Author: Herman DieckPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antarctica
Languages : en
Pages : 758
Book Description
The Marvellous Wonders of the Polar World...
Author: Herman DieckPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antarctica
Languages : en
Pages : 754
Book Description
The World's Wonders as Seen by the Great Tropical and Polar Explorers
Author: James William BuelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 832
Book Description
A Journey to the Earth's Interior
Author: Marshall Blutcher GardnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Marvelous Wonders of the Whole World Being an Account of Thrilling Adventures, Famous Sights, Celebrated Voyages, and Renowned Explorations and Discoveries in All Parts of the Globe ...
Author: Henry Davenport NorthropPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Curiosities and wonders
Languages : en
Pages : 830
Book Description
Imagining the Arctic
Author: Huw Lewis-JonesPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1786722461
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
Imagining the Arctic explores the culture and politics of polar exploration and the making of its heroes. Leading explorers, the celebrity figures of their day, went to great lengths to convince their contemporaries of the merits of polar voyages. Much of exploration was in fact theatre: a series of performances to capture public attention and persuade governments to finance ambitious proposals. The achievements of explorers were promoted, celebrated, and manipulated, whilst explorers themselves became the subject of huge attention. Huw Lewis-Jones draws upon recovered texts and striking images, many reproduced for the first time since the nineteenth century, to show how exploration was projected through a series of spectacular visuals, helping us to reconstruct the ways that heroes and the wilderness were imagined. Elegantly written and richly illustrated, Imagining the Arctic offers original insights into our understanding of exploration and its pull on the public imagination.
The world of wonders: a record of things wonderful in nature, science and art. [Publ. in pts. With] Correspondence [publ. in 11 suppls. Wanting the wrappers].
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Author: WorldCatalogue of Americana and Miscellaneous Books
Author: C.F. Libbie & CoWonder and the Marvellous from Homer to the Hellenistic World
Author: Jessica LightfootPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009007335
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 419
Book Description
Wonder and wonders constituted a central theme in ancient Greek culture. In this book, Jessica Lightfoot provides the first full-length examination of its significance from Homer to the Hellenistic period. She demonstrates that wonder was an important term of aesthetic response and occupied a central position in concepts of what philosophy and literature are and do. She also argues that it became a means of expressing the manner in which the realms of the human and the divine interrelate with one another; and that it was central to the articulation of the ways in which the relationships between self and other, near and far, and familiar and unfamiliar were conceived. The book provides a much-needed starting point for re-assessments of the impact of wonder as a literary critical and cultural concept both in antiquity and in later periods. This title is available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
A Marvelous Work and a Wonder
Author: Daniel MacgregorThe American Catalogue
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1642
Book Description
American national trade bibliography.