Heirs of Great Adventure: 1851-1901
Author : Wallis Hunt
Publisher :
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 16,29 MB
Release : 1951
Category : Freight and freightage
ISBN :
Author : Wallis Hunt
Publisher :
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 16,29 MB
Release : 1951
Category : Freight and freightage
ISBN :
Author : Robert Herrick
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 23,62 MB
Release : 2019-11-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
This adventure mystery novel follows the protagonist Edgar Brainard, a young man who is struggling with repeated failure and living in poverty in New York City. One day, as he walks down Fifth Avenue lost in thought, he stumbles upon a group of children huddled around a man lying prone on the pavement. The man is not drunk as the children claim, but is having some sort of fit. Edgar takes charge, calls an ambulance, and carries the man to his room. The man then asks Edgar to retrieve something for him from a private safe in an office in San Francisco, giving him the combination of the safe and a power of attorney to take everything from it. He is to deliver the contents of the safe to Melody in Berlin. The rest of the story follows the young man as he embarks on a journey to fulfill the old man's bidding.
Author : Jeff Cavins
Publisher : Ascension Press
Page : pages
File Size : 34,99 MB
Release : 2018-09-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781945179419
Author : Robert Herrick
Publisher :
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 35,9 MB
Release : 1913
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Author : Sheryllynne Haggerty
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 14,45 MB
Release : 2017-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1526118033
From the late eighteenth century to the early twentieth century, Liverpool was frequently referred to as the ‘second city of the empire’. Yet, the role of Liverpool within the British imperial system and the impact on the city of its colonial connections remain underplayed in recent writing on both Liverpool and the empire. However, ‘inconvenient’ this may prove, this specially-commissioned collection of essays demonstrates that the imperial dimension deserves more prevalence in both academic and popular representations of Liverpool’s past. Indeed, if Liverpool does represent the ‘World in One City’ – the slogan for Liverpool’s status as European Capital of Culture in 2008 – it could be argued that this is largely down to Merseyside’s long-term interactions with the colonial world, and the legacies of that imperial history. In the context of Capital of Culture year and growing interest in the relationship between British provincial cities and the British empire, this book will find a wide audience amongst academics, students and history enthusiasts generally.
Author : Mira Wilkins
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 10,52 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780198290322
Includes rewritten papers from a session on free-standing companies held at the 11th International Economic History Congress, in Milan, Italy, Sept. 1994.
Author : Steven Roger Fischer
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 28,94 MB
Release : 2006-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1861894163
On a long stretch of green coast in the South Pacific, hundreds of enormous, impassive stone heads stand guard against the ravages of time, war, and disease that have attempted over the centuries to conquer Easter Island. Steven Roger Fischer offers the first English-language history of Easter Island in Island at the End of the World, a fascinating chronicle of adversity, triumph, and the enduring monumentality of the island's stone guards. A small canoe with Polynesians brought the first humans to Easter Island in 700 CE, and when boat travel in the South Pacific drastically decreased around 1500, the Easter Islanders were forced to adapt in order to survive their isolation. Adaptation, Fischer asserts, was a continuous thread in the life of Easter Island: the first European visitors, who viewed the awe-inspiring monolithic busts in 1722, set off hundreds of years of violent warfare, trade, and disease—from the smallpox, wars, and Great Death that decimated the island to the late nineteenth-century Catholic missionaries who tried to "save" it to a despotic Frenchman who declared sole claim of the island and was soon killed by the remaining 111 islanders. The rituals, leaders, and religions of the Easter Islanders evolved with all of these events, and Fischer is just as attentive to the island's cultural developments as he is to its foreign invasions. Bringing his history into the modern era, Fischer examines the colonization and annexation of Easter Island by Chile, including the Rapanui people's push for civil rights in 1964 and 1965, by which they gained full citizenship and freedom of movement on the island. As travel to and interest in the island rapidly expand, Island at the End of the World is an essential history of this mysterious site.
Author : Leigh McLeroy
Publisher : Lucid Books
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 18,6 MB
Release : 2010-08-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1935909002
"The Beautiful Ache" calls readers to embrace the gap between life hoped for and life as it is, and to press on for that which fully satisfies.
Author : Stanley Chapman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 26,31 MB
Release : 2005-11-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 041537863X
Combining scholarly insight with readability, this is the first serious history of merchant banking, based on the archives of the leading houses and the records of their activities throughout the world.
Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 2340 pages
File Size : 15,52 MB
Release : 2017-08-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 8027200245
This eBook edition of "THE GREATEST ADVENTURES SERIES - Robert Louis Stevenson Edition (Illustrated)" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. His most famous works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. A literary celebrity during his lifetime, Stevenson now ranks among the 26 most translated authors in the world. Table of Contents: Novels: Treasure Island Kidnapped (Adventures of David Balfour I) Catriona (Adventures of David Balfour II) The Wrecker The Ebb-Tide St Ives: Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses Short Stories: Island Nights' Entertainments (South Sea Tales) The Adventure of the Hansom Cab The Adventure of Prince Florizel and a Detective The Misadventures of John Nicholson