How To Traverse Terra Incognita
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How To Traverse Terra Incognita
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Author : Dean Francis Alfar
language : en
Publisher: Flipside Digital Content Company Inc.
Release Date : 2012-08-21
How To Traverse Terra Incognita written by Dean Francis Alfar and has been published by Flipside Digital Content Company Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-21 with Fiction categories.
How to Traverse Terra Incognita is Dean Francis Alfar's second collection of speculative fiction. These short stories draw from the traditions of fantasy, science fiction, and horror: a man recreates a country for his queen, fandom turns dangerous for a writer, toys attempt to escape their sad circumstances, and a door into the realm of the gods appears.
Terra Incognita
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Author : Rodney Broome
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
Terra Incognita written by Rodney Broome and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with America categories.
"Terra Incognito" connects a series of seemingly unconnected discoveries over the past 50 years towards a new and intriguing theory as to how America got its name. It captures the spirit and essence of the age of discovery and introduces characters that blend into the times of adventure and romance. Photos.
Terra Incognita
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Author : Ian Goldin
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2020-08-27
Terra Incognita written by Ian Goldin and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-27 with Science categories.
'Amazing. It would be my desert island choice' Martin Rees 'Fascinating, beautiful, alarming and revelatory use of mapping and infographics' Stephen Fry on EarthTime maps 'An indispensable read' Arianna Huffington From the global impact of the Coronavirus to exploring the vast spread of the Australian bushfires, join authors Ian Goldin and Robert Muggah as they trace the ways in which our world has changed and the ways in which it will continue to change over the next hundred years. Map-making is an ancient impulse. From the moment homo sapiens learnt to communicate we have used them to make sense of our surroundings. But as Albert Einstein once said, 'you can't use old maps to explore a new world.' And now, when the world is changing faster than ever before, our old maps are no longer fit for purpose. Welcome to Terra Incognita. Based on decades of research, and combining mesmerising, state-of-the-art satellite maps with enlightening and passionately argued analysis, Ian and Robert chart humanity's impact on the planet, and the ways in which we can make a real impact to save it, and to thrive as a species. Learn about: fires in the arctic; the impact of sea level rise on cities around the world; the truth about immigration - and why fears in the West are a myth; the counter-intuitive future of population rise; the miracles of health and education that are waiting around the corner, and the reality about inequality, and how we end it. The book traces the paths of peoples, cities, wars, climates and technologies, all on a global scale. Full of facts that will confound you, inform you, and ultimately empower you, Terra Incognita guides readers to a new place of understanding, rather than to a physical location.
Masters Of All They Surveyed
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Author : D. Graham Burnett
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2000
Masters Of All They Surveyed written by D. Graham Burnett and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with History categories.
Chronicling the British pursuit of the legendary El Dorado, Masters of All They Surveyed tells the fascinating story of geography, cartography, and scientific exploration in Britain's unique South American colony, Guyana. How did nineteenth-century Europeans turn areas they called terra incognita into bounded colonial territories? How did a tender-footed gentleman, predisposed to seasickness (and unable to swim), make his way up churning rivers into thick jungle, arid savanna, and forbidding mountain ranges, survive for the better part of a decade, and emerge with a map? What did that map mean? In answering these questions, D. Graham Burnett brings to light the work of several such explorers, particularly Sir Robert H. Schomburgk, the man who claimed to be the first to reach the site of Ralegh's El Dorado. Commissioned by the Royal Geographical Society and later by the British Crown, Schomburgk explored and mapped regions in modern Brazil, Venezuela, and Guyana, always in close contact with Amerindian communities. Drawing heavily on the maps, reports, and letters that Schomburgk sent back to England, and especially on the luxuriant images of survey landmarks in his Twelve Views in the Interior of Guiana (reproduced in color in this book), Burnett shows how a vast network of traverse surveys, illustrations, and travel narratives not only laid out the official boundaries of British Guiana but also marked out a symbolic landscape that fired the British imperial imagination. Engagingly written and beautifully illustrated, Masters of All They Surveyed will interest anyone who wants to understand the histories of colonialism and science.
Maximum Volume
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Author : Dean Francis Alfar
language : en
Publisher: Anvil Publishing, Inc.
Release Date : 2017-11-15
Maximum Volume written by Dean Francis Alfar and has been published by Anvil Publishing, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-15 with Fiction categories.
The 14 stories in this book celebrate the variety of voices currently enriching and expanding Philippine literature—all by authors under the age of 45. Stories of wonder and mystery rub shoulders with contemporary domestic dramas and rousing speculative fiction, all rife with joy and sadness told in different ways.
