Download or read book Western Impressions written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book First Impressions written by David J. Weber and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-22 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to the history and culture of the American Southwest, as told through early encounters with fifteen iconic sites This unique guide for literate travelers in the American Southwest tells the story of fifteen iconic sites across Arizona, New Mexico, southern Utah, and southern Colorado through the eyes of the explorers, missionaries, and travelers who were the first non-natives to describe them. Noted borderlands historians David J. Weber and William deBuys lead readers through centuries of political, cultural, and ecological change. The sites visited in this volume range from popular destinations within the National Park System—including Carlsbad Caverns, the Grand Canyon, and Mesa Verde—to the Spanish colonial towns of Santa Fe and Taos and the living Indian communities of Acoma, Zuni, and Taos. Lovers of the Southwest, residents and visitors alike, will delight in the authors’ skillful evocation of the region’s sweeping landscapes, its rich Hispanic and Indian heritage, and the sense of discovery that so enchanted its early explorers. Published in Cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University
Download or read book Western Impressions written by Paul Moore and published by . This book was released on 2012-11-02 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains 120 color images and this volume is entirely pictorial.Old Tucson is a rather interesting place in that it is quite a bit younger than "New Tucson." The city of Tucson was officially founded in 1776 and the area had been occupied for at least 4,000 years by the Hohokam native Americans. Old Tucson on the other hand was created in 1939 by Columbia Studios as a movie set for the film "Arizona" staring William Holden and Jean Arthur.It has grown considerably since then and has been the home for more than 300 movie films and television productions. It has seen actors like John Wayne, Frank Sinatra, and Bing Crosby. It is now a theme park and a fully functional film studio open to the public. - This entire work was shot on film by the author in keeping with the old nature of the subject matter.From the first instant that I saw the work of Monet and Renoir in an art galley decades ago I was astonished and admired the work so intently that I resolved to create some images that would at least attempt the world of impressionism even though I must describe myself as much more of an 'Ansel Adams' acolyte. The following images are the result. For those who are interested in such things, all the images contained herein were taken with a wide variety of cameras ranging from a Nikon F3 35mm film camera through a Nikon N8008.The author began photography and photo-journalism in early 1963 when he accepted an offer from his local newspaper to write about and photograph sports events at the Arizona high school where he was a junior. After a stint in the service, he had an opportunity to study photography and printing techniques with Bernard Hoffman, a true gentleman and scholar, and one of the earliest staff photographers for Life Magazine. Since that time he has had thousands of photographs and hundreds of articles published by more than 60 national and international periodicals. He was also a contributing editor for one of them for more than ten years. Topics ran the gamut from professional sports, medicine, archeology, and photography to science.After twenty years away from Arizona he returned in 1985 and it has been the base from which all his photographic excursions are launched. Along with many others he has embraced digital photography but can still be seen, from time to time, peering through the ground glass of a large format camera, hoisting a large medium format 6x7, or indeed still using a 35mm film camera.The photographer currently has fine art photography on exhibit at The Center for Fine Arts in Globe, Arizona, and is currently represented by more than ten stock photo agencies where he has more than 13,000 photographs available for commercial use.
Download or read book Western Impressions of Nature and Landscape in Southeast Asia written by Victor R. Savage and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Yehud Stamp Impressions written by Oded Lipschits and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2011-06-23 with total page 813 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of the yehud stamp impressions, which appear on the handles or bodies of store jars, has persisted for over a century, beginning with the discovery of the first of these impressions at Gezer in 1904. Nevertheless, until the pioneering work of Stern in 1973, who cataloged, classified, and discussed the stamp impressions known up to 1970, discovery and publication of new stamp impressions were scattered, and analysis was cursory at best. Furthermore, a gap in research has persisted since then. Now, Oded Lipschits and David Vanderhooft are pleased to present a comprehensive catalog (through the winter of 2008–9) of published and unpublished yehud stamp impressions, with digital photographs and complete archaeological and publication data for each impression. This long-overdue resource provides a secure foundation for general reflection on the whole corpus and illuminates more-narrow fields such as stratigraphy, paleography, administration, historical geography, and Persian-period economic developments within Yehud. The catalog clarifies what is nebulous apart from a complete corpus, matters such as distribution, petrographic analysis of the clay, new readings of the seal legends, use of the toponym yehud, and significance of the title phwa. The scope of this catalog renders it a worthwhile tool for all future study of these invaluable artifacts and the period of history that produced them.
