Download or read book Burt s Letters written by Edmund Burt and published by Birlinn Ltd. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1730, Edmund Burt was sent to Scotland to work as a contractor for the government. For most of the time, he was based in Inverness, from where he wrote regularly to an acquaintance in London about his experiences. Burt had an insatiable curiosity about everything. From cooking and personal hygiene (the standards of which continually shocked him), to weddings, funerals, public executions and even the activities of witches, no aspect of Highland life or society escaped his scrutiny. Burt's witty and satirical style makes entertaining reading, but whilst he was certainly critical of many things, he draws a very sympathetic picture of the grinding hardship and poverty faced by so much of the ordinary population. His writing is a salutary antidote to many of the Romantic views of the Highlands and Jacobitism, which were later to take hold. It is now available for the first time in one volume, with modernised spelling and includes an Introduction by Charles W. J. Withers, Professor of Geography in the University of Edinburgh.
Download or read book Burt s Letters from the North of Scotland written by Edward Burt and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Burt s Letters from the North of Scotland With Facsimiles of the Original Engravings written by R. Jamieson and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-05-31 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
Download or read book Burt s letters from the North of Scotland With facsimiles of the original engravings written by Edward Burt (Captain.) and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury Transmitted in Response to Senate Resolution of January 8 1889 written by United States. Department of the Treasury and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Letters from Space written by Aaron Smoly and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2010-06 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of letters by the renowned mad scientist "Dirk Stenowitze" has been in the works by author and cult hero Aaron Smoly (of Four Spacemen on a Mule fame) since 1999. Dirk's adventures take us from his home in Mexico to Venus, Bulgaria, Madagascar, and beyond. In a friendly irreverent manner, the letters cover a range of sensitive subjects, such as Schrdinger's Cat, homosexuality, talking donkeys, Nazis, and the end of the world. Nothing is safe, and even less is sacred as Stenowitze creates new worlds and new sciences to impress his lifelong nemesis Jimmey Johnson. There is something to offend everyone in this controversial amalgamation of madness and genius. If this book doesn't make you laugh, then you aren't a Homo sapiens.
Download or read book Selected Letters of Robert Penn Warren written by Robert Penn Warren and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 555 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last decade of his life, Robert Penn Warren remained a vibrant force in American literature, producing new works of poetry and nonfiction while also dealing courageously with the gradual decline of his health and the diminishment of his poetic powers. Toward Sunset, at a Great Height, 1980--1989, the sixth and final volume of the author's selected letters, provides crucial documentation of this period, containing Warren's correspondence with friends, family, fellow writers, editors, critics, and the scholars studying his works. Warren published several volumes of poetry, including Being Here (1980), Rumor Verified (1981), and Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce (1983), and returned to nonfiction prose with Jefferson Davis Gets His Citizenship Back (1980) and the memoir Portrait of a Father (1988). His letters reveal that he tried to begin writing a novel but was unable to make substantial progress on it, and that from 1985 on he became increasingly dissatisfied with his new poems. Until his death at age eighty-four, however, Warren maintained an active correspondence filled with news about his writings and travels, accounts of the lives of his wife and children, and a stoic attitude about his own physical decline as well as a solicitousness regarding the health of others, such as his brother, Thomas, and sister, Mary. He communicated with rising young scholars and encouraged younger poets he admired. Toward Sunset, at a Great Height offers rich insights into the closing chapter of Robert Penn Warren's professional and personal life, making it an essential resource for understanding the full scope of the author's contribution to American letters.
Download or read book Letters written by Sherwood Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Life and Letters of James Henley Thornwell Ex President of the South Carolina College Late Professor of Theology in the Theological Seminary at Columbia South Carolina written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-03-01 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Download or read book Department of State News Letter written by United States. Department of State and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Letters of My Father to My Mother written by Benjamin Franklin Perry and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Letter from the Secretary of the Navy Transmitting a List of All the Commissioned Officers in the Navy of the United States Showing Their Respective Rank and Dates of the Commissions Also a List of All the Midshipmen with the Dates of Their Warrants written by United States. Bureau of Naval Personnel and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Black Greek Letter Organizations 2 0 written by Matthew W. Hughey and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2011-02-18 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the turn of the twentieth century, black fraternities and sororities, also known as Black Greek-Letter Organizations (BGLOs), were an integral part of what W.E.B. Du Bois called the “talented tenth.” This was the top ten percent of the black community that would serve as a cadre of educated, upper-class, motivated individuals who acquired the professional credentials, skills, and capital to assist the race to attain socioeconomic parity. Today, however, BGLOs struggle to find their place and direction in a world drastically different from the one that witnessed their genesis. In recent years, there has been a growing body of scholarship on BGLOs. This collection of essays seeks to push those who think about BGLOs to engage in more critically and empirically based analysis. This book also seeks to move BGLO members and those who work with them beyond conclusions based on hunches, conventional wisdom, intuition, and personal experience. In addition to a rich range of scholars, this volume includes a kind of call and response feature between scholars and prominent members of the BGLO community.
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Download or read book Stepping Westward written by Nigel Leask and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stepping Westward is the first book dedicated to the literature of the Scottish Highland tour of 1720-1830, a major cultural phenomenon that attracted writers and artists like Pennant, Johnson and Boswell, William and Dorothy Wordsworth, Coleridge, Scott, Hogg, Keats, Daniell, and Turner, as well as numerous less celebrated travellers and tourists. Addressing more than a century's worth of literary and visual representations of the Highlands, the book casts new light on how the tour developed a modern literature of place, acting as a catalyst for thinking about improvement, landscape, and the shaping of British, Scottish, and Gaelic identities. It pays attention to the relationship between travellers and the native Gaels, whose world was plunged into crisis by rapid and forced social change. At the book's core lie the best-selling tours of Pennant and Dr Johnson, associated with attempts to 'improve' the intractable Gaidhealtachd in the wake of Culloden. Alongside the Ossian craze and Gilpin's picturesque, their books stimulated a wave of 'home tours' from the 1770s through the romantic period, including writing by women like Sarah Murray and Dorothy Wordsworth. The incidence of published Highland Tours (many lavishly illustrated), peaked around 1800, but as the genre reached exhaustion, the 'romantic Highlands' were reinvented in Scott's poems and novels, coinciding with steam boats and mass tourism, but also rack-renting, sheep clearance, and emigration.
