Author: Norman DouglasPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Capri
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Siren Land
Author: Norman DouglasPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Capri
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Siren Land
Author: Norman DouglasPublisher: Tauris Parke
ISBN: 1838602704
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Norman Douglas, one of the 20th century's great travellers in Italy, was for most of his life inextricably, passionately, connected to the Bay of Naples. This breathtaking sweep of sea and coastline - dominated by Vesuvius and with Pozzuoli and Sorrento standing sentinel - was Douglas' first experience of Italy. It was here, on the island of Capri, that he died, some 55 years after first buying a villa in Naples. "Siren Land", Douglas' first travel book, is a homage to a part of the world that captivated him more than any other. Weaving the myths of the Sirens into the landscape and history of the region, Douglas writes with knowledge and an irrepressible exuberance of the past and the present, of legends and archaeology, folklore and daily life, patron saints, local ghosts, wine and the wind. As the summer draws to a close, Douglas' prose becomes suffused with a melancholy tinged with excitement at what still remains to be discovered: 'relics of Roman rule, of old Hellas, or medieval romance...These are the delights of Siren Land'. 'What makes "Siren Land" exceptional is the quality of the telling. Weaving scholarship, impressions, fact and fantasy into an intricate fabric as enchantingly entertaining and full of human interest as the best of fairy tales or ancient myths. One of the most memorable books of its genre' - Mark Holloway, in his introduction to "Siren Land".
Siren Land
Author: Norman DouglasPublisher: London : Secker & Warburg
ISBN:
Category : Capri
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Classic travel book on the Sorrentine Peninsula and the Tunisian desert.
Siren Land
Author: Norman DouglasPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
SIREN LAND;"EDUCATION IS A STATE-CONTROLLED MANUFACTORY OF ECHOES."
Author: NORMAN DOUGLAS.Publisher:
ISBN: 9781787379121
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Emily Windsnap and the Siren's Secret
Author: Liz KesslerPublisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 0763643742
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
When Neptune tells Emily and her merman father and human mother to return to Brightport to try to make merpeople and humans work more closely together, Emily faces problems with old enemies, her new, half-merfolk friend Aaron, and a mystery related to a group of legendary lost sirens.
The Cursed
Author: Shaun HerbertPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1326217682
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 347
Book Description
When Jack Edmunds, a reporter for the Daily Tribune visits the quiet backwater village of Ellsworth, North Yorkshire he gets a little more than he bargained for. Witness to the casting of an ancient gypsy curse following allegations of corruption by the authorities- Jack along with Suzie Brown, his accomplice, are drawn into an ever increasing maelstrom of events and strange happenings beyond belief. Cut off from the outside world the village of Ellsworth rapidly descends into a bizarre blood-bath of demonic possession as friend turns against friend in a frenzie of unstoppable carnage. Can the realms of superstition be as tangible as they seem or are they merely a form of self-imposed psycho-babble that preys upon the mind? Either way their journey won't be easy as they confront an ever increasing maelstrom of sinister events, exposing them to the darker side of human nature at its worst.
Siren Land. 100 Wonders...
Author: Gabriele CavalierePublisher:
ISBN: 9788898787319
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Sirens
Author: Michael BullPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1501305026
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
Sirens are sounds that confront us in daily life, from the sounds of police cars and fire engines to, less often, tornado warnings. Ideologies of sirens embody the protective, the seductive and the dangerous elements of siren sounds – from the US Cold War public training exercises in the 1950s and 1960s to the seductive power of the sirens entrenched in popular culture: from Wagner to Dizzee Rascal, from Kafka to Kurt Vonnegut, from Hans Christian Andersen to Walt Disney. This book argues, using a wide array of theorists from Adorno to Bloch and Kittler, that we should understand 'siren sounds' in terms of their myth and materiality, and that sirens represent a sonic confluence of power, gender and destructiveness embedded in core Western ideologies to the present day. Bull poses the question of whether we can rely on sirens, both in their mythic meanings and in their material meanings in contemporary culture.
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