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From this point the ladders hung perpendicularly upon the bare rock, and I climbed up three or four of them very soon; but coming to one, the lower end of which had swung away from the top of the one below, I had some difficulty in stretching across from the one to the other; and here unluckily I looked down, and found that I had turned a sort of angle in the precipice, and that I was not over the rocky platform where I had left the horses, but that the precipice went sheer down to so tremendous a depth, that my head turned when I surveyed the distant valley over which I was hanging in the air like a fly on a wall.\"\u003cbr\u003e","image":"http://www.biblionet.gr/images/covers/b130769.jpg","isbn":"978-960-98171-2-7","isbn13":"978-960-98171-2-7","ismn":null,"issn":null,"series":{"id":8320,"name":"Grecian Journeys","books_count":5,"tsearch_vector":"'grecian' 'journeys'","created_at":"2017-04-13T02:05:30.833+03:00","updated_at":"2017-04-13T02:05:30.833+03:00"},"pages":92,"publication_year":2008,"publication_place":"Αθήνα","price":"9.0","price_updated_at":"2008-04-16","cover_type":"Μαλακό εξώφυλλο","availability":"Κυκλοφορεί","format":"Βιβλίο","original_language":null,"original_title":null,"publisher_id":1547,"extra":null,"biblionet_id":130769,"url":"https://v2.bibliography.gr/books/over-the-mountains-to-meteora.json"},{"id":128145,"title":"Reminiscences of Athens and the Morea","subtitle":null,"description":"\"When once a feud was declared, the mode of its prosecution was as ruthless as it was characteristic of this strange people. The hostile families rarely engaged in open combat. It was a long trial of patience and skill, to determine which of the two parties should exterminate the other. Going forth singly or in pairs, they hid themselves among bushes or behind walls, and, patient of hunger, thirst, and weather, they lay in wait for days together to shoot any member of the rival,,,' clan who might pass by. Their towers, some of which were of great strength, were guarded night and day... both to prevent a surprise, and to destroy any enemy who might walk within musket shot. Women and girls, indeed, they were content to spare, but boys of more than eight years old were doomed, as at that age they were considered capable of bearing arms.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo such an extent did this prevail, that men, when deeply involved in these family feuds, retired to the shelter of their castles, and for years never ventured forth, except when perhaps at night and by stealth they went out to murder an enemy ... Men have been born and married, have lived for twenty or thirty years, and in some cases have even spent their whole lives within the enclosure of those gloomy walls. \"I was informed of one man who was born in his tower, and lived to the age of seventy without daring to quit it.\"","image":"http://www.biblionet.gr/images/covers/b130767.jpg","isbn":"978-960-98171-5-8","isbn13":"978-960-98171-5-8","ismn":null,"issn":null,"series":{"id":8320,"name":"Grecian Journeys","books_count":5,"tsearch_vector":"'grecian' 'journeys'","created_at":"2017-04-13T02:05:30.833+03:00","updated_at":"2017-04-13T02:05:30.833+03:00"},"pages":92,"publication_year":2008,"publication_place":"Αθήνα","price":"9.0","price_updated_at":"2008-04-16","cover_type":"Μαλακό εξώφυλλο","availability":"Κυκλοφορεί","format":"Βιβλίο","original_language":null,"original_title":null,"publisher_id":1547,"extra":null,"biblionet_id":130767,"url":"https://v2.bibliography.gr/books/reminiscences-of-athens-and-the-morea.json"},{"id":111489,"title":"Where Art and Science Entwine","subtitle":null,"description":"The book can be used as a stimulus for discussing:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- the strengths and weaknesses of he different ways of knowing\u003cbr\u003e- how important personal experience was to the author's development of her art\u003cbr\u003e- how important perception was to her in the development of her art\u003cbr\u003e- how successful she was at communicating the experience of creating art work\u003cbr\u003e- how art and science differ\u003cbr\u003e- how artists and scientists typically conduct themselves in their work\u003cbr\u003e- how far personal attributes affect the work of an artist.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA professional research scientist and International Baccalaureate teacher who is an artist in her spare time uses her experience on both sides of the intellectual divide to explain, in an objective and scientific manner, how her personal experience led to the development of her art.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","image":"http://www.biblionet.gr/images/covers/b114070.jpg","isbn":"960-88087-8-2","isbn13":"978-960-88087-8-2","ismn":null,"issn":null,"series":{"id":7430,"name":"Studies for Theory of Knowledge","books_count":1,"tsearch_vector":"'for' 'knowledge' 'of' 'studies' 'theory'","created_at":"2017-04-13T01:56:37.991+03:00","updated_at":"2017-04-13T01:56:37.991+03:00"},"pages":70,"publication_year":2006,"publication_place":"Αθήνα","price":"20.0","price_updated_at":"2006-11-27","cover_type":"Μαλακό εξώφυλλο","availability":"Κυκλοφορεί","format":"Βιβλίο","original_language":null,"original_title":null,"publisher_id":1547,"extra":null,"biblionet_id":114070,"url":"https://v2.bibliography.gr/books/where-art-and-science-entwine.json"}]