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Book Evangeline

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  • Author : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1878
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 104 pages

Download or read book Evangeline written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Great and Noble Scheme  The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from Their American Homeland

Download or read book A Great and Noble Scheme The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from Their American Homeland written by John Mack Faragher and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2006-02-17 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Altogether superb: an accessible, fluent account that advances scholarship while building a worthy memorial to the victims of two and a half centuries past." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) In 1755, New England troops embarked on a "great and noble scheme" to expel 18,000 French-speaking Acadians ("the neutral French") from Nova Scotia, killing thousands, separating innumerable families, and driving many into forests where they waged a desperate guerrilla resistance. The right of neutrality; to live in peace from the imperial wars waged between France and England; had been one of the founding values of Acadia; its settlers traded and intermarried freely with native Mikmaq Indians and English Protestants alike. But the Acadians' refusal to swear unconditional allegiance to the British Crown in the mid-eighteenth century gave New Englanders, who had long coveted Nova Scotia's fertile farmland, pretense enough to launch a campaign of ethnic cleansing on a massive scale. John Mack Faragher draws on original research to weave 150 years of history into a gripping narrative of both the civilization of Acadia and the British plot to destroy it.

Book The Story of Hiawatha

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  • Author : Winston Stokes
  • Publisher : Mac Donnell Press
  • Release : 2011-10
  • ISBN : 1446093530
  • Pages : 344 pages

Download or read book The Story of Hiawatha written by Winston Stokes and published by Mac Donnell Press. This book was released on 2011-10 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Book Evangeline  a Tale of Acadie

Download or read book Evangeline a Tale of Acadie written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and published by Boston : Houghton, Mifflin. This book was released on 1893 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Acadian Reminiscences

Download or read book Acadian Reminiscences written by Felix Voorhies and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-04 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Acadian Reminiscences" (The True Story of Evangeline) by Felix Voorhies. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Book The Story of French

Download or read book The Story of French written by Jean-Benoît Nadeau and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2008-01-08 with total page 597 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why does everything sound better if it's said in French? That fascination is at the heart of The Story of French, the first history of one of the most beautiful languages in the world that was, at one time, the pre-eminent language of literature, science and diplomacy. In a captivating narrative that spans the ages, from Charlemagne to Cirque du Soleil, Jean-Benoît Nadeau and Julie Barlow unravel the mysteries of a language that has maintained its global influence despite the rise of English. As in any good story, The Story of French has spectacular failures, unexpected successes and bears traces of some of history's greatest figures: the tenacity of William the Conqueror, the staunchness of Cardinal Richelieu, and the endurance of the Lewis and Clark expedition. Through this colorful history, Nadeau and Barlow illustrate how French acquired its own peculiar culture, revealing how the culture of the language spread among francophones the world over and yet remains curiously centered in Paris. In fact, French is not only thriving—it still has a surprisingly strong influence on other languages. As lively as it is fascinating, The Story of French challenges long held assumptions about French and shows why it is still the world's other global language.

Book The Acadian Exiles  A Chronicle of the Land of Evangeline

Download or read book The Acadian Exiles A Chronicle of the Land of Evangeline written by Arthur G. Doughty and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-09-16 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

Book Poems on Slavery

Download or read book Poems on Slavery written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Acadian Diaspora

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  • Author : Christopher Hodson
  • Publisher : OUP USA
  • Release : 2012-05-31
  • ISBN : 0199739773
  • Pages : 273 pages

Download or read book The Acadian Diaspora written by Christopher Hodson and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2012-05-31 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Acadian Diaspora tells the extraordinary story of thousands of Acadians expelled from Nova Scotia and scattered throughout the Atlantic world beginning in 1755. Following them to the Caribbean, the South Atlantic, and western Europe, historian Christopher Hodson illuminates a long-forgotten world of imperial experimentation and human brutality.

