Download or read book Up and Down California in 1860 1864 written by William H. Brewer and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2003-02 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These warmly affectionate letters, presented here in their entirety, paint a vivid picture of California in the mid-nineteenth century, describing the new state in all its spectacular beauty."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Up and Down California in 1860 1864 written by William Henry Brewer and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The journal seems to contain information for everyone regardless of one's interest...Each page of this almost six hundred page journal is crammed with facts and descriptions. So much of interest is contained in every entry that each re-reading will reveal many interesting incidents or observations not quite grasped on the first perusal....This book will be a valuable source to all students of California or United States history and to the casual readers as well.
Download or read book Up and Down California in 1860 1864 written by William Henry Brewer and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Henry Brewer (1828-1910) was a professor of chemistry at Washington College in Pennsylvania when he joined the staff of California's first State Geologist, Josiah Dwight Whitney, 1860-1864. On returning east, Brewer became Professor of Agriculture at Yale, a post he held for nearly forty years. Up and down California (1930) collects Brewer's letters and journal entries recording his work with Whitney's geological survey of California, chronicling not merely the survey's scientific work but the social, agricultural, and economic life of the state from south to north as the survey's men passed along.
Download or read book Up and Down California in 1860 1864 written by William Henry Brewer and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Three Years in California written by Walter Colton and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Last Days of the Late Great State of California written by Curt Gentry and published by Comstock Editions Incorporated. This book was released on 1977-02 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Memoirs of a British Agent written by R. H. Bruce Lockhart and published by Frontline Books. This book was released on 2011-04-30 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When first published in 1932, this memoir was an immediate classic, both as a unique eyewitness account of Revolutionary Russia and as one mans story of struggle, and tragedy set against the background of great events. Aged 25, Lockhart became the British Vice-Consul to Moscow in 1912. With revolution in the air, it was dangerous, decadent posting. The 'Boy Ambassador' became an eyewitness to pivotal events and in 1918 was charged with establishing a diplomatic understanding with the Bolsheviks, to ensure that Russia remained in the war against Germany. It was a precarious mission: Whitehall could not be seen support revolutionaries; Lockhart grew wary of his masters secret machinations; while Lenin and Trotsky's cordial relations with the British agent never quite dispelled their mistrust of the nation he represented. When Lockhart met Moura Budberg, who became the great love of his life, he was in an increasingly vulnerable position. In September 1918 he would be falsely accused of a counter-revolutionary plot to overthrow the Bolsheviks, and sent to the Loubianka. His account even inspired a Hollywood movie. From his evocative descriptions of revolutionary Moscow, where the champagne flowed as the bourgeoisie trembled, to his audiences with Trotsky and his brushes with death, this is a vivid, unique memoir.
Download or read book History of the Sierra Nevada written by Francis Peloubet Farquhar and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1965 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Panorama of human experiences in California's "great snowy range", including the Yosemite, Mt. Whitney, and Lake Tahoe areas, from its sighting by Spaniards to the present.
Download or read book Geronimo s Kids written by Robert S. Ove and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Through the stories of the elders, he also learned how this way of life had changed since their capture, as many of the traditional ways of the Chiricahuas were altered or lost in the ensuing decades after Geronimo's people surrendered to the U.S. Army in 1886. Decades of incarceration followed - first in Florida, then in Alabama, and finally in Oklahoma. More than half died in hot, humid prison camps because the Chiricahuas had no inborn resistance to the virulent diseases brought to North America by Europeans. Then in 1913, with fewer than three hundred left, the Chiricahuas were released and received land allotments near their last prison site, Fort Sill, or on the Mescalero Apache Reservation where Ove arrived thirty-five years later."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book They Followed the Piper written by Lee Hultquist and published by Bridge-Logos. This book was released on 1977 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Alfred North Whitehead written by Victor Lowe and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1985. The second volume of Victor Lowe's definitive work on Alfred North Whitehead completes the biography of one of the twentieth century's most influential yet least understood philosophers. In 1910 Whitehead abruptly ended his thirty-year association with Trinity College of Cambridge and moved to London. The intellectual and personal restlessness that precipitated this move ultimately led Whitehead—at the age of sixty-three—to settle in America and change the focus of his work from mathematics to philosophy. Volume 2 of Alfred North Whitehead: The Man and His Work follows Whitehead's journey to the United States and analyzes his expanding intellectual life. Although Whitehead wrote philosophy based on natural science while still in London, he began his most important work shortly after moving to Harvard in 1924. Science and the Modern World appeared in 1925, Religion in the Making in 1926, Symbolism in 1927, and Process and Reality in 1929. Discussing these and other important works, Lowe combines scholarly analysis with valuable insights gathered from Whitehead's friends and colleagues. Although Whitehead ordered that all his private papers be destroyed, Lowe was given access to letters the philosopher wrote to his son, North, and others. Never before published, the letters add a new personal dimension to Whitehead's life and thought. Photographs of the philosopher, his family, and associates provide an intimate look at a private and self-effacing man whose work has had a lasting impact on twentieth-century thought.
