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Page : 538 pages
File Size : 14,59 MB
Release : 1944-06
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Page : 538 pages
File Size : 14,59 MB
Release : 1944-06
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Author : R.V. Risley
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 20,70 MB
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3732677796
Reproduction of the original: The Sentimental Vikings by R.V. Risley
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Page : 848 pages
File Size : 24,48 MB
Release : 1910
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Author : Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 20,72 MB
Release : 2016-12-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 168137028X
Baron Munchausen’s hold on the European imagination dates back to the late eighteenth century when he first pulled himself (and his horse) out of a swamp by his own upturned pigtail. Inspired by the extravagant yarns of a straight-faced former cavalry officer, Hieronymus von Münchhausen, the best-selling legend quickly eclipsed the real-life baron who helped the Russians fight the Turks. Galloping across continents and centuries, the mythical Munchausen’s Travels went through hundreds of editions of increasing length and luxuriance. Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky, the Russian modernist master of the unsettling and the uncanny, also took certain liberties with the mythical baron. In this phantasmagoric roman à clef set in 1920s Berlin, London, and Moscow, Munchausen dauntlessly upholds his old motto “Truth in lies,” while remaining a fierce champion of his own imagination. At the same time, the two-hundred-year-old baron and self-taught philosopher has agreed to return to Russia, Lenin’s Russia, undercover. This reluctant secret agent has come out of retirement to engage with the real world.
Author : R. Wally Johnson
Publisher : ANU Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 13,4 MB
Release : 2020-04-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1760463566
Mount Lamington broke out in violent eruption on 21 January 1951, killing thousands of Orokaiva people, devastating villages and destroying infrastructure. Generations of Orokaiva people had lived on the rich volcanic soils of Mount Lamington, apparently unaware of the deadly volcanic threat that lay dormant beneath them. Also unaware were the Europeans who administered the Territory of Papua and New Guinea at the time of the eruption, and who were uncertain about how to interpret the increasing volcanic unrest on the mountain in the preceding days of the disaster. Roars from the Mountain seeks to address why so many people died at Mount Lamington by examining the large amount of published and unpublished records that are available on the 1951 disaster. The information sources also include the results of interviews with survivors and with people who were part of the relief, recovery and remembrance phases of what can still be regarded as one of Australia’s greatest natural-hazard disasters.
Author : Richard Voorhees Risley
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Page : 188 pages
File Size : 26,30 MB
Release : 1897
Category : American fiction
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Author : John Pinkerton
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Page : 1038 pages
File Size : 38,99 MB
Release : 1812
Category : Voyages and travels
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Author : Gregory Smits
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 40,77 MB
Release : 2014-03-21
Category : History
ISBN : 1442220104
Japan, which is among the most earthquake-prone regions in the world, has a long history of responding to seismic disasters. However, despite advances in earthquake-related safety technologies, the destructiveness of the magnitude 9 class earthquake and tsunami that struck the country on 3/11 raised profound questions about how societies can deal effectively with seismic hazards. This important book places the devastating earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown disaster in historical perspective, examining conceptions of earthquakes since the seventeenth century, the diverse ways actual earthquakes and their aftermath played out, and their enduring social and scientific significance. By looking backward, Gregory Smits identifies future pitfalls to avoid and assesses the allocation of resources for dealing with future earthquake and tsunami disasters. He criticizes Japan’s postwar quest for earthquake prediction and the concept of “characteristic” earthquakes. Smits argues that earthquakes are so chaotic as to be unpredictable, not only geologically but also in their social and cultural effects. Therefore, he contends, the best hope for future disaster mitigation is antiseismic engineering and flexible disaster-relief capabilities. As the first sustained historical analysis of destructive earthquakes and tsunamis, this book is an essential resource for anyone interested in Japan, natural disasters, seismology, and environmental history.
Author : Erin Cotter
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 25,84 MB
Release : 2024-11-05
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1665940727
In London, 1593, sixteen-year-old Will Hughes makes his living on Shakespeare's stage, but after the famous playwright Christopher Marlowe is murdered, he teams up with young Lord James Bloomsbury, and together the two hunt the elusive assassin as their forbidden feelings for each other ignite.
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Page : 1316 pages
File Size : 36,76 MB
Release : 1921
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