West sooby john (23 Ergebnisse)

paperback. Zustand: Very Good.

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. In English.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 2nd Edition. Jacket has minimal general wear and moderate sunning to spine. No tears. Top edge of page-block has some light foxing and a couple of small spots. Also 2 very small spots to fore-edge of page-block. Internally very clean. Binding tight. 448pp Size: 180mm x 235mm. Book. …

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,600grams, ISBN:9780874130485.

Zustand: New. pp. 142.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Boris Vian is a rare phenomenon. Nothing short of a national treasure in France, he is hardly known overseas. In his lifetime, he divided literary opinion with masterpieces that failed to sell and best sellers that caused outrage, trials and even deaths, including his own. As an impresario, he became the figurehead of the jazz scene that marked the French left bank at the end of the Second World War and was responsible for bringing Duke Ellington and Miles Davis to France. As a musician, he played his trumpet against the advice of cardiologists, sang pacifist songs before audiences of outraged patriots and, in passing, created French rock 'n' roll. Posthumously, he became known for his theatre, film scripts and poetry as well as for his novels. And in May '68 he became a revolutionary icon.In two posthumously published collections of short stories, translated for the first time in English in this volume, the France of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir is seen through Vian's idiosyncratic and often rather madcap lens. And alongside them there is another voice entirely, a side of Vian that blends his dry irony with deep, at times startling, emotion. His poems, again published in English here for the first time, give a counter-point to the public figure loved throughout France but never quite admitted into the Pantheon of her great artists. For those who may have read L'Écume des jours or J'irai cracher sur vos tombes, or heard someone singing 'Le Déserteur' on the Paris Métro, or for those who are discovering him for the first time, here are both sides of the incomparable and never quite self-coinciding Boris Vian. …

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'The French connection with the South Seas stretches back at least as far as the voyage of Binot Paulmier de Gonneville (1503-1505), who believed he had discovered the fabled great south land after being blown off course during a storm near the Cape of Good Hope. The story of his voyage remained largely forgotten for over 150 years, but eventually resurfaced in 1664 thanks to the publication by the Abbé Jean Paulmier of a document in which he argued, on the basis of this supposed discovery, for the establishment of a Christian mission in this 'third part' of the world. While historians today contest the authenticity of various aspects of the Abbé Paulmier's Mémoires, there is no doubt about the impact it had in France, both on the collective imagination and, more concretely, on French plans for exploration and colonial expansion. It was not until the eighteenth century, however, that France began sending mariners to the southern oceans on a regular basis, and by that time a new maritime power had begun to emerge: Great Britain. Together, these two nations would play a decisive role in determining the configuration of these little known parts of the globe, and particularly of the Pacific, which had for so long been the almost exclusive preserve of Spain.' (From the Introduction by John West-Sooby.)Discovery and Empire is a collection of essays originating out of a symposium that was held at the State Library of South Australia on 8 July 2009. The symposium formed one of the strands of the XVIIth Biennial Conference of the Australasian Association of European Historians (6-9 July 2009), the overall theme for which was 'Europe's Expansions and Contractions'. …

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New. Klappentextrnrn The French connection with the South Seas stretches back at least as far as the voyage of Binot Paulmier de Gonneville (1503-1505), who believed he had discovered the fabled great south land after being blown off course during a .

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 142 pages. 9.69x6.85x0.35 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: New.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. Kent Town, Wakefield Press, 2010 (revised edition)/ 2004. Quarto, xviii, 425, [5] (blank, colophon) pages with numerous illustrations and maps plus 32 pages of colour plates. Papered boards; a fine copy with the fine dustwrapper. 'While the name of Matthew Flinders has found its rightful place in the pantheon of Australian explorers, that of Nicolas Baudin remains tarnished by the false accusations made against him by his enemies. | This book redresses the balance. Next to Flinders' voice is that of Baudin - presented here through fresh translations of his journals. And alongside the charts and the artwork which recorded the English encounter with Terra Australia are placed the visually striking rewards of the French expedition. Moreover, the authors have undertaken a detailed examination of the full range of achievements on both sides - in natural science, artistic endeavour, hydrography and, last but by no means least, the nascent discipline of anthropology' (dustwrapper blurb). The five-page 'Preface to the Second Edition' goes into some detail over the revisions.…

Pictorial Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket as Issued. First English Language Edition. Minimal wear to boards. Two small library ink stamps inside and a minor label remnant to ffep. No other library additions or remnants. A very minor paper clip indentation to fore-edge of two pages only. Otherwise very clean. Binding tight. 392pp In September 2009, the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle du Havre published a major compilation of Madame Bonnemains's lifelong efforts in a highly illustrated 400-page album Charles-Alexandre Lesueur Lesueur, Peintre Voyageur: un Trésor Oublié (Paris: Editions de Conti, 2009). This is the English edition. On 19 October 1800, Charles-Alexandre Lesueur set sail on a voyage of discovery to the Southern Lands led by Nicolas Baudin. He soon demonstrated his talents as a natural history artist. Driven by an insatiable curiosity, during a golden age for natural history and learned societies, he travelled constantly throughout his life. His sketchbooks and vellums provide a record of the animals, landscapes and indigenous people he encountered. Size: 260mm x 290mm. Book.…

Zustand: New. pp. 150.

Zustand: New. In English.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 150 pages. 10.00x7.00x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: New. Editor(s): Rolls, Alistair; West-Sooby, John; Vuaille-Barcan, Marie-Laure. Num Pages: 150 pages. BIC Classification: CFP; DS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 246 x 174. . . 2017. 1st Edition. Hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.…