Author | : Jasper Parrott |
Publisher | : Hamish Hamilton |
Total Pages | : 239 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Conductors (Music) |
ISBN | : 9780241115756 |
Author | : Jasper Parrott |
Publisher | : Hamish Hamilton |
Total Pages | : 239 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Conductors (Music) |
ISBN | : 9780241115756 |
Author | : Daniëlle Slootjes |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2016-10-05 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9004326758 |
Rome and the Worlds Beyond Its Frontiers examines interactions between those within and those beyond the boundaries of Rome, with an eye to the question of contested identities and identity formations.
Author | : Joseph Montague |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : Western stories |
ISBN | : |
Author | : William K. Hartmann |
Publisher | : Workman Publishing |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1984-01-01 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780894807701 |
Describes and provides illustrations of the kinds of space exploration that may be done in the near future, and discusses the economic and political implications for the people of the earth
Author | : Edgar Rice Burroughs |
Publisher | : Cosimo, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 129 |
Release | : 2005-11-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1596054956 |
I could not repress a sigh at the thought of the havoc war had wrought in this part of England, at least. Farther east, nearer London, we should find things very different. There would be the civilization that two centuries must have wrought upon our English cousins as they had upon us. There would be mighty cities, cultivated fields, happy people. There we would be welcomed as long-lost brothers. There would we find a great nation anxious to learn of the world beyond their side of thirty, as I had been anxious to learn of that which lay beyond our side of the dead line. ~ ~ ~ Edgar Rice Burroughs created one of the most iconic figures in American pop culture, Tarzan of the Apes, and it is impossible to overstate his influence on entire genres of popular literature in the decades after his enormously winning pulp novels stormed the public's imagination. The Lost Continent is one of the rarest and least-known of Burrough's thrilling science-fiction adventure stories. Since its first appearance-in the February 1916 issue of All-Around Magazine, under the title "Beyond Thirty"-it has languished in undeserved obscurity. In the year 2137, global civilization has been in decline for nearly two centuries, and war-ruined Europe is but a distant memory, practically a legend, to the isolationist United States. But one intrepid American traveler is about to rediscover the Old World, which has become a startling and savage land in its solitude. American novelist EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS (1875-1950) wrote dozens of adventure, crime, and science fiction novels that are still beloved today, including Tarzan of the Apes (1912), At the Earth's Core (1914), A Princess of Mars (1917), The Land That TimeForgot (1924), and Pirates of Venus (1934). He is reputed to have been reading a comic book when he died.
Author | : Nick Danziger |
Publisher | : HarperCollins UK |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Asia |
ISBN | : 0586087060 |
This account describes the author's adventures during an 18-month journey beyond forbidden frontiers in Asia. With minimal equipment and disguised as an itinerant Muslim, he hitch-hiked and walked through southern Turkey, and the Iran of the Ayatollahs, entering Afghanistan illegally in the wake of a convoy of Chinese weapons and then spent months dodging Russian helicopter gunships with the rebel guerillas. He was the first foreigner to cross from Pakistan into the closed western province of China since the revolution on 1949.
Author | : Frederic Bost |
Publisher | : Frontiers Media SA |
Total Pages | : 134 |
Release | : 2020-01-24 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 2889634078 |
Author | : Carl Abbott |
Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 2015-09-10 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0806152400 |
We live near the edge—whether in a settlement at the core of the Rockies, a gated community tucked into the wilds of the Santa Monica Mountains, a silicon culture emerging in the suburbs, or, in the future, homesteading on a terraformed Mars. In Imagined Frontiers, urban historian and popular culture scholar Carl Abbott looks at the work of American artists who have used novels, film, television, maps, and occasionally even performance art to explore these frontiers—the metropolitan frontier of suburban development, the classic continental frontier of American settlement, and the yet unrealized frontiers beyond Earth. Focusing on writers and artists working during the past half-century, an era of global economic and social reach, Abbott describes the dialogue between historians and social scientists seeking to understand these frontier places and the artists reimagining them in written and visual fictions. This book offers perspectives on such well-known authors as T. C. Boyle and John Updike and on such familiar movies and television shows as Falling Down and The Sopranos. By putting The Rockford Files and the cult favorite Firefly in conversation with popular fiction writers Robert Heinlein and Stephen King and literary novelists Peter Matthiessen and Leslie Marmon Silko, Abbott interweaves the disparate subjects of western history, urban planning, and science fiction in a single volume. Abbott combines all-new essays with others previously published but substantially revised to integrate western and urban history, literary analysis, and American studies scholarship in a uniquely compelling analysis of the frontier in popular culture.
Author | : Paul Bohannan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : Human geography |
ISBN | : |
Includes Chapter 3 Reaction and interaction; a food gathering people and European settlement in Australia by A.P. Elkin.