Stephen Durrant: 2 books
by Stephen Durrant, Wai-yee Li, Michael Nylan
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
Sima Qian (first century BCE), the author of Record of the Historian (Shiji), is China’s earliest and best-known historian, and his “Letter to Ren An” is the most famous letter in Chinese history. In the letter, Sima Qian explains his decision to finish his life’s work, the first comprehensive...
by Stephen D. Durrant
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
The history of pocket gophers of Utah begins with J. A. Allen's mention in 1874 of mounds of these animals. For them he employed the name "Thomomys rufescens?" (1874:65). Actual specimens were reported upon a year later by Elliot Coues (1875:251, 256), who used the name Thomomys talpoides for specimens...