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Book Galveston s the Elissa

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kurt D. Voss
  • Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN : 9780738578552
  • Pages : 132 pages

Download or read book Galveston s the Elissa written by Kurt D. Voss and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For nearly three decades, the 1877 sailing ship Elissa has been widely recognized as one of the finest maritime preservation projects in the world. Unlike some tall ships of today, the Elissa is not a replica but a survivor. Over her century-long commercial history, she carried cargoes to ports around the world for a succession of owners. Her working life as a freighter came to an end in Piraeus, Greece, where she was rescued from the salvage yard by a variety of ship preservationists who refused to let her die. The story of Elissa's discovery and restoration by the Galveston Historical Foundation is nothing short of miraculous.

Book Sailing Ship Elissa

Download or read book Sailing Ship Elissa written by Patricia Bellis Bixel and published by . This book was released on 2011-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in hardcover in 1998.

Book Sailing Ship Elissa

    Book Details:
  • Author : Patricia Bellis Bixel
  • Publisher : TAMU Press
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 128 pages

Download or read book Sailing Ship Elissa written by Patricia Bellis Bixel and published by TAMU Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the history of the barque ship Elissa and discusses why the ship was still used more than one hundred years after other similar ships were sent to the scrapyards.

Book Elissa  Tall Ship

Download or read book Elissa Tall Ship written by Randy Mallory and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Empty Schoolhouse

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  • Author : Luther Bryan Clegg
  • Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
  • Release : 1997
  • ISBN : 9781585442645
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book The Empty Schoolhouse written by Luther Bryan Clegg and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation One- and two-room schools represent a paradoxical time in Texas history when school played second fiddle to family duties but still served as the focus of community life. Luther Bryan Clegg's The Empty Schoolhouse provides a direct link to the past through interviews with students who attended these schools and teachers who taught in this area between Fort Worth and Odessa and the Hill Country and Amarillo. Former students share stories describing Friday afternoon "literary societies, " dead snakes in desk drawers, pranks, fires, travel to and from school, and discipline. Drawing on historical and sociological data as well as interviews, Clegg presents intriguing accounts of rural life, preserving the uniqueness of the "olden days."

Book Chapman Great Sailing Ships of the World

Download or read book Chapman Great Sailing Ships of the World written by Otmar Schäuffelen and published by Hearst Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Come sailing with Chapman, on the pages of an expansive, attractively illustrated reference to large, and frequently famous, sailboats from around the globe. Enthusiasts will find completely up-to-date information on these extremely popular boats, more than 450 color photos, and descriptions of different types of sailing ships and rigging. Each craft listed features a full-color picture, details, and statistics, accompanied by facts and figures on its home port, the year it was built, the names of the owner and crew, plus rigging, tonnage, mast, sails, and use.

Book We re Czechs

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  • Author : Skrabanek
  • Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
  • Release : 1989-02
  • ISBN : 9780890964132
  • Pages : 260 pages

Download or read book We re Czechs written by Skrabanek and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 1989-02 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Donated By : James, Virginia, & J.R. Gerick.

Book Searching for Black Confederates

Download or read book Searching for Black Confederates written by Kevin M. Levin and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2019-08-09 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 150 years after the end of the Civil War, scores of websites, articles, and organizations repeat claims that anywhere between 500 and 100,000 free and enslaved African Americans fought willingly as soldiers in the Confederate army. But as Kevin M. Levin argues in this carefully researched book, such claims would have shocked anyone who served in the army during the war itself. Levin explains that imprecise contemporary accounts, poorly understood primary-source material, and other misrepresentations helped fuel the rise of the black Confederate myth. Moreover, Levin shows that belief in the existence of black Confederate soldiers largely originated in the 1970s, a period that witnessed both a significant shift in how Americans remembered the Civil War and a rising backlash against African Americans' gains in civil rights and other realms. Levin also investigates the roles that African Americans actually performed in the Confederate army, including personal body servants and forced laborers. He demonstrates that regardless of the dangers these men faced in camp, on the march, and on the battlefield, their legal status remained unchanged. Even long after the guns fell silent, Confederate veterans and other writers remembered these men as former slaves and not as soldiers, an important reminder that how the war is remembered often runs counter to history.

Book Czech Voices

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  • Author : Clinton Machann
  • Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
  • Release : 1991
  • ISBN : 9780890968468
  • Pages : 188 pages

Download or read book Czech Voices written by Clinton Machann and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Centennial series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A & M University ; no. 39." Early Czech immigrants in Texas.

Book Jean Laffite Revealed

Download or read book Jean Laffite Revealed written by Ashley Oliphant and published by University of Louisiana at Lafayette. This book was released on 2021 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Jean Laffite Revealed: Unraveling One of America's Longest Running Mysteries takes a fresh look at the various myths and legends surrounding the life and death of one of the last great pirates, Jean Laffite, exploring the theory that Laffite faked his death in the early 1820s and re-entered the United States under an assumed name. Beginning in New Orleans in 1805, the book traces Laffite through his rise to power as a privateer and smuggler in the Gulf, his involvement in the Battle of New Orleans, his flight to Galveston, Texas and eventual disappearance in the waters of the Caribbean, then picking up the trail as he makes a return into the country under a new identity. The tale follows Laffite's subsequent journey across the South and his eventual end in North Carolina, where he died in 1875 at the age of ninety-five. Backed up by thorough research and ample documentation, the book contradicts the prevailing thought about the disappearance and death of Laffite, making a compelling case that is sure to intrigue and inspire scholars and history buffs for many years to come"--

Book Slowly Down the Ganges

    Book Details:
  • Author : Eric Newby
  • Publisher : HarperCollins UK
  • Release : 2013-02-21
  • ISBN : 0007508212
  • Pages : 402 pages

Download or read book Slowly Down the Ganges written by Eric Newby and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2013-02-21 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Slowly Down the Ganges’ is seen as a vintage Newby masterpiece, alongside ‘A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush’ and ‘Love and War in the Apennines’. Told with Newby's self-deprecating humour and wry attention to detail, this is a classic of the genre and a window into an enchanting piece of history.

