Download or read book Strange Beginnings Adventures Misadventures and More in Latin America written by SJ Clark and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Spying on the South written by Tony Horwitz and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The author retraces Frederick Law Olmsted's journey across the American South in the 1850s, on the eve of the Civil War. Olmsted roamed eleven states and six thousand miles, and the New York Times published his dispatches about slavery and its defenders. More than 150 years later, Tony Horwitz followed Olmsted's route, and whenever possible his mode of transport--rail, riverboats, in the saddle--through Appalachia, down the Ohio and Mississippi, through Kentucky, Tennessee, Louisiana, and across Texas to the Rio Grande, discovering and reporting on vestiges of what Olmsted called the Cotton Kingdom"--
Download or read book Miss adventures written by Amy Baker and published by Summersdale. This book was released on 2017-03-09 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After planning to backpack round South America, Amy spends the next three months fending off well-meaning but absurd advice, which she ignores... right up until she runs into trouble. Part memoir and part inspirational traveller’s tale, Miss-adventures is a funny and frank account of a young woman exercising her independence.
Download or read book The Strange Quest A Tale of Adventure in South America First Published Under the Title In Quest of the Giant Sloth written by Gordon Stables and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Adventures of Maqroll written by Álvaro Mutis and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four novellas featuring Maqroll, an international adventurer. One moment he is smuggling arms for liberation groups, the next digging for gold in the jungles of Peru, nearly getting himself killed by his woman, gone mad. The tale of a man without a country who recognizes no law, but that of fortune. By the author of Maqroll, a Colombian-born Mexican.
Download or read book The Cambridge History of Latin American Literature written by Roberto Gonzalez Echevarría and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-09-13 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 1 of a comprehensive three-volume history of Latin American literature (including Brazilian): the only work of its kind.
Download or read book Glorious Misadventures written by Owen Matthews and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Russian Empire once extended deep into America: in 1818 Russia's furthest outposts were in California and Hawaii. The dreamer behind this great Imperial vision was Nikolai Rezanov ? diplomat, adventurer, courtier, millionaire and gambler. His quest to plant Russian colonies from Siberia to California led him to San Francisco, where he was captivated by Conchita, the fifteen-year-old daughter of the Spanish Governor, who embodied his dreams of both love and empire. From the glittering court of Catherine the Great to the wilds of the New World, Matthews conjures a brilliantly original portrait of one of Russia's most eccentric Empire-builders.
Download or read book Literary Cultures of Latin America a Comparative History Latin American literary culture written by Mario J. Valdés and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2004 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In three volumes of expert, innovative scholarship, Literary Cultures of Latin America offers a multidisciplinary reference on one of the most distinctive literary cultures in the world. In topically arranged articles written by a team of international scholars, Literary Cultures of Latin America explores the shifting problems that have arisen across national borders, geographic regions, time periods, linguistic systems, and cultural traditions in literary history. Bucking the tradition of focusing almost exclusively on the great canons of literature, this unique reference work casts its net wider, exploring pop culture, sermons, scientific essays, and more. While collaborators are careful to note that these volumes offer only a snapshot of the diverse body of Latin American literature, Literary Cultures of Latin America highlights unique cultural perspectives that have never before received academic attention. Comprised of signed articles each with complete bibliographies, this unique reference also takes into account relevant political, anthropological, economic, geographic, historical, demographic, and sociological research in order to understand the full context of each community's literature.
Download or read book Dick Boldhero written by Samuel G. Goodrich and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-26 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Dick Boldhero: Or a Tale of Adventures in South America Upon my father's failure, Dexter took the store and continued the business, and very soon he became a rich man. For some rea son, he seemed to hate my father, though he pretended to be very kind to him. He used to go and see him in prison, and promised to use his influence for his liberation; but it afterwards appeared that he had actually bought up claims against him, and caused him to be imprisoned upon them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Adventures in South America written by Jeanette Windle and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Killer in the House written by John Tully and published by John Tully. This book was released on 2015-01-26 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FOUR YOUNG JOEY STORIES 1 KILLER IN THE HOUSE Who is the mysterious Arab who hires a room in Jane’s home? What happens when Joey finds an automatic rifle hidden in the wardrobe? 2 FOX AND HOUNDS The Fox is planning a daring burglary. Is Susie’s brother Eddie involved in it? If so, can she stop the burglary — with Joey’s help of course. 3 THE GOLDEN EGG A fire and the robbery of a precious Fabergé egg from an English stately home! Is Joey’s Aunt Edna really responsible? Joey’s efforts to find the real thieves prove highly dangerous. 4 JOEY AND THE YANK An American boy is on the run from his home in England and begs Joey to help him. To obtain cash he needs the valuable necklace kept in a safe in the apartment where he lives. Joey works out an elaborate plan to get hold of it.
