Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Gream boards with cream spine imprinted in gold with title and author. Decorative endpapers. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 368 pages. After the long period of cultural decline known as the Dark Ages, 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. By placing the image of the Virgin Mary at the center of their churches and their lives, medieval people exalted womanhood to a level unknown in any...
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0.86 x 9.24 x 6.22 Inches. 224 pages. It was a miracle worthy of the season. When Captain Leonard La Rue spied from his twelve-man merchant ship, the Meredith Victory, the throng of Korean refugees on the docks of a city in flames, he didn't hesitate to do what others would consider impossible. In December of 1950, La Rue and his skeleton crew rescued fourteen thousand Korean refugees from the hands of the rapidly-approaching Chinese army in the city of Hungnam. Through the night and next day, a seemingly endless succession of refugees boarded the Meredith, their will to live and strong spirit...
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Minor edgewear at corners and head and tail of spine. Genealogical table.. 1.41 x 8.04 x 5.34 Inches. 560 pages
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