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Land So Fair

Author : Firth Haring Fabend
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595473164
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (954 download)

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Download or read book Land So Fair written by Firth Haring Fabend and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Land So Fair opens in 1737 on a Hudson Valley farm, where the family's land, "sought, bought, cleared, planted, harvested, bequeathed, fought over, challenged, confiscated, and laced with bones and blood," is threatened anew each generation. Three strong-minded Dutch-American women, related to each other by marriage, deal with the privations of life in a wilderness community, the deaths of beloved family members, threats to their land by outside usurpers, and a dawning realization that slavery, once considered "necessary," is leading inexorably to tragedy. Troubles within the Dutch church, combined with violent uprisings by slaves, make life a test of endurance, physically, emotionally, and morally. As the struggle for independence from England versus loyalty to the Crown heats up, war erupts, and daily life takes on an ever-more desperate character. A fierce local "civil war" intensifies the looting, plundering, massacre, battles, and treason of the Revolution. In the end, the futility of war is clear when the English commander in chief acknowledges to George Washington in 1783 that the conflict should have ended with the American victory at Trenton seven years before, in 1776. "Fabend's evocative prose recreates a vivid New World. A poignant and gripping story, richly researched."

A Land So Fair and Bright

Author : Russ Hofvendahl
Publisher : Sheridan House, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780924486104
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)

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Download or read book A Land So Fair and Bright written by Russ Hofvendahl and published by Sheridan House, Inc.. This book was released on 1991 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hofvendahl's travels at 16 seem right out of Woody Guthrie. When he jumped ahip in 1938, he headed east through Canada, south to New Orleans via New York, and across to San Francisco. He rode the rails often, and here he tells of catching freights on the fly, of panaoramas viewed from side-door pullmans or from open gondolas snaking down California peaks. There were also times without shelter, food, or water...A rare and exhilarating true-life tale. Booklist

Tomorrow-Land

Author : Joseph Tirella
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 149300333X
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Tomorrow-Land written by Joseph Tirella and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013-12-23 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Motivated by potentially turning Flushing Meadows, literally a land of refuse, into his greatest public park, Robert Moses—New York's "Master Builder"—brought the World's Fair to the Big Apple for 1964 and '65. Though considered a financial failure, the 1964-65 World' s Fair was a Sixties flashpoint in areas from politics to pop culture, technology to urban planning, and civil rights to violent crime. In an epic narrative, the New York Times bestseller Tomorrow-Land shows the astonishing pivots taken by New York City, America, and the world during the Fair. It fetched Disney's empire from California and Michelangelo's La Pieta from Europe; and displayed flickers of innovation from Ford, GM, and NASA—from undersea and outerspace colonies to personal computers. It housed the controversial work of Warhol (until Governor Rockefeller had it removed); and lured Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters. Meanwhile, the Fair—and its house band, Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians—sat in the musical shadows of the Beatles and Bob Dylan, who changed rock-and-roll right there in Queens. And as Southern civil rights efforts turned deadly, and violent protests also occurred in and around the Fair, Harlem-based Malcolm X predicted a frightening future of inner-city racial conflict. World's Fairs have always been collisions of eras, cultures, nations, technologies, ideas, and art. But the trippy, turbulent, Technicolor, Disney, corporate, and often misguided 1964-65 Fair was truly exceptional.

Seek the Fair Land

Author : Walter Macken
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780330303279
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Seek the Fair Land written by Walter Macken and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 1988 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book in a trilogy examining the adventures of several generations of one Irish family. Set amidst the Cromwellian Invasions, Seek the Fair Wind begins in 1641. Dominick McMahon, a merchant by trade, has little appetite for fighting, yet is forced to defend his town against Cromwell's army. From dark city streets to wild mountains, from vicious slaughter to triumphant faith, from selfish obedience to heroic opposition – this novel paints a vivid portrait of the struggles of the Irish people against the English. Along with The Silent People and The Scorching Wind, Seek the Fair Land is a fascinating examination of the history and events that fueled the fight for freedom in Ireland.

My Fair Godmother

Author : Janette Rallison
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0802722466
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book My Fair Godmother written by Janette Rallison and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-08-10 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After her boyfriend dumps her for her older sister, sophomore Savannah wishes she could find a true prince to take her to the prom. Enter Chrysanthemum Everstar: Savannah's gum-chewing, cell phone-carrying, high heel-wearing Fair Godmother. Despite a few wish-granting mishaps, Savannah's fairy-tale ending might not be as far off as she imagined.

The World's Fair

Author : Thomas L. Tedrow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780590226561
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)

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Download or read book The World's Fair written by Thomas L. Tedrow and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While reporting the events of the St. Louis World's Fair for her local newspaper in 1906, Laura Ingalls Wilder teams up with Alice Roosevelt to stop the inhuman Anthropological Games.

The Land We Share

Author : Eric T. Freyfogle
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 9781610912402
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (124 download)

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Download or read book The Land We Share written by Eric T. Freyfogle and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2003-08-08 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is private ownership an inviolate right that individuals can wield as they see fit? Or is it better understood in more collective terms, as an institution that communities reshape over time to promote evolving goals? What should it mean to be a private landowner in an age of sprawling growth and declining biological diversity? These provocative questions lie at the heart of this perceptive and wide-ranging new book by legal scholar and conservationist Eric Freyfogle. Bringing together insights from history, law, philosophy, and ecology, Freyfogle undertakes a fascinating inquiry into the ownership of nature, leading us behind publicized and contentious disputes over open-space regulation, wetlands protection, and wildlife habitat to reveal the foundations of and changing ideas about private ownership in America. Drawing upon ideas from Thomas Jefferson, Henry George, and Aldo Leopold and interweaving engaging accounts of actual disputes over land-use issues, Freyfogle develops a powerful vision of what private ownership in America could mean—an ownership system, fair to owners and taxpayers alike, that fosters healthy land and healthy economies.

