A diversity of creatures. c1910. Letters of travel, 1892-1913. c1892
Author : Rudyard Kipling
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Page : 678 pages
File Size : 15,84 MB
Release : 1909
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A Diversity of Creatures. Letters of Travel, 1892-1913
Author : Rudyard Kipling
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,71 MB
Release : 1921
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Uganda's White Man of Work
Author : Sophia Blanche Lyon Fahs
Publisher :
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 16,53 MB
Release : 1907
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Art for the Nation
Author : National Gallery of Art (U.S.)
Publisher :
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 46,21 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Art
ISBN :
Book Description
Exhibition includes approximately 2% of the acquisitions made during the 1990s.
Dinosaurs and Other Extinct Saurians
Author : Richard Moody
Publisher : Geological Society of London
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 38,67 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781862393110
Book Description
The discovery of dinosaurs and other large extinct saurians - a term under which the Victorians commonly lumped ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs, pterosaurs and their kin - makes exciting reading and has caught the attention of palaeontologists, historians of science and the general public alike. The papers in this collection go beyond the familiar tales about famous fossil hunters and focus on relatively little-known episodes in the discovery and interpretation (from both a scientific and an artistic point of view) of dinosaurs and other inhabitants of the Mesozoic world. They cover a long time span, from the beginnings of modern scientific palaeontology in the 1700s to the present, and deal with many parts of the world, from the Yorkshire coast to Central India, from Bavaria to the Sahara. The characters in these stories include professional palaeontologists and geologists (some of them well-known, others quite obscure), explorers, amateur fossil collectors, and artists, linked together by their interest in Mesozoic creatures.
A diversity of creatures. Letters of travel, 1892-1913
Author : Rudyard Kipling
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Page : 682 pages
File Size : 43,15 MB
Release : 1920
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The Banquet Years
Author : Roger Shattuck
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 32,64 MB
Release : 1968-06-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780394704159
Book Description
The definitive chronicle of the origins of French avant-garde literature and art, Roger Shattuck's classic portrays the cultural bohemia of turn-of-the-century Paris who carried the arts into a period of renewal and accomplishment and laid the groundwork for Dadaism and Surrealism. Shattuck focuses on the careers of Alfred Jarry, Henri Rousseau, Erik Satie, and Guillaume Apollinaire, using the quartet as window into the era as he exploring a culture whose influence is at the very foundation of modern art.
To Myself
Author : Odilon Redon
Publisher : George Braziller
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 32,66 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Artists' writings
ISBN : 9780807611463
Book Description
To Myself is the autobiography of the late nineteenth century French artist Odilon Redon. Composed of his personal notes and journals, which he kept for over sixty years, it is a poignant testament of a self-effacing artist whose life was totally devoted to his self-imposed task. His writings consist of his reflections on being an artist, the creative act, and the struggle to achieve the lofty goals to which the truly committed artist aspires.
John Ruskin's Politics and Natural Law
Author : Graham A. MacDonald
Publisher : Springer
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 48,6 MB
Release : 2018-02-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 3319722816
Book Description
This book offers new perspectives on the origins and development of John Ruskin’s political thought. Graham A. MacDonald traces the influence of late medieval and pre-Enlightenment thought in Ruskin’s writing, reintroducing readers to Ruskin’s politics as shaped through his engagement with concepts of natural law, legal rights, labour and welfare organization. From Ruskin’s youthful studies of geology and chemistry to his back-to-the-land project, the Guild of St. George, he emerges as a complex political thinker, a reformer—and what we would recognize today as an environmentalist. John Ruskin’s Politics and Natural Law is a nuanced reappraisal of neglected areas of Ruskin’s thought.
Telling Tales
Author : David Blamires
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 47,86 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1906924090
Book Description
Germany has had a profound influence on English stories for children. The Brothers Grimm, The Swiss Family Robinson and Johanna Spyri's Heidi quickly became classics but, as David Blamires clearly articulates in this volume, many other works have been fundamental in the development of English chilren's stories during the 19th Centuary and beyond. Telling Tales is the first comprehensive study of the impact of Germany on English children's books, covering the period from 1780 to the First World War. Beginning with The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, moving through the classics and including many other collections of fairytales and legends (Musaus, Wilhelm Hauff, Bechstein, Brentano) Telling Tales covers a wealth of translated and adapted material in a large variety of forms, and pays detailed attention to the problems of translation and adaptation of texts for children. In addition, Telling Tales considers educational works (Campe and Salzmann), moral and religious tales (Carove, Schmid and Barth), historical tales, adventure stories and picture books (including Wilhelm Busch's Max and Moritz) together with an analysis of what British children learnt through textbooks about Germany as a country and its variegated history, particularly in times of war.
