Hobbies & Lifestyle Hero Image
Hobbies & Lifestyle
A Pilgrimage to Nejd, The Cradle of the Arab Race (vol 2) Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 312
ISBN: 9781931956901
Pub Date: 01 Dec 2002
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Description:
This book documents the journey of Lady Anne Blunt (d. 1917) to Arabia in 1875. Hunt was a talented artist and the founder of the famous Crabbet Stud of England.
A Woman in the Sahara Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 404
ISBN: 9781931956772
Pub Date: 01 Dec 2002
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Description:
This is a fascinating travel journey through the Sahara that began in 1912, by one of the most well- traveled women of the early twentieth century. Gordon paints the picture of the Sahara and its inhabitants through the eyes of a woman.
In the Levant Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 340
ISBN: 9781931956826
Pub Date: 01 Dec 2002
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Description:
A travel through the Holy Land, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Greece, Cyprus, Rhodes, and the Aegean Islands; with many illustrations. The author is "the most likable of all the later American essayists" (Cambridge History of American and English Literature).
Ventures Among the Arabs in Desert, Tent and Town Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 380
ISBN: 9781931956789
Pub Date: 01 Dec 2002
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Description:
The story of a Christian missionary who lived for thirteen years amongst the Ishmaelites of Moab, Edom, and the great peninsula of Arabia. Forder says, “My story is a simple record of ventures just as they occurred, a transcript of personal experiences and beliefs. It is sent forth to what I believe is a sympathetic public.
Land of Israel. A Journey of Travel in Palestine Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 704
ISBN: 9781931956574
Pub Date: 17 Oct 2002
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Description:
Tristram says "In the belief that this field was not yet exhausted, I spent, accompanied by a small party of friends, in 1863-4, a period of nearly ten months in the examination chiefly of the geology and natural history of the country."
In the Holy Land Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 408
ISBN: 9781931956703
Pub Date: 01 Jan 2002
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Description:
In the Holy Land is a descriptive account of travel through the holy sites in Egypt, Palestine, Lebanon, and Turkey. Illustrated with photos from eighteen engravings, the book is a story of travel and excavations.
Meals in a Social Context Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 248
ISBN: 9788779340060
Pub Date: 31 Mar 2001
Series: Aarhus Studies in Mediterranean Antiquity
Illustrations: illus
Description:
This collection of outstanding essays gives an in-depth look at the role of meals in creating a sense of family and community in the Mediterranean world in the Hellenistic and Roman periods. By looking at the dining habits of Greeks and Romans, Jews and Christians, Essenes and Therapeutes, an international cadre of scholars provides insight into how social mores and etiquette were passed on to children, how family life increased in importance for Christians, the conflict in styles when Greeks and Romans met, and how meals attained and sustained religious significance. Other topics include funerary banquets; the etiquette of a formal dinner; the position of women at meals; royal feasts; the development of the Eucharist as a separate ritual; the architecture of the Greek andron and the Roman triclinium, early synagogues and temples; the diets of each culture.
How the Codex Was Found Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 156
ISBN: 9780971309791
Pub Date: 01 Jan 2001
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Description:
A vibrant tale of two journeys to St. Catharine's Monastery in Mount Sinai that lead to the discovery of an ancient codex containing an old version of the Syriac Gospels.
My Nestorian Adventure in China: Account of the Holm-Nestorian Expedition Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 380
ISBN: 9780971309760
Pub Date: 01 Jan 2001
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Description:
The narrative of this book relates the quest to bring a "Nestorian" monument--China's earliest record of Christianity--to the West. Holm vividly describes temples, synagogues and mosques, common natives and Buddhist priests, prisoners, soldiers, and guards.
Civil War Recipes Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 272
ISBN: 9780813120829
Pub Date: 10 Feb 1999
Illustrations: illus
Description:
Godey's Lady's Book, perhaps the most popular magazine for women in nineteenth-century America, had a national circulation of 150,000 during the 1860s. The recipes (spelled ""receipts"") it published were often submitted by women from both the North and the South, and they reveal the wide variety of regional cooking that characterized American culture. There is a remarkable diversity in the recipes, thanks to the largely rural readership of Godey's Lady's Book and to the immigrant influence on the country in the 1860s.
