Author: Eleonora Hunt
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
In 'My Trip Around the World: August, 1895-May, 1896' by Eleonora Hunt, readers are taken on a literary journey through detailed accounts of the author's travels across various continents during the late 19th century. The book is written in a captivating narrative style, blending personal experiences with vivid descriptions of exotic locations and cultures, providing a unique glimpse into the global landscape at that time. Hunt's attention to detail and ability to transport readers to different parts of the world make this book a remarkable piece of travel literature, offering valuable insights into the historical context of the era. Eleonora Hunt, a prolific writer known for her adventurous spirit and keen observation skills, was inspired to document her remarkable journey to share with readers seeking to explore the world through her eyes. Her passion for travel and cultural exploration shines through in this book, making it a compelling read for those interested in historical travel narratives. I highly recommend 'My Trip Around the World' to anyone fascinated by travel literature, history, and cultural exploration. Hunt's engaging storytelling and first-hand perspectives make this book a valuable addition to the genre, offering a captivating glimpse into a bygone era of global travel.
My Trip Around the World: August, 1895-May, 1896
Author: Eleonora Hunt
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
In 'My Trip Around the World: August, 1895-May, 1896' by Eleonora Hunt, readers are taken on a literary journey through detailed accounts of the author's travels across various continents during the late 19th century. The book is written in a captivating narrative style, blending personal experiences with vivid descriptions of exotic locations and cultures, providing a unique glimpse into the global landscape at that time. Hunt's attention to detail and ability to transport readers to different parts of the world make this book a remarkable piece of travel literature, offering valuable insights into the historical context of the era. Eleonora Hunt, a prolific writer known for her adventurous spirit and keen observation skills, was inspired to document her remarkable journey to share with readers seeking to explore the world through her eyes. Her passion for travel and cultural exploration shines through in this book, making it a compelling read for those interested in historical travel narratives. I highly recommend 'My Trip Around the World' to anyone fascinated by travel literature, history, and cultural exploration. Hunt's engaging storytelling and first-hand perspectives make this book a valuable addition to the genre, offering a captivating glimpse into a bygone era of global travel.
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
In 'My Trip Around the World: August, 1895-May, 1896' by Eleonora Hunt, readers are taken on a literary journey through detailed accounts of the author's travels across various continents during the late 19th century. The book is written in a captivating narrative style, blending personal experiences with vivid descriptions of exotic locations and cultures, providing a unique glimpse into the global landscape at that time. Hunt's attention to detail and ability to transport readers to different parts of the world make this book a remarkable piece of travel literature, offering valuable insights into the historical context of the era. Eleonora Hunt, a prolific writer known for her adventurous spirit and keen observation skills, was inspired to document her remarkable journey to share with readers seeking to explore the world through her eyes. Her passion for travel and cultural exploration shines through in this book, making it a compelling read for those interested in historical travel narratives. I highly recommend 'My Trip Around the World' to anyone fascinated by travel literature, history, and cultural exploration. Hunt's engaging storytelling and first-hand perspectives make this book a valuable addition to the genre, offering a captivating glimpse into a bygone era of global travel.
My Trip Around the World
Author: Hunt Eleonora
Publisher: Hardpress Publishing
ISBN: 9781318982967
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Publisher: Hardpress Publishing
ISBN: 9781318982967
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Mark Twain
Author: Geoffrey C. Ward
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0307791459
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Ernest Hemingway called Huckleberry Finn “the best book we’ve ever had. There was nothing before. There’s been nothing as good since.” Critical opinion of this book hasn’t dimmed since Hemingway uttered these words; as author Russell Banks says in these pages, Twain “makes possible an American literature which would otherwise not have been possible.” He was the most famous American of his day, and remains in ours the most universally revered American writer. Here the master storytellers Geoffrey Ward, Ken Burns, and Dayton Duncan give us the first fully illustrated biography of Mark Twain, American literature’s touchstone, its funniest and most inventive figure. This book pulls together material from a variety of published and unpublished sources. It examines not merely his justly famous novels, stories, travelogues, and lectures, but also his diaries, letters, and 275 illustrations and photographs from throughout his life. The authors take us from Samuel Langhorne Clemens’s boyhood in Hannibal, Missouri, to his time as a riverboat worker—when he adopted the sobriquet “Mark Twain”—to his varied careers as a newspaperman, printer, and author. They follow him from the home he built in Hartford, Connecticut, to his peripatetic travels across Europe, the Middle East, and the United States. We see Twain grieve over his favorite daughter’s death, and we see him writing and noticing everything. Twain believed that “The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.” This paradox fueled his hilarity and lay at the core of this irreverent yet profoundly serious author. With essays by Russell Banks, Jocelyn Chadwick, Ron Powers, and John Boyer, as well as an interview with actor and frequent Twain portrayer Hal Holbrook, this book provides a full and rich portrayal of the first figure of American letters. From the Hardcover edition.
