The Rhine from the Dutch to the Alsatian Frontier
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Published: 1926
Total Pages: 602
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Published: 1926
Total Pages: 602
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: C. Edmund Bosworth
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-03-02
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 135195881X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'An Intrepid Scot' makes an important new contribution to the growing literature on the perceptions of the Islamic world and the 'Orient' in early modern Europe, at the same time as illuminating the attitudes of a Protestant from Northern Europe towards the Catholic South. In this book Edmund Bosworth looks at the life and career of William Lithgow, a tough and opinionated Scots Protestant, who had a seemingly insatiable Wanderlust and who managed to survive various misadventures and near-death experiences in the course of his travels. These took him through a dangerously Catholic Southern Europe to a dangerously Muslim Greece and Istanbul en route for his pilgrimage destination of the Holy Land; on another occasion he went through North Africa and returned circuitously via Central and Eastern Europe; but he was stopped in his tracks whilst endeavouring to reach the court of Prester John in Ethiopia, when he fell into the hands of the Spanish Inquisition and narrowly escaped a horrible death. Lithgow was one of several men of his time who journeyed eastwards, some as far as Persia and India, but unlike many others, he has not been the subject of a special study. Bosworth now places him within the context of the present interest in perceptions of the Islamic world and of the 'Orient' and 'Orientals' in early modern Europe. In addition to the entertainment of the travel narrative, the book shows how one Westerner of the time interpreted the alien East for his readers, and how the Ottoman Empire and its apparently unstoppable might both fascinated and struck fear into the hearts of those outside it.
Author: Boston Public Library
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Published: 1928
Total Pages: 902
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Author: Chris J. Hartley
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2018-08-01
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 0811767647
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Lost Soldier offers a perspective on World War II we don’t always get from histories and memoirs. Based on the letters home of Pete Lynn, the diary of his wife, Ruth, and meticulous research in primary and secondary sources, this book recounts the war of a married couple who represent so many married couples, so many soldiers, in World War II. The book tells the story of this couple, starting with their life in North Carolina and recounting how the war increasingly insinuated itself into the fabric of their lives, until Pete Lynn was drafted, after which the war became the essential fact of their life. Author Chris J. Hartley intricately weaves together all threads—soldier and wife, home front and army life, combat, love and loss, individual and army division—into an intimate, engaging narrative that is at once gripping military history and engaging social history.
Author: Karl Baedeker
Publisher: Leipzig : K. Baedeker ; London : G. Allen & Unwin ; New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Published: 1928
Total Pages: 692
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Published: 1923
Total Pages: 702
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Publisher: Leipzig : K. Baedeker ; London : G. Allen & Unwin ; New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Published: 1928
Total Pages: 704
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Published: 1914
Total Pages: 810
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