Author: B. THOMAS (pseud. [i.e. Thomas B. Johnson.])Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
The Shooter's Guide: Containing the Natural History of Dogs, the Various Fowling Pieces ... and Remarks on Thornhill's Shooting Directory
Author: B. THOMAS (pseud. [i.e. Thomas B. Johnson.])Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
The Shooter's Guide
Author: B. Thomas (pseud. [i.e. Thomas Burgeland Johnson.])Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Historical Account of the Reformation from the Church of Rome, Including the Cruel Sufferings of the Protestants ... By Question and Answer. (The Danger of Granting Roman Catholic Emancipation. By ... F. H. Maberley.).
Author: John GOULD (of Wormwood Street, London.)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
A Complete System of Cookery
Author: John Simpson (Cook)Publisher:
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Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
Letters from a Gentleman in the North of Scotland to His Friend in London
Author: Edward BurtPublisher:
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Category : Highland Region (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Jane Austen and Leisure
Author: David SelwynPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0826446671
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Jane Austen's novels portray a leisured society of gentlemen and ladies who do not need to work. Even the minority of clergymen, soldiers and sailors - men with professions - are almost never seen working. Jane Austen herself, despite responsibility for some domestic tasks, wrote as a woman of leisure. Yet leisure, the distinguishing mark of a gentleman, was not meant to be an excuse for idleness. The proper use of leisure to fulfil duties, to read and to think, and above all to pursue social relations in a world where family and marriage for the propertied was of central importance, was a vital test of character.
Brief Memoirs of Four Christian Hindoos, Lately Deceased
Author: John RylandPublisher:
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Category : Christian converts from Hinduism
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
The journal of the three days of the battle of Waterloo, by an eye-witness. To which is added an appendix containing the official reports of the allies
Author: Battle of WaterlooThe Land of Footprints
Author: Stewart Edward WhitePublisher: Cosimo, Inc.
ISBN: 1596054972
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
Some travel books authors try to impress the reader with a full sense of the danger and hardship they have undergone. Others are deadly afraid of bragging about their adventures, knowing, for instance, that hundreds of others have been charged by a lion and may be reading their book. In The Land of Footprints, Stewart Edward White attempts to be the ideal travel book author, one who tells the reader what the country, its people, and its animals are really like, "not in vague and grandiose 'word paintings,' not in strange and foreign sounding words and phrases, but in comparison with something they know." The Land of Footprints is the enormous enjoyable, immensely readable memoir of Stewart Edward White's year spent in East Equatorial Africa at the beginning of the 20th century. STEWART EDWARD WHITE (1873-1946) was born in Michigan and lived in California where he became known as the author of many articles, short stories, and books about the state's mining and lumber camps and his explorations around the world. He devoted the last thirty years of his life to writing accounts of his wife's mediumistic explorations of the inner dimensions of life.
Hunting and Fishing in the New South
Author: Scott E. GiltnerPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421402378
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
This innovative study re-examines the dynamics of race relations in the post–Civil War South from an altogether fresh perspective: field sports. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, wealthy white men from Southern cities and the industrial North traveled to the hunting and fishing lodges of the old Confederacy—escaping from the office to socialize among like-minded peers. These sportsmen depended on local black guides who knew the land and fishing holes and could ensure a successful outing. For whites, the ability to hunt and fish freely and employ black laborers became a conspicuous display of their wealth and social standing. But hunting and fishing had been a way of life for all Southerners—blacks included—since colonial times. After the war, African Americans used their mastery of these sports to enter into market activities normally denied people of color, thereby becoming more economically independent from their white employers. Whites came to view black participation in hunting and fishing as a serious threat to the South’s labor system. Scott E. Giltner shows how African-American freedom developed in this racially tense environment—how blacks' sense of competence and authority flourished in a Jim Crow setting. Giltner’s thorough research using slave narratives, sportsmen’s recollections, records of fish and game clubs, and sporting periodicals offers a unique perspective on the African-American struggle for independence from the end of the Civil War to the 1920s.