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Author : Alfred Howard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780971943100
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (431 download)
Download or read book The Serpentine Highway written by Alfred Howard and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul Mendelson
Publisher : Constable
ISBN 13 : 1472111400
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)
Download or read book The Serpentine Road written by Paul Mendelson and published by Constable. This book was released on 2015-04-02 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even after the release of Nelson Mandela and the promise of free elections, extremist groups terrorized South Africa, bombing churches, opening fire in bars and restaurants. Nearly twenty-five years ago, as a young Captain, Vaughn de Vries finds himself in pursuit of the suspects of a fatal bombing in his precinct, under the command of one of the most feared white police officers of the time: Major Kobus Nel. Out of radio communication and without clear evidence, the SAPS barge into a township and set off a chain of events which will resonate for a quarter of a century. In Cape Town in 2015, the heiress of an Apartheid-era industrialist is found murdered, her body posed to suggest a racial hate crime. But, as Colonel Vaughn De Vries investigates, possible motives for her death abound: a highly controversial art exhibition, her sexual preferences, her relationship - as yet unknown by the press - with the son of one of the heroes of The Struggle. And, moving South down through the country, five men are murdered, each with a connection to a point in history De Vries would sooner forget. When the link is made, De Vries must re-live the traumatic event to uncover the perpetrator. Old wounds, hidden in history, are exposed, and a mysterious killer approaches, whom no one seems able to stop. Longlisted for the 2015 Crime Writer's Association Golden Dagger (Crime Novel of the Year) Praise for Paul Mendelson: 'Authoritative and unblinkered fare' Financial Times 'Once more, South Africa is brought vividly to life in a fine crimer which delivers a warm change from the regular diet of Scandinavian angst' Weekend Sport 'The Serpentine Road has been my discovery of the year. Paul Mendelson has the makings of a literary superstar' Jenny Crwys Williams, Radio 702/Cape Talk 567 'In another superb slice of South African noir, Mendelson illuminates the corruption and criminality that plagues a country still haunted by apartheid. A taut thriller which evokes a unique political and geographic landscape' Cath Staincliffe 'An excellent, uncompromising crime thriller made even better by its setting ... the story is two journeys in one, and I'm glad I took both' Lee Child 'A jaw-droppingly brilliant crime thriller. Imagine The Killing moved to Cape Town and into the landscape of the hot and dusty African veld' Philip Glenister 'The First Rule of Survival is an incredibly atmospheric, complex and dazzling debut from a thrilling and authentic new voice in crime fiction' Brian McGilloway 'An impressive debut' The Times
Author : Charles Gilbert Hine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book History and Legend of Howard Avenue and the Serpentine Road, Grymes Hill, Staten Island written by Charles Gilbert Hine and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Cathrine Bublatzky
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000186393
Total Pages : 461 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Along the Indian Highway written by Cathrine Bublatzky and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2019-08-02 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an ethnographic study of the travelling art exhibition Indian Highway that presented Indian contemporary art in Europe and China between 2008 and 2012, a significant period for the art world that saw the rise and fall of the national exhibition format. It analyses art exhibition as a mobile "object" and promotes the idea of art as a transcultural product by using participant observation, in-depth interviews, and multi-media studies as research method. This work encompasses voices of curators, artists, audiences, and art critics spread over different cities, sites, and art institutions to bridge the distance between Europe and India based on vignettes along the Indian Highway. The discussion in the book focuses on power relations, the contested politics of representation, and dissonances and processes of negotiation in the field of global art. It also argues for rethinking analytical categories in anthropology to identify the social role of contemporary art practices in different cultural contexts and also examines urban art and the way national or cultural values are reinterpreted in response to ideas of difference and pluralism. Rich in empirical data, this book will be useful to scholars and researchers of modern and contemporary art, Indian art, art and visual culture, anthropology, art history, mobility, and transcultural studies.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on Roads
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Designating Highway U.S. 50 as Part of the Interstate System, Nevada written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on Roads and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Squire Malloy
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1465386351
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (653 download)
Download or read book Swerving Down the Highway written by Squire Malloy and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-11-11 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Try if you will, to imagine a time when automobiles were virtual bars, DWI roadblocks were in their infancy and MADD's mothers were still in utero. A time when "impaired" drivers were not vilified and hunted down like wild animals, but praised and admired for their deftness, agility, and multitasking ability. Ah my friends, but not so many years ago such an era did exist! Herein lies the tales of the brave young men who took to their vehicles, beer can in hand, fearing nothing but incompetent sober drivers and the occasional moving telephone pole.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Download or read book CA-101/Cuesta Grade Highway Improvements, 1.1 Miles North of Reservoir Canyon Road to the Cuesta Grade Overhead, San Luis Obispo County written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jennifer E. Riddle
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467134066
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (671 download)
Download or read book Building Nevada's Highways written by Jennifer E. Riddle and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2015 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roads are rarely given a second thought yet are indispensable to life. Admittedly, a book dedicated to roadways sounds a bit dry. But behind every double-diamond interchange, every pork chop island, and every type of asphalt is a fascinating history of the traveling public. This book reveals the hidden history of building the Silver State's highways since 1917. The next time you take a road trip across Nevada on the Lincoln Highway (US 50) or the Victory Highway (US 40) or follow a rutted road to a once-booming ghost town think of the ingenious and industrious men and women, surveyors, engineers, chemists, and yes, even the teams of mules that built the roads we still travel today.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 964 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Highway Safety Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 964 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Washington (State). Department of Public Service
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 666 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)
Download or read book Report written by Washington (State). Department of Public Service and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Washington (State). Department of Public Works
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Annual Report of the Department of Public Works of Washington ... to the Governor, Covering the Period from ... to ... written by Washington (State). Department of Public Works and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1152 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Public Works written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 1152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Gilbert Hine
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813504278
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (42 download)
Download or read book The Old Mine Road written by Charles Gilbert Hine and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1963 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Old Mine Road, considered the first road in America designed for wheeled vehicles, was built three hundred years ago by Dutch settlers for access to the mines of the Minisink country. It began in Kingston, New York, wove through Sussex and Warren counties in New Jersey, and ended near the Delaware Water Gap. Many changes have taken place in these regions since C. G. Hine recorded his observations and printed The Old Mine Road for his friends in 1908. Bulldozers have obliterated much of what he saw as he took his readers along the length of the road, describing the natural beauty of the countryside and relating the history and legends linked with the road and the people who lived on its route. This new printing is a facsimile of the first 1908 edition. Henry Charlton Beck's introduction gives a publishing history of the book and provides a biographical sketch about Hine.
