The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Dragon Of Wantley, by Owen Wister. The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia (9780316017633): Laura Miller. Anathem : Pharyngula. Neal Stephenson writes ambitious books. I got hooked with Snow Crash(amzn/b&n/abe/pwll), an amazingly imaginative book about near-future virtual worlds; Zodiac(amzn/b&n/abe/pwll) is required reading for anyone interested in chemistry and the environment; I had mixed feelings about Cryptonomicon(amzn/b&n/abe/pwll), but only because it was two books in one, and only one of those books was excellent; The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer(amzn/b&n/abe/pwll) was a fabulously weird exploration of a New Victorian culture with nanotechnology; and I ate up his big trilogy, The Baroque Cycle (Quicksilver(amzn/b&n/abe/pwll), The Confusion(amzn/b&n/abe/pwll) , and The System of the World(amzn/b&n/abe/pwll)), which I consider his best to date — historical fiction bubbling over with a fascinatingly skewed perspective on the Enlightenment.
He’s definitely one of my favorite authors. I should mention that being halfway through it means I’m on page 450. And Adam Knew Eve: A Dictionary of Sex in the Bible. Original Winnie The Pooh Drawings. "Pooh pushed and pushed and pushed his way through the hole... " "Oh, help! " said Pooh. "I'd better go back. ""Oh, bother! " said Pooh. He nodded and went out ...and in a moment I heard Winnie-the-Pooh– bump, bump, bump – going up the stairs behind him. " "This original illustration is reproduced on page 159 of Winnie-the-Pooh and comprises a full-page illustration in the published volume. ... " "This original illustration is reproduced on page 34 of Winnie-the-Pooh from the chapter in which Pooh and Piglet go hunting and nearly catch a woozle.
"What? " "This original illustration is reproduced on page 37 of Winnie-the-Pooh. Christmas Greetings "This illustration of Eeyore with holly, Pooh with a jar of honey and Piglet with a Christmas cracker comprises the original illustration for the only known Christmas card created by E.H. "Do You See Piglet? "This original illustration is reproduced (at a different angle to the original) on page 38 of Winnie-the-Pooh. "Just the house for owl. The Bath. The Book of Curiosities. 'Kitāb Gharāʾib al-funūn wa-mulaḥ al-ʿuyūn' (The Book of Curiosities of the Sciences and Marvels for the Eyes) Diagram of the Encompassing Sphere or Universe[pdf legend]{Looks like this link won't work because of a session timer - seems you have toclick on the link below each map at the site (9 pages of thumbnails)} [The oldest extant] Rectangular Map of the World Circular World Map Sicily Map Sources of Nile Diagram of Winds {from the chapter, 'On the blowing of winds, earthquakes and tremors'} Tigris Map Indus Map Indian Ocean Map Mahdiyah Map (Tunisia) (this picture has been turned 90 degrees) Mediterranean Map Caspian Sea Map Illustration of a Waq-Waq Tree "The Waq Waq are mythical lands, associated with trees bearing humanoid fruits, which were sometimes located in Africa and sometimes in the eastern Indian Ocean.
" The Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford has launched a fascinating and detailed website presentation of 'The Book of Curiosities'. See also: cartography / Arabic. Arabic and Islamic themes in Frank Herbert's "Dune" | The Baheyeldin Dynasty. Those who are familiar with Frank Herbert's famous novel Dune know that he took his analogy from the oil of the Middle East, and that the novel is symbolic about the dependance of the West on the oil, and the power struggles to control this valuable resource. You will really enjoy this article whether you have read the novels, or summaries of them, or just watched 1984 David Lynch Dune movie, and/or the Dune TV Mini-series, or even played the Dune games. In this article, I try to explain in detail where Frank Herbert got his name, concepts, and words from.
This article is not meant to be a literary nor an exhaustive topical critique of the novels, which I am cannot fully do, because simply, I did not read the original novels. I have watched and enjoyed the movie and the mini-series, and read summaries of the novels. Instead, this article is a linguistic and etymological study of the major aspects of Dune as they pertain to Middle East, Arabic, and Islam. Translations of this article. 50 Best Fiction Adventure Books. Sahara by Clive Cussler Another outing of Cussler’s daring adventurer, this story follows Dirk Pitt as he searches for the wreck of a civil war era iron-side ship and the treasure it contains in the most unlikely of places.
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Le Morte D’Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory Malory’s centuries old interpretation of the legend of King Arthur is a masterpiece of the literary world. Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling. 100 Must Read Books: The Man’s Essential Library.