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"In a dark and crooked lane in an unnamed city where it never ceases to snow, a small white box falls from a coat pocket. It is made of paper strips woven tightly together; there is no apparent way to open it without destroying it. What compels a passing witness, a self-described anthrophobe not inclined to engage with other people, to pick up the box and chase after the stranger who dropped it?"-- Provided by publisher.

• Chronologie
• Voyages de Jean-Baptiste Tavernier
• Avant-propos
• Acte I Les semelles de Mercure (1605-1632)
• Scène 1. L'homme à peau de mouton
• Scène 2. L'aventurier
• Scène 3. La carte et le territoire
• Scène 4. Constantinople
• Scène 5. "Ispahan est la moitié du monde"
• Scène 6. Le désert
• Acte II Douce France (1633-1638)
• Scène 1. "La mer n'a pas d'amis"
• Scène 2. L'art de la guerre
• Scène 3. Comment Tavernier fut poursuivi par un navire pirate, puis contraint de s'arrêter à Malte, où une tempête changerait le cours de sa vie
• Scène 4. Un jour en France
• Scène 5. L'avare
• Acte III À la conquête des Indes (1638-1645)
• Scène 1. En route
• Scène 2. Constantinople en émoi
• Scène 3. Une étonnante rencontre
• Scène 4. La cannelle au son du canon
• Scène 5. L'été indien
• Scène 6. L'importance d'être Constant
• Scène 7. Un naufrage
• Scène 8. Le réseau clandestin
• Acte IV Des diamants à croquer (1647-1651)
• Scène 1. L'ambassadeur de Venise
• Scène 2. Le dîner des aveugles
• Scène 3. À la mine
• Scène 4. Le grand inquisiteur
• Scène 5. L'aube de la mondialisation
• Scène 6. À l'Est, rien de nouveau
• Scène 7. Veillée funèbre
• Scène 8. Le cap
• Scène 9. L'île des esclaves
• Acte V Le marchand des Indes (1651-1662)
• Scène 1. "Jan Tavernier" sous surveillance
• Scène 2. Touché, coulé
• Scène 3. On ne se méfie jamais assez des nourrissons
• Scène 4. L'argent
• Scène 5. Cachez ces diamants que je ne saurais voir
• Acte VI Les noces barbares (1662-1668)
• Scène 1. Charivari
• Scène 2. Le successeur
• Scène 3. Amadouer le shah
• Scène 4. La France dans la danse
• Scène 5. Les lettres anglaises
• Scène 6. Qui veut tuer Tavernier ?
• Scène 7. La Compagnie des Indes
• Scène 8. Le trône du paon
• Scène 9. Le saint des guenilles
• Scène 10. Sur la route
• Acte VII Un satrape occidental (1669-1677)
• Scène 1. Le plus grand roi du monde
• Scène 2. Le baron d'Aubonne
• Scène 3. Le diamant bleu
• Scène 4. Double meurtre aux Provinces-Unies
• Scène 5. L'embuscade
• Scène 6. Mémoires de deux fous
• Scène 7. L'étranger
• Scène 8. La célébrité
• Acte VIII Le protestant errant (1678-1689)
• Scène 1. L'attaque
• Scène 2. L'union du vice et de l'infortune
• Scène 3. Pour la gloire de Dieu et le salut du monde
• Scène 4. Le ravissement de Schyck Ally Beg
• Scène 5. Le camouflet
• Scène 6. Les mouches de Sa Majesté
• Scène 7. La fuite
• Scène 8. Le dernier voyage.

"Les connaisseurs associent Jean-Baptiste Tavernier (1605-1689) à un diamant bleu, le plus beau du monde, dit-on, connu pour sa légende maudite. Mais pour les autres, le nom, jadis célèbre par toute l'Europe, a sombré dans l'oubli. À tort À dix-huit ans, cet apprenti libraire sans appui ni fortune prend son balluchon pour courir le monde. Tour à tour voyageur, page, soldat, diplomate, interprète, peut-être même espion, il combat les armées catholiques et protestantes, sert les grands, participe aux intrigues dans des royaumes dévastés par la guerre de Trente Ans. Bientôt, l'Europe ne suffit plus. Après l'Empire ottoman, il s'attaque à la Perse, aux terres du Grand Moghol, aux sultanats des Indes, visite Ceylan et pousse jusqu'à Java. Trafiquant de tout à l'échelle du monde, il infiltre les compagnies commerciales en plein essor, se livre à la contrebande et collecte les plus somptueux joyaux de la Création. Les rois le reçoivent, les savants l'écoutent, les curieux le lisent, Louis XIV l'anoblit. Mais à trop étaler son succès, Tavernier, devenu le respectable baron d'Aubonne, provoque l'envie. Ses ennemis, parfois fort puissants, ses amis, non moins dangereux, les aventuriers s'intéressent de près à ses trésors trop éclatants. Jusqu'à provoquer sa chute ? À partir d'archives inédites, Pierre Ménard restitue dans un style enlevé cette épopée méconnue. Dans un monde en plein bouleversement où Londres, Amsterdam, Smyrne et Surate se disputent en temps de paix et trafiquent en temps de guerre, le lecteur arpente un gigantesque jeu de piste mêlant argent, épices, armes, pouvoir et religion. Au-delà des aventures de Tavernier, s'esquisse ainsi une plongée dans les prémices de la mondialisation."--Page 4 of cover.

