10 BÜCHER, DIE MIT «TORRID ZONE» IM ZUSAMMENHANG STEHEN
Entdecke den Gebrauch von
Torrid Zone in der folgenden bibliographischen Auswahl. Bücher, die mit
Torrid Zone im Zusammenhang stehen und kurze Auszüge derselben, um seinen Gebrauch in der Literatur kontextbezogen darzustellen.
1
Tales from the
Torrid Zone: Travels in the Deep Tropics
From Tahiti to Thailand, Mexico to Mozambique, Frater gives us a richly described, endlessly surprising picture of this diverse, feverish, languorously beautiful world. From the Trade Paperback edition.
2
Torrid zone: seven stories from the Gulf Coast
" Torrid Zone is a magical and steamy collection of tales from the swamps and bayous of the deepest South - the American Gulf Coast.
Jonathan Evan Maslow,
1995
3
Natural and Moral History of the Indies
And thus it may happen that in some part of the Torrid Zone it does not rain when
the sun is near but when it is more distant, although I have not seen or heard of it;
if there is such a place it would have to be attributed to some special quality of ...
José de Acosta, Jane E. Mangan,
2002
4
A Source Book in Geography
Poseidonius, then, says that Parmenides was the originator of the division into
five zones, but that Parmenides represents the torrid zone as almost double its
real breadth, inasmuch as it falls beyond both the tropics and extends into the two
...
5
The Slavery of the British West India Colonies Delineated: ...
The result, as he shews with anxious and endless iteration, is, that the
agricultural labourer in the torrid zone, is strongly indisposed to steady exertion,
not merely by the pain that it imposes from the heat of the atmosphere, but by the
privation ...
6
United States Exploring Expedition
Torrid zone. Temperate zone. Raninidea, G. Raninoz'des, 1 O Ranina, 1 0
Ranilia, 1 0 Cosmonotus, 1 0 Hippidea, G. Albuncea, 3 3 (2 torrid). Remzlpes, 5 1
(l torrid). 2 2 (1 torrid). Paguridea, G. Diogenes, 5 2 (2 torrid). Pagurus, 14 7 (1
torrid).
7
The German Discovery of the World: Renaissance Encounters ...
vided the solution for those who perceived a conflict between reports of abundant
life at the equator and the torrid zone's supposedly desolate nature. This virtuosic
performance served no apparent practical purpose, because the Portuguese ...
Christine R. Johnson,
2008
8
The Fourth Part of the World: The Race to the Ends of the ...
The authorities of ancient Greece and Rome had generally agreed that land
probably did exist somewhere on the south side of the torrid zone, perhaps
placed there as a counterbalance to the lands in the north. These were often
called the ...
9
Ptolemy's Geography: An Annotated Translation of the ...
It appears from 1.7 that Marinos set the limits of the torrid zone at a bit more than
12° north and south of the equator — as did Posidonius before him.8 Ptolemy
occasionally makes use of the principle that climate (including the range of plant
...
J. L. Berggren, Alexander Jones,
2000
The consumption of manufactured goods by the countries of the torrid zone,
however, is partly determined by their ability to produce a surplus of the articles
peculiar to their climate, and partly according to the proportion in which the
countries ...
10 NACHRICHTEN, IN DENEN DER BEGRIFF «TORRID ZONE» VORKOMMT
Erfahre, worüber man in den einheimischen und internationalen Medien spricht und wie der Begriff
Torrid Zone im Kontext der folgenden Nachrichten gebraucht wird.
Outdoors: Cooler waters keep shad running
You can be in the torrid zone, however, while someone next to you, fishing outside the shad's preferred microcurrent, is catching nothing. And if the power ... «Worcester Telegram, Jun 15»
Exhibitions, fundraiser mark the week in South Florida's art world
Torrid Flora, an exhibition exploring the tropics through artworks by Jennifer ... Miami is close to the philosopher's Torrid Zone, an area labeled as uninhabitable. «MiamiHerald.com, Apr 15»
Review: 'Torrid Talks — Why Aristotle Was Wrong'
The Torrid Zone refers those regions located between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn. A term first coined by Aristotle who divided the globe into ... «DigitalJournal.com, Okt 14»
The Torrid Zone: A new global dynamic
The Torrid Zone contains those regions located between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn. After dividing the globe into the Temperate, Torrid and ... «DigitalJournal.com, Okt 14»
Ann Sheridan, Back on the Big Screen, One-Ups Cagney and Bogart
Her insouciance elevated Torrid Zone (Oct. 1-3), a 1940 comedy adventure set in Central America that centers on a Yankee banana plantation run by jumped-up ... «Village Voice, Sep 14»
How the world is turning tropical right before our eyes
... the Greek philosopher Aristotle declared that there were three zones of the world – the Frigid Zone, the Temperate Zone and the Torrid Zone – and only one of ... «Raw Story, Jun 14»
How the world is turning tropical before our eyes
The Torrid Zone was full of human troglodytes who ate vipers and men who moved like serpents. Ancient Indian geographers described the Tropics as a place ... «The Conversation, Jun 14»
Elon Dance Company prepares for spring show
Bruning's piece, “torrid zone,” was originally commissioned by the Five Colleges Dance Department a few years ago and has been performed by the Skidmore ... «The Pendulum, Mär 14»
George Brent, Pat O'Brien: Hilarious Warner Bros. Movies Outtakes
While filming Torrid Zone opposite Ann Sheridan (whose voice you hear, feeding him lines), O'Brien complains "son of a bitch, with this cigar I've swallowed ... «Alt Film Guide, Mai 13»
Middle Earth: Why We Need To Turn Our Map On Its Side
Columbus, who had seen sub-Saharans in Portuguese ports in west Africa, disagreed with the Church: he claimed that the Torrid Zone was 'not uninhabitable'. «Gizmodo Australia, Mai 13»