Author: Joe Colby
Publisher: Yorkshire Publishing
ISBN: 1957262486
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
It was called the roaring twenties. Bars were known as speakeasies. Radio sped to the inquisitive ear news of the world, Ford sold over a million Model-Ts, and a hardworking man could feed a family of six on ten dollars a day - with a nickel left over. The year was 1926, a time that a boy of thirteen - with his three siblings, his mother, and father - would take a yearlong travel from California to America's heartland, Missouri. This is but one leg of the story. You'll experience the challenges endured by our thirteen-year-old-long before there were freeways, air conditioning, and even in places paved roads. When you're a poor, migrant, farm-working family, you may hope for a change or better conditions, but it's probably not coming. To complain about it only makes it worse. The days turn into weeks for the family as they move firsthand through the elements of their travel. Rain, heat, dust, cold, rain, sunny days, starlit nights, rain - and, oh, let it be known, there was rain. All between each flat tire or breakdown of the car. A boy's character was built and rebuilt each new day.
Trip Around the Sun First Leg
Author: Joe Colby
Publisher: Yorkshire Publishing
ISBN: 1957262486
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
It was called the roaring twenties. Bars were known as speakeasies. Radio sped to the inquisitive ear news of the world, Ford sold over a million Model-Ts, and a hardworking man could feed a family of six on ten dollars a day - with a nickel left over. The year was 1926, a time that a boy of thirteen - with his three siblings, his mother, and father - would take a yearlong travel from California to America's heartland, Missouri. This is but one leg of the story. You'll experience the challenges endured by our thirteen-year-old-long before there were freeways, air conditioning, and even in places paved roads. When you're a poor, migrant, farm-working family, you may hope for a change or better conditions, but it's probably not coming. To complain about it only makes it worse. The days turn into weeks for the family as they move firsthand through the elements of their travel. Rain, heat, dust, cold, rain, sunny days, starlit nights, rain - and, oh, let it be known, there was rain. All between each flat tire or breakdown of the car. A boy's character was built and rebuilt each new day.
Publisher: Yorkshire Publishing
ISBN: 1957262486
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
It was called the roaring twenties. Bars were known as speakeasies. Radio sped to the inquisitive ear news of the world, Ford sold over a million Model-Ts, and a hardworking man could feed a family of six on ten dollars a day - with a nickel left over. The year was 1926, a time that a boy of thirteen - with his three siblings, his mother, and father - would take a yearlong travel from California to America's heartland, Missouri. This is but one leg of the story. You'll experience the challenges endured by our thirteen-year-old-long before there were freeways, air conditioning, and even in places paved roads. When you're a poor, migrant, farm-working family, you may hope for a change or better conditions, but it's probably not coming. To complain about it only makes it worse. The days turn into weeks for the family as they move firsthand through the elements of their travel. Rain, heat, dust, cold, rain, sunny days, starlit nights, rain - and, oh, let it be known, there was rain. All between each flat tire or breakdown of the car. A boy's character was built and rebuilt each new day.
Trip Around the Sun: Second Leg
Author: Joe Colby
Publisher: Yorkshire Publishing
ISBN: 1957262494
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
It was called the roaring twenties. Bars were known as speakeasies. Radio sped to the inquisitive ear news of the world, Ford sold over a million Model-Ts, and a hardworking man could feed a family of six on ten dollars a day - with a nickel left over. The year was 1926, a time that a boy of thirteen - with his three siblings, his mother, and father - would take a yearlong travel from California to America's heartland, Missouri. This is but one leg of the story. You'll experience the challenges endured by our thirteen-year-old-long before there were freeways, air conditioning, and even in places paved roads. When you're a poor, migrant, farm-working family, you may hope for a change or better conditions, but it's probably not coming. To complain about it only makes it worse. The days turn into weeks for the family as they move firsthand through the elements of their travel. Rain, heat, dust, cold, rain, sunny days, starlit nights, rain - and, oh, let it be known, there was rain. All between each flat tire or breakdown of the car. A boy's character was built and rebuilt each new day.
Publisher: Yorkshire Publishing
ISBN: 1957262494
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
It was called the roaring twenties. Bars were known as speakeasies. Radio sped to the inquisitive ear news of the world, Ford sold over a million Model-Ts, and a hardworking man could feed a family of six on ten dollars a day - with a nickel left over. The year was 1926, a time that a boy of thirteen - with his three siblings, his mother, and father - would take a yearlong travel from California to America's heartland, Missouri. This is but one leg of the story. You'll experience the challenges endured by our thirteen-year-old-long before there were freeways, air conditioning, and even in places paved roads. When you're a poor, migrant, farm-working family, you may hope for a change or better conditions, but it's probably not coming. To complain about it only makes it worse. The days turn into weeks for the family as they move firsthand through the elements of their travel. Rain, heat, dust, cold, rain, sunny days, starlit nights, rain - and, oh, let it be known, there was rain. All between each flat tire or breakdown of the car. A boy's character was built and rebuilt each new day.
