Author: John DAVIES (D.D., Hon. Canon of Durham.)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 20
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The Visitation of the Thunder: a Sermon Preached at St. Mary's Church, Gateshead, on Sunday, July 11, 1852 ... Second Edition
Author: John DAVIES (D.D., Hon. Canon of Durham.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1955
Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1288
Book Description
The Life and Times of the Rev. John Wesley, M.A., Founder of the Methodists
Author: Luke TyermanPublisher:
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Category : Methodism
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
The Parish Registers of England
Author: John Charles CoxPublisher:
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Category : Church records and registers
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Phantasms of the Living
Author: Edmund GurneyPublisher:
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Category : Dreams
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
"A large part of the material used in this book was sent to the authors as representatives of the Society for Psychical Research; and the book is published with the sanction of the council of that Society ... Mr. Myers is solely responsible for the Introduction, and for the Note on a suggested mode of psychical interaction ... Mr. Gurney is solely responsible for the remainder of the book ... the collection, examination, and appraisal of the evidence--has been a joint labour, of which Mr. Podmore has borne ... a share ..."--Preface.
Camoens
Author: Sir Richard Francis BurtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Unquiet Soul
Author: Margot PetersPublisher:
ISBN: 9780671807122
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
A History of Epidemics in Britain
Author: Charles CreightonPublisher:
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Category : Epidemics
Languages : en
Pages : 734
Book Description
Falling Upwards
Author: Richard HolmesPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307908704
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 567
Book Description
**Kirkus Best Books of the Year (2013)** **Time Magazine 10 Top Nonfiction Books of 2013** **The New Republic Best Books of 2013** In this heart-lifting chronicle, Richard Holmes, author of the best-selling The Age of Wonder, follows the pioneer generation of balloon aeronauts, the daring and enigmatic men and women who risked their lives to take to the air (or fall into the sky). Why they did it, what their contemporaries thought of them, and how their flights revealed the secrets of our planet is a compelling adventure that only Holmes could tell. His accounts of the early Anglo-French balloon rivalries, the crazy firework flights of the beautiful Sophie Blanchard, the long-distance voyages of the American entrepreneur John Wise and French photographer Felix Nadar are dramatic and exhilarating. Holmes documents as well the balloons used to observe the horrors of modern battle during the Civil War (including a flight taken by George Armstrong Custer); the legendary tale of at least sixty-seven manned balloons that escaped from Paris (the first successful civilian airlift in history) during the Prussian siege of 1870-71; the high-altitude exploits of James Glaisher (who rose) seven miles above the earth without oxygen, helping to establish the new science of meteorology); and how Mary Shelley, Edgar Allan Poe, and Jules Verne felt the imaginative impact of flight and allowed it to soar in their work. A seamless fusion of history, art, science, biography, and the metaphysics of flights, Falling Upwards explores the interplay between technology and imagination. And through the strange allure of these great balloonists, it offers a masterly portrait of human endeavor, recklessness, and vision. (With 24 pages of color illustrations, and black-and-white illustrations throughout.)