Author: William AndrewsPublisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465583920
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
England in the Days of Old
Author: William AndrewsPublisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465583920
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
Days of Old. Three Stories from Old English History. For the Young
Author: DaysPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
The Battle of Hexham; Or, Days of Old
Author: George ColmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Historical drama, English
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
Women of the Last Days of Old France
Author: AnonymousPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382198703
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1872. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Tis Sad to Think Upon the Joyous Days of Old, Or, Bye Gone Hours
Author: Baroness Helen Selina Blackwood Dufferin and ClandeboyePublisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 4
Book Description
The Brave Days of Old. A Book for Boys. Selected and Edited by Mrs. Valentine
Author: afterwards VALENTINE JEWRY (Laura)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Oh Lonely is the Forest Shade where Oft in Days of Old, Or When We Went Out a Gypseying a Long Time Ago
Author: Henry RussellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
Peking Story
Author: David KiddPublisher: Eland Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
A haunting and delicately observed description of the last days of Mandarin culture before the revolution, 'Peking Story' is a testimony to a way of life, a culture, an aesthetic and a civilisation which has since completely disappeared.
Happy Days of Old
Author: Albert H. WoodPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 6
Book Description
The Last Days of Old Beijing
Author: Michael MeyerPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0802779123
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
Journalist Michael Meyer has spent his adult life in China, first in a small village as a Peace Corps volunteer, the last decade in Beijing--where he has witnessed the extraordinary transformation the country has experienced in that time. For the past two years he has been completely immersed in the ancient city, living on one of its famed hutong in a century-old courtyard home he shares with several families, teaching English at a local elementary school--while all around him "progress" closes in as the neighborhood is methodically destroyed to make way for high-rise buildings, shopping malls, and other symbols of modern, urban life. The city, he shows, has been demolished many times before; however, he writes, "the epitaph for Beijing will read: born 1280, died 2008...what emperors, warlords, Japanese invaders, and Communist planners couldn't eradicate, the market economy can." The Last Days of Old Beijing tells the story of this historic city from the inside out-through the eyes of those whose lives are in the balance: the Widow who takes care of Meyer; his students and fellow teachers, the first-ever description of what goes on in a Chinese public school; the local historian who rallies against the government. The tension of preservation vs. modernization--the question of what, in an ancient civilization, counts as heritage, and what happens when a billion people want to live the way Americans do--suffuse Meyer's story.