Joe’S Trip Around the Sun
Author: Mark D. Wecks
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1524568740
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 703
Book Description
Joes Trip Around the Sun is a novel for anyone who has ever felt the apparent conflict between religion and the discoveries of modern science. It tells the story of everyman Joe Gray, a humble trucker desperate to find evidence for the spiritual world and his own place within it. Lonely in his reluctant agnosticism, yet inspired by a persistent sense of the metaphysical, Joe must endure a harrowing journey beset with mind-bending technological obstacles, heartbreaking setbacks, and near-death experiences, before he has any chance of uncovering the truth. But will it be in time to be reunited with the love of his life? Will this newfound understanding enable him to overcome a dark evil that has grown to threaten the world? Joes Trip Around the Sun blurs the line between the physical and spiritual worlds to the point where the reader may question the existence of that demarcation altogether.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1524568740
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 703
Book Description
Joes Trip Around the Sun is a novel for anyone who has ever felt the apparent conflict between religion and the discoveries of modern science. It tells the story of everyman Joe Gray, a humble trucker desperate to find evidence for the spiritual world and his own place within it. Lonely in his reluctant agnosticism, yet inspired by a persistent sense of the metaphysical, Joe must endure a harrowing journey beset with mind-bending technological obstacles, heartbreaking setbacks, and near-death experiences, before he has any chance of uncovering the truth. But will it be in time to be reunited with the love of his life? Will this newfound understanding enable him to overcome a dark evil that has grown to threaten the world? Joes Trip Around the Sun blurs the line between the physical and spiritual worlds to the point where the reader may question the existence of that demarcation altogether.
Kara's Party Ideas
Author: Kara Allen
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781462111572
Category : Parties
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Presents a guide to planning the perfect party, with tips and ideas for party themes and decorations, including an elephant baby shower, a circus train birthday party, and a hot air balloon party.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781462111572
Category : Parties
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Presents a guide to planning the perfect party, with tips and ideas for party themes and decorations, including an elephant baby shower, a circus train birthday party, and a hot air balloon party.
21 Amazing Trips Around the Sun
Author: Space Age Birthday Publishing
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781677299645
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
It takes exactly 1 year for The Earth to complete each trip around the Sun. Give this incredible journal notebook to friends or family members who love science facts and astronomy. Can I sign this gift? Yes, there is a handy message space on the first page, just like inside a greeting card. Pages: 100 Finish: Matte Size: 6 x 9 Inches. Format: Paperback Click the Author name for more birthday gift years.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781677299645
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
It takes exactly 1 year for The Earth to complete each trip around the Sun. Give this incredible journal notebook to friends or family members who love science facts and astronomy. Can I sign this gift? Yes, there is a handy message space on the first page, just like inside a greeting card. Pages: 100 Finish: Matte Size: 6 x 9 Inches. Format: Paperback Click the Author name for more birthday gift years.
80 Amazing Trips Around the Sun
Author: Space Age Birthday Publishing
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781677375233
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
It takes exactly 1 year for The Earth to complete each trip around the Sun. Give this incredible journal notebook to friends or family members who love science facts and astronomy. Can I sign this gift? Yes, there is a handy message space on the first page, just like inside a greeting card. Pages: 100 Finish: Matte Size: 6 x 9 Inches. Format: Paperback Click the Author name for more birthday gift years.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781677375233
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
It takes exactly 1 year for The Earth to complete each trip around the Sun. Give this incredible journal notebook to friends or family members who love science facts and astronomy. Can I sign this gift? Yes, there is a handy message space on the first page, just like inside a greeting card. Pages: 100 Finish: Matte Size: 6 x 9 Inches. Format: Paperback Click the Author name for more birthday gift years.
