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Author : Carolyn Hutchings
Publisher : Ladybird
ISBN 13 : 9780721404073
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (4 download)
Download or read book The Story of Our Canals written by Carolyn Hutchings and published by Ladybird. This book was released on 1975 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : R. Conrad Stein
Publisher : Children's Press(CT)
ISBN 13 : 9780516046822
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (468 download)
Download or read book The Story of the Erie Canal written by R. Conrad Stein and published by Children's Press(CT). This book was released on 1985 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of the early nineteenth-century construction of the 363-mile canal connecting Albany and Buffalo.
Author : Timothy West
Publisher : Charnwood
ISBN 13 : 9781444840940
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (49 download)
Download or read book Our Great Canal Journeys written by Timothy West and published by Charnwood. This book was released on 2019-05 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than half a century, a shared love of canals and narrowboats has been inseparable from the marriage of Timothy West and Prunella Scales. The two iconic actors have spent many of the happiest days of their life together enjoying the calming pleasures of watching land and nature unfold before them at four miles an hour. In 2014, Tim and Pru took to the canals of Britain and beyond with a television crew and a brief to record their best-loved trips along the most beautiful waterways they could find. Not only does OUR GREAT CANAL JOURNEYS recount their careers and travels, but it also explores the trials - and the joys - of ageing, and how Prunella's struggle with dementia has both changed, and yet failed to change, their lives together.
Author : Liz McIvor
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1473530237
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (735 download)
Download or read book Canals: The Making of a Nation written by Liz McIvor and published by Random House. This book was released on 2015-08-13 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canals hold a unique place in British culture, with associations of lazy summer afternoons, journeying through lush green countryside. But as Liz McIvor explains in the book to accompany her BBC series, the story of our canals is also the story of how modern Britain was born. It was the canals that helped open up the trade of the Industrial Revolution, furthered the new science of geology, and even ushered in a new form of architecture. The legacy of our canals is all around us. In Canals: The Making of a Nation, McIvor takes us on a journey across the network of English canals to tell a deeper story of how our waterways changed our lives. It’s a very modern tale, full of high finance and greedy investors, cheap labour and the struggle for workers’ rights, and new frontiers in family and child welfare. It’s a unique and compelling exploration of Britain’s golden age.
Author : David B. Williams
Publisher : Historylink
ISBN 13 : 9781933245430
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (454 download)
Download or read book Waterway written by David B. Williams and published by Historylink. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why does a city surrounded by water need another waterway? Find out what drove Seattle's civic leaders to pursue the dream of a Lake Washington Ship Canal for more than sixty years and what role it has played in the region's development over the past century. Historians Jennifer Ott and David B. Williams, author of Too High and Too Steep: Reshaping Seattle's Topography, explore how industry, transportation, and the very character of the city and surrounding region developed in response to the economic and environmental changes brought by Seattle's canal and locks.
Author : Langhorne Gibson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Cabell's Canal written by Langhorne Gibson and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Cheryl Harness
Publisher : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 9780689825842
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (258 download)
Download or read book Amazing Impossible Erie Canal written by Cheryl Harness and published by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1999-06-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IMPOSSIBLE! When De Witt Clinton, a young politician, first dreams of building a canal to connect the Hudson River with the Great Lakes, folks don't believe such a thing can be done. But eight long years after the first shovelful of earth is dug, Clinton realizes his vision at last. The longest uninterrupted canal in history has been built, and it is now possible to travel by water from the American prairie all the way to Europe! Join Cheryl Harness on a fascinating and fun-filled trip as she depicts the amazing construction and workings of the Erie Canal. From the groundbreaking ceremony on the Fourth of July in 1817 to a triumphant journey down America's first superhighway, it's a trip you definitely don't want to miss.
Author : Bill Hullfish With Dave Ruch
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467142093
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (671 download)
Download or read book Erie Canal Sings, The: A Musical History of New York’s Grand Waterway written by Bill Hullfish With Dave Ruch and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2019 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life working along the banks of the Erie Canal is preserved in the songs of America's rich musical history. Thomas Allen's "Low Bridge, Everybody Down" has achieved iconic status in the American songbook, but its true story has never been told until now. Erie songs such as "The E-ri-e Is a-Risin'" would transform into "The C&O Is a-Risin'" as the song culture spread among a network of other canals, including the Chesapeake and Ohio and the Pennsylvania Main Line. As motors replaced mules and railroads emerged, the canal song tradition continued on Broadway stages and in folk music recordings. Author Bill Hullfish takes readers on a musical journey along New York's historic Erie Canal.
Author : Robert J. Kapsch
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393730883
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Canals written by Robert J. Kapsch and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2004 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A richly illustrated history of America's first transportation system.
