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pro vyhledávání: '"Naval art and science in literature"'
Autor:
Bernhard Klein
This timely collection brings together twelve original essays on the cultural meaning of the sea in British literature and history, from early modern times to the present. Interdisciplinary in conception, it charts metaphorical and material links bet
Autor:
Samuel Mark
In this comprehensive history of Homer's references to ships and seafaring, author Samuel Mark reveals patterns in the way that Greeks built ships and approached the sea between 850 and 750 b.c. To discuss and clarify the terms used by Homer, Mark dr
Autor:
Charles Gibson
Paphos Publishers offers a wide catalog of rare classic titles, published for a new generation. War Inventions and How They Were Invented is a fascinating overview of many tools of war.
Autor:
Margaret Cohen
For a century, the history of the novel has been written in terms of nations and territories: the English novel, the French novel, the American novel. But what if novels were viewed in terms of the seas that unite these different lands? Examining wor
Autor:
Anthony Gary Brown
Now in its second edition, this expanded work catalogs every person, animal, ship and cannon mentioned by name in the 21 books of Patrick O'Brian's series on the maritime adventures of Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin. The novels, renowned for their'f
Autor:
J. Peck
In this important new study, John Peck examines the cultural significance of maritime novels from Defoe through to Conrad. Focusing in particular on the image of the body, he illustrates how these works are built around the disparity between the masc