Authors:Giovanni Levi, Jean-Claude Schmitt,
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Keywords: medieval, rites, passage, ancient, volume, people, west, history
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 1999-11-15
List price: $29.50
ISBN-10: 0674404076
ISBN-13: 9780674404076
However swiftly it passes, youth is always with us, a perpetual passing phase, an apprenticeship to the myriad ways of the world, subject of panegyrics and diatribes, romances and cautionary tales from antiquity to our day. This two-volume history is the first to present a comprehensive account of what youth has been in the West and what it has meant through the ages. Brought together by Giovanni Levi and Jean-Claude Schmitt, a company of gifted historians and social scientists traces the changing character and status of young people from the gymnasia of ancient Greece to the lyces of modern F
Author: Mike Miller
Publisher: GPP Travel
Keywords: passage, inside, touring, southeast, alaska
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2008-05-13
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0762745355
ISBN-13: 9780762745357
Discover the rich landscape and scenic beauty of Alaska’s Inside Passage, including Skagway, Haines, Juneau, Sitka, Petersburg, Wrangell, and Ketchikan. Alaska’s Southeast details the region’s history, culture, geography, and flora and fauna. It also provides extensive information on when to go, what to bring, how to get there and how to get around, where to eat, and where to stay. With more than 10 million acres of forest, 1,000 islands, 10,000 miles of shoreline, 50 to 70 major glaciers, and thousands of brown bears and eagles, Alaska’s Southeast offers much to be exp
Authors:Ed Readicker-Henderson, Lynn Readicker-Henderson,
Publisher: Hunter Publishing (NJ)
Keywords: coastal, alaska, amp, passage, guide, inside, adventure
Number of Pages: 458
Published: 2006-01-31
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 1588435156
ISBN-13: 9781588435156
The focus of this book is the Alaska Marine Highway, which serves as a lifeline for many coastal communites in Alaska. This ferry system - a total of nine boats - links tiny coastal communites and large cities alike. It runs from Washington, up the Inside Passage, all the way to the Aleutians in the far north, a total of 3,500 miles. The Adventure Guide to The Inside Passage & Coastal Alaska follows this route, telling you everything you need to know about the ships themselves, the sights and the towns. Tours on land - flightseeing, kayaking, canoeing, boating - are covered. The book is
Author: Justin Croni
Publisher: Ballantine Book
Keywords: passage
Number of Pages: 784
Published: 1970-01-01
List price: $27.00
ISBN-10: 0345504968
ISBN-13: 9780345504968
Amazon Best Books of the Month, June 2010: You don’t have to be a fan of vampire fiction to be enthralled by The Passage, Justin Cronin’s blazing new novel. Cronin is a remarkable storyteller (just ask adoring fans of his award-winning Mary and O’Neil), whose gorgeous writing brings depth and vitality to this ambitious epic about a virus that nearly destroys the world, and a six-year-old girl who holds the key to bringing it back. The Passage takes readers on a journey from the early days of the virus to the aftermath of the destruction, where packs of hungry infected scour t
Author: Andy Goldsworthy
Publisher: Harry N. Abram
Keywords: passage
Number of Pages: 168
Published: 2004-11-01
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 0810955865
ISBN-13: 9780810955868
To achieve the quiet beauty of his art, Andy Goldsworthy spends long hours in rough weather, engaged in a tug-of-war with nature. He wrestles heavy stones on top of one another to form tall, egg-shaped landmarks known as cairns. He painstakingly covers fallen logs with bright golden bands of Dutch elm leavesa last hurrah for a proud species decimated by disease. He pulverizes white chalk to lay a long, wandering path in the woods that gleams in the moonlight. Works like these are as much about the transience of life as they are about a sense of place and the pleasures of color, light and for
Author: V.S. Naipaul
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: passage, middle
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2002-01-08
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0375708340
ISBN-13: 9780375708343
In 1960 the government of Trinidad invited V. S. Naipaul to revisit his native country and record his impressions. In this classic of modern travel writing he has created a deft and remarkably prescient portrait of Trinidad and four adjacent Caribbean societies–countries haunted by the legacies of slavery and colonialism and so thoroughly defined by the norms of Empire that they can scarcely believe that the Empire is ending.In The Middle Passage, Naipaul watches a Trinidadian movie audience greeting Humphrey Bogart’s appearance with cries of “That is man!” He ventures into a Trinidad
Author: Connie Willis
Publisher: Bantam
Keywords: passage
Number of Pages: 800
Published: 2002-01-02
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0553580515
ISBN-13: 9780553580518
A tunnel, a light, a door. And beyond it ... the unimaginable.Dr. Joanna Lander is a psychologist specializing in near-death experiences. She is about to get help from a new doctor with the power to give her the chance to get as close to death as anyone can.A brilliant young neurologist, Dr. Richard Wright has come up with a way to manufacture the near-death experience using a psychoactive drug. Joanna’s first NDE is as fascinating as she imagined — so astounding that she knows she must go back, if only to find out why that place is so hauntingly familiar.But each time Joanna goes under, h
