![]() He touches on the golden age of Dutch cartography with the Blaeu family. ![]() Starting from ancient clay maps and the Nazca enigma through to the more familiar names like Ptolemy and Von Humboldt, Clark covers plenty in this cartographical overview. With an introduction written by acclaimed cartographic historian Jeremy Black. There are also famous fictional maps, including the maps of the lost continent of Atlantis and Tolkien’s Middle Earth. Organised by theme, the book shows the evolution of map-making from all corners of the globe, from ancient clay maps, to cartographic breakthroughs such as Harry Beck’s map of the London underground. ![]() Included are the beautifully engraved Dutch maps of the 16th century the sinister Utopian maps of the Nazis the maps that presaged brilliant military campaigns charted the geology of a nation and the ones that divided a continent up between its European conquerors. The book includes details of how the Lewis and Clark Expedition helped map the American West, and how the British mapped India and Australia. ![]() ![]() Maps That Changed the World features some of the world's most famous maps, stretching back to a time when cartography was in its infancy and the 'edge of the world' was a barrier to exploration. An ancient Chinese proverb suggests, “They are wise parents who give their children roots and wings – and a map.” ![]()
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![]() ![]() He learns that Frome's limp arose from having been injured in a "smash-up" twenty-four years before, but further details are not forthcoming, and the narrator fails to learn much more from Frome's fellow townspeople other than that Ethan's attempt at higher education decades before was thwarted by the sudden illness of his father following an injury, forcing his return to the farm to assist his parents, never to leave again. Curious, the narrator sets out to learn about him. in spite of a lameness checking each step like the jerk of a chain". ![]() Frome is described by the narrator as "the most striking figure in Starkfield", "the ruin of a man" with a "careless powerful look. This is Ethan Frome, who is a lifelong resident and a local fixture of the community. He spots a limping, quiet man around the village, who is somehow compelling in his demeanor and carriage. The framing story concerns an unnamed male narrator spending a winter in Starkfield while in the area on business. The novel has been adapted into a film of the same name. ![]() It is set in the fictitious town of Starkfield, Massachusetts. Ethan Frome is a 1911 book by American author Edith Wharton. ![]() ![]() ![]() With the addition of Gordon’s threnodial piano coda, it’s the most stirring piece of music in the Clapton canon to date. The group arose from the ashes of Delaney & Bonnie & Friends, when Clapton teamed with co-writer/keyboardist Bobby Whitlock, bassist Carl Radle, drummer Jim Gordon and guitarist Duane Allman, who contributes one of the most remarkable intros ever on the title track. Driven by painful yearning for his friend George Harrison’s wife, Patti, Clapton is laid bare, revealing inner workings on a fine balance of candid songwriting and standards he makes his very own. But, when push comes to shove, 1970’s Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs, recorded under the name Derek And The Dominoes at Miami’s Criteria studios with producer Tom Dowd, is the one that captures Clapton at his very best. He’s signalled every giant step forward from 1963 onwards, so reducing his catalogue down to just one essential album is near impossible. ![]() ![]() Derek And The Dominoes: Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs (opens in new tab) ![]() ![]() Upon asking how many princes had ruled them over the past few decades, he was told there had been several dozen.
![]() ![]() ![]() He lives outside New York City with his wife and children. He is also the writer-presenter of historical and art-historical documentaries for BBC Television. Choose from Same Day Delivery, Drive Up or Order Pickup. He is the prize-winning author of numerous books, including Dead Certainties (Unwarranted Speculations), Landscape and Memory, Rembrandt’s Eyes and three volumes of A History of Britain. Read reviews and buy Citizens - by Simon Schama (Paperback) at Target. Simon Schama is University Professor in Art History and History at Columbia University in New York, and one of the best-known scholars in Britain in any field. ![]() ‘Provides an unrivalled impression of the currents and contradictions which made up this terrible sequence of events’ ‘Dazzling – beyond praise – He has chronicled the vicissitudes of that world with matchless understanding, wisdom, pity and truth, in the pages of this marvellous book’ ‘The most marvellous book I have read about the French Revolution’ 29.95 For the best and the worst of reasons, the French Revolution has been chopped to. ‘Monumental … provocative and stylish, Simon Schama’s account of the first few years of the great Revolution in France, and of the decades that led up to it, is thoughtful, informed and profoundly revisionist’Įugen Weber, The New York Times Book Review Citizens A Chronicle of the French Revolution By Simon Schama Illustrated. One of the great landmarks of modern history publishing, Simon Schama’s Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution is the most authoritative social, cultural and narrative history of the French Revolution ever produced. ![]() ![]() She and Mary Carlisle were the only remaining members of that group at the time she was honored in 2010. She was chosen as a WAMPAS “baby star,” in 1932, the Western Association of Motion Picture Advertisers’ annual selection of prospective starlets. Stuart is a California native who started her performing career on stage. Don Bachardy, a portrait artist, and David Zeidberg, the Avery Director of the Huntington Library, were also there to discuss Stuart’s artistic accomplishments. In the Goldwyn Theater foyer, her artwork was on exhibit. Additionally, a quick Stuart documentary was shown: Gloria Stuart is a bonsai expert, actress, painter, poet, and book artist. Stuart’s movies were screened, starting with her debut in The Old Dark House in 1932. ![]() Leonard Maltin, a film critic, served as the evening’s emcee. She played the older Rose Dawson in James Cameron’s disaster romantic drama Titanic (1997). American actress, visual artist, and activist Gloria Stuart had an estimated net worth of $8 million dollars at the time of her death, in 2010. ![]() ![]() ![]() In Alan Paton’s Cry, the Beloved Country the statesman, the poet and the novelist meet in a unique harmony.”Ĭry, the Beloved Country is the deeply moving story of the Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo and his son, Absalom, set against the background of a land and a people riven by racial injustice. The eminent literary critic Lewis Gannett wrote, “We have had many novels from statesmen and reformers, almost all bad many novels from poets, almost all thin. ![]() For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much. Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing, nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or valley. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire. Alan Paton’s impassioned novel about a black man’s country under white man’s law is a work of searing beauty.Ĭry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. ![]() Cry, the Beloved Country, the most famous and important novel in South Africa’s history, was an immediate worldwide bestseller in 1948. ![]() ![]() Zac is an irresistible hero, risking his heart to protect the one who broke it in the first place. Lucy was scared and vulnerable, spunky and sassy, and everywhere in between. ![]() I love how Denise Hunter brought out a full range of emotions for the heroine and hero. This book would make a wonderful movie, I can just imagine sweet southern Georgia and distinct Mainer accents intermingling on screen. Goodreads | amazon | bookdepository | christianbook But if her memory returns he’ll lose her all over again. If he follows his heart he’ll win back the love of his life. She needs his help putting the pieces together, but letting her back into his life is a risk-and the stakes are high. Now Lucy’s back, vulnerable, homeless, and still in love with him. He’s thrown himself into his family’s farm and his restaurant business in Summer Harbor. It’s taken Zac months to move on after Lucy left him with no explanation. All she remembers is loving Zac more than life itself. And she sure doesn’t remember getting engaged to another man. ![]() ![]() She doesn’t remember leaving her fiancé Zac Callahan weeks before their wedding or moving to Portland, Maine. But he can’t forget the way she left.įollowing a concussion, Lucy Lovett can’t remember the last seven months of her life. ![]() ![]() ![]() He later helped adapt his story “I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream” into a videogame of the same name, providing the voice of AM. Over his six-decade career, Ellison wrote more than 1,700 short stories, novellas, screenplays, and essays, including a controversial Star Trek episode, “The City on the Edge of Forever.” Ellison was involved in multiple lawsuits against directors and movie studios he believed had ripped off his work. Famously combative, Ellison is just as notorious for his personality as he is for his prolific writing career. After being fired from Walt Disney Studios on his first day for making an inappropriate joke, Ellison continued to publish fiction and nonfiction pieces, and his work gradually gained a cult following. Before he made a name as a fiction writer, Ellison was a Hollywood screenwriter. Ellison worked an eclectic series of odd jobs as a young man, including a lithographer, a personal bodyguard, and a nitroglycerine truck driver. ![]() Born to Jewish parents, Ellison and his older sister, Beverly, were raised in Cleveland and Painesville, Ohio. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This passage, especially its portentous final phrase, reminded me of Fleming’s contemporary, Graham Greene (b.1904). And the difference, the thing that had gone out of the stinking Mexican bandit, was greater than all Mexico. Then something had gone out of him, out of the envelope of flesh and cheap clothes, and had left him an empty paper bag waiting for a dustcart. This had been a Mexican with a name and an address, an employment card and perhaps a driving license. What an extraordinary difference there was between a body full of person and a body that was empty! Now there is someone, now there is no one. Bond tracks the pipeline to its source and blows up the heroin warehouse, but then is approached in the street that night by an assassin hired by the gang, and after a brief intense fight, kills him. ![]() Fleming gives a brief description of how an informal heroin smuggling circle was set up by a posh, amateur Brit which led from poppy fields in Mexico via a courier to Victoria Coach Station and then distribution via Soho. Thus Goldfinger opens with Bond in the departure lounge of Miami airport, obsessively going over his most recent job in Mexico. He tries to persuade himself it’s just part of the job, he does it then moves on, but in reality he broods and worries. Bond dislikes killing and it gives him a bad conscience. ![]() |