Download or read book India 40 and the Circle of Demons written by Peter S. Adler and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-05-24 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1966 and 1967, when he was twenty-two years old, Peter S. Adler did a two-year stint as a Peace Corps volunteer in a village called Khed halfway between Mumbai and Goa and not far from the Arabian Sea. He and his roommate built schools, killed rats, and helped start poultry businesses. It was a life-changing, coming-of-age journey. But death, sickness, corruption, love, friendship, political fanatics, drugs, thugs, psychosis, and personal palavers with a foul-tempered god, who only he could hear, were part of the story.
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Download or read book A New and Easy Introduction to Universal Geography in a Series of Letters to a Youth at School By the Rev R Turner Jun Illustrated with Copper plates and a New Set of Maps The Seventh Edition Improved and Considerably Enlarged To which is Added a Large Map of the World on which are Delineated the Different Tracks of Captain Cook s Ship in His Three Voyages written by Richard Turner (LL. D. the Younger.) and published by . This book was released on 1789 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catawba Indian Pottery written by Thomas J. Blumer and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the craft of pottery making among the Catawba Indians of North Carolina from the late 18th century to the present When Europeans encountered them, the Catawba Indians were living along the river and throughout the valley that carries their name near the present North Carolina-South Carolina border. Archaeologists later collected and identified categories of pottery types belonging to the historic Catawba and extrapolated an association with their protohistoric and prehistoric predecessors. In this volume, Thomas Blumer traces the construction techniques of those documented ceramics to the lineage of their probable present-day master potters or, in other words, he traces the Catawba pottery traditions. By mining data from archives and the oral traditions of contemporary potters, Blumer reconstructs sales circuits regularly traveled by Catawba peddlers and thereby illuminates unresolved questions regarding trade routes in the protohistoric period. In addition, the author details particular techniques of the representative potters—factors such as clay selection, tool use, decoration, and firing techniques—which influence their styles.
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