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  Mountainish

  Zsuzsanna Gahse

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  A narrator and her dog are criss-crossing the Swiss Alps. She travels with friends who share her interest in food, languages and their topographical contexts. They collect colours, even look for colourlessness, and develop the idea of a walk-in diary, a vain attempt to archive their observations.
  Gradually, other mountains appear in their observations and memories, as do the mountains of literature and art. Mountains may be sites of fear and awe, of narrow-mindedness, racism and ever-looming collapse; Alpine lodges may be places of hospitality, retreat and unexpected encounters; of nature under threat.
  In 515 notes, Zsuzsanna Gahse unfolds a finely woven interplay between her six characters while giving us a vivid panorama of mountain worlds, a multi-layered typology of all things mountainish.

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  Ancient Greece’s Most Famous...

  Editors Charles River

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  In ancient Greece, “no other practice was so universal than the consultation of oracles.” These holy sites were found in 260 locations around the Greek-speaking world, and they were considered the “most satisfactory means of ascertaining the future.” These sanctuaries were “set apart from the profane, ordinary world” and were in the beginning restricted to natural locations where the divine was thought to be “especially present.” They were set aside for special spiritual functions, and a state of purity was generally required of its participants. A historical tendency toward providing haven for criminals was based on the fear of shedding blood in a holy place, and the “fear that the evil magic would emanate from his curse.” 
  The Oracle of Delphi was one of the greatest religious institutions in Greece and one which played a significant role not only in the formation and collective decisions of Hellenic localities and city-states but also in the personal lives of Greeks known and unknown. The site was dedicated to the god Apollo, and the Greeks believed the god spoke his oracles through his prophetess known as the Pythia. The judgments and decisions rendered by the oracle were so important to the Greeks that they often put them above all other interests, even security threats posed by the likes of the Persians, and Delphi was popular even amongst outsiders. Many authors of antiquity mention the oracle for one reason or another, and there even survive epigraphic collections that preserve the god’s words on stone. 
  The Oracle of Dodona was the oldest of all, and it was one of the few dedicated to Zeus and his consort goddess Dione. The oracular utterances heard at the oracles are generally referred to as “smokiness” in Greek, but at Dodona, the answers came in natural sounds and other peripheral phenomena.

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  The Open Polar Sea - A Narrative...

  I. I. Hayes

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  The 1860-61 voyage to test the theory that an open sea lay beyond the arctic ice - the winter in the schooner, the sledge journey, and the water Hayes believed he saw from the far shore of Smith Sound. He was wrong, and the account of getting there is first-rate. This edition adds a gallery of 56 plates, among them paintings by Caspar David Friedrich, Ivan Aivazovsky and Frederic Edwin Church, alongside six illustrations restored and coloured for this volume.

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  HowExpert Guide to Pittsburgh...

  HowExpert, Nathan Ion

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  If you want to learn the history, discover the best places to visit, eat great food, and have fun exploring Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, then check out HowExpert Guide to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 
  Have you ever been to a city on vacation, or a business trip, or even a honeymoon and returned home, only to find that you didn’t get to see even a quarter of things there was to see or do? Here's what you can learn inside the guide. 
  - Get to see everything that Pittsburgh has to offer any visitor to the great city. 
  - Find the perfect places to enjoy a nice dinner out or find places to eat that scream ‘Pittsburgh.’ 
  - Find the perfect places to stay whether you are taking a family trip or an adult vacation. 
  - Check out all the hot spots and sites there are all through the historic city. 
  - Get information on everything you can do and how to save money if you are traveling with your family to the city. 
  - Figure out all of the options you have to get around the city, and even figure out your way to the city and home, using this perfect travel guide, HowExpert Guide to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 
  Now, you can go on the best vacation that you can plan using these tips, tricks, and secrets to impress the people with you with your extended knowledge of the great things Pittsburgh has to offer. 
  Check out HowExpert Guide to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to learn the history, discover the best places to visit, eat great food, and have fun exploring Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania! 
  About the Author 
  Nathan Ion was born and raised in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, area. He is 31 years old and has lived in Pennsylvania his entire life. Currently, he resides in Vandergrift, Pennsylvania, 45 minutes outside of Pittsburgh, with his fiancé Kelly, his five children Heaven, Reyland, Darius, Isabella, and Raven, and his 4-year-old cat Loki. 
  HowExpert publishes how to guides by everyday experts.

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  Life of Frederick Courtenay...

  John Guille Millais

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  The life of the hunter and naturalist whose name stood for African big game - the Zambesi years, the collections he made for the Museum, the friendship with Roosevelt, and the death in action at sixty-five with a bullet from a German sniper. Millais knew him and wrote from the letters. This edition is bound with a gallery of 59 plates of painting, among them works by Albert Bierstadt, Richard Wilson and Frederic Edwin Church.

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  14 Days & 40 Years - The Little...

  Natalie Anderson

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  Not all love is the same, which is one of the most peculiar truths in life. Your Love is as unique as the individual you feel it for. I think that’s one of the greatest paradoxes we will live through. It seems to me, there is little choice in how big it is, or how hard it hits. There’s no telling what it will do to you when you enter the arena, and that is why it can be a force we sometimes fight; because it has felt like a battle we’ve lost before. 
  Although it feels like you are powerless in Love, you aren’t powerless at the end of Love. You choose whether or not big Love crushes you, or if it shrinks for you to carry it in your pocket as a reminder of the greatness it once was. The desire to not be destroyed by Love is where I am. 
  This is a story of 14 days that coincided with my 40th birthday and a time I fell in Love. It was through a difficult turn of events that I got to step away from my uncomfortable life to experience turning 40 in Mexico; with someone I didn’t just love, but who I liked. So this is also a story about the importance of falling in Like. 
  For a long time I said if I ever shared this story, I’d have to call it fiction because it feels so personal. But eventually I realized it made more sense to just admit: it’s me. I’m the quiet naive girl in these pages who had barely begun to know herself and didn’t know how to communicate as well as she thought she did. I’m the one who was learning that Love can be complicated; while seeming simple to me. 
  One of the greatest lessons anyone learns, is knowing what it feels like to fall in love and experience connection. That was my greatest benefit; because I have been able to use that measure of connection ever since. One can break and fall apart in many ways, but it’s my opinion that until big love breaks you, a level of innocence remains. After that, you decide whether or not big love heals you. For me, it took this little trip of 14 days to finally benefit from the long journey of 40 years.

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