Author: Bernard Quaritch (Firm)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 1028
Book Description
Catalogue
Author: Bernard Quaritch (Firm)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 1028
Book Description
Catalogue
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Booksellers'
Languages : en
Pages : 1002
Book Description
Catalogue
Author: Maggs BrosPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Puttin' on Airs
Author: Benton L. BradberryPublisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1452076375
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 545
Book Description
Horatio Alger wrote wildly popular dime novels in the mid to late 1800s about poor boys making good. The theme was always the same; that through honesty, hard work, strong determination,and perseverance, the American Dream could be realized regardless of his beginnings in life. Puttin on Airs is the authors own story of himself as a poor boy who made good against the odds, a story which could have been written by Horatio Alger. The author describes his life growing up in rural Louisiana as one often children of uneducated parents, under conditions of spirit crushing poverty. He escaped this life by joining the Navy at age 17. Within 5 years time he became an offi cer and aviator and went on to complete a 21 year Navy career. In time he obtained a university degree (with honors), the only member of his family to even attend college. Only 2 of the 10 children even graduated from high school, himself and a sister. Join the Navy and see the world, the recruiting poster said, and see the world, he did. He has been on 6 continents and in over 40 countries. He was also on the front line of the Cold War from near its beginning to near its end, which included a year in Viet Nam as a helicopter pilot. As a helicopter pilot, he also helped retrieve the astronauts from the sea after their return to earth. With the same determination and grit that propelled him in his Navy career, he entered private business after retiring from the Navy, which has made him a wealthy man. This well written book should be an inspiration to anyone who enjoys a good rags to riches story.
Catalogue of the British Section. Containing a List of the Exhibitors of the United Kingdom and Its Colonies, and the Objects which They Exhibit. In English, French, German, and Italian
Author: Powerhiking Paris
Author: Carolyn HansenPublisher: PowerHiking Paris
ISBN: 1427628394
Category : Paris (France)
Languages : en
Pages : 75
Book Description
Canadiana
Author: The Structural Conservation of Panel Paintings
Author: Kathleen DardesPublisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 0892363843
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
This volume presents the proceedings of an international symposium organized by the Getty Conservation Institute and the J. Paul Getty Museum. The first conference of its kind in twenty years, the symposium assembled an international group of conservators of painted panels, and gave them the opportunity to discuss their philosophies and share their work methods. Illustrated in color throughout, this volume presents thirty-one papers grouped into four topic areas: Wood Science and Technology, History of Panel-Manufacturing Techniques, History of the Structural Conservation of Panel Paintings, and Current Approaches to the Structural Conservation of Panel Paintings.
Catalogue of the British Section
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Exposition universelle de 1867 à Paris
Languages : en
Pages : 1492
Book Description
Large Pictures, Educational and Decorative
Author: Marjary L. GilsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries and pictures
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description