6/12/2023 0 Comments Marco polo travels the silk road![]() Paper Money Portrait of Kublai Khan, artist unknown, c. The descriptions are quite accurate for a crocodile too, and suggest that he has observed them for some time.Ģ. Marco Polo describes the creature as a “serpent”, identifying it as a separate animal from snakes, which he mentions earlier, and is likely already familiar with, having hailed from Europe where there are various native snakes. ![]() Medieval depiction of a crocodile from Marco Polo’s time, c. He went on to add that “their mouth is big enough to swallow a man at one gulp.” The sheer fascination is clear when reading The Travels, although some historians and naturalists have disputed whether this really was a crocodile he was describing, or whether he used some generous poetic licence and sprinkled in some descriptions from Chinese mythical dragons. He came across the reptilians and described them as “loathsome creatures”. That is what Marco Polo had to do when he was on his travels in a place he called Kara-jang, which we now know as Yunnan Province, China. However, imagine describing a crocodile to people who had never even heard of one, let alone seen one. ![]() ![]() We may now think of crocodiles as something we would only see in a wildlife documentary on television, or in a zoo or safari park. ![]() Marco Polo’s Encounter with Crocodiles Mosaic of Marco Polo, displayed in the Palazzo Doria-Tursey, Genoa, Italy, 1867, via ![]()
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6/12/2023 0 Comments Bon Voyage! by Juliet M. Sampson![]() ![]() Dave was their tour guide and along with the coach driver Maui. Amanda befriends with another Aussie girl, Carly. ![]() Along her tour, she meets different kinds of people from all over the world, who were also a part of GoHikey tour. ![]() This book is not any love story, that will stop your breath for a moment, but it’s just a journey and those words of the author, will make you fall in love with the book, instantly.Īmanda, an Aussie girl, has planned to escape her bitter heart-break with her long time boyfriend, by signing up with the Go Hikey tour in Europe. Bon Voyage is a personal travelogue of a girl named, Amanda goes for a tour with the Go Hikey tour all over the Europe, starting from Brussels and wrapping up with the finale stop, Paris. Travelling around the world does make you a great storyteller, the world has ever seen. ![]() 6/12/2023 0 Comments Author of the sun is also a star![]() Young Adult and multi-bestselling author Nicola Yoon ( Everything, Everything) tackles the notion of individuality and personal freedom in her novel, The Sun Is Also a Star, now adapted by director Ry Russo-Young ( Before I Fall) and available on home video. ![]() Whichever side of the perception divide you fall upon, the answer cannot be found in a book rather, it’s all up to you. Either the universe is an uncaring, vast space born out of chaos and we are nothing but an accident riding a very large rock as it hurtles millions of miles an hour OR the universe is a complicated web of ideas, driven with an unknowable purpose that only unfolds as things are destined to unfold. While there’re varying degrees with which one can look at themselves in relation to the universe, there are two distinct perspectives which stand in opposition. ![]() YA adaptation “The Sun Is Also a Star” indulges in romance more than the real world. Home › Recommendation › Home Release › YA adaptation “The Sun Is Also a Star” indulges in romance more than the real world. ![]() 6/12/2023 0 Comments The complete tightwad gazette![]() Now The Complete Tightwad Gazette brings together all of her best ideas and thriftiest thinking into one volume, along with new articles never published before in book format. ![]() ![]() At last-the long-awaited complete compendium of tightwad tips for fabulous frugal living! In a newsletter published from May 1990 to December 1996 as well as in three enormously successful books, Amy Dacyczyn established herself as the expert of economy. ![]() 6/12/2023 0 Comments Future feeling by joss lake![]() When the hex accidentally bypasses Aiden, sending another young trans man named Blithe to the Shadowlands (the dreaded emotional landscape through which every trans person must journey to achieve true self-actualization), the Rhiz (the quasi-benevolent big brother agency overseeing all trans matters) orders Pen and Aiden to team up and retrieve him. Whosoever beholds the aloe will be pushed into the Shadowlands. ![]() Together, they gain access to Aiden’s social media account and post a picture of Pen’s aloe plant, Alice, tied to a curse: After an IRL encounter with Aiden leaves Pen feeling especially resentful, Pen enlists his roommates, the Witch and the Stoner-Hacker, to put their respective talents to use in hexing Aiden. When he’s not walking dogs for cash or responding to booty calls from his B-list celebrity hookup, he’s holed up in his dingy Bushwick apartment obsessing over holograms of Aiden Chase, a fellow trans man and influencer documenting his much smoother transition into picture-perfect masculinity on the Gram. An embittered dog walker obsessed with a social media influencer inadvertently puts a curse on a young man - and must adventure into a mysterious dimension in order to save him - in this wildly inventive, delightfully subversive, genre-nonconforming debut novel about illusion, magic, technology, kinship, and the emergent future. ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments On the beach book nevil shute![]() That leaves our characters with a mere nine months to make their peace and say their goodbyes.Īnother thing that makes this novel uniquely, chillingly realistic is that Shute backs up his plot with some legit knowledge that makes the whole scenario that much scarier. After that? Yeah, you don't survive massive radiation clouds. ![]() That doesn't mean the Australians out of the woods, though: the radioactive fallout is heading south and will hit them by September. It's like everyone just hit an RKO outta nowhere on each other at the same time.įrom there, we catch up with a groups of survivors in Melbourne, Australia, which was far enough south to miss out on the war altogether. Roughly four thousand nukes later, the entire Northern Hemisphere is a heaping pile of rubble. Just look at how Shute depicts World War III: what begins as a tiny, regional conflict sprawls out of control through a series of betrayals and misunderstandings until, finally, the whole planet is locked in a duel to death. Written in the early days of the Cold War, On the Beach is a reaction to the growing proliferation of nuclear weapons. It may be less flashy, but this timeless novel has one thing that those modern masterpieces of post-apocalyptic panic can't touch-it's actually realistic. ![]() Before Mad Mad: Fury Road, before I Am Legend, before The Walking Dead, there was one true king of the post-apocalyptic genre: Nevil Shute's On the Beach. ![]() ![]() ![]() Now all grown up and a scientist, Lala needed a place to stay when she accepted a temporary research position in New York. It was innocent, but I’d always held a torch for her.Īfter Ryan passed away, I vowed to always protect Lala. Though that didn’t stop me from thinking about her over the years, especially those times when the two of us would sneak out onto the roof and talk for hours after my buddy fell asleep. The super smart girl whom I affectionately dubbed Lala since childhood was always off limits. Rule number one for dating your best friend’s sister: Don’t.Įspecially when your best friend is dead and the last thing he made you promise him was that you’d keep an eye on his little sister, but not too good of an eye.Īs a musician whose longest committed relationship was six weeks, I, Holden Catalano, was the last guy on Earth who should’ve been messing around with Laney Ellison. ![]() From New York Times bestselling authors Vi Keeland and Penelope Ward comes a new standalone romance. ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments An offer from a gentleman netflix![]() ![]() Kate is quite sure that reformed rakes do not make the best husbands, and Anthony Bridgerton is the most wicked rogue of them all. But one obstacle stands in his way-his intended's older sister, Kate Sheffield, who is driving Anthony mad with her determination to stop the betrothal. The Viscount Who Loved Me London's most elusive bachelor, Anthony Bridgerton is determined to wed. But amid the glittering, gossipy, cut-throat world of London's elite, there is only one certainty: love ignores every rule. For avowed bachelor Simon, an attachment to Daphne will deter would-be brides and their ambitious mamas. Romantically associated with one of London's most desirable catches, Daphne's prospects among the ton will soar. ![]() ![]() The Duke and I When Daphne Bridgerton and Simon Basset, Duke of Hastings, agree to a fake courtship, they think they've found the perfect solution to their problems. Summary: An enchanting collection containing the first three novels in New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn's beloved Bridgerton series set in Regency England-The Duke and I, The Viscount Who Loved Me, and An Offer from a Gentleman-now a series created by Shonda Rhimes for Netflix. ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments Feminist fables by suniti namjoshi![]() ![]() ![]() Blatant Self Promotion - do not submit feedback for your writing here.Reposts: Use reddit's search function to check if your question has already been submitted.Mobile links/link shorteners/Facebook links.DAE/TIL/ELI5/PSA/(SERIOUS)/CMV styled titles.Submissions with no direct connection to books (this includes circlejerky submissions).Submissions that don't ask for book suggestions!.Which gives: Darth Vader is Luke Skywalker’s father. ! Spoilers ! < (remove the spaces between the arrows and the exclamation mark) ![]() Spoilers Please use spoiler tags when posting plot revealing information about a particular book. 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The story reports that Orange County school board candidate Alicia Farrant, a member of the conservative Moms for Liberty group, believed Green's book, as well as "Let’s Talk About It," a sex and relationships guide for teenagers written by Erika Moen and Matthew Nolan, should be considered too "explicit" for school libraries. 11, Green shared text from a local news story published by Orlando, Florida, station Spectrum News 13. Author John Green responded to a suggestion by a school board candidate in his hometown that his first novel, "Looking for Alaska," be pulled from public school libraries. ![]() |