Author: Thomas Locker
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780152014735
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
An anthology of poetry and prose by such writers as Carl Sandburg, Willa Cather, Robert Frost, all celebrating aspects of the American landscape.
Storied Ground
Author: Paul Readman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108424732
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
The relationship between landscape and identity is explored to reveal how Englishness encompasses the urban and rural, and the north and south.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108424732
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
The relationship between landscape and identity is explored to reveal how Englishness encompasses the urban and rural, and the north and south.
Gaining Ground
Author: Nancy S. Seasholes
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262350211
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 553
Book Description
Why and how Boston was transformed by landmaking. Fully one-sixth of Boston is built on made land. Although other waterfront cities also have substantial areas that are built on fill, Boston probably has more than any city in North America. In Gaining Ground historian Nancy Seasholes has given us the first complete account of when, why, and how this land was created.The story of landmaking in Boston is presented geographically; each chapter traces landmaking in a different part of the city from its first permanent settlement to the present. Seasholes introduces findings from recent archaeological investigations in Boston, and relates landmaking to the major historical developments that shaped it. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, landmaking in Boston was spurred by the rapid growth that resulted from the burgeoning China trade. The influx of Irish immigrants in the mid-nineteenth century prompted several large projects to create residential land—not for the Irish, but to keep the taxpaying Yankees from fleeing to the suburbs. Many landmaking projects were undertaken to cover tidal flats that had been polluted by raw sewage discharged directly onto them, removing the "pestilential exhalations" thought to cause illness. Land was also added for port developments, public parks, and transportation facilities, including the largest landmaking project of all, the airport. A separate chapter discusses the technology of landmaking in Boston, explaining the basic method used to make land and the changes in its various components over time. The book is copiously illustrated with maps that show the original shoreline in relation to today's streets, details from historical maps that trace the progress of landmaking, and historical drawings and photographs.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262350211
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 553
Book Description
Why and how Boston was transformed by landmaking. Fully one-sixth of Boston is built on made land. Although other waterfront cities also have substantial areas that are built on fill, Boston probably has more than any city in North America. In Gaining Ground historian Nancy Seasholes has given us the first complete account of when, why, and how this land was created.The story of landmaking in Boston is presented geographically; each chapter traces landmaking in a different part of the city from its first permanent settlement to the present. Seasholes introduces findings from recent archaeological investigations in Boston, and relates landmaking to the major historical developments that shaped it. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, landmaking in Boston was spurred by the rapid growth that resulted from the burgeoning China trade. The influx of Irish immigrants in the mid-nineteenth century prompted several large projects to create residential land—not for the Irish, but to keep the taxpaying Yankees from fleeing to the suburbs. Many landmaking projects were undertaken to cover tidal flats that had been polluted by raw sewage discharged directly onto them, removing the "pestilential exhalations" thought to cause illness. Land was also added for port developments, public parks, and transportation facilities, including the largest landmaking project of all, the airport. A separate chapter discusses the technology of landmaking in Boston, explaining the basic method used to make land and the changes in its various components over time. The book is copiously illustrated with maps that show the original shoreline in relation to today's streets, details from historical maps that trace the progress of landmaking, and historical drawings and photographs.
Storied Landscapes
Author: Frances Swyripa
Publisher: Univ. of Manitoba Press
ISBN: 0887557201
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Storied Landscapes is a beautifully written, sweeping examination of the evolving identity of major ethno-religious immigrant groups in the Canadian West including Ukrainians, Mennonites, Icelanders, Doukhobors, Germans, Poles, Romanians, Jews, Finns, Swedes, Norwegians, and Danes.
Publisher: Univ. of Manitoba Press
ISBN: 0887557201
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Storied Landscapes is a beautifully written, sweeping examination of the evolving identity of major ethno-religious immigrant groups in the Canadian West including Ukrainians, Mennonites, Icelanders, Doukhobors, Germans, Poles, Romanians, Jews, Finns, Swedes, Norwegians, and Danes.
Uncommon Grounds
Author: Mark Pendergrast
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0465024041
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
The definitive history of the world's most popular drug. Uncommon Grounds tells the story of coffee from its discovery on a hill in ancient Abyssinia to the advent of Starbucks. Mark Pendergrast reviews the dramatic changes in coffee culture over the past decade, from the disastrous "Coffee Crisis" that caused global prices to plummet to the rise of the Fair Trade movement and the "third-wave" of quality-obsessed coffee connoisseurs. As the scope of coffee culture continues to expand, Uncommon Grounds remains more than ever a brilliantly entertaining guide to the currents of one of the world's favorite beverages.
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0465024041
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
The definitive history of the world's most popular drug. Uncommon Grounds tells the story of coffee from its discovery on a hill in ancient Abyssinia to the advent of Starbucks. Mark Pendergrast reviews the dramatic changes in coffee culture over the past decade, from the disastrous "Coffee Crisis" that caused global prices to plummet to the rise of the Fair Trade movement and the "third-wave" of quality-obsessed coffee connoisseurs. As the scope of coffee culture continues to expand, Uncommon Grounds remains more than ever a brilliantly entertaining guide to the currents of one of the world's favorite beverages.
Home
Author: Thomas Locker
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780152014735
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
An anthology of poetry and prose by such writers as Carl Sandburg, Willa Cather, Robert Frost, all celebrating aspects of the American landscape.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780152014735
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
An anthology of poetry and prose by such writers as Carl Sandburg, Willa Cather, Robert Frost, all celebrating aspects of the American landscape.
Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land
Author: Herman Melville
Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag
ISBN: 3849603601
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 777
Book Description
This is the extended and annotated edition including an extensive biographical annotation about the author and his life Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land is an American epic poem by Herman Melville, published in two volumes in 1876. Clarel is the longest poem in American literature, stretching to almost 18,000 lines (longer even than European classics such as the Iliad, Aeneid and Paradise Lost). As well its great length, Clarel is notable for being the major work of Melville's later years; in the three decades between The Confidence Man (1857) and Billy Budd (begun in 1888), Melville devoted himself solely to writing poetry, with Clarel and the short American Civil War collection, Battle Pieces, being his most significant achievements. (from wikipedia.com)
Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag
ISBN: 3849603601
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 777
Book Description
This is the extended and annotated edition including an extensive biographical annotation about the author and his life Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land is an American epic poem by Herman Melville, published in two volumes in 1876. Clarel is the longest poem in American literature, stretching to almost 18,000 lines (longer even than European classics such as the Iliad, Aeneid and Paradise Lost). As well its great length, Clarel is notable for being the major work of Melville's later years; in the three decades between The Confidence Man (1857) and Billy Budd (begun in 1888), Melville devoted himself solely to writing poetry, with Clarel and the short American Civil War collection, Battle Pieces, being his most significant achievements. (from wikipedia.com)
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Languages : en
Pages : 136
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Pages : 136
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Lady's Realm
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Pages : 792
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Circular
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 1240
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 1240
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The Englishwoman's magazine and Christian mother's miscellany [formerly The Christian mother's magazine] ed. by mrs. Milner
Author: Mary Milner
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Languages : en
Pages : 808
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