"Union soldier John Chenneville suffered a traumatic head wound in battle. His recovery took the better part of a year as he struggled to regain his senses and mobility. By the time he returned home, the Civil War was over, but tragedy awaited. John's beloved sister and her family had been brutally murdered. Their killer goes by many names. He fought for the North in the late unpleasantness, and wore a badge in the name of the law. But the man John knows as A. J. Dodd is little more than a rabid animal, slaughtering without reason or remorse, needing to be put down. Traveling through the unforgiving landscape of a shattered nation in the midst of Reconstruction, John braves winter storms and confronts desperate people in pursuit of his quarry. Untethered, single-minded in purpose, he will not be deterred. Not by the U.S. Marshal who threatens to arrest him for murder should he succeed. And not by Victoria Reavis, the telegraphist aiding him in his death-driven quest, yet hoping he'll choose to embrace a life with her instead. And as he trails Dodd deep into Texas, John accepts that this final reckoning between them may cost him more than all he's already lost..."-- Provided by publisher.

"What attracts Pascalet more than anything, in this country of Provence where he lives, is the river. He has never seen her before. He often dreams of it, especially when the poacher Bargabot brings home the fish he has caught there."-- Provided by publisher.

"Ischia is a portrait of an unnamed narrator and protagonist who, along with her friends, wanders through the margins of different cities, especially Buenos Aires, searching for something unknown and seemingly unfathomable. An intricate, gutsy, and raw novel, Ischia is populated with outsiders who navigate the vicissitudes of life in Argentina and the world. Ischia, the first-person female narrator, is the youngest in a family of seven brothers and relates her experiences as she waits for a ride to the Argentine international airport. Told through dizzying conditionals, Ischia merges the past, present, and future of three young characters defined by a lack of certainty or expectations. These three lives unfold between disenchantment and humor, and the narration transports the readers into a universe of memories, desires, and dreams. The novel advances lyrically through themes both solemn and lighthearted, shaping the contours of hilarious and surreal experiences"-- Provided by publisher

• Opening the Work
• Remembering the North: Hakluyt's Medieval Materials
• Imagining the Arctic
• Encounters with the North
• The Levant and Beyond: Duration, Interruption, Repetition
• West Africa and Beyond: Into the Tropics
• Belligerent Materials: Sea Fights in the Atlantic
• The Relations of Strangers: Covering the Americas
• Voyages in Search of a Northwest Passage: Identities at High Latitudes
• Famous Voyages: The Caribbean and the Pacific.

"Around 1600, the English geographer and cleric Richard Hakluyt sought to honour his nation by publishing a compilation of every document he could find relating to its voyages and trade beyond the boundaries of Europe. The resulting collection of travel narratives, royal letters, ships' logs, maps, lists, and commentaries was published as Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Spanning two thousand pages and documenting more than two hundred voyages, Principal Navigations is a window onto how the world appeared to England in 1600. Lines Drawn across the Globe unlocks Richard Hakluyt's work for modern readers. Mary Fuller traces the history of the book's compilation and gives order and meaning to its famously diverse contents. From Sierra Leone to Iceland, from Spanish narratives of New Mexico to French accounts of the Saint Lawrence and Portuguese accounts of China, Hakluyt's shaping of this many-authored book provides a conceptual map of the world's regions and of England's real and imagined relations to them: exchange, alliance, aggression, extraction, translation, imitation--always depending on the needs of the moment. At the height of the British imperial project, Principal Navigations came to be seen and valued as a founding document of English national identity. It remains a crucial piece of evidence on the history of empire, the nation, and the world. Yet after a century and a half of modern scholarship, Hakluyt's book needs to be disentangled from the perspectives of the nineteenth century and read anew. Lines Drawn across the Globe works across the scales of Hakluyt's collection to deliver a dazzling account of an editorial project that was seminal to England's encounter with the world--and the nation's idea of itself."-- Provided by publisher.

Ocean Bound Women is an intriguing first-hand narrative of circumnavigating the globe in the 1880s. Based on family documents stored in a seaman's chest, this book provides a scholarly account of the history of the Swedish sailing-ship Atlantic (1876-1911) and her crew.Part of the book is based upon a diary written by a Scandinavian woman, which stands as the uniting text for the years 1885-1887, connecting the reader to all events in the chronicle. Other sources consist of manuscripts, documents and accounts collected from family descendants along with oral traditions and personal memories-all hitherto unpublished.This is a touching life story of two motherless sisters who took on a ship in their teens: a book about life on the oceans and meeting with people of many different nations.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

"From the award-winning, internationally bestselling author, a romp of a novel, at once intimate and panoramic, about the adventures and misadventures of a 19th-century zelig. One man, many lives ... Cashel Greville Ross experiences more of everything than most, from the rapturous to the devastating, from surprising good luck to unexpected loss. Born in 1799, Cashel seeks his fortune across the turbulence of multiple continents, from County Cork to London, from Waterloo to Zanzibar, embedded with the East Indian Army in Sri Lanka, sunning himself alongside the Romantic poets in Pisa. He travels the world as a soldier, a farmer, a felon, a writer, even a father. And he experiences all the vicissitudes of existence, including a once-in-a-lifetime love that will haunt the rest of his days. In the end, his great accomplishment is to discover who he truly is-which is the romance of life itself, and the beating heart of The Romantic"-- Provided by publisher.

• Note sur les lieux géographiques cités
• Un espace construit et "armé"
• L'espace contrôlé
• Identifications
• Voyager et être identifié
• Multiples passeports
• Passes, permis, livrets : d'autres documents pour voyager
• Réglementations
• Résistances et tensions
• Attester de son identité
• "Étreindre" sa population
• Unifier et quadriller l'espace
• Construire des routes carrossables
• La percée du chemin de fer
• Les routes de navigation maritime
• La Méditerranée : un "espace informatif et relationnel"
• Un réseau diplomatique qui se construit
• Mobiliser les ressources du réseau diplomatique
• L'information déformée et désorganisée
• L'espace pratiqué
• S'informer avant tout
• Préparer son départ
• S'informer pour faire affaire
• Mobilités et espaces
• Partir pour étudier
• Partir pour s'installer ailleurs
• L'enseignement, une vocation
• Coloniser de nouvelles terres
• Faire affaire en Méditerranée
• Mobilités d'artisans et d'ouvriers
• Mobilités liées aux échanges commerciaux
• Partir pour fuir et s'engager
• Rapatriements
• L'espace des possibles
• Partir sans laisser de traces
• "À l'insu de tous"
• Pourquoi partir ainsi ?
• Oublier ses responsabilités
• Mener une vie de femme libre
• Vies d'artistes
• Les espaces de l'aventure et de l'errance
• Se fondre dans la population locale
• Identités inventées
• Dissimulations
• Doutes
• Jeux d'identité
• Juridictions multiples
• Protégés et naturalisés dans l'Empire ottoman
• Être protégé
• Opter pour la nationalité d'un pays européen
• Partir en Europe
• L'attachement à son "pays natal"
• Changements de frontières, changements de statuts.

