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Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan is a bewitching look into a world that few Westerners saw in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries-a world that still endures in many ways …
Excerpt: "e;The greatest artists have expressed themselves so completely in their works, that the story of their lives adds little or nothing to our knowledge of their …
A collection of Hawaiian, Samoans, Maori and and other Polynesian legends about the demi-god Maui and his mother Hina. William Drake Westervelt (December 26, 1849 - March 9, 1939) …
Traces the development of marine art in both Europe and America,from the classical world to the present day. This history explores the various moods and themes of the genre.
This book, one of six composed by Dr. Westervelt, is an intriguing blend of Hawaiian legends and chronicled stories. The starting points of the Hawaiian public, the demi-god Maui's …
Eine Einführung in die Japanische Literatur vom Altertum bis in die Moderne (Urzeit, Nara-Zeit, Heian-Zeit, Kamakura-Zeit, Nambokucho-Zeit , Muromachi-Zeit, Tokugawa-Zeit, …
Excerpt: "e;It is not known for certain exactly when or how Turner became acquainted with Mr. Walter Ramsden Hawksworth Fawkes of Farnley Hall. Several biographers say that …
A blind musician with amazing talent is called upon to perform for the dead. Faceless creatures haunt an unwary traveler. A beautiful woman - the personification of winter at its …
Excerpt: "e;A drawing is a thing to be looked at and not written about. Pages and pages written about it will not make a good drawing bad nor a bad drawing good; nor will they, …
A great read for Egyptologists who like to read and see what the general consensus was in the field's early stage of thought. It was written 1912. (Goodreads)