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Author : Department of the Interior. National Park Service
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Council Ring written by Department of the Interior. National Park Service and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Abigail Ayres Van Slyck
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816648764
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (487 download)
Download or read book A Manufactured Wilderness written by Abigail Ayres Van Slyck and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since they were first established in the 1880s, children’s summer camps have touched the lives of millions of people. Although the camping experience has a special place in the popular imagination, few scholars have given serious thought to this peculiarly American phenomenon. Why were summer camps created? What concerns and ideals motivated their founders? Whom did they serve? How did they change over time? What factors influenced their design? To answer these and many other questions, Abigail A. Van Slyck trains an informed eye on the most visible and evocative aspect of camp life: its landscape and architecture. She argues that summer camps delivered much more than a simple encounter with the natural world. Instead, she suggests, camps provided a man-made version of wilderness, shaped by middle-class anxieties about gender roles, class tensions, race relations, and modernity and its impact on the lives of children. Following a fascinating history of summer camps and a wide-ranging overview of the factors that led to their creation, Van Slyck examines the intersections of the natural landscape with human-built forms and social activities. In particular, she addresses changing attitudes toward such subjects as children’s health, sanitation, play, relationships between the sexes, Native American culture, and evolving ideas about childhood. Generously illustrated with period photographs, maps, plans, and promotional images of camps throughout North America, A Manufactured Wilderness is the first book to offer a thorough consideration of the summer camp environment.
Author : Marta Gutman
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813541956
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)
Download or read book Designing Modern Childhoods written by Marta Gutman and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the book architectural historians, social historians, social scientists, and architects examine the history and design of places and objects such as schools, hospitals, playgrounds, houses, cell phones, snowboards, and even the McDonald's Happy Meal.
Author : Allan A. Macfarlan
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1602399832
Total Pages : 573 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Living Like Indians written by Allan A. Macfarlan and published by Skyhorse Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2011-04 with total page 573 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to navigate using the stars, make moccasins, build shelters, andmuch...
Author : Sharon Wall
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774858842
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)
Download or read book The Nurture of Nature written by Sharon Wall and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thousands of children attended summer camps in twentieth-century Ontario. Did parents simply want a break, or were broader developments at play? The Nurture of Nature explores how competing cultural tendencies � antimodern nostalgia and modern sensibilities about the landscape, child rearing, and identity � shaped the development of summer camps and, consequently, modern social life in North America. A valuable resource for those interested in the connections between the history of childhood, the natural environment, and recreation, The Nature of Nurture will also appeal to anyone who has been packed off to camp and wants to explore why.
Author : John Raithby
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 690 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book An Index to the Statutes at Large written by John Raithby and published by . This book was released on 1814 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George T. Wright
Publisher : Wheatmark, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1627871365
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (278 download)
Download or read book Starting from Staten Island: Memories of Peace and War in the 1930s and 1940s written by George T. Wright and published by Wheatmark, Inc.. This book was released on 2014-09-14 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My earlier book, The Wrights of Vermont (Wheatmark, 2013), reported the search I began about ten years ago for my father's Vermont forebears. I had learned a lot, especially about my grandmother's heroic efforts to save her shaky marriage. Eventually she left Vermont to begin a new life on Staten Island for herself and her two sons, Dad and Uncle Ray. This book shows Dad and Mother starting their family on Staten Island and describes our home, our neighborhood, the boarding house where we sometimes dined, the schools we attended, the songs we sang, how we learned to think about money, work, fun, guilt, and politics, and our experience, especially mine, of illness, solitude, and books. Later chapters show our horizons expanding. They tell where we went on outings and how we spent our summers (ours at a riverside cottage near the New Jersey coast, and mine at an unusual summer camp in upstate New York), and they sketch the different world we found when we moved to Manhattan in 1941. I entered Columbia then and began to discover new realms of literature, philosophy, and music. Then at eighteen, with other young men of that time, I was swept up into military service in the U.S. Army and war in France and Germany.
Author : Charles Frederick Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Games and Recreational Methods for Clubs, Camps and Scouts written by Charles Frederick Smith and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gertrude S. Weiss
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 816 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Family Income and Expenditures written by Gertrude S. Weiss and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of consumer purchases, planned in the latter part of 1935 and inaugurated early in 1936, was undertaken to provide data more comprehensive than any available before on the way American families earn and spend their incomes.
Author : Ella Gardner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Miscellaneous Publication written by Ella Gardner and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Loren Lerner
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN 13 : 1554587298
Total Pages : 905 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (545 download)
Download or read book Depicting Canada’s Children written by Loren Lerner and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2011-04-07 with total page 905 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Depicting Canada’s Children is a critical analysis of the visual representation of Canadian children from the seventeenth century to the present. Recognizing the importance of methodological diversity, these essays discuss understandings of children and childhood derived from depictions across a wide range of media and contexts. But rather than simply examine images in formal settings, the authors take into account the components of the images and the role of image-making in everyday life. The contributors provide a close study of the evolution of the figure of the child and shed light on the defining role children have played in the history of Canada and our assumptions about them. Rather than offer comprehensive historical coverage, this collection is a catalyst for further study through case studies that endorse innovative scholarship. This book will be of interest to scholars in art history, Canadian history, visual culture, Canadian studies, and the history of children.
