The Ancient Shore
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The Ancient Shore
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Author : Shirley Hazzard
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2009-07-31
The Ancient Shore written by Shirley Hazzard 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 2009-07-31 with Travel categories.
Born in Australia, Shirley Hazzard first moved to Naples as a young woman in the 1950s to take up a job with the United Nations. It was the beginning of a long love affair with the city. The Ancient Shore collects the best of Hazzard’s writings on Naples, along with a classic New Yorker essay by her late husband, Francis Steegmuller. For the pair, both insatiable readers, the Naples of Pliny, Gibbon, and Auden is constantly alive to them in the present. With Hazzard as our guide, we encounter Henry James, Oscar Wilde, and of course Goethe, but Hazzard’s concern is primarily with the Naples of our own time—often violently unforgiving to innocent tourists, but able to transport the visitor who attends patiently to its rhythms and history. A town shadowed by both the symbol and the reality of Vesuvius can never fail to acknowledge the essential precariousness of life—nor, as the lover of Naples discovers, the human compassion, generosity, and friendship that are necessary to sustain it. Beautifully illustrated by photographs from such masters as Henri Cartier-Bresson and Herbert List, The Ancient Shore is a lyrical letter to a lifelong love: honest and clear-eyed, yet still fervently, endlessly enchanted. “Much larger than all its parts, this book does full justice to a place, and a time, where ‘nothing was pristine, except the light.’”—Bookforum “Deep in the spell of Italy, Hazzard parses the difference between visiting and living and working in a foreign country. She writes with enormous eloquence and passion of the beauty of getting lost in a place.”—Susan Slater Reynolds, Los Angeles Times “The two voices join in exquisite harmony. . . . A lovely book.”—Booklist, starred review
The Ancient Shore
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Author : Paul J. Kosmin
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2024
The Ancient Shore written by Paul J. Kosmin and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024 with History categories.
Paul Kosmin argues that the coast--not individual shores, but the coast as such--was fundamental to ancient history. The social and natural dynamics of the coast profoundly shaped not just politics and trade but also ancient peoples' sense of wonder and of self, earning constant philosophical, religious, scientific, and literary attention.
A Manual Of Elementary Geology Or The Ancient Changes Of The Earth And Its Inhabitants
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Author : Sir Charles Lyell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1851
A Manual Of Elementary Geology Or The Ancient Changes Of The Earth And Its Inhabitants written by Sir Charles Lyell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1851 with Geology categories.
The Coveted Shore
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Author : Ceylan Tozeren
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011-02-17
The Coveted Shore written by Ceylan Tozeren and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02-17 with categories.
The Ancient Egyptian State
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Author : Robert J. Wenke
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2009-04-27
The Ancient Egyptian State written by Robert J. Wenke and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-04-27 with Social Science categories.
This survey traces the emergence of Egypt from a rural backwater into a great nation-state with a rich culture. Focusing on the period between 5000 and 2000 BC, the book traces the broad historical processes driving Egyptian civilisation and explores its most remarkable cultural phenomena.
The History Of The Ancient Civilizations
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Author : Max Duncker
language : en
Publisher: Good Press
Release Date : 2023-12-17
The History Of The Ancient Civilizations written by Max Duncker and has been published by Good Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-12-17 with History categories.
"The History of the Ancient Civilizations" in 6 volumes is one of the best-known works by historian Max Duncker. The author's object in regard to the ancient East was not to retrace the beginning of human civilization, but rather to understand and establish the value and extent of those early phases of civilization to which the entire development of the human race goes back. The narrative embraces the independent civilizations of the ancient East which came to exercise a mutual influence on each other. First it follows the realm on the Nile and the kingdoms of Hither Asia as far as the point where the nations of Iran began to influence their destinies, and then it attempts to set forth the peculiar development of the Aryan tribes in the valleys of the Indus and the Ganges, down to the times of Tshandragupta and Asoka. Then follows the history of the Bactrians, the Medes, and the Persians, until the period when the nations of the table-land of Iran were united by Cyrus and Darius with the countries of Western Asia, when Aryan life and Aryan civilization gained the supremacy over the whole region from Ceylon to the Nile and the Hellespont. The forms of life at which the great empires of Asia had arrived are finally brought face to face with the more youthful civilization attained by the Hellenes in their mountain cantons. This new development is followed down to the first great shock when East and West met in conflict, and the Achaemenids sought to crush the Hellenes under the weight of Asia. With the failure of this attempt "The History of Antiquity" concludes.
The Deformation Of Iroquois Beach And Birth Of Lake Ontario
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Author : Joseph William Spencer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1890
The Deformation Of Iroquois Beach And Birth Of Lake Ontario written by Joseph William Spencer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1890 with categories.
History Of Ancient India Portraits Of A Nation 1 E
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Author : Kapur
language : en
Publisher: Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd
Release Date : 2010
History Of Ancient India Portraits Of A Nation 1 E written by Kapur and has been published by Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with India categories.
The Duration Of Niagara Falls
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Author : Joseph William Spencer
language : en
Publisher: New York : Humboldt
Release Date : 1895
The Duration Of Niagara Falls written by Joseph William Spencer and has been published by New York : Humboldt this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1895 with Great Lakes (North America). categories.
The Excavations At Ancient Halieis Vol 1
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Author : Marian Holland McAllister
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2005-11-24
The Excavations At Ancient Halieis Vol 1 written by Marian Holland McAllister and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-11-24 with Social Science categories.
Other contributions include a study of the fortifications that are now submerged in the ancient harbor, a study of the city mint, and a report on an engineering study to establish the elevations at the site.