Published by Anchor Books/Nan A Talese, 1999
ISBN 10: 0385482493 ISBN 13: 9780385482493
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Published by Nan A. Talese / Anchor Books, New York, 1995
ISBN 10: 0385418493 ISBN 13: 9780385418492
Seller: Storbeck's, Georgetown, TX, U.S.A.
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Trade Paperback. Condition: Fine. First Edition Thus. No spine crease. 245 pages.
Published by Nan A. Talese / Anchor Books, 2004
ISBN 10: 0385495544 ISBN 13: 9780385495547
Seller: Yesterday's Muse, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, Webster, NY, U.S.A.
Trade Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. Reprint. Reprint. Remainder mark. 2004 Trade Paperback. xii, 304 pp. "In Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea, his fourth volume to explore 'the hinges of history,' Thomas Cahill escorts the reader on another entertaining?and historically unassailable?journey through the landmarks of art and bloodshed that defined Greek culture nearly three millennia ago. In the city-states of Athens and Sparta and throughout the Greek islands, honors could be won in making love and war, and lives were rife with contradictions. By developing the alphabet, the Greeks empowered the reader, demystified experience, and opened the way for civil discussion and experimentation?yet they kept slaves. The glorious verses of the Iliad recount a conflict in which rage and outrage spur men to action and suggest that their 'bellicose society of gleaming metals and rattling weapons' is not so very distant from more recent campaigns of 'shock and awe.' And, centuries before Zorba, Greece was a land where music, dance, and freely flowing wine were essential to the high life. Granting equal time to the sacred and the profane, Cahill rivets our attention to the legacies of an ancient and enduring worldview.
Published by Nan A. Talese / Anchor Books, 2008
ISBN 10: 0385495560 ISBN 13: 9780385495561
Seller: Yesterday's Muse, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, Webster, NY, U.S.A.
Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st Printing. First printing. Edge wear. 2008 Trade Paperback. 343 pp. After the long period of decline known as the Dark Ages, medieval Europe experienced a rebirth of scholarship, art, literature, philosophy, and science and began to develop a vision of Western society that remains at the heart of Western civilization today, from the entry of women into professions that had long been closed to them to the early investigations into alchemy that would form the basis of experimental science. On visits to the great cities of Europe-monumental Rome; the intellectually explosive Paris of Peter Abelard and Thomas Aquinas; the hotbed of scientific study that was Oxford; and the incomparable Florence of Dante and Giotto-acclaimed historian Thomas Cahill brilliantly captures the spirit of experimentation, the colorful pageantry, and the passionate pursuit of knowledge that built the foundations for the modern world.
Published by Nan A. Talese/Anchor Books, 2001
ISBN 10: 0385483724 ISBN 13: 9780385483728
Paperback. Condition: Good.
Published by Nan A. Talese / Anchor Books / Random House, Inc., 2005
ISBN 10: 0385511809 ISBN 13: 9780385511803
Seller: Adventures Underground, Richland, WA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Standard used condition. Reading copy or better. Used Book.
Published by Nan A. Talese / Anchor Books , a division of Random House, New York, 2003
Seller: Vero Beach Books, Vero Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Soft cover. Condition: New. New condition color photographic softcover wraps. Includes Acclaim for Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea; Preliminary Pages entitled The Hinges of History by Thomas Cahill; Dedication; Preliminary Page Quotes by Homer and William Butler Yeates; The Greek Alphabet; Pronouncing Glossary; Notes and Sources; Chronology; Acknowledgments; Index and About the Author. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs, map, and front and rear double page color plate endpapers. "The best introduction to classical Greek culture yet written . Learned, stylish and inspiring . Well-informed, insightful and on the whole written in a sparkling style." - Los Angeles Times. "In Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea, his fourth volume to explore "the hinges of history," Thomas Cahill escorts the reader on another entertaining -- and historically unassailable -- journey through the landmarks of art and bloodshed that defined Greek culture nearly three millennia ago. In the city-states of Athens and Sparta and throughout the Greek islands, honors could be won in making love and war, and lives were rife with contradictions. By developing the alphabet, the Greeks empowered the reader, demystified experience, and opened the way for civil discussion and experimentation -- yet they kept slaves. The glorious verses of the Iliad recount a conflict in which rage and outrage spur men to action and suggest that their "bellicose society of gleaming metals and rattling weapons" is not so very distant from more recent campaigns of "shock and awe." And, centuries before Zorba, Greece was a land where music, dance, and freely flowing wine were essential to the high life. Granting equal time to the sacred and the profane, Cahill rivets our attention to the legacies of an ancient and enduring worldview." - from the rear outer cover. "Astonishing . if anybody can get us reading about Homer, Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, Thucydides, Xenophon and more, Cahill will." - Chicago Tribune. "Fascinating . Commendable . Cahill has an impressive knowledge of the Greek world . HIs admirable skill at summing up movements of enormous complexity surfaces throughout the book." - The Seattle Times.
Published by Nan A. Talese / Anchor Books, St.Louis, 1990
Seller: Ziern-Hanon Galleries, Frontenac, MO, U.S.A.
Soft Cover. Condition: Fine. German Renaissance Prints from St. Louis Collections. New condition.
Published by Nan A. Talese / Anchor Books, New York, 1999
Seller: Ziern-Hanon Galleries, Frontenac, MO, U.S.A.
First Edition
Soft Cover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. FIRST EDITION, first printing (of the paperback edition). Original perfect bound softcover. No previous owner's names, not exlibrary. Overall in EXCELLENT conition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Paperback.
Published by Nan A. Talese / Anchor Books, New York, 1970
Seller: Ziern-Hanon Galleries, Frontenac, MO, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. New York (1970). First Edition. Fine.
Published by Nan A. Talese / Anchor Books
Seller: Ziern-Hanon Galleries, Frontenac, MO, U.S.A.
Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Large octavo hardback. 16 + 810 pages, map endpapers, numerous maps and photographs including some by the author never previously published. Publisher's original blue and red cloth in Very Good JACKET, gilt. Boards slightly rubbed at lower edges. Corners also very slightly bumped and rubbed. An eyewitness report on Red China, by the novelist, essayist, and newspaperman.
Published by Nan A. Talese - Anchor Books Edition, NEW YORK, 2001
ISBN 13: 2560224250554
Seller: Biblioteca di Babele, Tarquinia, VT, Italy
Condition: BUONO USATO. INGLESE Brossura commerciale, copertina a colori segnata da comuni tracce d'uso e da conservazione, modesti aloni di polvere, corredo illustrativo in quadricromia, completa i fogli avorio, molto ben tenuti, incorniciati da ossidazione trasmessa dai tagli. N. pag. 353.