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Author : Francis Baily
Publisher : London, Baily
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Journal of a Tour in Unsettled Parts of North America in 1796 & 1797 written by Francis Baily and published by London, Baily. This book was released on 1856 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joseph W. Reed, Jr.
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429639635
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)
Download or read book An American Diary 1857-8: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon written by Joseph W. Reed, Jr. and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-02-21 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘I am one of the cracked people of the world,’ Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon wrote of herself, ‘and I like to herd with the cracked ... queer Americans, democrats, socialists, artists, poor devils or angels; and am never happy in an English genteel family life. I try to do it like other people, but I long always to be off on some wild adventure.’ Reformer, feminist, free-thinker, later to endow the founding of Girton College, Barbara Bodichon went to the United States on a marriage journey. First published in 1972, her journal of that trip, published in its original form for the first time, contains timely observation and incisive criticism of the American South before the Civil War, and gives a vivid portrait of a lively woman of her times, the friend of George Eliot and other leading figures of her age. This edition includes a fascinating introduction about the English visitor in the United States, from Dickens to Trollope. There is also a biographical study of Barbara Bodichon herself, giving an account of her life and of the causes, notably Women’s Rights, to which she devoted her time and energy.
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Publisher : Quarto Publishing Group USA
ISBN 13 : 1781012016
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (81 download)
Download or read book A Traveller's Year written by and published by Quarto Publishing Group USA. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of anecdotes for each day of the year on the subject of travel and exploration from Charles Darwin, Michael Palin, Evelyn Waugh, and others. With an emphasis on the period 1750–1950—the classic era of both European exploration and diary-writing—this anthology features excerpts that convey men and women’s experiences of travel and discovery from the sixteenth to the early twenty-first centuries. The authors of the pieces range from famous explorers such as Captains Cook and Scott to modern travel writers journeying through the contemporary world, from people who pushed back the boundaries of geographical knowledge to people who wrote about what they did on their summer holidays. The book includes an introduction, explanatory notes and mini-biographies of all the contributors, including: Gertrude Bell (woman traveller in the Middle East) James Boswell (travels in Scotland and the Hebrides) William Cobbett (Rural Rides through England) Christopher Columbus (journals of his voyages to America) Charles Darwin (Voyage of the Beagle) Captain James Cook (voyages in the Pacific) Washington Irving (American writer travelled in Europe in first decades of nineteenth century) Edward Lear (landscape painter and nonsense writer produced journals of his travels in Greece, Corsica, Near East etc) Lewis & Clark (journals of famous journey of American exploration) William Morris (wrote a journal of a trip to Iceland in 1870s) Michael Palin (a Python abroad) Mungo Park (African explorer in early nineteenth century) Captain Robert Falcon Scott (doomed journey to South Pole) Evelyn Waugh (diaries of 1930s travels in Mediterranean and beyond) William John Wills (explorer of Australia)
Author : United States. Army. Army Intelligence & Security Command
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Journal of the U.S. Army Intelligence & Security Command written by United States. Army. Army Intelligence & Security Command and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andrew Oliver
Publisher : American University in Cairo Press
ISBN 13 : 1617976326
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (179 download)
Download or read book American Travelers on the Nile written by Andrew Oliver and published by American University in Cairo Press. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Treaty of Ghent signed in 1814, ending the War of 1812, allowed Americans once again to travel abroad. Medical students went to Paris, artists to Rome, academics to Göttingen, and tourists to all European capitals. More intrepid Americans ventured to Athens, to Constantinople, and even to Egypt. Beginning with two eighteenth-century travelers, this book then turns to the 25-year period after 1815 that saw young men from East Coast cities, among them graduates of Harvard, Yale, and Columbia, traveling to the lands of the Bible and of the Greek and Latin authors they had first known as teenagers. Naval officers off ships of the Mediterranean squadron visited Cairo to see the pyramids. Two groups went on business, one importing steam-powered rice and cotton mills from New York, the other exporting giraffes from the Kalahari Desert for wild animal shows in New York. Drawing on unpublished letters and diaries together with previously neglected newspaper accounts, as well as a handful of published accounts, this book offers a new look at the early American experience in Egypt and the eastern Mediterranean world. More than thirty illustrations complement the stories told by the travelers themselves.
Author : Newberry Library
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226775791
Total Pages : 890 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (757 download)
Download or read book A Catalogue of the Everett D. Graff Collection of Western Americana written by Newberry Library and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1968-11 with total page 890 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Everett D. Graff Collection of Western Americana consists of some 10,000 books, manuscripts, maps, pamphlets, broadsides, broadsheets, and photographs, of which about half are described in the present catalogue. The Graff Collection displays the remarkable breadth of interest, knowledge, and taste of a great bibliophile and student of Western American history. From this rich collection, now in The Newberry Library, Chicago, its former Curator, Colton Storm, has compiled a discriminating and representative Catalogue of the rarer and more unusual materials. Collectors, bibliographers, librarians, historians, and book dealers specializing in Americana will find the Graff Catalogue an interesting and essential tool. Detailed collations and binding descriptions are cited, and many of the more important works have been annotated by Mr. Graff and Mr. Storm. An extensive index of persons and subjects makes the book useful to the scholar as well as to the collector and dealer. The book is not a bibliography but rather a guide to rare or unique source materials now enriching The Newberry Library's outstanding holdings in American history.
Author : Donna-Belle Garvin
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9781584653219
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (532 download)
Download or read book On the Road North of Boston written by Donna-Belle Garvin and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2003 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1988 by the New Hampshire Historical Society, and long since sought after, On the Road North of Boston is back in print. This richly illustrated, entertaining book is an invaluable resource for New Hampshire residents and students of the state's history alike. Nine extensively researched and meticulously prepared chapters depict historic taverns and tavern society of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century New England. Donna-Belle and James Garvin vividly reconstruct the physical landscape: the taverns themselves, the network of roads, travel conditions, traffic and commerce. They immerse the reader in the contemporary tavern atmosphere: encounters with fellow travelers, food, drink, entertainment, and hospitality in its earliest incarnations "on the road north of Boston." On the Road North of Boston contains rare and wonderful black-and-white illustrations of authentic tavern signs and furnishings, broadsides advertising tavern entertainments, early photographs and drawings of tavern buildings, road signs, vehicles, and bridges, portraits of tavern keepers, stage drivers, and itinerant performers. This book offers modern New England residents and travelers rich chronicles and visions of an age long past.
Author : American Alpine Club
Publisher : The Mountaineers Books
ISBN 13 : 9780930410711
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The American Alpine Journal written by American Alpine Club and published by The Mountaineers Books. This book was released on 1997-10-31 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James J. Berg
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452943370
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)
Download or read book The American Isherwood written by James J. Berg and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2015-01-08 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Novelist, memoirist, diarist, and gay pioneer Christopher Isherwood left a wealth of writings. Known for his crisp style and his camera-like precision with detail, Isherwood gained fame for his Berlin Stories, which served as source material for the hit stage musical and Academy Award–winning film Cabaret. More recently, his experiences and career in the United States have received increased attention. His novel A Single Man was adapted into an Oscar-nominated film; his long relationship with the artist Don Bachardy, with whom he shared an openly gay lifestyle, was the subject of an award-winning documentary, Chris & Don: A Love Story; and his memoir, Christopher and His Kind, was adapted for the BBC. Isherwood’s colorful journeys took him from post–World War I England to Weimar Germany to European exile to Golden Age Hollywood to Los Angeles in the full flower of gay liberation. After the publication of his diaries, which run to more than one million words and span nearly a half century, it is possible to fully assess his influence. This collection of essays considers Isherwood’s diaries, his vast personal archive, and his published works and offers a multifaceted appreciation of a writer who spent more than half of his life in southern California. James J. Berg and Chris Freeman have brought together the most informative scholarship of the twenty-first century to illuminate the craft of one of the singular figures of the twentieth century. Isherwood, the American, emerges from the shadow of his English reputation to stake his claim as a significant force in late twentieth-century American culture whose legacy continues in the twenty-first century. Contributors: Joshua Adair, Murray State U; Jamie Carr, Niagara U; Robert L. Caserio, Pennsylvania State U; Niladri Chatterjee, U of Kalyani, India; Lisa Colletta, American U of Rome; Lois Cucullu, U of Minnesota; Mario Faraone; Peter Edgerly Firchow; Rebecca Gordon Stewart; William R. Handley, U of Southern California; Jaime Harker, U of Mississippi; Sara S. Hodson, Huntington Library; Carola M. Kaplan, California State U, Pomona; Benjamin Kohlmann, U of Freiburg, Germany; Victor Marsh, U of Queensland; Tina Mascara; Stephen McCauley; Paul M. McNeil, Columbia U; Guido Santi, College of the Canyons, California; Kyle Stevens, Brandeis U.
