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Book Synopsis Postcards and Pearls by : Gina Greenlee
Download or read book Postcards and Pearls written by Gina Greenlee and published by . This book was released on 2011-11 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons from Solo Moments in New York, 35 women ages 24 to 72 join Gina Greenlee in sharing life-enhancing experiences while traveling solo in one of the world's most fascinating cities. Whether they blitzed through a long weekend, pit-stopped en route to another destination, conducted business or decided to move in, these intrepid travelers embraced the excitement of new experiences, the opportunities that spring from resourcefulness and the life altering freedom born from being exactly who they are. Let Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons from Solo Moments in New York inspire an adventure of your own - in the big city and in life.
Download or read book Monsoon written by Di Morrissey and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-01-06 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monsoon... is a journey into the hearts and memories of those caught in a certain time in a particular place. Sandy Donaldson has been working for a volunteer organisation in Vietnam for the past four years. As her contract nears it end, she is reluctant to leave so she invites her oldest friend, Anna, to come for a holiday and discover its beautiful tourist destinations. Both girls have unexplored links to this country. Sandy's father is a Vietnam vet and Anna's mother was a Vietnamese boat person. During their travels, they meet Tom, an old Australian journalist who covered the war and plans to report on the 40th anniversary of the Battle of Long Tan. It is Tom who tries to persuade Sandy's father to return to Long Tan and settle the ghosts that have haunted him for 40 years, and suggests that Anna should delve into her mother's past. But the girls are reluctant, swept up in their own concerns, relationships, and a business deal that has the potential to go horribly wrong. However, it is the near-blind Buddhist nun living alone in the pagoda atop one of the karsts in Halong Bay who might hold the key.
Book Synopsis Plant City in Vintage Postcards by :
Download or read book Plant City in Vintage Postcards written by and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plant City is an ever-growing small community in Central Florida incorporated as a town in 1885. Now famous as the winter strawberry capital of the world, Plant City boasts three historic districts and five individual sites listed locally and on the National Register of Historic Sites. This volume includes more than 150 postcards from the collection of The Quintilla Geer Bruton Archives Center of the East Hillsborough Historical Society, relating the pictorial history of this town from generations past to present. Images of businesses, churches, people, and schools tell the story of Plant City's growth and development, while those of hotels, motels, cabins, and tourist homes showcase where residents and visitors stayed while enjoying Plant City.
Book Synopsis The Best of Card Creations by : Jennifer Schaerer
Download or read book The Best of Card Creations written by Jennifer Schaerer and published by Leisure Arts. This book was released on 2010 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers more than 500 card projects from recent special issues of Card Creations, published by the editors of Paper CraftsR magazine.
Download or read book The Japan Chronicle written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 994 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Heritage-scape by : Michael A. Di Giovine
Download or read book The Heritage-scape written by Michael A. Di Giovine and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how the mere designation of World Heritage sites can achieve UNESCO's goal of creating lasting worldwide peace. Drawing on ethnography, policy analysis, and a sophisticated fusion of anthropological theories, Di Giovine convincingly reveals the existence of ...
Book Synopsis The Best of Stamp It! Cards by : Paper Crafts
Download or read book The Best of Stamp It! Cards written by Paper Crafts and published by Leisure Arts. This book was released on 2011 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn more than a dozen stamping techniques, with easy-to-follow instructions. You'll be able to make your own greeting cards to mark milestone occasions, celebrate holidays, or just say hello--
Book Synopsis Postcards from the Baja California Border by : Daniel D. Arreola
Download or read book Postcards from the Baja California Border written by Daniel D. Arreola and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Postcards have a magical pull. They allow us to see the past through charming relics that allow us to travel back in time. Daniel D. Arreola’s Postcards from the Baja California Border offers a window into the historical and geographical past of storied Mexican border communities. Once-popular tourist destinations from the 1900s through the 1950s, the border communities explored in Postcards from the Baja California Border used to be filled with revelers, cabarets, curio shops, and more. The postcards in this book show the bright and dynamic past of California’s borderlands while diving deep into the historic and geographic significance of the imagery found on the postcards. This form of place study calls attention to how we can see a past through a serial view of places, by the nature of repetition, and the photographing of the same place over and over again. Arreola draws our focus to townscapes, or built landscapes, of four border towns—Tijuana, Mexicali, Tecate, and Algodones—during the first half of the twentieth century. With an emphasis on the tourist’s view of these places, this book creates a vivid picture of what life was like for tourists and residents of these towns in the early and mid-twentieth century. Postcards from the Baja California Border is a rich and fascinating experience, one that takes you on a time-travel journey through border town histories and geographies while celebrating the visual intrigue of postcards.