Download or read book I ll Take Texas written by Mary Lasswell and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the portrait of a Texas truly learned by heart, the real Texas that lies behind the too familiar backdrop of oil rigs and Cadillacs.
Download or read book Assembling California written by John McPhee and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At various times in a span of fifteen years, John McPhee made geological field surveys in the company of Eldridge Moores, a tectonicist at the University of California at Davis. The result of these trips is Assembling California, a cross-section in human and geologic time, from Donner Pass in the Sierra Nevada through the golden foothills of the Mother Lode and across the Great Central Valley to the wine country of the Coast Ranges, the rock of San Francisco, and the San Andreas family of faults. The two disparate time scales occasionally intersect—in the gold disruptions of the nineteenth century no less than in the earthquakes of the twentieth—and always with relevance to a newly understood geologic history in which half a dozen large and separate pieces of country are seen to have drifted in from far and near to coalesce as California. McPhee and Moores also journeyed to remote mountains of Arizona and to Cyprus and northern Greece, where rock of the deep-ocean floor has been transported into continental settings, as it has in California. Global in scope and a delight to read, Assembling California is a sweeping narrative of maps in motion, of evolving and dissolving lands.
Download or read book Fur Trade and Empire written by Sir George Simpson and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simpson's reorganization of Oregon Territory after amalgamation with the Northwest Company. First published in 1931.
Download or read book The 5th of July written by R. K. Lindsey and published by Xlibris. This book was released on 2014-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert K. Lindsey is a keiki o ka 'âina, a child of the land, born in Hilo on the biggest Hawaiian island, and raised in Waimea at the foothills of the Kohala mountains. Waimea was a quiet and quaint paniolo (cattle) town when he was growing up there, and Parker Ranch was the foundation of the community. And though the place has changed across time, its beauty still abounds. Lindsey says he "suffers from island fever, and I'm glad I do. Mark Twain described Hawai'i as 'the loveliest fleet of islands that lies anchored in any ocean.' Twain is one reason I've never ventured far from home. He convinced me early on that all I need is right here. I'm stuck to this rock called Hawai'i forever." In his work life, Lindsey has strived to serve the interests of his lâhui (people) to the best of his abilities, first as a social worker with the Family Court of the Third Circuit, then as a park ranger with the National Park Service at Pu'ukoholâ Heiau National Historic Site. He also served as the land assets director--Hawai'i Island with Kamehameha Schools (1994-2004)--and is currently a trustee with the Office of Hawaiian Affairs (2005-2013). He is also a Hawaiian Home Lands lessee (1986-2085). Lindsey believes that "as Hawaiian Americans living in a globalized world, for the sake of Mother Earth and our children, the pono (right) thing for us to do is to let bygones be bygones and to forgive but not forget the sins of yesteryears that were committed against us. We must live joyously in the moment and look with hope and optimism to the future . . . It's said 'the one constant in life is change.' One of the lesser fictionalized characters in The 5th of July is Abigail Hathaway McMoore. Her takeaway lesson for us is this: for the sake of our children and the children of the world, we should not be bitter toward change but embrace it, be its advocate, not its victim; its champion, not tormentor; its friend, not adversary. As a contemporary Hawaiian, I subscribe to that philosophy." The 5th of July is Lindsey's second book. His first title, Latitude 20.04°N Longitude 155.71°W was published in 2013.
Download or read book If I Die Before I Wake written by Jean Little and published by Markham, Ont. : Scholastic Canada. This book was released on 2007 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I can hardly bear to look at Fanny. She is grey and her breath rasps and gurgles and wheezes. She has lost pounds. Her face is all hollow and a dark colour. A bluish grey. That is one of the symptoms of this Flu, Aunt told us. Nobody is saying the word, but we all know. So many have died, but not my Fan. I will not leave her no matter what anyone says." Fee uses her diary to record all of her fears when the Spanish Flu rages through Toronto. It comforts her when she almost loses her twin sister -- and when it actually takes their older sister Jemma.
Download or read book Charles Dickens written by Edgar Johnson and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 1979 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A scholarly biography of the author.
