The Diary of Johannes Hansen


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A trip around Greenland to a distinct culture with no prior contact with the outside world.







Form and Function in the Diary Novel


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Contents: Definitions: Basic Qualities, Border-line Cases, Formal Objections; History and Evolution; Mimetics: Editorial Functions, External Form, Dates and Days; Verisimilitude: Start to Finish, Likely Stories, Narra-tease?; Parody; The Character of the Diarist: Life Sentences, Daily Mirrors, Now and Then; Appendix A: Titles of diary novels studied in translation; Appendix B: English titles of French diary novels mentioned in the text; Notes; Bibliography; Index^R







Inuit Studies


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Diary of Joh. Hansen


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The diary begins in 1841 through to 1850 and seems to be the work of Joh. Hansen who resided in South Australia for a time and then moved to Victoria, becoming a jeweller and then a pastor, dying about 1915 (Information from Dr Lois Zweck, Lutheran Archives, Friends, Chair.) Contains entries about algebra, mathematics, music, philosophy etc.







Keeping Watch in Babylon


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This volume offers the first holistic examination of the Astronomical Diaries, a remarkable set of 1000 clay tablets from ancient Babylon in which for over 500 years (6th–1st century BCE) scholars combined astronomical observations with records of events on earth.




Værker: Vokalmusik


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The Ammassalik Eskimo


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