Author: Robert Falcon ScottPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antarctica
Languages : en
Pages : 774
Book Description
Journeys on the Silk Road
Author: Joyce MorganPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0762787333
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
When a Chinese monk broke into a hidden cave in 1900, he uncovered one of the world’s great literary secrets: a time capsule from the ancient Silk Road. Inside, scrolls were piled from floor to ceiling, undisturbed for a thousand years. The gem within was the Diamond Sutra of AD 868. This key Buddhist teaching, made 500 years before Gutenberg inked his press, is the world’s oldest printed book. The Silk Road once linked China with the Mediterranean. It conveyed merchants, pilgrims and ideas. But its cultures and oases were swallowed by shifting sands. Central to the Silk Road’s rediscovery was a man named Aurel Stein, a Hungarian-born scholar and archaeologist employed by the British service. Undaunted by the vast Gobi Desert, Stein crossed thousands of desolate miles with his fox terrier Dash. Stein met the Chinese monk and secured the Diamond Sutra and much more. The scroll’s journey—by camel through arid desert, by boat to London’s curious scholars, by train to evade the bombs of World War II—merges an explorer’s adventures, political intrigue, and continued controversy. The Diamond Sutra has inspired Jack Kerouac and the Dalai Lama. Its journey has coincided with the growing appeal of Buddhism in the West. As the Gutenberg Age cedes to the Google Age, the survival of the Silk Road’s greatest treasure is testament to the endurance of the written word.
Fearsome Journeys
Author: Scott LynchPublisher: Solaris
ISBN: 1849975663
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
How do you encompass all the worlds of the imagination? Within fantasy’s scope lies every possible impossibility, from dragons to spirits, from magic to gods, and from the unliving to the undying. In Fearsome Journeys, master anthologist Jonathan Strahan sets out on a quest to find the very limits of the unlimited, collecting twelve brand new stories by some of the most popular and exciting names in epic fantasy from around the world. With original fiction from Scott Lynch, Saladin Ahmed, Trudi Canavan, K J Parker, Kate Elliott, Jeffrey Ford, Robert V S Redick, Ellen Klages, Glen Cook, Elizabeth Bear, Ellen Kushner, Ysabeau S. Wilce and Daniel Abraham, Fearsome Journeys explores the whole range of the fantastic.
Being the reports of the journeys + the scientific work undertaken by Dr. E.A. Wilson and the surveying members of the Expedition
Author: Robert Falcon ScottPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antarctica
Languages : en
Pages : 774
Book Description
Journeys Through Bookland
Author: Charles Herbert SylvesterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anthologies
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters
Author: Elbert HubbardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Painters
Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description
Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists...
Author: Elbert HubbardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Artists
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great
Author: Elbert HubbardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
Little Journeys to the Homes of Famous Women
Author: Elbert HubbardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists: Corot ; Correggio ; Bellini ; Cellini ; Abbey ; Whistler
Author: Elbert HubbardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Artists
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
An Infinite Journey
Author: Dr. Andrew M. DavisPublisher: Ambassador International
ISBN: 1620203359
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 477
Book Description
After we’ve come to faith in Christ, God leaves us in this world for a very clear purpose: his own glory. But how are we to glorify God for the rest of our lives? The Bible reveals that God has laid before every Christian two infinite journeys which we are to travel every day: the internal journey of growth into Christlike maturity, and the external journey of worldwide evangelism and missions. This book is a road map for the internal journey, laying out how we are to grow in four major areas: knowledge, faith, character, and action. In this book, we’ll learn how God grows us in knowledge, faith, character, and action. We’ll also discover that spiritual knowledge constantly feeds our growing faith, faith will transform our character, our transformed character will result in an array of actions more and more glorifying to God, and our actions will feed our spiritual knowledge. This upward spiral will lead us to become more and more like Jesus Christ in holiness. And not only will this book help us understand Christian growth in detail, it will also give us a passion to grow every day for his glory.