Author: Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385548462
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.
Young Folks' Book of American Explorers
Author: Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385548462
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385548462
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.
Young People's Books
Author: Chicago Public Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Heading Out
Author: Terence Young
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501712829
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 595
Book Description
Who are the real campers? Through-hiking backpackers traversing the Appalachian Trail? The family in an SUV making a tour of national parks and sleeping in tents at campgrounds? People committed to the RV lifestyle who move their homes from state to state as season and whim dictate? Terence Young would say: all of the above. Camping is one of the country's most popular pastimes—tens of millions of Americans go camping every year. Whether on foot, on horseback, or in RVs, campers have been enjoying themselves for well more than a century, during which time camping’s appeal has shifted and evolved. In Heading Out, Young takes readers into nature and explores with them the history of camping in the United States.Young shows how camping progressed from an impulse among city-dwellers to seek temporary retreat from their exhausting everyday surroundings to a form of recreation so popular that an industry grew up around it to provide an endless supply of ever-lighter and more convenient gear. Young humanizes camping’s history by spotlighting key figures in its development and a sampling of the campers and the variety of their excursions. Readers will meet William H. H. Murray, who launched a craze for camping in 1869; Mary Bedell, who car camped around America for 12,000 miles in 1922; William Trent Jr., who struggled to end racial segregation in national park campgrounds before World War II; and Carolyn Patterson, who worked with the U.S. Department of State in the 1960s and 1970s to introduce foreign service personnel to the "real" America through trailer camping. These and many additional characters give readers a reason to don a headlamp, pull up a chair beside the campfire, and discover the invigorating and refreshing history of sleeping under the stars.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501712829
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 595
Book Description
Who are the real campers? Through-hiking backpackers traversing the Appalachian Trail? The family in an SUV making a tour of national parks and sleeping in tents at campgrounds? People committed to the RV lifestyle who move their homes from state to state as season and whim dictate? Terence Young would say: all of the above. Camping is one of the country's most popular pastimes—tens of millions of Americans go camping every year. Whether on foot, on horseback, or in RVs, campers have been enjoying themselves for well more than a century, during which time camping’s appeal has shifted and evolved. In Heading Out, Young takes readers into nature and explores with them the history of camping in the United States.Young shows how camping progressed from an impulse among city-dwellers to seek temporary retreat from their exhausting everyday surroundings to a form of recreation so popular that an industry grew up around it to provide an endless supply of ever-lighter and more convenient gear. Young humanizes camping’s history by spotlighting key figures in its development and a sampling of the campers and the variety of their excursions. Readers will meet William H. H. Murray, who launched a craze for camping in 1869; Mary Bedell, who car camped around America for 12,000 miles in 1922; William Trent Jr., who struggled to end racial segregation in national park campgrounds before World War II; and Carolyn Patterson, who worked with the U.S. Department of State in the 1960s and 1970s to introduce foreign service personnel to the "real" America through trailer camping. These and many additional characters give readers a reason to don a headlamp, pull up a chair beside the campfire, and discover the invigorating and refreshing history of sleeping under the stars.
Children's Catalog
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Children's Catalog
Author: H.W. Wilson Company
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
The 1st ed. includes an index to v. 28-36 of St. Nicholas.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
The 1st ed. includes an index to v. 28-36 of St. Nicholas.
America in the Making
Author: Charles Ernest Chadsey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 776
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 776
Book Description
1919 The Year That Changed America
Author: Martin W. Sandler
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1547605766
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
WINNER OF THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 1919 was a world-shaking year. America was recovering from World War I and black soldiers returned to racism so violent that that summer would become known as the Red Summer. The suffrage movement had a long-fought win when women gained the right to vote. Laborers took to the streets to protest working conditions; nationalistic fervor led to a communism scare; and temperance gained such traction that prohibition went into effect. Each of these movements reached a tipping point that year. Now, one hundred years later, these same social issues are more relevant than ever. Sandler traces the momentum and setbacks of these movements through this last century, showing that progress isn't always a straight line and offering a unique lens through which we can understand history and the change many still seek.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1547605766
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
WINNER OF THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 1919 was a world-shaking year. America was recovering from World War I and black soldiers returned to racism so violent that that summer would become known as the Red Summer. The suffrage movement had a long-fought win when women gained the right to vote. Laborers took to the streets to protest working conditions; nationalistic fervor led to a communism scare; and temperance gained such traction that prohibition went into effect. Each of these movements reached a tipping point that year. Now, one hundred years later, these same social issues are more relevant than ever. Sandler traces the momentum and setbacks of these movements through this last century, showing that progress isn't always a straight line and offering a unique lens through which we can understand history and the change many still seek.
A.L.A. Catalog
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 908
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 908
Book Description
Sowed by the Wind
Author: Elijah Kellogg
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Adventure stories
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Adventure stories
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
American Heritage Book of Great American Speeches for Young People
Author: Suzanne McIntire
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 9780471217107
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
The history of the United States has been characterized by ferventidealism, intense struggle, and radical change. And for everycritical, defining moment in American history, there were thosewhose impassioned voices rang out, clear and true, and whose wordscompelled the minds and hearts of all who heard them. When PatrickHenry declared, "Give me liberty, or give me death!", when MartinLuther King Jr. said, "I have a dream", Americans listened and wereprofoundly affected. These speeches stand today as testaments tothis great nation made up of individuals with bold ideas andunshakeable convictions. The American Heritage Book of Great American Speeches for YoungPeople includes over 100 speeches by founding fathers, patriots,Native American and African American leaders, abolitionists,women's suffrage and labor activists, writers, athletes, and othersfrom all walks of life, featuring inspiring and unforgettablespeeches by such notable speakers as: Patrick Henry * Thomas Jefferson * Tecumseh * Frederick Douglass *Sojourner Truth * Abraham Lincoln * Susan B. Anthony * Mother Jones* Lou Gehrig * Franklin D. Roosevelt * Albert Einstein * Pearl S.Buck * Langston Hughes * John F. Kennedy * Martin Luther KingJr. These are the voices that shaped our history. They are powerful,moving, and, above all else, uniquely American.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 9780471217107
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
The history of the United States has been characterized by ferventidealism, intense struggle, and radical change. And for everycritical, defining moment in American history, there were thosewhose impassioned voices rang out, clear and true, and whose wordscompelled the minds and hearts of all who heard them. When PatrickHenry declared, "Give me liberty, or give me death!", when MartinLuther King Jr. said, "I have a dream", Americans listened and wereprofoundly affected. These speeches stand today as testaments tothis great nation made up of individuals with bold ideas andunshakeable convictions. The American Heritage Book of Great American Speeches for YoungPeople includes over 100 speeches by founding fathers, patriots,Native American and African American leaders, abolitionists,women's suffrage and labor activists, writers, athletes, and othersfrom all walks of life, featuring inspiring and unforgettablespeeches by such notable speakers as: Patrick Henry * Thomas Jefferson * Tecumseh * Frederick Douglass *Sojourner Truth * Abraham Lincoln * Susan B. Anthony * Mother Jones* Lou Gehrig * Franklin D. Roosevelt * Albert Einstein * Pearl S.Buck * Langston Hughes * John F. Kennedy * Martin Luther KingJr. These are the voices that shaped our history. They are powerful,moving, and, above all else, uniquely American.