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| Author | : Raul Brandão |
| Publisher | : Bellis Azorica |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2020-04-30 |
| Genre | : Literary Collections |
| ISBN | : 9781951470005 |
The Unknown Islands is considered one of the most beautiful works of travel literature in Portuguese and one of the most important homages to the Azorean archipelago. In the summer of 1924, Raul Brandão undertook a trip with other intellectuals through the Azores and Madeira. Fascinated with the landscapes of the islands and seduced by the people, he went on to pen this foundational text of Azorean literature--elegantly capturing the history, memory, and imaginary of this storied place.
| Author | : José Saramago |
| Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| Total Pages | : 43 |
| Release | : 2000-10-05 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0547545541 |
A dreamer petitions his king for a boat—and gets more than he bargained for—in “this richly enigmatic short story” by the Nobel Prize-winning author (Kirkus). “A man went to knock at the king's door and said, Give me a boat. The king's house had many other doors, but this was the door for petitions. But the king spent all his time sitting at the door for favors (favors being offered to the king, you understand), whenever he heard someone knocking at the door for petitions, he would pretend not to hear . . ." So begins this beautifully illustrated and deceptively simple fable. Why the petitioner required a boat, where he was bound for, and who volunteered to crew for him, the reader will soon discover. In a departure from his linguistically dense and sprawling historical novels, Jose Saramago presents a philosophic love story worthy of Swift or Voltaire.
| Author | : José Saramago |
| Publisher | : Random House |
| Total Pages | : 48 |
| Release | : 1999 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1860466907 |
"A man went to knock at the king's door and said, Give me a boat. The king's house had many other doors, but this was the door for petitions. Since the king spent all his time sitting by the door for favours (favours being offered to the king, you understand), whenever he heard someone knocking on the door for petitions, he would pretend not to hear..." Why the petitioner required a boat, where he was bound for, and who volunteered to crew for him and what cargo it was found to be carrying the reader will discover as this short narrative unfolds. And at the end it will be clear that what night appear to be a children's fable is in fact a wry, witty Philosophical Tale that would not have displeased Voltaire or Swift.
| Author | : Randall Mason |
| Publisher | : Empire State Editions |
| Total Pages | : 138 |
| Release | : 2014 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : 9780823257713 |
A photographic survey of North Brother Island, an uninhabited island of ruins in New York City that was once home to a variety of institutional uses, including a quarantine hospital and juvenile drug treatment center.
| Author | : José Saramago |
| Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| Total Pages | : 321 |
| Release | : 2014 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0544090020 |
Published for the very first time, an early novel by Nobel Laureate and literary master José Saramago that tells the intertwined stories of the residents of a faded Lisbon apartment building in the late 1940s.
| Author | : Marcelo Gleiser |
| Publisher | : Civitas Books |
| Total Pages | : 370 |
| Release | : 2014-06-03 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 0465031714 |
Why discovering the limits to science may be the most powerful discovery of allHow much can we know about the world? In this book, physicist Marcelo Gleiser traces our search for answers to the most fundamental questions of existence, the origin of the universe, the nature of reality, and the limits of knowledge. In so doing, he reaches a provocative conclusion: science, like religion, is fundamentally limited as a tool for understanding the world. As science and its philosophical interpretations advance, we face the unsettling recognition of how much we don't know. Gleiser shows that by aband.
| Author | : Eilís Dillon |
| Publisher | : New York Review of Books |
| Total Pages | : 216 |
| Release | : 2006-08-22 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9781590172056 |
Michael Farrell was forced to grow up quickly after his father disappeared hunting for treasure on the fabled lost island of Inishmananan. Struggling to get by, one evening he and his mother receive a mysterious message from a ragged tramp who stops by their farm. The old man has proof that Michael’s father is alive! Although no one seeking the island has ever returned, Michael and his friend Joe board the first boat they can, only to find out it is run by a treacherous gang of sailors. Braving the unknown seas, they embark in a grand search for Michael’s missing father, the spectacular fortune, and the island’s long-lost secret. Set amid Ireland’s picturesque west coast, plots against Michael and the adventures that befall him make this magical and suspenseful narrative a page-turning, rough and tumble adventure story.
| Author | : Douglas Preston |
| Publisher | : Grand Central Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 298 |
| Release | : 2014-08-05 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1455525782 |
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Gideon Crew--brilliant scientist, master thief--is living on borrowed time. When his mysterious employer, Eli Glinn, gives him an eyebrow-raising mission, he has no reason to refuse. Gideon's task: steal a page from the priceless Book of Kells, now on display in New York City and protected by unbreakable security. Accomplishing the impossible, Gideon steals the parchment--only to learn that hidden beneath the gorgeously illuminated image is a treasure map dating back to the time of the ancient Greeks. As they ponder the strange map, they realize that the treasure it leads to is no ordinary fortune. It is something far more precious: an amazing discovery that could perhaps even save Gideon's life. Together with his new partner, Amy, Gideon follows a trail of cryptic clues to an unknown island in a remote corner of the Caribbean Sea. There, off the hostile and desolate Mosquito Coast, the pair realize the extraordinary treasure they are hunting conceals an even greater shock-a revelation so profound that it may benefit the entire human race . . . if Gideon and Amy can survive.
| Author | : H. Mark Lai |
| Publisher | : San Francisco Study Center |
| Total Pages | : 190 |
| Release | : 1980 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Thomas Bowen |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 592 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : San Esteban Island (Mexico) |
| ISBN | : |
His own archaeological investigations try to determine whether San Esteban was in fact inhabited permanently by a distinct Seri population or was visited intermittently by Seri from neighboring islands. The author illustrates his narrative with historical and contemporary photographs and detailed maps of the Gulf of California and San Esteban Island."--Jacket.
