Hell Hole of Creation
Author: L. M. Nesbitt
Publisher:
Published: 2013-10
Total Pages: 434
ISBN-13: 9781494108168
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a new release of the original 1935 edition.
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Adventures in the Bone Trade
Author: Jon Kalb
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2006-04-18
Total Pages: 421
ISBN-13: 0387216189
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs co-founder of the expedition that discovered Lucy, and leader of most of the first site-surveys in the Afar Depression in Ethiopia, Jon Kalb has years of experience with the region, its politics, and the scientists involved in the excavations. A participant himself in the "bone wars" that accompanied these discoveries, Kalb recounts the cutthroat competition and back stabbing that were often part of the media-highlighted race to find the oldest hominid fossil. He weaves this story in the rich fabric of Ethiopian society and politics, the plight of the regions peoples, and the international maneuverings for control of the fossil finds.
The Dark River
Author: Charles Bernard Nordhoff
Publisher: DigiCat
Published: 2022-08-10
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The Dark River" is a story of adventure, love and tragedy set in dazzling lands of abundant vegetation and good-natured people. It presents a cultural and geographical portrait of Tahiti during the early 20th Century. Two young Englishmen stop in Tahiti on a tour of the south seas, and both end up falling in love with the residents and landscapes.
Into Thick Air
Author: Jim Malusa
Publisher: Catapult
Published: 2010-07-01
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 1578051843
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“Delightful debut travelogue by botanist Malusa, who cycled to the lowest point on each of six continents.” —Kirkus Reviews With plenty of sunscreen and a cold beer swaddled in his sleeping bag, writer and botanist Jim Malusa bicycled alone to the lowest point on each of six continents, a six–year series of “anti–expeditions” to “anti–summits.” His journeys took him to Lake Eyre in the arid heart of Australia, along Moses’ route to the Dead Sea, and from Moscow to the Caspian Sea. He pedaled across the Andes to Patagonia, around tiny Djibouti in the Horn of Africa, and from Tucson to Death Valley. With a scientist’s eye, Malusa vividly observes local landscapes and creatures. As a lone man, he is overfed by grandmothers, courted by ladies of the night in Volgograd, invited into a mosque by Africa’s most feared tribe, chased by sandstorms and hurricanes—yet Malusa keeps riding. His reward: the deep silence of the world’s great depressions. A large–hearted narrative of what happens when a friendly, perceptive American puts himself at the mercy of strange landscapes and their denizens, Into Thick Air presents one of the most talented new voices in contemporary travel writing. “I’ve followed all of Jim’s amazing and hilarious journeys, and I am happy to claim him as one of my favorite writers.” —Barbara Kingsolver, New York Times bestselling author “His descriptions of desert landscapes can be extraordinary . . . You can almost feel the dry gusts turning Malusa’s lips into cracked leather.” —The New York Times Book Review
Introduction to African Civilizations
Author: John G. Jackson
Publisher: Ravenio Books
Published: 2015-11-06
Total Pages: 303
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEmbark on a captivating journey through the rich tapestry of African history with John G. Jackson's groundbreaking work, Introduction to African Civilizations. This comprehensive volume explores the magnificent civilizations that flourished on the African continent long before the advent of European colonization. From the awe-inspiring pyramids of ancient Egypt to the sophisticated city-states of West Africa, Jackson's meticulously researched and elegantly written book unveils the untold stories of Africa's glorious past. With a keen eye for detail and a passion for truth, Jackson challenges long-held misconceptions and sheds light on the remarkable achievements of African peoples, making this book an essential read for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of world history.
A History of Italian Colonialism, 1860–1907
Author: Giuseppe Finaldi
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-11-10
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 1315520230
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides a narrative history of Italian colonialism from Italian unification in the 1860s to the first decade of the twentieth century; that is, it details Italy’s imperialism in the years of the Scramble for Africa. It deals with the factors that drove Italy to search for territory in Africa in the 1870s and 1880s and describes the reasoning behind the trajectories adopted and objectives pursued. The events that brought Italy to open conflict with the Ethiopian Empire culminating in the Italian defeat at Adowa in March 1896 are central to the book. However its scope is much broader, as it considers the establishment of Italian power in Eritrea as well as Somalia before and after the defeat. By telling its history, it explains why Italy emerged irresolute and humiliated in this, its first thrust into Africa, yet nonetheless determined to pursue expansion in the future. The seeds for the conquest of Libya in 1911 and Ethiopia in 1935 had been sown.
