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A Canticle for Leibowitz is a post-apocalyptic social science fiction novel by American writer Walter M. Miller Jr., first published in 1959.Set in a Catholic monastery in the desert of the southwestern United States after a devastating nuclear war, the book spans thousands of years as civilization rebuilds itself.
Daniel Boone, as pictured in The Discovery, Settlement and Present State of Kentucke. The Discovery, Settlement and present State of Kentucke and an Essay towards the Topography, and Natural History of that important Country is a 1784 book by John Filson. It describes the discovery, purchase and settlement of Kentucky. Inaccuracies in the text ...
It was the basis of the Academy Award-winning documentary The Silent World (1956). It has been very successful; as of the book's 50th anniversary, it has been translated into some 22 languages and sold over 5 million copies, [ 3 ] and is still in print, notably as a 2004 hardcover edition published by the National Geographic Society .
The Discovery of the Sea (1974, 1975, 1981) The Discovery of South America (1979) Romance of the Sea (1981) New Iberian World: A Documentary History of the Discovery and Settlement of Latin America to the Early 17th Century, edited, with commentaries by John H. Parry and Robert G. Keith; with the assistance of Michael Jimenez (1984)
The Conquest of America: The Question of the Other is a book by Tzvetan Todorov first published in 1982, detailing Spanish colonials' contact with natives upon the discovery of the Americas. Todorov analyzes texts and arguments from Spanish figures such as Pedro de Valdivia and Francisco de Vitoria. Todorov argues that the latter "demolishes ...
In the United Kingdom, the book is published by Granta Books and is titled 1493: How the Ecological Collision of Europe and the Americas Gave Rise to the Modern World. The book was adapted for younger readers by Rebecca Stefoff and published by Seven Stories Press in 2015 as 1493 for Young People: From Columbus's Voyage to Globalization .
Happy back to school! Parents, teachers and students, find funny and motivational back-to-school quotes about education, learning and working with others.
The Silent World (French: Le Monde du silence) is a 1956 French documentary film co-directed by Jacques Cousteau and Louis Malle. One of the first films to use underwater cinematography to show the ocean depths in color , [ 1 ] [ 2 ] its title derives from Cousteau's 1953 book The Silent World: A Story of Undersea Discovery and Adventure .