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Author : Michael C. McKenzie
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496229250
A Country Strange and Far considers how and why the Methodist Church failed in the Pacific Northwest and how place can affect religious transplantation and growth.
Author : Gordon Stables
Publisher : Litres
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9785040519231
Author : Arielle Hunter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0983444285
Author : Emerson Hough
Publisher : The Floating Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781776676590
Lifelong chums Jesse Wilcox, John Hardy and Rob McIntyre have spent most of their lives in Alaska and are used to the harsh conditions there. But when the opportunity arises for them to take part in an expedition to the Arctic Circle, the friends have to face an entirely new set of hardships and challenges.
Author : Geoff Meggs
Publisher : Harbour Publishing
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-21
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781550178302
Salmon gillnetting in the turbulent waters of the Fraser River at the turn of the last century was dangerous, back-breaking work. Skiffs were equipped with a single sail, but most maneuvering had to be accomplished by oars, an almost impossible task against any current or tide. Once towed to the grounds by a cannery tug, the fishermen were on their own for at least twelve hours, casting their 400-metre long nets out and pulling them back by hand. Their only shelter was a partial tent over the bow. Many came to grief on dark, windy nights as they blew out of the main channel to the mudflats of the estuary, or worse, the open waters of the Strait of Georgia. When the powerful Fraser River Canners’ Association fixed the maximum price per salmon at 15 cents, fishermen united in their determination to win a decent living. Their strike shut down British Columbia’s second-largest export industry and effectively resulted in the imposition of martial law as the canners, frustrated by political deadlock in Victoria, called out the militia without government assent to achieve their ends. The strike has long been understood as a watershed moment in the province’s industrial history. In this revealing chronicle, Geoff Meggs shows it was even more than that. Other strikes in that era may have lasted longer, many were more violent, but none drew such diverse groups—Indigenous, Japanese, white—into an uneasy, short-term but effective coalition. While united by the common goal of economic equality, strikers were divided by forceful social pressures: First Nations fishermen wished to assert their Indigenous rights; Japanese fishermen, having fled poverty in their homeland, were seeking equality and opportunity in a new country; white fishermen were angered by the greed of the tiny clique of wealthy Vancouver industrialists who controlled the salmon industry. This maelstrom came together in Steveston, a ramshackle clapboard and cedar shake cannery boom town that blossomed into one of the province’s largest cities for a few hectic months each summer. In this compelling account, told with journalistic flair and vivid detail, Meggs leaves no room for doubt: this event marked BC’s turn into the modern era, with lessons about inequality, racism, immigration and economic power that remain relevant today.
Author : Christopher Ruddy
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2002-04-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780743242530
On a humid July day in 1993, White House deputy counsel Vincent W. Foster was found dead in Fort Marcy Park in suburban Virginia. One of the nation's highest-ranking federal officers, Foster was a boyhood friend of President Bill Clinton and a close confidant of First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton. His death sent shock waves through the White House and the nation's capital. The death was quickly pronounced a suicide. According to the official story that soon emerged, Foster was depressed, angry, and isolated. With nowhere else to turn, he went to a secluded park near the Potomac River, put a gun in his mouth, and killed himself. But is that what really happened? In this compelling and fully documented report, investigative journalist Christopher Ruddy answers that critical question. Ruddy, who has covered the case almost from the start, details the disturbing inconsistencies surrounding Foster's alleged suicide, chronicles the botched investigations, documents the frenzied illegal activity in the White House in the hours after Foster's death, and notes the persistent failure of mainstream media to ask the right questions. Throughout his thorough investigation of the available forensic and circumstantial evidence, Ruddy weaves a disturbing tale of cover-ups, abuse of power, police and prosecutorial incompetence, and press indifference. His startling conclusion -- that despite the official line, Foster could not have killed himself in Fort Marcy Park -- will persuade even the most skeptical reader to demand a full public investigation into the mysterious circumstances of the death of Vincent Foster and the troubling events in its aftermath.
