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Author : Thomas Mackay
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781108057677
A biography, published in 1900, of the great railway engineer responsible for the Forth Bridge and the first underground railway.
Author : Iain Boyd Whyte,Colin Baxter
Publisher : Edition Axel Menges
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9783930698189
When the Forth Bridge opened on 4 March 1890 it was the longest railway bridge in the world and the first large structure made of steel. Crossing the wide Firth of Forth east of Edinburgh, it represents one of the greatest engineering triumphs of Victorian Britain, man's victory over the intractable topography of land and water. Not surprisingly, such a vigorous rebuff of the natural order was condemned at the time by those late Victorians who resisted the march of technology, and William Morris described the Bridge as the »supremest specimen of all ugliness«. In response, Benjamin Baker insisted that its beauty lay in its functional elegance. Contrasting his masterpiece with the only comparable structure of the period, the Eiffel Tower, he concluded: »The Eiffel Tower is a foolish piece of work, ugly, illproportioned and of no real use to anyone.
Author : John Fowler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1862
Category : Electronic
ISBN : KUL:KULGB000115
Author : Martin Wood
Publisher : Frances Lincoln
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2007-10-18
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 071122711X
John Fowler was an interior decorator who set fashions and changed tastes. The English country house style, which he developed with Sibyl Colefax and Nancy Lancaster, his partners in the firm of Colefax & Fowler, has proved a source of continuing inspiration to decorators and home-owners on both sides of the Atlantic and indeed across the world. Today, a hundred years after his birth, his influence is almost as powerful as it was in the mid 20th century, when he was working on many of Britain's finest and most famous houses, including Uppark, Chequers and Buckingham Palace, as well as dozens of more modest projects. Fowler's style has been so widely imitated that it is easy to forget what an innovator he was. In the 1930s and 1940s his style was a breath of fresh country air, sweeping away heavy velvets and damasks in favour of crisp cotton chintzes, replacing glossy mahogany with painted Regency furnishings, elaborate porcelain and glitzy ormolu with modest pottery and painted tin. Even after the war, when he came to specialize in the decoration of architecturally important interiors, he continued to prefer 'humble elegance' and 'romantic disrepair' to pomposity.
Author : Matthew Adams Stickney
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2024-02-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783385349223
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Author : John Fowler
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 551 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-06
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781681776996
For the first time, a riveting insider's account of the fascinating world of Dr. Dian Fossey’s mountain gorilla camp, telling the often-shocking story of the unraveling of Fossey’s Rwandan facility alongside adventures tracking mountain gorillas over hostile terrain, confronting aggressive silverbacks, and rehabilitating orphaned baby gorillas. In A Forest in the Clouds, John Fowler takes us into the world of Karisoke Research Center, the remote mountain gorilla camp of Dr. Dian Fossey, a few years prior to her gruesome murder. Drawn to the adventure and promise of learning the science of studying mountain gorillas amid the beauty of Central Africa’s cloud forest, Fowler soon learns the cold harsh realities of life inside Fossey’s enclave ten thousand feet up in the Virunga Volcanoes. Instead of the intrepid scientist he had admired in the pages of National Geographic, Fowler finds a chain-smoking, hard-drinking woman bullying her staff into submission. While pressures mount from powers beyond Karisoke in an effort to extricate Fossey from her domain of thirteen years, she brings new students in to serve her most pressing need—to hang on to the remote research camp that has become her mountain home. Increasingly bizarre behavior has targeted Fossey for extrication by an ever-growing group of detractors—from conservation and research organizations to the Rwandan government. Amid the turmoil, Fowler must abandon his own research assignments to assuage the troubled Fossey as she orders him on illegal treks across the border into Zaire, over volcanoes, in search of missing gorillas, and to serve as surrogate parent to an orphaned baby ape in preparation for its traumatic re-introduction into a wild gorilla group. This riveting story is the only first-person account from inside Dian Fossey’s beleaguered camp. Fowler must come to grips with his own aspirations, career objectives, and disappointments as he develops the physical endurance to keep up with mountain gorillas over volcanic terrain in icy downpours above ten thousand feet, only to be affronted by the frightening charges of indignant giant silverbacks or to be treed by aggressive forest buffalos. Back in camp, he must nurture the sensitivity and patience needed for the demands of rehabilitating an orphaned baby gorilla. A Forest in the Clouds takes the armchair adventurer on a journey into an extraordinary world that now only exists in the memories of the very few who knew it.
Author : England. Local Government Board
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1030 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Land tenure
ISBN : PRNC:32101074831965
Author : Jeffrey Michael Laing
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780786472642
This is the biography of Bud Fowler (ne John Jackson), the first African American to play in organized baseball, and the longest tenured at the time that the color line was drawn. In addition to his professional playing career, which lasted more than 25 years, Fowler was a scout, organizer, owner, and promoter of touring black baseball clubs--including the legendary Page Fence Giants--in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Emphasizing the social and cultural contexts for Fowler's accomplishments on and off the baseball diamond, and his prominence within the history and development of the national pastime, the text builds a convincing case for Fowler as one of the great pioneering figures of the early game.
Author : University of Oxford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015021270460
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 738 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Engineering
ISBN : UOM:39015084573206
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1857
Category : Electronic
ISBN : DMM:057003058932
Author : Connecticut. Adjutant-General's Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 996 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Connecticut
ISBN : YALE:39002004995578
Author : Richard Seyd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590898492
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Engineering
ISBN : UOM:39015009220214
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 742 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1832
Category : Almanacs, American
ISBN : OSU:32435056191414