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Author: Charles Frederick Holder Publisher: Good Press ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 197
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This book is a very full and informative account of elephants; their natural lives and habitats. It also documents the history of the relationship between humans and elephants and how they have been used at work and in wars.
Author: Charles Frederick Holder Publisher: Good Press ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 197
Book Description
This book is a very full and informative account of elephants; their natural lives and habitats. It also documents the history of the relationship between humans and elephants and how they have been used at work and in wars.
Author: Charles Frederick Holder Publisher: ISBN: Category : Elephants Languages : en Pages : 408
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Tells about the elephant and its relation to man in war, pageantry, sports and games, as faithful laborer and servant, comrade and friend, its forms, structure and anatomy.
Author: Nancy Marie Brown Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 1137279370 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 290
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In the early 1800's, on a Hebridean beach in Scotland, the sea exposed an ancient treasure cache: 93 chessmen carved from walrus ivory. Norse netsuke, each face individual, each full of quirks, the Lewis Chessmen are probably the most famous chess pieces in the world. Harry played Wizard's Chess with them in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Housed at the British Museum, they are among its most visited and beloved objects. Questions abounded: Who carved them? Where? Nancy Marie Brown's Ivory Vikings explores these mysteries by connecting medieval Icelandic sagas with modern archaeology, art history, forensics, and the history of board games. In the process, Ivory Vikings presents a vivid history of the 400 years when the Vikings ruled the North Atlantic, and the sea-road connected countries and islands we think of as far apart and culturally distinct: Norway and Scotland, Ireland and Iceland, and Greenland and North America. The story of the Lewis chessmen explains the economic lure behind the Viking voyages to the west in the 800s and 900s. And finally, it brings from the shadows an extraordinarily talented woman artist of the twelfth century: Margret the Adroit of Iceland.
Author: Arash Khazeni Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520964268 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 265
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The City and the Wilderness recounts the journeys and microhistories of Indo-Persian travelers across the Indian Ocean and their encounters with the Burmese Kingdom and its littoral at the turn of the nineteenth century. As Mughal sovereignty waned under British colonial rule, Indo-Persian travelers and intermediaries linked to the East India Company explored and surveyed the Burmese Empire, inscribing it as a forest landscape and Buddhist kingdom at the crossroads of South and Southeast Asia. Based on colonial Persian travel books and narratives in which Indo-Persian knowledge and perceptions of the wondrous edges of the Indian Ocean merged with Orientalist pursuits, The City and the Wilderness uncovers fading histories of inter-Asian crossings and exchanges at the ends of the Mughal world.
Author: Mary Mapes Dodge Publisher: ISBN: Category : Brothers and sisters Languages : en Pages : 396
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A Dutch boy and girl work toward two goals, finding the doctor who can restore their father's memory and winning the competition for the silver skates.
Author: Martin Meredith Publisher: PublicAffairs ISBN: 0786728388 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 197
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For thousands of years, the majestic elephant has roamed the African continent, as beloved by man as it has been preyed upon. But centuries of exploitation and ivory hunting have taken their toll: now, as wars and poachers continue to ravage its habitat, as disease and political strife deflect attention from its plight, the African elephant faces imminent extinction. What will become of these magnificent beasts? As the elephant's future looms ever darker, Martin Meredith's concise and richly illustrated biography traces the elephant's history from the first ivory expeditions of the Egyptian pharaohs 2500 years ago to today, exploring along the way the indelible imprint the African elephant has made in art, literature, culture, and society. He shares recent extraordinary discoveries about the elephant's sophisticated family and community structure and reveals the remarkable ways in which elephants show compassion and loyalty to each other. Elegant, illuminating, and urgent, Elephant Destiny offers a beautiful and important tribute to one of earth's most magisterial creatures at the very moment it threatens to vanish from being.
Author: Helen Louise Cowie Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1108495176 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 301
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Examines the extensive use of animal commodities in Victorian Britain and the humanitarian and ecological issues raised by their consumption.
Author: Charles Frederick Holder
Author: Charles Frederick Holder
Author: Charles Frederick Holder
Author: Nancy Marie Brown
Author: Arash Khazeni
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Author: Mary Mapes Dodge
Author: Martin Meredith
Author: Helen Louise Cowie
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