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This book comprises eight chapters which describe the island's geography and its inhabitants’ culture. The character Iambulus was captured on his way through Arabia. Heeding orders from his Ethiopian captors, he journeys to a distant island where he meets the natives who would share their prosperity with the Ethiopians for six hundred years.
Hamulus is the diminutive – hooklet or little hook. The plural is hamuli. Adjectives are hamate and hamulate, as in "a hamulate wing-coupling", in which the wings of certain insects in flight are joined by hooking hamuli on one wing into folds on a matching wing. Hamulate can also mean "having hamuli".
Commonweal called it as “[a] superior novel, intricately worked out at several levels of human and spiritual quest...” The New York Times described it as “[a] reading experience of real emotional intensity.” [5] Some reviewers compared him favorably with Graham Greene.
Darker and more morally ambiguous than She Who Became the Sun, [3] themes include the relationship between power and gender, [4] the destructive nature of desire, "the value of self-acceptance" and "the destructive consequences that self-loathing and bigotry can have on individuals and society at large." [5]
Lieutenant Thomas Glahn, a hunter and ex-military man, lives alone in a hut in the forest with his faithful dog, Aesop. Upon meeting Edvarda, the daughter of a merchant in a nearby town, they are strongly attracted to each other, but neither understands the other's love.
The short review in Nature states that the authors present a comprehensive scientific overview of the Sun, shedding light on various solar phenomena. They describe the book as "beautifully illustrated, history-rich, and up to date." [1] A review in American Scientist describes the book as "intriguing, accessible, and technically detailed." [2]
The three women formerly held hostage by Hamas are transferred from the Red Cross to the Israeli military in Gaza on January 19. This image was blurred at source.
Empire of the Sun is a 1984 novel by English writer J. G. Ballard; it was awarded the Guardian Fiction Prize, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. [2] Like Ballard's earlier short story "The Dead Time" (published in the anthology Myths of the Near Future ), it is essentially fiction but draws extensively ...