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Author : Walter Gore Marshall
Publisher : London : S. Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Through America written by Walter Gore Marshall and published by London : S. Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington. This book was released on 1881 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (26 download)
Download or read book The Ladies' Repository written by and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea of this women's magazine originated with Samuel Williams, a Cincinnati Methodist, who thought that Christian women needed a magazine less worldly than Godey's Lady's Book and Snowden's Lady's Companion. Written largely by ministers, this exceptionally well-printed little magazine contained well-written essays of a moral character, plenty of poetry, articles on historical and scientific matters, and book reviews. Among western writers were Alice Cary, who contributed over a hundred sketches and poems, her sister Phoebe Cary, Otway Curry, Moncure D. Conway, and Joshua R. Giddings; and New England contributors included Mrs. Lydia Sigourney, Hannah F. Gould, and Julia C.R Dorr. By 1851, each issue published a peice of music and two steel plates, usually landscapes or portraits. When Davis E. Clark took over the editorship in 1853, the magazine became brighter and attained a circulation of 40,000. Unlike his predecessors, Clark included fictional pieces and made the Repository a magazine for the whole family. After the war it began to decline and in 1876 was replaced by the National Repository. The Ladies' Repository was an excellent representative of the Methodist mind and heart. Its essays, sketches, and poems, its good steel engravings, and its moral tone gave it a charm all its own. -- Cf. American periodicals, 1741-1900.
Author : Pierre Berton
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 1438429304
Total Pages : 509 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)
Download or read book Niagara written by Pierre Berton and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2010-03-31 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping history of this natural wonder, from its geological beginnings to the present. "The noble cataract reflects the concerns, failings, and fancies of the times. If we gaze deeply into its shimmering image we can perhaps discern our own." - page 22 “[Pierre Berton] makes a serious and convincing case for Niagara's pivotal role in North American history. ... His Niagara is a lodestar for North American culture and invention: site of the first railway suspension bridge, inspiration for Nikola Tesla's discovery of the principle of alternating current, and the subject of Frederic Church's most celebrated landscape; a natural wonder that has bewitched generations of scientists, authors, and utopians, and stimulated innovations and social movements still casting long shadows. ... surprising, rich and engrossing.” -- Thurston Clarke, New York Times Book Review “Canadian historian Berton tells dozens of absorbing tales about the region and those who passed through it ... He tells them all superbly, aided by essential maps and a few reproductions of posters advertising some of the more bizarre stunts.” -- Publishers Weekly “Entertaining. . . . Berton brings to life the adventurers and dreamers, visionaries and industrialists, who over centuries have been drawn to the Falls.” -- Maclean’s "Berton at his storytelling best; there is something here for everyone. ... a vintage, full-bodied read." -- The London Free Press "A book worth diving into." -- Calgary Herald "By turns ironic, amused, shocked, horrified and awestruck, Berton traces Niagara's history through the deeds of those who came in contact with it ... all the while walking the fine line between detachment and emotion with agility and grace." -- The Whig-Standard (Kingston) Pierre Berton was one of Canada’s most popular and prolific authors, and is widely credited with popularizing Canadian history. His previous books include The Wild Frontier, Prisoners of the North, Klondike, The Invasion of Canada, and The Great Depression.
Author : Elizabeth McCracken
Publisher : Delta
ISBN 13 : 0440333911
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Niagara Falls All Over Again written by Elizabeth McCracken and published by Delta. This book was released on 2002-11-26 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By turns graceful and knowing, funny and moving, Niagara Falls All Over Again is the latest masterwork by National Book Award finalist and author of The Giant’s House, Elizabeth McCracken. Spanning the waning years of vaudeville and the golden age of Hollywood, Niagara Falls All Over Again chronicles a flawed, passionate friendship over thirty years, weaving a powerful story of family and love, grief and loss. In it, McCracken introduces her most singular and affecting hero: Mose Sharp — son, brother, husband, father, friend ... and straight man to the fat guy in baggy pants who utterly transforms his life. To the paying public, Mose Sharp was the arch, colorless half of the comedy team Carter and Sharp. To his partner, he was charmed and charming, a confirmed bachelor who never failed at love and romance. To his father and sisters, Mose was a prodigal son. And in his own heart and soul, he would always be a boy who once had a chance to save a girl’s life — a girl who would be his first, and greatest, loss. Born into a Jewish family in small-town Iowa, the only boy among six sisters, Mose Sharp couldn’t leave home soon enough. By sixteen Mose had already joined the vaudeville circuit. But he knew one thing from the start: “I needed a partner,” he recalls. “I had always needed a partner.” Then, an ebullient, self-destructive comedian named Rocky Carter came crashing into his life — and a thirty-year partnership was born. But as the comedy team of Carter and Sharp thrived from the vaudeville backwaters to Broadway to Hollywood, a funny thing happened amid the laughter: It was Mose who had all the best lines offstage. Rocky would go through money, women, and wives in his restless search for love; Mose would settle down to a family life marked by fragile joy and wrenching tragedy. And soon, cracks were appearing in their complex relationship ... until one unforgivable act leads to another and a partnership begins to unravel. In a novel as daring as it is compassionate, Elizabeth McCracken introduces an indelibly drawn cast of characters — from Mose’s Iowa family to the vagabond friends, lovers, and competitors who share his dizzying journey — as she deftly explores the fragile structures that underlie love affairs and friendships, partnerships and families. An elegiac and uniquely American novel, Niagara Falls All Over Again is storytelling at its finest — and powerful proof that Elizabeth McCracken is one of the most dynamic and wholly original voices of her generation.
