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Author : George R. Caldwell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Winchester William and Other Tales written by George R. Caldwell and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William W. Johnstone
Publisher : Pinnacle Books
ISBN 13 : 0786036494
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (86 download)
Download or read book Winchester 1887 written by William W. Johnstone and published by Pinnacle Books. This book was released on 2015-11-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Greatest Western Writer Of The 21st Century From America's most popular, bestselling Western writer, each novel in this brilliant new series follows the trail of a different gun--each gun with its own fiery story to tell. On the American frontier, every gun tells a story. A boy in Texas waits for a Christmas present he chose from a Montgomery Ward catalog. The present, a brand new, lever action Winchester 1886 and a box of its big .50-caliber slugs, never makes it there. Instead, the rifle is caught up in a train robbery and starts a long and violent journey of its own--from the hands of a notorious, kill-crazy outlaw to an Apache renegade to a hardscrabble rancher and beyond. But while the prized Winchester is wandering the West--aimed, fired, battered and bartered--Deputy U.S. Marshal Jimmy Mann is hunting for the outlaw who robbed the train in Texas. The only clue he has is this prized and highly coveted weapon. What stands in his way are storms, Indians, thieves, a lot of bloody deaths--and a merciless desperado just waiting to kill the lawman on his trail... Also available in audio at www.GraphicAudio.net.
Author : Colton Storm
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 894 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book A Catalogue of the Everett D. Graff Collection of Western Americana written by Colton Storm and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1968 with total page 894 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Simon Winchester
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 006207962X
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)
Download or read book The Men Who United the States written by Simon Winchester and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Simon Winchester never disappoints, and The Men Who United the States is a lively and surprising account of how this sprawling piece of geography became a nation. This is America from the ground up. Inspiring and engaging.” —Tom Brokaw Simon Winchester, acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Atlantic and The Professor and the Madman, delivers his first book about America: a fascinating popular history that illuminates the men who toiled fearlessly to discover, connect, and bond the citizenry and geography of the U.S.A. from its beginnings. How did America become “one nation, indivisible”? What unified a growing number of disparate states into the modern country we recognize today? To answer these questions, Winchester follows in the footsteps of America’s most essential explorers, thinkers, and innovators, such as Lewis and Clark and the leaders of the Great Surveys; the builders of the first transcontinental telegraph and the powerful civil engineer behind the Interstate Highway System. He treks vast swaths of territory, from Pittsburgh to Portland, Rochester to San Francisco, Seattle to Anchorage, introducing the fascinating people who played a pivotal role in creating today’s United States. Throughout, he ponders whether the historic work of uniting the States has succeeded, and to what degree. Featuring 32 illustrations throughout the text, The Men Who United the States is a fresh look at the way in which the most powerful nation on earth came together.
Author : Raghu Karnad
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393248100
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)
Download or read book Farthest Field: An Indian Story of the Second World War written by Raghu Karnad and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2015-08-24 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I have not lately read a finer book than this—on any subject at all. . . . A masterpiece.” —Simon Winchester, New Statesman The photographs of three young men had stood in his grandmother’s house for as long as he could remember, beheld but never fully noticed. They had all fought in the Second World War, a fact that surprised him. Indians had never figured in his idea of the war, nor the war in his idea of India. One of them, Bobby, even looked a bit like him, but Raghu Karnad had not noticed until he was the same age as they were in their photo frames. Then he learned about the Parsi boy from the sleepy south Indian coast, so eager to follow his brothers-in-law into the colonial forces and onto the front line. Manek, dashing and confident, was a pilot with India’s fledgling air force; gentle Ganny became an army doctor in the arid North-West Frontier. Bobby’s pursuit would carry him as far as the deserts of Iraq and the green hell of the Burma battlefront. The years 1939–45 might be the most revered, deplored, and replayed in modern history. Yet India’s extraordinary role has been concealed, from itself and from the world. In riveting prose, Karnad retrieves the story of a single family—a story of love, rebellion, loyalty, and uncertainty—and with it, the greater revelation that is India’s Second World War. Farthest Field narrates the lost epic of India’s war, in which the largest volunteer army in history fought for the British Empire, even as its countrymen fought to be free of it. It carries us from Madras to Peshawar, Egypt to Burma—unfolding the saga of a young family amazed by their swiftly changing world and swept up in its violence.
Author : Simon Winchester
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 000835913X
Total Pages : 525 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (83 download)
Download or read book Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World written by Simon Winchester and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author Simon Winchester, a human history of land around the world: who mapped it, owned it, stole it, cared for it, fought for it and gave it back.
