Author: D. B. Cap
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780974620008
Category : African American abolitionists
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
The Rome Double-murder remains unsolved after four months. The local police, the state police and the FBI have quit the case. But Stanford Rome the husband and father of the murdered pair, takes the hunt a second time. Meanwhile he's stalked by two women--One wants to love him ; one wants to kill him. That's one story. However there is a story behind the story. The charcters are up to their necks in mystery, and lurking in the shadows is Frank.
South Georgia Blues
Author: D. B. Cap
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780974620008
Category : African American abolitionists
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
The Rome Double-murder remains unsolved after four months. The local police, the state police and the FBI have quit the case. But Stanford Rome the husband and father of the murdered pair, takes the hunt a second time. Meanwhile he's stalked by two women--One wants to love him ; one wants to kill him. That's one story. However there is a story behind the story. The charcters are up to their necks in mystery, and lurking in the shadows is Frank.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780974620008
Category : African American abolitionists
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
The Rome Double-murder remains unsolved after four months. The local police, the state police and the FBI have quit the case. But Stanford Rome the husband and father of the murdered pair, takes the hunt a second time. Meanwhile he's stalked by two women--One wants to love him ; one wants to kill him. That's one story. However there is a story behind the story. The charcters are up to their necks in mystery, and lurking in the shadows is Frank.
Red River Blues
Author: Bruce Bastin
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252065217
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
This story of the origins and evolution of the American blues tradition draws on oral history interviews and research into neglected primary sources. Book jacket.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252065217
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
This story of the origins and evolution of the American blues tradition draws on oral history interviews and research into neglected primary sources. Book jacket.
South Flight
Author: Jasmine Elizabeth Smith
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820360910
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 101
Book Description
In her debut poetry collection, Jasmine Elizabeth Smith takes inspiration from Oklahoma Black history. In the wake of the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921, Jim Waters makes the difficult decision to leave behind his lover, Beatrice Vernadene Chapel, who as a Black woman must navigate the dangerous climate that produced the Jim Crow South and Red Summer. As Beatrice and Jim write letters to one another and hold imagined conversations with blues musicians Ida B. Cox, Robert Johnson, Charlie Patton, Ethel Waters, and the ghosts of Greenwood, the couple interrogates themes of blues epistemology, Black feminism, fraught attachments, and the way in which Black Americans have often changed their geographical regions with the hope of improving their conditions. The poetry collection South Flight is a eulogy, a blues, an unabashed love letter, and ragtime to the history of resistance, migration, and community in Black Oklahoma.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820360910
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 101
Book Description
In her debut poetry collection, Jasmine Elizabeth Smith takes inspiration from Oklahoma Black history. In the wake of the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921, Jim Waters makes the difficult decision to leave behind his lover, Beatrice Vernadene Chapel, who as a Black woman must navigate the dangerous climate that produced the Jim Crow South and Red Summer. As Beatrice and Jim write letters to one another and hold imagined conversations with blues musicians Ida B. Cox, Robert Johnson, Charlie Patton, Ethel Waters, and the ghosts of Greenwood, the couple interrogates themes of blues epistemology, Black feminism, fraught attachments, and the way in which Black Americans have often changed their geographical regions with the hope of improving their conditions. The poetry collection South Flight is a eulogy, a blues, an unabashed love letter, and ragtime to the history of resistance, migration, and community in Black Oklahoma.