Author : Richard Garrity
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815601913
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Canal Boatman written by Richard Garrity and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1984-07-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Garrity grew up on his father's boats on the Erie Canal in the early years of this century. From 1905 until 1916, when his father operated boats first in the lumber trade and later for gravel hauling, he was surrounded by the busy life of a now-bygone era in canal boating in Upstate New York. When the Barge Canal System opened in 1918, Garrity began a career that lasted until his retirement as a tug engineer in 1970. This story is chock full of Americana that is not only significant and authentic but engagingly written. Garrity's life and work have been intimately bound up with the famed Big Ditch, which has been referred to in more romantic literature as the "shining ribbon of water." It was a hard but happy life on the waterways of Upstate New York as seen in the text and dozens of illustrations included in this book.
Author : Peter Spier
Publisher : StarWalk Kids Media
ISBN 13 : 1630832235
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (38 download)
Download or read book The Erie Canal written by Peter Spier and published by StarWalk Kids Media. This book was released on 2014-05-30 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his intricately detailed and historically accurate illustrations, Spier brings delightful new dimensions to the popular folk song.
Author : John Bemelmans Marciano
Publisher : Viking Juvenile
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book There's a Dolphin in the Grand Canal! written by John Bemelmans Marciano and published by Viking Juvenile. This book was released on 2005 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Luca, a young Italian boy, is bored until he meets a playful dolphin who takes him on a ride through the Venice waterways.
Author : Jasper Winn
Publisher : Profile Books
ISBN 13 : 178283334X
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (828 download)
Download or read book Water Ways written by Jasper Winn and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2018-06-07 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a hundred and fifty years, between the plod of packhorse trains and the arrival of the railways, canals were the high-tech water machine driving the industrial revolution. Amazing feats of engineering, they carried the rural into the city and the urban into the countryside, and changed the lives of everyone. And then, just when their purpose was extinguished by modern transport, they were saved from extinction and repurposed as a 'slow highways' network, a peaceful and countrywide haven from our too-busy age. Today, there are more boats on the canals than in their Victorian heyday. Writer and slow adventurer Jasper Winn spent a year exploring Britain's waterways on foot and by bike, in a kayak and on narrowboats. Along a thousand miles of 'wet roads and water streets' he discovered a world of wildlife corridors, underground adventures, the hardware of heritage and history, new boating communities, endurance kayak races and remote towpaths. He shared journeys with some of the last working boat people and met the anglers, walkers, boaters, activists, volunteers and eccentrics who have made the waterways their home. In Britain most of us live within five miles of a canal, and reading this book we will see them in an entirely new light.
Author : Ray Love
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1039105009
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (391 download)
Download or read book The Georgian Bay Ship Canal written by Ray Love and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2021-06-21 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Georgian Bay Ship Canal was a river and lake canalization scheme designed to create a commercial waterway along the route of the voyageurs. It was the dream of Canadian businessmen and entrepreneurs for centuries. Originally a trade route for Indigenous peoples, it became Canada's first Trans-Canada Highway during the fur trade, greatly contributing to the economic development of the colonies of France and later Britain. In the early years of Canadian nationhood it was viewed as the shortest route to get prairie grain to world markets. The canal scheme was supported by no fewer than six Canadian Prime Ministers and for a century less two years was surveyed a dozen times. It was also hotly debated in the Canadian Senate and House of Commons. The scheme was supported by lobby groups in Northern and Eastern Ontario as well as the Montreal business elite. It was strongly criticized by citizen's groups in cities along the shores of the rival Welland-St. Lawrence route. The story told is why the scheme, despite its geographical advantages, failed to see the bucket of a steam shovel. It is a story of political intrigue, Northern Ontario versus the South and the role that federal government overspending played in its demise. It was also at the center of the battle between federal and provincial governments over control of the lucrative resource of hydro-electricity. The book contains many historic maps and photos of the route as well as modern images from this famous Canadian waterway.
Author : Robert Aickman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Story of Our Inland Waterways written by Robert Aickman and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : New Word City Editors
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781640192508
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)
Download or read book The Erie Canal written by New Word City Editors and published by . This book was released on 2018-06 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Erie Canal was a preposterous idea. Even President Thomas Jefferson, usually ahead of his time, believed that it could not be built for at least a century, and yet, the Erie Canal came to be just as its planners had thought it would. For the first time in the history of the United States, a cheap, fast route ran through the Appalachians, the mountains that had so effectively divided the West from the East of early America. With the canal, the country's fertile interior became accessible and its great inland lakes were linked to all the seas of the world. Here, from award-winning historian Ralph K. Andrist, is the canal's dramatic and little-told story.
Author : Enid Blyton
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 39 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book The Saucy Jane Family written by Enid Blyton and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Saucy Jane Family" by Enid Blyton. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
