Buy this book on-line Rood, Tim : The Sea! The Sea! : The Shout of the Ten Thousand in the Modern ImaginationDuckworth Overlook, New York, 2005 ISBN 1585676640
"'The Sea! The Sea! ' tells the story of 'Thalatta! Thalatta!', the shout first uttered on a mountains in eastern Turkey by the famous Ten Thousand, the army of Greek mercenaries whose adventures in what are now Turkey, Syria and Iraq were described by the Athenian historian and philosopher Xenophon. The shout itself has had an extraordinary afterlife, playing a persistent part in the European and American cultural tradition over the last two hundred years. Tim Rood tells its story for the first time, taking in literary masterpieces by writers such as Heine, Shelley and Joyce, books of travel and adventure set in the Middle East and elsewhere, articles in Victorian periodicals, popular romance novels, newspaper editorials at the time of the British evacuation from Dunkirk, a painting by the nineteenth-century artist Benjamin Robert Haydon, an unpublished radio play by Louis MacNeice, and a modern novel and film which transfer Xenophon's story to New York City. 262p. illus. bibliography.index. Book. Book Condition: As New. Binding: Soft cover Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Rood, Tim : The Sea! The Sea! : The Shout of the Ten Thousand in the Modern Imagination. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including libri antichi, used books, atlases, collectables and livres illustrées. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |