Until 1991, foreigners were only allowed along the Trans-Siberian railway. Colin Thubron searches for the `core of Siberia, Russias wild east - and encounters Mongol shamans; the 2,500,000- year-old mummified remains of a princess; sweaty 85 degree temperatures and Akademogorodok, an abandoned city where a lone professor experiments with cosmic consciousness.
The War That Made America: A Short History of the French and Indian War
Apart from The Last of the Mohicans, most Americans know little of the French and Indian War-also known as the Seven Years' War-and yet it remains one of the most fascinating periods in our history.
Аудиоприложение к уровню Intermediate популярного курса для подростков New Snapshot.
Revised and updated, New Snapshot takes the successful Abbs and Freebairn formula and combines it with features that you, the teachers, asked for. This ensures that the course remains one which you can trust and your students love.
Revised and updated on the basis of wide teacher feedback, New Snapshot combines exciting new features with the tried and trusted approach of the first edition, ensuring that the course remains one which teachers can trust and students love.
Ulysses has been labeled dirty, blasphemous, and unreadable. In a famous 1933 court decision, Judge John M. Woolsey declared it an emetic book--although he found it sufficiently unobscene to allow its importation into the United States--and Virginia Woolf was moved to decry James Joyce's "cloacal obsession." None of these adjectives, however, do the slightest justice to the novel. To this day it remains the modernist masterpiece, in which the author takes both Celtic lyricism and vulgarity to splendid extremes. It is funny, sorrowful, and even (in a close-focus sort of way) suspenseful.
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