Although nearly forgotten today, the prophetic writing of Wilhelm Friess was the most popular work of its kind in Germany in the second half of the sixteenth century. Frans Fraet was executed for printing a prognostication by Willem de Vriese, but this prognostication was though…
An intrepid journalist's investigation of coldblooded murder in Chinese-occupied Tibet leads him deep within a lawless world in the land of the snows.
A journalist investigates a cold-blooded murder at a Mt. Everest base camp in Chinese-occupied Tibet, a probe during which he learns about the lawless world in the shadows of the world's tallest peaks.
The once indomitable peaks of the Himalaya, which have long served to isolate Tibet from its neighbors, have meanwhile become the ultimate test for serious Western mountain climbers. Each year, increasing numbers seek glory and an escape from the drudgery of their lives-an answe…
Printing and Prophecy: Prognostication and Media Change 1450-1550 examines prognostic traditions and late medieval prophetic texts in the first century of printing and their effect on the new medium of print. The many prophetic and prognostic works that followed Europe's earlies…