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Die bewegende Geschichte einer ungewöhnlichen Freundschaft

Theo reist an den Ort, wo Nord- und Ostsee sich treffen: nach Skagen, den äußersten Zipfel Dänemarks. Die Schönheit und Kraft des Meeres haben ihn seit jeher fasziniert, als Meeresbiologe waren das Meer und seine Bewohner, die er bei aufregenden Tauchgängen erforscht hat, sein Leben - bis zu einem tragischen Unfall während einer Forschungsreise, seit dem er sich nicht mehr überwinden kann, ins Wasser zu gehen. Am Strand von Skagen trifft er den zehnjährigen Ben, der dort schwimmen lernen soll, aber...

Linnie Ann Adams and her father leave Illinois for Denver expecting abundant rewards from a gold mine investment. All too soon both the stock and Linnie Ann's father die, and she is left penniless and without prospects.
She agrees to assist a mining town doctor in Rhodochrosite, Colorado, where explosions, cave-ins, barroom violence, childhood epidemics, and home childbirths fill her days. As time goes by and her skills grow, she finds herself on staff at Maimonides Mountain Hospital for Consumptives in Denver. One day a fierce Colorado thunderstorm brings in a patient, someone she...

• Examines the idea of authenticity and its role in modern culture
  
• Explores society's preoccupation with authenticity and the search for 'real' experiences
  
• Looks at how the concept of authenticity...

Wielding their swords in the name of their faith, the crusaders originally set out to reclaim Jerusalem and its surrounding territory in the Middle East. Increasingly, however, Eastern Europe and the last remaining bastions of pagan Europe became the targets of their religious zeal.

The era officially began in 1147, when the Saxons, Danes, and Poles, responding to Pope Eugene III's call, initiated a crusade against the Wends of the Southern Baltic. This was followed by crusades against the Livonians, Estonians, Finns, Prussians, and Lithuanians. By the 13th century much of the...

Less than thirty years after Lewis and Clark completed their epic journey, Prince Maximilian of Wied a German naturalist and his entourage set off on their own daring expedition across North America. Accompanying the prince on this 1832 34 voyage was Swiss artist Karl Bodmer, whose drawings and watercolors designed to illustrate Maximilian s journals now rank among the great treasures of nineteenth-century American art. This lavishly illustrated book juxtaposes Bodmer s landscape images with modern-day photographs of the same views, allowing readers to see what has changed, and what seems...