Antarctic Oasis
Author: Tim Carr
Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated
ISBN: 9780393046052
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The Carrs share their exploration of the Antarctic region and South Georgian coast aboard their yacht as they document and photograph polar wildlife and landscape
Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated
ISBN: 9780393046052
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The Carrs share their exploration of the Antarctic region and South Georgian coast aboard their yacht as they document and photograph polar wildlife and landscape
The Class of '65
Author: Jim Auchmutey
Publisher: PublicAffairs
ISBN: 1610393554
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
In the midst of racial strife, one young man showed courage and empathy. It took forty years for the others to join him Being a student at Americus High School was the worst experience of Greg Wittkamper's life. Greg came from a nearby Christian commune, Koinonia, whose members devoutly and publicly supported racial equality. When he refused to insult and attack his school's first black students in 1964, Greg was mistreated as badly as they were: harassed and bullied and beaten. In the summer after his senior year, as racial strife in Americus -- and the nation -- reached its peak, Greg left Georgia. Forty-one years later, a dozen former classmates wrote letters to Greg, asking his forgiveness and inviting him to return for a class reunion. Their words opened a vein of painful memory and unresolved emotion, and set him on a journey that would prove healing and saddening. The Class of '65 is more than a heartbreaking story from the segregated South. It is also about four of Greg's classmates -- David Morgan, Joseph Logan, Deanie Dudley, and Celia Harvey -- who came to reconsider the attitudes they grew up with. How did they change? Why, half a lifetime later, did reaching out to the most despised boy in school matter to them? This noble book reminds us that while ordinary people may acquiesce to oppression, we all have the capacity to alter our outlook and redeem ourselves.
Publisher: PublicAffairs
ISBN: 1610393554
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
In the midst of racial strife, one young man showed courage and empathy. It took forty years for the others to join him Being a student at Americus High School was the worst experience of Greg Wittkamper's life. Greg came from a nearby Christian commune, Koinonia, whose members devoutly and publicly supported racial equality. When he refused to insult and attack his school's first black students in 1964, Greg was mistreated as badly as they were: harassed and bullied and beaten. In the summer after his senior year, as racial strife in Americus -- and the nation -- reached its peak, Greg left Georgia. Forty-one years later, a dozen former classmates wrote letters to Greg, asking his forgiveness and inviting him to return for a class reunion. Their words opened a vein of painful memory and unresolved emotion, and set him on a journey that would prove healing and saddening. The Class of '65 is more than a heartbreaking story from the segregated South. It is also about four of Greg's classmates -- David Morgan, Joseph Logan, Deanie Dudley, and Celia Harvey -- who came to reconsider the attitudes they grew up with. How did they change? Why, half a lifetime later, did reaching out to the most despised boy in school matter to them? This noble book reminds us that while ordinary people may acquiesce to oppression, we all have the capacity to alter our outlook and redeem ourselves.
A History of Savannah and South Georgia
Author: William Harden
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
The Island of South Georgia
Author: Robert Headland
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521424745
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
This extensively illustrated book is the only comprehensive account of the island of South Georgia.
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521424745
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
This extensively illustrated book is the only comprehensive account of the island of South Georgia.
Blue Ridge Commons
Author: Kathryn Newfont
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820341258
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
"In the late twentieth century, residents of the Blue Ridge mountains in western North Carolina fiercely resisted certain environmental efforts, even while launching aggressive initiatives of their own. Kathryn Newfont provides context for those events by examining the environmental history of this region over the course of three hundred years, identifying what she calls commons environmentalism--a cultural strain of conservation in American history that has gone largely unexplored. Efforts in the 1970s to expand federal wilderness areas in the Pisgah and Nantahala national forests generated strong opposition. For many mountain residents the idea of unspoiled wilderness seemed economically unsound, historically dishonest, and elitist. Newfont shows that local people's sense of commons environmentalism required access to the forests that they viewed as semipublic places for hunting, fishing, and working. Policies that removed large tracts from use were perceived as 'enclosure' and resisted. Incorporating deep archival work and years of interviews and conversations with Appalachian residents, Blue Ridge Commons reveals a tradition of people building robust forest protection movements on their own terms."--p. [4] of cover.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820341258
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
"In the late twentieth century, residents of the Blue Ridge mountains in western North Carolina fiercely resisted certain environmental efforts, even while launching aggressive initiatives of their own. Kathryn Newfont provides context for those events by examining the environmental history of this region over the course of three hundred years, identifying what she calls commons environmentalism--a cultural strain of conservation in American history that has gone largely unexplored. Efforts in the 1970s to expand federal wilderness areas in the Pisgah and Nantahala national forests generated strong opposition. For many mountain residents the idea of unspoiled wilderness seemed economically unsound, historically dishonest, and elitist. Newfont shows that local people's sense of commons environmentalism required access to the forests that they viewed as semipublic places for hunting, fishing, and working. Policies that removed large tracts from use were perceived as 'enclosure' and resisted. Incorporating deep archival work and years of interviews and conversations with Appalachian residents, Blue Ridge Commons reveals a tradition of people building robust forest protection movements on their own terms."--p. [4] of cover.
