Pirin Planina
Pirin Planina

Author: George Topirceanu

Publisher: Histria Books

Published: 2023-03-28

Total Pages: 82

ISBN-13: 1592112633

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In Pirin Planina: Tragic and Comic Episodes from Captivity, Romanian poet and writer George Topirceanu (1886-1937) described his experiences as a soldier during World War I. Despite his bleak surroundings and vivid descriptions of death and tragedy that he witnessed, Topirceanu managed to find humor in the most unusual circumstances, making Pirin Planina a truly unique account of the War. His experiences will leave the reader perplexed. Topirceanu's unique blend of drama, tragedy, and humor will immerse the reader into the world of a soldier during World War I.

Landscape Development and Climate Change in Southwest Bulgaria (Pirin Mountains)
Landscape Development and Climate Change in Southwest Bulgaria (Pirin Mountains)

Author: Karsten Grunewald

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2010-11-11

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 904819959X

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Landscape Development and Climate Change in Southwest Bulgaria aims to address some of the current limitations in our understanding of past Balkan climate and environment. High mountains and their ecosystems offer an outstanding opportunity for studies on the impact of climate change. The Balkan Mountains in Southeast Europe, situated at the transition between temperate and Mediterranean climate, are considered as very sensitive to historical and current global changes. The geoarchives lake sediment, peat and soil, long living trees and glaciers have been used to reconstruct the climatically-driven change of forest and treeline during the Holocene and the younger past. These processes are interrelated with complex ecological changes, as for example the seasonality of climate parameters. The landscape research approach with the analyses through multi-palaeo-geoecological proxies is new for the Balkans.

Glacier Evolution in a Changing World
Glacier Evolution in a Changing World

Author: Danilo Godone

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2017-10-04

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 9535135430

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Glaciers have always played an important role in human history, and currently, they are carefully observed as climate change sentinels. Glacier melt rate is increasing, and its mass balance is continuously negative. This issue deserves accurate and in-depth studies in order to, adequately, monitor its state. This circumstance in fact endangers the water supply, affecting human settlements but also creating new environments allowing the colonization by pioneer communities and the formation of new landscapes. This book is subdivided into two main sections in order to deal with the two topics of worldwide research on glaciers and ecology in glacial environments. In the first one "Glaciers in the World," several reviews and studies are collected. It is an overview of glaciers, their state, and research carried out in different continents and contexts. The second section "Glacial Ecosystems" focuses, on the other hand, on glacier environments and ecological researches.

The Great War and Memory in Central and South-Eastern Europe
The Great War and Memory in Central and South-Eastern Europe

Author: Oto Luthar

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2016-03-21

Total Pages: 201

ISBN-13: 900431623X

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This volume presents a series of chapters about the Great War and memory in Central and South-Eastern Europe which will widen the insufficient and spotty representations of the Great War in that region. The contributors deliver an important addition to present-day scholarship on the more or less unknown war in the Balkans and at the Italian fronts. Although it might not completely fill the striking gap in the historical representations of the situation between the Slovene-Italian Soča-Isonzo river in the North-West and the Greek-Macedonian border mountains around Mount Kajmakčalan in the South-East, it will add significantly to the scholarship on the Balkan theatre of war and provide a much-needed account of the suffering of civilians, ideas, loyalties and cultural hegemonies, as well as memories and the post-war memorial landscape. The contributors are Vera Gudac Dodić, Silviu Hariton, Vijoleta Herman Kaurić, Oto Luthar, Olga Manojlović Pintar, Ahmed Pašić, Ignác Romsics, Daniela Schanes, Fabio Todero, Nikolai Vukov and Katharina Wesener.

Mountain Flora of Greece
Mountain Flora of Greece

Author: Arne Strid

Publisher: CUP Archive

Published: 1986-04-03

Total Pages: 932

ISBN-13: 9780521257374

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The first of two volumes addressing the dearth of recent detailed Greek flora.

The Encyclopaedia Britannica: Tonalite-Vesuvius
The Encyclopaedia Britannica: Tonalite-Vesuvius

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1911

Total Pages: 1118

ISBN-13:

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"The last great work of the age of reason, the final instance when all human knowledge could be presented with a single point of view ... Unabashed optimism, and unabashed racism, pervades many entries in the 11th, and provide its defining characteristics ... Despite its occasional ugliness, the reputation of the 11th persists today because of the staggering depth of knowledge contained with its volumes. It is especially strong in its biographical entries. These delve deeply into the history of men and women prominent in their eras who have since been largely forgotten - except by the historians, scholars"-- The Guardian, https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2012/apr/10/encyclopedia-britannica-11th-edition.