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Book Sketches of Camp Life in the Wilds of the Aroostook Woods  Aroostook County  Maine

Download or read book Sketches of Camp Life in the Wilds of the Aroostook Woods Aroostook County Maine written by Charles C. West and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Citizen 13660

Download or read book Citizen 13660 written by and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mine Okubo was one of 110,000 people of Japanese descent--nearly two-thirds of them American citizens -- who were rounded up into "protective custody" shortly after Pearl Harbor. Citizen 13660, her memoir of life in relocation centers in California and Utah, was first published in 1946, then reissued by University of Washington Press in 1983 with a new Preface by the author. With 197 pen-and-ink illustrations, and poignantly written text, the book has been a perennial bestseller, and is used in college and university courses across the country. "[Mine Okubo] took her months of life in the concentration camp and made it the material for this amusing, heart-breaking book. . . . The moral is never expressed, but the wry pictures and the scanty words make the reader laugh -- and if he is an American too -- blush." -- Pearl Buck Read more about Mine Okubo in the 2008 UW Press book, Mine Okubo: Following Her Own Road, edited by Greg Robinson and Elena Tajima Creef. http://www.washington.edu/uwpress/search/books/ROBMIN.html

Book Mine Okubo

    Book Details:
  • Author : Greg Robinson
  • Publisher : University of Washington Press
  • Release : 2018-07-01
  • ISBN : 0295997621
  • Pages : 238 pages

Download or read book Mine Okubo written by Greg Robinson and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2018-07-01 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “To me life and art are one and the same, for the key lies in one's knowledge of people and life. In art one is trying to express it in the simplest imaginative way, as in the art of past civilizations, for beauty and truth are the only two things which live timeless and ageless.” - Miné Okubo This is the first book-length critical examination of the life and work of Miné Okubo (1912-2001), a pioneering Nisei artist, writer, and social activist who repeatedly defied conventional role expectations for women and for Japanese Americans over her seventy-year career. Okubo's landmark Citizen 13660 (first published in 1946) is the first and arguably best-known autobiographical narrative of the wartime Japanese American relocation and confinement experience. Born in Riverside, California, Okubo was incarcerated by the U.S. government during World War II, first at the Tanforan Assembly Center in California and later at the Topaz War Relocation Center in Utah. There she taught art and directed the production of a literary and art magazine. While in camp, Okubo documented her confinement experience by making hundreds of paintings and pen-and-ink sketches. These provided the material for Citizen 13660. Word of her talent spread to Fortune magazine, which hired her as an illustrator. Under the magazine's auspices, she was able to leave the camp and relocate to New York City, where she pursued her art over the next half century. This lovely and inviting book, lavishly illustrated with both color and halftone images, many of which have never before been reproduced, introduces readers to Okubo's oeuvre through a selection of her paintings, drawings, illustrations, and writings from different periods of her life. In addition, it contains tributes and essays on Okubo's career and legacy by specialists in the fields of art history, education, women's studies, literature, American political history, and ethnic studies, essays that illuminate the importance of her contributions to American arts and letters. Miné Okubo expands the sparse critical literature on Asian American women, as well as that on the Asian American experience in the eastern United States. It also serves as an excellent companion to Citizen 13660, providing critical tools and background to place Okubo's work in its historical and literary contexts.

Book The World s History  Western Asia  Africa

Download or read book The World s History Western Asia Africa written by Hans Ferdinand Helmolt and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An English adaptation of Helmolt's Weltgeschichte, with a rejection of sections which did not seem quite adequate from the point of view of its English readers". -- Publisher's note.

Book The Sketch

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1900
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 622 pages

Download or read book The Sketch written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Camping Life

Download or read book The Camping Life written by Brendan Leonard and published by Artisan. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Packed with expert information and inspiring photography, The Camping Life is the perfect invitation to leave the noise and screens behind—if only for a single night—and reconnect with nature. From backpacking to bikepacking, camping while white-water rafting to big wall climbing, outdoor adventurers Brendan Leonard and Forest Woodward cover it all: how to pack a backpack, how to set up a tent in the snow, how to camp with your dog, how to build a campfire, how to judge a river’s difficulty. And, critically, how to leave no trace, while returning refreshed, recharged, and alive with new experience.

Book Drawn Across Borders  True Stories of Human Migration

Download or read book Drawn Across Borders True Stories of Human Migration written by George Butler and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a celebrated documentary artist, twelve portraits from the front lines of migration form an intimate record of why people leave behind the places they call home. It is an unusual feeling to walk into a place that everyone is leaving . . . Resisting his own urge to walk away, award-winning artist George Butler took his sketchbook and made, over the course of a decade, a series of remarkable pen-and-ink and watercolor portraits in war zones, refugee camps, and on the move. While he worked, his subjects—migrants and refugees in the Middle East, Europe, Africa, and Asia—shared their stories. Theirs are the human stories behind the headlines that tell of fleeing poverty, disaster, and war, and of venturing into the unknown in search of jobs, education, and security. Whether sketching by the hospital bed of a ten-year-old Syrian boy who survived an airstrike, drawing the doll of a little Palestinian girl with big questions, or talking with a Masai herdsman forced to abandon his rural Kenyan home for the Kibera slums, George Butler turns reflective art and sensitive reportage into an eloquent cry for understanding and empathy. Taken together and elegantly packaged, his beautiful portraits form a moving testament to our shared humanity—and the universal urge for safety and a better life.

