Download or read book Smugglers Woods written by Arthur Dudley Pierce and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1960 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arthur Pierce tells the vivid story of smugglers turned privateers after the Revolutionary War broke out. He recounts from many sources tales of ships and men who fought and, although outnumbered and outgunned, still played havoc with British shipping. He tells also of the profiteering that went hand in hand with the privateering of the war years. From the Mullica River to Cape May stretched the woodlands and the inlets that harbored smugglers. Stealthy and dangerous though their activities were, the smugglers were not outcasts. They were looked upon with indulgence by many respectable citizens of the day. As bitterness toward the mother country mounted, smugglers were encouraged and actively supported in their operation agains the Crown. The Jersey inns and taverns emerged as the "cradles of revolt" in the years immediately preceding the Revolution. In them were planned and fostered many intrigues and acts of violence that played important parts behind the scenes of military and official action. A number of these inns and taverns are still in active use today and are depicted in the illustrations. Smugglers' Woods deals with smugglers, privateers, patriots, and loyalists to give an exciting account of the tensions and conflicts that gripped pre-Revolutionary and Revolutionary New Jersey.
Download or read book Smugglers Woods Jaunts and Journeys in Colonial and Revolutionary New Jersey With Plates written by Arthur Dudley Pierce and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Privateers of the Revolution written by Donald Grady Shomette and published by Schiffer + ORM. This book was released on 2016-07-28 with total page 549 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A narrative of the forgotten privateering war on the Jersey coast during the American Revolution Addresses the maritime conflict period 1775-1783 from both Patriot and Loyalist perspectives Reveals the hitherto untold account of the British “Death Ships” on which 11,000 died
Download or read book In the Footsteps of Smugglers written by Georgina Howard and published by Bradt Travel Guides. This book was released on 2024-07-17 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After eight years living in Copenhagen, an English journalist, driven by a passion for languages and mountains, finally rebels. With little more than an assortment of Earl Grey teabags, Danish candles and a map, Georgina Howard abandons her all-too-cosy, cinnamon-scented lifestyle and drives south. he journey leads to wild and craggy landscapes in the Basque Pyrenees on the French/Spanish border, where place names are written in a bizarre, foreign tongue full of ‘x’s and ‘z’s. Losing her heart to this beautiful land and her pride to the inscrutability of the language, Howard moves into an isolated barn in a mountain hamlet. While pagan festivals reverberate through the valleys, her Basque neighbours – farmers, shepherds, a gravedigger and a champion female lumberjack – observe her, bemused. Only when her daughter, Marion, is born – after an unsuccessful relationship with an eccentric Basque miller – do Howard’s neighbours drop their reserve and welcome her into their homes. Taking Marion’s upbringing upon themselves, they fatten her up on spicy Basque sausages and black bean stews, teach her Basque nursery rhymes and train her to milk sheep. Meanwhile, Howard converts a barn into the headquarters of an international business providing walking, culture and language tours. Resigned to the ineptitude of their new neighbour, with patience and amusement, the locals tow her car out of ditches and teach her how to stack wood, catch mice, unblock septic tanks and drink wine from a leather gourd. In the Footsteps of Smugglers follows the adventures of an outsider: a single mother, linguist, cosmopolitan nomad and cultural chameleon who paradoxically makes her home among an indigenous people deeply rooted in their land, with a language and culture dating back to Stone-Age times. Unwittingly, she repays their hospitality by luring anti-terrorist squads, blackmailers and spies into their midst as the dramatic past of the Basque Country proves to have unexpected and far-reaching consequences. An inspiring, humorous travel memoir, Bradt’s In the Footsteps of Smugglers weaves behind-the-scenes vignettes of daily rural life and historical research to produce authentic insights on all things Basque, threaded with a rhapsody on the theme of identity.
Download or read book Smugglers and foresters by M R S Kettle by M R S Kettle written by Mary Rosa S. Kettle and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings written by John Denison Champlin and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book New Jersey in the American Revolution written by Barbara J. Mitnick and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2007-03-12 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This remarkably comprehensive anthology brings new life to the rich and turbulent late 18th-century period in New Jersey. Originally conceived for the state's 225th Anniversary of the Revolution Celebration Commission.
