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A pictorial history of the Civil War, featuring articles and illustrations that appeared in Harper's Magazine beginning with the events leading up to the firing on Fort Sumter through Reconstruction.
Author : Alfred Hudson Guernsey
Publisher : Gramercy
Page : 836 pages
File Size : 36,2 MB
Release : 1996-07-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780517183342
A pictorial history of the Civil War, featuring articles and illustrations that appeared in Harper's Magazine beginning with the events leading up to the firing on Fort Sumter through Reconstruction.
Author : Marvin Mondlin
Publisher : Carroll & Graf Publishers
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 31,94 MB
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780786716524
The city has eight million stories, and this one unfolds just south of 14th Street in Manhattan, mostly on the seven blocks of Fourth Avenue bracketed by Union Square and Astor Place. There, for nearly eight decades, from the 1890s to the 1960s, thrived a bibliophiles' paradise. They called it the New York Booksellers' Row, or, more commonly, Book Row. It's an American story, the story that this richly anecdotal historical memoir amiably tells: as American as the rags-to-riches tale of the Strand, which began its life as book stall on Eighth Street and today houses 2.5 million volumes in twelve miles of space. It's a story cast with colorful characters: like the horse-betting, poker-playing go-getter and book dealer George D. Smith; the irascible Russian-born book hunter Peter Stammer, the visionary Theodore C. Schulte; Lou Cohen, founder of the still-surviving Argosy Book Store; gentleman bookseller George Rubinowitz and his legendary shrewd wife Jenny. Rising rents, street crime, urban redevelopment, television-the reasons are many for the demise of Book Row, but in this volume, based on interviews with dozens upon dozens of the book people who bought, sold, and collected there, it lives again.
Author : Frederick Fried
Publisher : Vestal PressLtd
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 20,76 MB
Release : 1964
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780911572292
This lavishly illustrated volume explores the history of the carousel from its evolution.
Author : Gretchen Liu
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 28,23 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Singapore
ISBN : 0700715843
This is the story of Singapore through the eyes of artists and photographers. Each image conveys a strong sense of place, and together they tell the story of a nation and the island they transformed from a fishing village to a global city state.
Author : John Tipler
Publisher : Crowood Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 14,22 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781852239237
MG is renowned as one of the world's most famous sports marques. This book relates its complete story, starting with the 1923 two-seater, and MG's early triumph, the Midget, with its racing success. The Magnas and Magnettes followed, leading into the post-war TC Midget, and the successful MGA and the MGB. Though MG fell victim to corporate politics in the late 60s, it made a comeback with the MGF in the early 90s.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 20,47 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Astoria (Or.)
ISBN : 9781597252911
A special project of the Clatsop County Historical Society and the Daily Astorian in 1997, this updated edition is being re-released as part of the Astoria bicentennial celebration.
Author : Jim Rearden
Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 43,70 MB
Release : 2014-04-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0882409301
“I owe Alaska. It gave me everything I have.” Says Sidney Huntington, son of an Athapaskan mother and white trader/trapper father. Growing up on the Koyukuk River in Alaska’s harsh Interior, that “everything” spans 78 years of tragedies and adventures. When his mother died suddenly, 5-year-old Huntington protected and cared for his younger brother and sister during two weeks of isolation. Later, as a teenager, he plied the wilderness traplines with his father, nearly freezing to death several times. One spring, he watched an ice-filled breakup flood sweep his family’s cabin and belongings away. These and many other episodes are the compelling background for the story of a man who learned the lessons of a land and culture, lessons that enabled him to prosper as trapper, boat builder, and fisherman. This is more than one man's incredible tale of hardship and success in Alaska. It is also a tribute to the Athapaskan traditions and spiritual beliefs that enabled him and his ancestors to survive. His story, simply told, is a testament to the durability of Alaska's wild lands and to the strength of the people who inhabit them.
Author : Larry M. Pistole
Publisher :
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 41,20 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Transportation
ISBN :
Summary: A Surgeon's wife find herself drawn to afternoon work in a brothel.
Author : Suzanne Rau Wolfe
Publisher : University Alabama Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 13,82 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Education
ISBN :
Author : Ruby A. Wooldridge
Publisher :
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,8 MB
Release : 1982-01-01
Category : Brownsville (Tex.)
ISBN : 9780898651515