Icaro 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.

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.

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.

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.

A Biographical Guide To The Divina Commedia Of Dante Alighieri

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Author : Frances Locock
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1871

A Biographical Guide To The Divina Commedia Of Dante Alighieri written by Frances Locock and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1871 with categories.

Winged Words

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Author : Piero Boitani
language : en
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Release Date : 2010-10-19

Winged Words written by Piero Boitani and has been published by ReadHowYouWant.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-19 with Literary Criticism categories.

Flight has always fascinated human minds, but until a century ago it remained a dream - the exclusive domain of birds, gods, and mythological heroes. From the myths of the ancients to the poetry of Pindar and Yeats, Winged Words traces the imprint of the human impulse to fly from premodern times to the age of terrorism in both literature and his...

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.

A Star Crossed Golden Age

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Author : Frederick A. De Armas
language : en
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Release Date : 1998

A Star Crossed Golden Age written by Frederick A. De Armas and has been published by Bucknell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Drama categories.

This collection of essays grew out of a National Endowment for the Humanities Institute directed by Frederick A. de Armas and contains essays by the director, some of the visiting faculty, and the participants. The book seeks to develop the link between mythology and the comedia through a number of approaches, including astrology, cartomancy, pre-Socratic elemental cosmology, iconography, hagiography, metamorphoses, Lacanian psychoanalysis, Jungian principles, the philosophy of Schopenhauer, Santayana's poetics, syncretism, gender studies, and Vedic theories.

Contractions

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Author : United States. Federal Aviation Administration
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011

Contractions written by United States. Federal Aviation Administration and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Aeronautics categories.

The Divine Comedy I Inferno Vol I Part 2

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Author : Dante
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2021-10-12

The Divine Comedy I Inferno Vol I Part 2 written by Dante and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-12 with Poetry categories.

Charles S. Singleton's edition of the Divine Comedy, of which this is the first part, provides the English-speaking reader with everything he needs to read and understand Dante’s great masterpiece. The Italian text here is in the edition of Giorgio Petrocchi, the leading Italian editor of Dante. Professor Singleton’s prose translation, facing the Italian in a line-for-line arrangement on each page, is smooth and literate. The companion volume, the Commentary, marshals every point of information the reader may require: vocabulary; grammar; identification of Dante’s characters; historical sources of some of the incidents and, where pertinent, excerpts from those sources in their original languages and in translation; profound clear analysis of the Divine Comedy’s basic allegory. There is a complete bibliography of every aspect of Dante studies. This first part of the Divine Comedy which is illustrated with maps of Italy and the region Dante knew especially, diagrams of the circles of Hell, and plates showing some of the historic sites mentioned by Dante in his poem.