"Dans une analyse au plus proche des parcours d'hommes et femmes ordinaires, cet ouvrage propose d'écrire une histoire "au ras de la mer" des mobilités dans la Méditerranée du long XIXe siècle. Construit par les voies de transport, les réseaux d'information diplomatique et les outils mis en place pour identifier les individus et leurs mobilités, l'espace méditerranéen est surtout pratiqué par les choix divers de celles et ceux qui y résident ou le parcourent seulement. Il est également recomposé par les errances, les rêves d'autres, qui décident de partir sans laisser de traces, qui cherchent à s'inventer une nouvelle vie et une identité autre, qui négocient avec leurs appartenances."--Page 4 of cover.

"M̌tis millennial Lucky St. James is barely hanging on when she learns she'll be evicted from the tiny Toronto apartment she shares with her cantankerous but loving grandmother Stella. But then one night, something strange and irresistible calls out to Lucky. She burrows through a wall to find a tarnished silver spoon, humming with otherworldly energy, etched with a crooked-nosed witch and the word SALEM. Lucky is familiar with the magic of her indigenous ancestors, but she has no idea that the spoon connects her to a teeming network of witches across North America who have anxiously awaited her discovery. Enter VenCo, a front company fueled by vast resources of dark money (its name is an anagram of "coven.") VenCo's witches hide in plain sight wherever women gather: Tupperware parties, Mommy & Me classes, suburban book clubs. Since colonial times, they have awaited the moment the seven spoons will come together and ignite a new era, returning women to their rightful power. But as reckoning approaches, a very powerful adversary is stalking their every move. He's Jay Christos, a roguish and deadly witch-hunter as old as witchcraft itself. To find the last spoon, Lucky and Stella embark on a rollicking and dangerous road trip to the darkly magical city of New Orleans, where the final showdown will determine whether VenCo will usher in a new beginning...or remain underground forever." -- Amazon.com

Filled with the magic and darkened whispers of a people on the cusp of major cultural change, this tale follows a Norse trader on his travels through Central Asia, where he barters for horses and returns with much, much more

The Pandavas call on old friends, make new allies, and face fearsome trials as they embark on a mission to stop the Sleeper from accessing the nectar of immortality, but ultimately Aru must decide who deserves immortality--the devas or the asuras--and an unexpected answer comes from an unexpected place

Garreth Hoyle is a true crime writer whose destructive love affair with hallucinogenic drugs has sent him searching for ghosts in the unforgiving mallee desert of Western Australia. Heading north through Kalgoorlie, he attempts to score off old friends from his shearing days on Banjawarn Station. His journey takes an unexpected detour when he discovers an abandoned ten-year-old girl and decides to return her to her estranged father in Leonora, instead of alerting authorities. Together they begin the road trip from hell through the scorched heart of the state's northern goldfields. Love, friendship and hope are often found in the strangest places, but forgiveness is never simple, and the past lies buried just beneath the blood red topsoil. The only question is whether Hoyle should uncover it, or run as fast as his legs can take him

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אדם יוצא לחופשי. הוא מתרחק ממולדתו ומוצא את מקומו. זוהי אירופה במאה העשרים ואחת. שבעים ושבע שנים אחרי שנחרב הבית של הוריו באירופה של המאה שעברה, הוא גולה ושב אל קצה מערב. בעזרת בנאים מקומיים הוא משפץ בית ישן בכפר. הפורטוגלים מזכירים לו את הוריו. עכשיו הוא יהודי נודד. הוא משוטט בבתים נטושים, בארמונות ריקים, במרתפים אפלים. הוא אוכל פירות שגדלים פרא. יחד עם אהובתו הוא מוצא מבנה אבן ומרגיש שזה הבית שחיכה לו. יום אחר יום הוא מתרגל לביתו החדש, מתאים אותו למידותיו. מקלף קירות, חושף אבן עתיקה, מזיז חפצים, מוסיף תנור, שטיח. כיסא ליד התנור. עיניהם של השכנים ממלאות אותו באהבה. הבית מגן על החולם. יגאל סרנה ממשיך את פרויקט התיעוד של חייו, אליו התחייב עוד בספריו הקודמים: "שיטפון", "יד ענוגה", "פשוטעור" ו"השנה האחרונה", וכותב בכנות ובבהירות, בעברית שקופה כבדולח, על התרחשויות בנפש ומחוצה לה. זהו תיאור מסע, זהו ממואר, זהו ספר מלא סקרנות ואהבת חיים, עכשוויים וקודמים. זה ספר פורטוגל של ישראלי גולה.

