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Ancient Shores

2009-10-13 Fiction
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Release : 2009-10-13
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 107/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Ancient Shores by : Jack McDevitt

Download or read book Ancient Shores written by Jack McDevitt. This book was released on 2009-10-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It turned up in a North Dakota wheat field: a triangle, like a shark's fin, sticking up from the black loam. Tom Lasker did what any farmer would have done. He dug it up. And discovered a boat, made of a fiberglass-like material with an utterly impossible atomic number. What it was doing buried under a dozen feet of prairie soil two thousand miles from any ocean, no one knew. True, Tom Lasker's wheat field had once been on the shoreline of a great inland sea, but that was a long time ago -- ten thousand years ago. A return to science fiction on a grand scale, reminiscent of the best of Heinlein, Simak, and Clarke, Ancient Shores is the most ambitious and exciting SF triumph of the decade, a bold speculative adventure that does not shrink from the big questions -- and the big answers.

Thunderbird

2015-12-01 Fiction
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Release : 2015-12-01
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 34X/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Thunderbird by : Jack McDevitt

Download or read book Thunderbird written by Jack McDevitt. This book was released on 2015-12-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nebula Award–winning author of the Alex Benedict novels and the Priscilla Hutchins novels returns to the world of Ancient Shores in a startling and majestic epic. A working stargate dating back more than ten thousand years has been discovered in North Dakota, on a Sioux reservation near Devils Lake. Travel through the gate currently leads to three equally mysterious destinations: (1) an apparently empty garden world, quickly dubbed Eden; (2) a strange maze of underground passageways; or (3) a space station with a view of a galaxy that appears to be the Milky Way. The race to explore and claim the stargate quickly escalates, and those involved divide into opposing camps who view the teleportation technology either as an unprecedented opportunity for scientific research or a disastrous threat to national—if not planetary—security. In the middle of the maelstrom stands Sioux chairman James Walker. One thing is for certain: Questions about what the stargate means for humanity’s role in the galaxy cannot be ignored. Especially since travel through the stargate isn’t necessarily only one way...

The Ancient Shore

2008-11 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2008-11
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 017/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Ancient Shore by : Shirley Hazzard

Download or read book The Ancient Shore written by Shirley Hazzard. This book was released on 2008-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Born in Australia, Shirley Hazzard first moved to Naples as a young woman in the 1950s to take up a job with the United Nations. It was the beginning of a long love affair with the city. Battered by World War II, Naples would remain for decades one of the most violent and impoverished places in Italy, but in its passion, vivacity, and beauty, the city still justified the loving words written about it by Goethe, Byron, and other literary travelers over the centuries." "The Ancient Shore collects the best of Hazzard's writings on Naples, along with a classic New Yorker essay by her late husband, Francis Steegmuller. With Hazzard as our guide, we encounter Henry James, Oscar Wilde, and of course Goethe, but Hazzard's concern is primarily with the Naples of our own time - often violently unforgiving to innocent tourists, but able to transport the visitor who attends patiently to its rhythms and history."--BOOK JACKET.

Ancient Marbles to American Shores

2016-11-11 Social Science
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Release : 2016-11-11
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 976/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Ancient Marbles to American Shores by : Stephen L. Dyson

Download or read book Ancient Marbles to American Shores written by Stephen L. Dyson. This book was released on 2016-11-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Ancient Marbles to American Shores, Stephen L. Dyson uncovers the history of classical archaeology in the United States by exploring the people and programs that gave birth to archaeology as a discipline in this country. He puts aside the common formula of chronicling great digs, great discoveries, and great men in favor of a cultural, ideological, and institutional history of the subject. The book explores the ways American contact with the monuments of Greece and Rome affected the national consciousness. It discusses how the spread of classical style laid the groundwork for the development of the discipline after the Civil War and examines the period before World War I, when most of the institutions that led to the establishment of the discipline, as well as the first generation of American classical archaeologists, were created. It looks at the role classical archaeology played in the development of the American art museum since the later nineteenth century and considers changes in American classical archaeology from World War II to the mid-1970s. Filling the void of information on the history of classical archaeology in the United States, this lively book is a valuable contribution to literature on a subject which is enjoying ever-increasing interest and attention.

The King of Poetry from the Ancient Shores of Ireland

2020-11-06 Fiction
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Release : 2020-11-06
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 901/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The King of Poetry from the Ancient Shores of Ireland by : Sir John L. Green

Download or read book The King of Poetry from the Ancient Shores of Ireland written by Sir John L. Green. This book was released on 2020-11-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was written in remembrance of the author’s long time teacher and best friend who was a commercial fisherman and a practicing shaman in scrying, numerology, the Ogham alphabet, divination, philosophy, ancient wisdom, herbalism and magic.

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