Lost World Of The Kimberley
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Lost World Of The Kimberley
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Author : Ian Wilson
language : en
Publisher: Allen & Unwin Academic
Release Date : 2006
Lost World Of The Kimberley written by Ian Wilson and has been published by Allen & Unwin Academic this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with History categories.
Where did they come from? And how and when did they arrive in Australia? Little-known, difficult to reach, yet vital to this question are literally thousands of rock paintings, some believed to be as much as 50,000 years old, surviving high up in raised small caves on cliff faces in the remote and rugged Kimberley Ranges of North-West Australia. Known as 'Bradshaws', after pioneer farmer Joseph Bradshaw who chanced upon the first examples in 1891, they feature lithe, graceful human figures depicted in a fashion altogether different from that of even the oldest traditional art. Indeed, present-day Aborigines disown them, insisting that the paintings are from 'before our time' and dismissing them as 'rubbish' art.But just who were the people depicted in these Kimberley rock paintings? The paintings indicate a people with seafaring traditions, and this 'first wave' of pre-historic migrants to Australia could have a number of alternative origins.Ian Wilson describes the early work on the Bradshaw Paintings, and explains how new dating techniques have shed new light on the findings. He explores the theories advanced for the origins of these people; one possibility is settlement from the Andaman Islands, where pygmy-like tribes still survive and speak a language closely related to some original languages. Farther afield still the author draws connections with Saharan peoples, and he even unearths startling similarities with South American tribes. He claims that even the boomerang is not peculiar to Australia, but can be traced in other, potentially earlier, pre-historic communities.Recalling the early work of Thor Heyerdahl, this will be a wide-ranging and provocative book. It was the author's enthusiasms for art, art history and archaeology which sparked his interest in the Turin Shroud, leading to two international bestsellers, and he now applies these same enthusiasms to the very Australian (yet also potentially international) mystery of the Kimberley rock
The Lost World
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Author : Arthur Conan Doyle
language : en
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Release Date : 1998-01-26
The Lost World written by Arthur Conan Doyle and has been published by Courier Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-01-26 with Fiction categories.
The restless, questing intellect of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle spurred him far beyond the ingenious puzzles he constructed for Sherlock Holmes. In The Lost World, Doyle, a devotee of the occult and fantastic tales of adventure and discovery, introduces his readers to Professor Challenger, an eccentric paleontologist, on his suspense-filled search for prehistoric creatures in the wilds of the Amazon. Professor Challenger's doughty troupe includes a skeptical colleague, Professor Summerlee; the cool-headed, plucky sportsman Lord John Roxton; and the narrator, the intrepid reporter Edward Malone. When their bridge to civilization collapses, the explorers find themselves marooned among dinosaurs and savage ape-people. Originally published in 1912, this imaginative fantasy unfolds with humor and good-natured satirical eye for pedantry. Fans of Arthur Conan Doyle will delight in this rare gem, as will dinosaur fanciers and adventure story aficionados.
The Lost World
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Author : Dayle Arthur Conan
language : en
Publisher: Рипол Классик
Release Date : 2017-07-16
The Lost World written by Dayle Arthur Conan and has been published by Рипол Классик this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-16 with Fiction categories.
The plot of the novel The Lost World (1912) describes an expedition to a plateau in the Amazon basin where prehistoric animals still survive, led by a charismatic leading character Professor Challenger. The novel also describes a war between indigenous people and a vicious tribe of ape-like creatures.
Little People And A Lost World
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Author : Linda Goldenberg
language : en
Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books
Release Date : 2007-01-01
Little People And A Lost World written by Linda Goldenberg and has been published by Twenty-First Century Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-01-01 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Examines the archaeological find of the Flores Island "hobbits" -- extremely small human ancestors who lived until 13,000 years ago in Indonesia.
The Lost World Of The Kalahari
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Author : Laurens Van Der Post
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2010-05-25
The Lost World Of The Kalahari written by Laurens Van Der Post and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05-25 with Travel categories.
Laurens van der Post was fascinated and appalled at the fate of this remarkable people. Ostracised by all the changing face of African cultural life they retreated deep into the Kalahari desert. His fascinating attempt to capture their way of life and the secrets of their ancient heritage provide captivating reading and a unique insight into a forgotten way of life.
Lost Worlds
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Author : Michael Bywater
language : en
Publisher: Granta Publications
Release Date : 2012-09-20
Lost Worlds written by Michael Bywater and has been published by Granta Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-20 with Humor categories.