• La Version K : témoins conservés, témoins perdus
• Description des témoins
• Datation et diffusion de la Version K. Marco Polo en Catalogne-Aragon
• Le rapport entre les témoins
• Préambule
• Trois témoins indépendants
• L'articulation interne de la Version K
• L'archétype
• Le résumé
• Préambule
• Contenu de la Version K
• La distribution de la matière
• Les techniques du résumé
• Conclusions
• Une version catalane plus complète
• Le recours à la cartographie
• L'Atlas catalan de 1375 et la Version K
• Les mappemondes de Modène et de Gênes
• Traces d'une version catalane antérieure à Kx
• Conclusions
• La traduction
• Préambule
• Le texte source
• La qualité de la traduction
• K dans la tradition du Devisement dou monde
• Préambule
• K dans la tradition du Devisement don monde
• L'apport de K
• Critères généraux d'édition
• Mise en page et apparat
• La division en paragraphes
• ms. Florence, Biblioteca Riccardiana, Ricc. 2048
• La langue de KC
• Phonétique et graphie
• Vocalisme
• Consonantisme
• D'autres remarques
• Morphosyntaxe
• Morphologie nominale
• Morphologie verbale
• Syntaxe
• Lexique
• Conclusions
• Critères d'édition
• Texte
• KF
• ms. Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Oct. Lat. 2207
• La langue de KF
• Phonétique et graphie
• Vocalisme
• Consonantisme
• D'autres remarques
• Morphosyntaxe
• Morphologie nominale
• Morphologie verbale
• Syntaxe
• Lexique
• Conclusions
• Critères d'édition
• Texte
• KA
• ms. Madrid, Real Biblioteca de l'Escorial, Z. I. 2
• La langue de KA
• Phonétique et graphie
• Vocalisme
• Consonantisme
• D'autres remarques
• Morphosyntaxe
• Morphologie nominale
• Morphologie verbale
• Lexique
• Conclusions
• Critères d'édition
• Texte
• Traduction critique
• Notes à la traduction critique
• Le texte de base
• Kc : témoin direct, complet, correct et fiable
• Kf : corrections de fautes, gloses
• et couples synonymiques
• Ka : coupures et restructuration syntaxique
• Conclusions
• La traduction
• Les raisons de l'altérité
• Limites et compromis
• Cas particuliers
• L'apparat
• La version K
• Traduction critique
• Tableaux synoptiques
• Tableau synoptique 1.
• Chapitres F, Kc, Kf Ka
• Tableau synoptique 2.
• Chapitres et paragraphes F, Kc, Kf Ka
• Tableau synoptique 3.
• Chapitres K, F, Fr, Z(R).

"Première version du Devisement du monde à pénétrer dans l'espace ibérique, la Version K est une rédaction abrégée conservée dans trois manuscrits de langue différente. Cet ouvrage en offre une étude approfondie, qui reconstruit son histoire textuelle par l'analyse d'une dense stratigraphie de fautes de traduction évoquant, à échelle réduite, les dynamiques majeures de la tradition du texte de Marco Polo. Issus d'un archétype catalan, les trois témoins - catalan, français et aragonais - sont pour la première fois réunis dans un seul volume, d'abord dans des éditions particulières et ensuite dans une traduction critique unitaire visant, par l'intermédiaire du français, à restituer un reflet lisible de l'archétype perdu."--Page 4 of cover.

"Moving through the world in a body that looks different than most, Jones learned on to factor "pain calculations" into every plan, every situation. She was born with a rare congenital condition called sacral agenesis, which affects both the stature and gait, and so her pain is physical. But there is also the pain of being judged and pitied for her appearance, of being dismissed as "less than." the ways she has been seen--or not seen--has informed her lens on the world for her entire life... But after unexpectedly becoming a mother (in violation of unspoken social taboos about the disabled body), she feels something in her shift, and Jones sets off on a journey across the globe, reclaiming the spaces she'd been denied and had denied herself."-- Dust jacket flap

• PART 1 Chapter 1-3 Blue Nile - Ethiopia
• Chapter 4 Magdala and Dahlak Quests - S.Ethiopia
• Chapter 5 Wildlife Quests - S. Ethiopia
• Chapter 6 Desert Exploration - Libyan Sahara
• Chapter 7 Kalahari Quest
• Chapter 8 The Mighty Congo
• Chapter 9 Gorilla Hunt and Adventures in Zimbabwe
• PART 2
• Chapter 10 The Darien Gap
• Chapter 11 The Lost Scots Colony (Panama)
• Chapter 12 Panama Expeditions
• Chapter 13 Atlantis? And the path between the seas Chapter 14-15 The Kota Mama Voyages Chapter 16-18 The Wai-Wai and the Grand Piano
• Chapter 19 Colombian Ventures
• Chapter 20 With Amazon People
• Chapter 21 Drake, Raleigh and HMS Wager
• PART 3
• Chapter 22 Mammoths and Tigers
• Chapter 23 To the Abode of God (Tibet)
• Chapter 24 Far NE India
• Chapter 25 In Ghengis Khan's Footprints
• Chapter 26 Papua New Guinea
• Chapter 27 Burma
• Chapter 28 EPILOGUE.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

'Without doubt JBS, as many know him, is one of the world's most eminent explorers' Sir Ranulph Fiennes, Bt. OBE For over 60 years John Blashford-Snell has been exploring some of the planet's most remote, inaccessible and dangerous places; his name is known globally for his daring adventures and intrepid journeys of discovery. Now, well into his eighties (and still planning future trips), he has gathered together in a single volume a collection of tales from Africa, Asia and the Americas, a mix of mostly new writing combined with some old favourites, extracts from some of the 100 or so expeditions he has led in pursuit of archaeological, anthropological, botanical, biological and zoological objectives. From the Blue Nile to the Darien Gap, the Kalahari to Colombia, Blashford-Snell is one of the most experienced explorers in the world. He has met with royalty and presidents, worked with Clint Eastwood and Sean Connery, been on a quest to find a giant pachyderm in the forests of West Nepal, led investigations into Atlantis and even delivered a grand piano to a remote tribe in Guyana! Mountains, rivers, forests and jungle have been his domain and he has seen some of the most extraordinary places known to man. If meetings with dangerous wildlife, stories of navigating rapid-filled rivers and tales of encounters with bandits are your thing, this new collection from a man who has become an institution in his own right is an essential read. John Blashford-Snell is the founder of Operation Raleigh and of the Scientific Exploration Society. He has been awarded an MBE, OBE and CBE for exploration and has received multiple awards from countries and organisations around the world. For 20 years he chaired the British Chapter of the Explorers Club of America. Films of his expeditions have been broadcast worldwide.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