Book We Built Up Our Lives

    Book Details:
  • Author : Maxine S. Seller
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Release : 2001-08-30
  • ISBN : 0313075719
  • Pages : 274 pages

Download or read book We Built Up Our Lives written by Maxine S. Seller and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2001-08-30 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fearing an imminent Nazi invasion, the British government interned 28,000 men and women of enemy nationality living in Britain in the spring of 1940. Most were Jewish refugees who, having fled Nazi persecution, were appalled to find themselves imprisoned as potential Nazi spies. Using oral histories, unpublished letters and memoirs, artifacts and newspapers from the camps, and government documents, We Built Up Our Lives tells the compelling story of sixty-three of these internees. It is a seldom-told part of the history of World War II and the Holocaust and a classic tale of human courage and resilience. We Built Up Our Lives describes the survival mechanisms relied upon by the Jewish refugees. Although the internees, imprisoned in Britain, the Isle of Man, Canada, and Australia, were adequately housed and fed and rarely mistreated, they were cut off from family, friends, school, and work--everything that had given meaning to their lives. Resisting boredom, anger, and despair, the internees made the best of a bad situation by creating education, culture, and community within the camps. Before and after as well as during the internment--in Nazi Germany and in Britain--educational resources and social networks were essential to the refugees' efforts to build up their lives. Equally important were personal qualities of courage, ingenuity, assertiveness, and resilience.

Book Fishing with the Fly   Sketches by Lovers of the Art

Download or read book Fishing with the Fly Sketches by Lovers of the Art written by Various and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2021-03-22 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Fishing with the Fly - Sketches by Lovers of Art” is a wonderful book full of anecdotes, sketches, guides, notes, and more on the subject of fishing, written by various authors. These interesting, informative, and entertaining pieces capture the beauty and art of fishing, and will appeal to those with a keen interest in the subject be it practical or academic. Contents include: “Etchings on a Salmon Stream”, “Fly Casting for Salmon”, “The Salmon and Trout of Alaska”, “Sea-Trout”, “Rangeley Brook Trout”, “The Grayling”, “A Trouting Trip to St. Ignace Island”, “The Angler's Greeting”, “The Lure”, “Fly-fishing in the Yosemite”, “How to Cast a Fly”, “Trout: Meeting in the Yosemite”, “The Poetry of Fly Fishing”, etc. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with that in mind that we are republishing this volume now in a modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on the history of fishing.

Book Harding s Lessons on Drawing

    Book Details:
  • Author : J. D. Harding
  • Publisher : Courier Corporation
  • Release : 2012-03-08
  • ISBN : 048613783X
  • Pages : 242 pages

Download or read book Harding s Lessons on Drawing written by J. D. Harding and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-03-08 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of 19th-century England's most respected artists and teachers presents 127 lessons that train both hand and mind in fundamentals of lines and circles, light and shade, perspective, and much more.

Book Private Dalzell  His Autobiography  Poems  and Comic War Papers  Sketch of John Gray  Washington s Last Soldier  Etc

Download or read book Private Dalzell His Autobiography Poems and Comic War Papers Sketch of John Gray Washington s Last Soldier Etc written by James McCormick Dalzell and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Approaching Civil War and Southern History

Download or read book Approaching Civil War and Southern History written by William J. Cooper, Jr. and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2019-02-13 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Initially published between 1970 and 2012, the essays in Approaching Civil War and Southern History span almost the entirety of William J. Cooper’s illustrious scholarly career and range widely across a broad spectrum of subjects in Civil War and southern history. Together, they illustrate the broad scope of Cooper’s work. While many essays deal with his well-known interests, such as Jefferson Davis or the secession crisis, others are on lesser-known subjects, such as Civil War artist Edwin Forbes and the writer Daniel R. Hundley. In the new introduction to each chapter, Cooper notes the essay’s origins and purpose, explaining how it fits into his overarching interest in the nineteenth-century political history of the South. Combined and reprinted here for the first time, the ten essays in Approaching Civil War and Southern History reveal why Cooper is recognized today as one of the most influential historians of our time.

Book The Saturday Review of Politics  Literature  Science and Art

Download or read book The Saturday Review of Politics Literature Science and Art written by and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 1036 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Imaging Japanese America

    Book Details:
  • Author : Elena Tajima Creef
  • Publisher : NYU Press
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 0814716229
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book Imaging Japanese America written by Elena Tajima Creef and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creef looks at racial profiling Asian Americans over the past 100 years by examining images by well known photographers such as Dorothea Lange and Ansel Adams.

Book The American Magazine of Art

Download or read book The American Magazine of Art written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book American Magazine of Art

Download or read book American Magazine of Art written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: