Download or read book The Adventurer s Glossary written by Joshua Glenn and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2021-09-29 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adventure is always escapist and often utopian, yet we find solidarity with others and Kafkaesque existential rabbit holes within the words we use to celebrate high-flying escapades. Even when adventures are small in the cosmic scope, the terminology of thrilling exploits promotes a life lived at a high pitch. This go-to glossary for the philosophical explorer delves into these contradictions and insights through more than five hundred terms, from A-OK to zoom. Semiotician Joshua Glenn sourced terms from Shakespeare, military and biker jargon, hip hop and surfer slang, survivalist and gamer subcultures, comic books, extreme sports, and beyond to ask questions about meaning and selfhood. This diverting survey, paired with copious illustrations by the acclaimed cartoonist Seth, is introduced by Mark Kingwell in a thought-provoking essay. The Adventurer’s Glossary extends the entertaining and incisive critique found in the trio’s previous books, The Idler’s Glossary and The Wage Slave’s Glossary. This third instalment turns its lens to the language of risk, excitement, and journeying into the unknown, taking readers on their own semantic adventure.
Download or read book The Adventurer s Glossary written by Joshua Glenn and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2021-09-29 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adventure is always escapist and often utopian, yet we find solidarity with others and Kafkaesque existential rabbit holes within the words we use to celebrate high-flying escapades. Even when adventures are small in the cosmic scope, the terminology of thrilling exploits promotes a life lived at a high pitch. This go-to glossary for the philosophical explorer delves into these contradictions and insights through more than five hundred terms, from A-OK to zoom. Semiotician Joshua Glenn sourced terms from Shakespeare, military and biker jargon, hip hop and surfer slang, survivalist and gamer subcultures, comic books, extreme sports, and beyond to ask questions about meaning and selfhood. This diverting survey, paired with copious illustrations by the acclaimed cartoonist Seth, is introduced by Mark Kingwell in a thought-provoking essay. The Adventurer’s Glossary extends the entertaining and incisive critique found in the trio’s previous books, The Idler’s Glossary and The Wage Slave’s Glossary. This third instalment turns its lens to the language of risk, excitement, and journeying into the unknown, taking readers on their own semantic adventure.
Download or read book English and Foreign Mining Glossary To which is Added the Smelting Terms Used in France Spain and Germany written by and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Glossary of the Mining and Mineral Industry written by Albert Hill Fay and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book A Glossary with Some Pieces of Verse of the Old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy County of Wexford Ireland written by Jacob Poole and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Great Adventurers written by Ann Weil and published by Heinemann-Raintree Library. This book was released on 2007 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles eleven adventurers, whose exploits range from sailing around the world to nearly falling into an icy crevasse in Antarctica.
Download or read book A Dictionary of the English Language in which the Words are Deduced from Their Originals written by Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1828 with total page 1376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Virginia Immigrants and Adventurers 1607 1635 written by Martha W. McCartney and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 2007 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From the earliest records relating to Virginia, we learn the basics about many of these original colonists: their origins, the names of the ships they sailed on, the names of the "hundreds" and "plantations" they inhabited, the names of their spouses and children, their occupations and their position in the colony, their relationships with fellow colonists and Indian neighbors, their living conditions as far as can be ascertained from documentary sources, their ownership of land, the dates and circumstances of their death, and a host of fascinating, sometimes incidental details about their personal lives, all gathered together in the handy format of a biographical dictionary" -- publisher website (January 2008).
Download or read book A Glossary written by Robert Nares and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-02-05 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original.
Download or read book Chance Is the Providence of Adventurers written by M. Scotty Lamkin and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-07-27 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For author M. Scotty Lamkin, a conventional lifestyle at a traditional job was a horribly mundane way to approach life. On January 16, 1979, he arrived in Alaska with fifty dollars in his pocket, two duffel bags, and a backpack. A long way from his Kentucky homeland, Lamkin journeyed to Alaska expecting adventure, and he was not disappointed. Chance Is the Providence of Adventurers narrates many of Lamkins true-life escapades in Alaskas remote bush country. In this half-travelogue, half-memoir, Lamkin tells the sometimes funny, sometimes deadly, stories of his experiences as a professional guide and adventurerwaking up a brown bear at close range, sinking a boat in frigid Alaska waters, crashing bush planes, throwing rocks at bears, and experiencing some of the most beautiful landscapes on Earth. Chance Is the Providence of Adventurers offers a glimpse into the flavor of Alaskan life, provides a firsthand view of the wonders of untamed nature and wildlife, and demonstrates the results of taking a chance to change your life.
Download or read book The Book of Privileges of the Merchant Adventurers of England 1296 1483 written by Anne F. Sutton and published by . This book was released on 2009-04-30 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition of the trading privileges granted to the merchants of England by the princes of the Low Countries reveals the increasing value of cross-Channel trade throughout the 14th and 15th centuries. French, Latin, and Dutch texts are accompanied by the 15th century English translations, forming a unique historical and linguistic tool.
Download or read book A glossary or collection of words phrases names and allusions to customs proverbs etc which have been thought to require illustration in the works of English authors particularly of Shakespeare and his contemporaries written by Robert Nares and published by London Reeves and Turner 1859.. This book was released on 1859 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book A Glossary Or Collection of Words Phrases Names and Allusions to Customs Proverbs Etc Particularly Shakespeare and His Contemporaries written by Robert Nares and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
