Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780705406970
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Mysterious Lands and Peoples
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780705406970
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Publisher:
ISBN: 9780705406970
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Mysterious Lands
Author: David O'Connor
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315423790
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Mysterious Lands covers two kinds of encounters. First, encounters which actually occurred between Egypt and specific foreign lands, and second, those the Egyptians created by inventing imaginary lands. Some of the actual foreign lands are mysterious, in that we know of them only through Egyptian sources, both written and pictorial, and the actual locations of such lands remain unknown. These encounters led to reciprocal influences of varying intensity. The Egyptians also created imaginary lands (pseudo-geographic entities with distinctive inhabitants and cultures) in order to meet religious, intellectual and emotional needs. Scholars disagree, sometimes vehemently, about the locations and cultures of some important but geographically disputed actual lands. As for imaginary lands, they continually need to be re-explored as our understanding of Egyptian religion and literature deepens. Mysterious Lands provides a clear account of this subject and will be a stimulating read for scholars, students or the interested public.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315423790
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Mysterious Lands covers two kinds of encounters. First, encounters which actually occurred between Egypt and specific foreign lands, and second, those the Egyptians created by inventing imaginary lands. Some of the actual foreign lands are mysterious, in that we know of them only through Egyptian sources, both written and pictorial, and the actual locations of such lands remain unknown. These encounters led to reciprocal influences of varying intensity. The Egyptians also created imaginary lands (pseudo-geographic entities with distinctive inhabitants and cultures) in order to meet religious, intellectual and emotional needs. Scholars disagree, sometimes vehemently, about the locations and cultures of some important but geographically disputed actual lands. As for imaginary lands, they continually need to be re-explored as our understanding of Egyptian religion and literature deepens. Mysterious Lands provides a clear account of this subject and will be a stimulating read for scholars, students or the interested public.
Mysteries of the Unknown Mysterious Land and People
Author: Chaucer Press
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781844470112
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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ISBN: 9781844470112
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Mysterious Places on Earth
Author: IntroBooks
Publisher: IntroBooks
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 23
Book Description
Mysterious things always seem to excite people and draw their attention, no matter whether it is a place, a person or a thing. People always find it so much amazing to see something which is not as usual as anything else or everything else in the world. But have you ever thought of why do they consider these mysterious something as mysterious? What could be the reason behind this?
Publisher: IntroBooks
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 23
Book Description
Mysterious things always seem to excite people and draw their attention, no matter whether it is a place, a person or a thing. People always find it so much amazing to see something which is not as usual as anything else or everything else in the world. But have you ever thought of why do they consider these mysterious something as mysterious? What could be the reason behind this?
Lands and peoples of the world
Author: Sir John Alexander Hammerton
Publisher: Mittal Publications
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Illustrated encyclopaedia about countries and people for children.
Publisher: Mittal Publications
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Illustrated encyclopaedia about countries and people for children.
Mysterious Places
Author: Jennifer Westwood
Publisher: Galahad Books
ISBN: 9780883659380
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
A comprehensive reference to the world of unexplained sites, symbols, cities, and landscapes, detailing their particular mysteries. Concise maps pinpoint their locations.
Publisher: Galahad Books
ISBN: 9780883659380
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
A comprehensive reference to the world of unexplained sites, symbols, cities, and landscapes, detailing their particular mysteries. Concise maps pinpoint their locations.
The World's Most Mysterious Places
Author: Tim Healy
Publisher: Reader's Digest Association
ISBN: 9780762101139
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
The Earth, its wonders, its secrets. The Earch is dotted with sites that stir the imagination, from sacred grounds and strange landscapes to lost cities and realms steeped in the supernatural. Discover the places that continue to capture our curiousity.
Publisher: Reader's Digest Association
ISBN: 9780762101139
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
The Earth, its wonders, its secrets. The Earch is dotted with sites that stir the imagination, from sacred grounds and strange landscapes to lost cities and realms steeped in the supernatural. Discover the places that continue to capture our curiousity.