Follows teenager Alex and her horror buff friends as their dream trip to a remote Romanian castle turns into a nightmare when they begin to be killed one by one
With only a few months left before they go their separate ways for college, Alex Rush and her friends are determined to make this film together the best one yet: an epic short film that reimagines the story of Dracula, filmed on location at a remote castle in Romania. When they get there menacing weapons line the walls, the twisted halls are easy to get lost in, and the group is unexpectedly off the grid. Just as they get the film's first shot rolling, one of Alex's friends disappears, and she saw a cloaked stranger lurking in the shadows. As more members of the group begin to meet an untimely demise, Alex is desperate to stop the bloodshed, even if it means facing a monster she never thought would be let loose. -- adapted from jacket

"Wandering cleric Chih of the Singing Hills travels to the riverlands to record tales of the notorious near-immortal martial artists who haunt the region. On the road to Betony Docks, they fall in with a pair of young women far from home, and an older couple who are more than they seem. As Chih runs headlong into an ancient feud, they find themselves far more entangled in the history of the riverlands than they ever expected to be. Accompanied by Almost Brilliant, a talking bird with an indelible memory, Chih confronts old legends and new dangers alike as they learn that every story-beautiful, ugly, kind, or cruel-bears more than one face. The novellas of The Singing Hills Cycle are linked by the cleric Chih, but may be read in any order, with each story serving as an entry point"-- Provided by publisher

"Adventurous readers of Kelly Barnhill and Cat Valente's Fairyland books will be sure to soar among the dark marvels that can be found in Into the Windwracked Wilds, by Seanan McGuire's latest open pseudonym, A. Deborah Baker. When the improbable road leaves Avery and Zib in the land of Air and at the mercy of the Queen of Swords, escape without becoming monsters may be impossible. But with the aid of the Queen's son, the unpredictable Jack Daw, they may emerge with enough of their humanity to someday make it home. Their journey is not yet over; the dangers are no less great"-- Provided by publisher.

"Bev and Mouse are learning how to remember. On a canal boat, a floating world, they're surrounded by past lives, memories, and unfinished business. It's a journey not of discovery or recovery, but of temporariness, of various, unexpected doings, a journey inwards, a journey of the imperfect, the impermanent, the incomplete. Along the way, floating between what they've left and what they hope to find, they find new meanings in the small, often overlooked grains of life. A story about the acceptance of transience, the importance of water, and the rare good fortune of finding the right person at the right time"-- Provided by publisher

"For Arthur Less, life is going surprisingly well-- until the death of an old lover and a sudden financial crisis have him running away from his problems, yet again. He accepts a series of literary gigs that sends him across the United States, traveling with his black pug, Dolly, and a rusty camper van nicknamed Rosina. He seeks to escape himself, but must eventually face his personal demons"-- Provided by publisher

The awkward and lovable hero of Andrew Sean Greer's bestselling and prize-winning novel Less returns in this unforgettable road trip across America. 'Wildly, painfully funny' David Sedaris 'Unforgettable' Elizabeth Day 'The joyfulness of this book is a balm' Madeline Miller 'What a joy' Katie Kitamura For Arthur Less, life is going surprisingly well: he is a moderately accomplished novelist in a steady relationship with his partner, Freddy Pelu. But nothing lasts: the death of an old lover and a sudden financial crisis has Less running away from his problems yet again as he accepts a series of literary gigs that send him on a zigzagging adventure across the US. Less roves across the 'Mild Mild West', through the South and to his mid-Atlantic birthplace, with an ever-changing posse of writerly characters and his trusty duo - a human-like black pug, Dolly, and a rusty camper van nicknamed Rosina. He grows a handlebar mustache, ditches his signature gray suit, and disguises himself in the bolero-and-cowboy-hat costume of a true 'Unitedstatesian'... with varying levels of success, as he continues to be mistaken for either a Dutchman, the wrong writer, or, worst of all, a 'bad gay'. We cannot, however, escape ourselves - even across deserts, bayous, and coastlines. From his estranged father and strained relationship with Freddy, to the reckoning he experiences in confronting his privilege, Arthur Less must eventually face his personal demons. With all of the irrepressible wit and musicality that made Less a bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning, must-read breakout book, Less Is Lost is a profound and joyous novel about the enigma of life, the riddle of love, and the stories we tell along the way.
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• The line
• The shortest night
• Wandering houses
• The secret place
• West by water
• The tracks around Bulbjerg
• The timeless
• Amsterdam, Hvide Sande
• Wadden Sea Suite
• "In my distress'
• Winter solstice
• Magnets
• Borderland
• Quiet rain in Skagen

"Me, my notebook and my love of the wild and desolate. I wanted to do the opposite of what was expected of me. It's a recurring pattern in my life. An instinct. Dorthe Nors's first nonfiction book chronicles a year she spent traveling along the North Sea coast--from Skagen at the northern tip of Denmark to the Frisian Islands in the Wadden Sea. In fourteen expansive essays, Nors traces the history, geography, and culture of the places she visits while reflecting on her childhood and her family and ancestors' ties to the region as well as her decision to move there from Copenhagen. She writes about the ritual burning of witch effigies on Midsummer's Eve; the environmental activist who opposed a chemical factory in the 1950s; the quiet fishing villages that surfers transformed into an area known as Cold Hawaii starting in the 1970s. She connects wind turbines to Viking ships, thirteenth-century church frescoes to her mother's unrealized dreams. She describes strong waves, sand drifts, storm surges, shipwrecks, and other instances of nature asserting its power over human attempts to ignore or control it. Through a deep, personal engagement with this singular landscape, A Line in the World accesses the universal. Its ultimate subjects are civilization, belonging, and change: changes within one person's life, changes occurring in various communities today, and change as the only constant of life on Earth."-- Provided by publisher