Author : George Wharton James
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Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Our American Wonderlands written by George Wharton James and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christopher W. Lane
Publisher : Philadelphia Print Shop Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780963692405
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (924 download)
Download or read book Impressions of Niagara written by Christopher W. Lane and published by Philadelphia Print Shop Limited. This book was released on 1993 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Wilkins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (32 download)
Download or read book The Red Dragon written by Charles Wilkins and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Hall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Palaeontology of New York: An introduction to the study of the genera of Palæozoic Brachiopoda. pt. i-ii. 1892-94 written by James Hall and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 848 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Ladies' Repository written by and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Isabella L. Bird
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486141292
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)
Download or read book My First Travels in North America written by Isabella L. Bird and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the 19th century's most adventurous travel writers offers vivid accounts of her journeys through Canada and the United States, from scenic vistas to dark encounters with cholera and slavery.
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Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (33 download)
Download or read book Half-hours with the Best American Authors written by and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Beth L. Lueck
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135813590
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)
Download or read book American Writers and the Picturesque Tour written by Beth L. Lueck and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores a beloved genre Even before the age of the Romantics, travel literature was a favorite genre of English and American writers and readers. After the War of 1812, Americans' passion for scenic beauty inspired them to take the picturesque tour of America as well as going to Europe for the requisite Grand Tour. The written American version of the popular British tour in various guidebooks helped shape the literature of the new nation as nearly every major writer of the first half of the 19th century contributed to it from Poe, who provided several comic pieces, and Irving to Thoreau, for whom the tour symbolized moral and spiritual growth, and Margaret Fuller. Offers new perspectives American writers adapted the picturesque to express their nationalistic sentiments; picturesque discourse offered a flexible series of conventions that enable writers to celebrate the places, people, and legends that set America apart. This volume demonstrates the vital role of this genre in the formation of national literary taste and national culture and offers fresh and exciting perspectives on the topic. Includes index. Also includes maps.
Author : Francis Fisher Browne
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 928 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Golden Treasury of Poetry and Prose written by Francis Fisher Browne and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Hall
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Palaeontology of New-York written by James Hall and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Patrick McGreevy
Publisher : Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Imagining Niagara written by Patrick McGreevy and published by Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Niagara Falls was a lightning rod for nineteenth-century enthusiasms. Although travelers came to the falls to experience a place they considered outside the world of their ordinary lives, they brought with them their contemporary concerns. Many tourists were obsessed with the mysteries of death, others with scientific or religious speculation. The way they imagined Niagara Falls found expression in a torrent of writings and images that took a variety of forms. Patrick McGreevy begins with the question, What can these visions of Niagara tell us about the place itself? The landscape surrounding the falls contains not only parks and religious shrines but also circuses, horror museums, and factories. People travel to Niagara not only to experience nature but also to celebrate marriages or commit suicide. One way to make sense of these bizarre "human accumulations", as H. G. Wells called them, is to take seriously the Niagaras people have imagined. This book focuses on four interlocking themes that recur time and again in descriptions of the falls: Niagara as a thing imagined from afar, as a metaphor for death, as an embodiment of nature, and as a focus of future events. Using the skills of a cultural geographer, McGreevy discovers some surprising connections between the Niagara people have imagined and the one they made, between its natural grandeur and its industrial exploitation, between Frederick Law Olmsted's Reservation and the Love Canal.
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Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Pernin's Monthly Stenographer written by and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sara Georgini
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019088259X
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)
Download or read book Household Gods written by Sara Georgini and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-16 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflecting on his past, President John Adams mused that it was religion that had shaped his family's fortunes and young America's future. For the nineteenth century's first family, the Adamses of Massachusetts, the history of how they lived religion was dynamic and well-documented. Christianity supplied the language that Abigail used to interpret husband John's political setbacks. Scripture armed their son John Quincy to act as father, statesman, and antislavery advocate. Unitarianism gave Abigail's Victorian grandson, Charles Francis, the religious confidence to persevere in political battles on the Civil War homefront. By contrast, his son Henry found religion hollow and repellent compared to the purity of modern science. A renewal of faith led Abigail's great-grandson Brooks, a Gilded Age critic of capitalism, to prophesy two world wars. Globetrotters who chronicled their religious journeys extensively, the Adamses ultimately developed a cosmopolitan Christianity that blended discovery and criticism, faith and doubt. Drawing from their rich archive, Sara Georgini, series editor for The Papers of John Adams, demonstrates how pivotal Christianity--as the different generations understood it--was in shaping the family's decisions, great and small. Spanning three centuries of faith from Puritan New England to the Jazz Age, Household Gods tells a new story of American religion, as the Adams family lived it.
