A collection of anecdotes, memories of court and religious ceremonies, character sketches, diary entries, and poetry excerpts that help describe what daily life was like in the upper classes in Japan during the Heian period.
Translation of an early eleventh-century novel about the life of Japanese nobleman Genji, the son of an emperor who finds himself falling in love with women who remind him of the mother he lost in his youth.
Michael Wood follows in the footsteps of some of history's greatest Spanish conquistadors, relating the adventures of Hernan Cortes, Francisco and Gonzalo Pizarro, Cabeza de Vaca, and others in Mexico, Peru, the Amazon, and America.
Spanish seminarian Julian Escobar, known to the Mayas as Lord Kukulcan and worshipped as a god, witnesses the fall of the Mayan and Incan civilizations with the coming of Cortes and Pizarro.
Translation of an early eleventh-century novel about the life of Japanese nobleman Genji, the son of an emperor who finds himself falling in love with women who remind him of the mother he lost in his youth.
explore the rich history of Asia and the Far East, and the fascinating cultures of ancient Mesopotamia, India, China, and Japan
Oakes, Lorna
2003
Presents profiles of cultures in Mesopotamia, the Chinese empire, and ancient India and Japan, describing their histories, traditions, and everyday life, and includes time lines, and related projects.