"Rough Guides' bestselling inspirational coffee-table book draws upon the insider knowledge of in-the-know writers to share the 1000 ultimate travel experiences across the globe. Make the Most of your Time on Earth is a handpicked curation of personal recommendations, from retracing Odysseus's footsteps on Mljet and hippo-spotting in the Bijagos Islands, to wild camping on the Arabian Peninsula and defying gravity at China's Hanging Temple. It might even be something as simple as walking among Hockney's landscapes on the Yorkshire Wolds Way, or eating among locals in the perfect setting: the definitive gelato in Rome or a mopane worm in Zimbabwe. Every one is special, and authentic, and - above all - inspiring. This fifth edition has been fully revised, and features a collection of high-quality colour photographs spanning beautiful national parks, captivating wildlife and dramatic landscapes. Entries are divided into regions, so you can dip in and out of the different parts of the world you're interested in, whether that's a remote island in the Philippines, a stunning Swedish archipelago or an off-the-beaten-track pocket of Saskatchewan. Lively and engaging text captures the essence of the experience, while essential "Need to Know" sections at the end of each chapter make it easy for you to plan your trip."--Ama

These essays travel near and far to explore landscapes of personal and cultural significance and the communities that inhabit them. At a time when we reexamine how policies of yesteryear shape equities in the present, award-winning writer Stephen Benz challenges readers to delve beyond whitewashed versions of history and reassess our treatment of native people and the environment with fresh, critical eyes. From westward expansion and Manifest Destiny to the Cold War and the Global War on Terror, Reading the Signs prods myths and provides missing context around events touched by the American impulse to grab land and harvest resources--both within and beyond our shores. These essays challenge us to search for missing layers of truth and decide which versions of history should prevail. With a wandering spirit and an inquisitive mind, Benz ventures around town, across country, and overseas in search of forgotten, overlooked, or misunderstood stories. From rock concerts and courthouses to farm towns, battlegrounds, historical sites, and quirky museums, these "itinerant essays" revel in discovering "new wonders every mile." --from Amazon.com

• This immense river: notes on Jim Harrison's nonfiction
• The man who ate books
• DOGS IN THE MANGER: ON LOVE, SPIRIT, AND LITERATURE. Why I write
• Sitting around
• Dogs in the manger
• My leader
• Nesting in air
• First person female
• Great poems make good prayers
• Petter Mattheissen and a writer's sport
• The pleasures of the damned
• Steinbeck
• Lauren Hutton's ABCs
• Introduction to Residence on Earth by Pablo Neruda
• Why I write, or not
• Thoreau
• Dream as a metaphor of survival
• Blue panties
• Wisdom
• DOG YEARS: ON HUNTING. Dog years
• A new map of the sacred territory
• Delta hunt
• The misadventure journals
• Hunting with a friend: on good friends and foul weather
• Marching to a different drummer
• Meditations on hunting
• Spring coda
• MICHIGAN, MONTANA, AND OTHER SACRED PLACES. A prairie prologue in Nebraska
• Not quite leaving Michigan
• Old, Faithful, mysterious
• Safely without portfolio in Key West
• Pie in the sky
• The beginner's mind
• Learning Montana, or Turn me loose
• Life on the border
• THE BEGINNER AND OTHER JOURNALISM. The beginner meets the Eight Samurai
• A delicate creature
• Real big brown truck
• FLOATING: ON FISHING, AND ON THE WATER. On the water
• Starting over
• The Mad Marlin of Punta Carnero
• Fishing a watershed
• The beauty of the jump
• A river never sleeps
• Floating
• Early fishing

"New York Times-bestselling author Jim Harrison (1937-2016) was a writer with a poet's economy of style and a trencherman's appetites. Best known for fiction and poetry, Harrison was also a prolific nonfiction writer, with columns running in Sports Illustrated and Esquire, and work in Outside, Field & Stream, and others. Written with Harrison's trademark ribald humor, compassion, and full-throated zest for life, The Search for the Genuine is a collection of pieces-from the near-classic to the never-published-that muse on everything from grouse hunting and ocean fishing to Zen Buddhism and matters of the spirit, as well as reporting on Yellowstone and shark-tagging in the open Atlantic, commentary on writers from Bukowski to Neruda to Peter Matthiessen, and a heartbreaking essay on life-and, for those attempting to cross in the ever-more-dangerous gaps, death-on the US-Mexico border. Written with Harrison's trademark humor, compassion, and full-throated zest for life, this chronicle of a modern bon vivant is a feast for fans who may think they know Harrison's nonfiction, from a true "American original" (San Francisco Chronicle)"-- Provided by publisher

As Hava sails across the sea toward Monsea with the world's only copies of the formulas for the zilfium weapon, she makes an unexpected discovery about one of the ship's crew, but before she can unravel the mystery, storms drive their ship off course, wrecking them in the ice far north of the Royal Continent
Bitterblue and her entourage begin the journey back to Monsea with the only copies of the formulas for the zilphium weapon. Bitterblue must decide what she will do with her world-shaping power. Not even halfway home, storms drive their ship off course and then wreck them in the ice far north of the Royal Continent. The survivors must make a harrowing trek across the ice in order to make it back to Monsea. Hava, Bitterblue's personal spy and secret half-sister, has made a discovery about one of the ship's crew, and now she has a decision to make about who she wants to be in the new world Bitterblue will build. -- adapted from jacket