Author : Adam Nicolson
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
ISBN 13 : 1627791809
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (277 download)
Download or read book Why Homer Matters written by Adam Nicolson and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2014-11-18 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Adam Nicolson writes popular books as popular books used to be, a breeze rather than a scholarly sweat, but humanely erudite, elegantly written, passionately felt...and his excitement is contagious."—James Wood, The New Yorker Adam Nicolson sees the Iliad and the Odyssey as the foundation myths of Greek—and our—consciousness, collapsing the passage of 4,000 years and making the distant past of the Mediterranean world as immediate to us as the events of our own time. Why Homer Matters is a magical journey of discovery across wide stretches of the past, sewn together by the poems themselves and their metaphors of life and trouble. Homer's poems occupy, as Adam Nicolson writes "a third space" in the way we relate to the past: not as memory, which lasts no more than three generations, nor as the objective accounts of history, but as epic, invented after memory but before history, poetry which aims "to bind the wounds that time inflicts." The Homeric poems are among the oldest stories we have, drawing on deep roots in the Eurasian steppes beyond the Black Sea, but emerging at a time around 2000 B.C. when the people who would become the Greeks came south and both clashed and fused with the more sophisticated inhabitants of the Eastern Mediterranean. The poems, which ask the eternal questions about the individual and the community, honor and service, love and war, tell us how we became who we are.
Author : John Franklin Bardin
Publisher : Diversion Publishing Corp.
ISBN 13 : 1626813523
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (268 download)
Download or read book The Deadly Percheron written by John Franklin Bardin and published by Diversion Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2014-06-17 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic, chilling tale of mystery and psychological horror that “will hold your attention to the last” (The New York Times). When a young, blond, handsome man walks into a psychiatrist’s office, stating that he believes he is losing his mind and asking questions about hallucinations, the doctor is prepared to help his new patient overcome his delusions. But as this twisting tale progresses, the line between what is real and unreal begins to blur—and the story becomes not only a murder mystery but a dark, unsettling voyage into memory, madness, torture, and despair.
Author : William W. Johnstone
Publisher : Kensington Books
ISBN 13 : 078603646X
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (86 download)
Download or read book Winchester 1886 written by William W. Johnstone and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2015 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deputy U.S. Marshall Jimmy Mann hunts for the outlaw who robbed a train in Texas tracking the only clue he has, the prized and highly coveted Winchester 1886.
Author : Simon Winchester
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141926236
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)
Download or read book Krakatoa written by Simon Winchester and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2004-06-03 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simon Winchester's brilliant chronicle of the destruction of the Indonesian island of Krakatoa in 1883 charts the birth of our modern world. He tells the story of the unrecognized genius who beat Darwin to the discovery of evolution; of Samuel Morse, his code and how rubber allowed the world to talk; of Alfred Wegener, the crack-pot German explorer and father of geology. In breathtaking detail he describes how one island and its inhabitants were blasted out of existence and how colonial society was turned upside-down in a cataclysm whose echoes are still felt to this day.
Author : Chicago Public Library
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Catalogue of English Prose Fiction and Juvenile Books in the Chicago Public Library written by Chicago Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mary Jo Ignoffo
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 0826272312
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (262 download)
Download or read book Captive of the Labyrinth written by Mary Jo Ignoffo and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2010-12-06 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full-length biography of Sarah Winchester, the subject of the movie Winchester starring Helen Mirren. Since her death in 1922, Sarah Winchester has been perceived as a mysterious, haunted figure. After inheriting a vast fortune upon the death of her husband in 1881, Sarah purchased a simple farmhouse in San José, California. She began building additions to the house and continued construction on it for the next twenty years. A hostile press cast Sarah as the conscience of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company—a widow shouldering responsibility for the many deaths caused by the rifle that brought her riches. She was accused of being a ghost-obsessed spiritualist, and to this day it is largely believed that the extensive construction she executed on her San José house was done to appease the ghouls around her. But was she really as guilt-ridden and superstitious as history remembers her? When Winchester’s home was purchased after her death, it was transformed into a tourist attraction. The bizarre, sprawling mansion and the enigmatic nature of Winchester’s life were exaggerated by the new owners to generate publicity for their business. But as the mansion has become more widely known, the person of Winchester has receded from reality, and she is only remembered for squandering her riches to ward off disturbed spirits. Captive of the Labyrinth: Sarah L. Winchester, Heiress to the Rifle Fortune demystifies the life of this unique American. In the first full-length biography of Winchester, author and historian Mary Jo Ignoffo unearths the truth about this notorious eccentric, revealing that she was not a maddened spiritualist driven by remorse but an intelligent, articulate woman who sought to protect her private life amidst the chaos of her public existence. The author takes readers through Winchester’s several homes, explores her private life, and, by excerpting from personal correspondence, gives the heiress a voice for the first time since her death. Ignoffo’s research reveals that Winchester’s true financial priority was not dissipating her fortune on the mansion in San José but investing it for a philanthropic legacy. For too long Sarah Winchester has existed as a ghost herself—a woman whose existence lies somewhere between the facts of her life and a set of sensationalized recollections of who she may have been. Captive of the Labyrinth finally puts to rest the myths about this remarkable woman, and, in the process, uncovers the legacy she intended to leave behind.
