Author: Jean Rogers
Publisher: Harper Trophy
ISBN: 9780688164492
Category : Alaska
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Eskimos help a priest stranded on a freighter in the Bering Sea to reach their island village in time to celebrate Christmas.
King Island Christmas
Author: Jean Rogers
Publisher: Harper Trophy
ISBN: 9780688164492
Category : Alaska
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Eskimos help a priest stranded on a freighter in the Bering Sea to reach their island village in time to celebrate Christmas.
Publisher: Harper Trophy
ISBN: 9780688164492
Category : Alaska
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Eskimos help a priest stranded on a freighter in the Bering Sea to reach their island village in time to celebrate Christmas.
Kings Island
Author: Evan Ponstingle
Publisher: Rivershore Press
ISBN: 9781732121089
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
In 1972, one of America's most beloved theme parks swung open its gates for the first time. Kings Island was the latest in the post-Disneyland boom, and it was big, beautiful, and instantly successful. Who could forget their first sight of the magnificent Eiffel Tower after passing through the turnstiles? Or the colorful flags flying proudly over the Royal Fountain? Now nearly fifty years later, the park is as amazing and grand as ever. Read the story behind this magical playground and how it has changed over time. Filled with personal recollections of park officials who were there, Kings Island: A Ride Through Time offers a first-hand account that is as fascinating as the attractions we've loved all our lives.
Publisher: Rivershore Press
ISBN: 9781732121089
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
In 1972, one of America's most beloved theme parks swung open its gates for the first time. Kings Island was the latest in the post-Disneyland boom, and it was big, beautiful, and instantly successful. Who could forget their first sight of the magnificent Eiffel Tower after passing through the turnstiles? Or the colorful flags flying proudly over the Royal Fountain? Now nearly fifty years later, the park is as amazing and grand as ever. Read the story behind this magical playground and how it has changed over time. Filled with personal recollections of park officials who were there, Kings Island: A Ride Through Time offers a first-hand account that is as fascinating as the attractions we've loved all our lives.
Our Island Story
Author: H. E. Marshall
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1625583745
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
Our Island Story is the "history" of England up to Queen Victoria's Death. Marshall used these stories to tell her children about their homeland, Great Britain. To add to the excitement, she mixed in a bit of myth as well as a few legends.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1625583745
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
Our Island Story is the "history" of England up to Queen Victoria's Death. Marshall used these stories to tell her children about their homeland, Great Britain. To add to the excitement, she mixed in a bit of myth as well as a few legends.
The King Island Story
Author: Richard Henry Hooper
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : King Island (Tas.)
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : King Island (Tas.)
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
The King of Confidence
Author: Miles Harvey
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316463582
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
The "unputdownable" (Dave Eggers, National Book award finalist) story of the most infamous American con man you've never heard of: James Strang, self-proclaimed divine king of earth, heaven, and an island in Lake Michigan, "perfect for fans of The Devil in the White City" (Kirkus) A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Longlisted for the 2021 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction Finalist for the Midland Authors Annual Literary Award A Michigan Notable Book A CrimeReads Best True Crime Book of the Year "A masterpiece." —Nathaniel Philbrick In the summer of 1843, James Strang, a charismatic young lawyer and avowed atheist, vanished from a rural town in New York. Months later he reappeared on the Midwestern frontier and converted to a burgeoning religious movement known as Mormonism. In the wake of the murder of the sect's leader, Joseph Smith, Strang unveiled a letter purportedly from the prophet naming him successor, and persuaded hundreds of fellow converts to follow him to an island in Lake Michigan, where he declared himself a divine king. From this stronghold he controlled a fourth of the state of Michigan, establishing a pirate colony where he practiced plural marriage and perpetrated thefts, corruption, and frauds of all kinds. Eventually, having run afoul of powerful enemies, including the American president, Strang was assassinated, an event that was frontpage news across the country. The King of Confidence tells this fascinating but largely forgotten story. Centering his narrative on this charlatan's turbulent twelve years in power, Miles Harvey gets to the root of a timeless American original: the Confidence Man. Full of adventure, bad behavior, and insight into a crucial period of antebellum history, The King of Confidence brings us a compulsively readable account of one of the country's boldest con men and the boisterous era that allowed him to thrive.
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316463582
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
The "unputdownable" (Dave Eggers, National Book award finalist) story of the most infamous American con man you've never heard of: James Strang, self-proclaimed divine king of earth, heaven, and an island in Lake Michigan, "perfect for fans of The Devil in the White City" (Kirkus) A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Longlisted for the 2021 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction Finalist for the Midland Authors Annual Literary Award A Michigan Notable Book A CrimeReads Best True Crime Book of the Year "A masterpiece." —Nathaniel Philbrick In the summer of 1843, James Strang, a charismatic young lawyer and avowed atheist, vanished from a rural town in New York. Months later he reappeared on the Midwestern frontier and converted to a burgeoning religious movement known as Mormonism. In the wake of the murder of the sect's leader, Joseph Smith, Strang unveiled a letter purportedly from the prophet naming him successor, and persuaded hundreds of fellow converts to follow him to an island in Lake Michigan, where he declared himself a divine king. From this stronghold he controlled a fourth of the state of Michigan, establishing a pirate colony where he practiced plural marriage and perpetrated thefts, corruption, and frauds of all kinds. Eventually, having run afoul of powerful enemies, including the American president, Strang was assassinated, an event that was frontpage news across the country. The King of Confidence tells this fascinating but largely forgotten story. Centering his narrative on this charlatan's turbulent twelve years in power, Miles Harvey gets to the root of a timeless American original: the Confidence Man. Full of adventure, bad behavior, and insight into a crucial period of antebellum history, The King of Confidence brings us a compulsively readable account of one of the country's boldest con men and the boisterous era that allowed him to thrive.
A Place for Winter
Author: Paul Tiulana
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
This biography of Paul Tiulana, an Alaskan Eskimo from King Island in the Bering Sea, is compiled from interviews conducted from 1978 by his friend and colleague, Vivian Senungetuk. Detailed captions and photographs accompany Tiulana's vivid recollections of childhood, family, and community. Paul Tiulana is the recognized traditional leader of the King Island Eskimo people. This noted storyteller, ivory carver, and honored elder tells his story against the backdrop of his early home and shares his views on a variety of subjects with an eye and an ear to helping all peoples understand each other and themselves.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
This biography of Paul Tiulana, an Alaskan Eskimo from King Island in the Bering Sea, is compiled from interviews conducted from 1978 by his friend and colleague, Vivian Senungetuk. Detailed captions and photographs accompany Tiulana's vivid recollections of childhood, family, and community. Paul Tiulana is the recognized traditional leader of the King Island Eskimo people. This noted storyteller, ivory carver, and honored elder tells his story against the backdrop of his early home and shares his views on a variety of subjects with an eye and an ear to helping all peoples understand each other and themselves.
King Island Tales
Author: Lawrence D. Kaplan
Publisher: Alaska Native Language Center
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Collection of 25 narratives presented in the original Inupiaq Eskimo language, with English translations. Includes stories of the community house, hunting, childbirth, entertainment, shamans and hauntings. Includes numerous photographs.
Publisher: Alaska Native Language Center
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Collection of 25 narratives presented in the original Inupiaq Eskimo language, with English translations. Includes stories of the community house, hunting, childbirth, entertainment, shamans and hauntings. Includes numerous photographs.
Island of the Lizard King
Author: Ian Livingstone
Publisher: Puffin HC
ISBN: 9780140317435
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Publisher: Puffin HC
ISBN: 9780140317435
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Island Story
Author: Ralph Crane
Publisher: Text Publishing
ISBN: 192562692X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
A handsome full-colour book pairing unique items from the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery with selections of original writing about the southern island. Indigenous dispossession, a cruel penal history, gay-rights battles; exceptional landscapes, unusual wildlife, environmental activism; colonial architecture, arts and crafts, a thriving creative scene—all are part of the story of Tasmania. And they find their expression in the unparalleled collection of Hobart’s TMAG. In Island Story, Ralph Crane and Danielle Wood select almost sixty representative TMAG objects: from shell necklaces to a convict cowl, colonial scrimshaw to a thylacine pincushion, contemporary photography to a film star’s travelling case. Each is matched to texts old and new, by writers as diverse as Anthony Trollope, Marie Bjelke-Petersen, Helene Chung, Jim Everett, Heather Rose and Ben Walter. This is the perfect gift for anyone interested in the island everyone is talking about. Ralph Crane is the author or editor of more than twenty academic books. He lives in Hobart and is Professor of English at the University of Tasmania. Danielle Wood is the author of The Alphabet of Light and Dark, Rosie Little’s Cautionary Tales for Girls, Mothers Grimm and two non-fiction books on Marjorie Bligh, and co-author of the Angelica Banks series. She lives in Hobart and teaches at the University of Tasmania. ‘While the twenty-four stories in this beautiful anthology range from colonial to contemporary times, they have a common theme—a pervading sense of the landscape.’ Age on Deep South ‘The collection is strong...The editors pull no punches.’ Sun-Herald on Deep South ‘Offers readers a glimpse into the imagery and symbolism that has come to shape how outsiders perceive the island.’ Australian on Deep South
Publisher: Text Publishing
ISBN: 192562692X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
A handsome full-colour book pairing unique items from the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery with selections of original writing about the southern island. Indigenous dispossession, a cruel penal history, gay-rights battles; exceptional landscapes, unusual wildlife, environmental activism; colonial architecture, arts and crafts, a thriving creative scene—all are part of the story of Tasmania. And they find their expression in the unparalleled collection of Hobart’s TMAG. In Island Story, Ralph Crane and Danielle Wood select almost sixty representative TMAG objects: from shell necklaces to a convict cowl, colonial scrimshaw to a thylacine pincushion, contemporary photography to a film star’s travelling case. Each is matched to texts old and new, by writers as diverse as Anthony Trollope, Marie Bjelke-Petersen, Helene Chung, Jim Everett, Heather Rose and Ben Walter. This is the perfect gift for anyone interested in the island everyone is talking about. Ralph Crane is the author or editor of more than twenty academic books. He lives in Hobart and is Professor of English at the University of Tasmania. Danielle Wood is the author of The Alphabet of Light and Dark, Rosie Little’s Cautionary Tales for Girls, Mothers Grimm and two non-fiction books on Marjorie Bligh, and co-author of the Angelica Banks series. She lives in Hobart and teaches at the University of Tasmania. ‘While the twenty-four stories in this beautiful anthology range from colonial to contemporary times, they have a common theme—a pervading sense of the landscape.’ Age on Deep South ‘The collection is strong...The editors pull no punches.’ Sun-Herald on Deep South ‘Offers readers a glimpse into the imagery and symbolism that has come to shape how outsiders perceive the island.’ Australian on Deep South
The King Strang Story
Author: Doyle C. Fitzpatrick
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Beaver Island (Mich.)
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Beaver Island (Mich.)
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description