A bold and unsettling parable about guilt, atonement and redemption from the winner of the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award 'It is seldom that one can say a book is perfect, but this is as close as I've seen in a very long time' SUNDAY INDEPENDENT 'A bold and unsettling parable about guilt, atonement and redemption' IRISH TIMES Michael has travelled a long way from his boyhood under the endless skies of the Midwest. His retirement is peaceful, if solitary. But one day there is a visitation: a mysterious car on the seafront, and a package delivered. From its contents, Michael understands that he has been commissioned to undertake a final journey. As Michael makes his way deep into a distant desert - a strange and liminal landscape that lies between hell and redemption - he undertakes another journey, into long-suppressed memories: of Vietnam and the dying days of war, and to face a final accounting for what was done. Taut, atmospheric and moving, Spies in Canaan is a powerful elegy to the pain of love, the guilt of old age, and the grace of atonement. 'Another compact marvel ... This is a meditative novel that, while investing heavily in a patient build-up of atmosphere, never forgets the need to put a foot on the gas' DAILY MAIL 'David Park's novels are always elegantly written' INDEPENDENT 'Unflinching, courageous, wise, alert to the thrill and sorrow of violence ... Adds to David Park's status as a superb novelist' FRANK MCGUINNESS.
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• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Foreword
• Translator's Note: At Exile's Terminus
• Words Are My Preferred Weapons
• The Path of Ephemeral Lives
• Memory of a Woman
• What Needs to Be Said
• Might Take the Dreams as Well
• Those Who Are Afraid of Naked Women
• The Ladder and the Spark

"There Where It's So Bright in Me pries at the complexities of difference-race, religion, gender, nationality-that shape twenty-first-century geopolitical conditions. With work spanning more than thirty-five years and as one of the most prominent figures in contemporary African literature, Tanella Boni is uniquely positioned to test the distinctions of self, other, and belonging. Two twenty-first-century civil wars have made her West African home country of Côte d'Ivoire unstable. Abroad in the United States, Boni confronts the racialized violence that accompanies the idea of Blackness; in France, a second home since her university days, Boni encounters the nationalism roiling much of Europe as the consequences of (neo)colonialism shift the continent's ethnic and racial profile. What would it mean for the borders that segregate-for these social, political, cultural, personal, and historicizing forces that enshroud us-to lose their dominion? In a body under constant threat, how does the human spirit stay afloat? Boni's poetry is characterized by a hard-earned buoyancy, given her subject matter. Her empathy, insight, and plainspoken address are crucial contributions to the many difficult contemporary conversations we must engage"-- Provided by publisher.

Seventeen-year-old Veronica never thought she'd want to fail a test-that is until she finds herself staring at a piece of plastic with a blue plus. With a promising college-bound future now disappearing before her eyes, Veronica considers a decision she never imagined she'd have to make. This never-taken-lightly decision leads her on a 1000-mile hilarious road trip to New Mexico over three days with her ex-best friend, Bailey where they discover sometimes the most important choice you'll make in life is who your friends are

• 1. Staging the Clothing of the Early Modern World
• 2. The Ottoman Empire
• 3. Italy, Europe, and Japan
• Bibliography.
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In the early modern period costume books and albums participated in the shaping of a new visual culture that displayed the diversity of the people of the known world on a variety of media including maps, atlases, screens, and scrolls. At the crossroads of early anthropology, geography, and travel literature, this textual and visual production blurred the lines between art and science. Costume books and albums were not a unique European production: in the Ottoman Empire and the Far East artists and geographers also pictured the dress of men and women of their own and faraway lands hybridizing the Renaissance western tradition. Acknowledging this circulation of knowledge and people through migration, travel, missionary and diplomatic encounters, this Element contributes to the expanding field of early modern cultural studies in a global perspective.
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• Foreword Michael S. Sweeney Preface Katrina J. Quinn Introduction Katrina J. Quinn, Lee Jolliffe and Mary M. Cronin Part I: Adventures at Home Adventure Reporting from America's Western Rails and Trails, 1860-1880 Katrina J. Quinn From Gotham to the Golden Gate: Promoting American Expansion, Exceptionalism, and Nationhood by Railroad Mary M. Cronin "Into the Dark Abyss": Gilded Age Adventure Reporting from the Mines of America Katrina J. Quinn Float Along the Frontier: Down the Missouri with Captain Paul Boyton, James Creelman, and the New York Herald Crompton Burton "An Almost Undiscovered Country": Frank Leslie's 1890 Alaska Expedition and the Tradition of Gilded Age Adventure Journalism Mary M. Cronin Teresa Howard Dean: Reporting Tragedies and Triumphs from the American West Paulette D. Kilmer Part II: Globetrotters Thomas Wallace Knox: A Celebrity Journalist's Travel and Adventure in Siberia and China William E. Huntzicker "Burning of the Clipper Ship Hornet at Sea" and Other Reports from Hawaii: Mark Twain's Adventure Reporting from the Sandwich Islands Jennifer E. Moore "The First Bold Adventure in the Cause of Humanity": Henry Morton Stanley's Adventure Journalism in Africa James E. Mueller To Better See the World: The Adventure Journalism of Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore James E. Mueller "Mr. Bennett's Expedition": The New York Herald's Arctic Adventure Crompton Burton "Alive, but wiser from our experience": Nellie Bly's Adventure Reporting from Mexico and Around the World Jack Breslin and Katrina J. Quinn Afterword Lee Jolliffe Bibliography About the Contributors Index.
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These new essays tell the stories of daring reporters, male and female, sent out by their publishers not to capture the news but to make the news-indeed to achieve star billing-and to capitalize on the Gilded Age public's craze for real-life adventures into the exotic and unknown. They examine the adventure journalism genre through the work of iconic writers such as Mark Twain and Nellie Bly, as well as lesser-known journalistic masters such as Thomas Knox and Eliza Scidmore, who took to the rivers and oceans, mineshafts and mountains, rails and trails of the late nineteenth century, shaping Americans' perceptions of the world and of themselves.
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• Pythéas et Ultima Thulé
• Des nouveautés incroyables
• L'Angleterre est bien une île
• L'Europe du Nord, la méconnue
• Boire du vin au Danemark
• Faire le tour de l'Afrique
• Le continent est-il tout entier entouré par les eaux
• Hannon le Carthaginois longe les côtes marocaines
• Le voyage autour de l'Afrique, une possibilité nouvelle
• Le Sahara, une barrière pour les Méditerranéens
• Le trône d'Adoulis
• Des fondations pour chasser l'éléphant
• Adoulis, entre Troglodytes et Éthiopiens
• La mer Rouge, charnière des mondes
• Écailles de tortue contre couvertures de lin
• Rêve d'encens
• Auguste au royaume de Saba
• Prendre le contrôle des trafics de la péninsule
• Rome prend la mesure de l'Arabie
• Naviguer avec la mousson
• Les vents du poivre et des perles
• L'Inde du Sud, Ceylan et au-delà
• Vigie en mer Rouge
• Présent sur les routes du commerce
• Les îles Farasân, poste avancé
• Rencontres en mer d'Azania
• Un homme de Palmyre à Suqutra
• Relâche entre Inde et Afrique
• Le bateau d'Honaînû
• Les Palmyréniens présents partout ?
• Au bout de l'Euphrate, le golfe Persique
• De l'or pour l'Inde
• La céramique comme révélateur
• Entre Rome et l'Inde, des relations continues
• Des marchandises mais aussi des ambassades
• Ptolémée et le delta du Gange
• Cent vingt navires par an au temps d'Auguste
• Au me siècle, le commerce indien bascule vers l'est
• La vie mouvementée de Sôphytos
• La culture grecque aux confins de l'Inde, de l'Iran et de la Chine
• Un art gréco-indien au service du bouddhisme
• Grecs et Indiens entre fables et réalités
• Mégasthène découvre un pays gigantesque
• Alexandre et les brahmanes
• Héraclès et dieux indiens
• Le Sinkiang, charnière des mondes
• Pays des Sères et Turkestan chinois
• Des hommes aux yeux bleus et à la chevelure rousse
• La Chine reste inconnue
• Les soi-disant routes de la soie
• La soie, un instrument politique
• Troquée par les Sères contre des marchandises venues de Méditerranée
• À Palmyre, tissage et teinture
• L'ambassade d'Andoun
• L'Indochine, extrémité du monde des Méditerranéens
• Ce que les Chinois connaissent d?s pays de l'Ouest
• Les deux mondes entretiennent des relations ténues
• Empires en conflit
• Au Himyar, le christianisme face au judaïsme
• Le roi d'Aksoum affiche ses prétentions sur Himyar
• Massacre au royame d'Himyar
• L'Arabie entre Rome et les Perses.

