Author : Rodes Fishburne
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 30,89 MB
Release : 2011-04-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1439194041
The trade paperback reprint of Rodes Fishburne's highly-praised first novel GOING TO SEE THE ELEPHANT, which was published in hardcover 1/09.
Author : JoAnn Levy
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 48,32 MB
Release : 2013-07-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0806189959
"The phrase ’seeing the elephant’ symbolized for ’49 gold rushers the exotic, the mythical, the once-in-a-lifetime adventure, unequaled anywhere else but in the journey to the promised land of fortune: California. Most western myths . . . generally depict an exclusively male gold rush. Levy’s book debunks that myth. Here a variety of women travel, work, and write their way across the pages of western migrant history."-Choice "One of the best and most comprehensive accounts of gold rush life to date"ˆ–San Francisco Chronicle
Author : David Barrow
Publisher :
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 47,78 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1776570081
Elephant wants to play hide and seek. See if you can help the others find him--he's very good at hiding This tale of absurdity is perfect for sharing with children who will love finding Elephant (and being faster at it than the boy in the book ). Watch out for the dog and the tortoise, too . . .
Author : Pat Hughes
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 49,50 MB
Release : 2007-09-18
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780374380243
Young Izzie wishes he could join the Union Army with his brothers, Ario and Cal. He wonders what it would be like to "see the elephant"—soldier talk for going into battle for the first time. But it seems the closest Izzie will ever get to battle is visiting wounded soldiers at a Washington, D.C., hospital, where his aunt works as an Army nurse. When Izzie meets a wounded Rebel soldier who will soon be sent to prison, he realizes that the war may not be as simple as he once believed, and "seeing the elephant" takes on a whole new meaning. Based on family history, Pat Hughes's beautifully crafted story is complemented by Ken Stark's exceptional watercolor paintings. Seeing the Elephant is a 2008 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.
Author : George Garrett
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 20,6 MB
Release : 2024-02-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1680033751
"Going to See the Elephant is a safari into the wilds of the mind of George Garrett, and a more interesting place to explore is hard to imagine. Whether he (or his beleaguered alter-ego, John Towne) is examining the writing life, tipping his hat to other writers, or fulminating about the sorry state of the world we live in, he is well worth a listen - both for the sheer pleasure of it and for the wisdom to be found in it." —R.H.W. Dillard, author of Understanding George Garrett
Author : Joseph Allan Frank
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 20,62 MB
Release : 2003-02-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780252071263
One of the bloodiest battles in the Civil War, the two-day engagement near Shiloh, Tennessee, in April 1862 left more than 23,000 casualties. Fighting alongside seasoned veterans were more than 160 newly recruited regiments and other soldiers who had yet to encounter serious action. In the phrase of the time, these men came to Shiloh to “see the elephant.” Drawing on the letters, diaries, and other reminiscences of these raw recruits on both sides of the conflict, “Seeing the Elephant” gives a vivid and valuable primary account of the terrible struggle. From the wide range of voices included in this volume emerges a nuanced picture of the psychology and motivations of the novice soldiers and the ways in which their attitudes toward the war were affected by their experiences at Shiloh.
Author : Patricia Thomas
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 42,84 MB
Release : 1990-04-23
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0688093388
All the animals are in a panic. The elephant's sneeze would blow the monkeys out of the trees, the feathers off the birds, the stripes off the zebra. Even the fish and the fly, the crocodile and the kangaroo, know what a catastrophe that sneeze would be. "Please don't sneeze!" they beg. . . . The classic story of an enormous sneeze in the marking, told in sprightly nonsense verse, has been newly illustrated in full color to delight a new generation of fans.
Author : Susan Kreller
Publisher : G.P. Putnam's Sons
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 40,75 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Abusive men
ISBN : 0399172092
"When she suspects that her young neighbors are being abused by their father, one brave girl takes a stand to protect them"--
Author : Joyce Badgley Hunsaker
Publisher : Texas Tech University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 41,38 MB
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 9780896725041
A workbook to provide exercises to teach students about the life of those who traveled on the Oregon Trail.
Author : Len Weinrib
Publisher : Price Stern Sloan
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 26,11 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780843100105
