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The Travel Journals of Henrietta Marchant Liston

Author : Louise V. North
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739195514
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book The Travel Journals of Henrietta Marchant Liston written by Louise V. North and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2014-12-18 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel writing has a long history, the accounts as varied as the reasons why people travel.Although most travel publications of the eighteenth century were written by men, those by women, perhaps most famously Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, were also widely read. The Travel Journals of Henrietta Marchant Liston: North America & Lower Canada, 1796–1800 consists of the nine journals that Mrs. Liston kept while she and her husband Robert Liston, the minister from Great Britain (1796-1800), resided in Philadelphia, at that time the capital of the United States. Mrs. Liston wrote her journals (which, with one exception, have never been published) for her personal use as an aide-memoire to share with family and friends. To experience this middle-aged woman’s adventurous spirit as she and her husband travel as far south as Charleston, South Carolina and as far north as Quebec, Canada—long before the transportation conveniences and superhighways of modern-day travel—can only be termed amazing. Full of zest, her writing abounds with “you-are-there” moments. Mrs. Liston was genuinely curious about the New World: she wanted to learn about the different regions, to interact with the people who lived there, and to visit its natural wonders. She was astonished by the variety of the North American landscape, particularly its flora. Each journal has an introduction to put Mrs. Liston’s narrative in historical context. She is an intelligent and discerning guide to the eastern part of North America at a time of territorial expansion, of dispossession of Indian Nations from their territories by settlers, and of international upheavals. She and Robert Liston, a seasoned diplomat, observed and participated in the tumultuous events of the last years of the eighteenth century: the resignation of President George Washington and the orderly transfer of power to the next elected president; the “Quasi War” with France; and the rise of the political party system, to name but a few. Mrs. Liston’s description of their friendship with President and Mrs. Washington is clear-eyed as well as deeply appreciative, bringing those historical figures to life. Mrs. Liston’s engaging writing will win the hearts of all readers. For more on this topic, please visit the author's website at www.inthewordsofwomen.com. NEW from the National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh, a video about Henrietta M. and Robert Liston in the United States: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1kQTNScjiA. Also see the new website for digitized images and transcriptions of Mrs. Liston’s journals: http://digital.nls.uk/travels-of-henrietta-liston/.

Richard Wright

Author : Toru Kiuchi
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786465670
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Richard Wright written by Toru Kiuchi and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this minutely detailed, comprehensive chronology, Toru Kiuchi and Yoshinobu Hakutani document the life in letters of the greatest African American writer of the twentieth century. The author of Black Boy and Native Son, among other works, Wright wrote unflinchingly about the black experience in the United States, where his books still influence discussions of race and social justice. Entries are documented by Wright's journals, articles, and other works published and unpublished, as well as his letters to and from friends, associates, writers and public figures. Part One covers Wright's life through the year 1946, the period in which he published his best-known work. Part Two covers the final fifteen years of his life in exile, a prolific period in which he wrote two novels, four works of nonfiction, and four thousand haiku. Each part begins with a historical and critical introduction.

Call to Prayer

Author : Brian Walters
Publisher : Virtualbookworm Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781589395923
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (959 download)

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Download or read book Call to Prayer written by Brian Walters and published by Virtualbookworm Publishing. This book was released on 2004-05 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his first book, "Searching for the Holy Grail," Brian Walters takes the reader on a compelling modern-day Grand Tour of Western Europe and in his second book, "Fallen," he embarks on an introspective journey through Ireland and Eastern Europe during the tragic events of September 11. In his new book, "Call to Prayer," he sets off on his next great adventure, a three-week tour of Spain, Portugal ad Morocco. Join the author and his eclectic band of young travelers as they listen to haunting fado melodies in Lisbon, witness a bullfight in Spain, barter with Berber carpet salesmen in F?'s Medina, and ride camels in the Sahara.Along the way, you will bask in the fascinating history of the Moors, delve into the horrors of the Reconquista and Spanish Inquisition, and learn about Islam from a man named Mohammed. Once again, Brian Walters uses his keen insight, wry wit and passion for travel to take the reader on an unforgettable journey.