"Où sont allés les plus aventureux des Phéniciens, des Égyptiens, des Grecs, des Romains ? Certains ont-ils déjà fait le tour de l'Afrique ? Que connaissent-ils à la fin de l'Antiquité du reste de la Terre habitée ? Où sont arrivés Indiens et Chinois ? Ces questions sont essentielles pour connaître l'étendue et l'intensité des relations entre les grandes civilisations. Dès l'Antiquité, Europe, Afrique et Asie étaient en contact. Il n'a pas fallu attendre Marco Polo ou les Grandes Découvertes pour voir des hommes et des femmes se déplacer et échanger marchandises et savoirs à très longue distance. De l'Islande au Vietnam, des côtes d'Afrique aux steppes de Mongolie, poussés par le vent de mousson comme le bateau du Palmyrénien Honaînû en route pour l'Inde ou au rythme lent des caravanes contournant le bassin du Tarim, marins, marchands ou ambassadeurs parcourent et décrivent des pays lointains. Ce que les Grecs connaissent et reçoivent de l'Inde, ce que les Chinois savent de Rome, ce que l'Inde emprunte à l'art et à la pensée grecs, sans négliger les expéditions dirigées vers l'Europe du Nord ou l'Afrique subsaharienne, un monde méconnu se découvre, où l'on trouve aussi bien des Indiens égarés sur les côtes danoises que des Grecs emportés par les vents à Zanzibar ou à Ceylan, tandis qu'un ambassadeur chinois hésite à se lancer sur le golfe Persique. À partir de textes, vestiges archéologiques et inscriptions, Maurice Sartre raconte les premières rencontres de trois continents, révélant à nos yeux la naissance d'un monde unique."--Page 4 of cover.

"Warum gibt es mich, und ist es ein Glück oder ein Unglück, dass es mich gibt? Das fragt sich der ehemalige Zeitungsredakteur auf eine unfassbare Tat hin, inzwischen zurückgezogen an einem fernen afrikanischen Grenzort, um mit einem Bericht Rechenschaft abzulegen. Er erzählt von dem, was ihm in den Wochen zuvor, erst in Kalabrien, dann in Rom, später in Mailand und zuletzt im Schwarzwald zugestossen ist, nachdem er auf einer Erinnerungsreise - um mit dem Verlust einer Liebe abzuschliessen - einer über das Meer geflüchteten Afrikanerin begegnet, die, anders als er, noch das Glück sucht und für ihn zur übermächtigen Gegenwart wird. Für ihn ist plötzlich alles in einer Schwebe, und doch weiss er: "Was man am meisten liebt, liebt man schon in dem Gefühl einer Wehmut, des unabwendbaren Endes - der Tag wird kommen, an dem wir uns aus den Augen verlieren, an dem alles gewesen sein wird, von dem an nur noch die Erinnerung zählt." Bericht zur Lage des Glücks, der neue grosse Roman von Bodo Kirchhoff, erzählt von einem, der auszieht, das eigene Unglück abzuschütteln, aber anders als erwartet auf die Beine kommt: mit der Chance, von einer Fremden aus seiner eigenen Egosphäre geholt zu werden"--Page 2 of cover