Author : Simon Winchester
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060572000
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (65 download)
Download or read book A Crack in the Edge of the World written by Simon Winchester and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2006-10-10 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unleashed by ancient geologic forces, a magnitude 8.25 earthquake rocked San Francisco in the early hours of April 18, 1906. Less than a minute later, the city lay in ruins. Bestselling author Simon Winchester brings his inimitable storytelling abilities to this extraordinary event, exploring the legendary earthquake and fires that spread horror across San Francisco and northern California in 1906 as well as its startling impact on American history and, just as important, what science has recently revealed about the fascinating subterranean processes that produced it—and almost certainly will cause it to strike again.
Author : Trent Stephens
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781436311083
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (11 download)
Download or read book William De Braose Squire of Winchester written by Trent Stephens and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-08-01 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William was aware that something had gone terribly wrong. This tournament, which was supposed to be friendly, had suddenly turned deadly. Sir John de Elton came riding up the hill at full gallop. He reined up at the brink of the hill, where William was kneeling, and drew his sword. "Thomas," he yelled. "Protect the Lord de Braose!" The Lord de Braose? William thought, as he opened his eyes and looked up at the young knight. My father is the Lord de Braose, not me. "What are you doing?" William demanded. "Where is my father?" "He has fallen, My Lord," Sir John replied. "Your father has been murdered." William de Braose, age eleven, had ridden beside his father, a powerful Norman Lord, to his first tournament. Isolde had warned him before they left home that his father was in great danger, but what did she, a little girl, know? Some said she had the second sight, but for William she was nothing but a pest. Very few people were aware of the great storm brewing that summer of 1232 within the English court. Little did William know that he would soon be thrust into the center of that storm. Book one in this fourteen-book series, William de Braose, Squire of Winchester, describes William's adventures on his way to the tournament that will change his life forever. At each castle where the Braose entourage stops on its week-long trip to the Salisbury tournament, it is treated to the finest food and best stories in the land. William thrills to the tales from Britain's rich literary heritage. His excitement can hardly be contained as the entourage finally reaches Salisbury and the Last Tournament begins. Trent Stephens
Author : Witold Rybczynski
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0684867303
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (848 download)
Download or read book One Good Turn written by Witold Rybczynski and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-09-11 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Best Tool of the Millennium The seeds of Rybczynski's elegant and illuminating new book were sown by The New York Times, whose editors asked him to write an essay identifying "the best tool of the millennium." The award-winning author of Home, A Clearing in the Distance, and Now I Sit Me Down, Rybczynski once built a house using only hand tools. His intimate knowledge of the toolbox -- both its contents and its history -- serves him beautifully on his quest. One Good Turn is a story starring Archimedes, who invented the water screw and introduced the helix, and Leonardo, who sketched a machine for carving wood screws. It is a story of mechanical discovery and genius that takes readers from ancient Greece to car design in the age of American industry. Rybczynski writes an ode to the screw, without which there would be no telescope, no microscope -- in short, no enlightenment science. One of our finest cultural and architectural historians, Rybczynski renders a graceful, original, and engaging portrait of the tool that changed the course of civilization.
Author : Kirby Jonas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781891423031
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Lady Winchester written by Kirby Jonas and published by . This book was released on 2000-11 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditional Western novel combined with mystery
Author : Brian Haughton
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1448848407
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (488 download)
Download or read book Famous Ghost Stories written by Brian Haughton and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2011-08-15 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a history and critique of a selection of the famous ghost stories from different countries, organized by such common themes as spectral armies, phantom women in white, haunted houses, screaming skulls, crisis apparitions, and ghostly lights.