Atlas of Kentucky Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 336
ISBN: 9780813120058
Pub Date: 14 May 1998
Illustrations: color illus, maps, charts, tables, graphs
Description:
The first comprehensive atlas of the state published in over 20 years, the Atlas of Kentucky brings together a wealth of information on the geography, industry, economy, development, and people of the Commonwealth. Includes over 600 maps and 200 color illustrations. Richard Ulack, professor and former chair of the Department of Geography at the University of Kentucky and former State Geographer, is author of Atlas of Southeast Asia and co-editor of Lexington and Kentucky's Inner Bluegrass Region.
The WPA Guide to Kentucky Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 608
ISBN: 9780813108650
Pub Date: 19 Sep 1996
Illustrations: illus, maps
Description:
One of the first great reference tools on the Commonwealth, this WPA Guide is an important, vital part of our heritage. While it includes brief essays describing Kentucky's history, folklore, education, industry, geology, ethnic mix and other topics, the most remarkable feature is the driving tours that are as accurate today as they were more than half a century ago. Careful annotations give directions, point out historical and tourist sites, describe the country side, and even provide mileage for the drives.
Chesapeake Gold Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 160
ISBN: 9780813117164
Pub Date: 13 Sep 1990
Illustrations: illus, maps
Description:
The figure of an old man poling a skiff toward shore against the evening light engaged Susan Brait to learn about Chesapeake Bay, and it is that image which opens this her book on the oystermen of the Bay and the sapping of their traditional life, and even the bounty of the Bay itself, by the demands of American society.With directness and poetic economy Brait takes the reader into the life of the Bay and into the complex relationships that affect oysters and those who make their living from them. Her account weaves easily from the daily work of oystermen to the natural forces that have shaped the Bay, from the experimental culture of oysters by marine biologists to the plans of businessmen who expect to grow and harvest the mollusks on privately owned reefs, from efforts to legislate control of the Bay and its resources to the upper reaches of the Susquehanna River where increasing pollution of the Bay originates from agricultural practices of the Amish and other farmers.
A Kentucky Album Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 160
ISBN: 9780813115634
Pub Date: 14 Jul 1986
Illustrations: 129 duotones
Description:
Sulky races at the Mercer County Fair, church suppers, sorghum making, shooting marbles in the school yard, housing tobacco, loafing at the courthouse -- here are 129 beautifully reproduced images of who we were as Kentuckians not so long ago -- during the Depression and the early years of World War II.This collection is part of the remarkable series of photos shot for the Farm Security Administration -- more than 125,000 photographs taken over a period of nine years by some of the best American photographers of the time, including Ben Shahn, Marion Post Wolcott, Russell Lee, John Vachon, and Arthur Rothstein.To reintroduce us to that important slice of our history, Beverly Brannan and David Horvath have selected a rich sampling from among several thousand photos taken in Kentucky for the FSA.
Shantyboat Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 368
ISBN: 9780813113593
Pub Date: 31 Dec 1977
Illustrations: illus
Description:
Shantyboat is the story of a leisurely journey down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers to New Orleans. For most people such a journey is the stuff that dreams are made of, but for Harlan and Anna Hubbard it became a cherished reality. In the fall of 1944 they built a houseboat, small but neatly accommodated to their needs, on the bank of the Ohio near Cincinnati, and in it after a pause of two years they set out to drift down the river.
My World Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 104
ISBN: 9780813102115
Pub Date: 31 Dec 1975
Description:
A personalized travelogue, My World chronicles the inspiring story of a poor Kentucky boy who learned how to turn the rough grist of his life into the fine art of literature.Jesse Stuart's life centered on W-Hollow, Greenup County, Kentucky, and extended to the far corners of the world. As a writer, teacher, and lecturer, he traveled to all but one of the United States and to ninety countries on six continents.