Download or read book Impressions of Western Africa written by Thomas Joseph Hutchinson and published by London : Longmans, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts. This book was released on 1858 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Western Impressions of Nature and Landscape in Southeast Asia written by Victor R. Savage and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book African Impressions written by Rebekah Mitsein and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2022-12-30 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nineteenth-century European representations of Africa are notorious for depicting the continent with a blank interior. But there was a time when British writers filled Africa with landed empires and contiguous trade routes linked together by a network of rivers. This geographical narrative proliferated in fictional and nonfictional texts alike, and it was born not from fanciful speculation but from British interpretations of what Africans said and showed about themselves and their worlds. Investigations of the representation of Africa in British texts have typically concluded that the continent operated in the British imagination as a completely invented space with no meaningful connection to actual African worlds, or as an inert realm onto which writers projected their expansionist fantasies. With African Impressions, Rebekah Mitsein revises that narrative, demonstrating that African elites successfully projected expressions of their sovereignty, wealth, right to power, geopolitical clout, and religious exceptionalism into Europe long before Europeans entered sub-Saharan Africa. Mitsein considers the ways that African self-representation continued to drive European impressions of the continent across the early Enlightenment, fueling desires to find the sources of West Africa’s gold and the city states along the Niger, to establish a relationship with the Christian kingdom of Prester John, and to discover the source of the Nile. Through an analysis of a range of genres, including travel narratives, geography books, maps, verse, and fiction, Mitsein shows how African strategies of self-representation and European strategies for representing Africa grew increasingly inextricable, as the ideas that Africans presented about themselves and their worlds migrated from contact zones to texts and back again. The geographical narratives that arose from this cycle, which unfolded over hundreds of years, were made to fit expansionist agendas, but they remained rooted in the African worlds and worldviews that shaped them.
Download or read book Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bellingham Impressions written by Mark Turner and published by . This book was released on 2007-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bellingham Impressions features 98 of Turner's finest images from around this beloved Washington port city capturing its unique seaside culture, history, architecture, festivals, and more. This portrait of Bellingham includes: lush flower gardens and orchards; peaceful Whatcom Falls Park; snow-capped Mount Baker; anglers along the Nooksack River; fishing boats in Squalicum Harbor; old-growth northwest forests of western hemlock and western red cedar; Peace Arch State and Provincial Parks; Dirty Dan Days; and much more!
Download or read book China to Chinatown written by J.A.G. Roberts and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2004-07-04 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China to Chinatown tells the story of one of the most notable examples of the globalization of food: the spread of Chinese recipes, ingredients and cooking styles to the Western world. Beginning with the accounts of Marco Polo and Franciscan missionaries, J.A.G. Roberts describes how Westerners’ first impressions of Chinese food were decidedly mixed, with many regarding Chinese eating habits as repugnant. Chinese food was brought back to the West merely as a curiosity. The Western encounter with a wider variety of Chinese cuisine dates from the first half of the 20th century, when Chinese food spread to the West with emigrant communities. The author shows how Chinese cooking has come to be regarded by some as among the world’s most sophisticated cuisines, and yet is harshly criticized by others, for example on the grounds that its preparation involves cruelty to animals. Roberts discusses the extent to which Chinese food, as a facet of Chinese culture overseas, has remained differentiated, and questions whether its ethnic identity is dissolving. Written in a lively style, the book will appeal to food historians and specialists in Chinese culture, as well as to readers interested in Chinese cuisine.
Download or read book Somewhere in Asia written by Prue Torney-Parlicki and published by UNSW Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1941 to 1975, as a series of military conflicts gripped Asia and the Pacific, Australian journalism was dominated by war reporting from the region. Torney-Parlicki (history, U. of Melbourne) argues that the reporting went beyond the usual discussion of military strategy and, in an important way.
Download or read book The Astronomical Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
