Land of Wooden Gods
Author: Jan Fridegård
Publisher:
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 228
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Part of a trilogy about the Viking Era in Sweden.
Author: Jan Fridegård
Publisher:
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 228
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Part of a trilogy about the Viking Era in Sweden.
Author: Jan Fridegard
Publisher:
Published: 1989-01-01
Total Pages: 219
ISBN-13: 9780608039909
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Jan Fridegard
Publisher: Viking Slave Trilogy
Published: 2023-08-18
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781953947024
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Sweden ́s great saga of the Viking Age, The Viking Slave Trilogy, is steeped in Norse myth and pagan ritual recounting the sensual but often cruel demands of the gods Odin, Thor, and Frey.
Author: Seth Archer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-04-26
Total Pages: 303
ISBN-13: 1316800644
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Historian Seth Archer traces the cultural impact of disease and health problems in the Hawaiian Islands from the arrival of Europeans to 1855. Colonialism in Hawaiʻi began with epidemiological incursions, and Archer argues that health remained the national crisis of the islands for more than a century. Introduced diseases resulted in reduced life spans, rising infertility and infant mortality, and persistent poor health for generations of Islanders, leaving a deep imprint on Hawaiian culture and national consciousness. Scholars have noted the role of epidemics in the depopulation of Hawaiʻi and broader Oceania, yet few have considered the interplay between colonialism, health, and culture - including Native religion, medicine, and gender. This study emphasizes Islanders' own ideas about, and responses to, health challenges on the local level. Ultimately, Hawaiʻi provides a case study for health and culture change among Indigenous populations across the Americas and the Pacific.
Author: Paul Schellinger
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-04-08
Total Pages: 838
ISBN-13: 1135918260
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Encyclopedia of the Novel is the first reference book that focuses on the development of the novel throughout the world. Entries on individual writers assess the place of that writer within the development of the novel form, explaining why and in exactly what ways that writer is importnant. Similarly, an entry on an individual novel discusses the importance of that novel not only form, analyzing the particular innovations that novel has introduced and the ways in which it has influenced the subsequent course of the genre. A wide range of topic entries explore the history, criticism, theory, production, dissemination and reception of the novel. A very important component of the Encyclopedia of the Novel is its long surveys of development of the novel in various regions of the world.
Author: Robert Read (of Leicester.)
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Published: 1881
Total Pages: 444
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Robert Read (of Leicester.)
Publisher:
Published: 1881
Total Pages: 446
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Jan Sjåvik
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 2006-04-19
Total Pages: 406
ISBN-13: 0810865017
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The literature of Scandinavia is amazingly rich and varied, consisting of the works produced by the countries of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Iceland, and stretching from the ancient Norse Sagas to the present day. While much of it is unknown outside of the region, some has gained worldwide popularity, including the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen, the stories of Isak Dinesen, and the plays of Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg. While obviously including the area's most famous works, the Historical Dictionary of Scandinavian Literature and Theater also provides information on lesser known authors and currents trends, literary circles and journals, and historical background. This is accomplished through a list of acronyms, a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and several hundred cross-referenced dictionary entries, which together make this reference the most comprehensive and up to date work of its kind related to Scandinavian literature and theater available anywhere.
Author: Taylor Brown
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2018-03-20
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 1250111773
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Bootlegger Rory Docherty has returned home to the fabled mountain of his childhood - a misty wilderness that holds its secrets close and keeps the outside world at gunpoint. Slowed by a wooden leg and haunted by memories of the Korean War, Rory runs bootleg whiskey for a powerful mountain clan in a retro-fitted '40 Ford coupe. Between deliveries to roadhouses, brothels, and private clients, he lives with his formidable grandmother, evades federal agents, and stokes the wrath of a rival runner.