Download or read book The Manor Three Centuries at a Slave Plantation on Long Island written by Mac Griswold and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2013-07-02 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mac Griswold's The Manor is the biography of a uniquely American place that has endured through wars great and small, through fortunes won and lost, through histories bright and sinister—and of the family that has lived there since its founding as a Colonial New England slave plantation three and a half centuries ago. In 1984, the landscape historian Mac Griswold was rowing along a Long Island creek when she came upon a stately yellow house and a garden guarded by looming boxwoods. She instantly knew that boxwoods that large—twelve feet tall, fifteen feet wide—had to be hundreds of years old. So, as it happened, was the house: Sylvester Manor had been held in the same family for eleven generations. Formerly encompassing all of Shelter Island, New York, a pearl of 8,000 acres caught between the North and South Forks of Long Island, the manor had dwindled to 243 acres. Still, its hidden vault proved to be full of revelations and treasures, including the 1666 charter for the land, and correspondence from Thomas Jefferson. Most notable was the short and steep flight of steps the family had called the "slave staircase," which would provide clues to the extensive but little-known story of Northern slavery. Alongside a team of archaeologists, Griswold began a dig that would uncover a landscape bursting with stories. Based on years of archival and field research, as well as voyages to Africa, the West Indies, and Europe, The Manor is at once an investigation into forgotten lives and a sweeping drama that captures our history in all its richness and suffering. It is a monumental achievement.
Download or read book English Manor Houses written by Nicholas Cooper and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 1990 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the success of English Country Houses and earlier titles in this well-established series, English Manor Houses presents exteriors and interiors of historic houses from the Dorset coast in the south to the Yorkshire moors in the north, 130 color illustrations.
Download or read book Chartwell Manor written by Glenn Head and published by Fantagraphics Books. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No one asks for the childhood they get, and no child ever deserved to go to Chartwell Manor. For Glenn Head, his two years spent at the now-defunct Mendham, NJ, boarding school ― run by a serial sexual and emotional abuser of young boys in the early 1970s ― left emotional scars in ways that he continues to process. This graphic memoir ― a book almost 50 years in the making ― tells the story of that experience, and then delves with even greater detail into the reverberations of that experience in adulthood, including addiction and other self-destructive behavior. Head tells his story with unsparing honesty, depicting himself as a deeply flawed human struggling to make sense of the childhood he was given.
Download or read book Minley Manor written by Ian C Mattison and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2018-08-03 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Minley Manor was a large family house that became part of a military training establishment and then an Officers Mess for the Corps of Royal Engineers. Yet the story of Minley Manor is also a story about the Currie family, whose three generations living at Minley created a magnificent manor house in an innovative architectural style. In Minley Manor, author Major Ian C Mattison shares the untold history of Minley Manor and the Currie familys hand in making it into a hidden jewel on the borders of North Hampshire and Surrey. After coming into possession of some long-lost documents and a narrative history of the manor, Ian offers a tribute to the manor and to the Currie family. First exploring the manors compelling architectural history and design, we are beckoned to look deeper into the manor to discover the fascinating story of a family involved in the political and financial affairs of the United Kingdom and at the heart of government. Minley Manor is a story not just about the buildings, the estate, and the gardens; it is the story of four generations of the Currie family who dwelt there. The Currie family of Minley may well have been passed over in history, but the hope is that they may now take their rightful place as a dynasty who did indeed make significant and very worthwhile contributions to the very fabric of English society in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Download or read book The Making of an SS Killer written by Alex J. Kay and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-14 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first in-depth biography of a frontline Holocaust perpetrator from one of the SS mobile killing squads.
Download or read book World History in the Making written by Albert Edward McKinley and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Chamber and the Cross written by Deborah K Reed and published by Kay Publishing. This book was released on 2014-11-09 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The CHAMBER AND THE CROSS is a contemporary thriller wrapped around a medieval romance. News of her mother's mysterious death brings Laura back to England, and to Bannock Manor, a crumbling, stately home in the Cotswolds. The house and all its problems now belong to her. While attempting to replace antiquated plumbing, Laura uncovers a skeleton beneath the courtyard. The local villagers wonder if that explains the ghost who haunts the manor, but a more menacing intruder, one very much alive, is also lurking about the halls. Todd Woodbridge, a university professor, is writing a book on the source of materials for medieval construction, and Bannock Manor is the perfect specimen. Unfortunately, time is running out, not only for the preservation of the house, but for the lives of its inhabitants. Centuries before, Brian Bannock fought his way into a position of minor nobility. It was a time when nobles were moving out of fortified castles and into more comfortable and prestigious manor houses. He built Bannock Manor as part of his legacy, but his deepest desires eluded him. In 1453, the Hundred Years' War between England and France was over, but in England the Wars of the Roses had just begun. Lorraine Bonville, a young French girl, was caught up in political alliances that threatened her life. Forced to flee her chateau and cross the English Channel, the only thing she had left was a dowry of regrets. Her fate was tied to Lord Bannock, a man twenty-five years her senior, and to the beautiful manor house he built for her. Jacques Dannes never belonged anywhere, or had anything, except the forbidden love of Lorraine. Theirs was a passion that lingered in the walls of the estate long after they were gone. From castles in their full glory to the ruins of war, this novel weaves a beautiful tapestry of history, architecture, the struggle to rebuild life and love, and the desire to protect a very special home.
