"Picturesque," "immense," "fantastic," and "sublime" are a few of the ways early British travellers described the landscape of the Rocky Mountains and the surrounding terrain. As part of a long tradition of British travellers' tales, these tourists—explorers, sportsmen, writers, scientists, artists, missionaries, and merchants—sought ways to describe the vastness and strangeness of the North American landscape to a British audience.Using their published and unpublished accounts as ...

Death is a topic that has fascinated people for centuries. In the English-speaking world, eulogies in poetic form could be traced back to the 1640s, but gained prominence with the "graveyard school" of poets in the eighteenth century often stressing the finality of death. Chinese American Death Rituals examines Chinese American funerary rituals and cemeteries from the late nineteenth century until the present in order to understand the importance of Chinese funerary rites and thei...

This award-winning horror anthology is the "yardstick by which future ghost fiction will be measured"—featuring Tanith Lee, Joyce Carol Oates, and others ( Publishers Weekly, starred review).Award-winning anthologist Ellen Datlow—praised by William Gibson as "the genre's sharpest assembler of strange, dark fictions"—is determined to prove that ghost stories still possess the power to chill modern readers to the marrow. So she reached out to a list of varied...

Absolutely amazing, that for centuries Christian scholars have either overlooked the doctrine of the Trinity which is plainly taught in Genesis 18-19. Equally sad, it is that whenever a pastor/minister preaches a message on Lot, he is made to be a backslider, compromiser, one who chose to live in a wicked city, exposing himself and family to the wickedness of that city, and eventually with his wife being turned to a pillar of salt and his home destroyed in fire and brimstone. Read this boo...