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0307791459
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Ernest Hemingway called Huckleberry Finn “the best book we’ve ever had. There was nothing before. There’s been nothing as good since.” Critical opinion of this book hasn’t dimmed since Hemingway uttered these words; as author Russell Banks says in these pages, Twain “makes possible an American literature which would otherwise not have been possible.” He was the most famous American of his day, and remains in ours the most universally revered American writer. Here the master storytellers Geoffrey Ward, Ken Burns, and Dayton Duncan give us the first fully illustrated biography of Mark Twain, American literature’s touchstone, its funniest and most inventive figure. This book pulls together material from a variety of published and unpublished sources. It examines not merely his justly famous novels, stories, travelogues, and lectures, but also his diaries, letters, and 275 illustrations and photographs from throughout his life. The authors take us from Samuel Langhorne Clemens’s boyhood in Hannibal, Missouri, to his time as a riverboat worker—when he adopted the sobriquet “Mark Twain”—to his varied careers as a newspaperman, printer, and author. They follow him from the home he built in Hartford, Connecticut, to his peripatetic travels across Europe, the Middle East, and the United States. We see Twain grieve over his favorite daughter’s death, and we see him writing and noticing everything. Twain believed that “The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.” This paradox fueled his hilarity and lay at the core of this irreverent yet profoundly serious author. With essays by Russell Banks, Jocelyn Chadwick, Ron Powers, and John Boyer, as well as an interview with actor and frequent Twain portrayer Hal Holbrook, this book provides a full and rich portrayal of the first figure of American letters. From the Hardcover edition.
Race to Revolution
Author: Gerald Horne
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1583674578
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
The histories of Cuba and the United States are tightly intertwined and have been for at least two centuries. In Race to Revolution, historian Gerald Horne examines a critical relationship between the two countries by tracing out the typically overlooked interconnections among slavery, Jim Crow, and revolution. Slavery was central to the economic and political trajectories of Cuba and the United States, both in terms of each nation’s internal political and economic development and in the interactions between the small Caribbean island and the Colossus of the North. Horne draws a direct link between the black experiences in two very different countries and follows that connection through changing periods of resistance and revolutionary upheaval. Black Cubans were crucial to Cuba’s initial independence, and the relative freedom they achieved helped bring down Jim Crow in the United States, reinforcing radical politics within the black communities of both nations. This in turn helped to create the conditions that gave rise to the Cuban Revolution which, on New Years’ Day in 1959, shook the United States to its core. Based on extensive research in Havana, Madrid, London, and throughout the U.S., Race to Revolution delves deep into the historical record, bringing to life the experiences of slaves and slave traders, abolitionists and sailors, politicians and poor farmers. It illuminates the complex web of interaction and infl uence that shaped the lives of many generations as they struggled over questions of race, property, and political power in both Cuba and the United States.
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1583674578
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
The histories of Cuba and the United States are tightly intertwined and have been for at least two centuries. In Race to Revolution, historian Gerald Horne examines a critical relationship between the two countries by tracing out the typically overlooked interconnections among slavery, Jim Crow, and revolution. Slavery was central to the economic and political trajectories of Cuba and the United States, both in terms of each nation’s internal political and economic development and in the interactions between the small Caribbean island and the Colossus of the North. Horne draws a direct link between the black experiences in two very different countries and follows that connection through changing periods of resistance and revolutionary upheaval. Black Cubans were crucial to Cuba’s initial independence, and the relative freedom they achieved helped bring down Jim Crow in the United States, reinforcing radical politics within the black communities of both nations. This in turn helped to create the conditions that gave rise to the Cuban Revolution which, on New Years’ Day in 1959, shook the United States to its core. Based on extensive research in Havana, Madrid, London, and throughout the U.S., Race to Revolution delves deep into the historical record, bringing to life the experiences of slaves and slave traders, abolitionists and sailors, politicians and poor farmers. It illuminates the complex web of interaction and infl uence that shaped the lives of many generations as they struggled over questions of race, property, and political power in both Cuba and the United States.