The People of the Mist
Author: H. Rider Haggard
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
"The People of the Mist" by H. Rider Haggard is an adventure to find a lost race set in Africa. Leonard Outram, is a British explorer who sets out on an adventure to restore his family name. On the way, he saves a young woman, falls in love, and finds himself at the center of a political struggle no one in the modern world could be prepared for.
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
"The People of the Mist" by H. Rider Haggard is an adventure to find a lost race set in Africa. Leonard Outram, is a British explorer who sets out on an adventure to restore his family name. On the way, he saves a young woman, falls in love, and finds himself at the center of a political struggle no one in the modern world could be prepared for.
Mysterious Places
Author: Jeffrey Gorney
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1460217772
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
In this richly told memoir, an American artist’s search for lost relatives overseas sheds light on other people in other places and obscure yet chilling aspects of World War II. Moving, amusing and heartfelt it explores the power of storytelling and memory, how past impacts present and the many threads that shape a family destiny.
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1460217772
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
In this richly told memoir, an American artist’s search for lost relatives overseas sheds light on other people in other places and obscure yet chilling aspects of World War II. Moving, amusing and heartfelt it explores the power of storytelling and memory, how past impacts present and the many threads that shape a family destiny.
Wondrous Journeys in Strange Lands
Author: Sonia Nimir
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1623710804
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
WINNER OF THE PRESIGIOUS ETISALAT AWARD AN ADVENTURE-FILLED HISTORICAL-FOLKLORIC NOVEL ABOUT A PALESTINIAN GIRL WHO DEVELOPS GREAT HEALING SKILLS AND TRAVELS AROUND THE REGION, SOMETIMES DRESSED AS A MAN Sonia Nimr’s award-winning Wondrous Journeys in Strange Lands is a richly imagined feminist-fable-plus-historical-novel that tells an episodic travel narrative, like that of the great 14th century Moroccan traveler Ibn Battuta, through the eyes of a clever and irrepressible young Palestinian woman. The story begins hundreds of years ago, when our hero—Qamr—is born as an outcast, at the foot of a mountain in Palestine, near her father’s strange, isolated village. Qamr’s mother must solve the mystery of why only boys are born in this odd, conservative village. Then, in 1001 Nights style, this tale moves into another. Qamr’s parents die and a prince with many wives wants to marry her. Qamr takes her favorite book, Wondrous Journeys in Strange Lands, and flees through Gaza, to Egypt, where she is captured, enslaved, and sold to the sister of the mad king in Egypt. After escaping, she flees to study with a polymath in Morocco. But when it’s discovered she’s a girl, she must leave again, disguising herself as a boy pirate to sail the Mediterranean. Through all her fast-paced battles, mysteries, and adventures, Qamr never finds a home, but she does manage to create a family.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1623710804
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
WINNER OF THE PRESIGIOUS ETISALAT AWARD AN ADVENTURE-FILLED HISTORICAL-FOLKLORIC NOVEL ABOUT A PALESTINIAN GIRL WHO DEVELOPS GREAT HEALING SKILLS AND TRAVELS AROUND THE REGION, SOMETIMES DRESSED AS A MAN Sonia Nimr’s award-winning Wondrous Journeys in Strange Lands is a richly imagined feminist-fable-plus-historical-novel that tells an episodic travel narrative, like that of the great 14th century Moroccan traveler Ibn Battuta, through the eyes of a clever and irrepressible young Palestinian woman. The story begins hundreds of years ago, when our hero—Qamr—is born as an outcast, at the foot of a mountain in Palestine, near her father’s strange, isolated village. Qamr’s mother must solve the mystery of why only boys are born in this odd, conservative village. Then, in 1001 Nights style, this tale moves into another. Qamr’s parents die and a prince with many wives wants to marry her. Qamr takes her favorite book, Wondrous Journeys in Strange Lands, and flees through Gaza, to Egypt, where she is captured, enslaved, and sold to the sister of the mad king in Egypt. After escaping, she flees to study with a polymath in Morocco. But when it’s discovered she’s a girl, she must leave again, disguising herself as a boy pirate to sail the Mediterranean. Through all her fast-paced battles, mysteries, and adventures, Qamr never finds a home, but she does manage to create a family.