A “funny, erudite, and fascinating” miscellany of things lost, large and small—from cultures to candies, species to sports gear—by the acclaimed columnist (A.C. Grayling). They go. They vanish. People. Civilizations. Languages. Philosophies. Works of art disappear, species are extinguished, books are lost. Dunwich is drowned, Pompeii buried, Athena’s statue gone from the Parthenon, Suetonius’s Lives of the Great Whores gone the way of the Roman Empire. Whole libraries of knowledge, galleries of secrets. Gone. Little things, too. Train compartments. Snuff, galoshes, smog. Your mother’s perfume. Michael Bywater argues that we are not defined by what we have but by what we have lost along the way. In Lost Worlds, he offers a witty, eclectic, and endlessly fascinating glossary of the missing, a cabinet of absent curiosities, weaving a web of everything we no longer have.
Powerful Pictures Rock Art Research Histories Around The World
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Author : Jamie Hampson
language : en
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Release Date : 2022-12-29
Powerful Pictures Rock Art Research Histories Around The World written by Jamie Hampson and has been published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12-29 with Art categories.
Focusing on stunning paintings and engravings from around the world, 16 papers interrogate the driving forces behind global rock art research. Many of the motifs featured were created by indigenous hunter-gatherer groups; this book sheds new light on non-Western rituals and worldviews, many of which are threatened or on the point of extinction.
The Lost World And Other Stories
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Author : Arthur Conan Doyle
language : en
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
Release Date : 1995
The Lost World And Other Stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle and has been published by Wordsworth Editions this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Fiction categories.
The protagonist of these stories is the maddening, irascible and fascinating Professor George Edward Challenger. In these collected tales he faces adventures such as that high above the Amazon rain forest in "The Lost World" and the challenges of"The Land of Mist."
Words For Country
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Author : Tim Bonyhady
language : en
Publisher: UNSW Press
Release Date : 2002
Words For Country written by Tim Bonyhady and has been published by UNSW Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Literary Criticism categories.
Stories and phrases can powerfully shape the ways we experience and manage our environment. What languages have been used to characterise Australian landscapes and how have they influenced the way we see and treat our environment? How do stories take root in particular places? How do we find the right words for those parts of the country that matter to us? "Words for Country" answers these questions while exploring the inter-relationship between Australia's landscape and language. Tim Bonyhady and Tom Griffiths have brought together a collection of essays whose subjects range from the Ord River in the far north-west to Antarctica in the south, from the centre to the coast, the prehistoric to the present. Their terrain is environmental and cultural, political and poetic. Words for Country reveals not just how language grows out of the landscape but how words and stories shape the places in which we live.
The Lost World 40 Books Collection King Solomon S Mines A Journey To The Centre Of The Earth New Atlantis The Man Who Would Be King The Land That Time Forgot Lost Horizon And Many More
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Author : Jules Verne
language : en
Publisher: Good Press
Release Date : 2024-01-11
The Lost World 40 Books Collection King Solomon S Mines A Journey To The Centre Of The Earth New Atlantis The Man Who Would Be King The Land That Time Forgot Lost Horizon And Many More written by Jules Verne and has been published by Good Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-01-11 with Fiction categories.
This carefully crafted ebook: "THE LOST WORLD - 40 Books Collection: King Solomon's Mines, A Journey to the Centre of the Earth, New Atlantis, The Man Who Would be King, The Land That Time Forgot, Lost Horizon and many more" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: The Lost World (Arthur Conan Doyle) A Journey to the Centre of the Earth (Jules Verne) The Mysterious Island The Man Who Would Be King (Rudyard Kipling) At the Mountains of Madness (H. P. Lovecraft) King Solomon's Mines (Henry Rider Haggard) She: A History of Adventure The People of the Mist When the World Shook The Yellow God The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (Edgar Allan Poe) Lost Horizon (James Hilton) The Moon Pool (Abraham Merritt) The Lost Lemuria (W. Scott-Elliot) The Lost Continent of Mu - Motherland of Man (James Churchward) Gulliver's Travels (Jonathan Swift) The Caspak Trilogy (E. Rice Burroughs) The Moon Trilogy The Pellucidar Series The Man-Eater The Cave Girl The Eternal Lover Jungle Girl The Return of Tarzan Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar The Atlantis Books: The Original Myth of Atlantis (Plato) New Atlantis (F. Bacon) Atlantis: The Antedeluvian World (I. Donnelly) The Lost Continent (C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne) The Story of Atlantis (W. Scott-Elliot) The lost world is a subgenre of the fantasy or science fiction genre that involves the discovery of a new world out of time or place. King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard is sometimes considered the first lost-world narrative. Haggard's novel shaped the form and influenced later lost-world books, including Kipling's The Man Who Would Be King, Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World, Burroughs' The Land That Time Forgot, A. Merritt's The Moon Pool, and H. P. Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness. James Hilton's Lost Horizon used the genre as a takeoff for popular philosophy and social comment and it introduced the name Shangri-La, a meme for the idealization of the lost world as a paradise.