Author: Sitt Sitthi-amornPublisher:
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Category : Language teachers
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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Nostalgic Memoirs of Siam and Life's Varying Fortunes
Author: Sitt Sitthi-amornPublisher:
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Category : Language teachers
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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Forthcoming Books
Author: Rose ArnyPublisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2184
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Inseparable
Author: Yunte HuangPublisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0871404478
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Nearly a decade after his triumphant Charlie Chan biography, Yunte Huang returns with this long-awaited portrait of Chang and Eng Bunker (1811–1874), twins conjoined at the sternum by a band of cartilage and a fused liver, who were “discovered” in Siam by a British merchant in 1824. Bringing an Asian American perspective to this almost implausible story, Huang depicts the twins, arriving in Boston in 1829, first as museum exhibits but later as financially savvy showmen who gained their freedom and traveled the backroads of rural America to bring “entertainment” to the Jacksonian mobs. Their rise from subhuman, freak-show celebrities to rich southern gentry; their marriage to two white sisters, resulting in twenty-one children; and their owning of slaves, is here not just another sensational biography but a Hawthorne-like excavation of America’s historical penchant for finding feast in the abnormal, for tyrannizing the “other”—a tradition that, as Huang reveals, becomes inseparable from American history itself.
Years of adventure, 1874-1920
Author: Herbert HooverPublisher:
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Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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Books in Print
Author: Publisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1660
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Athenaeum and Literary Chronicle
Author: Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1656
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The Athenaeum
Author: Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1648
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The Athenæum
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 802
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Athenaeum
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 852
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The Works of Daniel De Foe, with a Memoir of His Life and Writings. By William Hazlitt. [With a Bibliography.]
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Author: Daniel DefoePublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 690
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