Emperor Of The North

Author : James Raffan
Publisher : HarperCollins Canada
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010-08-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781443401395

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Emperor Of The North by James Raffan Pdf

The adventure-filled story of the legendary Hudson’s Bay Company is inextricably linked to the formation of a Canadian nation stretching from sea to sea to sea. In an absorbing and lively new book on The Bay, James Raffan explores the forces that moulded a man, a company and a country. The histories of Sir George Simpson and the HBC in the golden years of the 19th century are in many ways one history, for Simpson’s professional acumen and personal ambitions propelled a failing business to a position of great wealth and political power. At its height, the HBC trading territory covered an astonishing one-twelfth of the world’s surface. Raffan captures the many contradictions of the larger-than-life man at its centre: a brilliant manager who kept an iron grip on his fur forts from east to west, ensuring British power across the land; a pompous dandy who was most at home in a voyageur-paddled canoe; a man ashamed of his illegitimate birth but who went on to sire 13 children with eight different women, only one of whom was his wife; a master businessman who laid the foundations for the single greatest business enterprise of its day. Emperor of the North is the vibrant tale of a man who shaped much more than a fur-trading company—he launched an empire of ideas that led to the creation of a country. Meticulously researched, highly readable and wonderfully illuminated by maps and archival photographs, Emperor of the North is a delight for history buffs, armchair adventurers and biography fans alike.

Author : Christopher Knopf
Publisher : BearManor Media
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1593938993

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Emperor of the North by Christopher Knopf Pdf

When Robert Aldrich directed his unforgettable film, Emperor of the North (1973), featuring Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, and Keith Carradine, changes were made to the original screenplay by award-winning Christopher Knopf. The film still managed to please audiences and has remained a revered favorite among many. Even the theme ballad, "A Man and a Train," written by Frank De Vol with lyrics by Hal David and sung by Marty Robbins, reached #40 on the Billboard chart. Despite the vigor of Hollywood hoopla, Knopf always longed to reset the ruthless railroad tale on the right tracks. Now, nearly half a century later, Knopf finally reveals the true story in a riveting new novel that restores the crucial elements that film audiences have never experienced. In 1933, during the Great Depression, Shack, a cruel train conductor wages a personal war to keep anyone from riding his train for free. When A No. 1, an experienced, train-hopping hobo, and Cigaret, his green companion, dare to invade the sanctity of Shack's train, a battle of wills erupts with a pounding intensity rivaled only by the throbbing power of the steel behemoth beneath their feet. A climactic fight with heavy chains, planks of wood, and an axe used as makeshift weapons pits the three desperate men against each other. Will one of the hobos manage to ride Shack's train all the way to Portland and earn the title "Emperor of the North," or will Shack ultimately prevail? Christopher Knopf graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1950. Hired out of school by MGM Studios, he launched a producing and writing career in motion pictures and television that lasted fifty years and earned him an Edgar Alan Poe nomination, two Emmy Nominations, a Humanitas Prize nomination, two Writers Guild of America Award-winning scripts as well as five further nominations, two Writers Guild of America Service Awards, a People's Choice Award, and an NACCP Award. His autobiography, Will The Real Me Please Stand Up, and two novels, Remains To Be Seen and Chill Factor, were published exclusively by BearManor Media.

Author : John McNichol
Publisher : Young Chesterton
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-27
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 173313834X

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The Emperor of North America by John McNichol Pdf

IF YOU KNOW WHAT'S GOOD FOR YOU... It's been over a year since Gilbert Keith Chesterton and his friends defeated the Martian tripod invasion in the first book of the Young Chesterton Series (Tripods Attack!). Since then, he has a new faith, a new job, and a new love- a beautiful heiress named Frances. Life couldn't be better. But then things begin to go very wrong. Gilbert's best friend Herb becomes wealthy and evasive. A mysterious redheaded woman from their past adventures resurfaces, with trouble following close behind her. Gilbert has to flee to America, where a powerful man calling himself The Emperor of North America has taken unexplained interest in Gilbert's future. Worst of all, Gilbert learns that America may be no safer than England. For it is in America that both he and Herb will confront their most dangerous foes yet. Themselves. -----

Author : Anne A. Latowsky
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801467783

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Emperor of the World by Anne A. Latowsky Pdf

