Author: Roger Shattuck
Publisher: Kodansha Globe
Keywords: globe, kodansha, experiment, forbidden
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1994-10-15
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 1568360487
ISBN-13: 9781568360485

On a cold morning just a few days into the year 1800, the citizens of the southern French village of Saint-Sernin awoke to a strange vision: a hairy boy, naked, who appeared as if by some witchcraft from the nearby woods. Captured while digging up vegetables from a tanner’s garden, the boy did not--could not--speak. Instead, he emitted a few weird cries, trying to hide himself from his puzzled captors. The next day, the gendarmes took the boy to a hospice in a nearby town. From there, writes the historian and literary scholar Roger Shattuck, his path took this "prisoner without a crime,"

Author: Peter Hopkirk
Publisher: Kodansha Globe
Keywords: tibet, kodansha, globe, exploration, secret, roof, world, trespassers
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1995-04-15
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 1568360509
ISBN-13: 9781568360508

For centuries, Tibet has been the prize destination of determined explorers from England, Russia, and many other countries attempting to claim her for their own. Now, the widely acclaimed author of The Great Game presents a compelling history of the exploration of Tibet from the 19th century up to the present day.

Author: Alan Booth
Publisher: Kodansha Globe
Keywords: japan, walk, sata, roads
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 1997-08-14
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 1568361874
ISBN-13: 9781568361871

Author: Theodore Zeldin
Publisher: Kodansha Globe
Keywords: globe, kodansha, french
Number of Pages: 544
Published: 1996-11-15
List price: $17.00
ISBN-10: 1568361572
ISBN-13: 9781568361574

A BOOK FOR ANYONE WHO HAS BEEN IRRITATED, IGNORED, AMUSES, OR PERPLEXED BY THE FRENCH.French cuisine, French style, and French wine are internationally renowned and familiar, but for most of the English-speaking world, the French people remain an enigma. In his engaging, eye-opening book, Theodore Zeldin introduces scores of French men, women, and children to answer the questions that confound every visitor to France: When do you laugh at a Frenchman’s stories and when should you look solemn? How can you tell what a French person wants to achieve in a business negotiation? Why do they tr

Author: Gerald Messadié
Publisher: Kodansha Globe
Keywords: devil, history
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 1997-11-17
List price: $17.00
ISBN-10: 156836198X
ISBN-13: 9781568361987

AN UNORTHODOX COMPARATIVE HISTORY OF RELIGION-FROM THE DARK SIDE-BY A BESTSELLING THEOLOGIAN"The biggest ruse of the devil is making us believe that he doesn’t exist," claimed Baudelaire. On the contrary, argues bestselling historian and critic Gerald Messadié, the true evil lies in the fact that we believe in him at all. A History of the Devil is a provocative exploration of the personification of evil through the ages and across cultures. Messadié reveals that the Satan of Judeo-Christian mythology-the antithesis of God and good-was a concept unknown to the Greeks, Romans, Egyptians,

Author: Frederic Morton
Publisher: Kodansha Globe
Keywords: series, globe, kodansha, rothschilds
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 1998-09-30
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 156836220X
ISBN-13: 9781568362205

First published in 1962, Morton’s classic saga of the Rothschild family, the most magical of European dynasties, is being reissued with a new Afterword by the author. 17 photos. 20 illustrations.

Author: Osa Johnson
Publisher: Kodansha Globe
Keywords: johnson, kodansha, globe, osa, martin, adventure, lives, married
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 1997-08-14
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1568361289
ISBN-13: 9781568361284

A CLASSIC MEMOIR OF TWO PIONEERING ADVENTURERS Before Joy Adamson went to Africa, before Margaret Mead sailed to Samoa, before Dian Fossey was even born, a Kansas teenager named Osa Leighty married Martin Johnson, a pioneering photographer just back from a ’round-the-world cruise with Jack London. Together the Johnsons flew and sailed to Borneo, to Kenya, and to the Congo, filming Simba and other popular nature movies with Martin behind the camera and Osa holding her rifle at the ready in case the scene’s big game star should turn hostile. This bestselling memoir retraces their car