Author: Carolyn Mueller
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781681062211
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Forest Park
Author: Carolyn Mueller
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781681062211
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781681062211
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
A Street Through Time
Author: Anne Millard
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1465407731
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 47
Book Description
Steve Noon's award-winning A Street Through Time has been revised and updated for a new generation. In a series of fourteen unique illustrations, A Street Through Time tells the story of human history by exploring a street as it evolves from 10,000 BCE to the present day. Readers will see how the landscape and the daily lives of people changed as a small settlement grows into a city, is struck by war and plague, and gains trade and industry.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1465407731
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 47
Book Description
Steve Noon's award-winning A Street Through Time has been revised and updated for a new generation. In a series of fourteen unique illustrations, A Street Through Time tells the story of human history by exploring a street as it evolves from 10,000 BCE to the present day. Readers will see how the landscape and the daily lives of people changed as a small settlement grows into a city, is struck by war and plague, and gains trade and industry.
Wanderlust
Author: Rebecca Solnit
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101199555
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
A passionate, thought-provoking exploration of walking as a political and cultural activity, from the author of Orwell's Roses Drawing together many histories--of anatomical evolution and city design, of treadmills and labyrinths, of walking clubs and sexual mores--Rebecca Solnit creates a fascinating portrait of the range of possibilities presented by walking. Arguing that the history of walking includes walking for pleasure as well as for political, aesthetic, and social meaning, Solnit focuses on the walkers whose everyday and extreme acts have shaped our culture, from philosophers to poets to mountaineers. She profiles some of the most significant walkers in history and fiction--from Wordsworth to Gary Snyder, from Jane Austen's Elizabeth Bennet to Andre Breton's Nadja--finding a profound relationship between walking and thinking and walking and culture. Solnit argues for the necessity of preserving the time and space in which to walk in our ever more car-dependent and accelerated world.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101199555
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
A passionate, thought-provoking exploration of walking as a political and cultural activity, from the author of Orwell's Roses Drawing together many histories--of anatomical evolution and city design, of treadmills and labyrinths, of walking clubs and sexual mores--Rebecca Solnit creates a fascinating portrait of the range of possibilities presented by walking. Arguing that the history of walking includes walking for pleasure as well as for political, aesthetic, and social meaning, Solnit focuses on the walkers whose everyday and extreme acts have shaped our culture, from philosophers to poets to mountaineers. She profiles some of the most significant walkers in history and fiction--from Wordsworth to Gary Snyder, from Jane Austen's Elizabeth Bennet to Andre Breton's Nadja--finding a profound relationship between walking and thinking and walking and culture. Solnit argues for the necessity of preserving the time and space in which to walk in our ever more car-dependent and accelerated world.
A Walk in the Woods
Author: Bill Bryson
Publisher: Anchor Canada
ISBN: 0385674546
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
God only knows what possessed Bill Bryson, a reluctant adventurer if ever there was one, to undertake a gruelling hike along the world's longest continuous footpath—The Appalachian Trail. The 2,000-plus-mile trail winds through 14 states, stretching along the east coast of the United States, from Georgia to Maine. It snakes through some of the wildest and most spectacular landscapes in North America, as well as through some of its most poverty-stricken and primitive backwoods areas. With his offbeat sensibility, his eye for the absurd, and his laugh-out-loud sense of humour, Bryson recounts his confrontations with nature at its most uncompromising over his five-month journey. An instant classic, riotously funny, A Walk in the Woods will add a whole new audience to the legions of Bill Bryson fans.
Publisher: Anchor Canada
ISBN: 0385674546
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
God only knows what possessed Bill Bryson, a reluctant adventurer if ever there was one, to undertake a gruelling hike along the world's longest continuous footpath—The Appalachian Trail. The 2,000-plus-mile trail winds through 14 states, stretching along the east coast of the United States, from Georgia to Maine. It snakes through some of the wildest and most spectacular landscapes in North America, as well as through some of its most poverty-stricken and primitive backwoods areas. With his offbeat sensibility, his eye for the absurd, and his laugh-out-loud sense of humour, Bryson recounts his confrontations with nature at its most uncompromising over his five-month journey. An instant classic, riotously funny, A Walk in the Woods will add a whole new audience to the legions of Bill Bryson fans.
