Author | : Saviour Pirotta |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-09-19 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0753479850 |
A stunning storytelling journey across six continents with beautifully illustrated tales from 80 different cultures.
Author | : Saviour Pirotta |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-09-19 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0753479850 |
A stunning storytelling journey across six continents with beautifully illustrated tales from 80 different cultures.
Author | : Nicola Baxter |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Children's stories |
ISBN | : 9781843220442 |
"Wherever people live-- in the icy Arctic or the steamy rainforest-- the tradition of storytelling flourishes."--Page 4 of cover
Author | : David Damrosch |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 279 |
Release | : 2021-11-04 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0141981504 |
'Restlessly curious, insightful, and quirky, David Damrosch is the perfect guide to a round-the-world adventure in reading' Stephen Greenblatt A transporting and illuminating voyage around the globe, told through eighty classic and modern books 'It is always a pleasure to talk about books with David Damrosch, who has read all of them, and he is so eloquent and understanding about them all' Orhan Pamuk Inspired by Jules Verne's hero Phileas Fogg, David Damrosch, chair of Harvard's Department of Comparative Literature and founder of Harvard's Institute for World Literature, set out to counter a pandemic's restrictions on travel by exploring eighty exceptional books from around the globe. Following a literary itinerary from London to Venice, Tehran and points beyond, and via authors from Woolf and Dante to Nobel prizewinners Orhan Pamuk, Wole Soyinka, Mo Yan and Olga Tokarczuk, he explores how these works have shaped our idea of the world, and the ways the world bleeds into literature. To chart the expansive landscape of world literature today, Damrosch explores how writers live in two very different worlds: the world of their personal experience, and the world of books that have enabled great writers to give shape and meaning to their lives. In his literary cartography, Damrosch includes compelling contemporary works as well as perennial classics, hard-bitten crime fiction as well as haunting works of fantasy, and the formative tales that introduce us as children to the world we're entering. Taken together, these eighty titles offer us fresh perspective on perennial problems, from the social consequences of epidemics to the rising inequality that Thomas More designed Utopia to combat and the patriarchal structures within and against which many of these books' heroines have to struggle, from the work of Murasaki Shikibu a millennium ago to that of Margaret Atwood today. Around the World in 80 Books is a global invitation to look beyond ourselves and our surroundings, and to see our world and its literature in new ways.
Author | : Katie Dicker |
Publisher | : Welbeck Children's |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2021-11-16 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781783127795 |
Fire up young readers' imagination and creativity with this classic story featuring added STEAM activities. This beloved children's adventure is retold with vivid and engaging new illustrations - and at the end of every chapter, there are exciting new science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics activities, themed around the events in the book. The activities range from simple puzzles to fun, dynamic experiments, so there's something for every enquiring mind. It's the ideal combination of enchanting story and stimulating science fun.
Author | : Jules Verne |
Publisher | : Castrovilli Giuseppe |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 1905 |
Genre | : Voyages and travels |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jonathan Drori |
Publisher | : Laurence King Publishing |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2020-08-11 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9781786276063 |
Trees are one of humanity's most constant and most varied companions. From India's sacred banyan tree to the fragrant cedar of Lebanon, they offer us sanctuary and inspiration—not to mention the raw materials for everything from aspirin to maple syrup. In Around the World in 80 Trees, expert Jonathan Drori uses plant science to illuminate how trees play a role in every part of human life, from the romantic to the regrettable. Stops on the trip include the lime trees of Berlin's Unter den Linden boulevard, which intoxicate amorous Germans and hungry bees alike, the swankiest streets in nineteenth-century London, which were paved with Australian eucalyptus wood, and the redwood forests of California, where the secret to the trees' soaring heights can be found in the properties of the tiniest drops of water. Each of these strange and true tales—populated by self-mummifying monks, tree-climbing goats and ever-so-slightly radioactive nuts—is illustrated by Lucille Clerc, taking the reader on a journey that is as informative as it is beautiful.
Author | : Geronimo Stilton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2016-10 |
Genre | : Children's stories |
ISBN | : 9780545872591 |
Gentlemouse Phileas Fogg is one of the most predictable mice in London. That is, until he bets his friends an enormouse sum of money that he can travel around the world in just 80 days! Together with his French butler, Jean Passerpartout, Fogg sets out on a fabumouse adventure. But is he really just settling a bet, or could he be a bold thief on the run from the law?
Author | : Michael Palin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Voyages around the world |
ISBN | : |
In the autumn of 1988, Michael Palin sets out from the Reform Club to circumnavigate the world, following the route taken by Phileas Fogg 115 years earlier.
Author | : Jules Verne |
Publisher | : Sterling Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 170 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781402736896 |
In 1872, English gentleman Phileas Fogg has many adventures as he tries to win a bet that he can travel around the world in eighty days.