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Book Synopsis New England's Strange Sea Sagas by : Robert Ellis Cahill
Download or read book New England's Strange Sea Sagas written by Robert Ellis Cahill and published by Old Saltbox. This book was released on 1990 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Doryman rowed hundreds of miles in a blizzard until his hands froze off; a ship smashes against the rocky coast of Maine and the crew begins eating the cook; a captain ships a rock-hard cargo to the tropics where it begins to disappear and no one will touch it because it burns their skin - what is it? These and many more strange sea stories of fact, including Flotsam and Jetsam and an ongoing curse on submarines."
Book Synopsis Whalemen of the Josephine by : Pat Holenstein
Download or read book Whalemen of the Josephine written by Pat Holenstein and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2003 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The early phase of industrialization in America devestated many lives by what the author calls 'The Fiery Furnace Effect.' Not only were the initial participants affected, but much of the effect, through them, was carried over into the subsequent generation, and beyond in some cases. This novel focuses upon the intergenerational impact for two decades in the life of young Adam Vasilyevich, born out of wedlock in 1926 in the 'Loch Jean' coal camp of 'Paine County,' West Virginia. His early personal development, in what Borges would call his 'green Garden,' is detailed, as is the subsequent series of events that strip him of his human connections and even his identity. Then he is uprooted from his native soil, like a hickory sapling, and is banished into, for Adam, the urban wilderness of Detroit. There, he is abandoned by his mother, who was his last bond to his previous existence. For six years thereafter, Adam is increasingly demoralized and estranged from his life and from his own self. At that point, he is surely on a path toward a life of crime and self destruction, but a fortunate stroke of fate provides new opportunities for a meaningful and gratifying life. However, Adam has been beaten into a feckless, alienated condition for so long that it is highly problematic whether or not he can marshall any inner resources to take advantage of the new circumstances in Melville Township.
Book Synopsis Picturesque New England Series No. 2-15 by : Boston and Maine Railroad
Download or read book Picturesque New England Series No. 2-15 written by Boston and Maine Railroad and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis New England's Ghostly Haunts by : Robert Ellis Cahill
Download or read book New England's Ghostly Haunts written by Robert Ellis Cahill and published by Old Saltbox. This book was released on 1982 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best seller in the series. Real hauntings experienced by the author and his friends, including the story of America's first ghost, who was seen by hundreds of people in Maine. There is a chapter on New Hampshire's "Good Ghosts", and another on "Where to go ghost hunting." Do not read at night!
Book Synopsis The Great New England Sea Serpent by : J. P. O'Neill
Download or read book The Great New England Sea Serpent written by J. P. O'Neill and published by Cosimo, Inc.. This book was released on 2003-11-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is it a strange mammal related to the seals, a descendant of a prehistoric reptile, or a new, unidentified animal? Whatever it is, or was, the witnesses call it a sea serpent. Remarkably similar descriptions of a creature with a long body, undulating motion, and horse-sized, snake-like head have left a trail of clues and controversy going back three centuries. In "The Great New England Sea Serpent," J.P. O'Neill draws on the historical record as well as previously unpublished first-hand accounts to chronicle more than 230 sightings of the mysterious marine creatures inhabiting the Gulf of Maine.
Book Synopsis New England's Riotous Revolution by : Robert Ellis Cahill
Download or read book New England's Riotous Revolution written by Robert Ellis Cahill and published by Old Saltbox. This book was released on 1987 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "George Twelvetrees Hewes wasn't a midget, but he was close. After his funny exploits during the American Revolution, he wrote a journal, and the author uses this journal to weave his tantalizing true story of those great and little known characters who won our independence from England. People like Revere, John Adams and Hancock were not considered heroes by their co-patriots, whereas the eccentric Otis and the crafty Warren were the real leaders, their names are almost forgotten now. A real insight into the courage, humor and day-to-day lives of our revolutionaries."
Book Synopsis Strange Beliefs, Customs, & Superstitions of New England by : Leo Bonfanti
Download or read book Strange Beliefs, Customs, & Superstitions of New England written by Leo Bonfanti and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis New England's Naughty Navy by : Robert Ellis Cahill
Download or read book New England's Naughty Navy written by Robert Ellis Cahill and published by Old Saltbox. This book was released on 1976 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did America with no Navy and no weapons defeat the greatest naval power in the world? This book tells you how, and also tells who the real heroes were in the Revolutionary War. George Washington started his own navy with Marblehead fishermen -- most of whom George didn't like at all -- and the first ship of the navy turned out to be a dud - the crew mutinied, the commander was fired, and the ship ended up on a sandbar.
Book Synopsis New England's Ancient Mysteries by : Robert Ellis Cahill
Download or read book New England's Ancient Mysteries written by Robert Ellis Cahill and published by Old Saltbox. This book was released on 1993 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Called the ""Reader's Digest of New England Archaeology,"" by experts in the field, this book covers all finds and sits by amateur and professional ancient artifact hunters since America was first settled. Hundreds of messages were cut into stone by unknown ancient settlers. Carved faces, well-made homes of rock, Celtic ritual sites, dolmens, and other ancient remnants are scattered throughout the New England states, making it quite apparent that visitors from other lands lived here hundreds of years before Columbus discovered America. Ancient coins, weapons, lamps, containers and art objects have been uncovered as well -- all well documented and described, with photos in this fascinating book."
