Author: W.W. RobinsonPublisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5877751794
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Land in California, the story of mission land, ranches, squatters, mining claims, railroad grants, land scrip, homesteads
Land in California
Author: W.W. RobinsonPublisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5877751794
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Land in California, the story of mission land, ranches, squatters, mining claims, railroad grants, land scrip, homesteads
History of Kern County, California
Author: Wallace Melvin MorganPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Kern County (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1590
Book Description
History of Fresno County, California
Author: Paul E. VandorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fresno County (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1320
Book Description
From St. Louis to Sutter's Fort, 1846
Author: Heinrich LienhardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Font's Complete Diary
Author: Pedro FontPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
Voyages and Travels
Author: Georg H. LangsdorffPublisher:
ISBN: 9780839811503
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 748
Book Description
Sixty Years in California
Author: William Heath DavisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 674
Book Description
William Heath Davis (1822-1909) was the son of a Boston ship captain engaged in the Hawaiian trade and a Polynesian mother. After visiting California twice on trading voyages that took him all around South and North America, he settled in Monterey to work with his merchant uncle in 1838. In 1845 he settled permanently in San Francisco, becoming one of the city's leading merchants. His marriage to María de Jesus Estudillo tied him to the Hispanic community in his adopted region. Davis loved the easy life of the Californios, the descendants of the Mexicans who had arrived in Alta California in the late 1770s. He found them the happiest and most contented people he had ever known. Davis managed to meet almost every prominent man and woman who lived in or passed through California. He was one of the founders of New Town (now downtown San Diego). He served on San Francisco's first city council; he built San Francisco's first brick building and cofounded San Leandro.
Yvain
Author: Chretien de TroyesPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300187580
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
The twelfth-century French poet Chrétien de Troyes is a major figure in European literature. His courtly romances fathered the Arthurian tradition and influenced countless other poets in England as well as on the continent. Yet because of the difficulty of capturing his swift-moving style in translation, English-speaking audiences are largely unfamiliar with the pleasures of reading his poems. Now, for the first time, an experienced translator of medieval verse who is himself a poet provides a translation of Chrétien’s major poem, Yvain, in verse that fully and satisfyingly captures the movement, the sense, and the spirit of the Old French original. Yvain is a courtly romance with a moral tenor; it is ironic and sometimes bawdy; the poetry is crisp and vivid. In addition, the psychological and the socio-historical perceptions of the poem are of profound literary and historical importance, for it evokes the emotions and the values of a flourishing, vibrant medieval past.
New Helvetia Diary
Author: John Augustus SutterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description