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An illustration from a 1902 printing of Moby-Dick, one of the renowned American sea novels. Nautical fiction, frequently also naval fiction, sea fiction, naval adventure fiction or maritime fiction, is a genre of literature with a setting on or near the sea, that focuses on the human relationship to the sea and sea voyages and highlights nautical culture in these environments.
Dragon of the Lost Sea is a fantasy novel by American author Laurence Yep.It was first published in 1982 and is the first book in his Dragon series. Having already written several books, Yep had wanted to adapt Chinese mythology into a fantasy form for some time, and began writing the story in 1980 after undertaking careful research.
The stories display the folk and themes present in works of that time. The Abbasid reign was known as a period of great economic and social growth. Arab and Muslim traders would seek new trading routes and people to trade with. This process of growth is reflected in the Sinbad tales. The Sinbad stories take on a variety of different themes.
Anabasis (/ ə ˈ n æ b ə s ɪ s /; Ancient Greek: Ἀνάβασις; an "expedition up from") is the most famous work of the Ancient Greek professional soldier and writer Xenophon. [2] It gives an account of the expedition of the Ten Thousand , an army of Greek mercenaries hired by Cyrus the Younger to help him seize the throne of Persia ...
The Dead Sea Scrolls, also called the Qumran Caves Scrolls, are a set of ancient Jewish manuscripts from the Second Temple period. They were discovered over a period of 10 years, between 1946 and 1956, at the Qumran Caves near Ein Feshkha in the West Bank , on the northern shore of the Dead Sea .
Ruins of the Roman-era port of Aquileia have been submerged in northeast Italy’s Grado Lagoon for some time as the waters of the Adriatic Sea swallowed the coastal remnants of history. But ...
E. A. Wallis Budge's "The Literature of the Ancient Egyptians", published in 1914, states that the papyrus that contained the story was located within the Imperial Library at St. Petersburg. [1] Miriam Lichtheim 's "Ancient Egyptian Literature Vol I", published in 1973, reiterates this, further stating that the papyrus, called P. Leningrad 1115 ...
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