Book Synopsis New England's Cruel and Unusual Punishments by : Robert Ellis Cahill
Download or read book New England's Cruel and Unusual Punishments written by Robert Ellis Cahill and published by Old Saltbox. This book was released on 1994 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "People were burned at the stake in New England, and whipping was a common punishment. Hangings were gala affairs where food and drink was served, and pelting a neighbor who sat in the stocks with rocks and filth from the street was a weekly form of recreation. There were strict rules and regulations for all 17th and 18th centruy Pilgrims and Puritans -- and to break a rule might mean death. Yet, children, women and anyone of a different religion were treated quite cruelly, whether they broke the rules or not. Almost every New England family owned at least one black (and sometimes one white) slave prior to the Revolution, and the slave's fate was at the whim of his or her master. This book reveals some old and well-kept secrets that will surprise you."
Book Synopsis Shipwrecks of Massachusetts Bay by : Thomas Hall
Download or read book Shipwrecks of Massachusetts Bay written by Thomas Hall and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012-08-07 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Massachusetts Bay stretches along the rocky coast and dangerously sandy shoals from Cape Ann to Cape Cod and gives the Bay State its distinctive shape and the Atlantic Ocean one of its largest graveyards. Author and longtime diver Thomas Hall guides us through the history of eight dreadful wrecks as we navigate around Mass Bay. Learn the sorrowful fate of the Portland and its crew during the devastating Portland Gale of 1898, how the City of Salisbury went down with its load of exotic zoo animals in the shadow of Graves Light and how the Forest Queen lost its precious cargo in a nor'easter. Hall provides updated research for each shipwreck, as well as insights into the technology, ship design and weather conditions unique to each wreck.
Book Synopsis Wicked New Haven by : Michael J. Bielawa
Download or read book Wicked New Haven written by Michael J. Bielawa and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013-07-02 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its founding in 1638, the bustling Connecticut metropolis of New Haven has been plagued by all manner of sin and scandal. Stories of grave robbers and madmen in lighthouses are only a sliver of the Elm City's darker side. Author and historian Michael J. Bielawa chronicles the city's historic tales of pirates, mysteries and unusual deaths. Learn about Yale hauntings and Town and Gown riots, the Red Pirate William Delaney and the mysterious labor activist Frank Sokolowsky, whose strange murder in 1920 may have been at the hands of a jealous wife or part of a political plot. Discover the overzealous Wakemanites whose Christmas Eve exorcism led to the brutal murder of a man they believed possessed. Join Bielawa if you dare to peer into the shadowy corners of New Haven's wicked history.
Book Synopsis Cursed in New England by : Joseph A. Citro
Download or read book Cursed in New England written by Joseph A. Citro and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-08-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Englanders are always cursing. But a colorful profanity uttered by some stero-typically taciturn old Yankee is usually more humorous than menacing. Yet, true maledictions (the opposite of benedictions) have frequently been spoken on New England soil, curses intended to invoke evil, injury, or total destruction against other people. Stories about preternatural revenge are numerous in Yankee lore, with each New England state providing its favorites. You’ll read about curses that were followed by the strange disappearance of a father and daughter in Rhode Island, mysterious afflictions in Massachusetts, a river of death in Maine, an unaccountable blight in New Hampshire, unexplained madness in Connecticut, and other eerie happenings from New England’s colorful history. Some are well known, at least regionally. Others are nearly forgotten. Within these pages, storyteller Joseph A. Citro vividly brings these tales to life, letting us decide if these tales of woe were bad luck or . . . something else.
Book Synopsis The Reader's Adviser by : Marion Sader
Download or read book The Reader's Adviser written by Marion Sader and published by Libraries Unlimited. This book was released on 1994 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heartily recommended... Since not even a reference librarian par excellence can come close to knowing the best in any given discipline, no library should be without access to this set for its patrons. Booklist ... impressively meets a quite formidable task - providing basic material on many subjects for the nonspecialist, student librarian. Choice From age-old classics to the writings of today, The Reader's Adviser, 14th Edition helps you and your patrons select and appreciate the world's greatest books. This monumental work features: *hundreds of authors and thousands of works new to this edition, plus updated entries and revised material in every chapter *updated critical and biographical profiles reflecting the latest understanding and scholarship *more women writers and more culturally diverse writers from around the world *title, name, & subject indexes in every volume. Order the complete 6-volume set for only $500.00--a savings of $160.00 if you purchased each volume separately!
Book Synopsis Children's Books in Print by : R R Bowker Publishing
Download or read book Children's Books in Print written by R R Bowker Publishing and published by R. R. Bowker. This book was released on 1999-12 with total page 1662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis For Adam's Sake: A Family Saga in Colonial New England by : Allegra di Bonaventura
Download or read book For Adam's Sake: A Family Saga in Colonial New England written by Allegra di Bonaventura and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2013-04-22 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the New England Historical Association’s James P. Hanlan Book Award Winner the Association for the Study of Connecticut History’s Homer D. Babbidge Jr. Award “Incomparably vivid . . . as enthralling a portrait of family life [in colonial New England] as we are likely to have.”—Wall Street Journal In the tradition of Laurel Thatcher Ulrich’s classic, A Midwife’s Tale, comes this groundbreaking narrative by one of America’s most promising colonial historians. Joshua Hempstead was a well-respected farmer and tradesman in New London, Connecticut. As his remarkable diary—kept from 1711 until 1758—reveals, he was also a slave owner who owned Adam Jackson for over thirty years. In this engrossing narrative of family life and the slave experience in the colonial North, Allegra di Bonaventura describes the complexity of this master/slave relationship and traces the intertwining stories of two families until the eve of the Revolution. Slavery is often left out of our collective memory of New England’s history, but it was hugely impactful on the central unit of colonial life: the family. In every corner, the lines between slavery and freedom were blurred as families across the social spectrum fought to survive. In this enlightening study, a new portrait of an era emerges.
Book Synopsis Monthly Bulletin. New Series by : St. Louis Public Library
Download or read book Monthly Bulletin. New Series written by St. Louis Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 1034 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