Book Tam O Shanter

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  • Author : Robert Burns
  • Publisher : DigiCat
  • Release : 2022-09-16
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 25 pages

Download or read book Tam O Shanter written by Robert Burns and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-16 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Tam O'Shanter" by Robert Burns. 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 Early Galveston Artists and Photographers  Recovering a Legacy

Download or read book Early Galveston Artists and Photographers Recovering a Legacy written by Pat Jakobi and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021-03-08 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since Audubon visited Galveston in 1837, artists have flocked to the island, some just passing through and others staying their entire lives. But because Galveston remained remote from the nation's cultural centers, its artistic contributions were initially largely ignored. However, the recovery effort from the Great Storm of 1900 spurred a new sense of local pride and civic determination. The Cotton Carnivals attracted people throughout the state, the city's artists united to promote local art through the creation of the Galveston Art League and photographers modernized their practices. In the early 1920s, a new generation, freed from nineteenth-century traditions, started to gain attention both on and off the island. Explore Galveston's artistic heritage with local historian Pat Jakobi, from the portraits of Thomas Flintoff to the Balinese Room murals of Marie Marchi Ragone.

Book Koa Kai  The Story of Zachary Bower and the Conquest of the Hawaiian Islands

Download or read book Koa Kai The Story of Zachary Bower and the Conquest of the Hawaiian Islands written by Pollock and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-12 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While growing up on a farm in New England, Zachary Bower does not have much time to Play. But when he is not doing chores and learning to read and write, he happily reenacts the glory of his brother's stories fighting the British during the War of Independence. After his mother tragically dies in 1789, Zachary's uncle invites him on his next expedition at sea. As the thirteen-year-old boy heads to sea in his uncle's barque, he becomes a competent seaman while enduring the rounding of Cape Horn and sailing to Spanish California. After Zachary is separated from his ship and injected into the crew of a Hawaii-bound schooner, the vessel is attacked soon after arriving off Maui, leaving Zachary and one other crewman as the only survivors. Zachary, the schooner, and its weapons are acquired from the local chief by Kamehameha. Zachary is trained and is transformed into a warrior in Kamehameha's Army.

Book This I Can Leave You

Download or read book This I Can Leave You written by Mamie Sypert Burns and published by Reveille Books. This book was released on 1986-12-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When D Burns arrived at the mighty Pitchfork Ranch as the new manager in 1942, he walked straight into the hostility of a lot of longtime hands who did not want to take orders from an outsider. Gradually, though, D and his wife, Mamie, won allies and made a place for themselves on the historic spread. For the next twenty-three years Mamie jotted down stories about the cowhands, the cooks and gardeners at the Big House, the many guests, and her own lively family. Her stories reveal life as it was on an isolated ranch during the war years and the years of change that followed. The Pitchfork is one of Texas’ largest and oldest ranches, eighty miles east of Lubbock and a hundred miles north of Abilene. Mamie’s reminiscences about life there with her husband, her grandchildren, and the many hired hands needed to run such a spread portray the exuberant informality of chuck-house meals, the color of Christmas dances, and the Forks’ grand tradition of hospitality. “My book is about the ranch people,” she writes, “more than it is about the ranch’s history, or its skunks and rattlesnakes.”

Book Origin  A Novel

    Book Details:
  • Author : Diana Abu-Jaber
  • Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
  • Release : 2008-05-17
  • ISBN : 0393066657
  • Pages : 401 pages

Download or read book Origin A Novel written by Diana Abu-Jaber and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2008-05-17 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Finally, a novel of literary suspense that gets almost everything right—forensically and psychologically." —Sarah Weinman, Baltimore Sun Secretly, in her heart of hearts, Lena Dawson hides the strangest of beliefs about her childhood. Hiding behind a cool competence as a superb fingerprint analyst in a crime lab in snowy Syracuse, New York, she feels totally out of place in the ordinary world of human interaction. Especially since the controlling husband who guided and protected her, then cheated and left her (though now he wants her back). Her uncanny ability to read a crime scene draws her into investigating a mysterious series of crib deaths—but ultimately the most difficult puzzle she must solve is the one of her own origins. Diana Abu-Jaber, a “gifted and graceful writer” (Chicago Tribune), masterfully “transcends formula” (Kirkus Reviews) as “the tension of Origin escalates, shaped as much by beautifully nuanced prose as menacing events” (New York Daily News).

Book Women Pirates and the Politics of the Jolly Roger

Download or read book Women Pirates and the Politics of the Jolly Roger written by Ulrike Klausmann and published by Black Rose. This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An account of piracy through three millenia, in histories of women and men sailing on four seas. Writing with passion and humour, but without romanticizing or ignoring the unsavory side of some of their heroines, the authors turn history on its head."--BOOK JACKET.