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Features: Seeking Sunken Gold - may be regarded as a sequel to 'The Wreck of the General Grant'; A Cowboy Astray - a trip from Arizona to the Montanas up the Colorado River goes very wrong; Fox-Hunting Extraordinary - using cars to hunt Reynard in Australia; Bedroom Number 5 - a 'queer' story from 'Commerford House'; Fortune in the Air - an amusing tale from Palestine; The Cat Trick - a wireless operator from a Merchant Vessel recalls what happened after a consignment of whisky came onboard; Stowaway to the Arctic - the author was anxious to visit Baffinland and meet the Eskimos - great photos; The Golden Image - a remarkable story from India; Fire-Dancing in Greece - photos; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. Sound copy. Book
Features: The Singing Tree - a story from the Bushveld of South Africa; The Road to Romanc - Part I of the amazing round-the-world travels of Cyril Holloway; Photo of ice-fishing in Vladivostock Harbour; Timber-Laden Round Cape Horn - a windjamming tale; An Aeroplane Adventure in Waziristan - the story of a British officer who was captured by the Wazirs; A Tenderfoot in Canada, Part II - a disastrous season on a prairie farm; Trapped in the Volcano of Kilauea, in the Hawaiian Islands; The Hundredth Chance - a story from the Union-Castle cargo-steamer Ripley Castle; What Happened to Ah Fong? - an unsolved Chinese mystery; Monasteries in Mid-Air - the remarkable monasteries of Meteora, in Greece - article with excellent photos; A Mystery of the "Bad Lands" - a cowboy story from Wyoming; The Rogue - a rogue elephant in central Africa; Bakhai, the Rebel of Babban Kurmi; The Mountain of Gold - conclusion of the author's journey to Canada; Nice vintage ads, including photo of Earle E. Liederman, the Muscle Builder. Multiple pieces of red, clear and brown tape securing covers. Somewhat above-average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book
Given a Canada Council Grant in 1967 Irving Layton went to Greece, Israel, India and Nepal. The result is"One way of regarding this book is to think of my 1968 journal as exploding into obersvations, aphorisms and Poems...I decided to publish excerpts and selections.. I thought that, flanked by poems, mostly written this year, that they might add up to a revealing picture of one man's experience of 1968" It includes his Greek poems from Lesbos. 161p, ndex Book
" An American underwater archaeologist is hired ro exo=plore the ruins of ancient Melos in search of the fabled hand of the goddesa Athene. It soon turns into a deadly fight against the furies of an untamed sea and a sinister group pf men who have conspired to scuttle the exploration" { the author Book
(Magna Grecia - Archeologia in Italia Meridionale - Sicilia - Grecia d'Occidente - Colonizzazione greca in Occidente) In 8°, legatura editoriale in piena tela verde, titolo, fregio e filetti in oro al dorso, sovraccoperta con titoli a stampa, pp. XIV,504, con IX mappe e piante a piena pagina nel testo. Prima edizione. Strappetti marginali alla sovraccoperta protettiva, per altro volume in ottimo stato di conservazione.
In-4 p., brossura, pp. 799, con numerose illustrazioni in bianco e nero e a colori nel testo. Catalogo della mostra, Venezia, Palazzo Grassi. In buono stato (good copy).
Minor shelfwear to book and DJ. Scholar's name to ffep (Jenifer Neils). ; This enjoyable and innovative book reconstructs the stages of the ancient Greek wedding ceremony using a long-neglected source of information: vase paintings from the sixth through fourth centuries B. C.; Wisconsin Studies in Classics; 11.25 x 0.5 x 8.75 Inches; 153 pages
Modern Greek history & politics and the events leading up to the Junta in 1967. 240p. maps. bibliography. index Book
""The way to Colonos", "The Return", "The exile" A contemporary reconstruction of three Greek tragedies - Oedipus at Colonos, Electra and Philoctetes - which depicts emotions which move people as irrevocably to destruction today as they did in the days of Sophocles. 156p. Neat tight copy ,owner name on ffep, small remainder mark. Book
During the classical age of Greece, Herodotus wrote the first history text. But what he created was much more than this. Informed by his own travels, his historical work digresses more than it chronicles, with tales of the lands and peoples he visited. In The Way of Herodotus , intrepid travel historian Justin Marozzi retraces the footsteps of Herodotus through the Mediterranean and Middle East, examining his 2,500-year-old observations about the cultures and places he visited, and finding echoes of his legacy reverberating to this day. It is a lively yet thought-provoking excursion into the world of Herodotus, with the man who invented history ever present, guiding the narrative with his discursive spirit.348p. illus bibliography.index
144p. illus (some col) bibliography index Book
8vo, hardcover in dj, 240pp. War of the Three Gods is a military history of the first half of seventh century, with heavy focus on the reign of the Eastern Roman Emperor Heraclius (AD 610-641). This was a pivotal time in world history as well as a dramatic one. The Eastern Roman Empire was brought to the very brink of extinction by the Sassanid Persians, before Heraclius managed to inflict a crushing defeat on the Sassanids with a desperate, final gambit. His conquests were short-lived, however, for the newly-converted adherents of Islam burst upon the region, administering the coup de grace to Sassanid power and laying siege to Constantinople itself to usher in a new era. Peter Crawford skilfully narrates the three-way struggle between the Christian Byzantine, Sassanid Persian and Islamic empires, a period peopled with fascinating characters, including Heraclius, Khusro II and the Prophet Muhammad himself. Many of the epic battles and sieges are described in as much detail as possible including Nineveh, Yarmouk, Qadisiyyah and Nihawand, Jerusalem and Constantinople. The strategies and tactics of these very different armies are discussed and analysed, while maps allow the reader to place the events and follow the varying fortunes of the contending empires. This is an exciting and important study of a conflict that reshaped the map of the world.