Fair Winds and Following Seas

Author : Riley Roberts
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595247830
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (952 download)

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Download or read book Fair Winds and Following Seas written by Riley Roberts and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a Captain in the fledgling American Navy of 1801, young Lowell West sets sail on his first command with little hope of distinguishing himself in battle. Instead of a dull campaign, however, sealed orders, veiled political tension, and unseen threats from a more dangerous sea power throw West into the midst of a treacherous, daring mission right into the teeth of the powerful Spanish navy. The clash of sword against sword, the fury of the tumultuous ocean, and the thunder of rolling cannon broadsides come vividly alive in this nautical adventure of the most engaging kind!

Ill Fares the Land

Author : Tony Judt
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101223707
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Ill Fares the Land written by Tony Judt and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-03-18 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Something is profoundly wrong with the way we think about how we should live today. In Ill Fares The Land, Tony Judt, one of our leading historians and thinkers, reveals how we have arrived at our present dangerously confused moment. Judt masterfully crystallizes what we've all been feeling into a way to think our way into, and thus out of, our great collective dis-ease about the current state of things. As the economic collapse of 2008 made clear, the social contract that defined postwar life in Europe and America - the guarantee of a basal level of security, stability and fairness -- is no longer guaranteed; in fact, it's no longer part of the common discourse. Judt offers the language we need to address our common needs, rejecting the nihilistic individualism of the far right and the debunked socialism of the past. To find a way forward, we must look to our not so distant past and to social democracy in action: to re-enshrining fairness over mere efficiency. Distinctly absent from our national dialogue, social democrats believe that the state can play an enhanced role in our lives without threatening our liberties. Instead of placing blind faith in the market-as we have to our detriment for the past thirty years-social democrats entrust their fellow citizens and the state itself. Ill Fares the Land challenges us to confront our societal ills and to shoulder responsibility for the world we live in. For hope remains. In reintroducing alternatives to the status quo, Judt reinvigorates our political conversation, providing the tools necessary to imagine a new form of governance, a new way of life.

Fair Wind and Plenty of It

Author : Rigel Crockett
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307368831
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Fair Wind and Plenty of It written by Rigel Crockett and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2010-07-23 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of Godforsaken Sea and In the Heart of the Sea, Fair Wind and Plenty of It is a virtuoso debut by a sailor turned scribe -- a must-read for lovers of nautical adventure. On November 25th, 1997, the barque Picton Castle, a three-masted, square-rigged tall ship, headed out from Lunenburg, Nova Scotia on a voyage around the world. Aboard ship a shifting crew of thirty, a combination of professional sailors and paying crew who were out $32,500 for the privilege of working “crew before the mast,” would travel for over a year and half, calling in at ports as exotic and varied as Aruba, Somoa, Bali and Zanzibar. Fair Wind and Plenty of It tells the story of an obsession, as Captain Dan Moreland, driven by a desire to make his mark in the world of traditional sail, rallies forces to convert a sixty-nine-year-old North Sea trawler into a seaworthy tall ship, and then assembles the crew to sail it. It’s the story of the uneasy balance that is achieved on board, where insubordination and rancour must be kept in line among a crew whose only connection is their common desire to be part of this journey. And it is Rigel’s story: a man who was conceived the day his father laid the keel for his first boat, whose mother was a sailmaker, and who has to reconcile his family legacy with his own need to understand why he must take part in the voyage of the barque Picton Castle. In Fair Wind and Plenty of It, Rigel Crockett tells a tale of shipboard camaraderie, gut-wrenching struggles and the near-mutinies that marked the year-and-a half journey -- where fellow shipmates proved to be as perilous as the ever-present sea.

Declan Grows Up

Author : C. Austin Lee
Publisher : American Values Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1939097029
Total Pages : 31 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Declan Grows Up written by C. Austin Lee and published by American Values Publishing. This book was released on 2012-12-18 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by C. Austin Lee and illustrated by Quinn Feeney Lee, this story illustrates that life is not always fair. We are all born with different God-given skills, gifts and talents. We don't always get the skills and talents we wish we had, but the secret to life is discovering what our gifts are and learning how to use them to help ourselves and those around us. The Little Lion Declan is frustrated that he can't dunk a basketball like Joey the giraffe but comes to realize that he has many other talents that he can grow and develop to help him throughout his life.

The Juvenile Instructor

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 892 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Juvenile Instructor written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 892 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Fair Land, Fair Land

Author : Alfred Bertram Guthrie (Jr)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Fair Land, Fair Land written by Alfred Bertram Guthrie (Jr) and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sintram

Author : Helen Leslie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sintram written by Helen Leslie and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Fair Land, Fair Land

Author : Alfred Bertram Jr Guthrie
Publisher : Mariner Books
ISBN 13 : 9780544310476
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Fair Land, Fair Land written by Alfred Bertram Jr Guthrie and published by Mariner Books. This book was released on 1995-09-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Hymnal and Order of Service

Author : Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book The Hymnal and Order of Service written by Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Fair Land, Fair Land

Author : A. B. Guthrie
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780395755198
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (551 download)

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Download or read book Fair Land, Fair Land written by A. B. Guthrie and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1995-08-21 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel of the early-day West in the period between 1845 and 1870 in which Dick Summers, a conservationist, seeks retribution from his former countryman Boone Caudill and companionship with Teal Eye.