Название: Medieval English Travel: A Critical Anthology
Автор: Anthony Bale, Sebastian Sobecki
Издательство: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019873378X
Год: 2019
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 528
Размер: 20,2 МБ
Язык: Английский

Medieval English Travel: A Critical Anthology is a comprehensive volume that consists of three sections: concise introductory essays written by leading specialists; an anthology of important and less well-known texts, grouped by destination; and a selection of supporting bibliographies organised by type of voyage.

Название: Magdalena: River of Dreams: A Story of Colombia
Автор: Wade Davis
Издательство: Vintage
Год: 2021
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 62 Мб
Язык: английский / English

A captivating new book from Wade Davis--award-winning, best-selling author and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence for more than a decade--that brings vividly to life the story of the great Río Magdalena, illuminating Colombia's complex past, present, and future. Travelers often become enchanted with the first country that captures their hearts and gives them license to be free. For Wade Davis, it was Colombia. Now in a masterly new book, Davis tells of his travels on the mighty Magdalena, the river that made possible the nation. Along the way, he finds a people who have overcome years of conflict precisely because of their character, informed by an enduring spirit of place, and a deep love of a land that is home to the greatest ecological and geographical diversity on the planet. Only in Colombia can a traveler wash ashore in a coastal desert, follow waterways through wetlands as wide as the sky, ascend narrow tracks through dense tropical forests, and reach verdant Andean valleys rising to soaring ice-clad summits.

Название: The Zealot and the Emancipator: John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, and the Struggle for American Freedom
Автор: H. W. Brands
Издательство: Doubleday
Год: 2020
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 52 Мб
Язык: английский / English

From the acclaimed historian and bestselling author: a page-turning account of the epic struggle over slavery as embodied by John Brown and Abraham Lincoln—two men moved to radically different acts to confront our nation’s gravest sin. John Brown was a charismatic and deeply religious man who heard the God of the Old Testament speaking to him, telling him to destroy slavery by any means. When Congress opened Kansas territory to slavery in 1854, Brown raised a band of followers to wage war. His men tore pro-slavery settlers from their homes and hacked them to death with broadswords. Three years later, Brown and his men assaulted the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, hoping to arm slaves with weapons for a race war that would cleanse the nation of slavery.

Название: The Man Who Ran Washington: The Life and Times of James A. Baker III
Автор: Peter Baker, Susan Glasser
Издательство: Doubleday
Год: 2020
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 50 Мб
Язык: английский / English

From two of America's most revered political journalists comes the definitive biography of legendary White House chief of staff and secretary of state James A. Baker III: the man who ran Washington when Washington ran the world. For a quarter-century, from the end of Watergate to the aftermath of the Cold War, no Republican won the presidency without his help or ran the White House without his advice. James Addison Baker III was the indispensable man for four presidents because he understood better than anyone how to make Washington work at a time when America was shaping events around the world. The Man Who Ran Washington is a page-turning portrait of a power broker who influenced America's destiny for generations.

Название: Жизнь Греции
Автор: Дюрант В.
Издательство: Крон-Пресс
Год: 1997
Cтраниц: 705
Формат: djvu
Размер: 13 мб
Язык: русский

«Жизнь Греции» входит в одиннадцатитомную «Историю цивилизации» Вилла Дюранта. Используя синтетический метод, американский ученый заставляет читателя ощутить себя современником древних греков. Написанная живым и остроумным языком грандиозная панорама жизни Эллады — от политики и морали до искусства и философии — может послужить и первоклассным учебником, и справочным пособием, и просто увлекательным чтением для всех интересующихся античностью. Книга снабжена библиографией и подробным указателем.

Название: Rival Queens: The Betrayal of Mary, Queen of Scots
Автор: Kate Williams
Издательство: Arrow
Год: 2019
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 72 Мб
Язык: английский / English

A Times History Book of the Year: the thrilling new work from bestselling historian and broadcaster, Kate Williams. Mary and Elizabeth: cousins, rivals, queens. They allied and fought and plotted - but could never escape their bond… A story which inspired the forthcoming film: MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS. At the end of the Tudor era, two queens ruled one island. But sixteenth-century Europe was a man’s world and powerful voices believed that no woman could govern. All around Mary and Elizabeth were sycophants, spies and detractors who wanted their dominion, their favour and their bodies. Elizabeth and Mary shared the struggle to be both woman and queen. But the forces rising against the two regnants, and the conflicts of love and dynasty, drove them apart.

Название: Мистика русского православия
Автор: Багдасаров Р.В.
Издательство: М.: Вече
Год: 2011
Cтраниц: 324
Формат: pdf
Размер: 27 мб
Язык: русский

Православная мистика порождалась опытом, выносимым из духовных практик: монашеского аскетизма, воинского искусства, религиозно-ориентированного строительства семьи и политической деятельности. В книге историка, религиоведа, культуролога и публициста Романа Багдасарова раскрываются космология Древней Руси, мистические основания власти аристократии, "внутреннее делание" и юродство во Христе, рыцарские установки казачества. Отдельные очерки посвящены загадочной судьбе Старой Рязани и Санкт-Петербурга.

Название: Tunnel 29: The True Story of an Extraordinary Escape Beneath the Berlin Wall
Автор: Helena Merriman
Издательство: PublicAffairs
Год: 2021
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 51 Мб
Язык: английский / English

He escaped from one of the world’s most brutal regimes.Then, he decided to tunnel back in. In the summer of 1962, a young student named Joachim Rudolph dug a tunnel under the Berlin Wall. Waiting on the other side in East Berlin were dozens of men, women, and children—all willing to risk everything to escape. From the award-winning creator of the acclaimed BBC Radio 4 podcast, Tunnel 29 is the true story of this most remarkable Cold War rescue mission. Drawing on interviews with the survivors and Stasi files, Helena Merriman brilliantly reveals the stranger-than-fiction story of the ingenious group of student-diggers, the glamorous red-haired messenger, the Stasi spy who threatened the whole enterprise, and the love story that became its surprising epilogue.

Название: Notre-Dame: A Short History of the Meaning of Cathedrals
Автор: Ken Follett
Издательство: Viking
Год: 2019
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 16 Мб
Язык: английский / English

In this short, spellbinding book, international bestselling author Ken Follett describes the emotions that gripped him when he learned about the fire that threatened to destroy one of the greatest cathedrals in the world—the Notre-Dame de Paris. Follett then tells the story of the cathedral, from its construction to the role it has played across time and history, and he reveals the influence that the Notre-Dame had upon cathedrals around the world and on the writing of one of Follett's most famous and beloved novels, The Pillars of the Earth.

Название: Abe: Abraham Lincoln in His Times
Автор: David S. Reynolds
Издательство: Penguin
Год: 2020
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 152 Мб
Язык: английский / English

From one of the great historians of nineteenth-century America, a revelatory and enthralling new biography of Lincoln, many years in the making, that brings him to life within his turbulent age. David S. Reynolds, author of the Bancroft Prize-winning cultural biography of Walt Whitman and many other iconic works of nineteenth century American history, understands the currents in which Abraham Lincoln swam as well as anyone alive. His magisterial biography Abe is the product of full-body immersion into the riotous tumult of American life in the decades before the Civil War. It was a country growing up and being pulled apart at the same time, with a democratic popular culture that reflected the country's contradictions. Lincoln's lineage was considered auspicious by Emerson, Whitman, and others who prophesied that a new man from the West would emerge to balance North and South.