by C. Tomlinson].
Author : Charles Tomlinson
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Page : 136 pages
File Size : 42,72 MB
Release : 1844
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Author : Charles Tomlinson
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Page : 136 pages
File Size : 42,72 MB
Release : 1844
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Author : Neil Jones
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 24,98 MB
Release : 2014-09-11
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1472913744
In 1514, Henry VIII granted the Corporation of Trinity House a royal charter that made them responsible for the provision and maintenance of navigational aids in British territorial waters. 500 years later they are still responsible for the running of Britain's lighthouses. Though automated now, these lighthouses are maintained in all their unique and idiosyncratic splendour, proving popular architectural landmarks with locals and visitors alike. To celebrate Trinity House's quincentenary, this lavish photographic book features the best photography from the Corporation's own archive. Dramatic and evocative colour photos sit alongside text telling alternately fascinating and entertaining stories about these iconic structures dotted around the most vulnerable stretches of Britain's coastlines. Told from the Corporation's point of view, this will be a photographic account of iconic buildings to be treasured by anyone who finds the haunting beam of a lighthouse at sea an immensely comforting sight, as well as walkers and families for whom a lighthouse on the landscape is a completely irresistible draw.
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Page : 796 pages
File Size : 45,36 MB
Release : 1984
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Author : John C. Crosthwaite
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Page : 332 pages
File Size : 20,54 MB
Release : 1846
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Page : 1278 pages
File Size : 26,23 MB
Release : 1845
Category : England
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Page : 1228 pages
File Size : 29,49 MB
Release : 1844
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Page : 622 pages
File Size : 42,32 MB
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Page : 1276 pages
File Size : 18,77 MB
Release : 1845
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Author : Karl Toepfer
Publisher : Vosuri Media
Page : 1320 pages
File Size : 34,14 MB
Release : 2019-08-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1733249737
This book offers perhaps the most comprehensive history of pantomime ever written. No other book so thoroughly examines the varieties of pantomimic performance from the early Roman Empire, when the term “pantomime” came into use, until the present. After thoroughly examining the complexities and startlingly imaginative performance strategies of Roman pantomime, the author identifies the peculiar political circumstances that revived and shaped pantomime in France and Austria in the eighteenth century, leading to the Pierrot obsession in the nineteenth century. Modernist aesthetics awakened a huge, highly diverse fascination with pantomime. The book explores an extraordinary variety of modernist and postmodern approaches to pantomime in Germany, Austria, France, numerous countries of Eastern Europe, Russia, Scandinavia, Spain, Belgium, The Netherlands, Chile, England, and The United States. Making use of many performance and historical documents never before included in pantomime histories, the book also discusses pantomime’s messy relation to dance, its peculiar uses of music, its “modernization” through silent film aesthetics, and the extent to which writers, performers, or directors are “authors” of pantomimes. Just as importantly, the book explains why, more than any other performance medium, pantomime allows the spectator to see the body as the agent of narrative action.
Author : Heinrich Schliemann
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Page : 572 pages
File Size : 42,5 MB
Release : 1875
Category : Troy (Extinct city)
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