A Blessed Shore
Title | A Blessed Shore PDF eBook |
Author | Alfred Thomas |
Publisher | Cornell University Press |
Pages | 268 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780801445682 |
"Although Thomas gives original readings of famous English texts by Chaucer and Shakespeare, this is also a book about Czech writers and travelers; one Czech expatriate, Anne of Bohemia, became Queen of England. For both countries these were decades of religious and dynastic turbulence, and Thomas's analyses of the relations between Wyclif and Hus, Lollards and Hussites, help us to understand why Bohemia was viewed as an almost utopian land of refuge ("a blessed shore" on which a ship might wash up) for persecuted English men and women. Of particular interest is his analysis of the ways in which English court culture emulated that of Prague, which was an imperial seat at a time when England was still a peripheral place with little influence on the heart of Europe.
Portraits and Habits of Our Birds
Title | Portraits and Habits of Our Birds PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Gilbert Pearson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 372 |
Release | 1928 |
Genre | Birds |
ISBN |
Bird-lore
Title | Bird-lore PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 444 |
Release | 1911 |
Genre | Birds |
ISBN |
Vols. 5-28 include its educational leaflets.
Audubon
Title | Audubon PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 442 |
Release | 1911 |
Genre | Birds |
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Knowledge Is a Blessing on Your Mind
Title | Knowledge Is a Blessing on Your Mind PDF eBook |
Author | Anne Salmond |
Publisher | Auckland University Press |
Pages | 496 |
Release | 2023-11-09 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1776711092 |
For fifty years, Dame Anne Salmond has navigated &‘ te ao hurihuri' &– travelling to hui in her little blue VW Beetle with Eruera and Amiria Stirling in the 1970s, working for a university marae alongside Merimeri Penfold, Patu Hohepa and Wharetoroa Kerr in the 1980s, giving evidence to the Waitangi Tribunal on the meaning of Te Tiriti in the 2000s. From Hui to The Trial of the Cannibal Dog to today' s debates about the future of Aotearoa, Anne Salmond has explored who we are to each other.This book traces Anne Salmond' s journey as an anthropologist, as a writer and activist, as a Pakeha New Zealander, as a friend, wife and mother. The book brings together her key writing on the Maori world, cultural contact, Te Tiriti and the wider Pacific &– much of it appearing in book form for the first time &– and embeds these writings in her life and relationships, her travels and friends.This is the story of Aotearoa and the story of one woman' s pathway through our changing land.
The Sea
Title | The Sea PDF eBook |
Author | Frederick Whymper |
Publisher | |
Pages | 358 |
Release | 1872 |
Genre | |
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The sea: its stirring story of adventure, peril & heroism. [4 vols., publ. in 40 pt.].
Title | The sea: its stirring story of adventure, peril & heroism. [4 vols., publ. in 40 pt.]. PDF eBook |
Author | Frederick Whymper |
Publisher | |
Pages | 712 |
Release | 1883 |
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