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Author : Dana Cudmore
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Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Remarkable Howe Caverns Story written by Dana Cudmore and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Diana E. Northup
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Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book A Guide to Speleological Literature of the English Language written by Diana E. Northup and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a family story of America's most famous cave explorer who was trapped and died in Sand Cave in 1925. That story has been told many times, but never before has the complete life of Floyd Collins been presented. Floyd's younger brother Homer tells how Floyd was fascinated with caves from his childhood, of his discovery of the famous Crystal Cave on the home property, and of the rescue attempts from the viewpoint of a brother so devoted that his extraordinary efforts to save Floyd were rewarded by his being removed from the premises while others inexperienced in working in caves carried on the unsuccessful attempt. It is a warm story of a man whose love in life was exploring caves, a man who endured his grim death with dignity and pride in his vocation."--Page 4 of cover
Author : Peter Eisenstadt
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815608080
Total Pages : 1960 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (8 download)
Download or read book The Encyclopedia of New York State written by Peter Eisenstadt and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2005-05-19 with total page 1960 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Encyclopedia of New York State is one of the most complete works on the Empire State to be published in a half-century. In nearly 2,000 pages and 4,000 signed entries, this single volume captures the impressive complexity of New York State as a historic crossroads of people and ideas, as a cradle of abolitionism and feminism, and as an apex of modern urban, suburban, and rural life. The Encyclopedia is packed with fascinating details from fields ranging from sociology and geography to history. Did you know that Manhattan's Lower East Side was once the most populated neighborhood in the world, but Hamilton County in the Adirondacks is the least densely populated county east of the Mississippi; New York is the only state to border both the Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean; the Erie Canal opened New York City to rich farmland upstate . . . and to the west. Entries by experts chronicle New York's varied areas, politics, and persuasions with a cornucopia of subjects from environmentalism to higher education to railroads, weaving the state's diverse regions and peoples into one idea of New York State. Lavishly illustrated with 500 photographs and figures, 120 maps, and 140 tables, the Encyclopedia is key to understanding the state's past, present, and future. It is a crucial reference for students, teachers, historians, and business people, for New Yorkers of all persuasions, and for anyone interested in finding out more about New York State.
Author : Donald W. Linebaugh
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 1572338350
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (723 download)
Download or read book The Springfield Gas Machine written by Donald W. Linebaugh and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2012-01-27 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Developed just after the close of the Civil War, the Springfield Gas Machine was a unique commercial and domestic gas lighting system marketed for use in homes and businesses outside of a city’s gas works. The self-contained unit was perfectly suited to accommodate an expanding rural and suburban U.S. landscape as middle- and upper-class American families were looking to find simplicity in the countryside without losing any modern comforts of the city. Industries, too, were looking for a means to operate more efficiently and implement longer work hours for various production operations. Perhaps more important, owners of the Springfield system could retain control of their light production during a time when corporations were reaping large benefits from their monopolistic hold over municipal gas works. In addition to detailing preserved Springfield systems across the country, Donald W. Linebaugh uses newspapers and magazine articles, advertisements, patents, and even mail-order catalogs to tell the story of this one-of-a-kind unit. The Gilbert and Barker Manufacturing Company's innovative business plan established them as a leader in the manufacture of gas lighting devices. By taking gasoline from an oft-discarded byproduct of refining crude oil to a viable fuel source, the company paved the way for other gas-powered appliances to improve household management strategies and industrial production. In capturing the pre-automobile market for gasoline, Gilbert and Barker attracted the attention of the Standard Oil Trust, presaging the oil-industry dominance over gasoline production that continues today. The story of the Springfield gas machine ends in the early twentieth century as the advent of electricity proved more available to the masses with considerably less expense. However, gas lighting was, for its time, a major innovation in domestic and commercial lighting, and it changed daily life and social behaviors in the late nineteenth century as the comforts of home became a reality for suburban and rural Americans.
Author : Tony Waltham
Publisher : White Lion Publishing
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Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Great Caves of the World written by Tony Waltham and published by White Lion Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Great Caves of the World is an introduction to some of the most magnificent cave systems in the world. Geologist and caving expert Tony Waltham provides an introduction to the subject before exploring the characteristics of each of the 28 selecte caves. He describes how each one was formed, its environment and location, and how it contributes to our understanding of the underground." "This illustrated book takes readers on a journey to a surprising array of environments, from huge underground rivers and long lava formations to secret temples and ancient archaeological sites. Dwell in forests of sparkling ice colums deep inside the Pinega Caves, Russia; be dazzled by the mineral deposits in Lechugilla Cave, USA, and discover the classic Yorkshire pothole at Gaping Gill, England."--BOOK JACKET.
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Total Pages : 498 pages
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Download or read book Schoharie County Historical Review written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 572 pages
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Author : David Lee Harrison
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ISBN 13 : 9781563979156
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (791 download)
Download or read book Caves written by David Lee Harrison and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A basic examination of how caves are formed.
Author : Heather Henson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 148142095X
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (814 download)
Download or read book Lift Your Light a Little Higher written by Heather Henson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Stephen Bishop, a slave and early explorer and guide at Mammoth Cave, Kentucky.
