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Book Synopsis Hellhole of the Pacific by : Richard Wolfe
Download or read book Hellhole of the Pacific written by Richard Wolfe and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2008-06-02 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1830s Kororareka was known as the 'hell-hole of the Pacific'. Whalers, sealers, escaped convicts, seamen, traders and adventurers descended upon this small cove in the Bay. Grog-shops and the oldest profession in the world abounded. At one stage the town was said to be harbouring 'a greater number of rogues than any other spot of equal size in the universe'. Some whaling captains steered clear, fearing they'd lose their crews. But was Kororareka actually a hell-hole? How wild was it really? In this absorbing book on one of the most lively periods in New Zealand history, Richard Wolfe asks new questions, confronts existing myths, and comes up with some fascinating answers.
Book Synopsis Hell-hole of the Pacific by : Richard Wolfe
Download or read book Hell-hole of the Pacific written by Richard Wolfe and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Good Time Girls of the Pacific Northwest by : Jan MacKell Collins
Download or read book Good Time Girls of the Pacific Northwest written by Jan MacKell Collins and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-02-24 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the development of the American West, prostitution grew and flourished within the mining camps, small towns, and cities of the nineteenth-century Pacific Northwest. Whether escaping a bad home life, lured by false advertising, or seeking to subsidize their income, thousands of women chose or were forced to enter an industry where they faced segregation and persecution, fines and jailing, and battled the hazards of disease, drug addiction, physical abuse, and pregnancy. They dreamed of escape through marriage or retirement, but more often found relief only in death. An integral part of western history, the stories of these women continue to fascinate readers and captivate the minds of historians today.
Book Synopsis Haunted Graveyard of the Pacific by : Ira Wesley Kitmacher
Download or read book Haunted Graveyard of the Pacific written by Ira Wesley Kitmacher and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-10 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite its idyllic setting, the coast of the Pacific Northwest has another, darker name by which it is known: the "Graveyard of the Pacific." Two thousand ships and countless lives have been lost to the waters of the Pacific Ocean, and the Columbia River has claimed many more. The spirits of early settlers, Native Americans and drowned mariners are said to linger near the shores. From ghostly treasure hunters eternally searching for buried gold to a graveyard filled with souls that met violent ends, legends abound. Join author Ira Wesley Kitmacher as he uncovers mysterious tales and takes readers on a road trip through this most haunted place in America.
Download or read book Weird Washington written by Jeff Davis and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each fun and intriguing volume offers more than 250 illustrated pages of places where tourists usually don't venture. These unique travel guides are chock-full of information about oddball curiosities, ghostly places, local legends, and peculiar roadside attractions.
Book Synopsis B-29 “Double Trouble” Is “Mister Bee” by : Colonel Charles A. Jones
Download or read book B-29 “Double Trouble” Is “Mister Bee” written by Colonel Charles A. Jones and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2020-11-15 with total page 719 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the story of Elmer C. Jones, a young man who grew up during the Great Depression and who joined the military in 1943, becoming a member of the Army's Air Corps in 1944. He was the radar observer of a B-29 Superfortress bomber crew flying 28 combat missions over Japan in 1945--13 bombing missions and 15 photographic reconnaissance missions, including the longest mission of the war: 4,650 miles in 23:00 hours. He accumulated 489:50 combat flying hours during the war.
Book Synopsis Outcasts of the Gods? by : Hazel Petrie
Download or read book Outcasts of the Gods? written by Hazel Petrie and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-25 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Us Maoris used to practice slavery just like them poor Negroes had to endure in America . . .' says Beth Heke in Once Were Warriors. ‘Oh those evil colonials who destroyed Maori culture by ending slavery and cannibalism while increasing the life expectancy,' wrote one sarcastic blogger. So was Maori slavery ‘just like' the experience of Africans in the Americas and were British missionaries or colonial administrators responsible for ending the practice? What was the nature of freedom and unfreedom in Maori society and how did that intersect with the perceptions of British colonists and the anti-slavery movement? A meticulously researched book, Outcasts of the Gods? looks closely at a huge variety of evidence to answer these questions, analyzing bondage and freedom in traditional Maori society; the role of economics and mana in shaping captivity; and how the arrival of colonists and new trade opportunities transformed Maori society and the place of captives within it.
Book Synopsis 100 Drives, 5,000 Ideas by : Joe Yogerst
Download or read book 100 Drives, 5,000 Ideas written by Joe Yogerst and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a vineyard route through Northwest wine country to a winter wonderland on Alberta's Icefields Parkway, this informative travel guide offers epic sights, good bites, and pure fun. Pack your car and hit the road to experience 100 drives--both classic and off the beaten track--across the United States and Canada. You'll find innovative itineraries outlining your route, along with when to go and what to see and do along the way.
Book Synopsis National Geographic Traveler - New Zealand by : Peter Turner
Download or read book National Geographic Traveler - New Zealand written by Peter Turner and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents information on New Zealand's culture, history, and people; offers walking and driving tours enhanced by color-coded maps; and suggests excursions off the beaten path.
Book Synopsis National Geographic Traveler: New Zealand, 2nd Edition by : Peter Turner
Download or read book National Geographic Traveler: New Zealand, 2nd Edition written by Peter Turner and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation Peter Turner presents a rich overview of New Zealand that helps tailor your visit to the time you have and your specific interests. Insider tips are provided on favourite hotspots, practicalities, and more.
