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Author: Arva Moore Parks Publisher: Past Perfect Florida Histor ISBN: 0974158925 Category : Coconut Grove (Miami, Fla.) Languages : en Pages : 212
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Here, in this remarkable, previously unknown collection of 230 of his photographs from 1800s to 1900, we see a Florida we will never see again. We see people carving out a life on a frontier that was in many ways more unique than any other. Here sailboats were the counter-parts of the covered wagon and the barefoot mailman of the pony express. Through Munroe's (Ralph Middleton) camera we see carefully detailed scenes that historians cannot fully describe: the Gold Coast before settlement; the first pictures of the Seminole Indians; Key West as the wrecking capital of the world; beauty primeval and untouched. ... jacket.
Author: Arva Moore Parks Publisher: Past Perfect Florida Histor ISBN: 0974158925 Category : Coconut Grove (Miami, Fla.) Languages : en Pages : 212
Book Description
Here, in this remarkable, previously unknown collection of 230 of his photographs from 1800s to 1900, we see a Florida we will never see again. We see people carving out a life on a frontier that was in many ways more unique than any other. Here sailboats were the counter-parts of the covered wagon and the barefoot mailman of the pony express. Through Munroe's (Ralph Middleton) camera we see carefully detailed scenes that historians cannot fully describe: the Gold Coast before settlement; the first pictures of the Seminole Indians; Key West as the wrecking capital of the world; beauty primeval and untouched. ... jacket.
Author: Andrew C. Hess Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 0226330303 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 290
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The sixteenth-century Mediterranean witnessed the expansion of both European and Middle Eastern civilizations, under the guises of the Habsburg monarchy and the Ottoman empire. Here, Andrew C. Hess considers the relations between these two dynasties in light of the social, economic, and political affairs at the frontiers between North Africa and the Iberian peninsula.
Author: Trudy J Mike Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 0595399398 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 366
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Sophie follows her husband, Dr. Alfred Fritze from the rich city life in Prussia to the poverty of the American frontier where their survival is challenged by the long frigid Minnesota winter so cold it swallows up hope and leaves privation in its stead. The Dakota people are friendly but there are those who hate the whites. Bigoted settlers spread out endangering the Dakota people's way of life. Men, who would gain from their demise, harass and belittle the Indian way of life. IAugust 1862, Chief Little Crow declares war because 4 boys have killed white women. He knows that the Dakota way of life is doomed. Caught in the middle of a civil war, Sophie loses her son and is taken captive. She and her friends, Tiny Feet and Walking Raven must wait for Sibley's army to rescue them. Alfred and their daughter Mina deliver a baby then must swim the cold waters of the Minnesota River before finding their way to the fort with no walls. The bloody war that changed the way of the Dakota people doesn't last long but too many people die and a nation is destroyed.
Author: Emerson W. Baker Publisher: ISBN: 9780963611130 Category : Languages : en Pages : 88
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The catalog of an exhibition exploring the founding history of coastal New Hampshire and southern Maine during the turbulent century of the 1600s, told through the lives of eight individuals who vied for control of the landscape and their destiny on the far reaches of settlement in early New England. The exhibition was held at the Counting House Museum in South Berwick, Maine, from June 3, 2017 to October 28, 2018.
Author: Colin Woodard Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1101078073 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 401
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“A thorough and engaging history of Maine’s rocky coast and its tough-minded people.”—Boston Herald “[A] well-researched and well-written cultural and ecological history of stubborn perseverance.”—USA Today For more than four hundred years the people of coastal Maine have clung to their rocky, wind-swept lands, resisting outsiders’ attempts to control them while harvesting the astonishing bounty of the Gulf of Maine. Today’s independent, self-sufficient lobstermen belong to the communities imbued with a European sense of ties between land and people, but threatened by the forces of homogenization spreading up the eastern seaboard. In the tradition of William Warner’s Beautiful Swimmers, veteran journalist Colin Woodard (author of American Character: A History of the Epic Struggle Between Individual Liberty and the Common Good) traces the history of the rugged fishing communities that dot the coast of Maine and the prized crustacean that has long provided their livelihood. Through forgotten wars and rebellions, and with a deep tradition of resistance to interference by people “from away,” Maine’s lobstermen have defended an earlier vision of America while defying the “tragedy of the commons”—the notion that people always overexploit their shared property. Instead, these icons of American individualism represent a rare example of true communal values and collaboration through grit, courage, and hard-won wisdom.
Author: Daniel Eagan Publisher: A&C Black ISBN: 0826429777 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 848
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Collection of the five hundred films that have been selected, to date, for preservation by the National Film Preservation Board, and are thereby listed in the National Film Registry.
Author: Ian Urbina Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 0451492951 Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 560
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A riveting, adrenaline-fueled tour of a vast, lawless, and rampantly criminal world that few have ever seen: the high seas. There are few remaining frontiers on our planet. But perhaps the wildest, and least understood, are the world's oceans: too big to police, and under no clear international authority, these immense regions of treacherous water play host to rampant criminality and exploitation. Traffickers and smugglers, pirates and mercenaries, wreck thieves and repo men, vigilante conservationists and elusive poachers, seabound abortion providers, clandestine oil-dumpers, shackled slaves and cast-adrift stowaways—drawing on five years of perilous and intrepid reporting, often hundreds of miles from shore, Ian Urbina introduces us to the inhabitants of this hidden world. Through their stories of astonishing courage and brutality, survival and tragedy, he uncovers a globe-spanning network of crime and exploitation that emanates from the fishing, oil, and shipping industries, and on which the world's economies rely. Both a gripping adventure story and a stunning exposé, this unique work of reportage brings fully into view for the first time the disturbing reality of a floating world that connects us all, a place where anyone can do anything because no one is watching.
Author: Lesley Wylie Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 1846319749 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 273
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Coming to prominence during the rubber fever of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, the Putumayo has long been a site of political turmoil, a place of mass immigration, exile, subjugation, insurgency, and violence, all of which have fostered a long, international literary history. Colombia's Forgotten Frontier maps a literary map of this history for the first time. Lesley Wylie looks at works by writers from Latin America, the United States, and Europe— including works by Roger Casement, José Eustasio Rivera, and Williams Burroughs—in order to examine Colombia's literary legacy of marginality and conflict.
Author: Arva Moore Parks
Author: Arva Moore Parks
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