Author : John Walter Wayland
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Total Pages : 886 pages
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Download or read book A History of Shenandoah County, Virginia written by John Walter Wayland and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Sullivan
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Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)
Download or read book History of New York State, 1523-1927 written by James Sullivan and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Timothy Miller
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1645060438
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (45 download)
Download or read book The Strange Case of the Dutch Painter written by Timothy Miller and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-02-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paris, 1890. When Sherlock Holmes finds himself chasing an art dealer through the streets of Paris, he’s certain he’s smoked out one of the principals of a cunning forgery ring responsible for the theft of some of the Louvre’s greatest masterpieces. But for once, Holmes is dead wrong. He doesn’t know that the dealer, Theo Van Gogh, is rushing to the side of his brother, who lies dying of a gunshot wound in Auvers. He doesn’t know that the dealer’s brother is a penniless misfit artist named Vincent, known to few and mourned by even fewer. Officialdom pronounces the death a suicide, but a few minutes at the scene convinces Holmes it was murder. And he’s bulldog-determined to discover why a penniless painter who harmed no one had to be killed–and who killed him. Who could profit from Vincent’s death? How is the murder entwined with his own forgery investigation? Holmes must retrace the last months of Vincent’s life, testing his mettle against men like the brutal Paul Gauguin and the secretive Toulouse-Lautrec, all the while searching for the girl Olympia, whom Vincent named with his dying breath. She can provide the truth, but can anyone provide the proof? From the madhouse of St. Remy to the rooftops of Paris, Holmes hunts a killer—while the killer hunts him.
Author : Miranda H. Ferrara
Publisher : Saint James Press
ISBN 13 : 9781558623286
Total Pages : 1856 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (232 download)
Download or read book The Writer's Directory, 1998-2000 written by Miranda H. Ferrara and published by Saint James Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 1856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Information on more than 17,500 living authors from English speaking countries.
Author : Janet Fox
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0147517133
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (475 download)
Download or read book The Charmed Children of Rookskill Castle written by Janet Fox and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An enchanting, ghostly story that had me in its grip until the last page."—Jennifer A. Nielsen, New York Times and USA Today best-selling author of The False Prince “Keep calm and carry on.” That’s what Katherine Bateson’s father told her, and that’s what she’s trying to do: when her father goes off to the war, when her mother sends Kat and her brother and sister away from London to escape the incessant bombing, even when the children arrive at Rookskill Castle, an ancient, crumbling manor on the misty Scottish highlands. But it’s hard to keep calm in the strange castle that seems haunted by ghosts or worse. What’s making those terrifying screeches and groans at night? Why do the castle’s walls seem to have a mind of their own? And why do people seem to mysteriously appear and disappear? Kat believes she knows the answer: Lady Eleanor, who rules Rookskill Castle, is harboring a Nazi spy. But when her classmates begin to vanish, one by one, Kat must uncover the truth about what the castle actually harbors—and who Lady Eleanor really is—before it's too late.
Author : Douglas Wolk
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0735222185
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (352 download)
Download or read book All of the Marvels written by Douglas Wolk and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2023-10-03 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2022 Eisner Award for Best Comics-Related Book The first-ever full reckoning with Marvel Comics’ interconnected, half-million-page story, a revelatory guide to the “epic of epics”—and to the past sixty years of American culture—from a beloved authority on the subject who read all 27,000+ Marvel superhero comics and lived to tell the tale “Brilliant, eccentric, moving and wholly wonderful. . . . Wolk proves to be the perfect guide for this type of adventure: nimble, learned, funny and sincere. . . . All of the Marvels is magnificently marvelous. Wolk’s work will invite many more alliterative superlatives. It deserves them all.” —Junot Díaz, New York Times Book Review The superhero comic books that Marvel Comics has published since 1961 are, as Douglas Wolk notes, the longest continuous, self-contained work of fiction ever created: over half a million pages to date, and still growing. The Marvel story is a gigantic mountain smack in the middle of contemporary culture. Thousands of writers and artists have contributed to it. Everyone recognizes its protagonists: Spider-Man, the Avengers, the X-Men. Eighteen of the hundred highest-grossing movies of all time are based on parts of it. Yet not even the people telling the story have read the whole thing—nobody’s supposed to. So, of course, that’s what Wolk did: he read all 27,000+ comics that make up the Marvel Universe thus far, from Alpha Flight to Omega the Unknown. And then he made sense of it—seeing into the ever-expanding story, in its parts and as a whole, and seeing through it, as a prism through which to view the landscape of American culture. In Wolk’s hands, the mammoth Marvel narrative becomes a fun-house-mirror history of the past sixty years, from the atomic night terrors of the Cold War to the technocracy and political division of the present day—a boisterous, tragicomic, magnificently filigreed epic about power and ethics, set in a world transformed by wonders. As a work of cultural exegesis, this is sneakily significant, even a landmark; it’s also ludicrously fun. Wolk sees fascinating patterns—the rise and fall of particular cultural aspirations, and of the storytelling modes that conveyed them. He observes the Marvel story’s progressive visions and its painful stereotypes, its patches of woeful hackwork and stretches of luminous creativity, and the way it all feeds into a potent cosmology that echoes our deepest hopes and fears. This is a huge treat for Marvel fans, but it’s also a revelation for readers who don’t know Doctor Strange from Doctor Doom. Here, truly, are all of the marvels.
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Total Pages : 1068 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Writers Directory written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 1068 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 558 pages
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