Author: Charles C. WestPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Camping
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Sketches of Camp Life in the Wilds of the Aroostook Woods, Aroostook County, Maine
Author: Charles C. WestPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Camping
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Shifts and Expedients of Camp Life
Author: AnonymousPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382104075
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 870
Book Description
Reprint of the original. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Perils of a Private
Author: Ted StanleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military training camps
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Camp and Cabin
Author: Rossiter W. RaymondPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781331559368
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Excerpt from Camp and Cabin: Sketches of Life and Travel in the West This had, in truth, been the introduction of J oe's fel low-citizens to him. W'hile he was still unconscious, oscillating between life and death, they had scoured the neighborhood to find the villain who had shot him. It must have been his pardner; and the shot had been delivered from behind, two circumstances which would have secured short shrift for the culprit if he had been caught. But the search was fruitless; and the boys returned from such trivial distractions to the serious work of life The d-strict had to be organized, and provided with a name. Murder Canon did duty for a few weeks; but when Col. Gore made his appearance it was changed, after an eloquent Speech from him, to Silver Sheen. Then Veins had to be discovered, and claims located, recorded, and prospected. Yet joe was not entirely forgotten. A rough cabin was constructed over the very spot where he had been found: in'this the sick man was made rudely comfortable and, one at a time, the population took turns in watching with him. Moreover, they located in his name, and set apart for him, two hundred feet of the ledge on which he had fallen, and which, gentlemen, said the colonel, he had recorded with his blood. 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.
The Sketch
Author: The World's History: Western Asia. Africa
Author: Hans Ferdinand HelmoltPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : World history
Languages : en
Pages : 880
Book Description
"An English adaptation of Helmolt's Weltgeschichte, with a rejection of sections which did not seem quite adequate from the point of view of its English readers". -- Publisher's note.
Sketch
Author: Citizen 13660
Author: Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 9780295959894
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Mine Okubo was one of 110,000 people of Japanese descent--nearly two-thirds of them American citizens -- who were rounded up into "protective custody" shortly after Pearl Harbor. Citizen 13660, her memoir of life in relocation centers in California and Utah, was first published in 1946, then reissued by University of Washington Press in 1983 with a new Preface by the author. With 197 pen-and-ink illustrations, and poignantly written text, the book has been a perennial bestseller, and is used in college and university courses across the country. "[Mine Okubo] took her months of life in the concentration camp and made it the material for this amusing, heart-breaking book. . . . The moral is never expressed, but the wry pictures and the scanty words make the reader laugh -- and if he is an American too -- blush." -- Pearl Buck Read more about Mine Okubo in the 2008 UW Press book, Mine Okubo: Following Her Own Road, edited by Greg Robinson and Elena Tajima Creef. http://www.washington.edu/uwpress/search/books/ROBMIN.html
We Built Up Our Lives
Author: Maxine S. SellerPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313075719
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Fearing an imminent Nazi invasion, the British government interned 28,000 men and women of enemy nationality living in Britain in the spring of 1940. Most were Jewish refugees who, having fled Nazi persecution, were appalled to find themselves imprisoned as potential Nazi spies. Using oral histories, unpublished letters and memoirs, artifacts and newspapers from the camps, and government documents, We Built Up Our Lives tells the compelling story of sixty-three of these internees. It is a seldom-told part of the history of World War II and the Holocaust and a classic tale of human courage and resilience. We Built Up Our Lives describes the survival mechanisms relied upon by the Jewish refugees. Although the internees, imprisoned in Britain, the Isle of Man, Canada, and Australia, were adequately housed and fed and rarely mistreated, they were cut off from family, friends, school, and work--everything that had given meaning to their lives. Resisting boredom, anger, and despair, the internees made the best of a bad situation by creating education, culture, and community within the camps. Before and after as well as during the internment--in Nazi Germany and in Britain--educational resources and social networks were essential to the refugees' efforts to build up their lives. Equally important were personal qualities of courage, ingenuity, assertiveness, and resilience.
Mine Okubo
Author: Greg RobinsonPublisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295997621
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
“To me life and art are one and the same, for the key lies in one's knowledge of people and life. In art one is trying to express it in the simplest imaginative way, as in the art of past civilizations, for beauty and truth are the only two things which live timeless and ageless.” - Miné Okubo This is the first book-length critical examination of the life and work of Miné Okubo (1912-2001), a pioneering Nisei artist, writer, and social activist who repeatedly defied conventional role expectations for women and for Japanese Americans over her seventy-year career. Okubo's landmark Citizen 13660 (first published in 1946) is the first and arguably best-known autobiographical narrative of the wartime Japanese American relocation and confinement experience. Born in Riverside, California, Okubo was incarcerated by the U.S. government during World War II, first at the Tanforan Assembly Center in California and later at the Topaz War Relocation Center in Utah. There she taught art and directed the production of a literary and art magazine. While in camp, Okubo documented her confinement experience by making hundreds of paintings and pen-and-ink sketches. These provided the material for Citizen 13660. Word of her talent spread to Fortune magazine, which hired her as an illustrator. Under the magazine's auspices, she was able to leave the camp and relocate to New York City, where she pursued her art over the next half century. This lovely and inviting book, lavishly illustrated with both color and halftone images, many of which have never before been reproduced, introduces readers to Okubo's oeuvre through a selection of her paintings, drawings, illustrations, and writings from different periods of her life. In addition, it contains tributes and essays on Okubo's career and legacy by specialists in the fields of art history, education, women's studies, literature, American political history, and ethnic studies, essays that illuminate the importance of her contributions to American arts and letters. Miné Okubo expands the sparse critical literature on Asian American women, as well as that on the Asian American experience in the eastern United States. It also serves as an excellent companion to Citizen 13660, providing critical tools and background to place Okubo's work in its historical and literary contexts.