NASA Activities
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 940
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 940
Book Description
Big Game Hunter's Guide to Idaho
Author: Ron Spomer
Publisher: Wilderness Adventures Press
ISBN: 193209833X
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Publisher: Wilderness Adventures Press
ISBN: 193209833X
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Thirty Florida Shipwrecks
Author: Kevin M. McCarthy
Publisher: Pineapple Press Inc
ISBN: 9781561640072
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Sunken treasure, cannibalism, prison ships, Nazi submarines, the Bermuda triangle--all are tied into the lore of shipwrecks along Florida's coasts. There are as many shipwreck stories as there are thousands of Florida shipwrecks. This book offers thirty of the most interesting of them--from the tale of young Fontaneda, who wrecked in 1545 and was held captive by Indians for 17 years, to the story of the Coast Guard cutter Bibb, which was sunk off Key Largo in 1987 to provide an artificial reef and diving site. In between there is the Atocha, flagship of a Spanish treasure fleet, which sank in a hurricane in September 1622 and was found, along with its $100 million worth of gold and silver, by Mel Fisher in July of 1985. Each shipwreck story has a map pinpointing its location and a full-color illustration by renowned artist William L. Trotter. There is an extensive bibliography and a foreword by Florida state underwater archaeologist Roger Smith.
Publisher: Pineapple Press Inc
ISBN: 9781561640072
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Sunken treasure, cannibalism, prison ships, Nazi submarines, the Bermuda triangle--all are tied into the lore of shipwrecks along Florida's coasts. There are as many shipwreck stories as there are thousands of Florida shipwrecks. This book offers thirty of the most interesting of them--from the tale of young Fontaneda, who wrecked in 1545 and was held captive by Indians for 17 years, to the story of the Coast Guard cutter Bibb, which was sunk off Key Largo in 1987 to provide an artificial reef and diving site. In between there is the Atocha, flagship of a Spanish treasure fleet, which sank in a hurricane in September 1622 and was found, along with its $100 million worth of gold and silver, by Mel Fisher in July of 1985. Each shipwreck story has a map pinpointing its location and a full-color illustration by renowned artist William L. Trotter. There is an extensive bibliography and a foreword by Florida state underwater archaeologist Roger Smith.
West Meets East in Kazakhstan
Author: Thomas E. Johnson
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1504928105
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
The author gained considerable experience of working in countries in the Soviet sphere in the 1980sYugoslavia, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Hungarybut this did little to prepare him for a long-term stint in Kazakhstan, commencing at the outset of 1993. If his eyes were opened wide in Belgrade, Warsaw, Prague, and Budapest, they were bug-eyed in Almaty, Kazakhstan. There he keenly experienced the harshness and wonders of post-Soviet Kazakhstan. The good news is that Tom Johnson wrote a series of articles for a local English language newspaper, The Almaty Herald, detailing his observations about life in and around Almaty in the 1990s from the perspective of an American expatriate. West Meets East in Kazakhstan is based on those articles, to which the author has added substantial new material. With wry humor, a positive attitude, and an easy-to-read writing style, the author recounts the gentle and not-so-gentle culture shock that he experienced. It is difficult to describe the books content. Each chapter stands by itself and might be devoted to such topics as the following: the heavy weight of documentation required by the bureaucracy, the peculiar habit of carrying flowers with the wet ends up and the flowers down, the lack of public gathering places, or the outlandish nature of goodbye parties for departing expatriates. Several chapters describe the authors forages into the countryside to visit lakes, waterfalls, burial mounds, and singing dunes. West Meets East in Kazakhstan makes a good read for anyone interested in life and living conditions in Kazakhstan, as well as the former Soviet Union. Foreigners who lived or worked in Kazakhstan during the period when the Communist economy was collapsing and before the market economy took root should particularly enjoy the book.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1504928105
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
The author gained considerable experience of working in countries in the Soviet sphere in the 1980sYugoslavia, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Hungarybut this did little to prepare him for a long-term stint in Kazakhstan, commencing at the outset of 1993. If his eyes were opened wide in Belgrade, Warsaw, Prague, and Budapest, they were bug-eyed in Almaty, Kazakhstan. There he keenly experienced the harshness and wonders of post-Soviet Kazakhstan. The good news is that Tom Johnson wrote a series of articles for a local English language newspaper, The Almaty Herald, detailing his observations about life in and around Almaty in the 1990s from the perspective of an American expatriate. West Meets East in Kazakhstan is based on those articles, to which the author has added substantial new material. With wry humor, a positive attitude, and an easy-to-read writing style, the author recounts the gentle and not-so-gentle culture shock that he experienced. It is difficult to describe the books content. Each chapter stands by itself and might be devoted to such topics as the following: the heavy weight of documentation required by the bureaucracy, the peculiar habit of carrying flowers with the wet ends up and the flowers down, the lack of public gathering places, or the outlandish nature of goodbye parties for departing expatriates. Several chapters describe the authors forages into the countryside to visit lakes, waterfalls, burial mounds, and singing dunes. West Meets East in Kazakhstan makes a good read for anyone interested in life and living conditions in Kazakhstan, as well as the former Soviet Union. Foreigners who lived or worked in Kazakhstan during the period when the Communist economy was collapsing and before the market economy took root should particularly enjoy the book.