Download or read book Hellhole, 98520 written by Robert Wilson and published by . This book was released on 2022-07-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compelling story converges at the 3-way intersection of an up-from-nothing coming-of-age memoir, an insider's account of the colossal business failure of Arthur Andersen, the iconic international professional firm and, in the aftermath of the acutely personal effects of that calamity, a search for and rediscovery of a higher purpose and spiritual meaning. It is the story of a boy abandoned by his too-young, recently-divorced mother when he was 1-1/2 years old, succored by a "foster" family until he turned four, then forcibly wrested from this family by his birth mother when she reappeared with a new husband. The author grew up in Aberdeen, Washington, a tough, immigrant, harbor town of plywood factories, lumber mills and labor wars, pollution, merchant seamen and dozens of whore houses, dubbed by the popular press as "Hell-Hole of the Pacific" at the turn of the last century, and ground zero in "America's war on sin" in mid-century. Like Kurt Cobain, another native son a generation later, the author wanted nothing more than to escape the shackles of Aberdeen. But his path was the corporate world, not grunge music, where he climbed the greasy corporate pole to the partnership at Arthur Andersen.Arthur Andersen collapsed in 2002 under the weight of Enron and other financial scandals. While the book chronicles the author's unlikely ascent to the partnership at Andersen, it also provides insights into what went phenomenally right during the firm's heyday, and disastrously wrong in the end. When Arthur Andersen died, the author's world imploded as well. He was left with no choice but to re-examine everything he thought he knew about myself. What he discovered at the dead end of the path of self-flagellation was a new beginning radically different than the one he left behind.Robert Wilson was a partner in Arthur Andersen, the international accounting and consulting firm, and, later, the chief financial officer of both public and private companies. He has also been a member of several corporate boards of directors. Robert lives with his wife in Scottsdale, Arizona and Newport, Rhode Island.
Download or read book Nirvana written by Michael Azerrad and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2023-10-24 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Azerrad reflects on the meaning of the revolutionary band, Nirvana, his friendship with Kurt Cobain, and the impact of the '90s thirty years later. Includes 20 images of posters and ephemera from the time. Note: This is the compilation of the essay-like annotations from THE AMPLIFIED COME AS YOU ARE: The Story of Nirvana, excluding the underlying 1993 book.
Download or read book Sh*t Towns of New Zealand written by and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2018-10-24 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the hugely popular Facebook page 'Shit Towns of New Zealand', this book describes New Zealand's towns and suburbs from the affluent to the effluent, the rural to the urinal, profiling all the best places not to visit, or heaven forbid, live. Slagging off our towns is as much a national pastime as binge drinking and ball sports. Ever since a Dutch bloke in a sailboat did a drive-by and claimed to have discovered the place, New Zealanders have revelled in taking the mickey. The towns and cities reviewed here have been carefully selected using an exacting set of scientific criteria, combined with extensive field research and a healthy sense of humour. 'Offensive.' Todd McClay, Rotorua MP 'Pretty funny.' Frankie Stevens, National Treasure
Download or read book On the Harbor written by John C. Hughes and published by Stephens Press, LLC. This book was released on 2005 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These are the stories of the twentieth century on Grays Harbor. Based on two decades of research by the staff of The Daily World, "On the Harbor" is a unique narrative of local history, with separate chapters on the fourteen top stories of the past hundred years and biographies of Citizens of the Century. Also included are a first-hand account by a veteran Wobbly on the free-speech fight of 1911, Ed Van Syckle on sailing with legendary Capt. Ralph E. Peasley, and Murray Morgan on working for the Grays Harbor Washingtonian in Hoquiam during the Depression. With more than a hundred photographs from the archives of the Daily World and the Jones Historical Collection and nearly 200 sidebars on what to read, how to speak like a native and who's who in Harbor history, this book is a suitable for everyone from the casual reader to the ardent scholar, for the coffee table or the school library. Come along and read a century's worth of stories about life on gritty old Grays Harbor.
Book Synopsis St. Helena Island by : James M. Gray
Download or read book St. Helena Island written by James M. Gray and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A concise history of St. Helena Island in Moreton Bay, from its discovery in 1795 to the closing of the penal colony. Every aspect of the islands discovery, colonisation, the establishment of the Penal Island Prison Establishment, construction, treatment of prisoners, the Shearer Prisoners records, escapes, and final closure."--Provided by publisher.
Book Synopsis Hell in the Pacific by : Jim McEnery
Download or read book Hell in the Pacific written by Jim McEnery and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-06-11 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In what may be the last memoir to be published by a living veteran of the pivotal invasion of Guadalcanal, which occurred almost seventy years ago, Marine Jim McEnery has teamed up with author Bill Sloan to create an unforgettable chronicle of heroism and horror McErery’s Rifle Company—the legendary K/3/5 of the First Marine Division, made famous by the HBO miniseries The Pacific—fought in some of the most ferocious battles of the war. In searing detail, the author takes us back to Guadalcanal, where American forces first turned the tide against the Japanese; Cape Gloucester, where 1,300 Marines were killed or wounded; and bloody Peleliu, where McEnery assumed command of the company and helped hasten the final defeat of the Japanese garrison after weeks of torturous cave-to-cave fighting. McEnery’s story is a no-holds-barred, grunt’s-eye view of the sacrifices, suffering, and raw courage of the men in the foxholes, locked in mortal combat with an implacable enemy sworn to fight to the death. From bayonet charges and hand-to-hand combat to midnight banzai attacks and the loss of close buddies, the rifle squad leader spares no details, chronicling his odyssey from boot camp through twenty-eight months of hellish combat until his eventual return home. He has given us an unforgettable portrait of men at war.
Book Synopsis South-Pacific Journal of Mission Studies by :
Download or read book South-Pacific Journal of Mission Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