Author : David Hackett Fischer
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195098315
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (95 download)
Download or read book Paul Revere's Ride written by David Hackett Fischer and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1994 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the events leading up to Paul Revere's ride, and reinforces his importance in the history of the Revolutionary War.
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Total Pages : 710 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
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Publisher : The Mountaineers Books
ISBN 13 : 9781933056494
Total Pages : 882 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (564 download)
Download or read book 2002 American Alpine Journal written by and published by The Mountaineers Books. This book was released on with total page 882 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This special anniversary collection includes the 100 biggest accomplishments of American mountaineers, the most important voice in American climbing, the best books by American climbers and more. Climbers of 2001's hottest new routes includes Kenton Cool, Jonathan Copp, Stefan Glowacz, Alex and Tom Huber, Stephen Koch, Tim O'Neill, Dean Potter, Marko Preselj, Mark Richey, Raphael Slawinski, and more.
Author : Alonzo L. Hamby
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0465028608
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)
Download or read book Man of Destiny written by Alonzo L. Hamby and published by . This book was released on 2015-09-22 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From an acclaimed historian comes an authoritative and balanced biography of FDR, based on previously untapped sources No president looms larger in twentieth-century American history than Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and few life stories can match his for sheer drama. Following in the footsteps of his Republican cousin President Theodore Roosevelt, FDR devoted himself to politics as a Democrat and a true man of the people. Eventually setting his sights on the presidency, he was elected to office in 1932 by a nation that was mired in the Great Depression and desperate for revival. As the distinguished historian Alonzo Hamby argues in this authoritative biography, FDR's record as president was more mixed than we are often led to believe. The New Deal provided much-needed assistance to millions of Americans, but failed to restore prosperity, and while FDR became an outstanding commander-in-chief during World War II, his plans for the postwar world were seriously flawed. No less perceptive is Hamby's account of FDR's private life, which explores the dynamics of his marriage and his romance with his wife's secretary, Lucy Mercer. Hamby documents FDR's final months in intimate detail, claiming that his perseverance, despite his serious illness, not only shaped his presidency, but must be counted as one of the twentieth century's great feats of endurance. Hamby reveals a man whose personality--egocentric, undisciplined in his personal appetites, at times a callous user of aides and associates, yet philanthropic and caring for his nation's underdogs-shaped his immense legacy. Man of Destiny is a measured account of the life, both personal and public, of the most important American leader of the twentieth century.
Author : National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board
Publisher : Transportation Research Board
ISBN 13 : 0309093945
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Research on Women's Issues in Transportation, Report of a Conference written by National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board and published by Transportation Research Board. This book was released on 2005 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Will B. Mackintosh
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479889377
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)
Download or read book Selling the Sights written by Will B. Mackintosh and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2019-01-08 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating journey through the origins of American tourism In the early nineteenth century, thanks to a booming transportation industry, Americans began to journey away from home simply for the sake of traveling, giving rise to a new cultural phenomenon —the tourist. In Selling the Sights, Will B. Mackintosh describes the origins and cultural significance of this new type of traveler and the moment in time when the emerging American market economy began to reshape the availability of geographical knowledge, the material conditions of travel, and the variety of destinations that sought to profit from visitors with money to spend. Entrepreneurs began to transform the critical steps of travel—deciding where to go and how to get there—into commodities that could be produced in volume and sold to a marketplace of consumers. The identities of Americans prosperous enough to afford such commodities were fundamentally changed as they came to define themselves through the consumption of experiences. Mackintosh ultimately demonstrates that the cultural values and market forces surrounding tourism in the early nineteenth century continue to shape our experience of travel to this day.
Author : United States. Army Recruiting Command
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
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