Author : Avijeet Bhattacharya
Publisher : Zorba Books
ISBN 13 : 9386407817
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (864 download)
Download or read book Journeys on the Silk Road Through Ages—Romance, Legend, Reality written by Avijeet Bhattacharya and published by Zorba Books. This book was released on 2017-10-11 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journeys on the Silk Road Through Ages—Romance, Legend, Reality is a compelling narrative about the legendary Silk Road, down the ages. It takes us back to the nearly forgotten times when the dusty, long road was discovered by herders and nomads in search of pastures and oases. It was a long trek into the unknown. This gradually turned into the fabled ‘Silk Road’ spanning from China and across Central Asia, with its numerous trade routes, staging posts, caravanserais on the one hand, and the rugged landscape through steppes, across mountains, deserts and nations on the other. The Silk Road stood out like a great artery, that sustained for centuries. The Road with its routes conveyed not only commerce but also ideas and philosophy of the far-east China to the far-flung Roman Empire in the west, drawing from and contributing to other regions and countries that fell along the way – Turkestan, Afghanistan, India, Persia, Mesopotamia, Palestine, Phoenicia and Anatolia, thus, linking the ancient and the medieval worlds. It was an enterprise of gigantic proportions; the great highway witnessed trade in almost all products, with silk, precious stones, porcelain, metals, and horses as chief commodities. Of these, silk was the foremost merchandise that merchants transported on camel caravans and upon mules from the Land of Serica. Slaves too were traded. Monks and warriors also walked along the trodden path. Merchants exchanged goods which made trade possible bringing in a flow of wealth, while monks and warriors exchanged philosophy, ideas, and statecraft, despite conflicts and wars. The narrative travels back to the times when the road started making history by joining imperial Xi’an with imperial Rome – a distance of more than 8,000kms – during the period of China’s Han Dynasty, sometime around 200 BC. This strangely endured till the present days of Communist China and OBOR, deliberating the Chinese Puzzle. The book is an adventurous amalgamation of history, travel and the unanticipated, and not merely a clichéd travel account. It presents a fascinating story of realms, rulers, travellers and merchants, both ancient and modern, with captivating collection of anecdotes, lores and current realities, from far and wide. Its brilliant web makes the book immensely readable.
Author : Jayne Ann Krentz
Publisher : Berkley
ISBN 13 : 0515155020
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (151 download)
Download or read book River Road written by Jayne Ann Krentz and published by Berkley. This book was released on 2015-01-06 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's been thirteen years since Lucy was in Summer River. The last time she visited her aunt Sara, as a teenager, she was sent home after being dragged out of a party by the boy she had a crush on - Mason Fletcher. Returning after her aunt's death, Lucy is learning there was more to the story. A lot has changed, but when Mason and Lucy make a shocking discovery inside Sara's house, his quietly fierce instincts kick into gear. But this time, she insists on playing a role in her own rescue.
Author : Jim Ross
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806155809
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Route 66 Crossings written by Jim Ross and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2016-02-19 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Route 66 is a beloved and much studied symbol of twentieth-century America. But until now, no book has focused on the bridges that spanned the rivers, creeks, arroyos, and railroads between Chicago and Santa Monica. In this handsome volume, Route 66 authority and veteran writer and photographer Jim Ross examines the origins and history of the bridges of America’s most famous highway, structures designed to overcome obstacles to travel, many of them engineered with architectural aesthetics now lost to time. Featuring hundreds of Ross's own photographs, Route 66 Crossings showcases bridges ranging in design from timber to steel and concrete, and provides schematics, maps, and global coordinates to help readers identify and locate them. Ross’s comprehensive accounting of structures along the Mother Road’s various alignments includes bridges still in use, those that have vanished or have been abandoned, and the few consciously preserved as monuments. He also recognizes ancillary structures that enhanced safety and helped facilitate traffic, such as railway grade separations, tunnels, and pedestrian underpasses. Ross seeks to encourage ongoing preservation of the structures that remain. In brilliant color and precise detail, Route 66 Crossings expands our knowledge of the bridges that linked America’s first all-weather national highway.
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Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1426210140
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (262 download)
Download or read book Guide to Scenic Highways & Byways written by and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the scenery, history, and points of interest along three hundred scenic routes across the United States.
