Author: Gene S. StuartPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
Discovery Man's Past in the Americas
Author: Gene S. StuartPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
Brown
Author: Richard RodriguezPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101161507
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
In this dazzling memoir, Richard Rodriguez reflects on the color brown and the meaning of Hispanics to the life of America today. Rodriguez argues that America has been brown since its inception-since the moment the African and the European met within the Indian eye. But more than simply a book about race, Brown is about America in the broadest sense—a look at what our country is, full of surprising observations by a writer who is a marvelous stylist as well as a trenchant observer and thinker.
Discovery of Ancient America
Author: David Allen DealPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Albuquerque Region (N.M.)
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Errata slip inserted. Bibliography: p. 135-136.
The History of the Discovery and Settlement of America
Author: William RobertsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
New Lands, New Men
Author: William GoetzmanPublisher:
ISBN: 9785551655459
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
One of America's most prominent historians, winner of the Pulizer and Francis Parkman prizes, tells the dramatic, provocative story of three centuries of exploration--and of America's contributions to a period that revolutionized Western thought. 54 pages of black-and-white photographs.
History of the Early Discovery of America and Landing of the Pilgrims
Author: Samuel G. DrakePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 782
Book Description
Heroes of Discovery in America (Classic Reprint)
Author: Charles MorrisPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780267796731
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Excerpt from Heroes of Discovery in America The explorers of this continent were great men in their day, and they have made a great mark on the his tory of the land they made known. For more than four centuries their work has been kept up and it is not yet complete, for there are areas still in America on which the foot of the white man has not been set. From Columbus, who daringly crossed an unknown ocean to discover an unknown continent, to Peary, who in our own day has time and again plunged into the seas of ice in restless quest of the mysterious pole, the list is a long one and is filled with names of valiant and unconquerable men. Heroes of discovery are these in the highest sense, and it is fitting that the story of their deeds should be put upon record. This we have sought to do, in as full a sense as the space at our command permits, endeavoring to omit none of the great discoverers, none of the leaders in this great drama of the opening of a new world. It is hoped that readers will find these tales full of interest and inspira tion and gain from them an adequate sense of what was accomplished in the great work of exploring a continent. 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.
America as Seen by Its First Explorers
Author: John BakelessPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486260313
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 513
Book Description
Recreates the experiences of the people who first discovered and explored North America.
The History of the Settlement and Discovery of America ...
Author: William RobertsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Lewis and Clark on the Trail of Discovery
Author: Rod GraggPublisher:
ISBN: 9781401600754
Category : Lewis and Clark Expedition
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Few events in American history have shaped the nation like the Lewis and Clark Expedition. It opened the American West for settlement. It redrew the map of the United States. It identified an array of native peoples, spectacular places, fascinating creatures, and extraordinary flora unknown in "civilized" America. It defined the American nation as a land stretching from coast to coast-and it launched the spread of population in a mighty frontier migration unlike anything ever witnessed in America before or since. Lewis and Clark on the Trail of Discovery contains 19 chapters, detailing the expedition chronologically. A "museum in a book," this fascinating volume contains re-creations of original documents such as diary entries, letters, maps, and sketches-all meticulously reproduced so that the reader can actually handle and examine them. Among the documents included in the book are: The actual letter of credit Jefferson wrote to Lewis committing the U.S. government to pay for the expedition. The code Thomas Jefferson provided to Lewis for sending secret messages. Clark's sketch of the technique some Indians used to flatten their heads, a sign of prestige. Clark's letter of gratitude to Sacagawea, a Shoshone teenager who helped the expedition. A newspaper account of the expedition's return to St. Louis.