Author: Charles Francis Osborne
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Category : Gardens
Languages : en
Pages : 274

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Category : Architecture, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 368

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Author: Sylvester Baxter
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Languages : en
Pages : 278

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Author: Sylvester Baxter
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 280

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Languages : en
Pages : 404

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Author: New York Botanical Garden
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 680

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"Publications of the staff, scholars and students of the New York Botanical Garden during the year" in vol. 3- 1902- The list for 1901 includes March 1895-Dec.1901.

Author: Douglas Veitch
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN: 0889200696
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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When writers go on journeys it is as often to explore the terra incognita of their own selves as to establish the identities of strange lands; in the case of many English novelists between the great wars it was certainly true, as Douglas Veitch remarks in the study I am introducing, that their work, "even as it essayed the exotic, cast an eye homeward and inward", and that they "roamed the world, seeking surcease from a prevailing malaise which doubted the values of Western Civilization." ... Mr. Veitch has taken this vital element in the three novels--The Plumed Serpent, The Power and the Glory and Under The Volcano--and has used it not merely to examine these works themselves but also to sketch out the ambivalent role which landscape plays in all fiction, as omnipresent background but also as a rich source of symbols and images reflecting the human drama which a book develops. He has, as he more than once makes clear, done more than read all the relevant literature; he has himself travelled to Mexico in order to see and experience the extraordinary terrain, and, as I can vouch on the basis of my own knowledge of that infinitely attractive and repellent country, he used his senses well while he was there. --from the Introduction by George Woodcock

Author: Fernando del Paso
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN: 1564785335
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 722

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If there was not so much fiction in News from the Empire, it could be called a work of history. In fact, the focus of this broad work is history itself, as well as the many unrecorded lives and events that history has forgotten from this strange era in Mexico's early nationhood. Using Emperor Maximilian and his wife, Carlota, as a starting point, Fernando Del Paso both considers what Mexico is and the country's place in the larger narrative of world history. The book spans the palaces of Europe and the villages of Mexico, yet despite its broad focus News is a book rich in characters and details, a work that opens up this era of Mexican history to readers without specialized knowledge. Maximilian and Carlota are the focus of the book, and even if they are not explicitly on every page, they are always in the background somewhere, providing the humanizing contradictions that fill it. Del Paso draws a complicated picture of two naïve people placed in a situation they could not manage and a country they did not understand. This innocence is especially inexplicable in the case of Maximilian, who, as brother of Austria's Emperor Franz Josef, should have known something about ruling but is completely unable to govern.

Author: Mary Elizabeth Barry
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Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 184

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Category : Panama-Pacific International Exposition
Languages : en
Pages : 532

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