Atlas Of Lost Paradises
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Author | : Gilles Lapouge |
Publisher | : Schiffer + ORM |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 2024-02-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1507303823 |
Thoroughly documented, a worldwide selection of places representing many attempts made by mankind through the ages to re-create a paradise on Earth. "Paradises got off to a bad start early on. The one the Bible had arranged had to rapidly close its pearly gates when its first two occupants, Adam and Eve, had misbehaved." According to Gilles Lapouge, paradise is a paradoxical creation of our imagination, blending hope and nostalgia. Historically, mankind has sought to fashion a paradise, which could be accessed during its lifetime: ideal cities, cities made of glass and steel, castles of freedom, etc. This atlas embarks us upon a journey across civilizations, through the exploration of 27 real or fictional places, including • gardens of the Middle Ages • Atlantis • the castles of King Ludwig II • Oceana • Pitcairn Island • city of Manoa • Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang Each place is illustrated with a specially designed map in a graphic style that has become the hallmark of this Atlas series.
Author | : Martin Haake |
Publisher | : Wide Eyed Editions |
Total Pages | : 66 |
Release | : 2015-09-03 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1847807011 |
Take a tour of Toronto, look around Lisbon or hot-foot it to Helsinki with this global adventure in a book! 30 best-loved cities from around the world are brought to life with illustrations by Martin Haake, which show in fabulous detail key landmarks, famous people, iconic buildings and cultural icons for all the family to enjoy. A search-and-find game on every page helps young readers to explore every city and spot the hundreds of details that makes each place unique.
Author | : Judith Schalansky |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2014-11-12 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 0143126679 |
A lovely small-trim edition of the award-winning Atlas of Remote Islands The Atlas of Remote Islands, Judith Schalansky’s beautiful and deeply personal account of the islands that have held a place in her heart throughout her lifelong love of cartography, has captured the imaginations of readers everywhere. Using historic events and scientific reports as a springboard, she creates a story around each island: fantastical, inscrutable stories, mixtures of fact and imagination that produce worlds for the reader to explore. Gorgeously illustrated and with new, vibrant colors for the Pocket edition, the atlas shows all fifty islands on the same scale, in order of the oceans they are found. Schalansky lures us to fifty remote destinations—from Tristan da Cunha to Clipperton Atoll, from Christmas Island to Easter Island—and proves that the most adventurous journeys still take place in the mind, with one finger pointing at a map.
Author | : James Davis |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 130 |
Release | : 2023-08-15 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3368832743 |
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
Author | : John Milton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 1711 |
Genre | : Bible |
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Author | : John Milton |
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Total Pages | : 674 |
Release | : 1750 |
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Author | : David Loewenstein |
Publisher | : CUP Archive |
Total Pages | : 472 |
Release | : 2006-04-27 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
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This volume offers a stimulating introduction to one of the most influential texts of western literature, Milton's Paradise Lost.
Author | : John Milton |
Publisher | : Modern Library |
Total Pages | : 514 |
Release | : 2011-08-31 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0307757897 |
Edited by William Kerrigan, John Rumrich, and Stephen M. Fallon John Milton’s Paradise Lost, an epic poem on the clash between God and his fallen angel, Satan, is a profound meditation on fate, free will, and divinity, and one of the most beautiful works in world literature. Extracted from the Modern Library’s highly acclaimed The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton, this edition reflects up-to-date scholarship and includes a substantial Introduction, fresh commentary, and other features—annotations on Milton’s classical allusions, a chronology of the writer’s life, clean page layouts, and an index—that make it the definitive twenty-first-century presentation of John Milton’s timeless signature work.
Author | : Forrest S. Clark |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 1950 |
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Author | : Cees Nooteboom |
Publisher | : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2008-11-15 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1555848710 |
From “one of the greatest modern novelists” comes a haunting tale of angels, art, and modern love (A. S. Byatt). In Lost Paradise, Cees Nooteboom sets out to connect two seemingly unrelated strangers whom he has glimpsed on his travels, and to explore the major impact that small interactions can have on the course of our journeys. A beautiful woman aboard a Berlin-bound flight becomes Alma, a young lady who leaves her parents’ São Paulo home on a hot summer night in a fit of depression. Her car engine dies in one of the city’s most dangerous favelas, a mob surrounds her, and she is pulled from the automobile. To escape her memory of the assault, she flees across the world, to Australia, where she becomes involved in the beautiful but bizarre Angel Project. Not long after, Dutch literary critic Erik Zontag is in Perth, Australia, for a conference. He has found a winged woman curled up in a closet in an empty house. He reaches out, and for a second allows his fingertips to brush her feathers—and then she speaks. The intersection of their paths illuminates the extraordinary coincidences that propel our lives. “Dreamy and self-conscious . . . [Nooteboom] brazenly explores notions of reinvention, healing, loss, and the divine.” —Tom Barbash, The New York Times Book Review