Product Description
Contents: Mars. I. Atmosphere, Lines on his Mathematics Instructor, Augustus Lowell and Letter to Amy Lowell. Percival Lawrence Lowell (1855-1916) was a businessman, author, mathematician, and astronomer who fuelled speculation that there were canals on Mars, founded the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, and formed the beginning of the effort that led to the discovery of Pluto 14 years after his death. The choice of the name Pluto and its symbol were partly influenced by his initials PL. Percival graduated from the Noble and Greenough School in 1872 and Harvard University in 1876 with distinction in mathematics. In the 1880s, he travelled extensively in the Far East. In August 1883, he served as a foreign secretary and counsellor for a special Korean diplomatic mission to the United States. He also spent significant periods of time in Japan, writing books on Japanese religion, psychology, and behavior. His works include: The Soul of the Far East, (1888), Noto (1891) and Occult Japan (1894). ... Read more

Product Description
Toward the middle of the afternoon we reached a part of the coast locally famous or infamous, for the two were one; a stretch of some miles where the mountains made no apology for falling abruptly into the sea. Sheer for several hundred feet, the shore is here unscalable. Nor did it use to be possible to go round by land, for the cliffs are merely the ends of mountain-chains, themselves utterly wild and tractless. ... Read more

Product Description
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

Product Description
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

Product Description
December' 7.--Leaving the nine horses hobbled to feed near the water the Brothers separated, one taking up and the other down the river to look for the others, in hopes that they might also have turned back, but met again in the afternoon, each without success. Starting back (with the nine recovered yesterday) at about two o'clock, they returned to the camp, where fresh troubles awaited them. Only two of the others had been found, and the party with the pack-horses had succeeded in losing the mule, together with his pack. ... Read more

Product Description
Description of canals and oases of Mars by astronomer Perceval Lowell, placed here because, hey, at least he meant well. ... Read more

Product Description
Notwithstanding the fact that Cathay was the happy possessor of gunpowder, movable type, and the compass before such things were dreamt of in Europe, she owed them to no knowledge of physics, chemistry, or mechanics. It was as arts, not as sciences, they were invented. And it speaks volumes for her civilization that she burnt her powder for fireworks, not for firearms. ... Read more

Product Description
The Collection includes:
1- The Jessup North Pacific Expedition, CHUKCHEE MYTHOLOGY.
2- KORYAK TEXTS by Waldemar Bogoras.
3- RELIGIONS OF ANCIENT CHINA by HERBERT A. GILES.
4- TALES OF YUKAGHIR, LAMUT, AND RUSSIANIZED NATIVES OF EASTERN SIBERIA BY WALDEMAR BOGORAS.
5- The Garden Of Bright Waters One Hundred And Twenty Asiatic Love Poems.
6- THE IDEALS OF THE EAST WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE ART OF JAPAN by KAKUZO OKAKURA.
7- The Soul of the Far East by Percival Lowell. ... Read more

Product Description
Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: William Henry Bramble, John Osborne, Reuben Meade, Lowell Lewis, Percival Austin Bramble, David Brandt, Bertrand Osborne. Excerpt: William Henry Bramble (19011988), also known as Willy B, was a union leader and a political-party leader from Montserrat; from his Montserrat Labour Party, he was the first Chief Minister of the country, serving from January 1960 to December 1970. Owing to his social compromise for the poor and political action, Bramble is generally regarded as a "national hero", and the former national airport of Montserrat had been named after him, that is until it was destroyed by the 1997 eruption of the Soufriere Hills volcano which has virtually buried half of the nation. He has had two illegitimate sons, Tesfaye and Titus Bramble, both of whom are fantastic footballers, particularly Tesfaye who has carved out a fantastic career as a lethal goalscorer in the lower leagues. William Bramble was the son of J. T. Allen, a famous social activist, and Mary Ryan, a conventional lower class woman. William had started primary school, yet he was economically unable to finish it. It was the mother who mostly took care of him during those early years; William worked the soil of their poor farm, while learning for trade activities as well. By the 1920s, William Bramble had joined the Seventh-day Adventist Church, initially as an enthusiastic member, then with a waning participation. In those years, he lived of peddling religious books round Montserrat and Dominica. In 1930, Bramble got married to Ann Daley, who was a strict Adventist instead. They begot five children (Austin, Doris, Laurel, Howell, and Olga), of whom the oldest would get into politics as well. For supporting his large family, Bramble had forcibly to start further econo... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=4158987 ... Read more