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Book Isle of the Amazons in the Vermilion Sea

Download or read book Isle of the Amazons in the Vermilion Sea written by Gregory MacDonald and published by 39 West Press. This book was released on 2019-04-23 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Myth has it that Baja California was once ruled by a giant queen, Calafia. Her subjects were black Amazon women, and they lived in a land of ferocious griffins, tall mountains, precipitous cliffs, and deep valleys. Baja was also said to be an island of gold and precious stones. Spanish explorers, lured by tales of riches and beautiful women, were drawn to this mythical place. Jesuit priests, adventurers, fishermen, hunters, and the curious soon followed. In Isle of the Amazons in the Vermilion Sea, Gregory MacDonald has assembled a superb collection of excerpts from diaries, letters, field notes, books, and journals. These short impressions give us the sights, smells, sounds, and tastes of mountain hamlets, lush valleys, hot deserts, and blue seas, and together, they create a stunning narrative of the mythology, history, and topology of the Baja land, sea, and people. Montalvo, Cortéz, and Padre Eusebio Kino—in 1400, 1535, and 1701, respectively—describe the flora and fauna of a peninsula untouched by civilization, and in the twentieth century, Bancroft, Cannon, Crosby, Gardner, North, Steinbeck, and Octavio Paz, among others, speak of the fishing, the hunting, and, despite hardships, the pure joy of being. The writers observe fish pileups and feeding-frenzies; suffer insect bites, cactus pricks, and jellyfish stings; and are awed by magical sunsets, the silence of the desert, and the stars. Original illustrations by award-winning printmaker Judith Palmer transform the work into a masterpiece.

Book Isle of the Amazons in the Vermilion Sea

Download or read book Isle of the Amazons in the Vermilion Sea written by Gregory MacDonald and published by 39 West Press. This book was released on 2019-04-23 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Myth has it that Baja California was once ruled by a giant queen, Calafia. Her subjects were black Amazon women, and they lived in a land of ferocious griffins, tall mountains, precipitous cliffs, and deep valleys. Baja was also said to be an island of gold and precious stones. Spanish explorers, lured by tales of riches and beautiful women, were drawn to this mythical place. Jesuit priests, adventurers, fishermen, hunters, and the curious soon followed. In Isle of the Amazons in the Vermilion Sea, Gregory MacDonald has assembled a superb collection of excerpts from diaries, letters, field notes, books, and journals. These short impressions give us the sights, smells, sounds, and tastes of mountain hamlets, lush valleys, hot deserts, and blue seas, and together, they create a stunning narrative of the mythology, history, and topology of the Baja land, sea, and people. Montalvo, Cortéz, and Padre Eusebio Kino—in 1400, 1535, and 1701, respectively—describe the flora and fauna of a peninsula untouched by civilization, and in the twentieth century, Bancroft, Cannon, Crosby, Gardner, North, Steinbeck, and Octavio Paz, among others, speak of the fishing, the hunting, and, despite hardships, the pure joy of being. The writers observe fish pileups and feeding-frenzies; suffer insect bites, cactus pricks, and jellyfish stings; and are awed by magical sunsets, the silence of the desert, and the stars. Original illustrations by award-winning printmaker Judith Palmer transform the work into a masterpiece.

Book The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia The Century Cyclopedia of names

Download or read book The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia The Century Cyclopedia of names written by William Dwight Whitney and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 1130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Century Cyclopedia of Names

Download or read book The Century Cyclopedia of Names written by Smith and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 1106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Download or read book The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 1168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Century Dictionary The Century cyclopedia of names ed by Benjamin E Smith vol I

Download or read book The Century Dictionary The Century cyclopedia of names ed by Benjamin E Smith vol I written by William Dwight Whitney and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 790 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Century Cyclopedia of Names

Download or read book The Century Cyclopedia of Names written by Benjamin Eli Smith and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 1101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Lex Mercatoria Rediviva

Download or read book Lex Mercatoria Rediviva written by Wyndham Beawes and published by . This book was released on 1783 with total page 972 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Download or read book The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia written by William Dwight Whitney and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 790 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A New Dictionary of Natural History with accurate representations of the most curious and beautiful animals etc

Download or read book A New Dictionary of Natural History with accurate representations of the most curious and beautiful animals etc written by William Frederick MARTYN and published by . This book was released on 1785 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Book of Duarte Barbosa An Account of the Countries bordering on the Indian Ocean and their Inhabitants

Download or read book The Book of Duarte Barbosa An Account of the Countries bordering on the Indian Ocean and their Inhabitants written by Mansel Longworth Dames and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Translated from the Portuguese Text First Published in 1812 A.D. by the Royal Academy of Sciences at Lisbon, in Vol. II of its Collection of Documents regarding the History and Geography of the Nations beyond the Seas', edited and annotated. With a translation of chapter 2, the history of Rander, from Narmashankar's 'Principal events of Surat'. Continued in Second Series 49. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1918. Owing to technical constraints part of Diego Ribero's Map of the World, 1529, known as the Second Borgian Map, is not included.

Book The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia The century cyclopedia of names

Download or read book The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia The century cyclopedia of names written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 1106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: