Authors:Marco Polo, Ronald Latham,
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Keywords: polo, marco, travels
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 1958-09-30
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0140440577
ISBN-13: 9780140440577

Marco Polo was the most famous traveller of his time. His voyages began in 1271 with a visit to China, after which he served the Kubilai Khan on numerous diplomatic missions. On his return to the West, he was made a prisoner of war and met Rustichello of Pisa, with whom he collaborated on this book. The accounts of his travels provide a fascinating glimpse of the different societies he encountered: their religions, customs, ceremonies and way of life; on the spices and silks of the East; on precious gems, exotic vegetation and wild beasts. He tells the story of the holy shoemaker, the wicked c

Authors:Bede,  D. H. Farmer, Ronald E. Latham, Leo She
Publisher: Penguin Classic
Keywords: penguin, classics, people, english, history, ecclesiastical
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 1991-05-01
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 014044565X
ISBN-13: 9780140445657

Written in AD 731, Bede’s work opens with a background sketch of Roman Britain’s geography and history. It goes on to tell of the kings and bishops, monks and nuns who helped to develop Anglo-Saxon government and religion during the crucial formative years of the English people. Leo Sherley-Price’s translation brings us an accurate and readable version, in modern English, of a unique historical document. This edition now includes Bede’s Letter to Egbert concerning pastoral care in early Anglo-Saxon England, at the heart of which lay Bede’s denunciation of the fals

Authors:Lucretius,  Ronald E. Latham, John Godwi,
Publisher: Penguin Classic
Keywords: classics, penguin, universe, nature
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 1994-12-01
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0140446109
ISBN-13: 9780140446104

This is regarded as a seminal text of Epicurean science and philosophy. With a new introduction and commentary and a revised translation, this edition acknowledges advances in textual research and also provides more background information for the reader. Epicurians discarded both the idea of immortality and the superstitious worship of wilful gods for a life of serene contentment in the available pleasures of nature. Lucretius (c100-c55BC), in elucidating this belief, steers the reader through an extraordinary breadth of subject matter, ranging from the indestructibility of atoms and the disco

Authors:Gwynneth Latham, Michael Latham,
Publisher: I. B. Tauris
Keywords: family, africa, medical, saga, tales, kilimanjaro
Number of Pages: 228
Published: 1995-01-15
List price: $49.50
ISBN-10: 1850438811
ISBN-13: 9781850438816

These tales are based mainly on the writings and reminiscences of Gwynneth Latham who joined her husband Donald, a yopung doctor in Tanganyika in the 1920s and 1930s. These memoirs provide a portrait of life in what is now mainland Tanzania, in the early period of that country as a British mandated territory.Offering an account of medical practice in the most extreme tropical conditions, this is the tale of an English woman who took on the important role of medical assistant to a "bush doctor". Perceptive insights into the connection between traditional medical practice and Western medicine ar

Author: A. J. H. Latham
Publisher: Manchester Univ Pr
Keywords: related, disciplines, select, bibliographies, history, guide, asia, south, america, bibliographical, africa
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 1995-05-01
List price: $79.95
ISBN-10: 0719018773
ISBN-13: 9780719018770

A selected, annotated bibliography, dealing with the history of Africa, Asia and South America since 1800. Most of the 5000 items included are books published since 1945 - many of which are very recent. Important works written earlier are also included.

Author: Tim Latham
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Keywords: secrets, island, norfolk
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2006-06-28
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 174114373X
ISBN-13: 9781741143737

In this well-researched analysis of a true and unsolved crime, the enigma surrounding the death of Janelle Patton—a 29-year-old Australian woman who disappeared while hiking on a popular Norfolk Island trail and was later found stabbed and dead—is investigated through personal interviews and probing questions. A territory of Australia, Norfolk Island itself is as fascinating and strange as Patton’s murder. Few people in this secretive and protective island community of less than 2,000 citizens will discuss the incident, further shrouding Patton’s death with mystery. This startl

Author: A.J.H. Latham
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: modern, world, economy, studies, routledge, primary, commodity, rice
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 1998-05-21
List price: $180.00
ISBN-10: 0415151538
ISBN-13: 9780415151535

Rice: The Primary Commodity de-mystifies the trade, outlines its workings and the problems which confront it.A.J. Latham outlines the history and cultivation of rice, and the research programmes which have done so much to revolutionise its production in recent years. Including case studies of the rice markets in India, Pakistan, Malaysia, Indonesia, Japan, Brazil, the USA and many other countries, this book gives an up-to-date and comprehensive view of the unpredictable and rapidly changing world market in rice.