Dancing On The Wine Dark Sea

Author : Diane LeBow
Publisher : Granitrose Press
ISBN 13 : 9781735995465
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dancing on the Wine-Dark Sea written by Diane LeBow and published by Granitrose Press. This book was released on 2021-06 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diane LeBow's stories, like her life, take you to places and experiences you've probably never imagined. They are passionate, poignant, funny, sometimes tragic, and always unexpected. Share a meal with Corsican rebels in the ragged mountains of this ancient island, meet a black stallion in a blizzard on the Mongolian steppes, assist Afghan women exiled in Tajikistan in writing a Declaration of their Rights for the new Constitution, and savor a love affair with an elegant French Baron. LeBow gives us peeks behind the curtains into women's and men's lives around the world in our search for answers to universal human questions such as how to experience the best our world offers, ways to balance our desire for love with yearning for freedom and adventure, and longing for a sense of home within ourselves and in our worlds. Diane LeBow is an award winning writer and photojournalist, professor emerita, and president emerita of the Bay Area Travel Writers. Her work has appeared in multiple anthologies, including Best Women's Travel Writing, and numerous other publications. She received a Lifetime Achievement Award from Douglass College (Rutgers University) for her writing, photojournalism, women's rights work, and as a pioneer of women's studies and innovative college teaching in Paris, Holland, and the USA. She earned one of the first Ph.D's in Women's Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz. Her travels have taken her to almost 100 countries.

Author : Thomas Cahill
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307755126
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea written by Thomas Cahill and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2010-04-21 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The bestselling author of How the Irish Saved Civilization takes us on a journey through the landmarks of art and bloodshed that defined Greek culture nearly three millennia ago. “A triumph of popularization: extraordinarily knowledgeable, informal in tone, amusing, wide ranging, smartly paced.” —The New York Times Book Review In the city-states of Athens and Sparta and throughout the Greek islands, honors could be won in making love and war, and lives were rife with contradictions. By developing the alphabet, the Greeks empowered the reader, demystified experience, and opened the way for civil discussion and experimentation—yet they kept slaves. The glorious verses of the Iliad recount a conflict in which rage and outrage spur men to action and suggest that their “bellicose society of gleaming metals and rattling weapons” is not so very distant from more recent campaigns of “shock and awe.” And, centuries before Zorba, Greece was a land where music, dance, and freely flowing wine were essential to the high life. Granting equal time to the sacred and the profane, Cahill rivets our attention to the legacies of an ancient and enduring worldview.

Author : Phoebe Conn
Publisher : ePublishing Works!
ISBN 13 : 1614178445
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book HELEN: The Wine Dark Sea written by Phoebe Conn and published by ePublishing Works!. This book was released on 2016-04-12 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The willful daughter of Zeus and a mortal queen, she's the beautiful wife of the Spartan king. But her great love for the lost Trojan prince will beget bloody devastation, and spill her tears into the Wine-Dark Sea. ALSO BY PHOEBE CONN: The Hearts of Liberty, in series order Savage Destiny Defiant Destiny Forbidden Destiny Wild Destiny Scarlet Destiny Hearts of California, in series order Hearts of Gold No Sweeter Ecstasy Tempt Me With Kisses Star Pilot Series, in order Outlaw Rising Starfire Rising Cyborg Rising

Author : Harry Turtledove
Publisher : Phoenix Pick
ISBN 13 : 9781612421407
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Over the Wine-Dark Sea written by Harry Turtledove and published by Phoenix Pick. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Menedemos, the young dashing sea captain, and his helper, the scholarly Sostratos, are sea-traders from the Greek island of Rhodes. Fearless sailors, they will travel any distance to make a profit or to search for rich treasures. *** While they trade in fineries such as wine and silk (and even, to the chagrin of many, peacocks), they live in dangerous times with pirates, thieves and barbarians. As if avoiding death by the hands of these miscreants isn't enough (particularly the barbarians from an obscure town called Rome), they are also caught between the political intrigues of Alexander's former generals.

