El Icaro The Icarus
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El Icaro The Icarus
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Author : Salvador Jacinto Polo de Medina
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1965
El Icaro The Icarus written by Salvador Jacinto Polo de Medina and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1965 with categories.
The Myth Of Icarus In Spanish Renaissance Poetry
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Author : John H. Turner
language : en
Publisher: Tamesis
Release Date : 1976
The Myth Of Icarus In Spanish Renaissance Poetry written by John H. Turner and has been published by Tamesis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976 with Literary Criticism categories.
Icarus
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Author : Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa
language : en
Publisher: BibliotecaOnline SL
Release Date : 2012-09-17
Icarus written by Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa and has been published by BibliotecaOnline SL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-17 with Fiction categories.
A story packed with action and adventure, yet mercifully free of car chases, angry policemen, murderous mercenaries and gun fights - indeed no gun or knife is drawn in anger from one end of the book to the other. Trust Spain’s top-selling novelist, Vázquez-Figueroa, to pull this off now that he is at the peak of his powers. For this epic, he has chosen the life and times of Jimmie Angel, an American pioneer airman who lived through the early days of aviation with passionate intensity as an intrepid pilot, becoming involved in just about every impossible venture on offer in those heady days in the first half of the twentieth century - distant wars, stunts for air shows and films, missions for oil companies, pioneering aviation in China - and crowning his achievements with the discovery of the highest waterfall in the world: Angel Falls in the Venezuelan jungle. The story centers on his adventures as a hired pilot in the Guiana Highlands - the most mysterious comer of the Americas, lying between Venezuela and Brazil. This extraordinary setting features the striking, age-old tabular mountains called tepuis - flat-topped massifs that tower oddly above assorted stretches of jungle and plain, in a remote region that was entirely unknown then, and that remains largely unknown even today. At the top of a particularly imposing tepui, a Scottish gold-seeker, John McCraken, had found gold and diamonds aplenty after spending most of his life wandering in the jungles of South America. Wishing to return there as an old man, and no longer able for long treks through such remote territory, he employs the services of a pilot reputed to be the most daring of them all, Jimmie Angel, the idea being to fly straight to “his” tepui and land on it - at a time when airdromes were few and far between, and when obtaining fuel supplies was always a problem. The adventures of McCraken and Angel as they strike out into the unknown form a gripping story, with vivid portraits of astonishing landscapes and colorful individuals and peoples, and cameo recollections of adventures with such figures as Lawrence of Arabia and Howard Hughes. As we have come to expect from this author, in the end the small group of central characters emerge as the essential substance of the work: powerfully drawn, they grow in themselves and in our minds as they face up to each new day and the unknown trials it inevitably brings. A story well told, characters well drawn, and a spectacular setting vividly captured. Yet Vázquez-Figueroa does not stop there: he also manages to convey the excitement of a virgin world where nothing can be taken for granted, where success or failure depend solely on the human qualities of the protagonists, and where everything still remains to be conquered with whatever help the new-born technology of the time can contribute.
Icaro Icarus
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Author : Alberto Vazquez-Figueroa
language : es
Publisher: B de Bolsillo
Release Date : 2017-05-31
Icaro Icarus written by Alberto Vazquez-Figueroa and has been published by B de Bolsillo this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-31 with Fiction categories.
El protagonista de Icaro es un personaje real, el aventurero y pionero de la aviación Jimmie Angel (1899-1956). Héroe de la Primera Guerra Mundial, piloto personal de Lawrence de Arabia y compañero de escuadrilla del mítico Roland Garros, su afan aventurero le llevó a internarse, en 1937, en el corazón de la Guayana venezolana en busca de oro y allí descubrir uno de los parajes mas hermosos del planeta y que desde entonces lleva su nombre: el Salto del Angel. Con estos materiales, Alberto Vazquez-Figueroa ha escrito una magnífica novela, una historia de lucha, supervivencia y aventuras insólitas que intenta hacer justicia a la memoria de este hombre extraordinario e injustamente olvidado, el único que consiguió sobrevivir a nueve accidentes aéreos y al arte de volar a los doce vientos. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION A magnificent novel, a story of struggle, survival, and unusual adventures that attempts to honor the memory of an extraordinary, unjustly forgotten man: Jimmie Angel. He was a hero of the first world war and personal pilot to Lawrence of Arabia. A man that survived nine plane crashes.
