Author: John J. Duffy
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9781584650867
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
The definitive sourcebook for Vermont facts, figures, people, events, and history
The Vermont Encyclopedia
Author: John J. Duffy
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9781584650867
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
The definitive sourcebook for Vermont facts, figures, people, events, and history
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9781584650867
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
The definitive sourcebook for Vermont facts, figures, people, events, and history
Marie Blythe
Author: Howard Frank Mosher
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9781584653646
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
A picaresque saga of a young French-Canadian woman in Vermont, available in a new paperback edition
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9781584653646
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
A picaresque saga of a young French-Canadian woman in Vermont, available in a new paperback edition
North Country
Author: Howard Frank Mosher
Publisher: HMH
ISBN: 0544391241
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
“A richly observant memoir of a coast-to-coast journey along the US-Canada border . . . An armchair traveler’s delight” (Kirkus Reviews). “Part travelogue, part memoir, part meditation, part exploration,” North Country is an account of a trip along the northern border of the United States in search of the country’s last unspoiled frontiers (The Boston Sunday Globe). In this vast, sparsely settled territory, Howard Frank Mosher found both a harsh and beautiful landscape and some of the continent’s most independent men and women. Here, he brings this remote area to vivid life in a book “bright with anecdote and history and lore and most importantly with affection for his human subjects” (Richard Ford, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Independence Day). “A classic road book. You could, with confidence, place this book on the shelf next to such American classics as John Steinbeck’s Travels with Charley and Jonathan Raban’s Old Glory.” —Detroit Free Press “What Mosher’s northern journey is really about is our society’s loss of Eden, the garden we were promised when we came here. The garden we’ve turned into pulp fiction and rocket ranges. The very fact that this brave book can stir up so many thoughts about the predicaments of civilization is surely an indication that it is well worth reading.” —Ottawa Citizen
Publisher: HMH
ISBN: 0544391241
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
“A richly observant memoir of a coast-to-coast journey along the US-Canada border . . . An armchair traveler’s delight” (Kirkus Reviews). “Part travelogue, part memoir, part meditation, part exploration,” North Country is an account of a trip along the northern border of the United States in search of the country’s last unspoiled frontiers (The Boston Sunday Globe). In this vast, sparsely settled territory, Howard Frank Mosher found both a harsh and beautiful landscape and some of the continent’s most independent men and women. Here, he brings this remote area to vivid life in a book “bright with anecdote and history and lore and most importantly with affection for his human subjects” (Richard Ford, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Independence Day). “A classic road book. You could, with confidence, place this book on the shelf next to such American classics as John Steinbeck’s Travels with Charley and Jonathan Raban’s Old Glory.” —Detroit Free Press “What Mosher’s northern journey is really about is our society’s loss of Eden, the garden we were promised when we came here. The garden we’ve turned into pulp fiction and rocket ranges. The very fact that this brave book can stir up so many thoughts about the predicaments of civilization is surely an indication that it is well worth reading.” —Ottawa Citizen
The True Account
Author: Howard Frank Mosher
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0544391268
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
An explorer and his nephew set out to beat Lewis & Clark to the Pacific in this humorous historical novel by the author of A Stranger in the Kingdom. In the spring of 1804, Private True Teague Kinneson—schoolmaster, inventor, playwright, and explorer—sets out with his nephew, Ticonderoga, to race Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to the Pacific. Along the way True and Ti encounter Daniel Boone and his six-foot-two spinster daughter, Flame Danielle; fight and trick a renegade army out to stop Lewis’s expedition; invent baseball with the Nez Perce; hold a high-stakes rodeo with Sacagawea’s Shoshone relatives; and outwit True’s lifelong adversary, the Gentleman from Vermont, a.k.a. the Devil himself. And when a beautiful and mysterious Blackfoot girl named Yellow Sage Flower Who Tells Wise Stories enters the tale, things start to get really interesting . . . A Top Ten Book Sense 76 Selection Praise for The True Account “A madcap what-if story . . . a cock-eyed joyride through history.” —Washington Post “Picaresque is too tame a word for this imagined romp . . . A great adventure.” —Los Angelese Times Book Review “The funniest historical novel about the West since Little Big Man.” —Denver Post “Mosher calls to mind the best of Mark Twain—mischievous, touching, and very funny.” —Carl Hiaasen “Clever . . . . Fun and fanciful with much to savor, Mosher's novel demonstrates a boundless imagination and a light comic touch.” —Publishers Weekly
