Author: United States. Department of AgriculturePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
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Author: United States. Department of AgriculturePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Forever a Stranger and Other Stories
Author: Hella S. HaassePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
In this collection of stories, Haasse, one of Holland's most popular contemporary writers, deals with themes of alienation and estrangement. Born in the Dutch East Indies, Haasse calls up the images, people, and memories of her childhood. These are the first English translations of Haasse's work.
Colonial Virginia
Author: Harold B. GillPublisher: Thomas Nelson Publishers
ISBN: 9780840771148
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Traces the history of Virginia from the landing of the first settlers in 1607 to Cornwallis' surrender at Yorktown in 1781.
Opera omnia
Author: Jan van RuusbroecPublisher: Brill Archive
ISBN: 9789004063686
Category : Mysticism
Languages : nl
Pages : 210
Book Description
Travels in West Africa
Author: Mary H. KingsleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, West
Languages : en
Pages : 842
Book Description
As a dutiful Victorian daughter, the author was thirty before being freed (by her parents' deaths) to do as she chose. She went to West Africa in 1893 and again in 1895, to investigate the beliefs and customs of the inland tribes and also to collect zoological specimens. She was appalled by the 'thin veneer of rubbishy white culture' imposed by British officials and was not afraid to say so.
Major Poetry
Author: Geoffrey ChaucerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
An Englishwoman in Angora
Author: Grace EllisonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108074219
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 379
Book Description
A partisan but fascinating 1923 account of Grace Ellison's visit to Angora (Ankara), the new capital of the Turkish Republic.
A Turkish Kaleidoscope
Author: Clare SheridanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Turkey
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
To My Dear Pieternelletje
Author: Bea BrommerPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004293329
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
To my dear Pieternelletje describes a ten-year period in the lives of Pieternella van Hoorn and her grandfather Willem van Outhoorn, former governor-general of the Dutch East Indies. Eleven years old, Pieternella left for Amsterdam and the only contact possible was by mail. Numerous letters have survived and combined with contemporaneous documents, most of them never published before, they offer a vivid and clear picture of their private life and feelings, forming a most welcome addition to official VOC-history. Van Outhoorn not only acted as Pieternella’s mentor while she tried to adjust to her new but unknown fatherland, but also sent her numerous exquisite presents, the greater part of which has been traced and described in full, thus offering new insight in the cultural history of Asia.
Maria Sibylla Merian & Daughters
Author: Ella ReitsmaPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Animals in art
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
"In the 17th century, when insects were called "beasts of the devil", and women were virtually excluded from the field of science, a young German woman named Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717) dedicated her life to the study and depiction of the metamorphosis of insects. Merian's extraordinary accomplishments in art and science and those of her most important pupils - her daughters Johanna Helena and Dorothea Maria - will be on view in Maria Sibylla Merian & Daughters: Women of Art and Science at the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Getty Center, June 10 - August 31, 2008, the first major exhibition of Merian's work in America. The exhibition will explore various aspects of Merian's career, including her hand-colored publications on flowers and insects, her successful business venture in Amsterdam as a specimen-supplier for the collectors and naturalists, and her extraordinary journey to Suriname and the scientific discoveries that resulted. Specimens of actual insects, including the large Blue Morpho butterfly, will be included in the exhibition alongside Merian's renderings - providing a rare opportunity for scholars, nature lovers, and families to experience European and exotic insects first hand." --Publisher.