Download or read book Three One Act Plays written by John Tully and published by John Tully. This book was released on 2015-01-31 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WOMAN ALIVE (3m 3f) An updated edition of a favourite one-act farce. Roger Berry writes crime novels and his wife, Amanda, stages a mock murder as the basis for a plot for his next novel. Her well-intentioned efforts to be helpful go disastrously wrong and Roger finds himself arrested as a murderer. From then on things can only get worse — and more hilarious. THE KING OF ARGOS (7m 2f) Kronos, King of Argos in Ancient Greece, cannot decided which of his two quarrelsome sons should succeed him. He decides to consult the oracle of Apollo at Delphi, only to receive the usual ambiguous advice. Meantime Helen, his daughter, has brought another protégé home to the palace, Marcos, a scruffy musician who sings revolutionary songs in the market place. To his own surprise as much as anyone’s Marcos is destined to play a leading role in the hectic events that ensue. LOVE FROM MICHAEL (1m 3f) Dorothy Stevens and her daughter, Jenny, live in trepidation, awaiting yet another message from husband and father, Michael.,whol appears to know exactly what they are doing at any time and, even more disturbingly, what they and others are going to do. Yet he is supposed to be dead! Who can find an explanation? Who can stop the persecution? A medium? Or a private enquiry agent such as Emily Cooper who brings a keen mind to the task.
Download or read book Dick Boldhero written by Samuel G. Goodrich and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-26 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Dick Boldhero: Or a Tale of Adventures in South America As I am about to tell my story, it is proper that I should say something of my birth, parentage, and early days. About half way between Hartford and New Haven, in Connecticut, is a small, pleasant city, called Middletown. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book 1968 Mexico written by Susana Draper and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-31 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recognizing the fiftieth anniversary of the protests, strikes, and violent struggles that formed the political and cultural backdrop of 1968 across Europe, the United States, and Latin America, Susana Draper offers a nuanced perspective of the 1968 movement in Mexico. She challenges the dominant cultural narrative of the movement that has emphasized the importance of the October 2nd Tlatelolco Massacre and the responses of male student leaders. From marginal cinema collectives to women’s cooperative experiments, Draper reveals new archives of revolutionary participation that provide insight into how 1968 and its many afterlives are understood in Mexico and beyond. By giving voice to Mexican Marxist philosophers, political prisoners, and women who participated in the movement, Draper counters the canonical memorialization of 1968 by illustrating how many diverse voices inspired alternative forms of political participation. Given the current rise of social movements around the globe, in 1968 Mexico Draper provides a new framework to understand the events of 1968 in order to rethink the everyday existential, political, and philosophical problems of the present.
Download or read book One River written by Wade Davis and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of two generations of scientific explorers in South America—Richard Evans Schultes and his protégé Wade Davis—an epic tale of adventure and a compelling work of natural history. In 1941, Professor Richard Evan Schultes took a leave from Harvard and disappeared into the Amazon, where he spent the next twelve years mapping uncharted rivers and living among dozens of Indian tribes. In the 1970s, he sent two prize students, Tim Plowman and Wade Davis, to follow in his footsteps and unveil the botanical secrets of coca, the notorious source of cocaine, a sacred plant known to the Inca as the Divine Leaf of Immortality. A stunning account of adventure and discovery, betrayal and destruction, One River is a story of two generations of explorers drawn together by the transcendent knowledge of Indian peoples, the visionary realms of the shaman, and the extraordinary plants that sustain all life in a forest that once stood immense and inviolable.
Download or read book Towards a Unified Italy written by Salvatore DiMaria and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-07-18 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since unification in 1860, Italy has remained bitterly divided between the rich North and the underdeveloped South. This book examines the historical, literary, and cultural contexts that have informed and inflamed the debate on the Southern Question for over a century. It brings together analysis of cinema, literature, and newspaper archives to reconsider the myths and stereotypes that both Northerners and Southerners deploy in their narratives. Salvatore DiMaria offers a masterful assessment of the entangled issues that have produced the South’s image as impoverished and backwards, such as organized crime, illiteracy, and mass emigration. Documenting the state’s largely failed efforts to bring the South into its socio-economic fold, DiMaria also points to the future, arguing that the European Union and globalization are transformative forces that may finally produce a unified Italy.
Download or read book All at Sea written by Louis R. Harlan and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tale of (Louis R.) Harlan's transition from adolescence to manhood is related memorably in All at Sea: Coming of Age in World War II. Laced with vignettes depicting the author's naval mistakes, his escapades with and in pursuit of women, and his difficulty in returning to civilian life after the war, All at Sea is a welcome change of pace from more standard, stoic tales of wartime heroism. Harlan's frankness isn't limited to the details of his bouts with ineptitude as a young naval ensign. He also makes pointed observations about the importance of World War II compared to conflicts that have taken place since then, and about the evolution of his own racial attitudes as a product of the South suddenly thrown into settings in which he saw African Americans from a different perspective.
