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Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In this long-awaited second edition, Susan Whitfield expands her trailblazing exploration of the Silk Road and broadens her rich and varied portrait of life along the great premodern trade routes of Eurasia. This new edition is comprehensively updated to support further understanding of themes relevant to global and comparative history. In the first 1,000 years after Christ, merchants, missionaries, monks, mendicants, and military men traveled on...
Author
Publisher
W. Ritchie Press
Pub. Date
[1971]
Language
English
Description
The author's personal preferences for 31 works which have been read beyond a single generation, ranging from Anza's California Expedition to Raymond Chandler's Farewell, My Lovely, are the subject of this illuminating study of the creative impulse of writers, not necessarily native sons, who have made California the setting of their masterpieces. In combining biography and criticism the author has gone to the original sources of each work, seeking...
31) Albert Nobbs
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
A woman passes as a man in order to work and survive in 19th century Ireland. Some thirty years after donning men's clothing, she finds herself trapped in a prison of her own making.
Author
Series
Akal Básica de bolsillo volume 219
Publisher
Ediciones Akal
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Español
37) Malinche
Author
Language
Español
Description
When Malinalli met Cortez she assumed that he was her god Quetzalcoatl returned to free her people. The two fell passionately in love, but this love was soon destroyed by Cortez's thirst for conquest, power, and riches. Though some have considered her a traitor to her people, this book pictures her more as a mediator between two cultures during the fall of the Aztec Empire and the birth of the mestiza culture.
38) Scaramouche
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Disguised as a stage clown, Andre Moreau perfects his skill as a swordsman in order to strike a blow for the French Revolution.