Life and Early Travels
Title | Life and Early Travels PDF eBook |
Author | Ciriaco (d'Ancona) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Bilingual books |
ISBN | 9780674599208 |
Cyriac of Ancona (1391-1452) was among the first to study the physical remains of the ancient world in person and is sometimes regarded as the father of classical archaeology. This volume contains a life of Cyriac to the year 1435 by his friend Francesco Scalamonti, along with several letters and other texts illustrating his early life.
The Life and Travels of General Grant ...
Title | The Life and Travels of General Grant ... PDF eBook |
Author | J. T. Headley |
Publisher | |
Pages | 866 |
Release | 1879 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
2 v. in 1.
A Narrative of the Early Life, Travels, and Gospel Labors of Jesse Kersey, Late of Chester County, Pennsylvania
Title | A Narrative of the Early Life, Travels, and Gospel Labors of Jesse Kersey, Late of Chester County, Pennsylvania PDF eBook |
Author | Jesse KERSEY |
Publisher | |
Pages | 300 |
Release | 1852 |
Genre | Quakers |
ISBN |
My Life's Travels and Adventures
Title | My Life's Travels and Adventures PDF eBook |
Author | Regina Salomea Pilsztynowa |
Publisher | Iter Press |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2021-06-30 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9781649590046 |
In her never-finished My Life’s Travels and Adventures, the eighteenth-century Polish doctor Regina Salomea Pilsztynowa plays a myriad of roles, including child bride, wife, mother, lover, adventuress, slave trader, writer, and home-taught physician. She successfully carved out a viable niche for herself, navigating the multicultural, multiethnic, and varied religious environment of Europe’s eastern periphery. Despite limited expectations for female professionals, she became a highly sought after and well-respected practitioner of the medical arts and rose to the position of court physician to Turkish pashas and Hungarian princes, and even to Sultan Mustafa III. My Life’s Travels and Adventures—part memoir, part autobiography, and part travelogue—provides a view into eighteenth-century social, professional, and gender interactions and weaves a rich narrative replete with vignettes of love, travel, and popular superstitions important to our historical, ethnographic, and religious understanding of the era. This edition brings the entirety of this personal and idiosyncratic memoir to English for the first time.
The Life and Travels
Title | The Life and Travels PDF eBook |
Author | Mungo Park |
Publisher | |
Pages | 646 |
Release | 1842 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
The World Is a Book, Indeed
Title | The World Is a Book, Indeed PDF eBook |
Author | Peter LaSalle |
Publisher | LSU Press |
Pages | 191 |
Release | 2020-10-07 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 0807174254 |
The World Is a Book, Indeed chronicles in eleven rich personal essays the ongoing quest of award-winning writer Peter LaSalle to embark on offbeat, often startlingly revelatory literary travel. LaSalle spends a summer roaming the lesser-known quarters of Paris, haunted by the writing of the French surrealists. In Hanoi, he meets for beers with the editors—two military men—of the Army Literature and Arts Magazine while investigating Vietnam’s acknowledged great modern novel, Bao Ninh’s The Sorrow of War. Other pieces find LaSalle on a strange nighttime drive through the streets of sprawling São Paulo in search of landmarks associated with Brazilian modernist poetry, bouncing around Africa to interview writers there when very young, exploring Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges's memorable stay in Texas, and traveling to Istanbul, Lisbon, Tunis, and elsewhere, as he considers major writers amid the settings that produced their works. Deeply felt and replete with insight into literature and life itself, even capable of evoking valid mind leaps in its innovative approaches, this is a collection for readers who love books and want to learn more about the places they originated, presented by a well-traveled guide with an intimate voice and a gift for the essay form.
Early Travels in the Tennessee Country, 1540-1800
Title | Early Travels in the Tennessee Country, 1540-1800 PDF eBook |
Author | Samuel Cole Williams |
Publisher | |
Pages | 586 |
Release | 1928 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |