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A Wretched and Precarious Situation: In Search of the Last Arctic Frontier

Author : David Welky
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393254429
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book A Wretched and Precarious Situation: In Search of the Last Arctic Frontier written by David Welky and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Booklist Best Literary Travel Book (2017) and Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book (2016) “A penetrating study of human character in a challenging environment. . . . [David Welky’s] seamless narrative, chilling at times and always thought-provoking, transports the reader to a time when the Arctic was virtually as harsh and inaccessible a place as the Moon or Mars.” —Natural History From a snow-swept hill in the ice fields northwest of Greenland, famed Arctic explorer Robert E. Peary spots a line of mysterious peaks dotting the horizon. In 1906, he names that distant, uncharted territory “Crocker Land.” Years later, two of Peary’s disciples, George Borup and Donald MacMillan, take the brave steps Peary never did: with a team of amateur adventurers and intrepid native guides, they endeavor to reach this unknown land and fill in the last blank space on the globe. What follows is hardship and mishap the likes of which none of the explorers could possibly have imagined. From howling blizzards and desperate food shortages to crime and tragedy, the explorers experience a remarkable journey of endurance, courage, and hope. Set in one of the world’s most inhospitable places, A Wretched and Precarious Situation is an Arctic tale unlike any other.

A Wretched and Precarious Situation

Author : David Welky
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0393254410
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book A Wretched and Precarious Situation written by David Welky and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Booklist Best Literary Travel Book of 2017 A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2016 A remarkable true story of adventure, betrayal, and survival set in one of the world’s most inhospitable places. In 1906, from atop a snow-swept hill in the ice fields northwest of Greenland, hundreds of miles from another human being, Commander Robert E. Peary spotted a line of mysterious peaks looming in the distance. He called this unexplored realm “Crocker Land.” Scientists and explorers agreed that the world-famous explorer had discovered a new continent rising from the frozen Arctic Ocean. Several years later, two of Peary’s disciples, George Borup and Donald MacMillan, assembled a team of amateur adventurers to investigate Crocker Land. Before them lay a chance at the kind of lasting fame enjoyed by Magellan, Columbus, and Captain Cook. While filling in the last blank space on the globe, they might find new species of plants or animals, or even men; in the era of Jules Verne and H. G. Wells, anything seemed possible. Renowned scientific institutions, and even former president Theodore Roosevelt, rushed to endorse the expedition. What followed was a sequence of events that none of the explorers could have imagined. Trapped in a true-life adventure story, the men endured howling blizzards, unearthly cold, food shortages, isolation, a fatal boating accident, a drunken sea captain, disease, dissension, and a horrific crime. But the team pushed on through every obstacle, driven forward by the mystery of Crocker Land and faint hopes that they someday would make it home. Populated with a cast of memorable characters, and based on years of research in previously untapped sources, A Wretched and Precarious Situation is a harrowing Arctic narrative unlike any other.

The Wretched of the Earth

Author : Frantz Fanon
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0802198856
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book The Wretched of the Earth written by Frantz Fanon and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sixtieth anniversary edition of Frantz Fanon’s landmark text, now with a new introduction by Cornel West First published in 1961, and reissued in this sixtieth anniversary edition with a powerful new introduction by Cornel West, Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth is a masterfuland timeless interrogation of race, colonialism, psychological trauma, and revolutionary struggle, and a continuing influence on movements from Black Lives Matter to decolonization. A landmark text for revolutionaries and activists, The Wretched of the Earth is an eternal touchstone for civil rights, anti-colonialism, psychiatric studies, and Black consciousness movements around the world. Alongside Cornel West’s introduction, the book features critical essays by Jean-Paul Sartre and Homi K. Bhabha. This sixtieth anniversary edition of Fanon’s most famous text stands proudly alongside such pillars of anti-colonialism and anti-racism as Edward Said’s Orientalism and The Autobiography of Malcolm X.

Faith and Freedom

Author : Donald A. Crosby
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429883358
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)

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Download or read book Faith and Freedom written by Donald A. Crosby and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-16 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is sometimes thought that individual religious faith should be firmly fixed in the traditions of the past. That once it is established in someone’s life, it should remain steadfast and unchanging throughout personal, cultural, or any other changes. This book subverts that idea by showing how it is actually ongoing inquiry, examination, and indeed change, requiring similarly ongoing acts of informed and responsible freedom, that will produce a dynamic and meaningful faith. Contending that religious faith should readily encompass deliberate and ongoing acts of personal freedom, the text outlines various ways in which these dual aspects are more ally than enemy. It also demonstrates how the ongoing free choices that are required for genuine faith are not absolute, but are in fact contextualized and conditioned by genetic makeup, environmental conditioning, and present character traits produced in part by a person’s past choices. Despite this caveat, personal freedom is presented as genuine and real, with a vitally important role to play in a person’s religiosity. The book concludes with some observations of this process in practice in the author’s own journey from a Christian theist worldview to that of a religious naturalist. This is a fascinating treatise on the role of personal freedom in religious faith. It will, therefore, be of significant interest to scholars of religion, theology, philosophy of religion and religious naturalism.

Island of the Blue Foxes

Author : Stephen R. Bown
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 0306825201
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book Island of the Blue Foxes written by Stephen R. Bown and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the world's largest, longest, and best financed scientific expedition of all time, triumphantly successful, gruesomely tragic, and never before fully told The immense 18th-century scientific journey, variously known as the Second Kamchatka Expedition or the Great Northern Expedition, from St. Petersburg across Siberia to the coast of North America, involved over 3,000 people and cost Peter the Great over one-sixth of his empire's annual revenue. Until now recorded only in academic works, this 10-year venture, led by the legendary Danish captain Vitus Bering and including scientists, artists, mariners, soldiers, and laborers, discovered Alaska, opened the Pacific fur trade, and led to fame, shipwreck, and "one of the most tragic and ghastly trials of suffering in the annals of maritime and arctic history.

Legends Never Die

Author : Richard Ian Kimball
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 0815654057
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (156 download)

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Download or read book Legends Never Die written by Richard Ian Kimball and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-28 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With every touchdown, home run, and three-pointer, star athletes represent an American dream that only an elite group blessed with natural talent can achieve. However, Kimball concentrates on what happens once these modern warriors meet their untimely demise. As athletes die, legends rise in their place. The premature deaths of celebrated players not only capture and immortalize their physical superiority, but also jolt their fans with an unanticipated intensity. These athletes escape the inevitability of aging and decline of skill, with only the prime of their youth left to be remembered. But early mortality alone does not transform athletes into immortals. The living ultimately gain the power to construct the legacies of their fallen heroes. In Legends Never Die, Kimball explores the public myths and representations that surround a wide range of athletes, from Lou Gehrig and Joe DiMaggio to Dale Earnhardt and Bonnie McCarroll. Kimball delves deeper than just the cultural significance of sports and its players; he examines how each athlete’s narrative is shaped by gender relations, religion, and politics in contemporary America. In looking at how Americans react to the tragic deaths of sports heroes, Kimball illuminates the important role sports play in US society and helps to explain why star athletes possess such cultural power.

Minik: The New York Eskimo

Author : Kenn Harper
Publisher : Steerforth
ISBN 13 : 1586422421
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Minik: The New York Eskimo written by Kenn Harper and published by Steerforth. This book was released on 2017-09-26 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A true story from the great age of Arctic exploration of an Inuit boy's struggle for dignity against Robert Peary and the American Museum of Natural History in turn-of-the-century New York City. Sailing aboard a ship called Hope in 1897, celebrated Arctic explorer Robert Peary entered New York Harbor with peculiar "cargo": Six Polar Inuit intended to serve as live "specimens" at the American Museum of Natural History. Four died within a year. One managed to gain passage back to Greenland. Only the sixth, a boy of six or seven with a precociously solemn smile, remained. His name was Minik. Although Harper's unflinching narrative provides a much needed corrective to history's understanding of Peary, who was known among the Polar Inuit as "the great tormenter", it is primarily a story about a boy, Minik Wallace, known to the American public as "The New York Eskimo." Orphaned when his father died of pneumonia, Minik never surrendered the hope of going "home," never stopped fighting for the dignity of his father's memory, and never gave up his belief that people would come to his aid if only he could get them to understand.

The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart: Life of Napoleon Buonaparte

Author : Walter Scott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart: Life of Napoleon Buonaparte written by Walter Scott and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Prose Works ...

Author : Walter Scott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book The Prose Works ... written by Walter Scott and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Everything Was Better in America

Author : David Welky
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252092813
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Everything Was Better in America written by David Welky and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a counterpart to research on the 1930s that has focused on liberal and radical writers calling for social revolution, David Welky offers this eloquent study of how mainstream print culture shaped and disseminated a message affirming conservative middle-class values and assuring its readers that holding to these values would get them through hard times. Through analysis of the era's most popular newspaper stories, magazines, and books, Welky examines how voices both outside and within the media debated the purposes of literature and the meaning of cultural literacy in a mass democracy. He presents lively discussions of such topics as the newspaper treatment of the Lindbergh kidnapping, issues of race in coverage of the 1936 Olympic games, domestic dynamics and gender politics in cartoons and magazines, Superman's evolution from a radical outsider to a spokesman for the people, and the popular consumption of such novels as the Ellery Queen mysteries, Gone with the Wind, and The Good Earth. Through these close readings, Welky uncovers the subtle relationship between the messages that mainstream media strategically crafted and those that their target audience wished to hear.

