The Golden Land

Author : Vikram Lall
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0789211947
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Golden Lands written by Vikram Lall and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking survey of the Buddhist architecture of Southeast Asia, abundantly illustrated with new color photography and 3-D renderings Over the course of its 2,500-year history, Buddhism has found expression in countless architectural forms, from the great monastic complexes of ancient India to the fortified dzongs of Bhutan, the rock-carved temple grottoes of China, the wooden shrines of Japan, and the colorful wats of Cambodia, Laos, and Thailand. Architecture of the Buddhist World, a projected six-volume series by the noted architect and scholar Vikram Lall, represents a new multidisciplinary approach to this fascinating subject, showing how Buddhist thought and ritual have interacted with local traditions across the Asian continent to produce masterpieces of religious architecture. The first volume in the series, The Golden Lands, is devoted to Southeast Asia, home to many of the most spectacular Buddhist monuments. Following a general introduction to the early history of Buddhism and its most characteristic architectural forms (the stupa, the temple, and the monastery), Lall examines the Buddhist architecture of Myanmar, Vietnam, Indonesia, Cambodia, Thailand, and Laos in turn. For each country, he provides both a historical overview and case studies of noteworthy structures. Lall’s concise and accessible text is illustrated throughout with new color photography, as well as 3-D architectural renderings that make even the most complex structures easily comprehensible. The monuments that Lall considers in The Golden Lands range from the modest Bupaya stupa, constructed in Bagan, Myanmar, in the third century AD, to the vast complex of Borobudur in Central Java, the world’s largest Buddhist monument; his achievement is to place them all within a single panorama of history, religion, and artistic innovation. Distributed for JF Publishing

Author : Barbara Wood
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 1596528915
Total Pages : 483 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book This Golden Land written by Barbara Wood and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping historical saga of Australia and a love story of one determined young woman who must choose between the two devoted men she loves. Eighteen-year-old Hannah Conroy has always dreamed of following in her father's footsteps as a healer. But in 19th-century England, the medical profession is closed to women. She sees midwifery as a back door into that world, but her fledgling career is crushed by personal tragedy. Seeking to escape a possible murder conviction in England, Hannah's world is turned upside down as she boards a boat bound for Melbourne. Young and naïve, with some laboratory notes and a handful of medical instruments, she hopes Australia is a place of a new beginning and a fresh start, a place where she can begin a midwife practice. Arriving during a period of enormous change in Australia, Hannah faces a myriad of challenges. Not only must she fight for acceptance as a medical professional, but she also falls in love with and must decide between two men: an American photographer seeking a new life in Australia, and a rowdy outlaw fleeing arrest. This Golden Land presents a love story that neither time nor distance can erase.

Author : Harriet De Onís
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Golden Land written by Harriet De Onís and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Di Morrissey
Publisher : Macmillan Publishers Aus.
ISBN 13 : 1743348584
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Golden Land written by Di Morrissey and published by Macmillan Publishers Aus.. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With millions of copies sold worldwide, Di Morrissey is Australia's favourite storyteller with new novel Before the Storm out now. Natalie is a young Gold Coast mother with a loving husband, two small children and a happy lifestyle. While helping her mother move house, she finds a little box containing a Burmese artefact. When Natalie learns its unique history through a letter left by her great-great uncle, it ignites an interest in its country of origin and her uncle's unfulfilled plans for this curio. Her investigations collide with her own dramatically changing circumstances and create a catalyst for a moral dilemma that challenges the core of her marriage as she finds herself immersed in two very different golden lands.

Author : Hugh Honour
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Golden Land written by Hugh Honour and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Nye
Publisher : Hamish Hamilton
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bird of the Golden Land written by Robert Nye and published by Hamish Hamilton. This book was released on 1980 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ralph Isaacs
Publisher : British Museum Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Visions from the Golden Land written by Ralph Isaacs and published by British Museum Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The visual impact of Burmese lacquerware is striking - the objects are dazzingly coloured, often in scarlet, gold and black, and are frequently inlaid with coloured stone or glass. A natural plastic, refined from the sap of a Southeast Asian tree, lacquer is worked into vessels of every sort and is also used in architecture, furniture, sculpture and religious ritual. It is one of the most important artistic tradition of Burma and is very much a living craft.

Author : Burnette Vanstory
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820305588
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Georgia's Land of the Golden Isles written by Burnette Vanstory and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since it first appeared in 1956, Mrs. Vanstory's rich narrative of the barrier islands from Ossabaw to Cumberland--and the mainland towns along the way--has become the standard popular history of Georgia's golden coast. Thoroughly revised and with over forty new illustrations, this edition traces the crucial and colorful role these islands have played from the sixteenth century to the twentieth. Home, at one time or another, to the American Indians, the French, the Spanish, and the English; to buccaneers, friars, and priests; to Puritans and Scottish Highlanders; to slave traders, planters, soldiers, statesmen, and millionaires, these islands are as rich in history as they are in natural beauty. Georgia's Land of the Golden Isles now takes the reader through the years from General James Oglethorpe to President Jimmy Carter, unfolding the stories of the lives that have touched, or been touched by, the golden isles of Georgia.

Author : Alister McCrae
Publisher : Kiscadale Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scots in Burma written by Alister McCrae and published by Kiscadale Publications. This book was released on 1990 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Archie Weller
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 9781865080116
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Land of the Golden Clouds written by Archie Weller and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 1999 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The long-awaited second novel from highly acclaimed author Archie Weller.