Author: Sarah Gilbert White Smith
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803266216
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Four newlywed couples, along with one single man, were sent to Oregon in 1838 to reinforce the two-year-old mission established by Marcus Whitman and Henry Spalding. These reinforcements were to become legendary in the history of the Pacific Northwest for the incessant bickering and petty jealousies that eventually caused the deaths of Marcus and Narcissa Whitman and forced the abandonment of the mission effort. ø Uncertainty and conflict as well as willpower and endurance mark the story of the Oregon Mission and its charismatic, though contentious, missionaries. Simply getting to Oregon in the 1830s was a feat. Once they arrived, their efforts were doomed by their inability to agree on strategies for converting the Nez Percä and Spokane Indians. ø This Bison Books edition contains the very personal diary of Sarah Smith, ?the weeping one? as the Indians remembered her. When read in chronological sequence with the nearly one hundred letters written by her husband, Asa, a compelling picture of their journey to Oregon and subsequent life at the mission emerges. Other letters, documents, and biographical sketches enhance the volume.
The Mountains We Have Crossed
Author: Sarah Gilbert White Smith
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803266216
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Four newlywed couples, along with one single man, were sent to Oregon in 1838 to reinforce the two-year-old mission established by Marcus Whitman and Henry Spalding. These reinforcements were to become legendary in the history of the Pacific Northwest for the incessant bickering and petty jealousies that eventually caused the deaths of Marcus and Narcissa Whitman and forced the abandonment of the mission effort. ø Uncertainty and conflict as well as willpower and endurance mark the story of the Oregon Mission and its charismatic, though contentious, missionaries. Simply getting to Oregon in the 1830s was a feat. Once they arrived, their efforts were doomed by their inability to agree on strategies for converting the Nez Percä and Spokane Indians. ø This Bison Books edition contains the very personal diary of Sarah Smith, ?the weeping one? as the Indians remembered her. When read in chronological sequence with the nearly one hundred letters written by her husband, Asa, a compelling picture of their journey to Oregon and subsequent life at the mission emerges. Other letters, documents, and biographical sketches enhance the volume.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803266216
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Four newlywed couples, along with one single man, were sent to Oregon in 1838 to reinforce the two-year-old mission established by Marcus Whitman and Henry Spalding. These reinforcements were to become legendary in the history of the Pacific Northwest for the incessant bickering and petty jealousies that eventually caused the deaths of Marcus and Narcissa Whitman and forced the abandonment of the mission effort. ø Uncertainty and conflict as well as willpower and endurance mark the story of the Oregon Mission and its charismatic, though contentious, missionaries. Simply getting to Oregon in the 1830s was a feat. Once they arrived, their efforts were doomed by their inability to agree on strategies for converting the Nez Percä and Spokane Indians. ø This Bison Books edition contains the very personal diary of Sarah Smith, ?the weeping one? as the Indians remembered her. When read in chronological sequence with the nearly one hundred letters written by her husband, Asa, a compelling picture of their journey to Oregon and subsequent life at the mission emerges. Other letters, documents, and biographical sketches enhance the volume.
In Their Own Words
Author: Belmo
Publisher: Lotus Press
ISBN: 094098590X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 149
Book Description
Scott Belmer presents the true stories of nine Buddhist monks who lived in Tibet under Communist rule, and chronicles their amazing and often miraculous journey across the vast mountain range of the Himalayas to freedom and exile in India. 8-page color photo insert.
Publisher: Lotus Press
ISBN: 094098590X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 149
Book Description
Scott Belmer presents the true stories of nine Buddhist monks who lived in Tibet under Communist rule, and chronicles their amazing and often miraculous journey across the vast mountain range of the Himalayas to freedom and exile in India. 8-page color photo insert.
A Voice to America; or, the Model Republic, its glory, or its fall: with a review of the causes of the decline and failure of the republics of South America, Mexico, and of the Old World: applied to the present crisis in the United States. Second edition. [By F. Saunders and T. B. Thorpe.]
Author: United States
Publisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
A Voice to America; Or, the Model Republic, Its Glory, Or Its Fall
Author: Thomas Bangs Thorpe
Publisher: Scholarly Pub Office Univ of
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
This book, "A Voice to America Or, The Model Republic, Its Glory, Or Its Fall," by Thomas Bangs Thorpe, is a replication of a book originally published before 1855. It has been restored by human beings, page by page, so that you may enjoy it in a form as close to the original as possible.