La Agenda De Icaro
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Author : Robert Ludlum
language : es
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988
La Agenda De Icaro written by Robert Ludlum and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Muscat (Oman) categories.
Icaro O El Futuro De La Ciencia
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Author : Bertrand Russell
language : es
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
Icaro O El Futuro De La Ciencia written by Bertrand Russell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Civilization categories.
The Return Of Astraea
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Author : Frederick A. de Armas
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Release Date : 2021-03-17
The Return Of Astraea written by Frederick A. de Armas and has been published by University Press of Kentucky this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-17 with Literary Criticism categories.
In classical mythology Astraea, the goddess of justice, chastity, and truth, was the last of the immortals to leave Earth with the decline of the ages. Her return was to signal the dawn of a new Golden Age. This myth not only survived the Christian Middle Ages but also became a commonplace in the Renaissance when courtly poets praised their patrons and princes by claiming that Astraea guided them. The literary cult of Astraea persisted in the sixteenth century as writers saw in Elizabeth I of England the imperial Astraea who would lead mankind to peace through universal rule. This and other late flowerings of the Astraea myth should not be taken as the final phases of her history. Frederick A. de Armas documents in this book what may well be the last great rebirth of Astraea, one that is probably of greater political, religious, and literary significance than others previously described by historians and literary critics. The Return of Astraea focuses on the seventeenth-century Spanish playwright Pedro Calderón de la Barca, and analyzes the deity's presence in thirteen of his plays, including his masterpiece, La Vida es Sueho. Her popularity in this period is partially attributed to political motives, reflecting the aspirations and fears of the Spanish monarch Philip IV. In this broad study, grounded on such diverse fields as astrology, iconography, history, mythology, and philosophy, de Armas explains that Astraea adopts many guises in Calderón's dramas. Ranging from the Kabbalah to Platonic thought and from satires on Olivares to cosmogonic myths, he analyzes and reinterprets Calderón's theater from a wide range of perspectives centered on the playwright's utilization of the myth of Astraea. The book thus represents a new view of Calderón's dramaturgy and also documents the popularity and significance of this astral-imperial myth during the Spanish Golden Age.
Mythological Themes In The Works Of Garcilaso De La Vega
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Author : Joan Cammarata
language : en
Publisher: J. Porrua Turanzas
Release Date : 1983
Mythological Themes In The Works Of Garcilaso De La Vega written by Joan Cammarata and has been published by J. Porrua Turanzas this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Mythology in literature categories.
New Art Of Cuba
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Author : Luis Camnitzer
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2003
New Art Of Cuba written by Luis Camnitzer and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Art categories.
Starting with the groundbreaking 1981 exhibit called "Volumen I," New Art of Cuba provided the first comprehensive look at the works of the first generation of Cuban artists completely shaped by the 1959 revolution. This revised edition includes a new epilogue that discusses developments in Cuban art since the book's publication in 1994, including the exodus of artists in the early 1990s, the effects of the new dollar economy on the status of artists, and the shift away from socialist themes to more personal concerns in the artists' works. Twenty-four new color plates augment the more than 200 b&w illustrations of the original volume.
Caro Icarus
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Author : Chiara Lossani
language : es
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-10-30
Caro Icarus written by Chiara Lossani and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-30 with categories.
Inspired by the mythological tale of Icarus that was written by Henri Matisse and in the metamorphosis of Ovid, Chiara Lossani narrates one of the well-known episodes of the Greek mythology. Inspired by the mythological tale of Icarus that was written by Henri Matisse and in the metamorphosis of Ovid, Chiara Lossani narrates one of the well-known episodes of the Greek mythology. In the first part of the book, the author sticks with the classic myth to present Daedalus, an incredible machine builder and architect of the Cretan Labyrinth, where the king Minos locks him up with his son Icarus, as a punishment for helping Theseus escape. The solitude of this prison brings them closer and makes them dream of freedom. This isolation reveals to the greatest inventor of the world that he hasnt imagined a game for his son and nor has he had time to take care of him. Now he knows that Icarus is the only one that he needs to take care of and decides to build wings to scape, but the result of this invention is not what he expected, the same happened with the labyrinth that he built, destiny is full of traps, curves and nips and crannies without an exit . A story that talks about wits, love, obsession and sensitivity, where the illustrations of Gabriel Pachecho follows the poetic tone of the text and where details like the minotaurus of Crete, the face of Daedalus or the flight of the father and son are such a monumental part as the feelings they portray.