1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910451058703321

Autore

Anderson Scott <1965->

Titolo

Distant fires [[electronic resource] /] / by Scott Anderson ; with illustrations by Les C. Kouba

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Duluth, MN, : Pfeifer-Hamilton, c1990

ISBN

0-8166-9964-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (177 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

KoubaLeslie C. <1917->

Disciplina

797.1220971

Soggetti

Canoes and canoeing - Canada

Canoes and canoeing - Minnesota

Electronic books.

Canada Description and travel

Minnesota Description and travel

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; 1. Baptism; 2. The Shore; 3. Grand Portage; 4. Height O' Land; 5. Kawnipi; 6. Call Me Ishmeal; 7. Namakan Moon, Underwear Fires; 8. River's Edge; 9. Dam Portages; 10. The Mountie's Daughters; 11. Ghosts; 12. False Dawn; 13. Horror at the Fish Camp; 14. The Melting Pot; 15. New in Town; 16. A House of God; 17. The Solitude of Four; 18. A Burning Sky; 19. The Last B.D; 20. Distant Fires

Sommario/riassunto

Distant Fires is the classic canoe-trip story...with a twist of wry. Scott Anderson chronicles a canoe adventure that began on a mother's front porch in Duluth, Minnesota, and ended three months and 1,700 miles later at historic York Factory on the shores of Hudson Bay.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910460058003321

Titolo

New perspectives on the origins of Americanist archaeology [[electronic resource] /] / edited by David L. Browman and Stephen Williams

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2002

ISBN

0-8173-1325-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (392 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BrowmanDavid L

WilliamsStephen <1926->

Disciplina

973/.01

Soggetti

Indians of North America - Antiquities

Archaeology - United States - History

Archaeology - United States - Methodology

Anthropology - United States - History

Indianists - United States - History

Women archaeologists - United States - History

Electronic books.

United States Antiquities Congresses

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"This volume grew out of the Second Gordon R. Willey Biennial Symposium on the History of Archaeology, held at the annual meetings of the Society for American Archaeology in Seattle, Washington, in 1998, where eight of the twelve papers in this volume were initially presented"--Pref.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-366) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Introduction / David L. Browman and Stephen Williams; 1. The Strait of Anian: A Pathway to the New World / Stephen Williams; 2. "From Whence Came Those Aboriginal Inhabitants of America?" A.D. 1500-1800 / Stephen Williams; 3. Roots of the Walam Olum: Constantine Samuel Rafinesque and the Intellectual Heritage of the Early Nineteenth Century / David M. Oestreicher; 4. Toward a Science of Man: European Influences on the Archaeology of Ephraim George Squier / Terry A. Barnhart

5. Charles Rau: Developments in the Career of a Nineteenth-Century German-American Archaeologist / John E. Kelly 6. Europe's Prehistoric Dawn Reproduced: Daniel Wilson's Magisterial Archaeology / Alice B.



Kehoe; 7. Maine Shell Midden Archaeology (1860-1910) and the Influence of Adolphe von Morlot / Bruce J. Bourque; 8. Frances Eliza Babbitt and the Growth of Professionalism of Women in Archaeology / Hilary Lynn Chester; 9. Henry Chapman Mercer: Archaeologist and Cultural Historian / David L. Browman

10. Frederic Ward Putnam: Contributions to the Development of Archaeological Institutions and Encouragement of Women Practitioners / David L. Browman 11. Origins of Stratigraphic Excavation in North America: The Peabody Museum Method and the Chicago Method / David L. Browman; 12. George Grant MacCurdy: An American Pioneer of Palaeoanthropology / Harvey M. Bricker; Notes; References; Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In this landmark book, experienced scholars take a retrospective look at the developing routes that have brought American archaeologists into the 21st century.    In 1996, the Society for American Archaeology's Committee on the History of Archaeology established a biennial symposium named after Gordon R. Willey, one of the fathers of American archaeology, to focus on the history of the discipline. This volume grew out of the second symposium, presented at the 1998 meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.     Interest in the



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910743094503321

Autore

Mazzola, Roberto <1954- >

Titolo

La circolazione dei saperi scientifici tra Napoli e l'Europa nel 18. secolo / a cura di Roberto Mazzola ; presentazione di Manuela Sanna ; con la collaborazione di Claudia Addabbo ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Pomigliano d'Arco, : Diogene, 2013

ISBN

978-88-6647-045-8

Edizione

[1. ed. italiana]

Descrizione fisica

168 p. ; 21 cm

Altri autori (Persone)

Addabbo, Claudia

Disciplina

509.4573

Locazione

FLFBC

Collocazione

DFT E15 MAZR 01

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Relazioni presentate al Convegno tenuto a Napoli nel 2012