Author : Simon Winchester
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 36,37 MB
Release : 1998-02-26
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0141937904
Simon Winchester undertakes a journey from the mouth of the Yangste River to its source. This is the story of the river, it's cities and their people, built around the author's own journey to discover something of the essence of China and her people, the Yangtse being her soul and centre
Author : Simon Winchester
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 34,81 MB
Release : 2004-04
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780312423377
Chronicle of the author's adventures following the often difficult course of the Yangtze River in China, providing a portrait of the vast country, its history, politics, geography, climate, and culture.
Author : V. S. Naipaul
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 42,28 MB
Release : 2018-08-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0735277141
In the "brilliant novel" (The New York Times) V.S. Naipaul takes us deeply into the life of one man — an Indian who, uprooted by the bloody tides of Third World history, has come to live in an isolated town at the bend of a great river in a newly independent African nation. Naipaul gives us the most convincing and disturbing vision yet of what happens in a place caught between the dangerously alluring modern world and its own tenacious past and traditions.
Author : Sean W. Fleming
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 45,3 MB
Release : 2019-08-06
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0691191824
Rivers are essential to every aspect of civilization, yet how many understand how they work? Fleming takes readers on a journey along our planet's waterways, providing a scientist's reflections on the profound interrelationships that rivers have with landscapes, ecosystems, and societies.
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Page : 394 pages
File Size : 22,30 MB
Release : 1924
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Author : Lyman P. Van Slyke
Publisher :
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 15,60 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Yangtze River (China)
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Author : Nira Stone
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 30,55 MB
Release : 2019-07-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9004400508
Nira Stone (1938-2013) was a scholar of Armenian and Byzantine Art. Her broad and close acquaintance with the field of Armenian art history covered many fields of Armenian artistic creativity. Nira Stone made notable contributions to the study of Armenian manuscript painting, mosaics, and other forms of artistic expression. Of particular interests are her researches on this art in its historical and religious contexts, such as the study of apocryphal elements in Armenian Gospel iconography, the place of the mosaics of Jerusalem in the context of mosaics in Byzantine Palestine, and of the interplay between religious movements, such as hesychasm, and Armenian manuscript painting.
Author : Nadia Lovell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 34,31 MB
Release : 2003-12-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1134739796
Locality and Belonging provides an international overview of the close relationship between territory and cultural identity. The issue of 'belonging' has long been recognized as crucial to the study of identity within anthropology. Here, contributors from Sweden, Norway, the Netherlands, France and the UK present rigorous case studies of 'belonging' from the UK, South Africa, Argentina, Zanzibar, Amazonia, Indonesia and West Africa. Among the themes explored are: * space, memory and ethnicity * the mnemonic use of objects * mythologies of football and history * use of 'natural features' of the environment * nationhood and post-colonial identity making.
Author : Graham Robb
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 37,26 MB
Release : 2013-11-04
Category : History
ISBN : 039308163X
Describes a discovery the author made in the Alps, which uncovered a treasure trove of Druid celestial mathematics that mapped out the entire geography of ancient Europe, and discusses the implications of this new information.
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Page : 224 pages
File Size : 30,72 MB
Release : 1889
Category : Atlases
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