By Motor To The Golden Gate Classic Reprint

Author : Emily Post
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1331256283

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By Motor to the Golden Gate (Classic Reprint) by Emily Post Pdf

Excerpt from By Motor to the Golden Gate "Qui s'excuse s'accuse." Which, I suppose, proves this a defence to start with! But having been a few times accused, there are a few explanations I want very much to make. When this cross-continent story was first suggested, it seemed the simplest sort of thing to undertake. All that was necessary was to put down experiences as they actually occurred. No imagination, or plot or characterization - could anything be easier? But when the serial was published and letters began coming in, it became unhappily evident that writing fact must be one of the most unattainably difficult accomplishments in the world. In the first place, only those who, having lived long in a particular locality and knowing it in all its varying seasons, are qualified truly to present its picture. The observations of a transient tourist are necessarily superficial, as of one whose experiences are merely a series of instantaneous impressions; at one time colored perhaps too vividly, at another fogged; according to the sun or rain at one brief moment of time. It would be very pleasant to write nothing but eulogies of people and places, but after all if a personal narrative were written like an advertisement, praising everything, there would be no point in praising anything, would there? 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.

Author : Emily Post
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-28
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780786481477

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By Motor to the Golden Gate by Emily Post Pdf

In 1915, journalist Emily Post set out from New York to investigate whether it was possible to drive comfortably across the country to San Francisco in an automobile. This is a reprint of Post’s only travel book, originally published by Collier’s Weekly seven years before she became famous for her book on etiquette. It describes her travels with her cousin Alice and her Harvard undergraduate son as they played the American tourists from Niagara Falls to cave dwellings near Santa Fe. A first-hand account of elite automotive travel before the process was democratized after World War I, it also shows the history of the southwest, particularly in the myths that made towns such as Santa Fe “authentic” tourist destinations, and provides contemporary comments on class and ethnicity. A new introduction includes a biographical sketch of Post and explains the context of her journey in the heroic age of motoring. Accompanying the text are many original photographs, sketch maps showing the route, and Post’s meticulous daily lists of expenditure, a valuable historical document showing the price of everything from car repairs to tips. New to this addition are explanatory footnotes and an appendix giving the miles Post traveled each day, noting the cities of departure and destination and the hotel for each night.

Author : Emily Post
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0243714866

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By Motor to the Golden Gate by Emily Post Pdf

Author : H. Irving Hancock
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0267476272

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The Motor Boat Club, at the Golden Gate by H. Irving Hancock Pdf

Excerpt from The Motor Boat Club, at the Golden Gate: Or a Thrilling Capture in the Great Fog At the present moment both boys were sitting comfortably facing each other in their section in a sleeping car on the luxurious Overland Mail. It was early forenoon. They had left Sacra mento behind some time before, on the last stretch of the run across the state of California. Joe Dawson was riding facing forward. Tom Halstead, in the seat opposite, half lolled at the window-ledge, with his back toward the engine. Both boys had slept well on their last night out from San Francisco. Both had breakfasted heartily, that morning, in the dining car now left behind at the state capital. The next thing that would interest them, so far as they could now guess, would be their arrival at Oakland, and the subsequent ferry trip that would land them in San Francisco. It may seem a curious fact to the reader, but neither Tom Halstead nor Joe Dawson knew just what new phases of life awaited them in the City by the Golden Gate. They were engaged to enter the employment of a man who owned a motor yacht. The owner had agreed to their own terms in the way of salary, and he was pay ing all their expenses on this luxurious trip west ward. Moreover, the same-owner had engaged some of the other members of the Motor Boat Club of the Kennebec, as will soon be told. Readers of the preceding volumes of this ser ies are already well acquainted with bright, energetic, loyal and capable Tom Halstead, who, from the start, had held the post of fleet captain of the Motor Boat Club. The same readers are equally familiar with the career of Joe Dawson, fleet engineer of the Club. 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.

Author : Union Pacific Railway Company
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-06
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0267115377

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The Golden Gate Special by Union Pacific Railway Company Pdf

Excerpt from The Golden Gate Special: Union Pacific Railway, Southern Pacific Company, Pullman's Palace Car Company, Between Council Bluffs or Omaha and San Francisco The Vestibule system is so well known for its safety and the steadiness of motion it imparts to trains, that it needs no description here. 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.

