The Riddle And The Knight

Author : Giles Milton
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 146680713X
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Riddle and the Knight written by Giles Milton and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part travelogue/part historical mystery about the most famous traveler--and chronicler-- in medieval Europe. Giles Milton's first book, The Riddle and the Knight, is a fascinating account of the legend of Sir John Mandeville, a long-forgotten knight who was once the most famous writer in medieval Europe. Mandeville wrote a book about his voyage around the world that became a beacon that lit the way for the great expeditions of the Renaissance, and his exploits and adventures provided inspiration for writers such as Shakespeare, Milton, and Keats. By the nineteenth century however, his claims were largely discredited by academics. Giles Milton set off in the footsteps of Mandeville, in order to test his amazing claims, and to restore Mandeville to his rightful place in the literature of exploration. "Erudite, witty and adventurous" (The Mail on Sunday), The Riddle and the Knight is a brilliant piece of detective work.

Author : Giles Milton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780756774400
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Riddle and the Knight written by Giles Milton and published by . This book was released on 2004-03 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1322, Sir John Mandeville left England to make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. Thirty-four years later he returned, claiming not only to have visited the Holy Land but also to have traveled to India, China, Tibet and Java. His book -- "The Travels" -- lit the way for the great expeditions of the Renaissance, and his adventures provided inspiration for writers such as Shakespeare, Coleridge, and Swift. Yet by the 19th cent., he was all but ignored by scholars, and his descriptions of monsters and strange peoples were discredited. Intrigued by Mandeville, Milton set off in his footsteps in order to test his amazing claims and to attempt to solve the riddle of the knight. This brilliant piece of detective work restores Mandeville to his rightful place in the history of lit. and exploration. Illus.

Author : Giles Milton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Riddle and the Knight written by Giles Milton and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jay Ruud
Publisher : Five Star
ISBN 13 : 9781432832032
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Knight's Riddle: What Women Want Most written by Jay Ruud and published by Five Star. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After discovering that Lady Rosemounde has become engaged to a Knight of the Round Table who has been accused of rape, squire Gildas of Cornwall enlists the help of Merlin and Queen Guenevere to help prove the man's innocence and find the real culprit.

Author : Kevin K. Durand
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786487313
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Riddle Me This, Batman! written by Kevin K. Durand and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2011-10-10 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From his first comic-book appearance in 1939 through his many incarnations on the big screen, the archetypal superhero known as The Batman has never been far from the American consciousness. The character shaped the way we read comics and graphic novels, view motion pictures, and analyze the motifs of the Hero, the Anti-Hero and the Villain. He has also captured the scholarly imagination, telling us much about our society and ourselves. These essays examine how Batman is both the canvas on which our cultural identity is painted, and the Eternal Other that informs our own journeys of understanding. Questions relating to a wide range of disciplines--philosophy, literature, psychology, pop culture, and more--are thoroughly and entertainingly explored, in a manner that will appeal both to scholars and to fans of the Caped Crusader alike.

Author : Alan Lupack
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134816979
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern Arthurian Literature written by Alan Lupack and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-22 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1992. This is a collection of works around the legend of King Arthur from both English and American sources. They range from the sixteenth century to the 1980s and includes authors such as Spenser, Swift, Fielding, Wordsworth, Tennyson, Swinburne, Morris, Carr, Hawthorne, Pyle, Richard Wilbur and Wendy M. Mnookin.

Author : Raymond Smullyan
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307819833
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Riddle of Scheherazade written by Raymond Smullyan and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2012-08-22 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his new book, Raymond Smullyan, grand vizier of the logic puzzle, joins Scheherazade, a charming young woman of “fantastic logical ingenuity,” to give us 1001 hours of brain-teasing fun. Scheherazade, we find, has gotten back into hot water with the king, and is once more in danger of losing her head at down. But, thinking quickly, she tempts the king to stay her execution by posing him the most delightfully devious mathematical and logic puzzle ever invented. They keep him guessing for many more nights until the fatal hour has passed, and she keeps her head. The Riddle of Scheherazade includes several wonderful old chestnuts and many fiendishly original puzzles, 225 in all. There are logic tricks and number games, metapuzzles (puzzles about puzzles), liar/truth-teller exercises, Gödelian brian twisters, baffling paradoxes, and an excursion, under Scheherazade’s expert guidance, into an amusing new field invented by Smullyan, called “coercive” logic, in which the answer to a problem can actually change the fate of the puzzler! An absolute must for all puzzle fans—from the middle-school whiz to the sophisticated mathematician or computer scientist.

Author : Deborah Rudacille
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307490165
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Riddle of Gender written by Deborah Rudacille and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2009-07-29 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Deborah Rudacille learned that a close friend had decided to transition from female to male, she felt compelled to understand why. Coming at the controversial subject of transsexualism from several angles–historical, sociological, psychological, medical–Rudacille discovered that gender variance is anything but new, that changing one’s gender has been met with both acceptance and hostility through the years, and that gender identity, like sexual orientation, appears to be inborn, not learned, though in some people the sex of the body does not match the sex of the brain. Informed not only by meticulous research, but also by the author’s interviews with prominent members of the transgender community, The Riddle of Gender is a sympathetic and wise look at a sexual revolution that calls into question many of our most deeply held assumptions about what it means to be a man, a woman, and a human being.

Author : Jay Ruud
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781645995463
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Knight's Riddle written by Jay Ruud and published by . This book was released on 2024-04-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When his beloved Lady Rosemounde's new fiancé is accused of a vicious crime, Gildas of Cornwall must enlist the aid of his old mentor, Merlin, to prove the innocence of the man he feels has stolen his only love.

Author : Gwen Rowley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Knights of the Round Table written by Gwen Rowley and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: