Download or read book Strabo s Geography written by Strabo and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2024-06-11 with total page 1105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively new translation of Strabo’s complete Geography—an encyclopedic guide to the ancient world of the first century CE—connecting it with the world of the twenty-first century Strabo’s Geography is an encyclopedic description of the ancient world as it appeared to a contemporary observer in the early Roman empire. Information about taming elephants, collecting saffron, producing asphalt, and practicing yoga is found alongside accounts of prostitution, volcanic activity, religious festivals, and obscure eastern dynasties—all set against the shifting backdrop of political power in the first century CE. Traveling around the Mediterranean, Strabo gathered knowledge of places and people, supplementing his firsthand experiences with an immense amount of reading to create a sweeping chronicle that attempts to answer the implicit questions “Who are we?” and “Where do we come from?” Sarah Pothecary’s new translation of Strabo’s complete Geography makes this important work more accessible, relevant, and enjoyable than ever before. Conveying the informal, lively, and almost journalistic style of Strabo’s Greek, this translation connects the ancient and modern worlds by providing modern names and maps for places mentioned in the text, a generous page layout, and marginal notes, allowing readers to appreciate Strabo’s work directly and immediately. The result mimics what Strabo was doing two thousand years ago—relating the rapidly changing present of his original readers to their own ancient past. A remarkably modern translation of a revealing window on the ancient world, this is essential reading for anyone interested in how we look at both antiquity and the world today.
Download or read book Tropic Shadows written by A. Safroni-Middleton and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tropic Shadows Being Memories of the South Seas written by A. Safroni-Middleton and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tropic Days written by E. J. Banfield and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-03 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Tropic Days' is a vivid collection of essays that brings to life the people and places of tropical islands. E. J. Banfield transports readers to a world of pristine landscapes and intriguing inhabitants, depicting their daily routines and quirks with a mix of precision and imagination. Through these essays, Banfield provides an intimate look at the lives of the people he encounters, painting a picture of a world that is both beautiful and complex. A couple of titles included in this collection are: 'The Lost Isle', 'Blue Shirt', 'Eternal Sunshine', and 'Beach Plants'.
Download or read book A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles written by James Augustus Henry Murray and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 1088 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Beautiful Experiments written by Philip Ball and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2023-09-15 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring two hundred color plates, this history of the craft of scientific inquiry is as exquisite as the experiments it documents. This illustrated history of experimental science is more than just a celebration of the ingenuity that scientists and natural philosophers have used throughout the ages to study—and to change—the world. Here we see in intricate detail experiments that have, in some way or another, exhibited elegance and beauty: in their design, their conception, and their execution. Celebrated science writer Philip Ball invites readers to marvel at and admire the craftsmanship of scientific instruments and apparatus on display, from the earliest microscopes to the giant particle colliders of today. With Ball as our expert guide, we are encouraged to think carefully about what experiments are, what they mean, and how they are used. Ranging across millennia and geographies, Beautiful Experiments not only demonstrates why “experiment” remains a contested notion in how the work of science is done, but also explains how we came to understand how the world functions, what it contains, and where the pursuit of that understanding has brought us today.
Download or read book Ptolemy s Geography written by Ptolemy and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-16 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ptolemy's Geography is the only book on cartography to have survived from the classical period and one of the most influential scientific works of all time. Written in the second century AD, for more than fifteen centuries it was the most detailed topography of Europe and Asia available and the best reference on how to gather data and draw maps. Ptolemy championed the use of astronomical observation and applied mathematics in determining geographical locations. But more importantly, he introduced the practice of writing down coordinates of latitude and longitude for every feature drawn on a world map, so that someone else possessing only the text of the Geography could reproduce Ptolemy's map at any time, in whole or in part, at any scale. Here Berggren and Jones render an exemplary translation of the Geography and provide a thorough introduction, which treats the historical and technical background of Ptolemy's work, the contents of the Geography, and the later history of the work.
Download or read book Reader s Index and Guide written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Court of the Gentiles Or A Discourse Touching the Original of Human Literature written by Theophilus Gale and published by . This book was released on 1677 with total page 918 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Commentary on the Dream of Scipio written by Ambrosius Aurelius Theodosius Macrobius and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1952 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book My Tropic Isle written by E. J. Banfield and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-06 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "My Tropic Isle" by E. J. Banfield Edmund James "Ted" Banfield was an author and naturalist in Queensland, Australia who was interested in a variety of topics having to do with the natural world. In this book, he produces a travelogue of sorts about his time in the tropics. North Queensland is characterized by its tropical climate, which allowed the author, and thus also his readers, to experience new and exotic flora, fauna, and ways of life.
Download or read book The Passage written by David Poyer and published by St. Martin's Paperbacks. This book was released on 1997-02-15 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Navy's most sophisticated destroyer, the USS Barrett carries a top-secret computer that can pilot an unmanned ship and send it into battle. As the weapons officer charged with its first mission Lieutenant Dan Lenson has a chance to make naval history. But when the system develops a sinister virus and a sailor takes his own life amid ugly allegations, Lenson finds himself caught in a web of betrayal. Now, on the treacherous Windward Passage between the U.S. and Cuba, he'll undergo the ultimate test of honor and faith-- one that could cost him his career, his ship, and even his life.
Download or read book Record and Book list written by Cambridge Public Library (Cambridge, England) and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Clem Anderson written by R. V. Cassill and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-12-16 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The best novel I know of on the subject of writing, or on the condition of being a writer.” —Richard Yates Widely recognized as R. V. Cassill’s masterpiece, Clem Anderson is the story of an author whose astonishing talents are outmatched only by his capacity for self-destruction. Arrogant, untrustworthy, moody, and narcissistic, Clem is also a brilliant artist capable of astonishing feats of alchemy: His pen magically transforms real life into the stuff of great literature. But the rising tide of literary success is dangerous ground for a personality as unstable as Clem’s, and when he dies at the age of forty, alone and disgraced, it is up to his few remaining friends to pick up the pieces. The most steadfast and empathetic of these survivors is Dick Hartsell, a former classmate and fellow writer who has long walked in Clem’s shadow. Commissioned by a movie studio to publish a memorial article about his doomed friend, Hartsell struggles to capture the man’s unruly existence in this tidy format. So he sets out to write a novel called Clem Anderson, detailing his eponymous hero’s epic rise and fall. From a rural midwestern childhood to early fame as an undergraduate poet to the intoxicating expatriate literary scene in post–World War II Paris and an unhappy romance with a Hollywood starlet, Hartsell tells the story of Anderson’s life. The result is a work of art as singular and unforgettable as its ill-fated subject.
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