This atlas of discovery tells the story of how our perception of the world has grown and changed as each explorer returned with the knowledge of new lands and peoples. Maps trace the routes taken by the major expeditions, which, together with photographs and illustrations, illustrate the dangers, disappointments and hardships endured by generations of explorers. Maps and text depict major areas and routes of exploration from about 6000 B.C. to the present.
To Samuel Taylor Coleridge, tragedy was not solely a literary mode, but a philosophy to interpret the history that unfolded around him. Tragic Coleridge explores the tragic vision of existence that Coleridge derived from Classical drama, Shakespeare, Milton and contemporary German thought. Coleridge viewed the hardships of the Romantic period, like the catastrophes of Greek tragedy, as stages in a process of humanity's overall purification.
Ghettos were set up by the Nazis to isolate and segregate Jews from other members of the population. Author Linda Jacobs Altman details the hardships of ghetto life under Nazi rule in WARSAW, LODZ, VILNA: THE HOLOCAUST GHETTOS. Set up in many countries including Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Belorussia, and Czechoslovakia, the author describes how the Jews kept alive their cultural and religious lives despite the poverty and hardships of ghetto life.
'With due admiration for the knowledge of professional detail, I feel that enthusiasm will overcome the want of acquintance' ... such was the conviction of the strong young man who lived and wrote this account of his days in the American merchant service before the sail-less, spar-less days of engine driven hulks, when the sea brewed a witchery seasoned with hardships, and the great ships that dipped into Neptune's briny cup, quaffed the gall of drudgery.
Voltaire’s razor-sharp satire on philosophical optimism Candide is coupled here with another of the author’s most celebrated works, Zadig. Both challenge the moral and philosophical orthodoxies of the day with humour and sly wit, whilst parodying the clichéd formulas of so many contemporary novels. Candide traces the fortunes of its titular character, a staunch optimist who eventually becomes disillusioned by a series of hardships and misfortunes. Zadig likewise follows its main character Zadig, a Babylonian philosopher, as he is subjected to the whims of Fate and the machina tions of those around him.