Author : Emily Post
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1298343410

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By Motor to the Golden Gate - Scholar's Choice Edition by Emily Post Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : David Gold,Catherine L. Hobbs
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781135104948

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Rhetoric, History, and Women's Oratorical Education by David Gold,Catherine L. Hobbs Pdf

Historians of rhetoric have long worked to recover women's education in reading and writing, but have only recently begun to explore women's speaking practices, from the parlor to the platform to the varied types of institutions where women learned elocutionary and oratorical skills in preparation for professional and public life. This book fills an important gap in the history of rhetoric and suggests new paths for the way histories may be told in the future, tracing the shifting arc of women's oratorical training as it develops from forms of eighteenth-century rhetoric into institutional and extrainstitutional settings at the end of the nineteenth century and diverges into several distinct streams of community-embodied theory and practice in the twentieth. Treating key rhetors, genres, settings, and movements from the early republic to the present, these essays collectively challenge and complicate many previous claims made about the stability and development of gendered public and private spheres, the decline of oratorical culture and the limits of women's oratorical forms such as elocution and parlor rhetorics, and women's responses to rhetorical constraints on their public speaking. Enriching our understanding of women's oratorical education and practice, this cutting-edge work makes an important contribution to scholarship in rhetoric and communication.

Author : Elsa A. Nystrom
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-13
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780786470938

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Mad for Speed by Elsa A. Nystrom Pdf

This book covers Joan Newton Cuneo's life, and her roles (from 1905 to 1915) as the premier female racer in the United States and spokeswoman for women drivers and good roads. Beginning with her family history and marriage to Andrew Cuneo, it traces her life in New York society, the birth of her children, and Joan's growing interest in automobile touring and racing and partnership with Louis Disbrow, her racing mechanic. The book covers Joan's experiences in three Glidden Tours, including her notes on the 1907 tour, her first races, and her rivals. It also looks at the growth and change of automobile culture and the battles for control of racing among the American Automobile Association, the Automobile Club of America, and the American Automobile Manufacturers Association--which ended in banishing women racers shortly after Joan's greatest racing victories at New Orleans (in 1909). The book then follows Joan's attempts to continue racing, the end of her marriage, her move to the Upper Peninsula, and her remarriage and death. The book also includes a chapter on her female rivals in racing and touring.

Author : Emily Post
Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1498140394

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By Motor to the Golden Gate (1916) by Emily Post Pdf

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1916 Edition.

Author : Causey Enterprises, LLC
Publisher : Causey Enterprises, LLC
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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WALNECK'S CLASSIC CYCLE TRADER, JULY 2003 by Causey Enterprises, LLC Pdf

Author : Laura Claridge
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780812967418

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Emily Post by Laura Claridge Pdf

In an engaging book that sweeps from the Gilded Age to the 1960s, award-winning author Laura Claridge presents the first authoritative biography of Emily Post, who changed the mindset of millions of Americans with Etiquette, a perennial bestseller and touchstone of proper behavior. A daughter of high society and one of Manhattan’s most sought-after debutantes, Emily Price married financier Edwin Post. It was a hopeful union that ended in scandalous divorce. But the trauma forced Emily Post to become her own person. After writing novels for fifteen years, Emily took on a different sort of project. When it debuted in 1922, Etiquette represented a fifty-year-old woman at her wisest–and a country at its wildest. Claridge addresses the secret of Etiquette’s tremendous success and gives us a panoramic view of the culture from which it took its shape, as its author meticulously updated her book twice a decade to keep it consistent with America’s constantly changing social landscape. Now, nearly fifty years after Emily Post’s death, we still feel her enormous influence on how we think Best Society should behave.

