2008, ISBN: 9781550174519

Harmondsworth Middlesex: Penguin Books Ltd, 1964. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Moderate Ye… mais…

Harmondsworth Middlesex: Penguin Books Ltd, 1964. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. SUB-TITLE: With seven maps, twenty-four plates, and seventy-five text figures. BOOK NUMBER: A581. CONTENTS: List of Plates; List of Text Figures; List of Maps; Editorial Foreword; Acknowledgements; Preface; 1. THE NATURE OF THE EVIDENCE; Archaeological Evidence; Literary Evidence; 2. THE BACKGROUND; 3. THE EASTERN ADVENTURE; North Syria and the Empires beyond; Eastern Influence in Greece; Phrygia and Lydia; The Persians; 4. THE GREEKS IN EGYPT; Naucratis; Other Greeks in Egypt; The Persians in Egypt; Egyptian Objects and Influence in Greece; Greeks in Libya and Cyrenaica; 5. ITALY, SICILY, AND THE WEST; The Colonists; Greek Cities in Italy and Sicily; Greeks and Natives in Sicily and Italy; Western Greek Colonial Art; Coinage; Greeks and Etruscans; Greeks and Phoenicians; Greeks in France and North Spain; 6. THE NORTH AND THE BLACK SEA; Greeks in the Adriatic; Greeks on the Thracian Coast; Illyrians, Macedonians, and Thracians; The Black Sea and its Approaches; The Greek Cities; Greeks and Scythians; Athenians, Persians, and the Hellespont; Index. SYNOPSIS: This is the story of a nation on the move. It is a story which must, because it casts a fresh image of an extraordinary people, be studied by anyone who is curious about the sources of European culture, arts, and sciences. In these pages we meet Greek mercenaries crudely scratching their names on statues 700 miles up the Nile; Greek goldsmiths working on the shores of the Black Sea; Greet artists employed in the palace of the Persian king and leaving "doodles" on the walls; Greek wine-growers introducing the grape to Burgundy; Greek traders chaffering in the markets of Egypt and the Near East; and Greek colonists living at the very ends of the known world. The Oxford Reader in Classical Archaeology has sifted all the latest evidence in this masterly book. For the first time he fully demonstrates how much the Greeks owed and gave to their neighbours as they elbowed their way into the throng of older civilizations between the eight and sixth centuries B.C. John Boardman, Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, and Reader in Classical Archaeology in the University of Oxford, was born in 1927. He was educated at Chigwell School and Magdalene College, Cambridge, then went to Athens as Student and later Assistant Director (1952-5) of the British School at Athens. From 1955 to 1959 he was Assistant Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum. He was elected Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1957, received the Cromer Greek Prize in 1959, and has been a Corresponding Member of the German Archaeological Institute since 1961. He has travelled widely in Greek lands and excavated in Smyrna, Knossos, Chios, and Libya. His previous publications include The Cretan Collection in Oxford, Island Gems, The Date of the Knossos Tablets, and various articles on the archaeology of archaic Greece. He has served as editor of the Journal of Hellenic Studies since 1958.. First Edition 1st Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall., Penguin Books Ltd, 1964, 2.5, Winner of the Lieutenant-Governor Medal "On June 17, 1958, Vancouver experienced the worst industrial accident in its history when the new bridge being built across Burrard Inlet collapsed into the flooding tidal waters of Second Narrows, killing eighteen workers. Photos of the two broken spans tilted into the sea went around the world and provided the city with one of its iconic historical images, still familiar to school children half a century later. The shocking thing was that the bridge was not an old, decrepit structure, but a new one just in the midst of being erected with all the support and security modern engineering could provide. That somebody had made a colossal error seemed obvious, but it would take a Royal Commission to discover how and why. Even then, some mysteries will never be solved. Tragedy at Second Narrows unravels one of Vancouver's great mysteries with all the appeal of a gripping detective novel. Eric Jamieson has returned to the scene of the tragedy and reconstructed the tragic event with scrupulous care, introducing the entire cast of politicians, construction bosses, engineers, and ironworker's; he relives those terrifying moments when the structure began to crack and drop like the bottom was falling out of the world. In the end, readers will have learned about the fascinating world of big-time bridge-building and will be left with a searingly clear picture of precisely how a great disaster took shape and plunged to its inevitable conclusion.", Harbour Publishing, 2008, 6<

