‎Blair, Tony‎
‎A Journey‎

‎Journey Around the World series (set of 22 books). In Russian (ask us if in doub‎

‎Journey Around the World series (set of 22 books). In Russian (ask us if in doubt)/Seriya Puteshestviya vokrug sveta (komplekt iz 22 knig).. Short description: In Russian (ask us if in doubt).Famous explorers and travelers share their impressions and observations with readers. Amundsen Raul. South Pole Arsenyev V.K. Journey around the Ussuriya region of Bougainville Louis Antoine de. Journey around the world on the frigate Boudez Wrangel F.P. Journey around Siberia and the Arctic Sea (set of 2 books) Golovnin V.M. Journey on the lifeboat Diana Golovnin V.M. Journey around the world on the lifeboat Kamchatka Darwin Charles. Journey around the world on the ship Beagle (set of 2 books) Kruzenstern I.F. Journey around the world (set of 2 books) Cook James. First round the world voyage (set of 2 books) Livingston David Journey around South Africa Micklehoe-Maclay N. Journey to New Guinea (set of 2 books) Pirie Robert E. North Pole We have thousands of titles and often several copies of each title may be available. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUalb522483a53520eb93‎

‎Fools' Journey. A Myth of Obsession in Northern Renaissance Art,‎

‎Turnhout, Brepols, 2009 Hardback, XVII+226 p., 152 b/w ill. + 8 colour ill., 220 x 280 mm. ISBN 9782503526126.‎

‎Tracing the evolution of the newly emerging iconographical patterns of fools and folly, this book sheds light on the original and innovative invention that was an exclusive creation of northern Renaissance art and culture. The novel theme of the fools' journey, as expressed mainly through prints in Germany and later in the Netherlands in the sixteenth century is revealed as an ironical paraphrase, parodying the well established Christian topos, the Pilgrimage of Life or the Pilgrimage of the Human Soul, which offered the believer the opportunity to travel on the road toward redemption. The new mythical image of the fools' journey, however, confronts the contemporary reader/viewer with the image of the fool on his voyage that leads him, instead, to his doomed fate, thereby reflecting a pessimistic world-view. The newly emerging visual vocabulary is considered in relation to analogical contemporary didactic and satirical theatrical performances such as the rederijkers plays, the sotties, and also carnival processions. Proposing a new reading of Sebastian Brant's The Ship of Fools (Das Narrenschiff, Basel 1494), a landmark in the new iconography of the allegorical journey, this study recognizes as well the power of the visual image employed in the woodcuts-illustrations accompanying the treatise as a tool of moral teaching, used as a means of influencing the larger urban audience for whom word and image were sometimes interchangeable. Concomitantly, the divergence between verbal expression and visual language may be seen to define the inherent codes of the visual expressions. It is precisely the gap between literary sources and visualization, the very moment when visual vocabulary crystallizes, and image departs from word creating its own autonomous expression and language, that attracts our attention. The range and diversity of visual material related to the fools' journey topos, addresses a wide spectrum of audiences. This study also takes into consideration the strategies of communicating meanings and values to various publics. Addressing the wider urban public that was not necessarily lettered, notably women, illustrated-books and images were envisaged first of all as didactic tools. In accordance, the painters-engravers attended their public with rather simple visual elaborations that could be easily deciphered. Paintings, drawings, and prints intended for highly cultivated elite circles of urban society, among them works by Albrecht Durer and Hieronymus Bosch, demanded greater intellectual involvement on the part of the beholder, challenging the sophisticated viewer to re-create a meaningful ensemble out of the various scenes and motifs presented within complex compositions. Languages: English. ‎

‎Khokhlov G. T. The Journey of the Ural Cossacks to the Belovodsk Kingdom. The Jo‎

‎Khokhlov G. T. The Journey of the Ural Cossacks to the Belovodsk Kingdom. The Journey of the Ural Cossacks to the Belovodsk Kingdom. In Russian (ask us if in doubt)/Khokhlov G. T. Puteshestvie uralskikh kazakov v Belovodskoe tsarstvo. Puteshestvie urKhokhlov G. T. The Journey of the Ural Cossacks to the Belovodsk Kingdom. The Journey of the Ural Cossacks to the Belovodsk Kingdom. In Russian (ask us if in doubt)/Khokhlov G. T. Puteshestvie uralskikh kazakov v Belovodskoe tsarstvo. Puteshestvie uralskikh kazakov v Belovodskoe tsarstvo.1903 g. In the block rare droppings with pen 27.5x18.5 sm. We have thousands of titles and often several copies of each title may be available. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUalb6bdc787363679d3f‎

‎Perthenius Inok. The tale of the journey and journey through Russia Moldova T‎

‎Perthenius Inok. The tale of the journey and journey through Russia Moldova Turkey and the Holy Land of the shearer of Mount Athos Inok Parthenius. In four parts in two bindings In Russian (ask us if in doubt)/Perfeniy inok. Skazanie o stranstvii i puteshestvii po Rossii Moldavii Turtsii i Svyatoy zemle postrizhennika Svyatoy gory Afonskoy Inoka Parfeniya. V chetyrekh chastyakh v dvukh perepletakh Short description: In Russian (ask us if in doubt).Second edition with corrections We have thousands of titles and often several copies of each title may be available. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUalb36857f54ac0ff879‎

‎I. N. Berezin's Journey through the East. Vol. 2. Journey through Northern Persi‎

‎I. N. Berezin's Journey through the East. Vol. 2. Journey through Northern Persia In Russian (ask us if in doubt)/I. N. Berezin Puteshestvie po Vostoku. Tom 2. Puteshestvie po Severnoy Persii Short description: In Russian (ask us if in doubt).In 1842 Ilya Nikolaevich Berezin (1818-1896) a well-known Russian orientalist and professor at St. Petersburg University embarked on a three-year scientific expedition to the countries of the Near and Middle East. After visiting Dagestan Transcaucasia Arabia Persia Turkey and Egypt he studied local languages and culture familiarized himself with the ancient monuments of the eastern countries and the peculiarities of their modern way of life. We have thousands of titles and often several copies of each title may be available. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUalb4ce36cae907832c2‎