Download or read book Slocum s Fortune written by Jake Logan and published by Berkley Publishing Group. This book was released on 1991 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Slocum s Bar S Ranch written by Jake Logan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-12-30 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin USA
Download or read book Hostages to Fortune written by Peter C Newman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Esteemed Canadian author Peter C. Newman recounts the dramatic journey of the United Empire Loyalists—their exodus from America, their resettlement in the wilds of British North America, and their defense of what would prove to be the social and moral foundation of Canada. In 1776, tensions in the British colonies were reaching a fever pitch. The citizenry was divided between those who wished to establish a new republic and those who remained steadfast in their dedication to the British Empire. As the tensions inevitably boiled over into violence, fault lines were exposed as every person was forced to choose a side. Neighbours turned against each other. Families divided. Borders were redrawn. The conflict was long and bloody, and no side emerged unscathed. But there is one story that is often overlooked in the American Revolutionary canon. When the smoke from the battles had settled, tens of thousands of individuals who had remained loyal to the crown in the conflict found themselves without a home to return to. Destitute, distraught, and ostracized—or downright terrorized—by their former citizens, these Loyalists turned to the only place they had left to go: north. The open land of British North America presented the Loyalists with an opportunity to establish a new community distinct from the new American republic. But the journey to their new homes was far from easy. Beset by dangers at every turn—from starvation to natural disaster to armed conflict—the Loyalists migrated towards the promise of a new future. Their sacrifices set the groundwork for a country that would be completely unlike any other. Neither fully American nor truly British, the Loyalists established a worldview entirely of their own making, one that valued steady, peaceful, and pragmatic change over radical revolution. The Loyalists toiled tirelessly to make their dream a reality. And as the War of 1812 dawned, they proved they were willing to defend it with their very lives. In Hostages to Fortune, Peter C. Newman recounts the expulsion and migration of these brave Loyalists. In his inimitable style, Newman shines a light on the people, places, and events that set the stage for modern Canada.
Download or read book The General and the Jaguar written by Eileen Welsome and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2009-02-28 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pulitzer Prize winner Welsome's gripping, panoramic story reveals a vicious surprise attack on the United States and America's hunt for the perpetrator, Pancho Villa.
Download or read book History of the Slocums Slocumbs and Slocombs of America written by Charles Elihu Slocum and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Short History of the Slocums Slocumbs and Slocombs of America written by Charles Elihu Slocum and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Slocum 430 written by Jake Logan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-11-25 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE FINAL NOVEL IN TODAY'S LONGEST-RUNNING ACTION WESTERN! Down on his luck in San Francisco, John Slocum takes a contract with the Central California Railroad. He’s given the difficult task of locating a stolen shipment of silver worth over one hundred thousand dollars, but he catches a break when he discovers that the company’s attractive secretary, Tamara, was an accomplice in the robbery. Too bad his employer would rather believe in the thief’s feminine wiles than in Slocum’s cold hard facts. Fuming mad and out of work, Slocum starts looking to let off some steam. But when Tamara offers Slocum a new job—finding where the rest of the robbers stowed the loot—he has a hard time saying no to the seductive crook, or to a change of fortune. Still, Slocum knows he has to keep his cards close to the chest, or else he might end up six feet under…
Download or read book Insourcing Innovation written by David Silverstein and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2007-12-17 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Innovation is central to business success, yet no other aspect of business is as frustrating and out of control. Instead of occurring in fits and starts and strokes of genius, innovation needs to become an all-the-time event that‘s measurable, reliable, predictable, streamlined, and effective. Asserting that every innovation objective has a finite
Download or read book The Atlantic Monthly written by and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 924 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Slocums Slocumbs of the South written by Bob Smyth and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthony Slocombe (1590 - 1688-89) was born in Taunton, Somersetshire, England. He married Elizabeth Mary Harvey who was born in Somerset- shire, England. She was the daughter of John & Mary Harvey. Anthony is first noted in America in 1637 as one of the 1st settlers of Taunton, Massachusetts. In the late 1660s, Anthony Slocombe migrated with some of his family to old Albemarle County in North Carolina. He settled on a plantation about four miles north of the present-day town of Edenton, North Carolina. Anthony died in old Albemarle County.
