Author: John Williams AndrewsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
A Ballad of Channel Crossings
Author: John Williams AndrewsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Wayfaring Strangers
Author: Fiona RitchiePublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469666278
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 577
Book Description
From the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries, a steady stream of Scots migrated to Ulster and eventually onward across the Atlantic to resettle in the United States. Many of these Scots-Irish immigrants made their way into the mountains of the southern Appalachian region. They brought with them a wealth of traditional ballads and tunes from the British Isles and Ireland, a carrying stream that merged with sounds and songs of English, German, Welsh, African American, French, and Cherokee origin. Their enduring legacy of music flows today from Appalachia back to Ireland and Scotland and around the globe. Ritchie and Orr guide readers on a musical voyage across oceans, linking people and songs through centuries of adaptation and change.
Poet Lore
Author: The Englishman and the Sea
Author: Christopher LloydPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sailors
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Country Life Illustrated
Author: William Wordsworth
Author: Harold BloomPublisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438115520
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
Presents a biography of English poet William Wordsworth along with critical views of his work.
A Distant Mirror
Author: Barbara W. TuchmanPublisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN: 0345349571
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 738
Book Description
A “marvelous history”* of medieval Europe, from the bubonic plague and the Papal Schism to the Hundred Years’ War, by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Guns of August *Lawrence Wright, author of The End of October, in The Wall Street Journal The fourteenth century reflects two contradictory images: on the one hand, a glittering age of crusades, cathedrals, and chivalry; on the other, a world plunged into chaos and spiritual agony. In this revelatory work, Barbara W. Tuchman examines not only the great rhythms of history but the grain and texture of domestic life: what childhood was like; what marriage meant; how money, taxes, and war dominated the lives of serf, noble, and clergy alike. Granting her subjects their loyalties, treacheries, and guilty passions, Tuchman re-creates the lives of proud cardinals, university scholars, grocers and clerks, saints and mystics, lawyers and mercenaries, and, dominating all, the knight—in all his valor and “furious follies,” a “terrible worm in an iron cocoon.” Praise for A Distant Mirror “Beautifully written, careful and thorough in its scholarship . . . What Ms. Tuchman does superbly is to tell how it was. . . . No one has ever done this better.”—The New York Review of Books “A beautiful, extraordinary book . . . Tuchman at the top of her powers . . . She has done nothing finer.”—The Wall Street Journal “Wise, witty, and wonderful . . . a great book, in a great historical tradition.”—Commentary
The Story of the Sea
Author: Arthur Quiller-CouchPublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 908
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