Download or read book The Great Bonanza Illustrated Narrative of Adventure and Discovery in Gold Mining Silver Mining Among the Raftsmen in the Oil Regions Whaling Hunting Fishing and Fighting written by Robert Michael Ballantyne and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-06-13 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
Download or read book The Great Bonanza written by Oliver Optic and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Great Bonanza written by and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Jews of Kurdistan written by Erich Brauer and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following World War II, members of the sizable Jewish community in what had been Kurdistan, now part of Iraq, left their homeland and resettled in Palestine where they were quickly assimilated with the dominant Israeli-Jewish culture. Anthropologist Erich Brauer interviewed a large number of these Kurdish Jews and wrote The Jews of Kurdistan prior to his death in 1942. Raphael Patai completed the manuscript left by Brauer, translated it into Hebrew, and had it published in 1947. This new English-language volume, completed and edited by Patai, makes a unique ethnological monograph available to the wider scholarly community, and, at the same time, serves as a monument to a scholar whose work has to this day remained largely unknown outside the narrow circle of Hebrew-reading anthropologists. The Jews of Kurdistan is a unique historical document in that it presents a picture of Kurdish Jewish life and culture prior to World War II. It is the only ethnological study of the Kurdish Jews ever written and provides a comprehensive look at their material culture, life cycles, religious practices, occupations, and relations with the Muslims. In 1950-51, with the mass immigration of Kurdish Jews to Israel, their world as it had been before the war suddenly ceased to exist. This book reflects the life and culture of a Jewish community that has disappeared from the country it had inhabited from antiquity. In his preface, Raphael Patai offers data he considers important for supplementing Brauer's book, and comments on the book's values and limitations fifty years after Brauer wrote it. Patai has included additional information elicited from Kurdish Jews in Jerusalem, verified quotations, correctedsome passages that were inaccurately translated from Hebrew authors, completed the bibliography, and added occasional references to parallel traits found in other Oriental Jewish communities.
Download or read book Adventure Sport and Travel on the Tibetan Steppes written by W. N. Fergusson and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "... Mainly an account of two journeys taken through China and Tibet by the late Lieutenant Brooke, F. R. G. S. ... Of [Mr. Brooke's diary and photographs] ... and my own and Mr. Meares's observations ... I hope to make something which shall commemorate the real begetter of this volume, and interest the general reader ..."--Prefatory.
Download or read book Rafts and Other Rivercraft written by Peter G. Beidler and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2018-02-02 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The raft that carries Huck and Jim down the Mississippi River is often seen as a symbol of adventure and freedom, but the physical specifics of the raft itself are rarely considered. Peter Beidler shows that understanding the material world of Huckleberry Finn, its limitations and possibilities, is vital to truly understanding Mark Twain’s novel. He illustrates how experts on Twain’s works have misinterpreted important aspects of the story due to their unfamiliarity with the various rivercraft that figure in the book. Huck and Jim’s little raft is not made of logs, as it is often depicted in illustrations, but of sawn planks, and it was originally part of a much larger raft. Beidler explains why this matters and describes the other rivercraft that appear in the book. He gives what will almost certainly be the last word on the vexed question of whether the lengthy “raft episode,” removed at the publisher’s suggestion from the novel, should be restored to its original place.
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Download or read book Thin Ice written by Nick Wilkshire and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2014-10-08 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hockey is a dangerous game, but it’s what happens off the ice that can get you killed ... Curtis Ritchie is the only news in town when Ottawa takes the young hockey sensation first overall in the annual spring draft. But on the eve of Ritchie’s rookie season, the media frenzy over the signing and the controversial trades that secured the young star are eclipsed by news of his murder. As Ottawa Major Crimes Unit investigator Jack Smith reassembles Ritchie’s life, he is surprised by how much it differs from the fledgling star’s clean-cut image. A long list of suspects soon emerges, any one of whom had good reasons to want Ritchie dead. But there’s something else about the young phenom — a secret so profound that its revelation to the wrong person could only have meant Ritchie’s end.
Download or read book The Krakow Legends written by Jaroslaw Skora and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-03-26 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Krakow is a magical place. It is one of the oldest Polish cities with over a thousand years of history. There are few cities in Poland that are so filled with mysterious stories.Each apartment house, square, church is linked to an incredible story. Whoever wants to learn Polish soul, he should look for it in Krakow.This book is a collection of authentic legends of Krakow. Among the many legends and tales of Krakow this book presents 19 selected stories, from the oldest - to the latest ones. The choice includes the legends: Wawel Dragon, Mr. Twardowski, The foot of Queen Jadwiga, St Kinga's ring, St. Mary's Heynal, Wawel chakra, The two brothers and two towers, Black Lady, The unknown wanderer, Wawel head, The Krak Mound, On enchanted Krakow pigeons, Lajkonik, The priest who wanted to be a bishop, Tyniec Well, The treasures in Krzysztofory, The Sigismund Bell, The legend of Esther, Legend of the Jewish wedding.
