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Author : Gerald Mortimer Capers
Publisher : Burkes Book Store
ISBN 13 : 9780937130094
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (3 download)
Download or read book The Biography of a River Town written by Gerald Mortimer Capers and published by Burkes Book Store. This book was released on 1980-01-01 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gerald M. Capers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781469644387
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (443 download)
Download or read book The Biography of a River Town written by Gerald M. Capers and published by . This book was released on 2018-04 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author tells the story of Memphis before 1900 as an approach to the study of a complex region where, in antebellum days, West met South, agriculture was linked with commerce, and, during the Civil War, economic interest clashed with sectional loyalty and lost. Personal knowledge, local sources, maps, and contemporary drawings make the book lively and authentic. Originally published in 1939. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
Author : Gerald Mortimer Capers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780807802892
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (28 download)
Download or read book The Biography of a River Town written by Gerald Mortimer Capers and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author tells the story of Memphis before 1900 as an approach to the study of a complex region where, in antebellum days, West met South, agriculture was linked with commerce, and, during the Civil War, economic interest clashed with sectional loyalty and lost. Personal knowledge, local sources, maps, and contemporary drawings make the book lively and authentic. Originally published in 1939. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
Author : Ada Douglas Littlefield
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book An Old River Town written by Ada Douglas Littlefield and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gerald Mortimer Capers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)
Download or read book The Biography of a River Town written by Gerald Mortimer Capers and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Hessler
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062028987
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)
Download or read book River Town written by Peter Hessler and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-09-21 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book Winner of the Kiriyama Book Prize In the heart of China's Sichuan province, amid the terraced hills of the Yangtze River valley, lies the remote town of Fuling. Like many other small cities in this ever-evolving country, Fuling is heading down a new path of change and growth, which came into remarkably sharp focus when Peter Hessler arrived as a Peace Corps volunteer, marking the first time in more than half a century that the city had an American resident. Hessler taught English and American literature at the local college, but it was his students who taught him about the complex processes of understanding that take place when one is immersed in a radically different society. Poignant, thoughtful, funny, and enormously compelling, River Town is an unforgettable portrait of a city that is seeking to understand both what it was and what it someday will be.
Author : Thomas Keneally
Publisher : Nan A. Talese
ISBN 13 : 0307800636
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)
Download or read book A River Town written by Thomas Keneally and published by Nan A. Talese. This book was released on 2011-11-16 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fleeing to Australia to escape the repressive life of British-controlled Ireland, Tim Shea is alarmed by his new home's equally stifling social order and its inclination towards prejudice. By the author of Schindler's List.
Author : John Glatt
Publisher : Piatkus Books
ISBN 13 : 9780749915117
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (151 download)
Download or read book River Phoenix written by John Glatt and published by Piatkus Books. This book was released on 1995 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anyone suffering from this traumatic arthritic condition should appreciate this title. Included in the new sections are updated dietary guidelines, including contemporary research on the role of diet in preventing gout, and a description of the new medications available for its treatment.
Author : Marilyn Van Voorhis Wendler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780938936749
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (367 download)
Download or read book The Foot of the Rapids written by Marilyn Van Voorhis Wendler and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ada Douglas Littlefield
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230410302
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (13 download)
Download or read book An Old River Town written by Ada Douglas Littlefield and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ...sealed. This was done according to orders; captain and officers shut themselves into the vessel's cabin--and the birds did begin to sing. Of course they were badly stung. The country was scoured for the culprit but Hate had fled to the woods. During one January thaw some children were playing near the main road and Hate came along with a pair of new shoes. Taking his knife he cut a piece from each toe and heel, put them on and started to walk thro the slush and melting snow. When the curious children asked why he did it, he said: "Why, to let the water run out when it runs in, of course." In the ell chamber at the tavern were several straw beds. Also boxes of grain, some oats, and peas were stored. One day Hate sewed all of them, about forty bushels, into the straw ticks and ran away. The landlord's thirteen children were kept from mischief for some time sorting out the mixture. He came back not long after and when Mrs. Spearing asked him why he did it, he said: " Now, now, don't you worry about that, we'll have the garden of Eden and it will be a beautiful spot." Perhaps he was irresponsible, but we may also remember his good deeds; when he made his way to Belfast to warn the inhabitants of the coming of the British and saved their cattle; or of his long tramp to Hampden to warn the farmers to be on the look out. The last year of his life he was " bid off" to a new home where he died in June 1821, and the last rite his landlord could perform for him was to plant a tree on his grave. Among other taverns was the big house at the foot of ferry hill, a haunt of sailors and seamen; the Kemptons kept a hotel at the top of the same hill. At the lower village was the old Frankfort house kept by Major Hersey. At its...
Author : Igor Rendic
Publisher : Amazon Digital Services LLC - KDP Print US
ISBN 13 : 9789538360169
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (61 download)
Download or read book A Town Called River written by Igor Rendic and published by Amazon Digital Services LLC - KDP Print US. This book was released on 2021-12-12 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Returning to his hometown of Rijeka, Croatia, to wrap things up after his grandmother's passing, Paul gets more than he expected in terms of inheritance-way more than just a stuffy old apartment downtown. The legacy of his grandmother's work as a krsnik-a traditional magic user tasked with keeping the thin line between the humans and the things that prey on them-falls on his shoulders, threatening to change everything he thought he knew about life, the city he left behind so long ago, and himself. As the line keeps getting thinner, it'll soon be up to Paul, with help from some unexpected (and witchy) places, to prove worthy of his legacy while fighting for the city's humanity, and trying not to lose his own along the way.
Author : Ben McGrath
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0451494016
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (514 download)
Download or read book Riverman written by Ben McGrath and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This quietly profound book belongs on the shelf next to Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild.” —The New York Times The riveting true story of Dick Conant, an American folk hero who, over the course of more than twenty years, canoed solo thousands of miles of American rivers—and then disappeared near the Outer Banks of North Carolina. This book “contains everything: adventure, mystery, travelogue, and unforgettable characters” (David Grann, best-selling author of Killers of the Flower Moon). For decades, Dick Conant paddled the rivers of America, covering the Mississippi, Yellowstone, Ohio, Hudson, as well as innumerable smaller tributaries. These solo excursions were epic feats of planning, perseverance, and physical courage. At the same time, Conant collected people wherever he went, creating a vast network of friends and acquaintances who would forever remember this brilliant and charming man even after a single meeting. Ben McGrath, a staff writer at The New Yorker, was one of those people. In 2014 he met Conant by chance just north of New York City as Conant paddled down the Hudson, headed for Florida. McGrath wrote a widely read article about their encounter, and when Conant's canoe washed up a few months later, without any sign of his body, McGrath set out to find the people whose lives Conant had touched--to capture a remarkable life lived far outside the staid confines of modern existence. Riverman is a moving portrait of a complex and fascinating man who was as troubled as he was charismatic, who struggled with mental illness and self-doubt, and was ultimately unable to fashion a stable life for himself; who traveled alone and yet thrived on connection and brought countless people together in his wake. It is also a portrait of an America we rarely see: a nation of unconventional characters, small river towns, and long-forgotten waterways.
Author : Ada Douglas Littlefield
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781016060684
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (66 download)
Download or read book An Old River Town written by Ada Douglas Littlefield and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Adair Heig
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (49 download)
Download or read book History of Petaluma written by Adair Heig and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Keneally
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0452276551
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (522 download)
Download or read book A River Town written by Thomas Keneally and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1996-05-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the author of Schlinder’s List and Woman of the Inner Sea The time is the start of the century. The place is a seemingly peaceful Australian town on the banks of the Macleay River in New South Wales. Here Tim Shea has come from distant Ireland to build a new life free of the crippling poverty and bleak horizons of the past. But he finds that this land of opportunity is a land of perilous choices. As a good man in a less than perfect world, he also finds that the price of goodness can be painfully high. Thomas Keneally has created one of the most wonderfully realized characters in modern fiction, forced to confront questions of duty and desire, race and sex, class and caste, politics and religion, in a town that becomes a vividly moving microcosm of humanity’s strengths and weaknesses, tragedies and triumphs. A River Town is engrossing, funny, and touching – vintage Keneally. “A novel of a time with moral question disturbingly like our own . . . a fictional world at once harsh and sensuous and supremely engaging to read about.” – Boston Globe “A wonderful piece of writing, a joyously exact and haunting feat of the imagination . . . crammed with magnificent portraits . . . A River Town turns steadily into a chilling and suspenseful mystery, as absorbing a page-turner as this master story-teller has ever written . . . It is the best book of the year.” – San Francisco Chronicle
Author : Lynn Litterine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781947175280
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (752 download)
Download or read book River Town Girl written by Lynn Litterine and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-06 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: River Town Girl is a memoir that braids three separate themes: life in a tiny Hudson River town right across from Manhattan, the delights and the power of storytelling, and one girl's experience growing up--and out of pain--in the 1950s, '60s, and early '70s.
Author : Ben Yagoda
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0684816059
Total Pages : 505 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (848 download)
Download or read book About Town written by Ben Yagoda and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2000 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illuminated by interviews with more than fifty people, including the late Joseph Mitchell, William Steig, Roger Angell, Calvin Trillin, Pauline Kael, John Updike, and Ann Beattie, About Town penetrates the inner workings of the New Yorker as no other book has done."--BOOK JACKET.