Book Synopsis Fifteen Postcards by : Kirsten McKenzie
Download or read book Fifteen Postcards written by Kirsten McKenzie and published by Accent Press. This book was released on 2015-08-17 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History shapes those who travel through it Following the unexplained disappearance of her parents, and in a last ditch attempt to save the antique store she has inherited from financial ruin, Sarah Lester takes on a deceased estate. Amongst the estate is a collection of vintage postcards which lead Sarah on a journey through time. Sarah is unprepared for what these postcards hint at about their reclusive former owner, and soon they complicate her life in unimaginable ways, transporting her to Victorian London, colonial New Zealand and to the British Raj in India. Sarah has to fight her twenty-first century instincts, and a century of emancipation, to survive. Traversing three continents and two centuries, where tiger hunts and ruby necklaces are irrevocably entwined with murders and mysteries, auction houses and antiquities, Sarah is drawn into the enigma that could solve her parents' disappearance, and the question of should she stay or should she go, gets harder and harder to answer, the deeper she delves into the past. Perfect for fans of the Outlander series and lovers of The Time Travelers Wife. What people are saying about Fifteen Postcards: "If history lessons had been this entertaining, I would have scored an A+!." -Andrene Low, author of the Excess Baggage series "This story is one for devotees of adventurous historical fiction and tales of plucky young women finding their feet." -Stephanie Jones, CoastFM Book Reviewer "I think the author has done a commendable job in bringing the story to life and it's obvious that she has used extensive historical research to ensure that the story always feels authentic and that's not an easy feat to pull off." -JaffaReadsToo, Book Blogger "Kirsten McKenzie has written a very unusual novel: part time travel, part historical, and part antique review. Sarah?s adventures in other times and other continents, linked together by the postcards and the antiques, are well researched and entertainingly written." -Historical Novel Society What reviewers are saying about Kirsten McKenzie: "McKenzie has done a spectacular job of combining well-researched history with a hint of mysterious intrigue." -Anxious Canadian Blog "Kirsten Mckenzie has written an excellent foray into historical fiction. I'm honestly not quite sure how she was able to keep up with and integrate the different settings, time periods, and characters without losing her place. But she managed it magnificently." -Author Sean Whittaker "McKenzie?s descriptions of the shop are well drawn and wonderfully evoke the jumbled chaos of layers of leftovers from centuries of everyday life." -NZBookLovers blog
Book Synopsis Card Sketches for Paper Crafters by : Paper Crafts Magazine
Download or read book Card Sketches for Paper Crafters written by Paper Crafts Magazine and published by Leisure Arts. This book was released on 2012 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sketches are a card maker's best friend because they take the guesswork out of the design process. In this must-have edition revealing the secrets of creative card design, the editors of Paper Crafts Magazine® have gathered over 125 sketches and more than 500 projects to show how to use sketches for card designs. All the paper crafter has to do is decide on a sketch, gather the supplies, and create the card in no time flat! From fun and cute birthday cards to holiday gift card holders, this very special book will become a go-to resource every time the card maker digs into her paper crafting stash.
Book Synopsis Oak Park in Vintage Postcards by : Douglas Deuchler
Download or read book Oak Park in Vintage Postcards written by Douglas Deuchler and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2003-08-06 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although it was first settled in the 1830s, Oak Park did not become an independent municipality until it split from Cicero Township in 1902. No longer a rustic small town, the village soon became a population magnet, attracting ever-larger numbers of prosperous, progressive people to settle in what many soon referred to as "the finest of the streetcar suburbs." Coincidentally, use of the penny picture postcard had approached a national mania during this era. Thus from the earliest years of the 20th century, the rapid growth and development of Oak Park was well documented, even celebrated, with a vast and varied array of outstanding postcard images.
