Author: Larry Lowenthal
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 180
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"Far fewer people have heard of Wallabout Bay on the Brooklyn shore of the East River or know the terrible story of American sailors who were imprisoned there on wretched hulks like the Jersey. ... Hell on the East River uses the prisoners' own accounts to describe the agony of imprisonment, analyzes the number of deaths, examines the reasons for the tragedy, and describes the 100-year struggle to erect the present Prison Ship.
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1072
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Author: Scott G. Bruce
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143131621
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 306
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"From the Bible through Dante and up to Treblinka and Guantánamo Bay, here is a rich source for nightmares." --The New York Times Book Review Three thousand years of visions of Hell, from the ancient Near East to modern America A Penguin Classic From the Hebrew Bible's shadowy realm of Sheol to twenty-first-century visions of Hell on earth, The Penguin Book of Hell takes us through three thousand years of eternal damnation. Along the way, you'll take a ferry ride with Aeneas to Hades, across the river Acheron; meet the Devil as imagined by a twelfth-century Irish monk--a monster with a thousand giant hands; wander the nine circles of Hell in Dante's Inferno, in which gluttons, liars, heretics, murderers, and hypocrites are made to endure crime-appropriate torture; and witness the debates that raged in Victorian England when new scientific advances cast doubt on the idea of an eternal hereafter. Drawing upon religious poetry, epics, theological treatises, stories of miracles, and accounts of saints' lives, this fascinating volume of hellscapes illuminates how Hell has long haunted us, in both life and death. For more than seventy-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 2,000 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Author: United States. Army. Office of the Chief of Engineers
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Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 654
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Author: United States. War Department
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 694
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Author: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers
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Category : Harbors
Languages : en
Pages : 934
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Author: United States. War Department
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 670
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Author: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers
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Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 902
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Includes the Report of the Mississippi River Commission, 1881-19 .
Author: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers
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Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 668
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Languages : en
Pages : 384
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