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DIGGING FOR THE TRUTH
₨ 5,656
ISBN: 9781592402779
Publisher: GOTHAM BOOKS
Subtitle: ONE MAN’S EPIC ADVENTURE EXPLORING THE WORLD’S GREATEST ARCHAEOLOGY MYSTERIES
Author: JOSH BERNSTEIN -
MADAME SADAYAKKO
₨ 2,050At twenty-nine, she captivated the world’s stage. From San Francisco to New York, Paris, and Berlin, audiences thrilled to her mesmeric acting and exquisite dancing. She performed for the American President and for the Prince of Wales in London. Picasso painted her. Gide, Debussy, Degas, and Rodin were among her devoted fans. She was Sadayakko, Japan’s most notorious geisha – and its first international superstar. In Italy, Puccini was working on “Madame Butterfly. He had the plot for his opera, but he had yet to see a real live flesh-and-blood Japanese woman–until Sadayakko arrived with her troupe of travelling actors. Madame Sadayakko is the true story of this extraordinary woman – muse to writers, artists, and fashion designers. Her adventures lift the veil on the secretive world of the geisha and reveal a missing piece of history from the turn of the last century, when Japanese women wore bustles and learned the waltz and women in the West wore Sadayakko kimonos.
ISBN: 1592400507
Publisher: GOTHAM BOOKS
Subtitle: THE GEISHA WHO BEWITCHED THE WEST
Author: LESLEY DOWNER -
THE GENEALOGY OF GREEK MYTHOLOGY
₨ 3,940A stunning, fully illustrated and comprehensively annotated genealogical map of the universe of Greek myth; presented in a unique, easy-to-use format
From the television hit Xena, to the Oscar-winning box-office smash Gladiator, to Broadway’s Medea, the sagas of antiquity continue to attract avid audiences. Now, the lore and legend of Ancient Greece has been distilled into one spectacularly illustrated resource: The Genealogy of Greek Mythology brings to life the complete cast of characters, mortal and mythic alike. Accompanied by more than 125 captivating full-color photographs of art and artifacts, the narratives and bloodlines mapped out in The Genealogy of Greek Mythology are wonderfully user friendly. Beginning with Chaos — before the Earth was born — Vanessa James traces the succession of gods and titans through to the first generations of historically verifiable people of the ancient Aegean. Packed with over 4,000 entries, this incredibly detailed resource also features a star chart, regional map, and who’s who guide to the Olympian gods. The book’s unique accordion-page design can be perused section by section or fanned out to reveal the entire genealogy in seventeen elegant feet on each side.
Published just in time for the holidays, The Genealogy of Greek Mythology will be a necessity for all students and fans of the culture and literature of Ancient Greece, and a delight for anyone who enjoys an adventure.
ISBN: 1592400132
Publisher: GOTHAM BOOKS
Subtitle: AN ILLUSTRATED FAMILY TREE OF GREEK MYTH FROM THE FIRST GODS TO THE FOUNDERS OF ROME
Author: VANESSA JAMES