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Author : Walter McIntosh Merrill
Publisher : Carroll & Graf Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0674009509
Author : Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780375714924
In this final collection of Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s letters and journals, we mark Mrs. Lindbergh’s progress as she navigated a remarkable life and a remarkable century with enthusiasm and delight, humor and wit, sorrow and bewilderment, but above all devoted to finding the essential truth in life’s experiences through a hard-won spirituality and a passion for literature. Between the inevitable squalls of life with her beloved but elusive husband, the aviator Charles A. Lindbergh, she shepherded their five children through whooping cough, horned toads, fiancés, the Vietnam War, and their own personal tragedies. She researched and wrote books and articles on issues ranging from the condition of Europe after World War II to the meaning of marriage to the launch of Apollo 8. She published one of the most beloved books of inspiration of all time, Gift from the Sea. She left penetrating accounts of meetings with such luminaries as John and Jacqueline Kennedy, Thornton Wilder, Enrico Fermi, Leland and Slim Hayward, and the Frank Lloyd Wrights. And she found time to compose extraordinarily insightful and moving letters of consolation to friends and to others whose losses touched her deeply. Against Wind and Tide makes us privy to the demons that plagued this fairy-tale bride, and introduces us to some of the people—men as well as women—who provided solace as she braved the tides of time and aging, war and politics, birth and death. Here is an eloquent and often startling collection of writings from one of the most admired women of our time. (With 8 pages of black-and-white photographs.)
Author : Ousmane K. Power-Greene
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781479823178
Against Wind and Tide tells the story of African American’s battle against the American Colonization Society (ACS), founded in 1816 with the intention to return free blacks to its colony Liberia. Although ACS members considered free black colonization in Africa a benevolent enterprise, most black leaders rejected the ACS, fearing that the organization sought forced removal. As Ousmane K. Power-Greene’s story shows, these African American anticolonizationists did not believe Liberia would ever be a true “black American homeland.” In this study of anticolonization agitation, Power-Greene draws on newspapers, meeting minutes, and letters to explore the concerted effort on the part of nineteenth century black activists, community leaders, and spokespersons to challenge the American Colonization Society’s attempt to make colonization of free blacks federal policy. The ACS insisted the plan embodied empowerment. The United States, they argued, would never accept free blacks as citizens, and the only solution to the status of free blacks was to create an autonomous nation that would fundamentally reject racism at its core. But the activists and reformers on the opposite side believed that the colonization movement was itself deeply racist and in fact one of the greatest obstacles for African Americans to gain citizenship in the United States. Power-Greene synthesizes debates about colonization and emigration, situating this complex and enduring issue into an ever broader conversation about nation building and identity formation in the Atlantic world.
Author : Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Authors, American
ISBN : 9780307378880
The sixth and concluding volume of selected letters and diary entries of Lindbergh describes the genesis of the beloved "Gift from the Sea" and follows its hugely successful publication.
Author : Holme LEE (pseud. [i.e. Miss Harriet Parr.])
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1859
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026849089
Author : Holme Lee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : American fiction
ISBN : HARVARD:32044086835790
Author : Venetia Friend
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781612513515
Immortalized by David Farragut's apothegm, "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead," the Battle of Mobile Bay remains one of history's great naval engagements, a contest between two admirals trained in the same naval tradition who once fought under the same flag. This new study takes a fresh look at the battle—the bloodiest naval battle of the Civil War—examining its genesis, tactics, and political ramifications. If the Confederacy had been able to deny the Union a victory before the presidential election, the South was certain to have won its independence. The North's win, however, not only stopped the blockade-runners in Mobile but insured Lincoln's re-election. Although the Union had an advantage in vessels of eighteen to four and an overwhelming superiority in firepower, it paid dearly for its victory, suffering almost ten times as many casualties as Franklin Buchanan's Confederate fleet. The author traces the evolution of the battle from the time Farragut took command of the West Gulf Blockading Squadron in February 1862 until the battle was fought on 5 August 1864. He then continues the narrative through the end of the war and explains how the battle influenced ship design and naval tactics for years to come.
