Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Human Resources
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Category : Aged volunteers in social service
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Oversight Hearing on the Older American Volunteer Programs, Foster Grandparent, Senior Companions, and RSVP
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Human Resources
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Category : Aged volunteers in social service
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aged volunteers in social service
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
The Adventures of the Chevalier de La Salle and his Companions, in Their Explorations of the Prairies, Forests, Lakes, and Rivers, of the New World, and Their Interviews with the Savage Tribes, Two Hundred Years Ago
Author: John Stevens Cabot Abbott
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385385989
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385385989
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
The Adventures of the Chevalier de La Salle and His Companions,
Author: John Stevens Cabot Abbott
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Category : Mississippi River Valley
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Mississippi River Valley
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
The Niagara Companion
Author: Linda L. Revie
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN: 0889204330
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
What is it about Niagara Falls that fascinates people? What draws them to it? Is it love, obsession, or fear? In The Niagara Companion, Linda Revie searches for an answer to these questions by examining the paintings and writings about the Falls from the late seventeenth century, when the first Europeans discovered Niagara, to the early twentieth century. Linda Revie’s study considers how three centuries of representations are shaped by the earliest encounters with the waterfall and notes shifts in the construction of landscape features and in human figures, both Native and European, in the long history of fine art depictions. Travel narratives, both literary and scientific, also come under her scrutiny, and reveal how these chronicles were influenced by previous pictures coming out of Niagara, particularly some of the first from the seventeenth century. In all of these portraits and texts, she notes a common pattern of response from the observers — moving from anticipation, to disappointment, to a kind of recovery. But in the end, there is fear. Even long after Niagara had become a tourist mecca, it was often drawn as a primordial wilderness — a place where civilization vies with wildness, artifice with nature, fear with control, the natural with the mastered. Throughout this history of images and narratives, as humans struggle to control nature, the notion of wildness prevails. Those who want a deeper understanding of why Niagara Falls continues to fascinate us, even today, will find Linda Revie’s book an excellent companion.
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN: 0889204330
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
What is it about Niagara Falls that fascinates people? What draws them to it? Is it love, obsession, or fear? In The Niagara Companion, Linda Revie searches for an answer to these questions by examining the paintings and writings about the Falls from the late seventeenth century, when the first Europeans discovered Niagara, to the early twentieth century. Linda Revie’s study considers how three centuries of representations are shaped by the earliest encounters with the waterfall and notes shifts in the construction of landscape features and in human figures, both Native and European, in the long history of fine art depictions. Travel narratives, both literary and scientific, also come under her scrutiny, and reveal how these chronicles were influenced by previous pictures coming out of Niagara, particularly some of the first from the seventeenth century. In all of these portraits and texts, she notes a common pattern of response from the observers — moving from anticipation, to disappointment, to a kind of recovery. But in the end, there is fear. Even long after Niagara had become a tourist mecca, it was often drawn as a primordial wilderness — a place where civilization vies with wildness, artifice with nature, fear with control, the natural with the mastered. Throughout this history of images and narratives, as humans struggle to control nature, the notion of wildness prevails. Those who want a deeper understanding of why Niagara Falls continues to fascinate us, even today, will find Linda Revie’s book an excellent companion.
The Adventures of the Chevalier De La Salle and His Companions in Their Explorations of the Prairies, Forests, Lakes and Rivers of the New World and Their Interviews With the Savage Tribes Two Hundred Years Ago
Author: John S. C. Abbott
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465504591
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465504591
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
The Ladies' Companion
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Category : Women's periodicals, English
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
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Category : Women's periodicals, English
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Memorials of Deceased Companions of the Commandery of the State of Illinois, Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States ...: From July 1, 1901 to December 31, 1911
Author: Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States. Commandery of the State of Illinois
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Category : Illinois
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
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Category : Illinois
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
Youth's Companion
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Fashioning the Canadian Landscape
Author: John Irvine Little
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487510438
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Interpretations of Canada's emerging identity have been largely based on a relatively small corpus of literary writing and landscape paintings, overlooking the influence of the British and American travel writers who published hundreds of books and articles that did much to fix the image of Canada in the popular imagination. In Fashioning the Canadian Landscape, J.I. Little examines how Canada, much like the United States, came to be identified with its natural landscape. Little argues that in contrast to the American identification with the wilderness sublime, however, Canada’s image was strongly influenced by the picturesque convention favoured by British travel writers. This amply illustrated volume includes chapters ranging from Labrador to British Columbia, some of which focus on such notable British authors as Rupert Brooke and Rudyard Kipling, and others on talented American writers such as Charles Dudley Warner. Based not only on the views of the landscape but on the racist descriptions of the Indigenous peoples and the romanticization of the Canadian ‘folk’, Little argues that the national image that emerged was colonialist as well as colonial in nature.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487510438
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Interpretations of Canada's emerging identity have been largely based on a relatively small corpus of literary writing and landscape paintings, overlooking the influence of the British and American travel writers who published hundreds of books and articles that did much to fix the image of Canada in the popular imagination. In Fashioning the Canadian Landscape, J.I. Little examines how Canada, much like the United States, came to be identified with its natural landscape. Little argues that in contrast to the American identification with the wilderness sublime, however, Canada’s image was strongly influenced by the picturesque convention favoured by British travel writers. This amply illustrated volume includes chapters ranging from Labrador to British Columbia, some of which focus on such notable British authors as Rupert Brooke and Rudyard Kipling, and others on talented American writers such as Charles Dudley Warner. Based not only on the views of the landscape but on the racist descriptions of the Indigenous peoples and the romanticization of the Canadian ‘folk’, Little argues that the national image that emerged was colonialist as well as colonial in nature.
Appleton's Companion Hand-book of Travel ... Through the United States and the Canadas. With Colored Maps. Edited by T. A. Richards
Author: Daniel APPLETON (AND CO.)
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description