Emperor of the World, traces the curious history of the story of the alliances forged by Charlemagne while visiting Jerusalem and Constantinople, revealing how the memory of the Frankish Emperor was manipulated to shape the institutions of kingship and empire in the High Middle Ages. The legend incorporates apocalyptic themes such as the succession of world monarchies at the End of Days and the prophecy of the Last Roman Emperor. Charlemagne's apocryphal journey to the East increasingly resembled the eschatological final journey of the Last Emperor, who was expected to end his reign in Jerusalem after reuniting the Roman Empire prior to the Last Judgment. Latowsky finds that the writers who incorporated this legend did so to support, or in certain cases to criticize, the imperial pretentions of the regimes under which they wrote. Latowsky removes Charlemagne's encounters with the East from their long-presumed Crusading context and shows how a story that began as a rhetorical commonplace of imperial praise evolved over the centuries as an expression of Christian Roman universalism.

Author : Stephen L. Carter
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 850 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307279934

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The Emperor of Ocean Park by Stephen L. Carter Pdf

After the funeral of his powerful father, Talcott Garland, an African American law professor at an Ivy League university, is left to unravel the meaning of a cryptic note and carry out the arrangements his father left behind.

Author : Kwame Mbalia,Prince Joel Makonnen
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781338665871

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Last Gate of the Emperor by Kwame Mbalia,Prince Joel Makonnen Pdf

From Kwame Mbalia and Prince Joel David Makonnen comes an Afrofuturist adventure about a mythical Ethiopian empire. Sci-fi and fantasy combine in this epic journey to the stars. Yared Heywat lives an isolated life in Addis Prime -- a hardscrabble city with rundown tech, lots of rules, and not much to do. His worrywart Uncle Moti and bionic lioness Besa are his only family... and his only friends. Often in trouble for his thrill-seeking antics and wisecracking sense of humor, those same qualities make Yared a star player of the underground augmented reality game, The Hunt for Kaleb's Obelisk. But when a change in the game rules prompts Yared to log in with his real name, it triggers an attack that rocks the city. In the chaos, Uncle Moti disappears. Suddenly, all the stories Yared's uncle told him as a young boy are coming to life, of kingdoms in the sky and city-razing monsters. And somehow Yared is at the center of them. Together with Besa and the Ibis -- a game rival turned reluctant ally -- Yared must search for his uncle... and answers to his place in a forgotten, galaxy-spanning war.

Author : Patricia Buckley Ebrey,Maggie Bickford
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 675 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781684174348

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Emperor Huizong and Late Northern Song China by Patricia Buckley Ebrey,Maggie Bickford Pdf

Huizong was an exceptional emperor who lived through momentous times. A man of many talents, he wrote poetry and created his own distinctive calligraphy style; collected paintings, calligraphies, and antiquities on a large scale; promoted Daoism; and involved himself in the training of court artists, the layout of gardens, and reforms of music and medicine. The quarter century when Huizong ruled is just as fascinating. The greatly enlarged scholar-official class had come into its own but was deeply divided by factional strife. The long struggle between the Chinese state and its northern neighbors entered a new phase when Song proved unable to defend itself against the newly emergent Jurchen state of Jin. Huizong and thousands of members of his family and court were taken captive, and the Song dynasty had to recreate itself in the South.

Author : Eugenie Louise Myles
Publisher : Saskatoon, Sask. : Western Producer Prairie Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Alberta
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035816110

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The Emperor of Peace River by Eugenie Louise Myles Pdf

Author : Ethan Canin
Publisher : HMH
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780547525488

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Emperor of the Air by Ethan Canin Pdf

The award-winning, bestselling debut collection of “beautifully crafted stories” from the acclaimed author of The Doubter’s Almanac (Chicago Sun-Times). Highly acclaimed and wildly successful upon its debut, Ethan Canin’s now classic collection of nine stories combines exquisite precision, humor, and a rare maturity of observation, capturing those miraculous moments when life opens up and presents itself to us. Full of life, rich with personal history, plot, and revelation, the stories in Emperor of the Air are the work of an extraordinarily gifted young writer. Capturing a wide range of vivid characters and their unforgettable moments of ache, epiphany, humor, and wisdom, Canin would go on to prove himself as “the most mature and accomplished novelist of his generation” (NPR). “Dazzling . . . at times breathtaking, at other times heartbreaking.” —Walker Percy “A glowing first book . . . An engrossing and unified collection.” —Matthew Gilbert, The Boston Globe

Author : Mark Lawrence
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101624937

