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Category : Allegories
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: G.W. Renshaw
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ISBN: 9781311604262
Category : Carpathian Mountains
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Professor George Herbert Endeavour is the most brilliant scientist of the Victorian era, as well as perhaps its most infamous curmudgeon. A veteran of numerous scientific expeditions, it is clear to him that only he is qualified to identify and capture a newly reported predatory species in the Carpathian Mountains. But that which lies in wait in the Hungarian wilderness is beyond even his imagination. When the need is dire, what hardy soles will hazard his rescue, and at what cost?

Author: Anja Kampmann
Publisher: Catapult
ISBN: 1948226537
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 255

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This "gorgeously written" National Book Award finalist is a dazzling, heart-rending story of an oil rig worker whose closest friend goes missing, plunging him into isolation and forcing him to confront his past (NPR, One of the Best Books of the Year). One night aboard an oil drilling platform in the Atlantic, Waclaw returns to his cabin to find that his bunkmate and companion, Mátyás, has gone missing. A search of the rig confirms his fear that Mátyás has fallen into the sea. Grief-stricken, he embarks on an epic emotional and physical journey that takes him to Morocco, to Budapest and Mátyás's hometown in Hungary, to Malta, Italy, and finally to the mining town of his childhood in Germany. Waclaw's encounters along the way with other lost and yearning souls—Mátyás's angry, grieving half-sister; lonely rig workers on shore leave; a truck driver who watches the world change from his driver's seat—bring us closer to his origins while also revealing the problems of a globalized economy dependent on waning natural resources. High as the Waters Rise is a stirring exploration of male intimacy, the nature of memory and grief, and the cost of freedom—the story of a man who stands at the margins of a society from which he has profited little, though its functioning depends on his labor.

Author: Michael Maiers
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781781071854
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 234

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One of the finest alchemical emblem books and unique in its own right. Michael Maier's work is richly illustrated with original prints by M. Merian; each of the 50 emblems presented consists of a motto, print, epigram, and a three-part musical setting of the epigram, followed by an exposition of its meaning.

Author: Leslie Stephen
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Category : Alps
Languages : en
Pages : 534

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Author: Jacob Bryant
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Category : History, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 510

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Author: Edward Topsell
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136956573
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 2216

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First Published in 1967. This is volume one of three of The History of Four- footed Beasts taken principally from the ‘ Historite Animalium’ of Conrad Gesner. During the first decade of the seventeenth century, when Topsell prepared his translation, zoology had just become a science. It has a unique place: It was the first major book on animals printed in Great Britain in English; and it appeared at the last moment in history when all zoological knowledge since antiquity could be summarized sympathetically, before it was rendered a curiosity by the many new discoveries soon to come.

Author: Anne Askew
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195108491
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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As a spiritual autobiography, historical document and carefully crafted polemic, Askew's narrative of her imprisonment for heresy and her interrogation by officials of church and state gives insight into Reformation politics and society in England.

Author: John Milton
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 428

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Author: Elizabeth Parker
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030351548
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 313

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This book offers the first full length study on the pervasive archetype of The Gothic Forest in Western culture. The idea of the forest as deep, dark, and dangerous has an extensive history and continues to resonate throughout contemporary popular culture. The Forest and the EcoGothic examines both why we fear the forest and how exactly these fears manifest in our stories. It draws on and furthers the nascent field of the ecoGothic, which seeks to explore the intersections between ecocriticism and Gothic studies. In the age of the Anthropocene, this work importantly interrogates our relationship to and understandings of the more-than-human world. This work introduces the trope of the Gothic forest, as well as important critical contexts for its discussion, and examines the three main ways in which this trope manifests: as a living, animated threat; as a traditional habitat for monsters; and as a dangerous site for human settlement. This book will appeal to students and scholars with interests in horror and the Gothic, ecohorror and the ecoGothic, environmentalism, ecocriticism, and popular culture more broadly. The accessibility of the subject of ‘The Deep Dark Woods’, coupled with increasingly mainstream interests in interactions between humanity and nature, means this work will also be of keen interest to the general public.