Download or read book Mark Twain and the Novel written by Lawrence Howe and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-10-13 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a fresh look at Twain's major novels such as Life on the Mississippi, Huckleberry Finn and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.
Download or read book A Manual of Forest Engineering for India written by Charles Gilbert Rogers and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book When the White Pine Was King written by Jerry Apps and published by Wisconsin Historical Society. This book was released on 2020-08-14 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “From the ring of the ax in the woods, to the scream of the saw blade in the mill, to the founding of many of Wisconsin’s communities, Jerry Apps does an outstanding job bringing Wisconsin’s logging and lumbering heritage to life.”—Kerry P. Bloedorn, director, Rhinelander Pioneer Park Historical Complex For more than half a century, logging, lumber production, and affiliated enterprises in Wisconsin’s Northwoods provided jobs for tens of thousands of Wisconsinites and wealth for many individuals. The industry cut through the lives of nearly every Wisconsin citizen, from an immigrant lumberjack or camp cook in the Chippewa Valley to a Suamico sawmill operator, an Oshkosh factory worker to a Milwaukee banker. When the White Pine Was King tells the stories of the heyday of logging: of lumberjacks and camp cooks, of river drives and deadly log jams, of sawmills and lumber towns and the echo of the ax ringing through the Northwoods as yet another white pine crashed to the ground. He explores the aftermath of the logging era, including efforts to farm the cutover (most of them doomed to fail), successful reforestation work, and the legacy of the lumber and wood products industries, which continue to fuel the state’s economy. Enhanced with dozens of historic photos, When the White Pine Was King transports readers to the lumber boom era and reveals how the lessons learned in the vast northern forestlands continue to shape the region today.
Download or read book The Mercy Seat written by Rilla Askew and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1998-05-01 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A FINALIST FOR THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD An epic story that takes place on the dusty, remorseless Oklahoma frontier, where two brothers are deadlocked in a furious rivalry Fayette is an enterprising schemer hoping to cash in on his brother's talents as a gunsmith. John, determined not to repeat the crime that forced both families to flee their Kentucky homes, doggedly follows his tenacious brother west, while he watches his own family disintegrate. Wondrously told through the wary eyes of John's ten-year-old daughter, Mattie, whose gift of premonition proves to be both a blessing and a curse, The Mercy Seat resounds with the rhythms of the Old Testament even as it explores the mysteries of the Native American spirit world. Sharing Faulkner's understanding of the inescapable pull of family and history, and Cormac McCarthy's appreciation of the stark beauty of the American wilderness, Rilla Askew imbues this momentous work with her tremendous energy and emotional range. It is an extraordinary novel from a prodigious talent.
Download or read book Digest Review of Reviews Incorporating Literary Digest written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 1062 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mark Twain and the American West written by Joseph L. Coulombe and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Mark Twain and the American West, Joseph Coulombe explores how Mark Twain deliberately manipulated contemporary conceptions of the American West to create and then modify a public image that eventually won worldwide fame. He establishes the central role of the western region in the development of a persona that not only helped redefine American manhood and literary celebrity in the late nineteenth century, but also produced some of the most complex and challenging writings in the American canon.Coulombe sheds new light on previously underappreciated components of Twain's distinctly western persona. Gathering evidence from contemporary newspapers, letters, literature, and advice manuals, Coulombe shows how Twain's persona in the early 1860s as a hard-drinking, low-living straight-talker was an implicit response to western conventions of manhood. He then traces the author's movement toward a more sophisticated public image, arguing that Twain characterized language and authorship in the same manner that he described western men: direct, bold, physical, even violent. In this way, Twain capitalized upon common images of the West to create himself as a new sort of western outlaw--one who wrote.Coulombe outlines Twain's struggle to find the proper balance between changing cultural attitudes toward male respectability and rebellion and his own shifting perceptions of the East and the West. Focusing on the tension between these goals, Coulombe explores Twain's emergence as the moneyed and masculine man-of-letters, his treatment of American Indians in its relation to his depiction of Jim in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the enigmatic connection of Huck Finn to the natural world, and Twain's profound influence on Willa Cather's western novels.Mark Twain and the American West is sure to generate new interest and discussion about Mark Twain and his influence. By understanding how conventions of the region, conceptions of money and class, and constructions of manhood intersect with the creation of Twain's persona, Coulombe helps us better appreciate the writer's lasting effect on American thought and literature through the twentieth century and into the twenty-first.