A Field Guide To The Roads Of Manila And Other Stories
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Author : Dean Francis Alfar
language : en
Publisher: Anvil Publishing, Inc.
Release Date : 2017-10-12
A Field Guide To The Roads Of Manila And Other Stories written by Dean Francis Alfar and has been published by Anvil Publishing, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-12 with Fiction categories.
A Field Guide to the Roads of Manila is a map to the worlds of award-winning fictionist Dean Francis Alfar’s imagination. The real and the unreal intersect in these fifteen stories of fantasy, science fiction, and horror and celebrate the wonder of speculative fiction.
Best Of Philippine Speculative Fiction 2005 2010
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Author : Dean Francis Alfar
language : en
Publisher: Flipside Digital Content Company Inc.
Release Date : 2013-07-19
Best Of Philippine Speculative Fiction 2005 2010 written by Dean Francis Alfar and has been published by Flipside Digital Content Company Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-19 with Literary Collections categories.
The Horsemen of the Apocalypse are all born to a Filipino family; an monstrous nanny passes on her powers to her young gay ward; a family's freezer gets a surprise visitor; a young boy discovers how his brother turns into a superhero locked in an eternal struggle with the Forces of Chaos; a company makes a fortune selling diseases. The Best of Philippine Speculative Fiction 2005-2010 features thirty of the best fantasy, science fiction, and horror stories from the first five volumes of Philippine Speculative Fiction, published from 2005 to 2010.
The Big Book Of Modern Fantasy
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Author : Ann Vandermeer
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2020-07-21
The Big Book Of Modern Fantasy written by Ann Vandermeer and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-21 with Fiction categories.
WORLD FANTASY AWARD WINNER • A true horde of fantasy tales sure to delight fans, scholars, and even the greediest of dragons—from bestselling authors Ann and Jeff VanderMeer Step through a shimmering portal ... a worn wardrobe door ... a schism in sky ... into a bold new age of fantasy. When worlds beyond worlds became a genre unto itself. From the swinging sixties to the strange, strange seventies, the over-the-top eighties to the gnarly nineties—and beyond, into the twenty-first century—the VanderMeers have found the stories and the writers from around the world that reinvented and revitalized the fantasy genre after World War II. The stories in this collection represent twenty-two different countries, including Russia, Argentina, Nigeria, Columbia, Pakistan, Turkey, Finland, Sweden, China, the Philippines, and the Czech Republic. Five have never before been translated into English. From Jorge Luis Borges to Ursula K. Le Guin, Michael Moorcock to Angela Carter, Terry Pratchett to Stephen King, the full range and glory of the fantastic are on display in these ninety-one stories in which dragons soar, giants stomp, and human children should still think twice about venturing alone into the dark forest. Completing Ann and Jeff VanderMeer's definitive The Big Book of Classic Fantasy, this companion volume to takes the genre into the twenty-first century with ninety-one astonishing, mind-bending stories. A VINTAGE ORIGINAL
Philippine Speculative Fiction Volume 8
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Author : Dean Francis Alfar
language : en
Publisher: Flipside Digital Content Company Inc.
Release Date : 2013-07-19
Philippine Speculative Fiction Volume 8 written by Dean Francis Alfar and has been published by Flipside Digital Content Company Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-19 with Literary Collections categories.
A superheroine encashes a check at the bank one morning; a god trapped in a statue is awakened by the intoxicating scent of the scholar studying his stone prison; human beings are homogenized for the sake of idealizing the species. Discover the wealth of the Filipino imagination in the Philippine Speculative Fiction series, featuring stories ranging from fantasy to science fiction to horror.
The Time Traveller S Almanac Part Iii Mazes Traps
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Author : Ann VanderMeer
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2014-05-01
The Time Traveller S Almanac Part Iii Mazes Traps written by Ann VanderMeer and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-01 with Fiction categories.
Theodore Sturgeon, Kim Newman, Greg Egan and Adrian Tchaikovsky amongst others present 17 temporal paradoxes. Intrepid chrononauts Ann and Jeff VanderMeer have scoured time itself to bring you this instalment (the third of four) from their über-guide to exploring the fourth dimension, THE TIME TRAVELLER'S ALMANAC. Be warned: reality will be warped, wormholes opened, paradoxes woven and parallel universes breached. At least you won't have to worry about what to wear – within these pages you'll also find Genevieve Valentine's fashion tips for time travellers.