South
Author: Ernest Shackleton
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780142437797
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
As war clouds darkened over Europe in 1914, a party led by Shackleton set out to make the first crossing of the entire Antarctic continent via the Pole. But their initial optimism was short-lived as ice floes closed around their ship, gradually crushing it and marooning 28 men on the polar ice. Alone in the world's most unforgiving environment, Shackleton and his team began a brutal quest for survival. And as the story of their journey across treacherous seas and a wilderness of glaciers and snow fields unfolds, the scale of their courage and heroism becomes movingly clear.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780142437797
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
As war clouds darkened over Europe in 1914, a party led by Shackleton set out to make the first crossing of the entire Antarctic continent via the Pole. But their initial optimism was short-lived as ice floes closed around their ship, gradually crushing it and marooning 28 men on the polar ice. Alone in the world's most unforgiving environment, Shackleton and his team began a brutal quest for survival. And as the story of their journey across treacherous seas and a wilderness of glaciers and snow fields unfolds, the scale of their courage and heroism becomes movingly clear.
South
Author: Ernest Henry Shackleton
Publisher: Voyageur Press
ISBN: 0760364834
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
In 1914, the polar explorer Ernest Shackleton announced an ambitious plan to lead the first trek across Antarctica via the South Pole. The expedition would prove fraught with adventure—and peril. South is the remarkable tale of the ill-fated expedition, told in Shackleton's own words—breathtakingly illustrated in this unique edition with photography from the expedition, modern images of the Antarctic, and newly discovered photos from the Ross Sea Party. This edition, first published in 2016, is presented in paperback to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the original publication and features images by expedition photographer Frank Hurley, modern color photography of the fauna and vistas the men encountered, as well as long-lost photos taken by the expedition’s Ross Sea Party and discovered in 2013. The expedition’s story begins on the eve of World War I, when the ship Endurance departed England with Shackleton and his team of six men. The plan was to travel 1,800 miles across the icy continent from the Atlantic side, while a second team aboard the Aurora, would reach Antarctica’s Pacific side and lay out supply depots for the advancing team. As the Endurance approached the continent, however, it became hopelessly locked in an ice floe, beginning a series of harrowing travails. Today considered an adventure survival classic, South is the true story of a thrilling polar expedition. Never before has Shackleton's lively prose been so extensively and stunningly illustrated.
Publisher: Voyageur Press
ISBN: 0760364834
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
In 1914, the polar explorer Ernest Shackleton announced an ambitious plan to lead the first trek across Antarctica via the South Pole. The expedition would prove fraught with adventure—and peril. South is the remarkable tale of the ill-fated expedition, told in Shackleton's own words—breathtakingly illustrated in this unique edition with photography from the expedition, modern images of the Antarctic, and newly discovered photos from the Ross Sea Party. This edition, first published in 2016, is presented in paperback to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the original publication and features images by expedition photographer Frank Hurley, modern color photography of the fauna and vistas the men encountered, as well as long-lost photos taken by the expedition’s Ross Sea Party and discovered in 2013. The expedition’s story begins on the eve of World War I, when the ship Endurance departed England with Shackleton and his team of six men. The plan was to travel 1,800 miles across the icy continent from the Atlantic side, while a second team aboard the Aurora, would reach Antarctica’s Pacific side and lay out supply depots for the advancing team. As the Endurance approached the continent, however, it became hopelessly locked in an ice floe, beginning a series of harrowing travails. Today considered an adventure survival classic, South is the true story of a thrilling polar expedition. Never before has Shackleton's lively prose been so extensively and stunningly illustrated.