1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990000875270403321

Autore

Thomson, Audrey Jean

Titolo

2: Exercises 2. 205 p.

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1980

ISBN

0-19-431337-9

Edizione

[2. ed.]

Descrizione fisica

2v. (p. 381 compless.) 22 cm

Disciplina

425

Locazione

FINBN

Collocazione

000087527000001

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991002262339707536

Autore

Fairweather, Janet

Titolo

Seneca the Elder / Janet Fairweather

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge [etc.] : Cambridge university press, 1981

ISBN

0521231019

Descrizione fisica

418 p. ; 23 cm

Collana

Cambridge classical studies

Disciplina

875.01

Soggetti

Retorica - Roma antica - Storia

Seneca, Lucio Anneo Studio critico

Seneca, Lucio Anneo Studio critico

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910806120303321

Autore

Hill Barry

Titolo

Peacemongers / / Barry Hill

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Saint Lucia, Queensland, Australia : , : University of Queensland Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-7022-5308-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (678 p.)

Disciplina

291.446

Soggetti

Pilgrims and pilgrimages

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title page; Author's Note - Rabindranath Tagore; Dedication; Epigraph; Contents;  1 SLIPPERY BUDDHA; 2 TAGORE GOES EAST - First Visit to Japan; 3 IN THE NAME OF THE BUDDHA - Tagore's Return to the Far East, 1924 and 1929; 4 TAGORE'S PIANO; 5 MOTHER BURNING; 6 REASON AND LOVELESSNESS - Tagore, the Tokyo Trial and Justice Pal; 7 AT THE EDGE OF THE FOREST - Essential Death, Essential Life; 8 HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR; 9 THREE DAYS LATER; 10 TRUE DREAMS OF FLIGHT; Acknowledgments; Bibliography; Endnotes; Index; Copyright

Sommario/riassunto

A literary masterpiece, this latest book from award-winning author Barry Hill is a travel book, a history book, and a peace book. His odyssey begins with a pilgrimage to Bodhi Gaya in India, where the Buddha received enlightenment, and ends after he reaches Nagasaki, Japan, in the aftermath of its atomic bomb. His traveling is imbued with the life and ideas of India's greatest artist and intellectual, Rabindranath Tagore, along with that of M. K. Gandhi, who Tagore called "Mahatma," Great Soul. He's then traveling, like Tagore, in Japan, and meditating on its militarist turn, its warmongering