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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the 1880's in southern Africa, Allan Quatermain, a hunter and guide, joins forces with a sea captain and an English nobleman to find the latter's missing brother, who disappeared while searching for King Solomon's legendary lost diamond mines.
Author
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
1921
Physical Desc
viii, 347 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Set during the French Revolution, this novel of swashbuckling romance is also a thought-provoking commentary on class, inequality, and the individual's role in society-a story that has become Rafael Sabatini's enduring legacy.
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
[1968]
Physical Desc
116 p. 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
The authors devoted five decades to the study of world history and philosophy, culminating in the masterful eleven-volume Story of Civilization. In this compact summation of their work, Will and Ariel Durant share the vital and profound lessons of our collective past. Their perspective, gained after a lifetime of thinking and writing about the history of humankind, is an invaluable resource for us today. The rare archival recordings of the Durants...
Author
Publisher
D. Appleton & Company
Pub. Date
1904 [c1899]
Physical Desc
xviii, 568 p. front. (port.) plates. 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Histories of Herodotus is considered the founding work of history in Western literature. Written around 430 BC in the Ionic dialect of classical Greek, The Histories serves as a record of the ancient traditions, politics, geography, and clashes of various cultures that were known in Greece, Western Asia, and Northern Africa at that time.[citation needed] Although not a fully impartial record, it remains one of the West's most important sources...
Author
Series
Dover books volume T112
Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
[1956]
Physical Desc
xvi, 457 p. 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Hegel wrote this classic as an introduction to a series of lectures on the "philosophy of history." With this work, he created the history of philosophy as a scientific study. He reveals philosophical theory as neither an accident nor an artificial construct, but as an exemplar of its age.