Author: Charles Frederick Holder
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Category : Elephants
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Tells about the elephant and its relation to man in war, pageantry, sports and games, as faithful laborer and servant, comrade and friend, its forms, structure and anatomy.
The Ivory King
Author: Charles Frederick Holder
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Elephants
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Tells about the elephant and its relation to man in war, pageantry, sports and games, as faithful laborer and servant, comrade and friend, its forms, structure and anatomy.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Elephants
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Tells about the elephant and its relation to man in war, pageantry, sports and games, as faithful laborer and servant, comrade and friend, its forms, structure and anatomy.
The Ivory King
Author: Charles Frederick Holder
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
This book is a very full and informative account of elephants; their natural lives and habitats. It also documents the history of the relationship between humans and elephants and how they have been used at work and in wars.
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
This book is a very full and informative account of elephants; their natural lives and habitats. It also documents the history of the relationship between humans and elephants and how they have been used at work and in wars.
The Reader
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Category : Bibliographies
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
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Category : Bibliographies
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Young People's Books
Author: Chicago Public Library
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Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
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Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Ivory Vikings
Author: Nancy Marie Brown
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1137279370
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
In the early 1800's, on a Hebridean beach in Scotland, the sea exposed an ancient treasure cache: 93 chessmen carved from walrus ivory. Norse netsuke, each face individual, each full of quirks, the Lewis Chessmen are probably the most famous chess pieces in the world. Harry played Wizard's Chess with them in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Housed at the British Museum, they are among its most visited and beloved objects. Questions abounded: Who carved them? Where? Nancy Marie Brown's Ivory Vikings explores these mysteries by connecting medieval Icelandic sagas with modern archaeology, art history, forensics, and the history of board games. In the process, Ivory Vikings presents a vivid history of the 400 years when the Vikings ruled the North Atlantic, and the sea-road connected countries and islands we think of as far apart and culturally distinct: Norway and Scotland, Ireland and Iceland, and Greenland and North America. The story of the Lewis chessmen explains the economic lure behind the Viking voyages to the west in the 800s and 900s. And finally, it brings from the shadows an extraordinarily talented woman artist of the twelfth century: Margret the Adroit of Iceland.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1137279370
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
In the early 1800's, on a Hebridean beach in Scotland, the sea exposed an ancient treasure cache: 93 chessmen carved from walrus ivory. Norse netsuke, each face individual, each full of quirks, the Lewis Chessmen are probably the most famous chess pieces in the world. Harry played Wizard's Chess with them in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Housed at the British Museum, they are among its most visited and beloved objects. Questions abounded: Who carved them? Where? Nancy Marie Brown's Ivory Vikings explores these mysteries by connecting medieval Icelandic sagas with modern archaeology, art history, forensics, and the history of board games. In the process, Ivory Vikings presents a vivid history of the 400 years when the Vikings ruled the North Atlantic, and the sea-road connected countries and islands we think of as far apart and culturally distinct: Norway and Scotland, Ireland and Iceland, and Greenland and North America. The story of the Lewis chessmen explains the economic lure behind the Viking voyages to the west in the 800s and 900s. And finally, it brings from the shadows an extraordinarily talented woman artist of the twelfth century: Margret the Adroit of Iceland.
Catalogue of Books Exclusive of Prose Fiction in the Central Lending Library
Author: Leeds (England). Public Libraries, Art Gallery and Museum
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
Trübner's American and oriental literary record
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
Books for Young People
Author: E.L. Kellogg & Co
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 24
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Catalogue of Books in the Lending Department of the Woolwich Library
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Category : Public libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 374
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Category : Public libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Catalogue ... 1895
Author: Levi Heywood Memorial Library, Gardner, Mass
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description