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Author : Jack Vance
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780934438766
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (387 download)
Download or read book Showboat World written by Jack Vance and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jack Vance
Publisher : New York : Daw Books ; [Scarborough, Ont.] : New American Library of Canada
ISBN 13 : 9780879976606
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Showboat World written by Jack Vance and published by New York : Daw Books ; [Scarborough, Ont.] : New American Library of Canada. This book was released on 1981 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jack Vance
Publisher : Spatterlight Press
ISBN 13 : 1619470055
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (194 download)
Download or read book The Magnificent Showboats of the Lower Vissel River, Lune XXIII South, Big Planet written by Jack Vance and published by Spatterlight Press. This book was released on with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : EDNA FERBER
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book SHOW BOAT written by EDNA FERBER and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Philip Graham
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292775555
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book Showboats written by Philip Graham and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-01-30 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a delightful and authoritative record of America's showboats from the first one, launched in 1831, to the last, ultimately tied up at a St. Louis dock. It is also a record of the men and women who built and loved these floating theaters, of those who performed on their stages, and of the thousands who sat in their auditoriums. And, lastly, it is a record of a genuine folk institution, as American as catfish, which for more than a century did much to relieve the social and cultural starvation of our vast river frontier. For these showboats brought their rich cargoes of entertainment—genuine laughter, a glimpse of other worlds, a respite from the grinding hardship of the present, emotional relaxation—to valley farmers, isolated factory workers and miners, and backwoodsmen who otherwise would have lacked all such opportunities. To the more privileged , the showboats brought pleasant reminder of a half-forgotten culture. They penetrated regions where churches and school had not gone, and where land theaters were for generations to be impossible. Like circuit preachers, they carried their message to the outer fringes of American civilization. In spite of many faults, it was a good message. The frontier had created this institution to fill a genuine need, and it lasted only until other and better means of civilizing these regions could reach them—good roads, automobiles, motion pictures, schools, churches, newspapers, and theaters. But although the showboats have passed into history, they have left a rich legacy. As long as the Mississippi flows into the Gulf, their story will fire the imagination of Americans. Showboating has become so legendary that few Americans know what this unique institution was really like. In Showboats, at long last, the true story emerges. It differs in many important respects from the motion picture and fictional versions to which Americans are accustomed, but it is not a whit the less glamorous. Philip Graham has told his story with imagination, genuine insight, and complete devotion to facts. No one who is interested in America's past should fail to read it.
Author : Jack Vance
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0575109505
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (751 download)
Download or read book Big Planet written by Jack Vance and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-11-14 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Big Planet is Jack Vance's first major sf novel, and in the words of the Encyclopedia of SF, "provided an sf model for the planetary romance which has been of significant use for forty years". The huge world of the title is home to a range of colourfully detailed and imaginative human societies, which Vance explores with the zest and humour which are hallmarks of his work. All Jack Vance titles in the SFGateway use the author's preferred texts, as restored for the Vance Integral Edition (VIE), an extensive project masterminded by an international online community of Vance's admirers. In general, we also use the VIE titles, and have adopted the arrangement of short story collections to eliminate overlaps. Big Planet was cut almost in half for its first publication, but sadly the excised pages are lost.
Author : Roland Lazenby
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316387274
Total Pages : 638 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (163 download)
Download or read book Showboat written by Roland Lazenby and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2016-10-25 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive portrait of Kobe Bryant, from the author of Michael Jordan. "Lazenby's detailed research and fantastic writing paint a complex, engaging picture of one of the NBA's greats" (Kurt Helin, NBC Sports). Eighteen-time All-Star, scorer of 81 points in a single game, MVP, and one of the best shooting guards in NBA league history: Kobe Bryant is among basketball's absolute greatest players, and his importance to the sport is undeniable. Third on the NBA career scoring list and owner of five championship rings, he is an undisputed all-time great, one deserving of this deep and definitive biography. Even within the flashiest franchise in all of sports -- the Los Angeles Lakers, where he played his entire career -- Bryant always took center stage, and his final game captivated the basketball world, indeed the country. Roland Lazenby delves deep to look behind this public image, using classic basketball reporting and dozens of new interviews to reveal the whole picture, from Bryant's childhood through his playing years. Showboatis filled with large personalities and provocative stories, including details of Bryant's complicated personal life and explosive relationships on the court, and is a riveting and essential read for every hoops fan.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1084 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Everybody's Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 1084 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1086 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)
Download or read book Everybody's written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 1086 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Betty Bryant
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813188881
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book Here Comes The Showboat! written by Betty Bryant and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I was born at the tail end of a unique and delightful era and raised on one of the last showboats to struggle for survival against the devastating crunch of progress.... Our showboat's express purpose was carrying entertainment to hundreds of thousands of river-bottom farmers along our water-bordered frontier." —from the book Betty Bryant was a river rat. The Floating Theater was her home, and the river was her back yard. While other children were learning to walk, she was learning to swim. She knew how to set a trotline, gig a frog, catch a crawdad, and strip the mud vein out of a carp by the time she was four. In this colorful memoir, Betty shares her own piece of Americana, the small, family-owned showboat of the early twentieth century. Billy Bryant's Showboat plied the inland waterways of the Ohio River watershed from before the First World War until 1942, bringing a blend of melodrama and vaudeville, laughter and therapeutic tears, into the lives of isolated people in rural communities along the way. Betty made her first professional appearance at the age of six weeks when she played a baby in "Uncle Tom's Cabin." In her twenty years of touring, she acted, danced, and grew up in the tradition of "family entertainment, by families, for families." Here Comes the Showboat! is told with the ageless wonder of a child who loved the showboat and the eager audiences its uniquely American entertainment touched. It is a treasure trove of humorous anecdotes, touching remembrances, and delightful photographs of Betty, the three generations who ran the family showboat, miners, musselers, shantyboaters, farmers, merchants, and actors whose lives intersected along the Ohio River.
