A twelfth-century poem by the creator of the Arthurian romance describes the courageous exploits and triumphs of a brave lord who tries to win back his deserted wife's love

An associate editor of "Newsweek" recalls important events and political figures, national and international, from the 1930's through the 1950's.

In this book, the author of Personal History, Vincent Sheean, demonstrates that Gandhi’s life, work and teaching were for the whole world as well as for India. it is suggested that the terrifying weapon of non-violence, having freed India, might be about to free the world. Though this book is in one sense an attempt to reveal the meaning of Mahatma Gandhi’s power and life and teaching, it is, in a more important sense, the author’s eloquent testament of belief in Gandhi’s mission. Vincent Sheean went to India to ask Gandhi many questions. It was a quest brought on by the failure of every other human institution to supply hope for the future. What he learned there, from Gandhi and others, is of immense, immediate importance to all men everywhere and to the future of humanity. Thoughtful men have begun to see that the only weapon even more awesome than the atom bomb, the only weapon able to contend with it on anything like equal terms, is the irresistible weapon of non-violence conceived by Mahatma Gandhi. Here is the record of its first great success, the story of how it was created, and a clear, sympathetic explanation of the philosophy that brought it into being, indeed made it inevitable. Here, also, are chapters on the background of Hindu philosophy, on Gandhi’s own beliefs and how he applied them, on Gandhi’s progress from an obscure lawyer in South Africa to his position as India’s leader and deliverer and the greatest force for peace at the present time, on the author’s own meetings with Gandhi, the assassination and funeral, both of which he witnessed, and a final chapter of the author’s conclusions on Gandhi’s meaning to the future of world peace in this atomic age. The title of the book comes from Gandhi’s favourite hymn, which was always sung on solemn occasions, including the funeral march to the Ganges.

"Shortly after 'Plants, Man and Life' appeared, it was reviewed in the journal 'Landscape'. This led me to J. B. Jackson, the able editor of that remarkable publication. With piquant combination of sharp criticism and flattering appreciation, he charmed out of me a series of short essays. One of these essays takes up in more detail the 'dumpheap theory' of the origin of cultivated plants. Several touch in one way or another on the acceptance of cities as places to live right in the middle of, an attitude that is part of Mexico's Spanish heritage. Three of the essays describe how I learned enough from my Mexican neighbors to have lived serenely years later in a big, moderately priced St. Louis apartment hotel for six months, as a naturalist happy in learning from our apartment windows: new things about bird life in the big city, the serpentine course (unparalleled in its loopings) of the Missouri Pacific railroad as it starts southward, the progress of small thunderheads across the city on a day of little thunder showers, the dynamics of winter sunsets when the sun is so low in the sky that the observer needs to be well over a hundred feet above the ground level to learn very much, and the heights and extents of autumnal morning fogs. I was again spurred on to study and to teach the natural history of cities along with that of seashores and spring woodlands. Some of those who liked this book have found deeper satisfactions in these 'Landscape papers'"--Page 4 of cover.

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Pictorial history of Indian civilization. Grades 5 and up.