Book Catherine s Cadeau

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  • Author : Ann Davidson
  • Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
  • Release : 2014-07-10
  • ISBN : 168003040X
  • Pages : 239 pages

Download or read book Catherine s Cadeau written by Ann Davidson and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-10 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Monique LeBlanc disappears from Nova Scotia, her cousin Michelle is panic-stricken. Their summer vacation has taken an ominous turn, and a search begins. At the site of Monique's disappearance in Grand-Pre Historic Park, police find a picture of her mother, Catherine, who passed away years ago, near Evangeline's statue. Michelle knows that Monique is visiting the park to honor the dream she shared with her mother of visiting their Canadian homeland. What she doesn't know is that Monique has gone back in time to her ancestors' exile, actually living through the horrific deportation of thousands of Acadians to Louisiana in 1755.

Book Seeking an Acadian Nation

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  • Author : Warren Perrin
  • Publisher : Andrepont Publishing LLC
  • Release : 2019-11-11
  • ISBN : 9780976892779
  • Pages : 232 pages

Download or read book Seeking an Acadian Nation written by Warren Perrin and published by Andrepont Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2019-11-11 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last two and a half centuries, the Acadian Deportation and the epic poem Evangeline have defined the French-speaking people known as Acadians. After their tragic deportation by the British from their homeland, Acadia, now known as Nova Scotia, those who re-settled in Louisiana are today called Cajuns--American, yet clearly distinct. Seeking an Acadian Nation--The 1930 Diary of an Evangeline Girl is a book based on the travel journal and scrapbook of Corinne Broussard, a young woman from Breaux Bridge, Louisiana, who, along with 24 other Evangeline Girls, represented Louisiana in Canada for the 175th anniversary of the Deportation. Here in Corinne's own words is the story of her adventure--a 17-day, 3,000-mile train trip called a pilgrimage by Sen. Dudley J. LeBlanc who spearheaded the trip, and who was preparing to run for governor of Louisiana. This was the first time a group of Cajuns returned to their ancestral homeland since the exile began in 1755. It could be considered the birth of the French Renaissance in Louisiana. Beginning in the 1880s, Acadian leaders in Canada began a movement to reunite all of the Acadians in the world based upon a common language, religion, genealogy, and history. This book has three parts: first, the efforts at reunification to create an Acadian Nation (1880-1930); second, the pilgrimage to Grand-Pré as reported in Corinne's diary, with annotations (1930); and third, the Louisiana French Renaissance (1930-present). This narrative aligns Corinne's personal experiences with the Great Depression, emerging women's rights, religion, prohibition, and other forces reshaping the modern world in between the two world wars. Her journal reveals how history can be gleaned from resources such as scrapbooks, newspapers, correspondence, and diaries. Although the diary and annotations are in English, half of the 46 newspaper articles and other items in the scrapbook materials are in French.

Book Longfellow s Evangeline

Download or read book Longfellow s Evangeline written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Exiles

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  • Author : Christina Baker Kline
  • Publisher : HarperCollins
  • Release : 2020-08-25
  • ISBN : 0062356356
  • Pages : 339 pages

Download or read book The Exiles written by Christina Baker Kline and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER OPTIONED FOR TELEVISION BY BRUNA PAPANDREA, THE PRODUCER OF HBO'S BIG LITTLE LIES “A tour de force of original thought, imagination and promise … Kline takes full advantage of fiction — its freedom to create compelling characters who fully illuminate monumental events to make history accessible and forever etched in our minds." — Houston Chronicle The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Orphan Train returns with an ambitious, emotionally resonant novel about three women whose lives are bound together in nineteenth-century Australia and the hardships they weather together as they fight for redemption and freedom in a new society. Seduced by her employer’s son, Evangeline, a naïve young governess in early nineteenth-century London, is discharged when her pregnancy is discovered and sent to the notorious Newgate Prison. After months in the fetid, overcrowded jail, she learns she is sentenced to “the land beyond the seas,” Van Diemen’s Land, a penal colony in Australia. Though uncertain of what awaits, Evangeline knows one thing: the child she carries will be born on the months-long voyage to this distant land. During the journey on a repurposed slave ship, the Medea, Evangeline strikes up a friendship with Hazel, a girl little older than her former pupils who was sentenced to seven years transport for stealing a silver spoon. Canny where Evangeline is guileless, Hazel—a skilled midwife and herbalist—is soon offering home remedies to both prisoners and sailors in return for a variety of favors. Though Australia has been home to Aboriginal people for more than 50,000 years, the British government in the 1840s considers its fledgling colony uninhabited and unsettled, and views the natives as an unpleasant nuisance. By the time the Medea arrives, many of them have been forcibly relocated, their land seized by white colonists. One of these relocated people is Mathinna, the orphaned daughter of the Chief of the Lowreenne tribe, who has been adopted by the new governor of Van Diemen’s Land. In this gorgeous novel, Christina Baker Kline brilliantly recreates the beginnings of a new society in a beautiful and challenging land, telling the story of Australia from a fresh perspective, through the experiences of Evangeline, Hazel, and Mathinna. While life in Australia is punishing and often brutally unfair, it is also, for some, an opportunity: for redemption, for a new way of life, for unimagined freedom. Told in exquisite detail and incisive prose, The Exiles is a story of grace born from hardship, the unbreakable bonds of female friendships, and the unfettering of legacy.

Book Rose of Acadia

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  • Author : Margaret M. Saunders
  • Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
  • Release : 2002-11-07
  • ISBN : 9780887805714
  • Pages : 532 pages

Download or read book Rose of Acadia written by Margaret M. Saunders and published by James Lorimer & Company. This book was released on 2002-11-07 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rose of Acadia is a passionate story about the legacy of the past--personal and historical--and how it shapes lives in the present. Driven by his great-grandfather's vow to make amends to the descendants of one wronged Acadian, Vesper Nimmo sets out from Boston for Nova Scotia's French Shore, one hundred and fifty years after the Acadian Deportation. There he finds his own "Evangeline"--the beautiful Rose à Charlitte--but discovers they cannot be together until both are freed from the burdens of the past. Rose of Acadia is a moving story of how the past can be redeemed by action in the present. A Formac Fiction Treasures series title.

Book Teardrop

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  • Author : Lauren Kate
  • Publisher : Delacorte Press
  • Release : 2013-10-22
  • ISBN : 0307976319
  • Pages : 352 pages

Download or read book Teardrop written by Lauren Kate and published by Delacorte Press. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An epic saga of heart-stopping romance, devastating secrets, and dark magic . . . a world where everything you love can be washed away. The first book in the new series from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Fallen series Never, ever cry. . . . Eureka Boudreaux's mother drilled that rule into her daughter years ago. But now her mother is gone, and everywhere Eureka goes he is there: Ander, the tall, pale blond boy who seems to know things he shouldn't, who tells Eureka she is in grave danger, who comes closer to making her cry than anyone has before. But Ander doesn't know Eureka's darkest secret: ever since her mother drowned in a freak accident, Eureka wishes she were dead, too. She has little left that she cares about, just her oldest friend, Brooks, and a strange inheritance—a locket, a letter, a mysterious stone, and an ancient book no one understands. The book contains a haunting tale about a girl who got her heart broken and cried an entire continent into the sea. Eureka is about to discover that the ancient tale is more than a story, that Ander might be telling the truth . . . and that her life has far darker undercurrents than she ever imagined.

Book The Acadian Exiles

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  • Author : Sir Arthur George Doughty
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1920
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 208 pages

Download or read book The Acadian Exiles written by Sir Arthur George Doughty and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Acadia  Missing Links of a Lost Chapter in American History

Download or read book Acadia Missing Links of a Lost Chapter in American History written by Edouard Richard and published by New York : Home Book ; Montreal : J. Lovell. This book was released on 1895 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relates to the deportation of the Acadians; the author considers the work of earlier historians and is especially critical of T. B. Akins the compiler of Nova Scotia archives I, and Francis Parkman.