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Author | : PETER. ADAMSON |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2021-01-21 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781912408849 |
Setting out from the well-loved local landmark in Oxfordshire known as the Wittenham Clumps, Peter Adamson discovers hidden landscapes - historical, cultural, biographical and scientific that take us further than the eye can see. A remote and tranquil farmhouse is revealed to be the place where one of the greatest of all war poems was written. The story behind an innocent hedgerow ends up in the Punjab. A remarkable field guide to our sense of place and its hidden histories.
Author | : Robert Macfarlane |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2015-03-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0241967864 |
SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE From the bestselling author of UNDERLAND, THE OLD WAYS and THE LOST WORDS 'Few books give such a sense of enchantment; it is a book to give to many, and to return to repeatedly' Independent 'Enormously pleasurable, deeply moving. A bid to save our rich hoard of landscape language, and a blow struck for the power of a deep creative relationship to place' Financial Times 'A book that ought to be read by policymakers, educators, armchair environmentalists and active conservationists the world over' Guardian 'Gorgeous, thoughtful and lyrical' Independent on Sunday 'Feels as if [it] somehow grew out of the land itself. A delight' Sunday Times Discover Robert Macfarlane's joyous meditation on words, landscape and the relationship between the two. Words are grained into our landscapes, and landscapes are grained into our words. Landmarks is about the power of language to shape our sense of place. It is a field guide to the literature of nature, and a glossary containing thousands of remarkable words used in England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales to describe land, nature and weather. Travelling from Cumbria to the Cairngorms, and exploring the landscapes of Roger Deakin, J. A. Baker, Nan Shepherd and others, Robert Macfarlane shows that language, well used, is a keen way of knowing landscape, and a vital means of coming to love it.
Author | : MacKinlay Kantor |
Publisher | : Sterling Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781402751240 |
From a Pulitzer Prize winner comes the story of an unforgettable moment in American history: the historic meeting between General Robert E. Lee and General Ulysses S. Grant that ended the Civil War. MacKinlay Kantor captures all the emotions and the details of those few days: the aristocratic Lee’s feeling of resignation; Grant’s crippling headaches; and Lee’s request--which Grant generously allowed--to permit his soldiers to keep their horses so they could plant crops for food.
Author | : Thucydides |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 760 |
Release | : 2008-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1416590870 |
Chronicles two decades of war between Athens and Sparta.
Author | : James Daugherty |
Publisher | : Random House Books for Young Readers |
Total Pages | : 161 |
Release | : 1981-02-12 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0394846974 |
Learn how and why the Pilgrims left England to come to America! In England in the early 1600s, everyone was forced to join the Church of England. Young William Bradford and his friends believed they had every right to belong to whichever church they wanted. In the name of religious freedom, they fled to Holland, then sailed to America to start a new life. But the winter was harsh, and before a year passed, half the settlers had died. Yet, through hard work and strong faith, a tough group of Pilgrims did survive. Their belief in freedom of religion became an American ideal that still lives on today. James Daugherty draws on the Pilgrims' own journals to give a fresh and moving account of their life and traditions, their quest for religious freedom, and the founding of one of our nation's most beloved holidays; Thanksgiving.
Author | : Arrian |
Publisher | : Anchor |
Total Pages | : 562 |
Release | : 2012-01-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1400079675 |
Arrian’s Campaigns of Alexander, widely considered the most authoritative history of the brilliant leader’s great conquests, is the latest addition to the acclaimed Landmark series. After twelve years of hard-fought campaigns, Alexander the Great controlled a vast empire that was bordered by the Adriatic sea to the west and modern-day India to the east. Arrian, himself a military commander, combines his firsthand experience of battle with material from Ptolemy’s memoirs and other ancient sources to compose a singular portrait of Alexander. This vivid and engaging new translation of Arrian will fascinate readers who are interested in classical studies, the history of warfare, and the origins of East–West tensions still swirling in Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan today. Enriched by the series’ trademark comprehensive maps, illustrations, and annotations, and with contributions from the preeminent classical scholars of today, The Landmark Arrian: The Campaigns of Alexander is the definitive edition of this essential work of ancient history.
Author | : Charles J. Robertson |
Publisher | : Scala Arts Publishers Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 116 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : |
This richly illustrated volume traces the history of this landmark building, documenting its varied functions and evolving architecture with rarely seen photographs and architectural plans.
Author | : George Weller |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 1958 |
Genre | : Parachute troops |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Weihua Yang |
Publisher | : Nova Publishers |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 9781604561852 |
Autonomous robots are robots which can perform desired tasks in unstructured environments without continuous human guidance. Many kinds of robots have some degree of autonomy. Different robots can be autonomous in different ways. A high degree of autonomy is particularly desirable in fields such as space exploration, where communication delays and interruptions are unavoidable. Some modern factory robots are "autonomous" within the strict confines of their direct environment. The exact orientation and position of the next object of work and (in the more advanced factories) even the type of object and the required task must be determined. This can vary unpredictably (at least from the robot's point of view). One important area of robotics research is to enable the robot to cope with its environment whether this be on land, underwater, in the air, underground, or in space. This book presents the latest research from around the globe.
Author | : Peter Adamson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2021-02 |
Genre | : Little Wittenham (England) |
ISBN | : 9781527278745 |