Qing Travelers to the Far West - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Qing Travelers to the Far West write by Jenny Huangfu Day. This book was released on 2018-12-06. Qing Travelers to the Far West available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This fundamentally new interpretation of the Qing reveals how Sino-Western engagements transformed traditions, institutions, and networks of communications.
Ibn Fadlan and the Land of Darkness
Ibn Fadlan and the Land of Darkness - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ibn Fadlan and the Land of Darkness write by Ibn Fadlan. This book was released on 2012-07-26. Ibn Fadlan and the Land of Darkness available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 922 AD, an Arab envoy from Baghdad named Ibn Fadlan encountered a party of Viking traders on the upper reaches of the Volga River. In his subsequent report on his mission he gave a meticulous and astonishingly objective description of Viking customs, dress, table manners, religion and sexual practices, as well as the only eyewitness account ever written of a Viking ship cremation. Between the ninth and fourteenth centuries, Arab travellers such as Ibn Fadlan journeyed widely and frequently into the far north, crossing territories that now include Russia, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. Their fascinating accounts describe how the numerous tribes and peoples they encountered traded furs, paid tribute and waged wars. This accessible new translation offers an illuminating insight into the world of the Arab geographers, and the medieval lands of the far north.
Far and Away
Far and Away - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Far and Away write by Andrew Solomon. This book was released on 2017-05-23. Far and Away available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the winner of the National Book Award and the National Books Critics’ Circle Award—and one of the most original thinkers of our time—“Andrew Solomon’s magisterial Far and Away collects a quarter-century of soul-shaking essays” (Vanity Fair). Far and Away chronicles Andrew Solomon’s writings about places undergoing seismic shifts—political, cultural, and spiritual. From his stint on the barricades in Moscow in 1991, when he joined artists in resisting the coup whose failure ended the Soviet Union, his 2002 account of the rebirth of culture in Afghanistan following the fall of the Taliban, his insightful appraisal of a Myanmar seeped in contradictions as it slowly, fitfully pushes toward freedom, and many other stories of profound upheaval, this book provides a unique window onto the very idea of social change. With his signature brilliance and compassion, Solomon demonstrates both how history is altered by individuals, and how personal identities are altered when governments alter. A journalist and essayist of remarkable perception and prescience, Solomon captures the essence of these cultures. Ranging across seven continents and twenty-five years, these “meaty dispatches…are brilliant geopolitical travelogues that also comprise a very personal and reflective resume of the National Book Award winner’s globe-trotting adventures” (Elle). Far and Away takes a magnificent journey into the heart of extraordinarily diverse experiences: “You will not only know the world better after having seen it through Solomon’s eyes, you will also care about it more” (Elizabeth Gilbert).
Far Travelers
Far Travelers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Far Travelers write by Oran W. Nicks. This book was released on 1985. Far Travelers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Near & Far
Near & Far - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Near & Far write by Heidi Swanson. This book was released on 2015-09-15. Near & Far available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Known for combining natural foods recipes with evocative, artful photography, New York Times bestselling author Heidi Swanson circled the globe to create this mouthwatering assortment of 120 vegetarian dishes. In this deeply personal collection drawn from her well-worn recipe journals, Heidi describes the fragrance of flatbreads hot off a Marrakech griddle, soba noodles and feather-light tempura in Tokyo, and the taste of wild-picked greens from the Puglian coast. Recipes such as Fennel Stew, Carrot & Sake Salad, Watermelon Radish Soup, Brown Butter Tortelli, and Saffron Tagine use healthy, whole foods ingredients and approachable techniques, and photographs taken in Morocco, Japan, Italy, France, and India, as well as back home in Heidi’s kitchen, reveal the places both near and far that inspire her warm, nourishing cooking.
