Through an Unknown Country

Through an Unknown Country

Author: Charles Helm

Publisher: Rocky Mountain Books Ltd

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 171

ISBN-13: 1771601345

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"Based on previously unpublished reports and journals thought to be lost, Through An Unknown Country provides the reader with a harrowing and riveting account of a 19th century expedition through the northern mountain ranges of western Canada. In the winter of 1874-75, Edward Worrell Jarvis (1846 1894) and Charles Francis Hanington (1848-1930) took part in an expedition on behalf of the Canadian Pacific Survey from Quesnel, British Columbia, to Winnipeg, Manitoba. It led them over the northern Rocky Mountains through what would come to be known as Jarvis Pass (Kakwa Provincial Park, British Columbia) and eventually onto the Canadian plains. The trip took them 116 days and covered over 3000 kilometres, of which almost 1500 was travelled on snowshoes. Through An Unknown Country brings together the day-to-day reports of Jarvis and the more entertaining narrative of the epic journey by Hanington into a single volume for the first time. Recounting harrowing treks through deep mountains, densely forested valleys, open foothills and wide prairie, this highly readable adventure story can most certainly be read alongside the better-known journals of Alexander Mackenzie, Simon Fraser, David Thompson and Paul Kane."--


A Spy for an Unknown Country: Essays and Lectures by Merab Mamardashvili

A Spy for an Unknown Country: Essays and Lectures by Merab Mamardashvili

Author: Merab Slaughter, Alisa Sushytska, Julia Mamardashvili

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2020-11-17

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 3838214595

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Soviet-era philosopher Merab Mamardashvili developed an original and subtle philosophical system distinct from both his orthodox and dissident colleagues. This volume provides English-speaking audiences with a range of his lectures and writings on ancient philosophy, civil society, the European project, and literature. After many decades hiding in plain sight, he emerges as a Soviet thinker who writes in the double-voiced manner of an ideologically surveilled academic and a potent literary and theoretical innovator independent of his context.


Through Unknown Tibet

Through Unknown Tibet

Author: M. S. Wellby

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2022-09-04

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13:

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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Through Unknown Tibet" by M. S. Wellby. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.


Jesus: a New Vision

Jesus: a New Vision

Author: Whitley Strieber

Publisher:

Published: 2021-01-15

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 9781734202861

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"Jesus: A New Vision is at once a magisterial work of scholarship and a completely new approach to the meaning and message of Jesus. It comes at a time when the western world is divided between a declining number of believers in Christian doctrine and an ever-increasing number of people who feel that Jesus was nothing more than a religious zealot who was executed for the crime of sedition. What if neither of these approaches is right? What if Jesus really did perform miracles, including the resurrection, but that this says not that he was a deity, but that he was exercising human powers which are buried within us all, and which we do not suspect are there? By exploring the life of Jesus and his teachings in an entirely new way, Jesus: A New Vision sheds fresh light on the meaning and power of his parables, explores the mysteries of the gospels of Thomas and Mary with fresh insight, and explains why, as Strieber puts it, he “committed suicide by crucifixion.” It also addresses the questions that continue to surround the Shroud of Turin, exploring both the science that concluded that it was a medieval forgery and the more recent studies that have shown it to be something very different. It explores what happened after Jesus’s death that led to the ultra-violence that destroyed the entire polytheistic culture of the Roman Empire, and explains why this greatest of all human revolutions happened, relating it to the pandemics and uncontrollable migrations that resulted from a climate change event that began around 150 A.D. and led to extraordinary disruptions that the Romans, knowing nothing of solar variability, blamed on their gods."--Amazon.com