Black History Walks
Author: WARNER
Publisher: Jacaranda
ISBN: 9781913090265
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
A collection of guided tours throughout London Black History Walks invites the reader to see their surroundings with new eyes.
Publisher: Jacaranda
ISBN: 9781913090265
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
A collection of guided tours throughout London Black History Walks invites the reader to see their surroundings with new eyes.
Assassin's Creed: A Walk Through History (1189-1868)
Author: Rick Barba
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 1338099159
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
An in-depth, non-fiction look at the worlds from Assassin's Creed using a screen grabs from the game and actual historical artifacts! The characters and places from the Assassin's Creed videogames come to life in this unique non-fiction guide to the historical time periods of the games. It's a perfect-and age appropriate-- book for middle grade and YA fans of the Assassin's Creed franchise, exploring how the game's characters figure into their various time periods and then diving into the real history of each. Illustrated with screen grabs from the games as well as historical illustrations and photographs, time periods include the Crusades, Italian Renaissance, Colonial Americas, French Revolution, and Victorian England.
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 1338099159
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
An in-depth, non-fiction look at the worlds from Assassin's Creed using a screen grabs from the game and actual historical artifacts! The characters and places from the Assassin's Creed videogames come to life in this unique non-fiction guide to the historical time periods of the games. It's a perfect-and age appropriate-- book for middle grade and YA fans of the Assassin's Creed franchise, exploring how the game's characters figure into their various time periods and then diving into the real history of each. Illustrated with screen grabs from the games as well as historical illustrations and photographs, time periods include the Crusades, Italian Renaissance, Colonial Americas, French Revolution, and Victorian England.
Walk Through History
Author: Christopher Winn
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1473551935
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
'What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare.' - W.H. Davies Walking around London is one of life's great pleasures. There is a huge amount that you can only see on foot – but sometimes it is hard to know where to look. Luckily, Christopher Winn, bestselling author of I Never Knew That About London, knows where all the hidden treasures are. This book takes the reader on a series of stimulating original walks through different areas of central London, focusing on one particular period of history, the Victorian, so ubiquitous that we take it for granted, and yet so astonishing and so far reaching in its variety, imagination, ambition and detail. Discover... ..the remarkable 300-foot bell tower at the Houses of Parliament you never knew was there.... ..the extraordinary fairytale house in Kensington where the Mikado was inspired... ..the best Victorian loos in the world near Old Street... ..a hidden chapel in Bloomsbury described by Oscar Wilde as 'the most delightful private chapel in London'... ..London's best preserved high class Victorian shop near Tottenham Court Road... ...an almost complete Victorian townscape boasting the world's oldest surviving mansion block... Walk through history and discover the hidden gems of Victorian London!
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1473551935
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
'What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare.' - W.H. Davies Walking around London is one of life's great pleasures. There is a huge amount that you can only see on foot – but sometimes it is hard to know where to look. Luckily, Christopher Winn, bestselling author of I Never Knew That About London, knows where all the hidden treasures are. This book takes the reader on a series of stimulating original walks through different areas of central London, focusing on one particular period of history, the Victorian, so ubiquitous that we take it for granted, and yet so astonishing and so far reaching in its variety, imagination, ambition and detail. Discover... ..the remarkable 300-foot bell tower at the Houses of Parliament you never knew was there.... ..the extraordinary fairytale house in Kensington where the Mikado was inspired... ..the best Victorian loos in the world near Old Street... ..a hidden chapel in Bloomsbury described by Oscar Wilde as 'the most delightful private chapel in London'... ..London's best preserved high class Victorian shop near Tottenham Court Road... ...an almost complete Victorian townscape boasting the world's oldest surviving mansion block... Walk through history and discover the hidden gems of Victorian London!
