Author: William H. G. Kingston
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780656156740
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Excerpt from Lusitanian Sketches of the Pen and Pencil, Vol. 1 of 2 The second volume may be found more interesting than the first, as it contains a description of a wider district, and of a greater variety of scenery. In' it I have given an account of the wine-country, the production of port wine, the method of preserving and treating it, and advice to wine-merchants and private gentlemen as to the best way of selecting it. I have touched also on the Oporto Wine Company, and on the subject of the lately projected rail-roads. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Lusitanian Sketches of the Pen and Pencil, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint)
Author: William H. G. Kingston
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780656156740
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Excerpt from Lusitanian Sketches of the Pen and Pencil, Vol. 1 of 2 The second volume may be found more interesting than the first, as it contains a description of a wider district, and of a greater variety of scenery. In' it I have given an account of the wine-country, the production of port wine, the method of preserving and treating it, and advice to wine-merchants and private gentlemen as to the best way of selecting it. I have touched also on the Oporto Wine Company, and on the subject of the lately projected rail-roads. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780656156740
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Excerpt from Lusitanian Sketches of the Pen and Pencil, Vol. 1 of 2 The second volume may be found more interesting than the first, as it contains a description of a wider district, and of a greater variety of scenery. In' it I have given an account of the wine-country, the production of port wine, the method of preserving and treating it, and advice to wine-merchants and private gentlemen as to the best way of selecting it. I have touched also on the Oporto Wine Company, and on the subject of the lately projected rail-roads. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Lusitanian Sketches of the Pen and Pencil, Vol. 1 of 2
Author: William H. G. Kingston
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781331906360
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Excerpt from Lusitanian Sketches of the Pen and Pencil, Vol. 1 of 2 The following Sketches were written at different periods during a residence of nearly two years in the north of Portugal. They consist partly of tours made through the northern provinces from the Minho to the Mondego. The work is intended therefore to serve as a guide-book to travellers visiting the country, which object, though increasing the value to that portion of my readers, may give a degree of heaviness to some of the early pages, which I trust will not be found to be their general characteristic. My chief aim has been by them to illustrate the present political, social, and religious state of the Portuguese; and I hope I may have conveyed to my English readers a better knowledge of the country than the greater number now possess. I can assure my Portuguese friends, that if I have at times spoken of their faults or failings, I have done so without the least approach to ill-feeling; and I trust that nothing I have said will interrupt the harmony in which I have for many years lived among them. The second volume may be found more interesting than the first, as it contains a description of a wider district, and of a greater variety of scenery. In it I have given an account of the wine-country, the production of port wine, the method of preserving and treating it, and advice to wine-merchants and private gentlemen as to the best way of selecting it. I have touched also on the Oporto Wine Company, and on the subject of the lately projected rail-roads. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781331906360
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Excerpt from Lusitanian Sketches of the Pen and Pencil, Vol. 1 of 2 The following Sketches were written at different periods during a residence of nearly two years in the north of Portugal. They consist partly of tours made through the northern provinces from the Minho to the Mondego. The work is intended therefore to serve as a guide-book to travellers visiting the country, which object, though increasing the value to that portion of my readers, may give a degree of heaviness to some of the early pages, which I trust will not be found to be their general characteristic. My chief aim has been by them to illustrate the present political, social, and religious state of the Portuguese; and I hope I may have conveyed to my English readers a better knowledge of the country than the greater number now possess. I can assure my Portuguese friends, that if I have at times spoken of their faults or failings, I have done so without the least approach to ill-feeling; and I trust that nothing I have said will interrupt the harmony in which I have for many years lived among them. The second volume may be found more interesting than the first, as it contains a description of a wider district, and of a greater variety of scenery. In it I have given an account of the wine-country, the production of port wine, the method of preserving and treating it, and advice to wine-merchants and private gentlemen as to the best way of selecting it. I have touched also on the Oporto Wine Company, and on the subject of the lately projected rail-roads. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Examiner
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 848
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 848
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Lumley's bibliographical advertiser
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Languages : en
Pages : 518
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Pages : 518
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Naming Infinity
Author: Loren Graham
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674032934
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
In 1913, Russian imperial marines stormed an Orthodox monastery at Mt. Athos, Greece, to haul off monks engaged in a dangerously heretical practice known as Name Worshipping. Exiled to remote Russian outposts, the monks and their mystical movement went underground. Ultimately, they came across Russian intellectuals who embraced Name Worshipping—and who would achieve one of the biggest mathematical breakthroughs of the twentieth century, going beyond recent French achievements. Loren Graham and Jean-Michel Kantor take us on an exciting mathematical mystery tour as they unravel a bizarre tale of political struggles, psychological crises, sexual complexities, and ethical dilemmas. At the core of this book is the contest between French and Russian mathematicians who sought new answers to one of the oldest puzzles in math: the nature of infinity. The French school chased rationalist solutions. The Russian mathematicians, notably Dmitri Egorov and Nikolai Luzin—who founded the famous Moscow School of Mathematics—were inspired by mystical insights attained during Name Worshipping. Their religious practice appears to have opened to them visions into the infinite—and led to the founding of descriptive set theory. The men and women of the leading French and Russian mathematical schools are central characters in this absorbing tale that could not be told until now. Naming Infinity is a poignant human interest story that raises provocative questions about science and religion, intuition and creativity.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674032934
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
In 1913, Russian imperial marines stormed an Orthodox monastery at Mt. Athos, Greece, to haul off monks engaged in a dangerously heretical practice known as Name Worshipping. Exiled to remote Russian outposts, the monks and their mystical movement went underground. Ultimately, they came across Russian intellectuals who embraced Name Worshipping—and who would achieve one of the biggest mathematical breakthroughs of the twentieth century, going beyond recent French achievements. Loren Graham and Jean-Michel Kantor take us on an exciting mathematical mystery tour as they unravel a bizarre tale of political struggles, psychological crises, sexual complexities, and ethical dilemmas. At the core of this book is the contest between French and Russian mathematicians who sought new answers to one of the oldest puzzles in math: the nature of infinity. The French school chased rationalist solutions. The Russian mathematicians, notably Dmitri Egorov and Nikolai Luzin—who founded the famous Moscow School of Mathematics—were inspired by mystical insights attained during Name Worshipping. Their religious practice appears to have opened to them visions into the infinite—and led to the founding of descriptive set theory. The men and women of the leading French and Russian mathematical schools are central characters in this absorbing tale that could not be told until now. Naming Infinity is a poignant human interest story that raises provocative questions about science and religion, intuition and creativity.
The Lusiad
Author: Luís de Camões
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Category : Poetry, Portuguese
Languages : en
Pages : 290
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Category : Poetry, Portuguese
Languages : en
Pages : 290
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume 8
Author: Edward Gibbon
Publisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781347421888
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Publisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781347421888
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Camoens
Author: Sir Richard Francis Burton
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Languages : en
Pages : 386
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Pages : 386
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Bohemia in London
Author: Arthur Ransome
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Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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Languages : en
Pages : 360
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Crude Existence
Author: Kristin Reed
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520258223
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
After decades of civil war and instability, the African country of Angola is experiencing a spectacular economic boom thanks to its most valuable natural resource: oil. Focusing on the everyday realities of people living in the extraction zones, Reed explores the exclusion, degradation, and violence that are the fruits of petrocapitalism in Angola.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520258223
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
After decades of civil war and instability, the African country of Angola is experiencing a spectacular economic boom thanks to its most valuable natural resource: oil. Focusing on the everyday realities of people living in the extraction zones, Reed explores the exclusion, degradation, and violence that are the fruits of petrocapitalism in Angola.