Описание: Evoking images of the vanishing world of uranium, the author shares his adventures, misadventures and respect for his fellow miners through a unique blend of traditional and offbeat storytelling by way of a collection of character sketches, entertaining anecdotes, and glimpses into a time and place and way of working that are now gone.
Описание: The memoirs of a remarkable Westerner For those fascinated by the history of the American West the lives of its singular characters-particularly in autobiography-never cease to enthral. These resourceful individualists led extraordinary lives of risk and danger of such variety that the modern reader is left in awe. Hobbs, the author of this book, was certainly one of that doughty and resolute breed. Here was another in the manner of Kit Carson (in fact the two were companions) who lived in the trackless wilderness of the old South West. Hobbs hunted, trapped, fought Indians, was captured and held prisoner by the Comanche's. He travelled and traded in Mexico before being recruited to act as guide to Doniphan during the Mexican War. Not only was he one of the 'Forty-Niners' but as if his life of adventure was thus far not enough he joined Mexican Liberal forces during the Franco-Mexican War as a Captain of Artillery. This could be nothing other than a highly entertaining, readable first hand account of astonishing adventure and is highly recommended for those interested in the period.
Описание: In Kentucky Maverick, Carlton Jackson details the life of a legendary and highly decorated Marine whose career spanned both world wars, the Korean War, and Vietnam.
Автор: Edmonds Sarah Emma Evelyn Название: Nurse and Spy in the Union Army During the American Civil War ISBN: 0857063456 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780857063458 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 5906.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Explores the entire range of poems written in English on the subcontinent from their beginnings in 1780 to the watershed moment in 1913 when Rabindranath Tagore won the Nobel Prize in Literature. The historical scope of the anthology will enable teachers and students to understand what brought Kipling early fame and why at the same time Tagore`s Gitanjali became a global phenomenon.
Описание: Nat Love's memoir Life and Adventures of Nat Love is one of the only firsthand accounts of an African American cowhand in the western United States from this period. Love and his parents were owned by planter Robert Love, and after Emancipation, his parents remained on Love's plantation as sharecroppers while Nat left and headed west. He found work as a cowboy, first on the Duval Ranch in the Texas panhandle, then on the Gallinger Ranch in southern Arizona. Love's narrative details his many adventures and exploits, such as being captured and shot by Pima Indians, who eventually spared his life because they sympathized with his plight as a black man. In Deadwood, Dakota Territory, he entered a rodeo, winning $200 and the nickname Deadwood Dick, a reference to a literary character from a dime novel of the day. Published in 1907, the Life and Adventures of Nat Love would help to make Love a black folk hero of the Old West.
Описание: This book`s statistical and legal analyses of international organizations` constitutions reveal many new - and seemingly contradictory - interpretations of international organizations law. Not only does this book provide a map of international organizations` values, it provides a healthy start towards fully understanding that map, thereby helping global governance take a quantum leap forward. -- .
Автор: Costello, E Название: Rifleman costello ISBN: 1846770181 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781846770180 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 6216.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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When a book of unexplainable occurences brings Petra and Calder together, strange things start to happen: Seemingly unrelated events connect; an eccentric old woman seeks their company; an invaluable Vermeer painting disappears. Before they know it, the two find themselves at the center of an international art scandal, where no one is spared from suspicion. As Petra and Calder are drawn clue by clue into a mysterious labyrinth, they must draw on their powers of intuition, their problem solving skills, and their knowledge of Vermeer. Can they decipher a crime that has stumped even the FBI?
Автор: Richard Price Название: Inside/Outside: Adventures in Caribbean History and Anthropology ISBN: 0820363057 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780820363059 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 17186.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Beginning with a high schooler mesmerized by a stay on the Navajo and Hopi reservations and running through the founding of a university department and the aftermath of a decision to forego permanent academic affiliations, Richard Price`s story is told with humour and insight into the workings of academic politics from the 1960s to the present.
Автор: Richard Price Название: Inside/Outside: Adventures in Caribbean History and Anthropology ISBN: 0820362654 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780820362656 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 4297.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Beginning with a high schooler mesmerized by a stay on the Navajo and Hopi reservations and running through the founding of a university department and the aftermath of a decision to forego permanent academic affiliations, Richard Price`s story is told with humour and insight into the workings of academic politics from the 1960s to the present.
Описание: Active for over forty years with the Communist Party of Canada, BertWhyte was a journalist, an underground party organizer and soldierduring the Second World War, and a press correspondent in Beijing andMoscow. But Whyte never let leftist ideology get in the way of a greatyarn. In Champagne and Meatballs we meet a cigar-smoking roguewho was at least as happy at a pool hall as at a political meeting. Hisstories of bumming across Canada in the 1930s, of combat andcamaraderie at the front lines in the Second World War, and ofsurviving as a dissident in troubled times make for compelling reading.
Автор: Beth Kephart Название: My Life in Paper: Adventures in Ephemera ISBN: 1439923949 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781439923948 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 3762.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: Paper both shapes and defines us. Baby books, diaries, sewing patterns, diplomas, resumes, letters, death certificates—we find our stories in them. My Life in Paper is Beth Kephart’s memoiristic exploration of the paper legacies we forge and leave.
Kephart’s obsession with paper began in the wake of her father’s death, when she began to handcraft books and make and marble paper in his memory. But it was when she read My Life with Paper, an autobiography by the late renowned paper hunter and historian Dard Hunter, that she felt she had found a kindred spirit, someone to whom she might address a series of one-sided letters about life and how we live it. Remembering and crafting, wanting and loving, doubting and forgetting—the spine and weave of My Life in Paper came into view.
Paper, for Kephart, provides proof of our yearning, proof of our failure, proof of the people who loved us and the people we have lost. It offers, too, a counterweight to the fickle state of memory.
My Life in Paper, illustrated by the author herself, is an intimate and poignant meditation on life’s most pressing questions.
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