Evocative black-and-white images capture the unique interrelationship between human culture and the natural world in photographs of America's Gulf Coast region, offfering an illuminating study of the marshes, forests, bayous, and seascapes from the Mississippi River to the Florida Panhandle.
This is a book about the call of the wild and the response of the spirit to a country that exists perhaps most vividly in the mind. Sara Wheeler spent seven months in Antarctica, living with its scientists and dreamers.
It is spring in the year of 118, and Hadrian has been Emperor of Rome for less than a year.
Kevin J. Anderson. lowered his voice and continued, ... Before long, the Nunghal vessels set their accordioned gray sails, weighed anchor, and caught the afternoon breezes to sail out into the deep Oceansea. From the dock, Asaddan and ...
"Terra Incognito" connects a series of seemingly unconnected discoveries over the past 50 years towards a new and intriguing theory as to how America got its name.
How to Traverse Terra Incognita
This study examines how unknown lands were represented from late Antiquity to 1600 - on maps, and in a variety of written texts, including poetry, treatises, political tracts and travel...
Terra Incognita is a series of stories placed on an alphabetic framework stitched together loosely by characters re-appearing in them. The stories vary in style and form with a short verse and a short play thrown in for contrast.
From the age of antiquity to the Middle Ages, scholars argued about the existence of places, and perhaps peoples, beyond the world known to Europeans. But to allow for the...
. . . Clever, funny, thought-provoking, and sweet, these stories are classic Willis.”—Kirkus Reviews
Following their clash with their villainous doubles from the Mirror Universe, the Enterprise crew returns to business as usual, little realizing the serpent in their midst–one of their own has been replaced!