From Belleau Wood to Bougainville

Author : Robert Wallace Blake
Publisher : Author House
ISBN 13 : 1418411558
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (184 download)

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Download or read book From Belleau Wood to Bougainville written by Robert Wallace Blake and published by Author House. This book was released on 2004-10-28 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book was written as a companion volume for the authors most recent work, Bayonets and Bougainvilleas. In this volume the author presents the verbatim text of two major source documents for that work; his fathers ORAL HISTORY and his mothers TRAVEL JOURNAL, with his own added commentary. The HISTORY is the text of General Blakes official interview with Marine Corps historian Benis Frank covering the Generals Marine Corps career 1917-1949. The JOURNAL is the transcript of journal entries and letters written by the authors mother during travels abroad and in the USA from 1931 to 1941. The authors commentary weaves his mothers words into a continuous narrative covering the Blakes twenty-three year married life. Taken as a whole the book offers and unusual picture of military life in the separate words of the husband and the wife.

Confessions Of The Letter Closet

Author : Patrick Paul Garlinger
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452907234
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book Confessions Of The Letter Closet written by Patrick Paul Garlinger and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the history of the letter as an expression of sexual desire.

English Accents

Author : Christiana Payne
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135115902X
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book English Accents written by Christiana Payne and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-01-18 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the century following the foundation of the Royal Academy in 1768, British art had an international reputation: prints spread knowledge of the work of British artists around the globe, and it was widely seen as the product of a modern, commercial society, and much admired by artists as diverse as Goya in Spain, Delacroix in France, and Bierstadt in America. In recent years, scholars working on this period have become increasingly aware of the international context of their subject, but there has been no systematic analysis of the reception of British art abroad. This collection of essays looks at the uses made of the paintings of Reynolds, Hogarth, Lawrence and their contemporaries on the continent of Europe, and in the colonies and ex-colonies of Australia and America. The authors go beyond the simple issue of 'influence' to consider how ideas and artistic conventions originating in the British Isles were adapted, appropriated or resisted in these new environments. In the process, some surprising views of British art emerge, demonstrating how a multi-faceted view from the outside can correct and enrich the narrative produced within a national school, and revealing some of the important connections that are obscured when art is studied, as it so often is, within narrow national boundaries.

William L. Dawson

Author : Gwynne Kuhner Brown
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252047141
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book William L. Dawson written by Gwynne Kuhner Brown and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2024-08-20 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William L. Dawson is recognized for his genre-defining choral spirituals and for his Negro Folk Symphony, a masterpiece enjoying a twenty-first-century renaissance. Gwynne Kuhner Brown’s engaging and tirelessly researched biography reintroduces a musical leader whose legacy is more important today than ever. Born in 1899, Dawson studied at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. He worked as a church, jazz, and orchestral musician in Kansas City and Chicago in the 1920s while continuing his education as a composer. He then joined the Tuskegee faculty, where for 25 years he led the Tuskegee Institute Choir to national prominence through performances of spirituals at the opening of Radio City Music Hall, on radio and television, and at the White House. The Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Leopold Stokowski premiered Dawson’s Negro Folk Symphony in 1934. Engaging and long overdue, William L. Dawson celebrates a pioneering Black composer whose contributions to African American music, history, and education inspire performers and audiences to this day.

Madrid

Author : Jules Stewart
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1789142199
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (891 download)

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Download or read book Madrid written by Jules Stewart and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2021-03-15 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spain’s top city for tourism, Madrid attracts more than six million visitors a year. In this book, Helen Crisp and Jules Stewart not only place visitor attractions in their historical perspective, relating the story of a city and its people through the centuries, but they also offer carefully curated listings that give a nod to well-known attractions and sites, as well as hidden gems. Spain’s political and art capital, with its “Golden Triangle” of museums and myriad art galleries, Madrid is also a city of dazzling nightlife, with a profusion of cafés and bars. Offering in-depth insight into the history of Madrid along with a view—from fiestas to football—into life in the city today, this is the story of a vibrant, energetic metropolis, one that remains an enigma to many outsiders.

Littell's Living Age

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 782 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Littell's Living Age written by and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Why I Wrote This Poem

Author : William Walsh
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476647402
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Why I Wrote This Poem written by William Walsh and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2023-01-12 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of a different sort, this volume presents a representative sample of contemporary American poems in 2023, with a road map of their origins. Bringing a diversity of styles and sensibilities, 62 poets from across the United States--some well known, some up-and-coming--illuminate their craft. Each poet contributes one poem, accompanied by an essay discussing their creative process and how the verse came to fruition.

Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, &c

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 902 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, &c written by and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 902 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Holland House and Portugal, 17931840

Author : Jose Baptista de Sousa
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 1783087587
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Holland House and Portugal, 17931840 written by Jose Baptista de Sousa and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2018-02-22 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Holland House and Portugal’, a study in political and diplomatic history, focuses on the relations between Lord Holland and Portugal from 1793 to 1840. The book traces the evolution of Holland’s views on Portugal from the time of his first visit to Spain to his later contribution to the establishment of a constitutional regime in Portugal. Lord Holland’s influence on the establishment of a constitutional regime in Spain in 1809–10 and – indirectly and unintentionally – in Portugal in 1820–23 is examined at some length, as is his contribution to the establishment of a Liberal regime in Portugal in 1834. ‘Holland House and Portugal’ includes a study of the extent of Holland’s support for the Portuguese Liberal cause after Dom Miguel’s usurpation of the throne in 1828 and of his subsequent role in the ‘Liberal invasion’ of Portugal. The book also discusses Holland’s contribution to the end of the Portuguese Civil War in 1834 and to the subsequent establishment of a constitutional regime in that country.

Travelling Servants

Author : Kathryn Walchester
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000638995
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Travelling Servants written by Kathryn Walchester and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-26 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book outlines the contribution made by servants to domestic and Continental travel and travel writing between 1750 and 1850. Aiming to re-position British and European travel during this period as a site of work as well as leisure, Katheryn Walchester provides commentary and analysis of texts by servants not addressed in current scholarship. By reading texts contrapuntally, this book draws attention to repeated tropes and common patterns in the ways in which servants are featured in travelogues; and in so doing, offers an account of alternative modes of experiencing and writing about the Home Tour and the Grand Tour.

Littell's Living Age

Author : Eliakim Littell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 784 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Littell's Living Age written by Eliakim Littell and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Grammar Lessons

Author : Michele Morano
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1587297450
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (872 download)

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Download or read book Grammar Lessons written by Michele Morano and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2007-04 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the thirteen personal essays in Grammar Lessons, Michele Morano connects the rules of grammar to the stories we tell to help us understand our worlds. Living and traveling in Spain during a year of teaching English to university students, she learned to translate and interpret her past and present worlds—to study the surprising moments of communication—as a way to make sense of language and meaning, longing and memory. Morano focuses first on her year of living in Oviedo, in the early 1990s, a time spent immersing herself in a new culture and language while working through the relationship she had left behind with an emotionally dependent and suicidal man. Next, after subsequent trips to Spain, she explores the ways that travel sparks us to reconsider our personal histories in the context of larger historical legacies. Finally, she turns to the aftereffects of travel, to the constant negotiations involved in retelling and understanding the stories of our lives. Throughout she details one woman’s journey through vocabulary and verb tense toward a greater sense of her place in the world. Grammar Lessons illustrates the difficulty and delight, humor and humility of living in a new language and of carrying that pivotal experience forward. Michele Morano’s beautifully constructed essays reveal the many grammars and many voices that we collect, and learn from, as we travel.

Alone Time

Author : Stephanie Rosenbloom
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 039956232X
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book Alone Time written by Stephanie Rosenbloom and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wise, passionate account of the pleasures of traveling solo In our hectic, hyperconnected lives, many people are uncomfortable with the prospect of solitude. Yet a little time to ourselves can be an opportunity to slow down, savor, and try new things, especially when traveling. Through on-the-ground reporting, insights from social science, and recounting the experiences of artists, writers, and innovators who cherished solitude, Stephanie Rosenbloom considers how traveling alone deepens appreciation for everyday beauty, bringing into sharp relief the sights, sounds, and smells that one isn't necessarily attuned to in the presence of company. Walking through four cities--Paris, Florence, Istanbul, and New York--and four seasons, Alone Time gives us permission to pause, to relish the sensual details of the world rather than hurtling through museums and uploading photos to Instagram. In chapters about dining out, visiting museums, and pursuing knowledge, we begin to see how the moments we have to ourselves--on the road or at home--can be used to enrich our lives. Rosenbloom's engaging and elegant prose makes Alone Time as warmly intimate an account as the details of a trip shared by a beloved friend--and will have its many readers eager to set off on their own solo adventures.

Mediterranean Urban Culture, 1400-1700

Author : Alexander Cowan
Publisher : University of Exeter Press
ISBN 13 : 9780859895781
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (957 download)

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Download or read book Mediterranean Urban Culture, 1400-1700 written by Alexander Cowan and published by University of Exeter Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Was there a distinctive Mediterranean urban culture in the early modern period? This collection demonstrates both the range of collective urban experience in the Mediterranean and the complexity of the nature of urban culture at that time.