Author : Vincent Edward Gadrix
Publisher : FictionMetro
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wine-Dark Sea written by Vincent Edward Gadrix and published by FictionMetro. This book was released on 2023-09-13 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world of priceless art, opulent yachts, and oceanic galas, Amanda Edge is more than just an art dealer—she’s an art detective. When a Gustav Klimt masterpiece vanishes, she embarks on a perilous quest that plunges her into Miami's elite art scene and beyond. In her hunt to recover the stolen painting, she joins forces with Daniel, the director overseeing a futuristic underwater habitat, as well as Gabrielle, renowned for her innovative yacht designs. Amanda's expertise leads the investigation through the art underworld and its uncharted waters of forgeries and priceless art thefts. Daniel and Gabrielle are haunted by a series of unsettling deaths they suspect are far from accidental. Their specialized maritime knowledge and skills become invaluable as the trio delves deeper into a whirlpool of mystery and danger. The trio’s paths become entangled with a secretive individual—known publicly as a philanthropist focused on ocean preservation—but covertly, he may be the mastermind of an illicit art syndicate. As they wade closer to their respective clues, they must navigate a complex tempest of intrigue, deception, and murder. If they fail, unsolved killings will remain a dark secret, and a tidal wave of theft and fraud risks engulfing the art world. Just when they think they're on the cusp of exposing the criminal mastermind and solving their interlocking mysteries, their investigation leads them into the foreboding waters of the Bermuda Triangle. In this treacherous zone, the boundary between the natural and supernatural dissolves, revealing an unfathomable energy that threatens anyone who encroaches upon its waters, rendering all human intentions, noble or nefarious, inconsequential in the face of the abyss.

Author : Arnold Safroni-Middleton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.R9/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wine-dark Seas and Tropic Skies written by Arnold Safroni-Middleton and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Patrick O'Brian
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393063690
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wine-Dark Sea (Vol. Book 16) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels) written by Patrick O'Brian and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-12-05 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sixteenth volume in the Aubrey/Maturin series, and Patrick O'Brian's first bestseller in the United States. At the outset of this adventure filled with disaster and delight, Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin pursue an American privateer through the Great South Sea. The strange color of the ocean reminds Stephen of Homer's famous description, and portends an underwater volcanic eruption that will create a new island overnight and leave an indelible impression on the reader's imagination. Their ship, the Surprise, is now also a privateer, the better to escape diplomatic complications from Stephen's mission, which is to ignite the revolutionary tinder of South America. Jack will survive a desperate open boat journey and come face to face with his illegitimate black son; Stephen, caught up in the aftermath of his failed coup, will flee for his life into the high, frozen wastes of the Andes; and Patrick O'Brian's brilliantly detailed narrative will reunite them at last in a breathtaking chase through stormy seas and icebergs south of Cape Horn, where the hunters suddenly become the hunted.

Author : Tad Crawford
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1510772588
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Wine-Dark Seas written by Tad Crawford and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-01-03 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A masterful continuation of the journey of Odysseus after he returned home from his odyssey. Here is a brilliant recounting of the life of Odysseus after his safe return to the island of Ithaca, his wife Penelope, and his son Telemachus. Countless readers have thrilled to the adventures of Odysseus in The Iliad and The Odyssey, but what further adventures awaited him after his ten years of war and ten years of wandering? Narrated by Telemachus to the bard Phemios, On Wine-Dark Seas speaks of the human drama of a man gone twenty years from home and family, a man who saw Troy on the night of its destruction, a man who lives the special quest which is his destiny. In probing the inner journeys of a son and father separated twenty years who must come to terms with each other and their ruthless slaughter of the suitors of Penelope, it reveals the doubts and joys of Odysseus, Penelope, and Telemachus. As Telemachus tells Phemios: “My father will be known to the future not as the man he was, but as the man of whom you sing. Often at Troy he called himself ‘the father of Telemachus,’ so I too have a part to speak in his story. Wealthy men can pay some poets to chant a story first this way, then another. I cannot offer you wealth to hear me, but only the truth I know.” The novel is a masterful recreating of the ancient mind, the landscape of Greece steeped in mythos and the gods, and the human dramas of characters made famous for all time by The Iliad and The Odyssey.

Author : Patrick O'Brian
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wine-dark Sea written by Patrick O'Brian and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : H. N. Turteltaub
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780765344519
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Over the Wine-Dark Sea written by H. N. Turteltaub and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-11-18 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Launching a new series set on the seas of the Hellenistic World comes this adventure set in 310 B.C. Daring sea trader Menedemos and his partner and cousin, Sostratos, plan a voyage that will take them from Rhodes to the coasts of faraway Italy to confrontations with the barbarians of an obscure town called Rome.