Author: Ann Schlee
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 1447269756
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 163

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Like the Rhine, Charlotte Morrison was full of unsuspected depths and hidden murmurings. On the surface, she was the unmarried Victorian aunt, whose sparse, unfulfilled life echoed the expectations of those she drudged for. But, happily boating down the Rhine with her brother and his wife, the sight of a fellow traveller, Edward Newman, releases the hissing flood waters of her subconscious. Dark and dangerous, they sweep Charlotte onward towards the watershed of her life. 'The quality of the writing is so extraordinarily high that I could hardly believe it was a first novel' Margaret Forster 'I raced through Rhine Journey. Mrs Schlee's simple and direct style makes for very easy reading. This is a first novel of considerable promise.' Olivia Manning 'A journey down the Rhine in the company of Ann Schlee is the purest, simples pleasure' Sunday Telegraph

Author: George Bradshaw
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 396

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Author: Stanley Rhine
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826319685
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 294

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A lively account of the role of the forensic anthropologist in the Office of the Medical Investigator--recovering bodies, establishing identities, and solving the puzzles of death.

Author: Edward Livingston Wilson
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Category : Voyages and travels
Languages : en
Pages : 348

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Author: Edward Livingston Wilson
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Category : Voyages and travels
Languages : en
Pages : 316

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Author: Philadelphia Orchestra
Publisher:
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Category : Concert programs
Languages : en
Pages : 788

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Author: Oscar Browning
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Languages : en
Pages : 162

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Author: Philadelphia Orchestra
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Category : Concert programs
Languages : en
Pages : 1524

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Author: Marianne S. Wokeck
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271043768
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 206

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American historians have long been fascinated by the "peopling" of North America in the seventeenth century. Who were the immigrants, and how and why did they make their way across the ocean? Most of the attention, however, has been devoted to British immigrants who came as free people or as indentured servants (primarily to New England and the Chesapeake) and to Africans who were forced to come as slaves. Trade in Strangers focuses on the eighteenth century, when new immigrants began to flood the colonies at an unprecedented rate. Most of these immigrants were German and Irish, and they were coming primarily to the middle colonies via an increasingly sophisticated form of transport. Wokeck shows how first the German system of immigration, and then the Irish system, evolved from earlier, haphazard forms into modern mass transoceanic migration. At the center of this development were merchants on both sides of the Atlantic who organized a business that enabled them to make profitable use of underutilized cargo space on ships bound from Europe to the British North American colonies. This trade offered German and Irish immigrants transatlantic passage on terms that allowed even people of little and modest means to pursue opportunities that beckoned in the New World. Trade in Strangers fills an important gap in our knowledge of America's immigration history. The eighteenth-century changes established a model for the better-known mass migrations of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, which drew wave after wave of Europeans to the New World in the hope of making a better life than the one they left behind—a story that is familiar to most modern Americans.

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Category : Switzerland
Languages : en
Pages : 306

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