Author : Causey Enterprises, LLC
Publisher : Causey Enterprises, LLC
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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WALNECK'S CLASSIC CYCLE TRADER, OCTOBER 2006 by Causey Enterprises, LLC Pdf

Author : Kevin VanHook
Publisher : Valiant Entertainment
Page : 864 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-25
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781682151037

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Bloodshot Classic Omnibus Vol. 1 HC by Kevin VanHook Pdf

Before the ?Bloodshot? movie hits in February 2020, follow the complete collected adventures of the original man from Rising Spirit ? from his origin and very first appearances to his debut in his own smash hit series ? in this first deluxe, oversized volume! Brought back from the grave by Project Rising Spirit, Bloodshot is powered by nanoscopic machines that can repair all injuries and maximize his physical potential. But the nanites can?t replace his lost memories ? or help him shake the feeling that he was once anything but a hero. Collecting BLOODSHOT (1993) #0?24, along with RAI (1992) #0, ETERNAL WARRIOR (1992) #5 and #14?16, SECRET WEAPONS (1993) #3, 9?10 and #13, and H.A.R.D. CORPS (1992) #5.

Author : Robert Buettner
Publisher : Baen Books
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781625795564

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The Golden Gate by Robert Buettner Pdf

LIVE FOREVER—OR DIE TRYING When the world’s richest man is the victim of a car bomb and literally blown off the Golden Gate Bridge the attack is attributed to terrorists and the world moves on. But some still wonder. Was Manuel Colibri targeted because, as Silicon Valley rumor has it, he was about to make the dream that people alive today can live to be one thousand come true? Two people are pursuing the truth. Tech journalist Kate Boyle and recovering Iraq war veteran Ben Shepard race through the Bay Area chasing the only clues the reclusive Colibri left behind. They discover not only each other but a cosmic secret that can change human history—and may cost them their lives. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management). Praise for The Golden Gate: "Futuristic and imaginative, The Golden Gate by Robert Buettner sweeps across continents and centuries in a thrilling chase for the truth about longevity. The science is fascinating, and the suspense never lets up. Readers will revel in this terrific roller-coaster ride."—Gayle Lynds, New York Timesbestselling author of The Assassins About Robert Buettner's Balance Point: "Fans of classic military SF will enjoy the twists and quips . . . "—Publishers Weekly "Buettner . . . conducts his thriller action with suspense and plausibility. All the separate threads balance neatly, as if in homage to the book's themes of balance between antagonistic polities . . . and [Balance Point] carries forward nobly the kind of core SF tale pioneered by writers such as Anderson, Gordon Dickson, Christopher Anvil, James Schmitz, and C. J. Cherryh, offering entertainment aplenty with thoughtful meditations on how humanity can get along with itself or not!"—Locus About Robert Buettner and the Orphan's Legacy Series: “Buettner goes well beyond . . . military science fiction . . . he understands . . . living as a soldier—the boredom punctuated by terror, the constant anxiety and self-doubt, the random chaos that battle always is, and the emotional glue that holds together people who may have nothing in common except absolute responsibility for one another's lives.” —Joe Haldeman, Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author “[O]nce in a while . . . a contemporary author penetrates to the heart of Heinlein's vision . . . to replicate the master's effects. . . . [O]ne such book [is] Robert Buettner's Orphanage.” —The Washington Post “Entertaining. Buettner shows the Heinlein touch.” —Denver Post

Author : Kristi Siegel
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0820449059

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Gender, Genre, and Identity in Women's Travel Writing by Kristi Siegel Pdf

Women experience and portray travel differently: Gender matters - irreducibly and complexly. Building on recent scholarship in women's travel writing, these provocative essays not only affirm the impact of gender, but also cast women's journeys against coordinates such as race, class, culture, religion, economics, politics, and history. The book's scope is unique: Women travelers extend in time from Victorian memsahibs to contemporary «road girls», and topics range from Anna Leonowens's slanted portrayal of Siam - later popularized in the movie, The King and I, to current feminist «descripting» of the male-road-buddy genre. The extensive array of writers examined includes Nancy Prince, Frances Trollope, Cameron Tuttle, Lady Mary Montagu, Catherine Oddie, Kate Karko, Frances Calderón de la Barca, Rosamond Lawrence, Zilpha Elaw, Alexandra David-Néel, Amelia Edwards, Erica Lopez, Paule Marshall, Bharati Mukherjee, and Marilynne Robinson.