The Book of Unknown Americans

The Book of Unknown Americans

Author: Cristina Henríquez

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2014-06-03

Total Pages: 251

ISBN-13: 0385350856

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A stunning novel of hopes and dreams, guilt and love—a book that offers a resonant new definition of what it means to be American and "illuminates the lives behind the current debates about Latino immigration" (The New York Times Book Review). When fifteen-year-old Maribel Rivera sustains a terrible injury, the Riveras leave behind a comfortable life in Mexico and risk everything to come to the United States so that Maribel can have the care she needs. Once they arrive, it’s not long before Maribel attracts the attention of Mayor Toro, the son of one of their new neighbors, who sees a kindred spirit in this beautiful, damaged outsider. Their love story sets in motion events that will have profound repercussions for everyone involved. Here Henríquez seamlessly interweaves the story of these star-crossed lovers, and of the Rivera and Toro families, with the testimonials of men and women who have come to the United States from all over Latin America.


Walking the Unknown River

Walking the Unknown River

Author: Ann Weiler Walka

Publisher: Vishnu Temple Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 103

ISBN-13: 9780971889200

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Natural and cultural history of the region encompassing the Escalante (Unknown) River, Navajo Mountain and Glen Canyon.


In Search of The Unknown

In Search of The Unknown

Author: Robert W. Chambers

Publisher: Prabhat Prakashan

Published: 2018-08-19

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13:

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In Search of the Unknown by Robert W. Chambers: Embark on a journey into the mysterious and unexplored with Robert W. Chambers in "In Search of the Unknown." This collection of stories takes readers to the fringes of the known world, where the supernatural and the unexplained await discovery. Key Aspects of the Book "In Search of the Unknown": Exploration and Adventure: Robert W. Chambers invites readers on thrilling adventures to uncover the secrets of the unknown, blending elements of mystery and the supernatural. Uncharted Territory: The stories transport readers to remote and enigmatic locales, where the boundaries of reality and imagination blur. Curiosity and Discovery: "In Search of the Unknown" ignites the reader's curiosity and sense of wonder as they explore the uncharted realms of possibility. Robert W. Chambers was a versatile American author born in 1865. His literary works often delved into the mysterious and unexplained, making him a prominent figure in the realm of supernatural fiction. "In Search of the Unknown" is a testament to his fascination with the enigmatic.


So Vast and Various

So Vast and Various

Author: John Warkentin

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 2010-11-01

Total Pages: 496

ISBN-13: 077359101X

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John Warkentin looks at the work of geographers from 1831 to 1977 through the regional descriptions of seven perceptive observers of Canada who provide very different but illuminating interpretations: Joseph Bouchette, a surveyor-general from Lower Canada; George Parkin, an educator and journalist from New Brunswick; J.D. Rogers, a British barrister and scholar; Harold Innis, the great economic historian; R.C. Wallace, a geologist with administrative experience in the North; Bruce Hutchison, a brilliant BC journalist with deep regional insights; and Thomas Berger, who presided over a Royal Commission on northern development in the 1970s. Warkentin's introduction reveals how their descriptions and interpretations of Canada's areas helped provide the perceptions that influence contemporary conceptions of the country - both its regions and as a whole.


The Cartographic Imagination in Early Modern England

The Cartographic Imagination in Early Modern England

Author: D K Smith

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2013-04-28

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 1409475123

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Working from a cultural studies perspective, author D. K. Smith here examines a broad range of medieval and Renaissance maps and literary texts to explore the effects of geography on Tudor-Stuart cultural perceptions. He argues that the literary representation of cartographically-related material from the late fifteenth to the early seventeenth century demonstrates a new strain, not just of geographical understanding, but of cartographic manipulation, which he terms, "the cartographic imagination." Rather than considering the effects of maps themselves on early modern epistemologies, Smith considers the effects of the activity of mapping-the new techniques, the new expectations of accuracy and precision which developed in the sixteenth century-on the ways people thought and wrote. Looking at works by Spenser, Marlowe, Raleigh, and Marvell among other authors, he analyzes how the growing ability to represent physical space accurately brought with it not just a wealth of new maps, but a new array of rhetorical techniques, metaphors, and associations which allowed the manipulation of texts and ideas in ways never before possible.