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Mira spent her life trapped in Bellethan - an isolated town at the center of the hostile Nuumom swamp - dreaming of the world beyond its stagnant waters. She worked alongside her father, dredging the swamp bed to feed Bellethan and placate the palates of its wealthy elite. Her only joys were drinking and collecting stories from the outsiders who rarely passed through.One day, she meets a peculiar outsider named Valthen. He bares the markings of a Suri - nomadic mystics known for hunting supernatural beasts - but denies any connection to them.Unfortunately, passing interest turns to necessity when Maxim's mutilated body washes up on the edge of town. Desperate for revenge against the creature that killed her father, Mira recruits Valthen to help hunt it down, leading them on a journey to uncover Bellethan's darkest secrets.

Oeuvres ophtalmologiques de Thomas Young / traduites et annotées par M. Tscherning, ...; précédées du portrait de Young, de son éloge par François Arago et d'une préface par Émile Javal...Date de l'édition originale: 1894Le présent ouvrage s'inscrit dans une politique de conservation patrimoniale des ouvrages de la littérature Française mise en place avec la BNF. HACHETTE LIVRE et la BNF proposent ainsi un catalogue de titres indisponibles, la BNF ayant numérisé ces oeuvres et HACHETTE LIVRE les imprimant à la demande. Certains de ces ouvrages reflètent des courants de pensée caractéristiques de leur époque, mais qui seraient aujourd'hui jugés condamnables. Ils n'en appartiennent pas moins à l'histoire des idées en France et sont susceptibles de présenter un intérêt scientifique ou historique. Le sens de notre démarche éditoriale consiste ainsi à permettre l'accès à ces oeuvres sans pour autant que nous en cautionnions en aucune façon le contenu. Pour plus d'informations, rendez-vous sur www.hachettebnf.fr

Thomas Young (1773-1829) was an English physician who was one of the first modern scholars to attempt to decipher ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, and made significant contributions to a variety of other academic disciplines. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1794 and in 1803 published an article establishing the wave theory of light. Young became interested in hieroglyphs in 1814, when he was sent a fragment of papyrus from Egypt. After acquiring a copy of the Rosetta Stone inscriptions Young made rapid progress, publishing his results in 1816 and 1819. When Champollion published his groundbreaking work on hieroglyphs in 1822 Young believed that Champollion had based that work on his earlier translations without acknowledgement, which Champollion denied. This book was published in 1823 in an attempt by Young to lay 'public claim to whatever credit be my due', and provides a summary of his hieroglyphic research.