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0544391268
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
An explorer and his nephew set out to beat Lewis & Clark to the Pacific in this humorous historical novel by the author of A Stranger in the Kingdom. In the spring of 1804, Private True Teague Kinneson—schoolmaster, inventor, playwright, and explorer—sets out with his nephew, Ticonderoga, to race Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to the Pacific. Along the way True and Ti encounter Daniel Boone and his six-foot-two spinster daughter, Flame Danielle; fight and trick a renegade army out to stop Lewis’s expedition; invent baseball with the Nez Perce; hold a high-stakes rodeo with Sacagawea’s Shoshone relatives; and outwit True’s lifelong adversary, the Gentleman from Vermont, a.k.a. the Devil himself. And when a beautiful and mysterious Blackfoot girl named Yellow Sage Flower Who Tells Wise Stories enters the tale, things start to get really interesting . . . A Top Ten Book Sense 76 Selection Praise for The True Account “A madcap what-if story . . . a cock-eyed joyride through history.” —Washington Post “Picaresque is too tame a word for this imagined romp . . . A great adventure.” —Los Angelese Times Book Review “The funniest historical novel about the West since Little Big Man.” —Denver Post “Mosher calls to mind the best of Mark Twain—mischievous, touching, and very funny.” —Carl Hiaasen “Clever . . . . Fun and fanciful with much to savor, Mosher's novel demonstrates a boundless imagination and a light comic touch.” —Publishers Weekly
Howard Frank Mosher and the Classics
Author: James Robert Saunders
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476616337
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Howard Frank Mosher has spent the greater part of his career depicting a relatively isolated section of Vermont known as the Northeast Kingdom. Yet, even as he writes about that particular area in the Green Mountain State, he is investigating age-old themes from among the best English and American literary works. His first novel, Disappearances (1977), signaled the arrival of a master craftsman harkening us back to Melville's Billy Budd and Moby-Dick, in terms of humankind's struggle against an ever present evil. A full 33 years after the publication of his first novel, the Vermont author, in Walking to Gatlinburg (2010), examined the polarity between cowardice and honor. In the intervening years, between Disappearances and Gatlinburg, Mosher explored crucial matters such as the disappearing wilderness, industrialization, black male/white female encounters, the necessity of humor, the quest for salvation, and the immortality of romantic love, all issues that he delved into as he staked out a unique terrain within the pantheon of Bunyan, Shakespeare, Dreiser, Twain, Faulkner, Steinbeck, Harper Lee, and others.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476616337
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Howard Frank Mosher has spent the greater part of his career depicting a relatively isolated section of Vermont known as the Northeast Kingdom. Yet, even as he writes about that particular area in the Green Mountain State, he is investigating age-old themes from among the best English and American literary works. His first novel, Disappearances (1977), signaled the arrival of a master craftsman harkening us back to Melville's Billy Budd and Moby-Dick, in terms of humankind's struggle against an ever present evil. A full 33 years after the publication of his first novel, the Vermont author, in Walking to Gatlinburg (2010), examined the polarity between cowardice and honor. In the intervening years, between Disappearances and Gatlinburg, Mosher explored crucial matters such as the disappearing wilderness, industrialization, black male/white female encounters, the necessity of humor, the quest for salvation, and the immortality of romantic love, all issues that he delved into as he staked out a unique terrain within the pantheon of Bunyan, Shakespeare, Dreiser, Twain, Faulkner, Steinbeck, Harper Lee, and others.
Bibliography of Indian Stories for Young Folks
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Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages : 46
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Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages : 46
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Ourselves
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Category : House organs
Languages : en
Pages : 414
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Category : House organs
Languages : en
Pages : 414
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Bibliography of Indian and Pioneer Stories for Young Folks
Author: United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs
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Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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Appendix to the House and Senate Journals of the ... General Assembly of the State of Missouri
Author: Missouri. General Assembly
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Languages : en
Pages : 1392
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Languages : en
Pages : 1392
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Appendix to the House and Senate Journals of the General Assembly, State of Missouri
Author: Missouri. General Assembly
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Languages : en
Pages : 1390
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Languages : en
Pages : 1390
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