Author: QuicksandsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Quicksands on foreign shores, ed. by the author of 'English life social and domestic'.
Author: QuicksandsOn Foreign Shores
Author: John H. McGlynnPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : id
Pages : 228
Book Description
Arctic Expeditions from British and Foreign Shores
Author: David Murray SmithPublisher: Glasgow, Scot. : M'Gready, Thomson & Niven
ISBN:
Category : Arctic regions
Languages : en
Pages : 932
Book Description
History of arctic expedition. Designed for broad appeal and was a 19th century best-seller. Includes accounts of expeditions by Franklin, Barentz, Ross, Parry, Rae, Pullen, Collinson, McClure, Anderson, McClintock, Kane, Hall, Hayes and others. (AB16282).
Foreign Shores
Author: Joyce KealyDusk and Other Stories
Author: James SalterPublisher: Modern Library
ISBN: 1588369587
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
First published nearly a quarter-century ago and one of the very few short-story collections to win the PEN/Faulkner Award, this is American fiction at its most vital—each narrative a masterpiece of sustained power and seemingly effortless literary grace. Two New York attorneys newly flush with wealth embark on a dissolute tour of Italy; an ambitious young screenwriter unexpectedly discovers the true meaning of art and glory; a rider, far off in the fields, is involved in an horrific accident—night is falling, and she must face her destiny alone. These stories confirm James Salter as one of the finest writers of our time. BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from James Salter's All That Is.
By Broad Potomac's Shore
Author: Kim RobertsPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813944767
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Following her successful Literary Guide to Washington, DC, which Library Journal called "the perfect accompaniment for a literature-inspired vacation in the US capital," Kim Roberts returns with a comprehensive anthology of poems by both well-known and overlooked poets working and living in the capital from the city’s founding in 1800 to 1930. Roberts expertly presents the work of 132 poets, including poems by celebrated DC writers such as Francis Scott Key, Walt Whitman, Frederick Douglass, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Ambrose Bierce, Henry Adams, and James Weldon Johnson, as well as the work of lesser-known poets—especially women, writers of color, and working-class writers. A significant number of the poems are by writers who were born enslaved, such as Fanny Jackson Coppin, T. Thomas Fortune, and John Sella Martin. The book is arranged thematically, representing the poetic work happening in our nation’s capital from its founding through the Civil War, Reconstruction, World War I, and the beginnings of literary modernism. The city has always been home to prominent poets—including presidents and congressmen, lawyers and Supreme Court judges, foreign diplomats, US poets laureate, professors, and inventors—as well as writers from across the country who came to Washington as correspondents. A broad range of voices is represented in this incomparable volume.
Arctic Expeditions from British and Foreign Shores
Author: D. Murray SmithPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385223059
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
The Foreign Burial of American War Dead
Author: Chris DickonPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786485019
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Normandy, Flanders Field and other overseas cemeteries of the American Battle Monument Commission (ABMC) are well known. However, lesser-known burial sites of American war dead exist all over the world--in Australia and across the Pacific Rim, in Canada and Mexico, Libya and Spain, most of Europe and as far north as the Russian Arctic. This is the history of American soldiers buried abroad since the American Revolution. It traces the evolution of American attitudes and practices about war dead and provides the names and locations of those still buried abroad in non-ABMC locations.
Journeys to the Other Shore
Author: Roxanne L. EubenPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400827493
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
The contemporary world is increasingly defined by dizzying flows of people and ideas. But while Western travel is associated with a pioneering spirit of discovery, the dominant image of Muslim mobility is the jihadi who travels not to learn but to destroy. Journeys to the Other Shore challenges these stereotypes by charting the common ways in which Muslim and Western travelers negotiate the dislocation of travel to unfamiliar and strange worlds. In Roxanne Euben's groundbreaking excursion across cultures, geography, history, genre, and genders, travel signifies not only a physical movement across lands and cultures, but also an imaginative journey in which wonder about those who live differently makes it possible to see the world differently. In the book we meet not only Herodotus but also Ibn Battuta, the fourteenth-century Moroccan traveler. Tocqueville's journeys are set against a five-year sojourn in nineteenth-century Paris by the Egyptian writer and translator Rifa'a Rafi' al-Tahtawi, and Montesquieu's novel Persian Letters meets with the memoir of an East African princess, Sayyida Salme. This extraordinary book shows that curiosity about the unknown, the quest to understand foreign cultures, critical distance from one's own world, and the desire to remake the foreign into the familiar are not the monopoly of any single civilization or epoch. Euben demonstrates that the fluidity of identities, cultures, and borders associated with our postcolonial, globalized world has a long history--one shaped not only by Western power but also by an Islamic ethos of travel in search of knowledge.
Arctic Expeditions from British and Foreign Shores from the Earliest to the Expedition of 1875
Author: D. Murray SmithPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385378206
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.