Download or read book Mr Gaunt and Other Uneasy Encounters written by John Langan and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2009 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From award-nominated writer John Langan comes a collection of uneasy meetings. A frustrated professor and his graduate student assistant accompany a group of soldiers to a remote Scottish island to learn what is buried there. A man plays an audiotape left for him by his late father and is initiated into a family story of monstrous deeds. A student learns frightening lessons in a surreal tutoring center. A young couple struggles to make their stand against a group of inhuman pursuers in a ravaged landscape. And, in a new story, an artist discovers a mysterious statue whose completion becomes his obsession.
Download or read book A Man for All Oceans written by Stan Grayson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-05-16 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In June 1898, three years and two months after departing Boston in his aged oyster sloop Spray, Captain Joshua Slocum made land fall in New England and became the first person ever to sail alone around the world. The voyage capped a lifetime of adventure for the indomitable Slocum, who had advanced from seaman to captain during the challenging final years of commercial sail, surviving hurricanes, mutinies, shipwreck, and the death at sea of his beloved first wife, Virginia. Sailing Alone Around the World, Slocum's book about his circumnavigation, is a seafaring classic, unmatched for adventure and literary verve, and has never been out of print since its publication in 1900. Yet despite several biographies over the decades, Slocum the man has remained unknowable to his legions of admirers, the facts of his life and career as elusive as a ship on a fogbound sea. Here is the real story of Slocum's Nova Scotia childhood, his seafaring career, and how he became an American citizen. Grayson gives ample evidence of Slocum's uncanny genius as a navigator while also noting the occasional role that good luck played in his voyages, including his odyssey from Brazil to the United States in the self-designed and built 35-foot Liberdade. And Grayson brings a sailor's perspective to Slocum's solo circumnavigation and mysterious disappearance at sea. A fascinating appendix compares Sailing Alone Around the World with Thoreau's Walden and shows that Slocum's simple lifestyle and self-sufficiency prefigured today's emphases on the environment and living responsibly. Previously unpublished photographs bring Slocum's world to life, and detailed maps trace the adventures of a sailor who knew the world like the back of his hand. This biography reads like an adventure narrative and will serve as the standard work on Joshua Slocum for years to come.
Download or read book Cruising World written by and published by . This book was released on 1995-01 with total page 2200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Hard Way Around written by Geoffrey Wolff and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-11-29 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1895 Joshua Slocum set sail from Gloucester, Massachusetts, in the Spray, a thirty-seven-foot sloop. More than three years later, he became the first man to circumnavigate the globe solo, and his account of that voyage, Sailing Alone Around the World, made him internationally famous. But scandal soon followed, and a decade later, with his finances failing, he set off alone once more—never to be seen again. In this definitive portrait of an icon of adventure, Geoffrey Wolff describes, with authority and admiration, a life that would see hurricanes, shipwrecks, pirate attacks, cholera, smallpox, and no shortage of personal tragedy.
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Download or read book The Fortune of War written by Patrick O'Brian and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1994 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aubrey and Maturin are caught in the outbreak of the War of 1812.
Download or read book The 1910 Slocum Massacre An Act of Genocide in East Texas written by E.R. Bills and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-13 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In late July 1910, a shocking number of African Americans in Texas were slaughtered by white mobs in the Slocum area of Anderson County and the Percilla-Augusta region of neighboring Houston County. The number of dead surpassed the casualties of the Rosewood Massacre in Florida and rivaled those of the Tulsa Riots in Oklahoma, but the incident--one of the largest mass murders of blacks in American history--is now largely forgotten. Investigate the facts behind this harrowing act of genocide in E.R. Bills's compelling inquiry into the Slocum Massacre.