Download or read book The Making of Economics written by E. Ray Canterbery and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2003 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the history of economics, updated for 2003. There are new chapters on the 'casino economy', Joseph Schumpeter, globalization, and general equilibrium. Ray Canterbery seeks to retain the flavour of the earlier editions by covering the times and ideas of the major economists.
Download or read book A Mansion in the Mountains written by Philip T. Noblitt and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Meerkat Manor written by Tim Clutton-Brock and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2010-12-23 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life of the Meerkats - from the highly successful TV series, and soon to be released major feature film MEERKAT MANOR is the true-life story of Flower, the heroine of the successful television series, and the dominant female of Whiskers group. Through words and superb photographs, the reader becomes closely involved in the life-or-death struggles, just like a soap opera, of this curiously attractive tribe. MEERKAT MANOR not only describes what meerkats do, but explains why they do it, providing important insights into the working of other animal societies, including humans. 'They look cute and their teamwork has led some to suggest they are ideal role models for humans, but ... if MEERKAT MANOR is billed as a soap opera, it is one scripted by Quentin Tarantino' Mail on Sunday.
Download or read book The Animals at Lockwood Manor written by Jane Healey and published by Mariner Books. This book was released on 2020 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: August 1939. Hetty Cartwright arrives at Lockwood Manor to oversee a natural history museum collection, whose contents have been taken out of London for safekeeping. She must protect her charges from party guests, wild animals, Luftwaffe bombs. But she is unprepared for Lucy Lockwood, for whom the arrival of the museum brings new freedoms-- and nightmares. Hetty discovers that the manor is a place of secrets-- and someone is stalking her through its darkened corridors. -- adapted from jacket
Download or read book A Room at the Manor written by Julie Shackman and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2018-06-27 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When her Maltese love affair turns sour, Lara McDonald returns to her quiet Scottish hometown of Fairview heartbroken, yet determined - instead of looking for another PR position, she decides to follow her dream of baking. She impulsively takes the first job offered and finds herself working for local dragon Kitty Walker in her tea room, True Brew. Lara's life is full of surprises, however, not the least being an unlikely friendship forged with one of Kitty's elderly customers, the former laird Hugo Carmichael. The Carmichael family has lived at the beautiful Glenlovatt Manor for almost three hundred years and, although in need of renovation, Hugo, his son and grandson currently make it their home. There's something about Lara that Hugo likes, and when Hugo suddenly passes away, Lara is stunned to discover she is mentioned in his will. But not everyone is happy with the old Laird's faith in Lara. A story of love, family, hope and trust, A Room at the Manor will delight every reader keen to find their place in the world.
Download or read book The Manor and Manorial Records written by Nathaniel J. Hone and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Men of the Manor written by Rob Rosen and published by Cleis Press. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The country estate, masters and servants, mystery and intrigue, sex and money. All go hand-in-hand in these turn of the century tales of what goes on behind the manor's closed doors. Does the master lure the butler to the phonograph room for a romp behind the sofa or does the stable boy have a tryst with the footman while the lord longingly watches on? Rob Rosen has gathered the hottest stories of romance and sex between wealthy aristocrats and hard-working estate staff, all with a pre-World War I backdrop.
Download or read book The French Gardener written by Santa Montefiore and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-11-21 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A spellbinding novel about marriage, passion, loss, renewal, and the healing power of love from the number one bestselling author of Songs of Love and War. Married couple, Miranda and David, move out of London into a beautiful country house with an idyllic garden. But reality turns out to be very different from their bucolic dream. Soon the latent unhappiness in the family begins to come to the surface, isolating each family member in a bubble of resentment and loneliness. Then a mysterious Frenchman arrives on their doorstep. With the wisdom of nature, he slowly begins to heal the past and the present. But who is he? When Miranda discovers his secret in the cottage by the garden, the whole family learns that a garden, like love itself, can restore the human spirit, not just season after season, but generation after generation. Wise and winsome, poignant and powerfully moving, The French Gardener combines the savvy of contemporary women's fiction with an old fashioned sensibility steeped in the importance of family and the magical power of love.
Download or read book The Old Manor House written by Charlotte Smith and published by . This book was released on 1822 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Calendar of the Patent and Close Rolls of Chancery in Ireland of the Reign of Charles the First written by Ireland. Chancery and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
