Author: Marjorie 'dapoet' Walters
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
This book shares Marjorie Walter's commentary on some of the personal, social, and economic issues she has experienced growing up and living in poverty-stricken communities in Jamaica.Many of her poems highlight the daily struggle of Jamaican people. Murder, Roses for the Victim, and Pickney on Fire are a few of the poems that deal with the increasingly disturbing issues of crime and violence, police brutality, incest, abuse and a number of other crippling problems experienced by people living in low income communities.She also shares quite a few love poems that brings focus to the game of courtship between couples. Check out Ghetto Love, Gangster Love vs. Thug Love, The Call Before Dawn and many others.
Highways, Byways & Beyond
Author: Marjorie 'dapoet' Walters
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
This book shares Marjorie Walter's commentary on some of the personal, social, and economic issues she has experienced growing up and living in poverty-stricken communities in Jamaica.Many of her poems highlight the daily struggle of Jamaican people. Murder, Roses for the Victim, and Pickney on Fire are a few of the poems that deal with the increasingly disturbing issues of crime and violence, police brutality, incest, abuse and a number of other crippling problems experienced by people living in low income communities.She also shares quite a few love poems that brings focus to the game of courtship between couples. Check out Ghetto Love, Gangster Love vs. Thug Love, The Call Before Dawn and many others.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
This book shares Marjorie Walter's commentary on some of the personal, social, and economic issues she has experienced growing up and living in poverty-stricken communities in Jamaica.Many of her poems highlight the daily struggle of Jamaican people. Murder, Roses for the Victim, and Pickney on Fire are a few of the poems that deal with the increasingly disturbing issues of crime and violence, police brutality, incest, abuse and a number of other crippling problems experienced by people living in low income communities.She also shares quite a few love poems that brings focus to the game of courtship between couples. Check out Ghetto Love, Gangster Love vs. Thug Love, The Call Before Dawn and many others.
Guide to Scenic Highways & Byways
Author:
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1426210140
Category : Automobile travel
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Describes the scenery, history, and points of interest along three hundred scenic routes across the United States.
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1426210140
Category : Automobile travel
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Describes the scenery, history, and points of interest along three hundred scenic routes across the United States.
Looking Beyond the Highway
Author: Claudette Stager
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 9781572334670
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Looking beyond the Highway is an examination of road history and roadside attractions specific to the South. Focused in part on numerous aspects of thematerial culture landscape of the Dixie Highway, the essays consider the politics of roadbuilding, roadside entertainment, the buildings and businesses one might encounter along the road, and regional adaptations to the needs and desires of northern tourists. Following the Dixie Highway from southern Illinois to Florida with sidetrips down other southern roads, the essays cover a wide variety of subjects, many of which will resonate with anyone who has ever lived in or vacationed in the South: Harrison Mayes's “Get Right With God” signs; the park-and-pray craze of outdoor drive-in church services; the rise and demise of brick highways; the fierce political battle over the route of the Dixie Highway; beach music and the evolution of motel architecture in Myrtle Beach; Florida's early tourist towers; and the commercial development of Tennessee caves as tourist attractions. Covering a landscape that includes Tennessee, Georgia, North Carolina, Florida, Mississippi, Indiana, Virginia, Arkansas, Ohio, Kentucky, Alabama, and Illinois, the anthology shows that there was and still is a distinctive southern culture and how roads have influenced that culture. As lively as they are diverse, thearticles provide a solid background for understanding roadside ephemera that have disappeared or are quickly disappearing. Ranging from the serious to the light-hearted and including descriptions of American road and roadside icons to kitsch, the book will appeal to anyone with an interest in road history and roadside architecture.
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 9781572334670
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Looking beyond the Highway is an examination of road history and roadside attractions specific to the South. Focused in part on numerous aspects of thematerial culture landscape of the Dixie Highway, the essays consider the politics of roadbuilding, roadside entertainment, the buildings and businesses one might encounter along the road, and regional adaptations to the needs and desires of northern tourists. Following the Dixie Highway from southern Illinois to Florida with sidetrips down other southern roads, the essays cover a wide variety of subjects, many of which will resonate with anyone who has ever lived in or vacationed in the South: Harrison Mayes's “Get Right With God” signs; the park-and-pray craze of outdoor drive-in church services; the rise and demise of brick highways; the fierce political battle over the route of the Dixie Highway; beach music and the evolution of motel architecture in Myrtle Beach; Florida's early tourist towers; and the commercial development of Tennessee caves as tourist attractions. Covering a landscape that includes Tennessee, Georgia, North Carolina, Florida, Mississippi, Indiana, Virginia, Arkansas, Ohio, Kentucky, Alabama, and Illinois, the anthology shows that there was and still is a distinctive southern culture and how roads have influenced that culture. As lively as they are diverse, thearticles provide a solid background for understanding roadside ephemera that have disappeared or are quickly disappearing. Ranging from the serious to the light-hearted and including descriptions of American road and roadside icons to kitsch, the book will appeal to anyone with an interest in road history and roadside architecture.