Author : Harriet Parr
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1859
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600053206
Author : Walter McIntosh Merrill
Publisher : Carroll & Graf Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0674009509
Author : Cornelia Dean
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1999-05-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 0231500114
Americans love to colonize their beaches. But when storms threaten, high-ticket beachfront construction invariably takes precedence over coastal environmental concerns—we rescue the buildings, not the beaches. As Cornelia Dean explains in Against the Tide, this pattern is leading to the rapid destruction of our coast. But her eloquent account also offers sound advice for salvaging the stretches of pristine American shore that remain. The story begins with the tale of the devastating hurricane that struck Galveston, Texas, in 1900—the deadliest natural disaster in American history, which killed some six thousand people. Misguided residents constructed a wall to prevent another tragedy, but the barrier ruined the beach and ultimately destroyed the town's booming resort business. From harrowing accounts of natural disasters to lucid ecological explanations of natural coastal processes, from reports of human interference and construction on the shore to clear-eyed elucidation of public policy and conservation interests, this book illustrates in rich detail the conflicting interests, short-term responses, and long-range imperatives that have been the hallmarks of America's love affair with her coast. Intriguing observations about America's beaches, past and present, include discussions of Hurricane Andrew's assault on the Gulf Coast, the 1962 northeaster that ravaged one thousand miles of the Atlantic shore, the beleaguered beaches of New Jersey and North Carolina's rapidly vanishing Outer Banks, and the sand-starved coast of southern California. Dean provides dozens of examples of human attempts to tame the ocean—as well as a wealth of lucid descriptions of the ocean's counterattack. Readers will appreciate Against the Tide's painless course in coastal processes and new perspective on the beach.
Author : Bruce S. Wright
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780811766753
Eastern waterfowlers, who know the black duck best, regard this big dusky bird as the top game bird against which all other ducks are measured. In parts of the Northeast this feeling of affection is so strong that in some circles only the black rates the name of "duck." All other species, even the famed canvasback, are "coots," "fish ducks," or are known by even less complimentary titles. Much of this devotion is justified. Without the black duck, wildfowling in much of the thickly settled East would be an unrewarding pastime. Big as a mallard, as wary as a Canada goose, and as handsome in full plumage as any duck that flies, the black duck fills a place on the American sporting scene that could be filled by no other waterfowl. Here is the dramatic story of the life of the black duck, from the time the broods hatch on the spruce-lined ponds of eastern Canada, through the hazardous flights to the southern wintering areas, to the return of the paired birds to the nesting grounds in spring. It is a story told authoritatively by a Canadian scientist whose adult life has been spent in studying the black duck from the fastnesses of its northern breeding grounds in Labrador and Ungava Bay, to the marshes of Louisiana. In this book are facts on the black and other species of waterfowl that will be new to many students of waterfowl as well as to sportsmen. Here also are recommendations for perpetuating the flights of these magnificent game birds.
Author : Holme Lee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:34106828
Author : Elizabeth Camden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 515 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 141045553X
When Lydia's translation skills land her in the middle of a secret war, who can she trust when her life--and heart--are in jeopardy?
Author : Jerome Fitzgerald
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2002-02
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780595217335
Wind and Tide is a book about sailing. It is perhaps the only book published in recent years that has dealt with sailing—and pure, engineless sailing craft—in such a effective manner. Not an acedemic exercise or a mere exhibition of traditionalism—Wind and Tide describes in practical, useful detail the techniques and attitude involved in sailing without engine assist.
Author : Jonathan White
Publisher : Trinity University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-16
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781595348067
In Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean, writer, sailor, and surfer Jonathan White takes readers across the globe to discover the science and spirit of ocean tides. In the Arctic, White shimmies under the ice with an Inuit elder to hunt for mussels in the dark cavities left behind at low tide; in China, he races the Silver Dragon, a twenty-five-foot tidal bore that crashes eighty miles up the Qiantang River; in France, he interviews the monks that live in the tide-wrapped monastery of Mont Saint-Michel; in Chile and Scotland, he investigates the growth of tidal power generation; and in Panama and Venice, he delves into how the threat of sea level rise is changing human culture—the very old and very new. Tides combines lyrical prose, colorful adventure travel, and provocative scientific inquiry into the elemental, mysterious paradox that keeps our planet’s waters in constant motion. Photographs, scientific figures, line drawings, and sixteen color photos dramatically illustrate this engaging, expert tour of the tides.