Book Synopsis Postcards from the Trenches by : Irene Guenther
Download or read book Postcards from the Trenches written by Irene Guenther and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: German art student Otto Schubert was 22 years old when he was drafted into the Great War. As the conflict unfolded, he painted a series of postcards that he sent to his sweetheart, Irma. During the battles of Ypres and Verdun, Schubert filled dozens of military-issued 4” x 6” cards with vivid images depicting the daily realities and tragedies of war. Beautifully illustrated with full-color reproductions of his exquisite postcards, as well as his wartime sketches, woodcuts, and two lithograph portfolios, Postcards from the Trenches is Schubert's war diary, love journal, and life story. His powerful artworks illuminate and document in a visual language the truths of war. Postcards from the Trenches offers the first full account of Otto Schubert, soldier-artist of the Great War, rising art star in the 1920s, prolific graphic artist and book illustrator, one of the “degenerate” artists defamed by the Nazis, and a man shattered by the Second World War and the Cold War. Created in the midst of enormous devastation, Schubert's haunting visual missives are as powerful and relevant today as they were a century ago. His postcards are both a young man's token of love and longing and a soldier's testimony of the Great War. **Please note that this will work best on a colour device**
Book Synopsis Vintage Postcards from the African World by : Jessica B. Harris
Download or read book Vintage Postcards from the African World written by Jessica B. Harris and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2020-05-15 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over forty years, professor and culinary historian Jessica B. Harris has collected postcards depicting Africans and their descendants in the American diaspora. They are presented for the first time in this exquisite volume. Vintage Postcards from the African World: In the Dignity of Their Work and the Joy of Their Play brings together more than 150 images, providing a visual document of more than a century of work in agricultural and culinary pursuits and joy in entertainments, parades, and celebrations. Organized by geography—Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States—as well as by the types of scenes depicted—the farm, the garden, and the sea; the marketplace; the vendors and the cooks; leisure, entertainments, and festivities—the images capture the dignity of the labors of everyday life and the pride of festive occasions. Superb and rare images demonstrate everything from how Africans and their descendants dressed to what tools they used to how their entertainments provided relief from toil. Three essays accompany the postcards, one of which details Harris’s collection and the collecting process. A second presents suggestions on how to interpret the cards. A final essay gives brief information on the history of postcards and postcard dating and its increasing use and value to scholars.
Book Synopsis Postcards from the Río Bravo Border by : Daniel D. Arreola
Download or read book Postcards from the Río Bravo Border written by Daniel D. Arreola and published by Univ of TX + ORM. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history in postcards of Mexican tourist towns in the first half of the twentieth century, with nearly two hundred illustrations. Between 1900 and the late 1950s, Mexican border towns came of age both as tourist destinations—in some cases by luring Americans who wanted to escape Prohibition—and as emerging cities. Commercial photographers produced thousands of images of their streets, plazas, historic architecture, and tourist attractions, which were reproduced as photo postcards. Daniel Arreola has amassed one of the largest collections of these border town postcards, and in this book he uses this amazing visual archive to offer a new way of understanding how the border towns grew and transformed themselves in the first half of the twentieth century, as well as how they were pictured to attract American tourists. Postcards from the Río Bravo Border presents nearly two hundred images of five towns on the lower Río Bravo: Matamoros, Reynosa, Nuevo Laredo, Piedras Negras, and Villa Acuña. Using multiple images of sites within each city, Arreola tracks changes both within the cities as places and in the ways in which they’ve been pictured for tourist consumption. He also shows how postcard images, when systematically and chronologically arranged, can tell us a great deal about how Mexican border towns have been viewed over time. This innovative visual approach demonstrates that historical imagery, no less than text or maps, can be assembled to tell a fascinating geographical story. “This is masterful cultural geography with rich visual materials, delivered in a unique and compelling fashion.” —Journal of Latin American Geography
Book Synopsis Born to Shop Hong Kong by : Suzy Gershman
Download or read book Born to Shop Hong Kong written by Suzy Gershman and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1993 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This excellent travel companion for avid shoppers and bargain sekers in the Far East reveals how to stay at luxury hotels and pay special shopper's rates; how to buy designer clothes from $10 bins; and how to buy a used Nikkon. Travel maps, shopping tours, negotiating tips, and more are included.
Book Synopsis Annual Statement of the Sea-borne Trade and Navigation of Burma with Foreign Countries and Indian Ports ... by : Burma. Customs Dept
Download or read book Annual Statement of the Sea-borne Trade and Navigation of Burma with Foreign Countries and Indian Ports ... written by Burma. Customs Dept and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Stringing Pearls written by Leslie Furlow and published by PHC Publishing Group. This book was released on 2008 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
