Author: Ronald Roy
Publisher: Sandpiper
Keywords: wandering, ducks, three
Number of Pages: 40
Published: 1987-03-23
List price: $5.95
ISBN-10: 089919494X
ISBN-13: 9780899194943
In this gentle yet suspenseful story, three adventurous little ducklings wander away from their barnyard home and unwittingly avoid disaster after disaster until they eventually return to the nest, where their mother takes them under her wing for a nap.
Author: Patrick Moore
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Keywords: astronomer, wandering
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2000-01-01
List price: $59.95
ISBN-10: 0750306939
ISBN-13: 9780750306935
Drawing on his vast knowledge and direct experience of most of the key events in astronomy and space exploration during this century, Patrick Moore takes a sideways look at the historical reports and contemporary thought behind a wide range of astronomical topics. The Wandering Astronomer presents his personal accounts of the towering characters of 20th-century astronomy, intriguing facts about puzzling astronomical phenomena, and amusing stories about the quirkier side of astronomy and space exploration. This collection of essays covers everything from the case of vanishing planets to UFOs ov
Author: Sholem Aleichem
Publisher: Viking Adult
Keywords: stars, wandering
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2009-02-05
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0670020524
ISBN-13: 9780670020522
The first complete translation of an epic love story by the creator of Tevye in Fiddler on the RoofNext year marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of the great Yiddish humorist Sholem Aleichem as well as the 100th anniversary of the publication of Wandering Stars, his sprawling love story spanning ten years and two continents, and set in the colorful world of the Yiddish theater. In a Russian shtetl at the end of the nineteenth century, Reisel, daughter of a poor cantor, and Leibel, son of a rich man, fall under the spell of a traveling Yiddish acting company. Together they run off to join
Author: Arthur Thomas Sir Quiller-Couch
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: heath, wandering
Number of Pages: 164
Published: 2008-08-18
List price: $26.99
ISBN-10: 0554381877
ISBN-13: 9780554381879
Author: Helen Waddell
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Keywords: paperbacks, arbor, ann, scholars, wandering
Number of Pages: 332
Published: 1989-03-01
List price: $52.50
ISBN-10: 0472094122
ISBN-13: 9780472094127
A study of the Goliards, itinerant Latin lyricists of the 12th and 13th centuries
Author: Silvia Montiglio
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: culture, greek, ancient, wandering
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2005-08-22
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 0226534979
ISBN-13: 9780226534978
From the Archaic period to the Greco-Roman age, the figure of the wanderer held great significance in ancient Greece. In the first comprehensive study devoted to this theme, Wandering in Ancient Greek Culture unearths the many meanings attached to this practice over the centuries. Employing a broad range of literary and philosophical texts, Silvia Montiglio demonstrates how wandering has been conceptualized from Homer’s Odysseus—the hero "who wandered much"—in the eighth century BCE to pagan sages of the early Roman Empire such as Saint John the Baptist in the first century AD.Attitu
Author: Meg McGavran Murray
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Keywords: pilgrim, wandering, fuller, margaret
Number of Pages: 440
Published: 2008-01-15
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0820328944
ISBN-13: 9780820328942
"How is it that I seem to be this Margaret Fuller," the pioneering feminist, journalist, and political revolutionary asked herself as a child. "What does it mean?" Filled with new insights into the causes and consequences of Fuller’s lifelong psychic conflict, this biography chronicles the journey of an American Romantic pilgrim as she wanders from New England into the larger world and then back home under circumstances that Fuller herself likened to those of both the prodigal child of the Bible and Oedipus of Greek mythology.Meg McGavran Murray discusses Fuller’s Puritan ancestry,