Download or read book Through the Woods written by Emily Carroll and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eisner Award Winner: “A graphic debut that blends the gothic strangeness of Tim Burton with the macabre illustrations of Edward Gorey . . . wonderfully chilling.” —Financial Times Journey through the woods in this sinister, compellingly spooky collection that features four brand-new stories and one phenomenally popular tale. These are fairy tales gone seriously wrong, where you can travel to “Our Neighbor’s House” —though coming back might be a problem. Or find yourself a young bride in a house that holds a terrible secret in “A Lady’s Hands Are Cold.” You might try to figure out what is haunting “My Friend Janna,” or discover that your brother’s fiancée may not be what she seems in “The Nesting Place.” And of course, you must revisit the horror of the breakout webcomic hit “His Face All Red.” “Eerie illustrations . . . masterfully build terrifying tension.” —Booklist (starred review) “Through the Woods is, in every sense of the word, thrilling.” —The New York Times Book Review “Beautifully rendered . . . A delight for Edgar Allan Poe and Alvin Schwartz enthusiasts.” —School Library Journal (starred review) “Carroll makes the woods of the title entirely her own, a metaphor for the danger that lurks and snarls outside the door, but which entices us outside, nevertheless.” —Globe and Mail “Brilliant.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Download or read book Take a walk in the woods written by S. R. Rangarajan and published by Scriptor Publication. This book was released on 2021-10-20 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes the reader to the unknown world of nature. It is an invitation to the readers, inner forests to walk in the outer Wilde's. The author is trying to unearth the connection between the hidden will and the wild Woods. He pursued his enquiry by moving around the globe and becoming an earnest student to learn more about Mother Nature. He travels through the wild forests in British Columbia searching for the Blue Mind Effect and it's proximity with water bodies. Shinrin yoku life span of people in Okinawa, and the healing code of nature everything is well explained in this book.
Download or read book The Smugglers written by Charles G. Harper and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-05 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Smugglers: Picturesque Chapters in the Story of an Ancient Craft" by Charles G. Harper lets readers get a look into the long-standing craft of smuggling. Around the world, cities and civilizations were terrorized by smugglers, and no matter what steps governing bodies took to combat this, these crafty men and women were always one step ahead of them. This book is steeped in facts, while at the same time being a fast-paced thrill of of a read.
Download or read book Ski written by and published by . This book was released on 2005-10 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Games for Fun Fitness and Learning written by Kathi Wyldeck and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This American edition is a reference book of 335 games for parents, teachers, home-schooling families, childcare workers, Cub Scout Leaders, Sunday School teachers, and anyone else who supervises or entertains children. The book is divided into three main sections: physical and mental, life skill, and educational. The physical and mental games are for fun and fitness, and can be enjoyed at birthday parties, family get-togethers, vacation and scouting camps, and on weekend outings. The life skill games are especially designed for Cub Scout Leaders, and include such activities as map and compass reading, knotting, first aid, home safety, and outdoor cooking. The educational games include fun activities in math, English, science, history, geography, foreign languages, art and music. Teachers and home-schooling families will find this section instructive, stimulating and very unusual. The games are suitable for 7 to 17 year olds, and some of the activities will challenge even the cleverest teenagers.
Download or read book Ski written by and published by . This book was released on 2009-10 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ski written by and published by . This book was released on 2001-10 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ski written by and published by . This book was released on 2006-10 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Salt Smugglers written by Gerard de Nerval and published by Archipelago. This book was released on 2009-07-10 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published as a feuilleton in a left-wing newspaper in 1850, The Salt Smugglers provides a political satire of the waning days of France’s short-lived Second Republic. With nods to Diderot and Sterne, this shaggy-dog story deals less with contraband salt smugglers than with the subversive power of fiction to transgress legal and esthetic boundaries. By writing what he claimed was a purely documentary account of his picaresque adventures in search of an elusive book recording the true history of a certain seventeenth-century swashbuckler, Nerval sought to deride the press censors of the day who forbade the serial publication of novels in newspapers – and in the process he provocatively deconstructed existing distinctions between fact and fiction. Never before translated into English and still unavailable as a separately published volume in French, The Salt Smugglers is a pre-postmodern gem of experimental prose. Richard Sieburth’s vibrant translation and illuminating afterword remind us why Gérard de Nerval’s blend of sly irony and acerbic social criticism proved so inspiring to authors as various as Baudelaire, Proust, and Leiris.
Download or read book Pirates Privateers from Long Island Sound to Delaware Bay written by Jamie L. H. Goodall and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2022-05 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illicit commerce was key to the survival of the mid-Atlantic colonies from the Golden Age of piracy to the battles of the American Revolution. Out of this exciting time came beloved villains like Captain William Kidd and Black Sam Bellamy as well as inspiring locals like Captain Shelley and James Forten. Learn of the legend of Sadie the Goat and her Charlton Street Gang as piracy was ending in the region in the 19th century. From the shores of New York to the oceans of the East Indies, from Delaware Bay to the islands of the West Indies, author Jamie L.H. Goodall illuminates the height of piratical depredations in the mid-Atlantic in the 17th and 18th centuries.
