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Languages : en
Pages : 500
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The John Crerar
Author: Journal of the American Geographical Society of New York
Author: American Geographical Society of New YorkPublisher:
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Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 852
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Bulletin of the American Geographical Society
Author: American Geographical Society of New YorkPublisher:
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 836
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A First Course of Practical Science
Author: John Henry LeonardPublisher:
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 210
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The Travels of Marco Polo II
Author: Rustichello of PisaPublisher: anboco
ISBN: 3736410891
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1528
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Book of the Marvels of the World or Description of the World , in Italian Il Milione (The Million) or Oriente Poliano and in English commonly called The Travels of Marco Polo, is a 13th-century travelogue written down by Rustichello da Pisa from stories told by Marco Polo, describing Polo's travels through Asia between 1276 and 1291, and his experiences at the court of Kublai Khan. The book was written in Old French by romance writer Rustichello da Pisa, who worked from accounts which he had heard from Marco Polo when they were imprisoned together in Genoa. From the beginning, there has been incredulity over Polo's sometimes fabulous stories, as well as a scholarly debate in recent times. Some have questioned whether Marco had actually traveled to China or was just repeating stories that he had heard from other travelers.
The Soil
Author: Sir Alfred Daniel HallPublisher:
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Category : Soils
Languages : en
Pages : 386
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Shakespeare and the Geography of Difference
Author: John GilliesPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521458535
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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In this engaging book, John Gillies explores Shakespeare's geographic imagination, and discovers an intimate relationship between Renaissance geography and theatre, arising from their shared dependence on the opposing impulses of taboo-laden closure and hubristic expansiveness. Dr Gillies shows that Shakespeare's images of the exotic, the 'barbarous, outlandish or strange', are grounded in concrete historical fact: to be marginalised was not just a matter of social status, but of belonging, quite literally, to the margins of contemporary maps. Through an examination of the icons and emblems of contemporary cartography, Dr Gillies challenges the map-makers' overt intentions, and the attitudes and assumptions that remained below the level of consciousness. His study of map and metaphor raises profound questions about the nature of a map, and of the connections between the semiology of a map and that of the theatre.
Algebra Adapted to the Requirements of the First Stage of the Directory of the Board of Education
Author: Edward Mann LangleyPublisher:
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Category : Algebra
Languages : en
Pages : 258
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The Story of Maps
Author: Lloyd Arnold BrownPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486238733
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 463
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"An important and scholarly work; bringing together much information available heretofore only in scattered sources. Easily readable." — Gerald I. Alexander, F.R.G.S. Cartographer, Map Division, New York Public Library. The first authoritative history of maps and the men who made them. The historical coverage of this volume is immense: from the first two centuries A.D. — Strabo and Ptolemy — through the end of the 19th century, with some discussion of 20th-century developments. 86 illustrations. Extensive notes and bibliography. "Mr. Brown felicitously marries scholarship to narrative and dramatic skill." — Henry Steele Commager.
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