Welcome to our book review site go-pdf.online!
You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
Faces in Stone
An architectural impulse book, gift-sized and -priced, for those who love finding unknown corners of New York City. This collection of one hundred architectural details features brief introductions and contextual photographs to show the buildings on which the ornaments appear, the addresses, and transportation information.
Animals in Stone
A delightful collection of creatures that adorn New York City buildings. Companion to Faces in Stone, this is a gift-sized and attractively priced book for architecture buffs. It features more than one hundred imaginative sculptural details, from the domestic to the fantastic, with a brief introduction and contextual photos to show the building on which each ornament appears, the addresses, and transportation information.
Arthur
Arthur: The King in the West traces the link between two powerful forces - the legend of King Arthur and the ancient Glastonbury Abbey
Young Arthur
Growing up in a country household, Arthur knows nothing of his noble birth. When he borrows a strange sword that he finds plunged into a stone for a tournament, Arthur assumes the destiny as the rightful King of England. But there is still danger ahead. An "American Booksellers" Pick of the List.
King Arthur's Voyage to the Otherworld
Three sixth-century Welsh poems have miraculously survived to provide new information on Arthur's life. Most astonishing of all, they record a disastrous sea voyage to a distant land where the Britons fought torrid battles against the inhabitants but were eventually decimated. From details in the poems Dr MacCann shows that this land was America.
Arthur, the Dragon King
This title examines the story of King Arthur, swords in stones, chivalrous knights, and round tables. It then proposes that Arthur was not an ancient Briton as generally accepted, but a member of one of the nomadic tribes of central Asia, such as the Sarmatians, and Alans which were attacking the Roman Empire from the east.
The Medieval Quest for Arthur
Medieval people were fascinated by the Arthurian stories. They searched for relics of Britain's Arthurian past. Winchester was seen as the site of Camelot and the crown of Arthur was presented by Edward I; items associated with Dover, Glastonbury and other sites are also explored, as is the part played by John Leland in the 16th century.
Castalian
None
Military Order of World Wars
In this ambitious study of the intense and often adversarial relationship between English and American literature in the nineteenth century, Robert Weisbuch portrays the rise of American literary nationalism as a self-conscious effort to resist and, finally, to transcend the contemporary British influence. Describing the transatlantic "double-cross" of literary influence, Weisbuch documents both the American desire to create a literature distinctly different from English models and the English insistence that any such attempt could only fail. The American response, as he demonstrates, was to make strengths out of national disadvantages by rethinking history, time, and traditional concepts of...
The Search for King Arthur
Reviews what is known about the life of King Arthur and looks at artifacts and sites that have been associated with his life