Author : Dave Bell W6AQ
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 149691404X
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (969 download)
Download or read book World's Best Hobby written by Dave Bell W6AQ and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-06-02 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Worlds Best Hobby is an unusual title for a memoir, which is exactly what this book is. Its my life in the fascinating hobby of Amateur Radio. Much of my professional life is spent producing documentary and reality programs for television (including more than a few about Ham Radio) where I learned that the purpose of a title is to attract an audience and if it was also true, all the better. The challenge with documentary films is to make them entertaining first and foremost, and informational if possible. Ive tried very hard to make this book entertaining, and from feedback Ive gotten (from Hams and wannabee Hams who found it posted online as I was writing it) Ive succeeded, at least to some extent. I tried to make the book fun because Ham Radio is fun. And Ham Radio has more facets than a cheap diamond, as youll discover as you dig into Worlds Best Hobby. Enjoy! PS. Let me know what you think of Worlds Best Hobby especially if you like it. 73, Dave Bell, W6AQ
Author : Sheldon Jaffery
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1557420025
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (574 download)
Download or read book Future and Fantastic Worlds written by Sheldon Jaffery and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Future and Fantastic Worlds embodies an unusual approach to the field of bibliographic research, including over 700 annotations of every DAW book published through mid-1987, with indexes by author, artist, and title, providing a massive guide to modern SF writers and their works, with much background data. Interspersed throughout the book are numerous wry, irreverent, and amusing observations offered by the late and highly respected researcher in this extremely valuable genre tool.
Author : Jack Vance
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312872793
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (727 download)
Download or read book Lurulu written by Jack Vance and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-02-06 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abandoned by his great-aunt for dawdling while piloting her space-yacht toward the distant world of Naharius, Myron now handles cargo aboard the interstellar freighter Glicca for Capt. Adair Maloof and his slightly shady crew and its passengers. The freighter wanders wherever its cargo may take it, guided by the frequently incorrect Handbook of the Planets. Along the way Myron learns about "lurulu," "a special word from the language of myth," which be translated as the achievement of your heart's desire.
Author : Todd Decker
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199759375
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)
Download or read book Show Boat written by Todd Decker and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Show Boat: Performing Race in an American Musical draws on exhaustive archival research to tell the story of how Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II, and a host of directors, choreographers, producers, and performers-among them Paul Robeson-made and remade the most important musical in Broadway history.
Author : Jack Vance
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781517589639
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (896 download)
Download or read book Showboat World (in Russian) written by Jack Vance and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-10-18 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Big Planet, a world colonized by criminals and outcasts, Apollon Zamp sails showboats from port to port along the Vissell river and its tributaries. He constantly faces danger, not least from his arch-rival Garth Ashgale .
Author : Jack Vance
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312854881
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (548 download)
Download or read book Planet of Adventure written by Jack Vance and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1993-08-15 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Together for the first time in one omnibus edition--City of the Chasch, Servants of the Wankh, The Dirdir, and The Pnume. Award-winning author Vance's exotic and complex world is filled with baroque landscapes, dastardly villains and warring aliens--all served up with grace and wonder.
Author : Gardner Dozois
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1466859504
Total Pages : 674 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book The Good Old Stuff written by Gardner Dozois and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2013-12-10 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nineteen-ninety-nine looms near and yet the stars are still far away . . . but this anthology brings them closer with more than a dozen of the best SF adventure stories ever written. Among the gems collected here are "The New Prime," by Jack Vance, " Fritz Leiber's "Moon Duel," and "The Sky People," by Poul Anderson, along with masterpieces by less-familiar names such as Murray Leinster and James H. Schmitz. With more than a dozen stories (written between 1940 and 1970) from greats such as Brian W. Aldiss, Leigh Brackett, L. Sprague de Camp, and A. E. van Vogt, this anthology ranges throughout our galaxy and into the stars. Whether you're revisiting past adventures or discovering these stories for the first time, you're sure to thrill to these wonderful adventures across the vast expanse of space.