Creation Made Free
Author: Thomas Jay Oord
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2010-01-01
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 1606084887
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOpen Theology offers an advantageous framework for engaging the sciences. With its emphasis upon creaturely freedom, relationality, realist epistemology, and love, Open Theology makes a fruitful dialogue partner with leading fields and theories in contemporary science. In Creation Made Free, leading proponents of open theism explore natural and social scientific dimensions of reality as these dimensions both inform and are informed by Open Theology. Important themes addressed include evolution, creation ex nihilo, emergence theory, biblical cosmology, cognitive linguistics, quantum theory, and forgiveness.
Ardipithecus kadabba
Author: Yohannes Haile-Selassie
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2023-12-22
Total Pages: 664
ISBN-13: 0520942507
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe second volume in a series dedicated to fossil discoveries made in the Afar region of Ethiopia, this work contains the definitive description of the geological context and paleoenvironment of the early hominid Ardipithecus kadabba. This research by an international team describes Middle Awash late Miocene faunal assemblages recovered from sediments firmly dated to between 5.2 and 5.8 million years ago. Compared to other assemblages of similar age, the Middle Awash record is unparalleled in taxonomic diversity, composed of 2,760 specimens representing at least sixty five mammalian genera. This comprehensive evaluation of the vertebrates from the end of the Miocene in Africa provides detailed morphological and taxonomic descriptions of dozens of taxa, including species new to science. It also incorporates results from analyses of paleoenvironment, paleobiogeography, biochronology, and faunal turnover around the Pliocene-Miocene boundary, opening a new window on the evolution of mammals, African fauna, and its environments.
Ethiopia
Author: John Markakis
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 402
ISBN-13: 1847010334
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn historical overview of Ethiopia's transformation from a multicultural empire into a modern nation state. Provides the gist of one scholar's knowledge of this country acquired over several decades. The author of numerous works on Ethiopia, Markakis presents here an overarching, concise historical profile of a momentous effort to integrate a multicultural empire into a modern nation state. The concept of nation state formation provides the analytical framework within which this process unfolds and the changes of direction it takes under different regimes, as well as a standard for assessing its progress and shortcomings at each stage. Over a century old, the process is still far from completion and its ultimate success is far from certain. In the author's view, there are two majorobstacles that need to be overcome, two frontiers that need to be crossed to reach the desired goal. The first is the monopoly of power inherited from the empire builders and zealously guarded ever since by a ruling class of Abyssinian origin. The descendants of the people subjugated by the empire builders remain excluded from power, a handicap that breeds political instability and violent conflict. The second frontier is the arid lowlands on the margins of the state, where the process of integration has not yet reached, and where resistance to it is greatest. Until this frontier is crossed, the Ethiopian state will not have the secure borders that a mature nation state requires. John Markakis is a political historian who has devoted a professional lifetime to the study of Ethiopia and its neighbours in the Horn of Africa. He has published several books and many articles on this area.
James Norman Hall - Ultimate Collection
Author: James Norman Hall
Publisher: DigiCat
Published: 2023-11-23
Total Pages: 2168
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDigiCat presents to you the greatest historical novels, sea stories and war tales of James Norman Hall: Table of Contents: The Bounty Trilogy: Mutiny on the Bounty Men Against the Sea Pitcairn's Island Other Novels: High Adventure: A Narrative of Air Fighting in France The Hurricane The Dark River Botany Bay Men Without a Country Lost Island The High Barbaree The Far Lands Other Writings: Kitchener's Mob: The Adventures of an American in the British Army (1l) Faery Lands of the South Seas (1m) The Forgotten One and Other True Tales of the South Seas (1n) The Forgotten One Captain Handy's Memoirs Sing: A Song of Sixpence A Happy Hedonist Rivnac Frisbie of Danger Island Mid-Pacific James Norman Hall (1887-1951) was an American writer best known for The Bounty Trilogy, three historical novels he wrote with Charles Nordhoff. During World War I, Hall had the distinction of serving in the militaries of three Western allies: Great Britain as an infantryman, and then France and the United States as an aviator. After the war, Hall spent much of his life on the island of Tahiti, where he and Nordhoff wrote a number of successful adventure books, many adapted for film.
