Author: Kari Herbert Publisher: Chronicle Books ISBN: 9781452158273 Category : Reference Languages : en Pages : 320
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The sketchbook has been the one constant in explorers' kits for centuries of adventure. Often private, they are records of immediate experiences and discoveries, and in their pages we can see what the explorers themselves encountered. This remarkable book showcases 70 such sketchbooks, kept by intrepid men and women as they journeyed perilous and unknown environments—frozen wastelands, high mountains, barren deserts, and dense rainforests—with their senses wide open. Figures such as Charles Darwin and Sir Edmund Hillary are joined here by lesser-known explorers such as Adela Breton, who braved the jungles of Mexico to make a record of Mayan monuments. Here are profiles, expedition details, and the artwork of pioneering explorers and mapmakers, botanists and artists, ecologists and anthropologists, eccentrics and visionaries. Here is the art of discovery.
Author: Mike Barbuti Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 0595149995 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 210
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It was only suppose to be a routine expedition to look for a downed aircraft. At least that’s what Dr. Raymond Michaels thought when his ship left dock that morning. But things turned out to be far from normal as Dr. Michaels makes one of the most startling discoveries in history! A discovery that makes him first, a hero, then, lands him in jail as a traitor where he helplessly watches as the world pushes itself ever closer to war, when it’s leaders can’t decide how to cope with his amazing discovery. But Dr. Michaels has allies, powerful allies, that even he is unaware of. A beautiful French spy, a billionaire industrialist and a U.S. Senator, all with questionable motives, come into his life and he into theirs. Yet even as he questions their convictions, along with his own sanity, he realizes that he must use them to help him carry out a desperate plan to save mankind. Then, as he races to implement his intricate scheme, the first shots are fired! Can the world hold itself together long enough for Dr. Michaels to reveal the truth about his discovery? Does he even know the whole truth?
Author: Derek E. Dykes Publisher: Caelmbre Publishing and Arts ISBN: 1450515088 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 342
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In 2054, America has changed by necessity; safe areas have been established to combat 'internal terrorism'. Their creation had the side effect of literally burying older places in 'dark zones' - forgotten places of crime and murder hidden under the raised platforms of the new cities. For Ellyandra Dyett, the zones are just part of her job with the FBI; but all that changes when the discovery of a desiccated corpse murdered over 40 years before leads Ellyandra Dyett and her team of criminologists through a web of torture, deceit and multiple murders. When new murders are tied to the old, Ellie finds herself targeted by a madman, and begins to find that she, too, is slipping into madness. MADNESS is the first full-length novel by Derek E Dykes. Filled with Alabama landmarks and a dash of southern history, MADNESS unfolds through the eyes of Ellyandra Dyett, an FBI Criminologist who stumbles upon a horrific secret. Set in 2054 in a reorganized society, Derek shows us a world that, while frightfully different in many ways, seems all too plausible for an alternate near-future.
Author: Alan Charles Rosen Publisher: U of Nebraska Press ISBN: 0803239629 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 265
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Language has frequently been at the center of discussions about Holocaust writing. Yet English, a primary language of neither the persecutors nor the victims, has generally been viewed as marginal to the events of the Holocaust. Alan Rosen argues that this marginal status profoundly affects writing on the Holocaust in English and fundamentally shapes our understanding of the events. Sounds of Defiance chronicles the evolving status of English in writing about the Holocaust, from the period of the Second World War to the 1990s. ø Each chapter highlights a representative work from a different genre?psychology, sociology, memoir, tales, fiction, and film?and examines the special position of English with regard to the Holocaust, supported by references to the role of other languages, including Hebrew, Yiddish, and German. This original approach provides a new perspective on such standard works as Eichmann in Jerusalem, The Shawl, and Maus, while drawing attention to others largely unknown. Rosen also links this analysis of English writing to developments in the postwar period: the escalating production of writing on the Holocaust in English; the increasing prestige of English as a global language; and paradoxically, within the contexts of neocolonial and multilingual studies, the increasingly uncertain position of English.