London, Smith, Elder & co, 1897. (mm. 205 x 135). Tela verde editoriale con titolo in oro al dorso. pp. xvi, 424, (8) di catalogo. Una carta geografica f.t. più volte ripiegata. Esemplare intonso.
"Stephen Crane's war dispatches add a new dimension to his reputation as one of America's leading writers...The present volume includes his dispatches on the Greco-Turkish War and the Spanish -American War; his articles on the Boer War; and the play he wrote about some of his experiences during the war in Cuba. It offers, as well...a number of related articles by fellow correspondents, among them Cora Crane, Richard Harding Davis, and Frank Norris. In addition to giving the most vivid available picture of what the Greco-Turkish and Spanish-American Wars were like, these pieces also offer a great deal of fascinating new information about Crane's life. 344p.Crisp,tight neat text,. Usual iibrary marks Ex-Library
Sequel to 'Goatsong'. Eurpolis of Pallene, Athenian comic dramatist, gentlemen farmer, failed husband and now citizen soldier has survived the disastrous Sicilian campaign, only to be accused of treason on his return to Athens. Hilarious fictional autobiography of Eupolis, rival of Aristophanes inAttic Comedy, and acute observer of the vagaries of Athenian politics. Book
Photographs by Lessing, commentaries by C. Kerenyi, Michael Gall & Hellmut Sichtermann. Also including selections from T.E. Shaw's translation of the Odyssey and from "Ithaka,Peloponnes und Troja" by Heinrich Schliemann. First English-language edition. 261, [14] pages. maps on end papers Original publisher's band is present but slightly damaged. now protected together with the DJ in a transparent sleeve.Exceptionally large heavy volume [ 2.3kg; 30x27x4cm.] Book
pp 215. Illustrated with a map. paperback. Fine. ISBN: 0140440852. the only full remaining account of Jason's voyage in quest of the Golden Fleece.
8vo., First Edition, with maps in the text; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. EXTREMELY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
Minor creasing to first few pages. ; This book is a focused study on the Greek tripod cauldron, the most revered religious symbol in Greek culture, and its multiple dimensions. At the core of its analysis is the visual apparatus of the early bronze tripods, which, as early as the 8th century, take the form of spear-brandishing warriors and, later in the 7th century, as handle holding youths. Traditional interpretations of these bronze images have neglected their original function on top of tripods. This study examines for the first time the iconography of these attachments in light of two considerations: first, the function of the tripod as symbol of authoritative discourse and political power in Early Greek culture and second the communicative role of images in the preliterate contexts of Early Greek sanctuaries, the specification of which informs the analysis in the last three chapters. The Visual Poetics of Power: Warriors, Youths, and Tripods in Early Greece has far-reaching implications for contemporary scholarship of early Greek culture: the performative contexts of epic poetry, the social function of early Greek works of art, and the communicative function of figurative art in preliterate contexts. ; Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches; 8.9 X 5.8 X 0.7 inches; 312 pages
First Edition, 1st Printing B&W Photographs and Illustrations 8vo. xix, 258 p., [16] p. of plates ill., maps 25 cm.
(Original UK Title Was "Lord of the Dead")" Noted poet Lord Byron recounts to a frightened young woman the harrowing events that led to his becoming a vampire of tremendous power, a true Lord of the Dead. While traveling through 19th-century Greece, he was befriended by a centuries-old Turk, who first lured him into the vampire life and then seemingly murdered the one woman Byron had ever loved, the beautiful slave Haidee. Holland's uneven first novel closely follows the actual events of Byron's life" Book
vii + 191pp., 24cm., publisher's hardcover, dustwrapper, very good condition, F105225
pp. xii, 170. Illustrated with numerous maps. Penciled ownership of George A. Jessop. 8vo. Original full orange cloth binding, map vignette on front board. Spine faded. First edition. Scarce. "A very interesting and detailed analysis of Germantic conspiracies, intrigues, politics, propaganda, alliances, schemes, and conquests all aimed at global domination and why the war must be won. With Germanic plans, false prewar pacifist diplomacy, the trick of the Armistice, Prussian militarism, how to prevent other German wars of conquest, how the United States is directly threatened by this plan, and etc." WWI 4
iii-xvi, 344p. bibliography,tables, maps. index. Book
London, William Heinemann, 1955, in-8, tela editoriale rossa con sovraccoperta illustrata a colori(Curl), pp. (6), 351, (1). Ottime condizioni, con minime mancanze marginali (ma ben reintegrate) alla sovraccoperta. Prima edizione.
