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Englishman's Travels in America

Author : John Benwell
Publisher : Applewood Books
ISBN 13 : 1429003391
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Englishman's Travels in America written by John Benwell and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt: ...manner at home, send them to be flogged. The brutal way in which this is done at the calaboose, strikes terror into the negro mind, and the threat is often sufficient to tame the most incorrigible. Instances, I was told, have often occurred of negroes expiring under the severity of the discipline here; but it was remarked that the pecuniary loss attendant on such casualties made the keepers careful not to exceed the physical endurance of the sufferer, and that they were so well acquainted with negro constitutions that it was a rare exception for death to ensue. The punishment, however, almost always resulted in the victim being invalided and unfitted for exertion for a considerable time. I believe New Orleans to be as vile a place as any under the sun; a perfect Ghetto or cursed place; in fact, it is the rendezvous of renegades of all nations, and hordes of negro traders and planters are to be seen flocking round the hotels. These are extensive patrons of the gambling-houses; and the faro, rouge-et-noir, roulette, and other establishments, fitted up with gorgeous saloons, are generally crowded with them. As you pass, you may observe the frequenters of such places in dozens, deeply engaged in play, while the teller of the establishment sits at a table with a huge heap of Spanish doubloons or Mexican mill dollars before him, which he adds to or takes from with the tact of a banker's clerk, as the chances of luck may arise. Violence and Woodshed have been indigenous to this city from time immemorial, and feuds are instantly settled by an appeal to the bowie knife, or ever-ready revolver. Highway robberies are very frequent, and I was told it was more than your life was worth to be out after dark, in certain localities, unless armed and on your guard. The police authorities are, nevertheless, vigilant, and the magistrates severe, so that many desperadoes are brought to justice. The suburbs of New Orleans lie low, and the swampy soil emits a poisonous...

An Englishman's Travels in America

Author : J. Benwell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 ( download)

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Englishman's Travels in America

Author : John Benwell
Publisher : Applewood Books
ISBN 13 : 1429003383
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Englishman's Travels in America written by John Benwell and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!

Meeting the Medicine Men

Author : Charles Langley
Publisher : Nicholas Brealey
ISBN 13 : 1857884078
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (578 download)

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Download or read book Meeting the Medicine Men written by Charles Langley and published by Nicholas Brealey. This book was released on 2008-04-10 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fascinating real-life adventure, a chance meeting with a young Navajo Indian propels an English traveler out of his middle-class London life and into the world of North American Indian Medicine Men. Here, people firmly believe that witchcraft can bring ruin, even death, and only Medicine Men have the knowledge to do battle with evil, lift curses and restore the sick to health. Blue Horse is one of a dwindling band of Medicine Men traveling the vast Navajo nation of New Mexico and Arizona. Charles Langley, a former London newspaper executive, becomes his "bag carrier" and chauffeur and eventually his trainee. He sees the Medicine Man perform feats: foretelling the future, uncovering the hidden past and communicating with spirits. Vowing not to leave his brains at the teepee door, Langley studies the accumulating evidence that Medicine Men really can cure the sick, change events of long ago and influence the future. Across the breathtaking Southwest landscape and along the fabled Route 66, he meets startling characters and gains rare access into ancient healing traditions.

From Chicken Feet to Crystal Baths

Author : Ian Mote
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 150490396X
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book From Chicken Feet to Crystal Baths written by Ian Mote and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2015-04-14 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I have been to every province in China, and the book is made up of travel stories about the places I have been and the experiences I have had. For instance, I have been hosted in first-class establishments in Shanghai, been drunk with miners in Inner Mongolia, wandered out in the Gobi desert, and nearly been sick on the embalmed body of Chairman Mao. This book is about being a Western expat adjusting to life in Asia, first in Hong Kong and then in Shanghai. It is about negotiating with local people on whether prostitutes are required after dinner, singing Chinese songs in the middle of meetings, and finding the only spot in the country without an army of tourists spoiling the photos. I wish to share travel and living stories from Hong Kong and every province in China, through the eyes of one fascinated, curious, worried, reckless, adventurous, queasy, stunned, and quite tired English expat.

Across the Pond: An Englishman's View of America

Author : Terry Eagleton
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393240339
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book Across the Pond: An Englishman's View of America written by Terry Eagleton and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2013-06-24 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An irreverent trip through American culture by a critic who “cracks jokes as easily as one would crack walnut shells” (Washington Post). Americans have long been fascinated with the oddness of the British, but the English, says literary critic Terry Eagleton, find their transatlantic neighbors just as strange. Only an alien race would admiringly refer to a colleague as “aggressive,” use superlatives to describe everything from one’s pet dog to one’s rock collection, or speak frequently of being “empowered.” Why, asks Eagleton, must we broadcast our children’s school grades with bumper stickers announcing “My Child Made the Honor Roll”? Why don’t we appreciate the indispensability of the teapot? And why must we remain so irritatingly optimistic, even when all signs point to failure? On his quirky journey through the language, geography, and national character of the United States, Eagleton proves to be at once an informal and utterly idiosyncratic guide to our peculiar race. He answers the questions his compatriots have always had but (being British) dare not ask, like why Americans willingly rise at the crack of dawn, even on Sundays, or why we publicly chastise cigarette smokers as if we’re all spokespeople for the surgeon general. In this pithy, warmhearted, and very funny book, Eagleton melds a good old-fashioned roast with genuine admiration for his neighbors “across the pond.”

