Author: Jason C. Anthony
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803244746
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 346
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Antarctica, the last place on Earth, is not famous for its cuisine. Yet it is famous for stories of heroic expeditions in which hunger was the one spice everyone carried. At the dawn of Antarctic cuisine, cooks improvised under inconceivable hardships, castaways ate seal blubber and penguin breasts while fantasizing about illustrious feasts, and men seeking the South Pole stretched their rations to the breaking point. Today, Antarctica’s kitchens still wait for provisions at the far end of the planet’s longest supply chain. Scientific research stations serve up cafeteria fare that often offers more sustenance than style. Jason C. Anthony, a veteran of eight seasons in the U.S. Antarctic Program, offers a rare workaday look at the importance of food in Antarctic history and culture. Anthony’s tour of Antarctic cuisine takes us from hoosh (a porridge of meat, fat, and melted snow, often thickened with crushed biscuit) and the scurvy-ridden expeditions of Shackleton and Scott through the twentieth century to his own preplanned three hundred meals (plus snacks) for a two-person camp in the Transantarctic Mountains. The stories in Hoosh are linked by the ingenuity, good humor, and indifference to gruel that make Anthony’s tale as entertaining as it is enlightening.
Author: Bernadette Hince
Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN: 9780957747111
Category : Antarctica
Languages : en
Pages : 416
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The world's most isolated continent has spawned some of the most unusual words in the English language. This comprehensive guide to the origins and definitions of such words as donga and growler, is supported by more than 15,000 quotations drawn from over 1000 sources. A treat for anyone who's ever dreamed of visiting Antarctica.
Author: Rudolf Steiner
Publisher: Rudolf Steiner Press
ISBN: 1855846659
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 548
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With these fundamental lectures on speech eurythmy – given just months after his course entitled ‘Eurythmy as Visible Singing’ – Rudolf Steiner completed the foundations of the new art of movement. In connecting to the centuries-old esoteric and exoteric Western traditions of ‘the Word’ – the creative power in the sounds of the divine-human alphabet – he gave it concrete form and expression in the performing arts, education and therapy. Although aimed primarily at the professional concerns of eurythmists who perform, teach or work as therapists, the lectures offer a wealth of suggestions and insights to anyone interested in the arts. For this new edition – freshly translated by Matthew Barton and introduced by Coralee Frederickson – the original shorthand transcripts have been compared exhaustively with typed records and the notes of course participants. These notes included numerous sketches of movements, gestures and choreographies, many of which have been reproduced here to complement the text. Also featured is an appendix comprising facsimiles and transcripts of Rudolf Steiner’s preparatory notes, programmes of the eurythmy performances given during the course, and accounts by Steiner published in the Society Newsletter. Finally, there are recollections by course participants, additional sketches of forms and movements, Marie Steiner’s original foreword, and 30 pages of colour plates featuring blackboard drawings and eurythmy forms. New revised and expanded edition; Trans. by M. Barton; Intro. by C. Frederickson (Fifteen lectures, Dornach, Jun.-July 1924, GA 279); 512pp + 32pp colour plates; 23.5 x 15.5 cm
Author: Arthur Mee
Publisher:
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 254
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Author: Hubert Howe Bancroft
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 375233746X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 534
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Reproduction of the original: The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft by Hubert Howe Bancroft
Author: Angela Rawlings
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 126
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Book, or laboratory? Reader, or specimen? Wide slumber for lepidopterists is a poetic fantasia, a disorienting yet compelling dreamscape of butterflies and caterpillars and killing jars, where the waking mind's prose transforms into the sleeper's poetry. Each poem unfolds with precision, tracking the stages of sleep and pairing them with the life cycle of Lepidopterae. Insomnia is mirrored in the birth of the egg, narcolepsy in larval hatching. And when the caterpillar starts its final moult, dreams begin, weaving around us as tightly as a cocoon until we are somnambulant, a chrysalis ready to emerge as a moth. Reading the act of sleep through pupae and moths seems incongruous, but from this unlikely premise comes a darkly erotic text that takes cues from the scientific fascination of Christopher Dewdney, the linguistic experimentation of Gertrude Stein and the aural environments of Björk to explore science, sexuality and language in equal parts. Wide slumber for lepidopterists contains luminous illustrations by artist and bookmaker Matt Ceolin, who has managed to capture the spirit of the poems with his beautiful and disturbing treated photographs of butterflies, moths and dessication.
Author: Paul Feig
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 031608882X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 195
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When Iggy's transporter makes a crash landing in an even weirder frequency than before, he's sure of one thing: There's no place like home. Putting up with middle-school bullies was nothing compared to battling larger-than-life-sized trees and ferocious plant creatures! Luckily, Iggy's partner-in-crime, Karen, boasts kung fu skills that are impressive even to the extraterrestrials. But when frequency feuding goes from bad to worse, the two begin to wonder if kung fu kicks and sweet talk will be enough to fuel their escape. There's only one way to find out...
Author: Vanda Ballard
Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing
ISBN: 145755626X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 222
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Nestled deep within Genoria, is a peaceful kingdom ruled by an honest king. But this wasn’t always so. 300 years ago, an evil force laid waste to everything it touched and was only vanquished through the e_ orts of brave fighters and the use of an ancient weapon known as the Sword of Spirits which was used to bind this evil into a magical sphere. After the war was won, the sword was broken in half, and its two halves along with the sphere were hidden away in the hope the evil would stay trapped far inside the shadows. When a new villain appears and begins to plot the return of the malevolence, along with the enslavement of Genoria and all those who dwell within its lands, six strangers find themselves on a journey to reunite the objects and stop the coming darkness. These brothers-in-arms will go through hell to fight for their world. But will their efforts be enough? Or will the Dark Force rise once more to reign over them all?
Author: Hubert Howe Bancroft
Publisher:
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Category : British Columbia
Languages : en
Pages : 822
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Author: Hubert Howe Bancroft
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 840
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Extensive anthropological, ethnographic, linguistic, archaeological, and historical work on the Indians of the North, Central, and South Americas and, in North America, as far east as the Mississippi Valley.