Publisher: Scholarly Pub Office Univ of
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
This book, "A Voice to America Or, The Model Republic, Its Glory, Or Its Fall," by Thomas Bangs Thorpe, is a replication of a book originally published before 1855. It has been restored by human beings, page by page, so that you may enjoy it in a form as close to the original as possible.
A Voice to America; or, the Model Republic, its glory, or its fall, etc
Author: United States
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 426
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
A Voice to America; Or The Model Republic, Its Glory Or Its Fall ...
Author: Frederick Saunders
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 422
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
The Canadian Pacific, the New Highway to the East Across the Mountains, Prairies & Rivers of Canada
Author: Canadian Pacific Railway Company
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 56
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
The Life and Lies of Charles Dickens
Author: Helena Kelly
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1639365346
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
A radical reassessment of the famed Victorian author, revealing the true story behind the creator of some of literature's best-known novels. This dynamic new study of Charles Dickens will make readers re-examine his life and work in a completely different light. First, partly due to the massive digitalization of papers and letters in recent years, Helena Kelly has unearthed new material about Dickens that simply wasn't available to his earlier biographers. Second, in an astonishing piece of archival detective work, she has traced and then joined the dots on revelatory new details about his mental and physical health that, as the reader will discover, had a strong bearing on both his writing and his life and eventual death. Together these have allowed her to come up with a striking hypothesis that the version of his life that Dickens chose to share with his public—both during his lifetime and from beyond the grave in the authorized biography published shortly after his death—was an elaborate exercise in reputation management. Many of the supposed formative events in his life—such as the twelve-year-old Dickens going to work in a blacking factory—may not have been quite as honestly-related as we have been led to believe. And, in many respects, who can blame him? Dickens's celebrity was on a scale almost unimaginable to any author writing today, with the possible exception of J. K. Rowling, and, like many people who become suddenly famous, he soon realized what a mixed blessing it was.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1639365346
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
A radical reassessment of the famed Victorian author, revealing the true story behind the creator of some of literature's best-known novels. This dynamic new study of Charles Dickens will make readers re-examine his life and work in a completely different light. First, partly due to the massive digitalization of papers and letters in recent years, Helena Kelly has unearthed new material about Dickens that simply wasn't available to his earlier biographers. Second, in an astonishing piece of archival detective work, she has traced and then joined the dots on revelatory new details about his mental and physical health that, as the reader will discover, had a strong bearing on both his writing and his life and eventual death. Together these have allowed her to come up with a striking hypothesis that the version of his life that Dickens chose to share with his public—both during his lifetime and from beyond the grave in the authorized biography published shortly after his death—was an elaborate exercise in reputation management. Many of the supposed formative events in his life—such as the twelve-year-old Dickens going to work in a blacking factory—may not have been quite as honestly-related as we have been led to believe. And, in many respects, who can blame him? Dickens's celebrity was on a scale almost unimaginable to any author writing today, with the possible exception of J. K. Rowling, and, like many people who become suddenly famous, he soon realized what a mixed blessing it was.
The Journal of Hellenic Studies
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Category : Greece
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description
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Category : Greece
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description
The Mountains We Carry
Author: Zaid Brifkani
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
Category : Iran-Iraq War, 1980-1988
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Azad's father was brutally executed by the Iraqi army. Since then, Azad has moved to the city of Duhok to pursue his education. In doing so he hopes to provide a new life for his family and his fiancée, Juwan, who are back in their home village. But as the Iran-Iraq War comes to an end, the Iraqi government launches the genocidal Anfal campaign against the Kurds. Fleeing separately across physical and emotional borders, Azad and Juwan find themselves in the crosshairs of the Iraqi army. However, the most dangerous threat is the one they least expect.
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
Category : Iran-Iraq War, 1980-1988
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Azad's father was brutally executed by the Iraqi army. Since then, Azad has moved to the city of Duhok to pursue his education. In doing so he hopes to provide a new life for his family and his fiancée, Juwan, who are back in their home village. But as the Iran-Iraq War comes to an end, the Iraqi government launches the genocidal Anfal campaign against the Kurds. Fleeing separately across physical and emotional borders, Azad and Juwan find themselves in the crosshairs of the Iraqi army. However, the most dangerous threat is the one they least expect.