An Awakening World
Autor Raimund Schulz Traducere de Marshall Yarbroughen Limba Engleză Hardback – 20 apr 2027
With epic scope and vivid storytelling, An Awakening World reimagines our shared past-and sheds new light on its enduring impacts.
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Raimund Schulz is professor of ancient history at the University of Bielefeld and the author of To the Ends of the Earth. He lives in Bielefeld, Germany.
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Praise for TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH
A wonderful romp through the history of Greco-Roman exploration ... a complete joy to read, I learned something on every single page
Schulz' comprehensive study of conquest and exploration follows Bronze Age adventurers on paths that lead to dangers courted that will daunt its readers
A compelling, vivid account .. Schulz' history decenters the Classical powerhouses and expands in every cardinal direction
Deft and lively ... he treats geography as a kind of literature
So deft is the author's handling of his material, and so lively his touch with ancient sources, that the reader never flags... Schulz has, I think, a convincing sense of why explorers' mental worlds are transcendent--always imagined before they become real, always fantastic even when experienced. His way of treating geography as a kind of literature, documented in poetry and fiction as much as in scholarship and science, helps us see explorers as they commonly saw themselves: heroes of fictions of their own, based in part on their readings, in part on their yearnings.
Schulz' comprehensive study of commerce, conquest and exploration follows various Bronze Age adventurers on paths that lead to Carthage, Persia, India, China and elsewhere... The dangers courted by travellers in To the Ends of the Earth will daunt its readers. The wonders paraded ought to impress or inspire them. But it is to the curiosity of the ancient explorers that we owe the greatest debt
To the Ends Of the Earth is a synthetic and incisive discussion of why exploration took place in environments where leaving home would be a difficult and often fatal proposition. The chronological scope of the book is impressive and includes issues of why exploration seemed to come to a stop in late Roman times and then began again in the Renaissance. There is no recent book available that covers the broad range of exploration found in Schulz' book
Exploration of "new worlds" did not start with Columbus. In To the Ends of the Earth, Schulz offers a compelling, vivid account of those earlier journeys and the connectivity they brought across unfathomable distances and cultural divides. Following the trail of epic enterprises, technological innovations, and obscure knowledge-chains of Phoenicians, Greeks, Persians, and Romans, among others, Schulz' history decenters the Classical powerhouses and expands in every cardinal direction beyond colonial and imperial networks
To the Ends of the Earth is a wonderful romp through the history of Greco-Roman exploration, revealing an important and underappreciated aspect of the ancient Mediterranean world. From Phoenician sailors to the campaigns of Alexander and the wonders described by Pytheas in the north Atlantic, Schulz reminds us how new knowledge was created, and what the impacts of newly encountered places were on the Greco-Roman world. This is a very well written and serious book, and a complete joy to read. I learned something on every single page
A wonderful romp through the history of Greco-Roman exploration ... a complete joy to read, I learned something on every single page
Schulz' comprehensive study of conquest and exploration follows Bronze Age adventurers on paths that lead to dangers courted that will daunt its readers
A compelling, vivid account .. Schulz' history decenters the Classical powerhouses and expands in every cardinal direction
Deft and lively ... he treats geography as a kind of literature
So deft is the author's handling of his material, and so lively his touch with ancient sources, that the reader never flags... Schulz has, I think, a convincing sense of why explorers' mental worlds are transcendent--always imagined before they become real, always fantastic even when experienced. His way of treating geography as a kind of literature, documented in poetry and fiction as much as in scholarship and science, helps us see explorers as they commonly saw themselves: heroes of fictions of their own, based in part on their readings, in part on their yearnings.
Schulz' comprehensive study of commerce, conquest and exploration follows various Bronze Age adventurers on paths that lead to Carthage, Persia, India, China and elsewhere... The dangers courted by travellers in To the Ends of the Earth will daunt its readers. The wonders paraded ought to impress or inspire them. But it is to the curiosity of the ancient explorers that we owe the greatest debt
To the Ends Of the Earth is a synthetic and incisive discussion of why exploration took place in environments where leaving home would be a difficult and often fatal proposition. The chronological scope of the book is impressive and includes issues of why exploration seemed to come to a stop in late Roman times and then began again in the Renaissance. There is no recent book available that covers the broad range of exploration found in Schulz' book
Exploration of "new worlds" did not start with Columbus. In To the Ends of the Earth, Schulz offers a compelling, vivid account of those earlier journeys and the connectivity they brought across unfathomable distances and cultural divides. Following the trail of epic enterprises, technological innovations, and obscure knowledge-chains of Phoenicians, Greeks, Persians, and Romans, among others, Schulz' history decenters the Classical powerhouses and expands in every cardinal direction beyond colonial and imperial networks
To the Ends of the Earth is a wonderful romp through the history of Greco-Roman exploration, revealing an important and underappreciated aspect of the ancient Mediterranean world. From Phoenician sailors to the campaigns of Alexander and the wonders described by Pytheas in the north Atlantic, Schulz reminds us how new knowledge was created, and what the impacts of newly encountered places were on the Greco-Roman world. This is a very well written and serious book, and a complete joy to read. I learned something on every single page