Author: Morris Lurie
Publisher: Puffin
ISBN: 9780140342970
Category : Hippopotamus
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
This funny, exciting and best-selling story takes you behind the scenes as eight-year-old Edward trains for the greatest swimming marathon of all!
The Twenty-seventh Annual African Hippopotamus Race
Author: Morris Lurie
Publisher: Puffin
ISBN: 9780140342970
Category : Hippopotamus
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
This funny, exciting and best-selling story takes you behind the scenes as eight-year-old Edward trains for the greatest swimming marathon of all!
Publisher: Puffin
ISBN: 9780140342970
Category : Hippopotamus
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
This funny, exciting and best-selling story takes you behind the scenes as eight-year-old Edward trains for the greatest swimming marathon of all!
Catalogue of the Library of the Massachusetts Historical Society ...
Author: Massachusetts Historical Society. Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 754
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 754
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of the Massachusetts Historical Society
Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382306689
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 746
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1859. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382306689
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 746
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1859. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Lucean Arthur Headen
Author: Jill D. Snider
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469654369
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
Born in Carthage, North Carolina, Lucean Arthur Headen (1879–1957) grew up amid former slave artisans. Inspired by his grandfather, a wheelwright, and great-uncle, a toolmaker, he dreamed as a child of becoming an inventor. His ambitions suffered the menace of Jim Crow and the reality of a new inventive landscape in which investment was shifting from lone inventors to the new "industrial scientists." But determined and ambitious, Headen left the South, and after toiling for a decade as a Pullman porter, risked everything to pursue his dream. He eventually earned eleven patents, most for innovative engine designs and anti-icing methods for aircraft. An equally capable entrepreneur and sportsman, Headen learned to fly in 1911, manufactured his own "Pace Setter" and "Headen Special" cars in the early 1920s, and founded the first national black auto racing association in 1924, all establishing him as an important authority on transportation technologies among African Americans. Emigrating to England in 1931, Headen also proved a successful manufacturer, operating engineering firms in Surrey that distributed his motor and other products worldwide for twenty-five years. Though Headen left few personal records, Jill D. Snider recreates the life of this extraordinary man through historical detective work in newspapers, business and trade publications, genealogical databases, and scholarly works. Mapping the social networks his family built within the Presbyterian church and other organizations (networks on which Headen often relied), she also reveals the legacy of Carthage's, and the South's, black artisans. Their story shows us that, despite our worship of personal triumph, success is often a communal as well as an individual achievement.
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469654369
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
Born in Carthage, North Carolina, Lucean Arthur Headen (1879–1957) grew up amid former slave artisans. Inspired by his grandfather, a wheelwright, and great-uncle, a toolmaker, he dreamed as a child of becoming an inventor. His ambitions suffered the menace of Jim Crow and the reality of a new inventive landscape in which investment was shifting from lone inventors to the new "industrial scientists." But determined and ambitious, Headen left the South, and after toiling for a decade as a Pullman porter, risked everything to pursue his dream. He eventually earned eleven patents, most for innovative engine designs and anti-icing methods for aircraft. An equally capable entrepreneur and sportsman, Headen learned to fly in 1911, manufactured his own "Pace Setter" and "Headen Special" cars in the early 1920s, and founded the first national black auto racing association in 1924, all establishing him as an important authority on transportation technologies among African Americans. Emigrating to England in 1931, Headen also proved a successful manufacturer, operating engineering firms in Surrey that distributed his motor and other products worldwide for twenty-five years. Though Headen left few personal records, Jill D. Snider recreates the life of this extraordinary man through historical detective work in newspapers, business and trade publications, genealogical databases, and scholarly works. Mapping the social networks his family built within the Presbyterian church and other organizations (networks on which Headen often relied), she also reveals the legacy of Carthage's, and the South's, black artisans. Their story shows us that, despite our worship of personal triumph, success is often a communal as well as an individual achievement.
Catalogue of the library of the Massachusetts historical society
Author: John Appleton (M.D.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 752
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 752
Book Description
Bay Area Figurative Art, 1950-1965
Author: Caroline A. Jones
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520068421
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
"Should be the classic, central, definitive work on the emergence of Bay Area Figurative painting."--Paul Mills, author of The New Figurative Painting of David Park
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520068421
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
"Should be the classic, central, definitive work on the emergence of Bay Area Figurative painting."--Paul Mills, author of The New Figurative Painting of David Park
Catalogue of Copyright Entries: Books, Dramatic Compositions, Maps and Charts
Author: Copyright Office
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1120
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1120
Book Description
First Annual Catalogue and Year-book of the Indiana State Conference of the Christian Denomination, and of the District Conferences in the State of Indiana
Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385427002
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385427002
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
Catalogue of the Library. (Prepared by John Appleton.).
Author: Massachusetts Historical Society (BOSTON, Massachusetts). Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
Alphabetical and Analytical Catalogue of the ... Library
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description