Voyage to the Other World
Author: Calvin B. Kendall
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781452901503
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Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781452901503
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Douglas J. Mahr
Publisher:
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780931317347
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Rafael Campo
Publisher: Arte Publico Press
Published: 1994-07-01
Total Pages: 124
ISBN-13: 9781611922448
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A collection of poems by a San Francisco doctor of Latino origin. The subjects include: an immigrant's son discovers his cultural identity, a physician awakens to the suffering of his patients, and two gay Latinos fall in love.
Author: Jonathan M. Wooding
Publisher:
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 326
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →With The Otherworld in Irish Literature and History, Jonathan Wooding presents a major collection of essays by some of the best-known academics in Ireland, Britain and America today.
Author: David Lindsay
Publisher: Sheba Blake Publishing Corp.
Published: 2022-11-04
Total Pages: 629
ISBN-13: 122237904X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →If you're interested in science fiction but crave something with a little more intellectual heft than your typical space opera, give David Lindsay's A Voyage to Arcturus a try. Widely praised by critics as one of the most philosophically advanced science fiction novels, the book follows two intrepid spiritual seekers through a series of remarkable interstellar adventures. As part of our mission to publish great works of literary fiction and nonfiction, Sheba Blake Publishing Corp. is extremely dedicated to bringing to the forefront the amazing works of long dead and truly talented authors.
Author: George Forster
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 2000-01-01
Total Pages: 546
ISBN-13: 9780824820916
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →George Forster's A Voyage Round the World presents a wealth of geographic, scientific, and ethnographic knowledge uncovered by Cook's second journey of exploration in the Pacific (1772-1775). Accompanying his father, the ship's naturalist Johann Reinhold Forster, on the voyage, George proved a knowledgeable and adept observer. The lively, elegant prose and critical detail of his account, based loosely on his father's journal, make it one of the finest works of eighteenth-century travel literature and an account of prime importance in the history of European contact with Pacific peoples. The Forsters' publications reveal the sophistication and enthusiasm they brought to their observation of Polynesian peoples as well as a sensitivity to the moral ambiguities of contact. The two volumes of George Forster's work include substantially richer descriptions of encounters with island inhabitants than either his father's classic work (Observations Made during a Voyage round the World, UH Press, 1996) or Cook's official narrative, and its confident, even visionary, style incorporates a good deal of polemic, particularly in its criticism of the treatment of islanders by Cook's crew. In addition to the range and depth of its anthropological considerations, it provides a thrilling account of life aboard one of Cook's vessels. In its author's German translation, this work becomes a classic of natural history writing, but its original English version has long been neglected by anglophone scholars. This new scholarly edition makes this important book readily available for the first time since its initial publication more than two centuries ago. But it also presents the work in fresh terms, making it more accessible and relevant to a contemporary audience. The valuable introduction and annotations draw on the wide range of anthropological and ethnohistorical scholarship published since the 1960s and contextualize the book in relation to both the cultures of Oceania documented by the Forsters and the history of European voyaging in the Pacific. Appendixes include a translation of the introduction to the German edition and the polemical pamphlets by George Forster and the ship's astronomer William Wales, in which some of the book's more controversial claims were debated. A Voyage Round the World brings the disciplines of history and anthropology to bear on Cook's voyages in an illuminating and readable fashion. This edition will help complete the corpus of basic documents on Cook's voyages--a crucial resource for researchers in cultural, Pacific, and maritime history; archaeologists, anthropologists, and art historians; and most recently for scholars engaged in revisionist interpretations of eighteenth-century exploration and colonization.
Author: Hilda Roderick Ellis Davidson
Publisher:
Published: 1975
Total Pages: 168
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Robert Easting
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 142
ISBN-13: 9780859914239
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This bibliography covers visions of Heaven and Hell - or, more usually, Purgatory and Earthly Paradise - in 19 medieval texts relating seven visions: the vision of St Paul, or the Eleven Pains of Hell; St Patrick's purgatory; the vision of Tundale; a revelation of purgatory; the revelation of the Monk of Eynsham; the vision of Fursey; and the vision of Edmund Leversedge.
Author: David Blamires
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 136
ISBN-13: 9780719012921
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