Author : Don Corbly
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0557180732
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (571 download)
Download or read book Letters, Journals, & Diaries of ye Colonial America written by Don Corbly and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-11-11 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These 93 stories provide a unique insight into the lives of mostly ordinary colonial people who lived in extraordinary times. Read the first description of the New World in the exploring ship captain's logbook, a letter from the first indentured servant, and the trial of Bridget Bishop, the first person hung for witchcraft in Salem. Compare the diary of the richest man in Virginia to Mary Cooper's diary wherein she longed for rest from her labors.Read 16-year-old George Washington's Rules of Civility, the pathetic letter from near-destitute indentured Elizabeth Sprig, Benjamin Franklin's account of Grime's confession and hanging, John Adams' defense of British soldiers in the Boston Massacre, and the first prayer given in the First Continental Congress.Read 16-year-old Sally Wister's diary of the battle of Germantown, a journal of the participants in the Boston Tea Party, Paul Revere's account of his Midnight Ride, and newspaper accounts of President Washington's death and funeral.
Author : Jackie Vann
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595258891
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (952 download)
Download or read book Taming Savage Love written by Jackie Vann and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A spell, cast by the shaman many suns ago, forecasts the arrival of a strong-willed woman to the Crow village. According to the legend, when she arrives, she will be paired with the bravest warrior, and will bear a male child whose destiny is to save the Crow people. Fiercely independent, liberated, and a black belt champion, Kate Houston finds herself transmitted back in time to a whole new life. Trouble is, she's paired with a man who believes squaws are inferior. His belief in old Indian customs creates great conflict between the two of them. Wolf, one of the most handsome men Kate has ever met, is the Crow Indian chief. His life is turned up-side-down and will never be the same when she arrives in his tipi. Old Man Coyote has sent this squaw, but Wolf does not understand why. Kate remains independent. Will she realize the wisdom in her husband’s words? Can she change from the way she has always been?
Author : Robert E. Grese
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801859472
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (594 download)
Download or read book Jens Jensen written by Robert E. Grese and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jens Jensen was one of America's greatest landscape designers and conservationists. Using native plants and "fitting" designs, he advocated that our gardens, parks, roads, playgrounds, and cities should be harmonious with nature and its ecological processes--a belief that was to become a major theme of modern American landscape design. When Jensen died in 1951 at the age of 90, the New York Times called him "the dean of American landscape architecture." In Jens Jensen: Maker of Natural Parks and Gardens, Robert E. Grese evaluates Jensen's work against the background of landscape design traditions that included Andrew Jackson Downing and Frederick Law Olmsted, as well as earlier movements in Europe. Grese examines Jensen's part in the Chicago cultural renaissance that occurred just prior to World War I, a movement that brought social reform, a new understanding of ecology, organic trends in architecture, and great strides in American literature. Drawing on Jensen's writings and plans, interviews with people who knew him, and analyses of his projects, Grese presents a clear picture of Jensen's efforts to enhance and preserve "native" landscapes. Jens Jensen worked with some of the leading architects of his day--Sullivan and Wright among them--so many of his projects involved the extravagant estates of wealthy entrepreneurs in Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and elsewhere. But Jensen also worked on schools, parks, playgrounds, hospitals, institutional homes, and government buildings. Long before environmental activists took over the idea, he foresaw the need to preserve the dunes, forests, prairies, and wetlands native to the Middle West. He championed the network of forest preserves around Chicago, protection of the Indiana Dunes (now a national lakeshore), the state park system in Illinois, and numerous parks in Wisconsin. Jens Jensen: Maker of Natural Parks and Gardens offers a compelling look at Jensen's visionary work and remarkable career.
Author : Violetta Botzet Luetgers
Publisher : Tate Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1607997843
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (79 download)
Download or read book Suland written by Violetta Botzet Luetgers and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2010-05 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experience the olden beauty of America, the sweeping prairies, the forested landscapes, the rivers, hills, and moors of Minnesota in "Suland." The Dakota lived off the land of lakes long before white men discovered its useful rivers and picturesque panoramas. This is the world White Fox is born into, a world of ancient traditions, shaman, spirit protectors, and communion with Mother Earth. But treaties are made, white men encroach, and the ancient traditions slowly slip away from the Dakota's minds. When White Fox experiences his first spirit walk and learns of the rocky future ahead of his tribe, it is time for decisions to be made. Will he stand and fight for his country, or is all hope lost for preserving his beloved "Suland"?
Author : Ernest Thompson Seton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Woodland Tales written by Ernest Thompson Seton and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Chris Stevenson
Publisher : Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 1682619583
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (826 download)
Download or read book The Cannon of Courage written by Chris Stevenson and published by Knox Press. This book was released on 2020-08-11 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the Winter of 1775 approaches, the British have taken up residence in Boston. The fledgling Continental Army appears powerless to drive the redcoats back to England. Young Gabriel Cooper, a new aide-de-camp to General Washington, is learning the rigors of army life when he is called upon to journey with Henry Knox to retrieve Fort Ticonderoga’s cannon. Nearly sixty cannons must be sledded through New England’s winter wilderness back to Cambridge. The journey, filled with challenges, will be a daring trek across hundreds of miles to retrieve the one thing that can drive the British from Boston: a cannon! Peppered with historic personality, Cannon of Courage weaves fact with adventure to tell this remarkable story of American military achievement.