2008, ISBN: 9781550174519

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California State Department of Education, Sacramento, 1958. HB NODJ ISSUED,Beautifully Decorated Cloth Cover, 1958, stated 1st edition, VG-/G+, NODJ, minor Soil, Slight Rub & Wear Co… mais…

California State Department of Education, Sacramento, 1958. HB NODJ ISSUED,Beautifully Decorated Cloth Cover, 1958, stated 1st edition, VG-/G+, NODJ, minor Soil, Slight Rub & Wear Cover, Some Pages Taped Repairs, few interior Stains,. First Edition. Hard Cover., California State Department of Education, Sacramento, 1958, 0, Winner of the Lieutenant-Governor Medal "On June 17, 1958, Vancouver experienced the worst industrial accident in its history when the new bridge being built across Burrard Inlet collapsed into the flooding tidal waters of Second Narrows, killing eighteen workers. Photos of the two broken spans tilted into the sea went around the world and provided the city with one of its iconic historical images, still familiar to school children half a century later. The shocking thing was that the bridge was not an old, decrepit structure, but a new one just in the midst of being erected with all the support and security modern engineering could provide. That somebody had made a colossal error seemed obvious, but it would take a Royal Commission to discover how and why. Even then, some mysteries will never be solved. Tragedy at Second Narrows unravels one of Vancouver's great mysteries with all the appeal of a gripping detective novel. Eric Jamieson has returned to the scene of the tragedy and reconstructed the tragic event with scrupulous care, introducing the entire cast of politicians, construction bosses, engineers, and ironworker's; he relives those terrifying moments when the structure began to crack and drop like the bottom was falling out of the world. In the end, readers will have learned about the fascinating world of big-time bridge-building and will be left with a searingly clear picture of precisely how a great disaster took shape and plunged to its inevitable conclusion.", Harbour Publishing, 2008, 6<

2008, ISBN: 1550174517

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[EAN: 9781550174519], Neubuch, [PU: Harbour Publishing], Jacket, Winner of the Lieutenant-Governor Medal "On June 17, 1958, Vancouver experienced the worst industrial accident in its hist… mais…

[EAN: 9781550174519], Neubuch, [PU: Harbour Publishing], Jacket, Winner of the Lieutenant-Governor Medal "On June 17, 1958, Vancouver experienced the worst industrial accident in its history when the new bridge being built across Burrard Inlet collapsed into the flooding tidal waters of Second Narrows, killing eighteen workers. Photos of the two broken spans tilted into the sea went around the world and provided the city with one of its iconic historical images, still familiar to school children half a century later. The shocking thing was that the bridge was not an old, decrepit structure, but a new one just in the midst of being erected with all the support and security modern engineering could provide. That somebody had made a colossal error seemed obvious, but it would take a Royal Commission to discover how and why. Even then, some mysteries will never be solved. Tragedy at Second Narrows unravels one of Vancouver's great mysteries with all the appeal of a gripping detective novel. Eric Jamieson has returned to the scene of the tragedy and reconstructed the tragic event with scrupulous care, introducing the entire cast of politicians, construction bosses, engineers and ironworker's; he relives those terrifying moments when the structure began to crack and drop like the bottom was falling out of the world. In the end, readers will have learned about the fascinating world of big-time bridge building and will be left with a searingly clear picture of precisely how a great disaster took shape and plunged to its inevitable conclusion.", Books<

ISBN: 9781550174519

*Tragedy at Second Narrows: The Story of the Ironworkers Memorial Bridge* / gebundene Ausgabe für 32.99 € / Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Wissenschaft, Geschichte Medien > Bücher nein Buch (ge… mais…

*Tragedy at Second Narrows: The Story of the Ironworkers Memorial Bridge* / gebundene Ausgabe für 32.99 € / Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Wissenschaft, Geschichte Medien > Bücher nein Buch (gebunden) Bücher > Wissenschaft > Geschichte, HARBOUR PUB<