Author: Eleanor Frances Lattimore
Publisher: Sandpiper
Keywords: classics, odyssey, pear, little
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2006-01-01
List price: $5.95
ISBN-10: 0152055029
ISBN-13: 9780152055028
Little Pear is a young boy who lives in a small village in China. Although his story takes place long ago, he is much like any little boy today--always on the lookout for excitement and adventure!Little Pear is just looking for fun, but he has a knack for finding trouble without even trying! Join him as he stows away to the fair in a wheelbarrow full of vegetables, nearly flies away on a kite, has a mishap with a firecracker, and is rescued from the river by a houseboat family.
Author: William O. Steele
Publisher: Sandpiper
Keywords: classics, odyssey, road, perilous
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2004-09-01
List price: $5.95
ISBN-10: 0152052046
ISBN-13: 9780152052041
Author: William O. Steele
Publisher: Sandpiper
Keywords: classics, odyssey, arrows, flaming
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2004-09-01
List price: $11.95
ISBN-10: 0152052135
ISBN-13: 9780152052133
Chad’s family takes refuge from vicious Chickamauga raiding parties with a desperate group in a wilderness fort. But not every danger is outside the wall. . . .
Author: Alan Garner
Publisher: Sandpiper
Keywords: classics, odyssey, elidor
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2006-03-01
List price: $6.95
ISBN-10: 0152056246
ISBN-13: 9780152056247
A mechanical street map, a deserted slum, a church in ruins, and a football. Four ordinary things lead the Watson children on an extraordinary adventure to a magical land called Elidor. In pursuit of four ancient treasures, the forces of evil have crossed over into our world, and it falls to the Watson children to find the treasures, seal the bridge between worlds, and guard the strayed unicorn Findhorn . . . even though their heroism may cost them everything.
Author: James A. Houston
Publisher: Sandpiper
Keywords: odyssey, classics, legends, inuit, houston, treasury, james
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2006-10-01
List price: $8.95
ISBN-10: 015205930X
ISBN-13: 9780152059309
James Houston made his first journey to the Canadian Arctic in 1948 in search of a new land to paint. There he found a warm, friendly people living in a vast, cold, hauntingly beautiful world. He lived with the Inuit and Indian people in the Arctic and grew to understand them and their way of life. He also helped introduce Inuit culture to the world with his remarkable art and stories. Here are four of his exciting Inuit folktales--Akavak, Tiktaliktak, The White Archer, and Wolf Run--collected for the first time in one beautiful volume. Houston’s striking illustrations for e
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Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Keywords: odyssey
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2002-08-26
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0472088548
ISBN-13: 9780472088546
The Odyssey is considered to be one of the greatest pieces of world literature. Its basic story--the homecoming of Odysseus--is widely known. Although it has often been translated, earlier versions do not give the reader the full sense of its oral epic nature as a song that came into being through a long tradition of sung performances before writing was widely practiced. When finally written down, it retained its oral-formulaic nature in ways that are clearly discernible, and which this translation successfully captures. Rodney Merrill strictly adheres to the use of dactylic hexameter, the met
Author: Homer
Publisher: Wildside Press
Keywords: odyssey
Number of Pages: 348
Published: 2007-09-23
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 1434488950
ISBN-13: 9781434488954
The Samuel Butler translation of "The Odyssey" by Homer.
