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Smith wrote several books (see details below) and gave regular public addresses, usually to audiences at churches both in major cities and small towns all around the world. His themes were principally Christian eschatology , conspiracy theory and a Christian evangelical message encouraging his audiences to accept Jesus Christ as their Saviour.
Traveling the wonders of the world is a luxury, a privilege, and a right of passage all at once. There's so much that the earth has to offer, with honestly, such little time to see it!
The book then moves on to Cyrus' Greek troops travels through Asia Minor back home to Greece. Lucian of Samosata (c. 125 – after c. 180) True History – documents a fantastic voyage that parodies many mythical travels recounted by other authors, such as Homer; considered to be among the first works of science fiction .
James Holman, in an 1830 Royal Society portrait by George Chinnery painted in Canton (modern-day Guangzhou).From A Sense of the World.. A Sense of the World: How a Blind Man became History's Greatest Traveler is a bestselling biography of James Holman (1786–1857), the blind Englishman who overcame the adversity of sightlessness to become a world traveler and cultural commentator.
The katabasis of Orpheus in book 10 is the last major inclusion of the theme by Ovid in the Metamorphoses. Orpheus is distraught by the death of his wife, Eurydice. He enters the Underworld through the Spartan Gates and visits Dis and Proserpina to beg for the return of his bride.
"Margaret and I have always tried to take fantasy literature in new directions. Krynn is a world wholly distinct from Earth, unlike Tolkien's Middle-earth. Time travel itself was a science-fiction notion we applied to fantasy. We have even written fantasies taking place in the far future (The Death Gate Cycle)!"
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This book explores the 1950s subject of defection to the Soviets, but it also demonstrates how the break-up of Christie's first marriage in the 1920s remained with her. Like her 1934 Mary Westmacott novel Unfinished Portrait , it starts with a youngish woman who has married, had a daughter and whose husband has replaced her with someone else.