The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison

Author : Joseph Addison
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison written by Joseph Addison and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Miscellaneous prose

Author : Joseph Addison
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Miscellaneous prose written by Joseph Addison and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Delphi Complete Works of Sir Richard Steele (Illustrated)

Author : Sir Richard Steele
Publisher : Delphi Classics
ISBN 13 : 1801701725
Total Pages : 4814 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Delphi Complete Works of Sir Richard Steele (Illustrated) written by Sir Richard Steele and published by Delphi Classics. This book was released on 2024-02-29 with total page 4814 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eighteenth century essayist, dramatist, journalist and politician Sir Richard Steele is best known today as the principal author of the periodicals ‘The Tatler’ and ‘The Spectator’. One of the most compelling figures of his time, Steele adopted a prose technique characterised by its easy, rapid, humorous and sincere style. His publications represented a new approach to journalism, offering cultivated essays on contemporary manners, establishing a pattern that would influence the course of English literature. This eBook presents Steele’s complete works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Steele’s life and works * Concise introductions to the major texts * All the major tracts, with individual contents tables * Features rare essays appearing for the first time in digital publishing * Images of how the texts were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * The complete plays and poetry, with superior formatting * Includes the complete run of both ‘The Tatler’ and ‘The Spectator’ * Features two biographies – discover Steele’s literary life * Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres CONTENTS: The Prose The Christian Hero (1701) The Spectator Club (1711) The Englishman’s Thanks to the Duke of Marlborough (1712) The Importance of Dunkirk Consider’d (1713) The Crisis (1714) Mr. Steele’s Apology for Himself and His Writings (1714) The Englishman: Being the Close of the Paper So-Called No. 57 (1714) An Account of the Fish-Pool (1718) The Crisis of Property (1720) A Nation a Family (1720) Isaac Bickerstaff: Physician and Astrologer (1887) Miscellaneous Tracts The Dramatic Works The Funeral (1701) The Lying Lover (1703) The Tender Husband (1705) The Conscious Lovers (1723) The School of Action (1725) The Gentleman (1809) Prologues to Plays by Other Writers The Poem The Procession (1695) The Journalism The Tatler (1709-1711) The Spectator (1711-1712) The Biographies Richard Steele (1894) by G. A. Aitken Sir Richard Steele (1900) by Henry Austin Dobson

The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: The Freeholder [no. 31-55] On the Christian religion. The drummer; or, The haunted house. Discourse on ancient and modern learning. Appendix, containing pieces by Addison not hitherto pub. in any collected ed. of his works. Letters

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Author : Joseph Addison
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 480 pages
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Download or read book The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: The Freeholder [no. 31-55] On the Christian religion. The drummer; or, The haunted house. Discourse on ancient and modern learning. Appendix, containing pieces by Addison not hitherto pub. in any collected ed. of his works. Letters written by Joseph Addison and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Argosy

Author : Mrs. Henry Wood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 814 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Argosy written by Mrs. Henry Wood and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 814 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A magazine of tales, travels, essays, and poems.

Ancient Cities and Modern Tribes

Author : Thomas William Francis Gann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Ancient Cities and Modern Tribes written by Thomas William Francis Gann and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Transformation of the Southeastern Indians, 1540-1760

Author : Robbie Ethridge
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 160473955X
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book The Transformation of the Southeastern Indians, 1540-1760 written by Robbie Ethridge and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With essays by Stephen Davis, Penelope Drooker, Patricia K. Galloway, Steven Hahn, Charles Hudson, Marvin Jeter, Paul Kelton, Timothy Pertulla, Christopher Rodning, Helen Rountree, Marvin T. Smith, and John Worth The first two-hundred years of Western civilization in the Americas was a time when fundamental and sometimes catastrophic changes occurred in Native American communities in the South. In The Transformation of the Southeastern Indians, 1540–1760, historians, anthropologists, and archaeologists provide perspectives on how this era shaped American Indian society for later generations and how it even affects these communities today. This collection of essays presents the most current scholarship on the social history of the South, identifying and examining the historical forces, trends, and events that were attendant to the formation of the Indians of the colonial South. The essayists discuss how Southeastern Indian culture and society evolved. They focus on such aspects as the introduction of European diseases to the New World, long-distance migration and relocation, the influences of the Spanish mission system, the effects of the English plantation system, the northern fur trade of the English, and the French, Dutch, and English trade of Indian slaves and deerskins in the South. This book covers the full geographic and social scope of the Southeast, including the indigenous peoples of Florida, Virginia, Maryland, the Appalachian Mountains, the Carolina Piedmont, the Ohio Valley, and the Central and Lower Mississippi Valleys.