Travels with Charley in Search of America

Author : John Steinbeck
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780140187410
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (874 download)

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Download or read book Travels with Charley in Search of America written by John Steinbeck and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1997-04-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intimate journey across America, as told by one of its most beloved writers A Penguin Classic In September 1960, John Steinbeck embarked on a journey across America. He felt that he might have lost touch with the country, with its speech, the smell of its grass and trees, its color and quality of light, the pulse of its people. To reassure himself, he set out on a voyage of rediscovery of the American identity, accompanied by a distinguished French poodle named Charley; and riding in a three-quarter-ton pickup truck named Rocinante. His course took him through almost forty states: northward from Long Island to Maine; through the Midwest to Chicago; onward by way of Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana (with which he fell in love), and Idaho to Seattle, south to San Francisco and his birthplace, Salinas; eastward through the Mojave, New Mexico, Arizona, to the vast hospitality of Texas, to New Orleans and a shocking drama of desegregation; finally, on the last leg, through Alabama, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey to New York. Travels with Charley in Search of America is an intimate look at one of America's most beloved writers in the later years of his life—a self-portrait of a man who never wrote an explicit autobiography. Written during a time of upheaval and racial tension in the South—which Steinbeck witnessed firsthand—Travels with Charley is a stunning evocation of America on the eve of a tumultuous decade. This Penguin Classics edition includes an introduction by Jay Parini. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

No Place Like Home

Author : Gary Younge
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781578064885
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (648 download)

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Download or read book No Place Like Home written by Gary Younge and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2002 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1961, 13 black and white people - the Freedom Riders - tested the ban on segregation in interstate travel by going together from Washington to New Orleans. This is the account of a young black Briton following their route in the late 1990s.

An Englishman's Travels in America: His Observations of Life and Manners in the Free and Slave States

Author : John Benwell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book An Englishman's Travels in America: His Observations of Life and Manners in the Free and Slave States written by John Benwell and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Star Trek Nation

Author : Lyndon Smith
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book Star Trek Nation written by Lyndon Smith and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-10-17 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Star Trek Nation: An Englishman's view of America All you ever wanted to know about how Britain views America (but were afraid to ask) Professor Lyndon N. Smith's first book Why You Can't Catch a Rocket to Mars was a light-hearted foray into the future, which went to #1 bestseller in all the Amazon categories it was listed under and received almost exclusively 5-star reviews. Now, having given us a whirlwind tour of science and technology, in this new book he focuses his attention squarely on the New World. Star Trek Nation: An Englishman's view of America is a desultory and humorous telling-off of Americans that will be engrossing for you if you experienced, or have interest in, the TV, music, and/or atmosphere of the 1960s and 70s. The model the Professor uses for understanding Yanks is Star Trek and the lens through which he views them is Sherlock Holmes' magnifying glass. So, if you have any interest in these legends of Anglo-American popular culture, you must read this book to fully appreciate how the reserved folks in the Old Country view the loud dudes one finds stateside, and vice versa. To cut a long story short, the Prof's conclusion is that we in Olde England love you and we need you! (As I'm sure Ozzy Osbourne once said.) Even so, like most Brits, the Professor is not shy of tackling such important questions as: why do Yanks drive on the right (i.e. wrong) side of the road, what have they got against (hot) tea, and when are they going to get smart (as Trump would say), and adopt The Queen as their head of state? To get the answers, read on... 5-star review from Goodreads: "What an exciting time to be a book reviewer! I've been waiting for a long time for such a book to be written. I'm a continental European looking at both the English and the American culture with an objective and curious eye (more or less). This is a hilarious collection of beliefs of Anglo-American popular culture which managed to surpass my high expectations. Lyndon Smith is a gifted writer from England, with fluid discourse and insightful observations. His personal journeys across the pond are not only for geographical and scientific discovery, but also for filtering out analogy and difference between the two sister cultures. It is a pleasure to accompany him in these journeys - it's like being 'with a wheel in my hand and four on the road' on one of the US interstate roads (if the wheel is on the right or on the left is uncertain). Star Trek, Sherlock Holmes, The Fulbright Commission, McDonald's, Las Vegas, Vasquez Rock, Walmart and Ozzy Osbourne are all there in a fervent pot of personal interactions and unceremonious but sharp analysis. Popular culture facts (some known and some less known) are delivered in a realistic way (rigorously detailed) wrapped in the author's obvious affection for America. Wit, tongue in cheek, self-deprecation are all intertwined in a successful humorous mix. No matter what your nationality is, I believe that this powerful, nuanced portrayal of the Anglo-American relationship will thoroughly entertain you. Strongly recommended!" - Dr Luiza Dihoru

Two Months in the Confederate States

Author : William Carson Corsan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780807120378
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Two Months in the Confederate States written by William Carson Corsan and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Corsan visited the Confederacy in the fall of 1862 to judge the impact of the American Civil War on his business's future prospects. In a clear, lively, and, at times, humorous style, Corsan details his experiences, which include nearly being drafted into the Rebel army. He also records southerners' attitudes toward the war.

The Englishman's Boy

Author : Guy Vanderhaeghe
Publisher : Emblem Editions
ISBN 13 : 1551995700
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book The Englishman's Boy written by Guy Vanderhaeghe and published by Emblem Editions. This book was released on 2010-12-17 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Englishman’s Boy brilliantly links together Hollywood in the 1920s with one of the bloodiest, most brutal events of the nineteenth-century Canadian West – the Cypress Hills Massacre. Vanderhaeghe’s rendering of the stark, dramatic beauty of the western landscape and of Hollywood in its most extravagant era – with its visionaries, celebrities, and dreamers – provides vivid background for scenes of action, adventure, and intrigue. Richly textured, evocative of time and place, this is an unforgettable novel about power, greed, and the pull of dreams that has at its centre the haunting story of a young drifter – “the Englishman’s boy” – whose fate, ultimately, is a tragic one.

Mead's Travels in North America

Author : Whitman Mead
Publisher : Applewood Books
ISBN 13 : 142900066X
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Mead's Travels in North America written by Whitman Mead and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Englishman travels along the Eastern seaboard, his notes emphasizing the Carolinas and Niagara region.

Seizing the New Day

Author : Wilbert L. Jenkins
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253216090
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Seizing the New Day written by Wilbert L. Jenkins and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2003-05-15 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historian Wilbert Jenkins sheds light on how former slaves in Charleston, South Carolina, in an attempt to adjust to freedom after the Civil War and gain control over their own lives, battled whites trying to regain control. Using autobiographies, slave narratives, Freedmen's Bureau letters and papers, and many other documents, Jenkins focuses on the freedmen's hopes and aspirations. 30 photos.

An Englishman's Journey Along America's Eastern Waterways

Author : Herbert Holtham
Publisher : University Rochester Press
ISBN 13 : 9781580460798
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book An Englishman's Journey Along America's Eastern Waterways written by Herbert Holtham and published by University Rochester Press. This book was released on 2000-06 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Color Factor

Author : Howard Bodenhorn
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019938312X
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book The Color Factor written by Howard Bodenhorn and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the many advances that the United States has made in racial equality over the past half century, numerous events within the past several years have proven prejudice to be alive and well in modern-day America. In one such example, Governor Nikki Haley of South Carolina dismissed one of her principal advisors in 2013 when his membership in the ultra-conservative Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC) came to light. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, in 2001 the CCC website included a message that read "God is the one who divided mankind into different races.... Mixing the races is rebelliousness against God." This episode reveals America's continuing struggle with race, racial integration, and race mixing-a problem that has plagued the United States since its earliest days as a nation. The Color Factor: The Economics of African-American Well-Being in the Nineteenth-Century South demonstrates that the emergent twenty-first-century recognition of race mixing and the relative advantages of light-skinned, mixed-race people represent a re-emergence of one salient feature of race in America that dates to its founding. Economist Howard Bodenhorn presents the first full-length study of the ways in which skin color intersected with policy, society, and economy in the nineteenth-century South. With empirical and statistical rigor, the investigation confirms that individuals of mixed race experienced advantages over African Americans in multiple dimensions - in occupations, family formation and family size, wealth, health, and access to freedom, among other criteria. The Color Factor concludes that we will not really understand race until we understand how American attitudes toward race were shaped by race mixing. The text is an ideal resource for students, social scientists, and historians, and anyone hoping to gain a deeper understanding of the historical roots of modern race dynamics in America.

The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Daily Life in America [4 volumes]

Author : Randall M. Miller
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313065365
Total Pages : 2658 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Daily Life in America [4 volumes] written by Randall M. Miller and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-12-30 with total page 2658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The course of daily life in the United States has been a product of tradition, environment, and circumstance. How did the Civil War alter the lives of women, both white and black, left alone on southern farms? How did the Great Depression change the lives of working class families in eastern cities? How did the discovery of gold in California transform the lives of native American, Hispanic, and white communities in western territories? Organized by time period as spelled out in the National Standards for U.S. History, these four volumes effectively analyze the diverse whole of American experience, examining the domestic, economic, intellectual, material, political, recreational, and religious life of the American people between 1763 and 2005. Working under the editorial direction of general editor Randall M. Miller, professor of history at St. Joseph's University, a group of expert volume editors carefully integrate material drawn from volumes in Greenwood's highly successful Daily Life Through History series with new material researched and written by themselves and other scholars. The four volumes cover the following periods: The War of Independence and Antebellum Expansion and Reform, 1763-1861, The Civil War, Reconstruction, and the Industrialization of America, 1861-1900, The Emergence of Modern America, World War I, and the Great Depression, 1900-1940 and Wartime, Postwar, and Contemporary America, 1940-Present. Each volume includes a selection of primary documents, a timeline of important events during the period, images illustrating the text, and extensive bibliography of further information resources—both print and electronic—and a detailed subject index.