Author : Laurence Oliphant
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1855
Category : Canada
ISBN : BSB:BSB10467663
Author : Thomas Carney,Robert Vaughan
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4066339528079
"Considerations on the present peace, as far as it is relative to the colonies, and the African trade" by Thomas Carney, Robert Vaughan. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Author : Nicholas Belfield Dennys,Ernest John Eitel,William C. Barlow,James Dyer Ball
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : China
ISBN : CORNELL:31924080551603
Author : Wilhelm Hauff,Charles Dickens,Mark Twain,Harriet Beecher Stowe,Adelbert von Chamisso,Oscar Wilde,Robert Louis Stevenson,Edgar Allan Poe,William Hope Hodgson,Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu,John Buchan,Louis Tracy,Bram Stoker,Anatole France,Charlotte Brontë,Emily Brontë,Jack London,Henry James,Théophile Gautier,Arthur Conan Doyle,Richard Le Gallienne,Jane Austen,Algernon Blackwood,Ralph Adams Cram,Thomas De Quincey,John Meade Falkner,Guy de Maupassant,Thomas Hardy,William Archer,Daniel Defoe,John Kendrick Bangs,Cleveland Moffett,Brander Matthews,Marie Belloc Lowndes,Sax Rohmer,Horace Walpole,Rudyard Kipling,Lafcadio Hearn,Ambrose Bierce,Frederick Marryat,Ellis Parker Butler,Washington Irving,Leonid Andreyev,David Lindsay,Nathaniel Hawthorne,Grant Allen,Arthur Machen,Wilkie Collins,William Makepeace Thackeray,Thomas Peckett Prest,James Malcolm Rymer,Fergus Hume,Edward Bellamy,Walter Hubbell,S. Mukerji,Charlotte Perkins Gilman,Leopold Kompert,Richard Marsh,Florence Marryat,Catherine Crowe,Marjorie Bowen,John William Polidori,Vincent O'Sullivan,H. G. Wells,Robert W. Chambers,W. W. Jacobs,M. P. Shiel,E. F. Benson,Jerome K. Jerome,M. R. James,E. T. A. Hoffmann,George W. M. Reynolds,H. P. Lovecraft,Robert E. Howard,Edith Nesbit,Sabine Baring-Gould,William Thomas Beckford,Francis Marion Crawford,Mary Elizabeth Braddon,Mary Louisa Molesworth,Mary E. Wilkins Freeman,Nikolai Gogol,Mary Shelley,Elizabeth Gaskell,Gertrude Atherton,Edward Bulwer-Lytton,Frank R. Stockton,A. T. Quiller-Couch,Olivia Howard Dunbar,Ann Radcliffe,Louisa M. Alcott,Amelia B. Edwards,Leonard Kip,Matthew Gregory Lewis,Fitz-James O'Brien,Katherine Rickford,Bithia Mary Croker,Catherine L. Pirkis,Émile Erckmann,Alexandre Chatrian,Pedro De Alarçon,J. K. Huysmans,H. H. Munro (Saki),Pliny the Younger,Helena Blavatsky,Villiers de l'Isle Adam,William F. Harvey,Fiona Macleod,William T. Stead,Gambier Bolton,Andrew Jackson Davis,Nizida,Walter F. Prince,Chester Bailey Fernando
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 13367 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547671657
The biggest collection of supernatural, macabre, eerie, and gothic tales is here! Grab your copy and get ready for the chills down your spine: Edgar Allan Poe: The Tell-Tale Heart The Cask of Amontillado The Black Cat... Henry James: The Turn of the Screw The Ghostly Rental... H. P. Lovecraft: The Dunwich Horror The Shunned House... Mary Shelley: Frankenstein The Mortal Immortal The Evil Eye... John William Polidori: The Vampyre Bram Stoker: Dracula The Jewel of Seven Stars The Lair of the White Worm... Algernon Blackwood: The Willows A Haunted Island A Case of Eavesdropping Ancient Sorceries... Gaston Leroux: The Phantom of the Opera Marjorie Bowen: Black Magic Charles Dickens: The Mystery of Edwin Drood Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray Washington Irving: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Théophile Gautier: Clarimonde The Mummy's Foot Richard Marsh: The Beetle Arthur Conan Doyle: The Hound of the Baskervilles The Silver Hatchet... Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu: Carmilla Uncle Silas... M. R. James: Ghost Stories of an Antiquary A Thin Ghost and Others Wilkie Collins: The Woman in White The Haunted Hotel The Devil's Spectacles E. F. Benson: The Room in the Tower The Terror by Night... Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Birth Mark The House of the Seven Gables... Ambrose Bierce: Can Such Things Be? Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories Arthur Machen: The Great God Pan The Terror... William Hope Hodgson: The House on the Borderland The Night Land M. P. Shiel: Shapes in the Fire Ralph Adams Cram: Black Spirits and White Grant Allen: The Reverend John Creedy Dr. Greatrex's Engagement... Horace Walpole: The Castle of Otranto William Thomas Beckford: Vathek Matthew Gregory Lewis: The Monk Ann Radcliffe: The Mysteries of Udolpho Jane Austen: Northanger Abbey Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights Rudyard Kipling: The Phantom Rickshaw Guy de Maupassant: The Horla Jerome K. Jerome: Told After Supper...
