Author : Robert Longden
Publisher : Alan Sutton Publishing
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 18,24 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Photography
ISBN :
During a few brief years in the 1940s and '50s Robert Longden took a remarkable set of photographs of the narrow boat community at Hawkesbury Stop. Previously unpublished, Sonia Rolt identifies each one with full and informative captions
Author : Margarita Engle
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 28,40 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0544109414
As the Panama Canal turns one hundred, Newbery Honor winner Margarita Engle tells the story of its creation in this powerful new YA historical novel in verse.
Author : Adeline Levine
Publisher : Free Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 17,88 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Science
ISBN :
Author : Terry Darlington
Publisher : Delta
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 32,59 MB
Release : 2008-03-25
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0440337569
The hilarious and true story of two senior-citizens and their whippet dog who hatch, plan and carry out a “lunatic scheme” to sail from Stone in Staffordshire to Carcassonne in the South of France.
Author : Dorothy Stacy
Publisher : Blackberry Hill Press
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 12,15 MB
Release : 2007-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780979294709
Rose, Charles, and the Finnegans travel aboard the canal boat the Flying Eagle on a trip from Albany to Utica, New York, in 1840 and have many adventures along the way.
Author : L. T. C. Rolt
Publisher : History Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 21,32 MB
Release : 2014-08-26
Category : Boat living
ISBN : 9780750960618
Take a trip down the waterways of England during their hey-day
Author : Samuel Hopkins Adams
Publisher : Random House
Page : 646 pages
File Size : 44,40 MB
Release : 2013-05-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307827984
A classic historical novel of a young doctor and the Erie Canal, which brought with it to Western New York not only progress and prosperity but unforeseen upheavals. “[An] elaborate, colorful, and affectionate portrait of a canal town in its growing pains. Obviously [Samuel Hopkins] Adams has not only gone back to the sources but has lived with them for a long time before writing his account of a young doctor setting up his practice.”—The Atlantic “Mr. Adams knows his Erie lore so well and has boned up so thoroughly on American medical history in the early part of the [eighteenth] century that nobody who reads the book can fail to learn a great deal about what life was like in general and the practice of medicine in particular was like in a boom town.”—The New Yorker “His villains are strongly delineated and actuated by very human motives, his minor figures are picturesque and drawn with gusto, even his sympathetic characters come alive with personal crochets and idiosyncrasies.”—Carl Carmer, Saturday Review of Literature
Author : Michele Ann McFee
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,55 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Canals
ISBN : 9780935796995
The first and only history of the magnificent, modern canal, which replaced the Erie in 1918.
Author : Hannah Jane Parkinson
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 50,44 MB
Release : 2021-10-05
Category : Humor
ISBN : 178335237X
'This book is a not-so-small joy in itself.' NIGELLA LAWSON 'Parkinson has the gift of making you look with new eyes at everyday things. The perfect daily diversion.' JOJO MOYES 'Always funny and frank and full of insight, I absolutely love Parkinson's writing.' DAVID NICHOLLS 'I loved this book . . . Parkinson's writing transports you to unexpected places of joy and comfort . . . these pages contain happiness.' MARINA HYDE 'The twenty-first century feels a lot more bearable in Parkinson's company.' CHARLOTTE MENDELSON Drawn from the successful Guardian column, these everyday exultations and inspirations will get you through dismal days. Hannah Jane Parkinson is a specialist in savouring the small pleasures of life. She revels in her fluffy dressing gown ('like bathing in marshmallow'), finds calm in solo cinema trips, is charmed by the personalities of fonts ('you'll never see Comic Sans on a funeral notice'), celebrates pockets and gleefully abandons a book she isn't enjoying. Parkinson's everyday exaltations - selected from her immensely successful Guardian column - will utterly delight. FEATURES BRAND NEW MATERIAL 'A compendium of delights.' OBSERVER 'Delightful . . . a love letter to those little moments of bliss that get us through the daily grind.' RED
Author : Michael Keene
Publisher : Ad-Hoc Productions
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 35,43 MB
Release : 2017-03-23
Category : Erie Canal (N.Y.)
ISBN : 9780998850801
The history of the making of the Erie Canal and the visionaries and prophets who established the great social, religious, and political movements of the 19th century.
