Birds

Birds
Author: Saint-John Perse
Publisher:
Total Pages: 33
Release: 2002
Genre:
ISBN: 9781852353384

Saint-John Perse A version by Derek Mahon These are birds, pure and simple, nothing more, their truth the secret of life itself . . . Derek Mahon s previous translation work includes versions of Jaccottet (Words in the Air, 1998) and Valéry (The Seaside Cemetery, 2001). To these he now adds Birds by Saint-John Perse whose long, discursive, musical texts owe something to Rimbaud s Illuminations but are finally unique. Among twentieth-century poets Perse is remarkable for his oceanic qualities, his global reach and philosophical optimism. Birds is about birds, but also about the artistic vocation itself, Yeats s lonely impulse of delight

The Seventy-four Gun Ship: Fitting out the hull

The Seventy-four Gun Ship: Fitting out the hull
Author: Jean Boudriot
Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
Total Pages: 334
Release: 1986
Genre: History
ISBN:

Jean Boudriot is the world's leading authority on French warships of the sailing era and this work has been written to the highest standards of historical accuracy and research, benefiting from Boudriot's remarkable skill as a draughtsman. The author presents a highly detailed examination of the French 74-gun ship of the 18th century, and a large number of differences emerge from its rival and counterpart built in English yards.

Early Manor and Plantation Houses of Maryland

Early Manor and Plantation Houses of Maryland
Author: H. Chanolee Forman
Publisher: Epm Publications Incorporated
Total Pages: 272
Release: 1989-06-01
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780914440987

In photographs, drawings, and architectural plans, this elegant volume preserves 500 of Maryland's colonial houses and gardens.