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| Author | : Brooks Tenney |
| Publisher | : Trafford Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 377 |
| Release | : 2010-08-24 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1426938225 |
In the failed East African state of Somalia, piracy has become a dominant factor in the economy. Bordering one of the world's busiest waterwayswith steady traffic coming and going through the Suez CanalSomalia's north shore, once famed as the Incense Coast, provides a dependable parade of suitable victims. Maritime nations have powerful naval contingents in the region; but, lacking legal justification for preemptive action, they are paralyzed and ineffective. News media are hungry for stories and photographs of pirates, and Jitka Malecek, a freelance photographer with prior experience in East Africa, has a plan for obtaining them. Somalia acts as a magnet for her, drawing the aggressive young photographer inexorably into the action. Commander Vance Morrisette of the U.S. Navy, a former SEAL, has worked in the region before. Morrisette is given a covert assignment to join a civilian security firm, providing protection against piracy. These contractors are constrained to employ nonlethal techniques against heavily armed pirates who have no such restrictions. Chafing under rules of engagement that handcuff law-abiding nations, Morrisette contemplates more violent alternatives. When Jitka Malecek disappears into lawless Somalia, he must take matters into his own hands and track her down before her time and luck run out.
| Author | : Freya Stark |
| Publisher | : John Murray |
| Total Pages | : 354 |
| Release | : 1953 |
| Genre | : Hadramaut (Arabia) |
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Freya Stark was a British explorer and travel writer. She was one of the first outsiders to travel through the southern Arabian deserts. She wrote more than two dozen books on her travels in the Middle East and Afghanistan, as well as several autobiographic works. This covers her life from 1933-1939 and includes letters as well as her impressions during her travels of this time, mostly in South Arabia.
| Author | : Clark Barnaby Firestone |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 472 |
| Release | : 1924 |
| Genre | : Geographical myths |
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| Author | : J. Oliver Thomson |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 445 |
| Release | : 2013-03-28 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1107689929 |
This 1948 book provides a detailed study of the contribution of ancient societies to the development of geography, both in terms of theory and practical discovery. The text concentrates mainly on the perspectives of Greece and Rome, but other historical periods and regions are given attention, including ancient Egypt and China.
| Author | : David Michael Stoddart |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 304 |
| Release | : 1990-11-29 |
| Genre | : Medical |
| ISBN | : 9780521395618 |
Both men and women devote time and effort to removing natural body odour and replacing it with sexual attractant odours derived from plants and animals - we seem to need to smell of something other than people! Yet of all the apes, we are the most richly endowed with scent producing glands. This book examines the sense of smell in humans, comparing it with the known functions of the same sense in other animals. Odorous cues play a role in sexual physiology and behaviour in animals and there are claims that odour can play the same role in humans. The place of odours and scents in aesthetics and in psychoanalysis serves to illustrate the link between the emotional centres and the brain. The book presents arguments to explain the way in which our ancestral past has given rise to our modern day olfactory enigmas. The material is presented with as much explanation of the technical detail as possible to make the book accessible to a wide readership.
| Author | : Raoul McLaughlin |
| Publisher | : Pen and Sword |
| Total Pages | : 491 |
| Release | : 2014-09-11 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1473840953 |
This study of ancient Roman shipping and trade across continents reveals the Roman Empire’s far-reaching impact in the ancient world. In ancient times, large fleets of Roman merchant ships set sail from Egypt on voyages across the Indian Ocean. They sailed from Roman ports on the Red Sea to distant kingdoms on the east coast of Africa and southern Arabia. Many continued their voyages across the ocean to trade with the rich kingdoms of ancient India. Along these routes, the Roman Empire traded bullion for valuable goods, including exotic African products, Arabian incense, and eastern spices. This book examines Roman commerce with Indian kingdoms from the Indus region to the Tamil lands. It investigates contacts between the Roman Empire and powerful African kingdoms, including the Nilotic regime that ruled Meroe and the rising Axumite Realm. Further chapters explore Roman dealings with the Arab kingdoms of southern Arabia, including the Saba-Himyarites and the Hadramaut Regime, which sent caravans along the incense trail to the ancient rock-carved city of Petra. The first book to bring these subjects together in a single comprehensive study, The Roman Empire and the Indian Ocean reveals Rome’s impact on the ancient world and explains how international trade funded the legions that maintained imperial rule.
| Author | : Michael C. Howard |
| Publisher | : McFarland |
| Total Pages | : 314 |
| Release | : 2014-01-10 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0786490330 |
While scholars have long documented the migration of people in ancient and medieval times, they have paid less attention to those who traveled across borders with some regularity. This study of early transnational relations explores the routine interaction of people across the boundaries of empires, tribal confederacies, kingdoms, and city-states, paying particular attention to the role of long-distance trade along the Silk Road and maritime trade routes. It examines the obstacles voyagers faced, including limited travel and communication capabilities, relatively poor geographical knowledge, and the dangers of a fragmented and shifting political landscape, and offers profiles of better-known transnational elites such as the Hellenic scholar Herodotus and the Venetian merchant Marco Polo, as well lesser known servants, merchants, and sailors. By revealing the important political, economic, and cultural role cross-border trade and travel played in ancient society, this work demonstrates that transnationalism is not unique to modern times. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
| Author | : Samuel Sharpe |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 446 |
| Release | : 1870 |
| Genre | : Egypt |
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| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 992 |
| Release | : 1910 |
| Genre | : Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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"The last great work of the age of reason, the final instance when all human knowledge could be presented with a single point of view ... Unabashed optimism, and unabashed racism, pervades many entries in the 11th, and provide its defining characteristics ... Despite its occasional ugliness, the reputation of the 11th persists today because of the staggering depth of knowledge contained with its volumes. It is especially strong in its biographical entries. These delve deeply into the history of men and women prominent in their eras who have since been largely forgotten - except by the historians, scholars"-- The Guardian, https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2012/apr/10/encyclopedia-britannica-11th-edition.
| Author | : Raimund J Schulz |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 561 |
| Release | : 2024 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 019766802X |
To the Ends of the Earth is a major history of ancient exploration, one that fully incorporates evidence from Greco-Roman sources and those in China, Central Asia, India, Egypt, and Mesopotamia. It presents a compelling portrait of the adventurers who expanded knowledge of the world and brought far-flung civilizations closer than ever before.