Lion of the League
Author: Larry R. Gerlach
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496239989
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496239989
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
My Trip Around the World
Author: Eleonora Hunt
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Voyages around the world
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Voyages around the world
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Wheels of Change
Author: Sue Macy
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1426307616
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Take a lively look at women's history from aboard a bicycle, which granted females the freedom of mobility and helped empower women's liberation. Through vintage photographs, advertisements, cartoons, and songs, Wheels of Change transports young readers to bygone eras to see how women used the bicycle to improve their lives. Witty in tone and scrapbook-like in presentation, the book deftly covers early (and comical) objections, influence on fashion, and impact on social change inspired by the bicycle, which, according to Susan B. Anthony, "has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world." NCSS--Notable Social Studies Trade Books in the Field of Social Studies 2012 School Library Journal Best Books of 2011 Finalist YALSA Excellence in Non Fiction for Young Adults SLJ's 100 Magnificent Children's Books of 2011 Amelia Bloomer List
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1426307616
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Take a lively look at women's history from aboard a bicycle, which granted females the freedom of mobility and helped empower women's liberation. Through vintage photographs, advertisements, cartoons, and songs, Wheels of Change transports young readers to bygone eras to see how women used the bicycle to improve their lives. Witty in tone and scrapbook-like in presentation, the book deftly covers early (and comical) objections, influence on fashion, and impact on social change inspired by the bicycle, which, according to Susan B. Anthony, "has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world." NCSS--Notable Social Studies Trade Books in the Field of Social Studies 2012 School Library Journal Best Books of 2011 Finalist YALSA Excellence in Non Fiction for Young Adults SLJ's 100 Magnificent Children's Books of 2011 Amelia Bloomer List
Oz and Beyond
Author: Michael O'Neal Riley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Long before Judy Garland sang Over the Rainbow, the denizens of Oz had already captivated the American reading public. The quintessential American fairy tale, L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz has had a singular influence on our culture since it first appeared in 1900. Yet, as Michael Riley shows, Baum's achievement went far beyond this one book, or even the 13 others he wrote about that magic kingdom.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Long before Judy Garland sang Over the Rainbow, the denizens of Oz had already captivated the American reading public. The quintessential American fairy tale, L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz has had a singular influence on our culture since it first appeared in 1900. Yet, as Michael Riley shows, Baum's achievement went far beyond this one book, or even the 13 others he wrote about that magic kingdom.
Sport and the Physical Emancipation of English Women (RLE Sports Studies)
Author: Kathleen McCrone
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317679636
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
The nineteenth century was a golden age in British sports. Not only were sports immensely popular, but they began to assume the forms and qualities that still characterise them today. Moreover, the latter part of the century saw a significant participation in sports by women, and this book provides the first overall examination of this early development and the social changes that it helped to bring about. Since women’s entry into sports was chiefly a consequence of the campaign for better female education, the book begins with an account of sports at the Oxbridge women’s colleges, at the girls' public schools and at the new women’s physical training colleges. It then examines team sports such as hockey, lacrosse, and cricket and individual sports such as tennis, golf and cycling. Other chapters discuss the medical attitudes and prejudices toward women’s participation in sports and the role of sports in changing female dress.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317679636
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
The nineteenth century was a golden age in British sports. Not only were sports immensely popular, but they began to assume the forms and qualities that still characterise them today. Moreover, the latter part of the century saw a significant participation in sports by women, and this book provides the first overall examination of this early development and the social changes that it helped to bring about. Since women’s entry into sports was chiefly a consequence of the campaign for better female education, the book begins with an account of sports at the Oxbridge women’s colleges, at the girls' public schools and at the new women’s physical training colleges. It then examines team sports such as hockey, lacrosse, and cricket and individual sports such as tennis, golf and cycling. Other chapters discuss the medical attitudes and prejudices toward women’s participation in sports and the role of sports in changing female dress.
Mark Twain's Correspondence with Henry Huttleston Rogers, 1893-1909
Author: Mark Twain
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520905067
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 805
Book Description
This collection of correspondence between Clemens and Rogers may be thought of as a continuation of Mark Twain's Letters to His Publishers, 1867-1894, edited by Hamlin Hill. It completes the story begun there of Samuel Clemens's business affairs, especially insofar as they concern dealings with publishers; and it documents Clemens's progress from financial disaster, with the Paige typesetter and Webster & Company, to renewed prosperity under the steady, skillful hand of H. H. Rogers. But Clemens’s correspondence with Rogers reveals more than a business relationship. It illuminates a friendship which Clemens came to value above all others, and it suggests a profound change in his patterns of living. He who during the Hartford years had been a devoted family man, content with a discrete circle of intimates, now became again (as he had been during the Nevada and California years) a man among sporting men, enjoying prizefights and professional billiard matches in public, and—in private—long days of poker, gruff jest, and good Scotch whisky aboard Rogers’s magnificent yacht.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520905067
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 805
Book Description
This collection of correspondence between Clemens and Rogers may be thought of as a continuation of Mark Twain's Letters to His Publishers, 1867-1894, edited by Hamlin Hill. It completes the story begun there of Samuel Clemens's business affairs, especially insofar as they concern dealings with publishers; and it documents Clemens's progress from financial disaster, with the Paige typesetter and Webster & Company, to renewed prosperity under the steady, skillful hand of H. H. Rogers. But Clemens’s correspondence with Rogers reveals more than a business relationship. It illuminates a friendship which Clemens came to value above all others, and it suggests a profound change in his patterns of living. He who during the Hartford years had been a devoted family man, content with a discrete circle of intimates, now became again (as he had been during the Nevada and California years) a man among sporting men, enjoying prizefights and professional billiard matches in public, and—in private—long days of poker, gruff jest, and good Scotch whisky aboard Rogers’s magnificent yacht.