This poignant collection of masterful elegies centers on the revelatory ways in which the speaker reconciles love, loss, and grief's legacy. Following her mother's battle with colon cancer and her own crisis of meaning, Henning culminates the collection with her rediscovery of joy in life's small moments.
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.
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 ...
"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.
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.
This book is based on an unprecedented survey sent to all U.S. towns with a population greater than 50,000, and contains data previously unavailable.
Terra Incognita. Uncharted depths. Africa unknowable.
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...
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...