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The island of seven cities: the discovery of a lost Chinese settlement in the Americas
Par Paul Chiasson. 2006
2002. Architect Paul Chiasson climbed a mountain on Cape Breton and found an old wide, well-made road, once flanked by…
walls. After two years of study, he believed that these ruins were originally built by the Chinese, as part of a large colony that thrived on Canadian shores well before the European Age of Discovery. Chiasson addresses how the colony was abandoned and forgotten except in the storytelling and culture of the Mi'kmaq, whose written language, clothing, technical knowledge, religious beliefs and legends expose deep cultural roots in China. 2006.The mummy congress: science, obsession, and the everlasting dead
Par Heather Anne Pringle. 2001
After covering a conference of mummy experts, science reporter Heather Pringle became so intrigued with mummies that she spent a…
year circling the globe, visiting leading scientists in the field. She also investigated preserved Italian saints, Scandinavian mummies in bogs, and frozen Inca princesses. Pringle researched Egyptian embalmers, the past public craze for mummy unwrappings, and the Russians' attempts to preserve Stalin, and along the way learned what mummies have to tell us about ourselves. Winner of the 2002 CNIB Torgi Award. 2001.L'aventure de Miguel Littin, clandestin au Chili (Le livre de poche ; #6550)
Par Gabriel García Márquez, Jean-Claude Masson. 1986
Miguel Littín est chilien et metteur en scène de cinéma. Il fait partie des 5 000 Chiliens qui sont interdits…
de séjour dans leur pays. Au début de l'année 1985, pourtant, Miguel Littín est rentré clandestinement au Chili. Pendant six semaines, grâce à la résistance intérieure, il a réussi à diriger trois équipes de nationalités différentes pour filmer clandestinement, jusque dans le palais présidentiel, la réalité du pays sous la dictature militaire. Le résultat visible de cette aventure est un film de quatre heures pour la télévision et une version de deux heures pour les salles de cinéma. Le résultat lisible est autre chose encore: l'aventure de Miguel Littín, c'est de retrouver son pays sans avoir le droit de s'y montrer autrement qu'en étranger; c'est aussi de confronter ses opinions d'exilé avec la réalité de la résistance d'aujourd'hui. C'est enfin de s'interroger sur la validité et sur l'utilité de la création dans une lutte politique. On comprend dès lors les raisons pour lesquelles Gabriel Garcia Marquez a tenu à écrire ce récit. 1986. Titre uniforme: La aventura de Miguel Littin clandestino en Chile.Vermeer: le jour et l'heure : [entretiens] (Des vies)
Par Jacques Darriulat, Raphaël Enthoven. 2017
Une jeune fille rêve près de la fenêtre. Le jour entre à flots, caresse les surfaces, épouse les reliefs et…
dore son visage... Dans cette intimité ouverte et recluse à la fois, les murs et les êtres reçoivent, comme une grâce, l'ondoiement de la lumière, et tout évoque un ailleurs dont le chemin s'est perdu. En un mot, le monde est beau. C'est l'unique leçon de Vermeer. Encore faut-il ouvrir les yeux... Mais comment faire ? Comment regarder ce qu'en général nous voyons sans y prêter attention ? Ou comment voir ce qu'ordinairement nous regardons sans y penser ? En donnant la parole à ces éducateurs du regard qui empruntent le chemin de la connaissance pour en venir à la simplicité même. Au bout du savoir, c'est l'évidence qui nous attend. Et la saveur inaltérée d'un monde stupéfiant, lumineux et serein : le nôtre. 2017.Lettres à son frère Théo ((L'imaginaire (Gallimard (Firme)) ; 206).)
Par Vincent Van Gogh, Pascal Bonafoux, Louis Roëdlant. 1988
La première lettre de Vincent Van Gogh à Théo, datée d'août 1872, est envoyée de La Haye. Il a dix-neuf…
ans. Il ne sait pas qu'il va peindre. La dernière lettre, inachevée, Théo la trouve dans la poche de Vincent qui s'est tiré une balle dans la poitrine le 27 juillet 1890. Durant dix-huit ans, Vincent écrit à Théo à propos de tout, comme il lui envoie toutes ses toiles. Il lui montre ce qu'il peint comme ce qu'il est. Van Gogh n'est pas un peintre fou. Au contraire, solitaire, déchiré, malade, affamé, il ne cesse d'écrire, lucide, comme il traque la lumière. -- 4e de couv.This and that: the lost stories of Emily Carr
Par Emily Carr, Ann-Lee Switzer. 2007
Carr began to write these stories in the last two years of her life. Enter Emily's world with stories like…
"Father's Temper," "The First Snow" and "Smoking with the Cow," stories in which she reveals details of her family life, school days, her fascination with nature, animals she loved and how she learned to smoke. Some descriptions of sex and violence, some strong language. 2007.Spring will come
Par William N Zulu. 2005
The life story of William Zulu, a linocut artist, highly acclaimed for his evocative art-works. Having contracted spinal TB as…
a baby, William underwent misplaced corrective surgery to his spine in his late teens which left him paralysed and permanently wheelchair bound. But William's story is no victim's litany; it recounts with zest and humour the events of his life, his unfolding artistic development and the world of deep rural Africa in which he is rooted. 2005.A black man called Sekoto
Par N. Chabani Manganyi. 1996
Drawing on a series of interviews with Gerard Sekoto and on Sekoto's extensive correspondence with art historian Barbara Lindop, this…
book explores the life of an artist who left South Africa for exile in France in order to remain true to his creative talents. This narrative of exile explores the impact on Sekoto's artistic output, specifically on scenes from his native South Africa, of the artist's tenuous relation to his adopted environment and his dependence on memory. 1996.The Group of Seven in western Canada
Par Catharine M Mastin. 2002
In 1920, when the Group of Seven was founded, free rail passes were still available to Canadian artists so they…
would make images that would familiarize Eastern Canadians with the West - and almost all of the Group's members used the perk. Commentary by six Canadian scholars and curators explores the deep importance of the West for the artists and their work. Includes insights into A.Y. Jackson and Edwin Holgate's interpretations - and misinterpretations - of the Skeena people, and Frederick Varley's troubled relationships with his wife and lovers. Some descriptions of sex. 2002.Discover bones (Discover Ser.)