Guide to Scenic Highways and Byways
Author: National Geographic
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1426219059
Category : Automobile travel
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Describes the scenery, history, and points of interest along three hundred scenic routes across the United States
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1426219059
Category : Automobile travel
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Describes the scenery, history, and points of interest along three hundred scenic routes across the United States
Above and Beyond
Author:
Publisher: AASHTO
ISBN: 1560514027
Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
This report is a follow up to AASHTO's 2003 Taking the High Road report, and documents new projects and programs that continue to advance both transportation and environmental stewardship. The report provides important facts on how transportation makes a difference in quality of life through key environmental investments. It demonstrates the numerous ways transportation agencies are increasingly going "above and beyond" to connect and enhance both communities and the environment to make things better than before, not because it is required, but because it is the right thing to do. The successful practices described in this report describe a few of the many ways transportation agencies are advancing toward sustainable transportation. These initiatives are helping transportation agencies bridge the gap and contribute to the environmental, social, and economic well-being of their communities.
Publisher: AASHTO
ISBN: 1560514027
Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
This report is a follow up to AASHTO's 2003 Taking the High Road report, and documents new projects and programs that continue to advance both transportation and environmental stewardship. The report provides important facts on how transportation makes a difference in quality of life through key environmental investments. It demonstrates the numerous ways transportation agencies are increasingly going "above and beyond" to connect and enhance both communities and the environment to make things better than before, not because it is required, but because it is the right thing to do. The successful practices described in this report describe a few of the many ways transportation agencies are advancing toward sustainable transportation. These initiatives are helping transportation agencies bridge the gap and contribute to the environmental, social, and economic well-being of their communities.
National Geographic Guide to Scenic Highways and Byways
Author: National Geographic
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 9781426200564
Category : Automobile travel
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Expanded to include all U.S. designated America's Byways as well as other selected drives in all 50 states, this stunning new edition features unique driving tours through virtually every kind of landscape--spectacular coastlines, mountains, lakes, small towns, ranches and farmlands, islands, bays, and river valleys.
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 9781426200564
Category : Automobile travel
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Expanded to include all U.S. designated America's Byways as well as other selected drives in all 50 states, this stunning new edition features unique driving tours through virtually every kind of landscape--spectacular coastlines, mountains, lakes, small towns, ranches and farmlands, islands, bays, and river valleys.
Highways and Byways in Surrey
Author: Eric Parker
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Surrey (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Surrey (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Highways and Byways in Oxford and the Cotswolds
Author: Herbert Arthur Evans
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cotswold Hills (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cotswold Hills (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Haunted Highways
Author: Tom Ogden
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 076275172X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
For most of us, most of the time, the roads we travel are largely forgotten once we get to where we're going. By day, they usually reveal a familiar, real—living—world. But then darkness comes. Haunted Highways brings together more than twenty of the spookiest stories ever of ghosts, hauntings, and supernatural events on or near America's highways and byways. There are the usual suspects—the creepy hitchhiker, the eerie lights along a lonely stretch of road—as well as many you never dared to imagine. Each of the book's twenty-five chapters ratchets up the suspense, from an introduction that sets the scene and draws you in, to a haunting climax. Whether the actor Telly Savalas's haunting encounter with a long-dead good Samaritan on a rural Long Island road, or the Ghost Riders in the Sky who appear over the plains of Texas, these stories will bring delightful fright to readers young and old.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 076275172X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
For most of us, most of the time, the roads we travel are largely forgotten once we get to where we're going. By day, they usually reveal a familiar, real—living—world. But then darkness comes. Haunted Highways brings together more than twenty of the spookiest stories ever of ghosts, hauntings, and supernatural events on or near America's highways and byways. There are the usual suspects—the creepy hitchhiker, the eerie lights along a lonely stretch of road—as well as many you never dared to imagine. Each of the book's twenty-five chapters ratchets up the suspense, from an introduction that sets the scene and draws you in, to a haunting climax. Whether the actor Telly Savalas's haunting encounter with a long-dead good Samaritan on a rural Long Island road, or the Ghost Riders in the Sky who appear over the plains of Texas, these stories will bring delightful fright to readers young and old.
California Desert Byways
Author: Tony Huegel
Publisher: Wilderness Press
ISBN: 9780899974132
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Presents 65 desert trips from Bishop to the Mexican border, including expanded coverage of popular destinations such as Death Valley National Park, Mojave National Preserve, and Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. This book makes high-walled canyons, lonely ghost towns, and soaring peaks from Mexico to the Great Basin easily accessible to recreational drivers. Tony Huegel's glove-box-sized Byways have been leading drivers to the hidden surprises found along unpaved backroads for more than 10 years. These books are for recreational drivers who want to use their four-wheel-drive or sport-utility vehicle beyond the pavement to explore, but who might not want to do hard-core or lengthy off-road driving. They are also for adventurers who use these trips as jumping-off points for muscle-powered exploration, such as hiking and mountain biking.
Publisher: Wilderness Press
ISBN: 9780899974132
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Presents 65 desert trips from Bishop to the Mexican border, including expanded coverage of popular destinations such as Death Valley National Park, Mojave National Preserve, and Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. This book makes high-walled canyons, lonely ghost towns, and soaring peaks from Mexico to the Great Basin easily accessible to recreational drivers. Tony Huegel's glove-box-sized Byways have been leading drivers to the hidden surprises found along unpaved backroads for more than 10 years. These books are for recreational drivers who want to use their four-wheel-drive or sport-utility vehicle beyond the pavement to explore, but who might not want to do hard-core or lengthy off-road driving. They are also for adventurers who use these trips as jumping-off points for muscle-powered exploration, such as hiking and mountain biking.