Author: Joseph Asbury GrovesPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 646
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The Alstons and Allstons of North and South Carolina
Author: Joseph Asbury GrovesPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 646
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Forty-four Years of the Life of a Hunter
Author: Meshach BrowningPublisher: Pantianos Classics
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Meshach Browning spent decades as a professional hunter and trapper of bears, boars and deer in rural Maryland during the early 1800s - this is his story, in his own words. Born in modest circumstances, Browning grew up at a time when the United States as a nation was in its infancy, with much of the population living in rural areas. From his youth, the author vowed to be self-sufficient, leaving his home and first love to hone his abilities as a hunter. Returning with money gained from selling pelts and meat, it is then that Meshach contemplates hunting as a career. The equipment used by the author is much inferior to that of the modern day. Meshach's use of a musket - a gun whose reliability is demonstrated as poor in several instances - leads him to rely on his skills in close quarters combat. On multiple hunts, described with stunning vividness in these pages, Browning's ability to battle animals in melee saves his life. The dangers of his trade are balanced by its lucrativeness: bear meat and pelt for instance fetched high prices on the open market. Though his life's work is the primary subject, Meshach Browning shows a tender side when describing his first marriage; his loving wife Mary bore him several children. In later chapters, he proudly teaches his sons the craft which sustained their family for so many years.
Spoonbread and Strawberry Wine
Author: Norma Jean DardenPublisher: Harlem Moon
ISBN: 0385472706
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
After traveling across the U.S. interviewing scores of relatives, two sisters share a collection of recipes for favorite family dishes, herbal concoctions, and natural beauty aids
History of Ritchie County
Author: Minnie Kendall LowtherPublisher:
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Category : Ritchie County (W. Va.)
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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The Frost Genealogy
Author: Josephine C. FrostPublisher:
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
William Frost (d.1719) was born before 1635 (in England or New England) and was in Southold, Long Island, New York as early as 1655. He married twice, and moved to Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York. Descendants lived throughout the United States.
The Correspondence of Henrik Ibsen
Author: Henrik IbsenPublisher: Ardent Media
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Excerpt from The Correspondence of Henrik Ibsen ON the 3lst of May 1880, Henrik Ibsen wrote to his publisher, Frederik Hegel, that he had begun a little book in which he intended to give some account of the outward and inward conditions under which each one of his works had come into being (letter It was to be called From Simian, to Rome, and was to give descriptions of his life at Skien and Grimstad, Bergen and Christiania, Dresden, Munich, and Rome. 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 Origin of the English Nation (Classic Reprint)
Author: Edward Augustus FreemanPublisher: CUP Archive
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Excerpt from The Origin of the English Nation 1587 - 1588. By Alhed II. 1110. By Anne Isabella Thackeray B11de of Landeck. Dr G. L'. R. James. L101'jacoh. - '1'l1e Lifted Veil. By Geo. 1111111 hadow on the Tlneehold. By Mmy Cecil. 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.
A Woman's View
Author: Helen Mar WhitneyPublisher: Brigham Young University Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
Collection of reminiscences on Latter-day Saint life written by Helen Mar Whitney for the Woman's Exponent between 1880 and 1887. Contains accounts of major events in the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and provides a panoramic picture of nineteenth-century Mormon life. Accounts include excerpts from other people's discourses, letters, diaries, etc.
Savage Feast
Author: Boris FishmanPublisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062867911
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
The acclaimed author of A Replacement Life shifts between heartbreak and humor in this gorgeously told recipe-filled memoir. A story of family, immigration, and love—and an epic meal—Savage Feast explores the challenges of navigating two cultures from an unusual angle. A revealing personal story and family memoir told through meals and recipes, Savage Feast begins with Boris’s childhood in Soviet Belarus, where good food was often worth more than money. He describes the unlikely dish that brought his parents together and how years of Holocaust hunger left his grandmother so obsessed with bread that she always kept five loaves on hand. She was the stove magician and Boris’ grandfather the master black marketer who supplied her, evading at least one firing squad on the way. These spoils kept Boris’ family—Jews who lived under threat of discrimination and violence—provided-for and protected. Despite its abundance, food becomes even more important in America, which Boris’ family reaches after an emigration through Vienna and Rome filled with marvel, despair, and bratwurst. How to remain connected to one’s roots while shedding their trauma? The ambrosial cooking of Oksana, Boris’s grandfather’s Ukrainian home aide, begins to show him the way. His quest takes him to a farm in the Hudson River Valley, the kitchen of a Russian restaurant on the Lower East Side, a Native American reservation in South Dakota, and back to Oksana’s kitchen in Brooklyn. His relationships with women—troubled, he realizes, for reasons that go back many generations—unfold concurrently, finally bringing him, after many misadventures, to an American soulmate. Savage Feast is Boris’ tribute to food, that secret passage to an intimate conversation about identity, belonging, family, displacement, and love.
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