Par Lesley Grant. 1991
Bones can do many things. They help you to play. Some people make jewellery out of them. Plus, they're alive!…
Bones can also tell us a lot about our bodies and the world around us. Included in this book are activities that will help you learn about bones and all the things they can teach us! Several tactiles illustrating the shapes of various bones are included. Grades 3-6. 1991.Leonardo da Vinci
Par Walter Isaacson. 2017
Based on thousands of pages from Leonardo's astonishing notebooks and new discoveries about his life and work, Isaacson weaves a…
narrative that connects his art to his science. He shows how Leonardo's genius was based on skills we can improve in ourselves, such as passionate curiosity, careful observation, and an imagination so playful that it flirted with fantasy. He produced the two most famous paintings in history, The Last Supper and the Mona Lisa. But in his own mind, he was just as much a man of science and technology. With a passion that sometimes became obsessive, he pursued innovative studies of anatomy, fossils, birds, the heart, flying machines, botany, geology, and weaponry. His ability to stand at the crossroads of the humanities and the sciences, made iconic by his drawing of Vitruvian Man, made him history's most creative genius. Bestseller. 2017.Gainsborough: a portrait
Par James Hamilton. 2017
Thomas Gainsborough was a gentle and empathetic family man, but had a volatility that could lead him to slash his…
paintings, and a loose libidinous way of speaking, writing and behaving that shocked many deeply. James Hamilton reveals Gainsborough in his many contexts: the easy-going Suffolk lad; the rake-on-the-make in London; and the top society-portrait painter. 2017.February 1945. The war is almost over and Britain and America rule the waves, but sixty young Nazi soldiers still…
choose to undertake a mission in U-869 - to reach and bomb the coast of America. Several weeks later the boat barely has enough fuel to make it home and radio links with Germany are broken. The commander, Neuerberg, must make a tough decision: to carry on to America and risk death in the pursuit of glory, or to admit defeat and return home. Driven by pride, patriotism and determination, he decides to risk it. In 1991, a group of deep-sea divers hear about the wreck of a U-boat 260 feet beneath the sea. There are virtually no records of the Nazi submarine, and an on-location investigation is extremely dangerous. But twelve divers decide to take the risk. Over the next six years they eventually piece together an incredible story. 2004.Wrapped for eternity: the story of the Egyptian mummy
Par Mildred Mastin Pace, Tom Huffman. 1974
Wild and woolly: tails from a woodland studio
Par Linda Johns. 2000
Linda Johns, a full-time painter and sculptor, has opened her heart and the doors of her woodland home and studio…
in rural Nova Scotia to a constant stream of stray and wounded creatures - some of them have moved in permanently. In "Wild and Woolly", she records a year lived in harmony with the seasons and - not always harmoniously - with her many furred and feathered companions. 2000.We were brothers: a memoir (Southern voices)
Par Barry Moser. 2016
Brothers Barry and Tommy Moser were born of the same parents in Chattanooga, Tennessee, slept in the same bedroom, went…
to the same school, and were both poisoned by their family's deep racism and anti-Semitism. But as they grew older, their perspectives and their paths grew further and further apart. The brothers began to think so differently that they could no longer find common ground. After one particularly fractious conversation when Barry was in his late fifties and Tommy was in his early sixties, their fragile relationship fell apart. With the raw emotions that so often surface when we talk of our siblings, Barry recalls how they were finally able to traverse that great divide and reconcile their troubled brotherhood before it was too late. 2016.Walking the Bible: a journey by land through the five books of Moses
Par Bruce S Feiler. 2001
One part adventure story, one part archaeological detective work, one part spiritual exploration, author Feiler recounts a personal odyssey -…
by foot, jeep, rowboat, and camel - to retrace the Five Books of Moses through the desert. Along with archaeologist Avner Goren, he treks through Turkey, Israel, the Palestinian territories, Egypt, the Sinai, and Jordan, visiting the actual places of some of history's most storied events, from the mountain where Noah's ark landed to the site of the legendary burning bush. 2001.Vermeer's hat: the seventeenth century and the dawn of the global world
Par Timothy Brook. 2008
A painting shows a military officer in a Dutch sitting room, talking to a laughing girl, while in another, a…
woman at a window weighs pieces of silver. These pictures offer a remarkable view of a rapidly expanding world. Moving outward from Vermeer's studio, Brook traces the web of trade that was spreading across the globe, and shows how the urge to acquire foreign goods was refashioning the world more powerfully than we have yet understood. Explicit descriptions of violence. c2008.Valley of the Kings
Par John Romer. 1981
A popular historical account of one of the world's richest archaeological sites, the valley that contains all the known tombs…
of the pharaohs of the Egyptian New Kingdom. This double account tells the story of both the magnificent tombs themselves and the travelers and diggers of recent centuries who have hunted for the mysterious past of ancient Egypt. 1981.Une femme
Par Anne Delbée. 1982
Pour la première fois, un livre nous révèle la vie extraordinaire de Camille Claudel. Soeur ainée de l'écrivain Paul Claudel,…
Camille a connu, en tant que femme et en tant qu'artiste (sculpteur), un destin hors du commun. 1982.