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Author: Carlton Danner Harris
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Category : Middle East
Languages : en
Pages : 202
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Author: Carlton Danner Harris
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Category : Middle East
Languages : en
Pages : 202
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 956
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Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
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Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 1676
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Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
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Languages : en
Pages : 1674
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 878
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Author: Dawn Anahid MacKeen
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0544582926
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 406
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A Dayton Literary Peace Prize Finalist and New York Post Must-Read. “An emotionally poignant work” of survival during the Armenian genocide (Aline Ohanesian, author of Orhan’s Inheritance). Growing up, Dawn MacKeen heard from her mother how her grandfather Stepan miraculously escaped from the Turks during the Armenian genocide of 1915, when more than one million people—half the Armenian population—were killed. In The Hundred-Year Walk, MacKeen alternates between Stepan’s courageous account, drawn from his long-lost journals, and her own story as she attempts to retrace his steps, setting out alone to Turkey and Syria, shadowing her resourceful, resilient grandfather across a landscape still rife with tension. Dawn uses his journals to guide her to the places he was imperiled and imprisoned and the desert he crossed with only half a bottle of water. Their shared story is a testament to family, to home, and to the power of the human spirit to transcend the barriers of religion, ethnicity, and even time itself. “This book reminds us that the way we treat strangers can ripple out in ways we will never know . . . MacKeen’s excavation of the past reveals both uncomfortable and uplifting lessons about our present.”—Ari Shapiro, NPR “I am in awe of what Dawn MacKeen has done here . . . Her sentences sing. Her research shines. Her readers will be rapt—and a lot smarter by the end.”—Meghan Daum, author of The Problem with Everything “Harrowing.”—Us Weekly “This previously untold story of survival and personal fortitude is on par with Laura Hillenbrand’s Unbroken.”—Library Journal (starred review)
Author: Martin R. Kalfatovic
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 472
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Bibliography of published literature on Egypt from the earliest times to 1918. ...will provide scholars, armchair travelers, and future visitors to the region with a well-organized source list and miniature travel history. --ARBA
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Category : Methodist Church
Languages : en
Pages : 930
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Author: Galton Orsburn Co
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Category : Booksellers and bookselling
Languages : en
Pages : 154
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Author: Lester I. Vogel
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 9780271040943
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 374
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To See A Promised Land explores the fascination that Americans historically have had with the land of the Bible. By focusing on the period before World War I, Lester Vogel uncovers the various ways in which Americans (primarily Protestants) typically thought about and knew the Holy Land prior to the land's politicization and embroilment in the conflict between Arab and Jewish national interests. During this period, there were literally hundreds of popular books, pamphlets, and articles about the Holy Land available to American readers. Although most Americans never visited the Middle East, they nevertheless had distinct images of what the land was like through these writings, their churches, and their own reading of the Bible. On the very day of his assassination in 1865, even President Lincoln contemplated a tour of the Holy Land at the end of his term in office. Americans who did travel to the Middle East took with them preconceptions and brought back with them descriptions that, in turn, helped to reshape continually the popular image of the Holy Land. One of the most celebrated journeys to the East was the 1867 "Quaker City Tour," immortalized by Mark Twain in his Innocents Abroad. Vogel suggests that this unique relationship between Americans and a foreign land might be seen as an expression of "geopiety," a term coined by the geographer John Kirtland Wright to describe a certain mixture of place, past, and faith. To See A Promised Land draws upon a wide variety of written accounts--those of American travelers (from Twain to Theodore Roosevelt), missionaries, settlers and colonists, explorers, archaeologists, biblical scholars, and diplomats and officials--in order to shed light on this fascinating aspect of American thought and character.