The Boston Freedom Trail
Author: Robert Wheeler
Publisher: Skyhorse
ISBN: 9781510743779
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
A Moving and Informative Guidebook and Keepsake Worthy of Coffee Table Display! Through lyrical paragraphs and poignant black and white images, The Boston Freedom Trail reveals the essence of each site along the Freedom Trail, thereby allowing the reader to be moved and to connect more intimately with the splendor of liberty itself. Said to be the soul of the city, Boston’s Freedom Trail embodies the remarkable and courageous spirit of America’s unyielding quest for Independence and makes Boston a popular and endearing tourist destination. Beginning within the elegantly manicured grounds of Boston’s Common, this trail takes an estimated twenty million visitors a year on a fascinating 2.5-mile walk through its historic sites—sites enveloped within the city itself, and dotted with cafés, restaurants, bars, hotels, and commerce. In this book, each of these sites, and each name associated with America’s independence, whispers endless stories and inspires great dreams. This city’s captivating past—and that of the entire American experience—can be discovered on each page, making it an absorbing and everlasting book, one dedicated to the absolute beauty and the luminous tradition of freedom.
Publisher: Skyhorse
ISBN: 9781510743779
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
A Moving and Informative Guidebook and Keepsake Worthy of Coffee Table Display! Through lyrical paragraphs and poignant black and white images, The Boston Freedom Trail reveals the essence of each site along the Freedom Trail, thereby allowing the reader to be moved and to connect more intimately with the splendor of liberty itself. Said to be the soul of the city, Boston’s Freedom Trail embodies the remarkable and courageous spirit of America’s unyielding quest for Independence and makes Boston a popular and endearing tourist destination. Beginning within the elegantly manicured grounds of Boston’s Common, this trail takes an estimated twenty million visitors a year on a fascinating 2.5-mile walk through its historic sites—sites enveloped within the city itself, and dotted with cafés, restaurants, bars, hotels, and commerce. In this book, each of these sites, and each name associated with America’s independence, whispers endless stories and inspires great dreams. This city’s captivating past—and that of the entire American experience—can be discovered on each page, making it an absorbing and everlasting book, one dedicated to the absolute beauty and the luminous tradition of freedom.
As I Took a Walk Through History
Author: Toni L. Lazzaro
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1477171622
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Take a walk through history and witness the growing pains of a budding young nation. That nationthe United States of America.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1477171622
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Take a walk through history and witness the growing pains of a budding young nation. That nationthe United States of America.
Assassin's Creed
Author: Rick Barba
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781518236730
Category : Assassin's creed series (Video games)
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
The characters and places from the Assassin's Creed video games come to life in this unique non-fiction guide to the historical time periods of the games. It's a perfect-and age appropriate-- book for middle grade and YA fans of the Assassin's Creed franchise, exploring how the game's characters figure into their various time periods and then diving into the real history of each. It features the true stories behind the battles, assassinations, and historical figures such as George Washington, Leonardo da Vinci and the infamous pirate Blackbeard. Illustrated with images from the games as well as historical illustrations and photographs, time periods include the Crusades, Italian Renaissance, Colonial Americas, French Revolution, and Victorian England. Both unbelievably cool and educational, Assassin's Creed Through the ages is a stunning visual guide that shows how the hugely popular game series brings history to life.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781518236730
Category : Assassin's creed series (Video games)
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
The characters and places from the Assassin's Creed video games come to life in this unique non-fiction guide to the historical time periods of the games. It's a perfect-and age appropriate-- book for middle grade and YA fans of the Assassin's Creed franchise, exploring how the game's characters figure into their various time periods and then diving into the real history of each. It features the true stories behind the battles, assassinations, and historical figures such as George Washington, Leonardo da Vinci and the infamous pirate Blackbeard. Illustrated with images from the games as well as historical illustrations and photographs, time periods include the Crusades, Italian Renaissance, Colonial Americas, French Revolution, and Victorian England. Both unbelievably cool and educational, Assassin's Creed Through the ages is a stunning visual guide that shows how the hugely popular game series brings history to life.