Author: John MairPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
A brief survey of the terraqueous globe ... Written originally by J. Mair ... republished, with great additions, amendments, and improvements by an able hand, and illustrated with maps, etc
Author: John MairA Brief Survey of the Terraqueous Globe ... republished, with great additions, amendments and improvements, illustrated with maps ... engraved by T. Kitchen
Author: John MairAll Things Arabia
Author: Ileana BairdPublisher: Arts and Archaeology of the Is
ISBN: 9789004435919
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Introduction: Complex legacies : materiality, memory, and myth in the Arabian Peninsula / Ileana Baird -- Frankincense and its Arabian burner / William Gerard Zimmerle -- The tyranny of the pearl : desire, oppression, and nostalgia in the Lower Gulf / Victoria Hightower -- Palm dates, power, and politics in pre-oil Kuwait / Eran Segal -- Circulating things, circulating stereotypes : representations of Arabia in eighteenth-century imagination / Ileana Baird -- "Who will change old lamps for new ones?" : Aladdin and his wonderful lamp in British and American children's entertainment / Jennie MacDonald -- Creative cartography : from the Arabian Desert to the garden of Allah / Holly Edwards -- Kinetic symbol : falconry as image vehicle in the United Arab Emirates / Yannis Hadjinicolaou -- Al-Sadu weaving : significance and circulation in the Arabian Gulf / Rana Al-Ogayyel and Ceyda Oskay -- Head coverings, Arab identity, and new materialism / Joseph Donica -- Written in silver : protective medallions from inner Oman / James Redman -- From cradle to grave : a life story in jewelry / Marie-Claire Bakker and Kara McKeown -- Cine-things : the revival of the Emirati past in Nojoom Alghanem's cinemascape / Chrysavgi Papagianni -- Afterword: All things collected / Hülya Yağcıoğlu.
The Universal Gazetteer
Author: John WalkerA Brief Survey of the Terraqueous Globe
Author: John MairA History of Ancient Geography Among the Greeks and Romans
Author: Edward Herbert BunburyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classical geography
Languages : en
Pages : 804
Book Description
Lord Jeffrey. Jane Welsh Carlyle. Appendix: Southey; Wordsworth
Author: Thomas CarlyleHeaven and Earth in the Middle Ages
Author: Rudolf SimekPublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 9780851156088
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
In this fascinating book Dr Simek shows that though nature was thought to be permeated by the will of God, there were numerous explanations for unknown phenomena, from the simple theories of the early middle ages to the more sophisticated ideas of the centres of learned scholasticism in Paris and Oxford. He presents a cross-section of the medieval knowledge of the physical world as deliberated and discussed by authors from the 9th to the 15th centuries.
North American Exploration
Author: John Logan AllenPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803210233
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
The three volumes of North American Exploration appraise the full scope of the exploration of the North American continent and its oceanic margins from prior to the arrival of Columbus until the end of the nineteenth century. More than an assessment of historical events, these volumes portray the process of exploration. Without forgetting the romance of discovery, the authors recognize that exploration encompasses a great deal more than the adventures themselves. All explorers are conditioned by the time, place, and circumstances of their efforts; these determine objectives, the behavior of explorers, and the consequences of their discoveries. ø The second volume includes the exploration of North America from the Spanish entrada of the sixteenth century to the British and Russian explorations of the Pacific coastal regions at the end of the eighteenth century?a time during which North America was largely defined and understood in terms of advancing scientific viewpoints during the European Enlightenment. Discovery gave way to Exploration and supposition to understanding.
Australia Unveiled
Author: Günter SchilderPublisher: Computer Science Press, Incorporated
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
History of exploration of Australian coastal regions mainly by the Dutch in the seventeenth century; mostly a cartographical study with brief references to contacts with Aborigines.