Author: Larry Lowenthal
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ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
"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.
Hell on the East River
Author: Larry Lowenthal
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
"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.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
"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.
The Penguin Book of Hell
Author: Scott G. Bruce
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143131621
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
"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.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143131621
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
"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.
Catalogue of the Public Documents of the ... Congress and of All Departments of the Government of the United States for the Period from ... to ...
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1072
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1072
Book Description
Annual Reports of the War Department
Author: United States. War Department
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 694
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 694
Book Description
Report of the Chief of Engineers
Author: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers
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Category : Harbors
Languages : en
Pages : 978
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Harbors
Languages : en
Pages : 978
Book Description
Report of the Chief of Engineers U.S. Army
Author: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1086
Book Description
Includes the Report of the Mississippi River Commission, 1881-19 .
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1086
Book Description
Includes the Report of the Mississippi River Commission, 1881-19 .
Report
Author: United States. Army. Office of the Chief of Engineers
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 654
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 654
Book Description
Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers to the Secretary of War for the Year ...
Author: United States. War Department. Corps of Engineers
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ISBN:
Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 986
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 986
Book Description
Annual Report of the Secretary of War
Author: United States. War Department
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 858
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 858
Book Description
United States Coast Pilot
Author:
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ISBN:
Category : Pilot guides
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pilot guides
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description