Author : Dan Makgow Smith
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2008-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781438930329
Malcolm Macgow is good at what he does: a Scottish blacksmith. Living in Forfar, Scotland in the 1600's with his son, Ian, they make ends meet. Malcolm comes from a long line of blacksmith's and is teaching his son the trade as well. Although not officially single, he lives his life that way since his wife left him some time ago and has basically abandoned the family. His life takes a sudden change when a woman, Kate MacPherson, enters his life and turns him completely upside down emotionally. It doesn't take long before he falls madly in love with her. His life takes a turn for the worse when the local magistrate teams up with a group of domineering men who are bent on taking Malcolm's land right out from under him for purposes that are diabolical and not in the best interests of the town of Forfar. Malcolm's brother, Daniel, now living in the American colonies, has his own set of problems when he is accused of being in league with the Salem witch crowd. Daniel had sailed to America to make his own way in life as a fur trader, but fate had other plans for him in the name of an old family nemesis named, Theodore Higginbottom. Fleeing into the wilderness, Daniel evades capture and meets a woman by the name of Logan Moss, who he falls in love with. Eventually Daniel and Logan make their way back to Salem and prepare to make a stand with whatever awaits them there. In the present time, the brother's descendants come together, as family from America travel to Scotland where they discover their long lost relatives some three-hundred plus years later.
Author : Arthur Machen
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473399365
This early work by Arthur Machen was originally published in 1895 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography as part of our Cryptofiction Classics series. 'The Novel of the Black Seal' is a short story of a professor who discovers markings on some Welsh limestone that correspond to characters found in ancient Babylon. Arthur Machen was born in Caerleon, Monmouthshire, Wales in 1863. At the age of eleven, he boarded at Hereford Cathedral School, where he received a comprehensive classical education. His first major success came in 1894, with the novella 'The Great God Pan'. Although widely denounced by the press as degenerate and horrific because of its decadent style and sexual content, it has since garnered a reputation as a classic of horror; indeed, author Stephen King has called it “maybe the best [horror story] in the English language.” His legacy remains formidable; his work has influenced countless other artists, and is seen as setting the stage for – amongst other things – the Cthulhu horrors of H. P. Lovecraft. The Cryptofiction Classics series contains a collection of wonderful stories from some of the greatest authors in the genre, including Ambrose Bierce, Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Jack London. From its roots in cryptozoology, this genre features bizarre, fantastical, and often terrifying tales of mythical and legendary creatures. Whether it be giant spiders, werewolves, lake monsters, or dinosaurs, the Cryptofiction Classics series offers a fantastic introduction to the world of weird creatures in fiction.
Author : Douglas Murray
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781472964274
The Strange Death of Europe is the internationally bestselling account of a continent and a culture caught in the act of suicide, now updated with new material taking in developments since it was first published to huge acclaim. These include rapid changes in the dynamics of global politics, world leadership and terror attacks across Europe. Douglas Murray travels across Europe to examine first-hand how mass immigration, cultivated self-distrust and delusion have contributed to a continent in the grips of its own demise. From the shores of Lampedusa to migrant camps in Greece, from Cologne to London, he looks critically at the factors that have come together to make Europeans unable to argue for themselves and incapable of resisting their alteration as a society. Murray's "tremendous and shattering" book (The Times) addresses the disappointing failures of multiculturalism, Angela Merkel's U-turn on migration, the lack of repatriation and the Western fixation on guilt, uncovering the malaise at the very heart of the European culture. His conclusion is bleak, but the predictions not irrevocable. As Murray argues, this may be our last chance to change the outcome, before it's too late.
Author : Algernon Blackwood
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 1731 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781551998541
A scintillating collection from one of the genre's greats. This compilation contains almost 100 of Algernon Blackwood's weird fiction stories, including classics such as" A Victim of Higher Space," "The Haunted Island," "The Sacrifice," "The Attic," and "Dance of Death," presenting the multi-faceted imagination of a pillar of the genre. Penguin Random House Canada is proud to bring you classic works of literature in e-book form, with the highest quality production values. Find more today and rediscover books you never knew you loved.
Author : Susanna Clarke
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1098 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781608195350
In the Hugo-award winning, epic New York Times Bestseller and basis for the BBC miniseries, two men change England's history when they bring magic back into the world. In the midst of the Napoleonic Wars in 1806, most people believe magic to have long since disappeared from England - until the reclusive Mr. Norrell reveals his powers and becomes an overnight celebrity. Another practicing magician then emerges: the young and daring Jonathan Strange. He becomes Norrell's pupil, and the two join forces in the war against France. But Strange is increasingly drawn to the wild, most perilous forms of magic, and he soon risks sacrificing his partnership with Norrell and everything else he holds dear. Susanna Clarke's brilliant first novel is an utterly compelling epic tale of nineteenth-century England and the two magicians who, first as teacher and pupil and then as rivals, emerge to change its history.