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Emperor of Thorns by Mark Lawrence Pdf

In the final novel in the Broken Empire Trilogy, the boy who would rule all may have finally met his match... King Jorg Ancrath is twenty now—and king of seven nations. His goal—revenge against his father—has not yet been realized, and the demons that haunt him have only grown stronger. Yet no matter how tortured his path, he intends to take the next step in his upward climb. Jorg would be emperor. It is a position not to be gained by the sword but rather by vote. And never in living memory has anyone secured a majority of the vote, leaving the Broken Empire long without a leader. Jorg plans to change that. He’s uncovered the lost technology of the land, and he won’t hesitate to use it. But he soon finds an adversary standing in his way, a necromancer unlike any he has ever faced—a figure hated and feared even more than himself: the Dead King.

Author : Chandler Burr
Publisher : Random House
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2003-01-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781588362605

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The Emperor of Scent by Chandler Burr Pdf

For as long as anyone can remember, a man named Luca Turin has had an uncanny relationship with smells. He has been compared to the hero of Patrick Süskind’s novel Perfume, but his story is in fact stranger, because it is true. It concerns how he made use of his powerful gifts to solve one of the last great mysteries of the human body: how our noses work. Luca Turin can distinguish the components of just about any smell, from the world’s most refined perfumes to the air in a subway car on the Paris metro. A distinguished scientist, he once worked in an unrelated field, though he made a hobby of collecting fragrances. But when, as a lark, he published a collection of his reviews of the world’s perfumes, the book hit the small, insular business of perfume makers like a thunderclap. Who is this man Luca Turin, they demanded, and how does he know so much? The closed community of scent creation opened up to Luca Turin, and he discovered a fact that astonished him: no one in this world knew how smell worked. Billions and billions of dollars were spent creating scents in a manner amounting to glorified trial and error. The solution to the mystery of every other human sense has led to the Nobel Prize, if not vast riches. Why, Luca Turin thought, should smell be any different? So he gave his life to this great puzzle. And in the end, incredibly, it would seem that he solved it. But when enormously powerful interests are threatened and great reputations are at stake, Luca Turin learned, nothing is quite what it seems. Acclaimed writer Chandler Burr has spent four years chronicling Luca Turin’s quest to unravel the mystery of how our sense of smell works. What has emerged is an enthralling, magical book that changes the way we think about that area between our mouth and our eyes, and its profound, secret hold on our lives.

Author : Leon Ray Livingston
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1015609503

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From Coast to Coast With Jack London by Leon Ray Livingston 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 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. 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 : Budhasvamin
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2005-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780814757017

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The Emperor of the Sorcerers by Budhasvamin Pdf

Budha-svamin tells the epic tale of the youthful exploits of prince Nara-vahana-datta. It is indeed a great story, as its Sanskrit title declares. Epic in scope and scale, it has everything that a great story should: adventure, romance, suspense, intrigue, tragedy and comedy. The reader is taken from royal palaces to flying sorcerers' mountain fastnesses via courtesans' bedrooms and merchant ships. The frame story narrates Nara-vahana-datta's progress culminating in his enthronement as Emperor of the Sorcerers, winning twenty-six wives along the way. Volume One's adventures end with his lute contest and marriage to Gandharva-datta. The fast and witty narrative eschews lengthy description and provides insights into ancient India.

Author : Edward Shawcross
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2024-09-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1541674200

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The Last Emperor of Mexico by Edward Shawcross Pdf

The "superbly entertaining and well‑researched" (Financial Times) history of Maximilian and Carlota, the European aristocrats who stumbled into power in Mexico--and faced bloody consequences. In the 1860s, Napoleon III, intent on curbing the rise of American imperialism, persuaded a young Austrian archduke and a Belgian princess to leave Europe and become the emperor and empress of Mexico. They and their entourage arrived in a Mexico ruled by terror, where revolutionary fervor was barely suppressed by French troops. When the United States, now clear of its own Civil War, aided the rebels in pushing back Maximilian's imperial soldiers, the French army withdrew, abandoning the young couple. The regime fell apart. Maximilian was executed by a firing squad and Carlota, secluded in a Belgian castle, descended into madness. Assiduously researched and vividly told, The Last Emperor of Mexico is a dramatic story of European hubris, imperialist aspirations clashing with revolutionary fervor, and the Old World breaking from the New.

Author : M. J. Trow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2007-02-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0750934018

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Cnut by M. J. Trow Pdf