Hollow Places: an Unusual History of Land and Legend

Hollow Places: an Unusual History of Land and Legend
Title Hollow Places: an Unusual History of Land and Legend PDF eBook
Author Christopher Hadley
Publisher William Collins
Pages 448
Release 2020-08-06
Genre Folklore
ISBN 9780008319526

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The Tomb of the Mili Mongga

The Tomb of the Mili Mongga
Title The Tomb of the Mili Mongga PDF eBook
Author Samuel Turvey
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages 305
Release 2024-02-15
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1399409743

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'The Tomb of the Mili Mongga lives up to its magnificent billing' DAILY TELEGRAPH - A fossil expedition becomes a thrilling search for a mythical beast deep in the Indonesian forest – and a fascinating look at how fossils, folklore, and biodiversity converge. A tale of exciting scientific discovery, The Tomb of the Mili Mongga tells the story of Samuel Turvey's expeditions to the island of Sumba in eastern Indonesia. While there, he discovers an entire recently extinct mammal fauna from the island's fossil record, revealing how islands support some of the world's most remarkable biodiversity, and why many of these unique endemic species are threatened with extinction or have already been lost. But as the story unfolds, an unexpected narrative emerges – Sumba's Indigenous communities tell of a mysterious wildman called the 'mili mongga', a giant yeti-like beast that supposedly lives in the island's remote forests. What is behind the stories of the mili mongga? Is there a link between this enigmatic entity and the fossils that Sam is looking for? And what did he discover when he finally found the tomb of a mili mongga? Combining evolution, anthropology, travel writing and cryptozoology, The Tomb of the Mili Mongga explores the relationship between biodiversity and culture, what reality means from different cultural perspectives, and how folklore, fossils and conservation can be linked together in surprising ways.

The Road: A Story of Romans and Ways to the Past

The Road: A Story of Romans and Ways to the Past
Title The Road: A Story of Romans and Ways to the Past PDF eBook
Author Christopher Hadley
Publisher HarperCollins UK
Pages 271
Release 2023-01-19
Genre History
ISBN 000835670X

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A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR ‘An absolute joy to read and an early contender for every list of History Books of the Year’ Sunday Telegraph ‘On nearly every page a random passage takes one’s breath away’ The Times Have you ever heard the march of legions on a lonely country road?

Weird New York

Weird New York
Title Weird New York PDF eBook
Author Chris Gethard
Publisher Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Pages 284
Release 2005
Genre Travel
ISBN 9781402733833

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This book is a travel guide of sorts to New York's local legends and best kept secrets, filled with crazy characters, cursed roads, abandoned sites, and bizarre roadside attractions that the author feels reflect the shared modern folklore of our time.

Ramp Hollow

Ramp Hollow
Title Ramp Hollow PDF eBook
Author Steven Stoll
Publisher Hill and Wang
Pages 433
Release 2017-11-21
Genre History
ISBN 1429946970

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How the United States underdeveloped Appalachia Appalachia—among the most storied and yet least understood regions in America—has long been associated with poverty and backwardness. But how did this image arise and what exactly does it mean? In Ramp Hollow, Steven Stoll launches an original investigation into the history of Appalachia and its place in U.S. history, with a special emphasis on how generations of its inhabitants lived, worked, survived, and depended on natural resources held in common. Ramp Hollow traces the rise of the Appalachian homestead and how its self-sufficiency resisted dependence on money and the industrial society arising elsewhere in the United States—until, beginning in the nineteenth century, extractive industries kicked off a “scramble for Appalachia” that left struggling homesteaders dispossessed of their land. As the men disappeared into coal mines and timber camps, and their families moved into shantytowns or deeper into the mountains, the commons of Appalachia were, in effect, enclosed, and the fate of the region was sealed. Ramp Hollow takes a provocative look at Appalachia, and the workings of dispossession around the world, by upending our notions about progress and development. Stoll ranges widely from literature to history to economics in order to expose a devastating process whose repercussions we still feel today.

Sophie's World

Sophie's World
Title Sophie's World PDF eBook
Author Jostein Gaarder
Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages 599
Release 2007-03-20
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1466804270

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A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print. One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning—but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.

Rip Van Winkle, and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Rip Van Winkle, and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Title Rip Van Winkle, and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow PDF eBook
Author Washington Irving
Publisher Orient Blackswan
Pages 60
Release 1963
Genre Catskill Mountains (N.Y.)
ISBN 9788125021766

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A man who sleeps for twenty years in the Catskill Mountains wakes to a much-changed world.