Author : Stephen Leacock
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Canada
ISBN : OCLC:1181791403
My Discovery of the West
Stephen Leacock
My Discovery Of The West
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My Discovery of the West. A Discussion of East and West in Canada
Stephen Butler Leacock
Author : Stephen Butler Leacock
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : EAN:8596547109204
My Discovery of the West. A Discussion of East and West in Canada by Stephen Butler Leacock Pdf
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "My Discovery of the West. A Discussion of East and West in Canada" by Stephen Butler Leacock. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
My Discovery of America
Farley Mowat
Author : Farley Mowat
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105040115631
My Discovery of America by Farley Mowat Pdf
In 1985, when Mowat tried to enter the United States for a book promotion tour, he was barred by the McCarran Act, a 1952 law enacted during the McCarthy era. This book, told with outraged but good humour, describes Mowat's fight against the ban.
My Discovery of America
Vladimir Mayakovsky
Author : Vladimir Mayakovsky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015062844306
My Discovery of America by Vladimir Mayakovsky Pdf
"Touring the United States in 1925, the Russian Futurist poet and propagandist Vladimir Mayakovsky observed at first hand what he considered to be the model for Soviet technological development. Writing in his typical declamatory style, he found much to celebrate in the modernised, industrialised America of the 1920s - creativity and advancement, a primitive futurism. But he also decried the social injustices of uncaring capitalism, losing no opportunity to propound his own political beliefs." "Presented here in full for the first time in the English language, My Discovery of America forms an inspired series of humorous sketches, thoughts, jottings and poems, the significance of which resounds from the early twentieth century through to our own times."--BOOK JACKET.
The Discovery of the Great West
Francis Parkman
Author : Francis Parkman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Mississippi River
ISBN : RMS:RMSGEGEC000003040$$$F
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Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western-Australia, During the Years 1837-1839. (etc.)
George Grey
Author : George Grey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1841
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z165390008
Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western-Australia, During the Years 1837-1839. (etc.) by George Grey Pdf
Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia During the Years 1837, 38 and 39
George Grey
Author : George Grey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1841
Category : Australia
ISBN : BSB:BSB10466918
Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia During the Years 1837, 38 and 39 by George Grey Pdf
Under the authority of Her Majesty's Government describing many newly discovered important fertile districts.
La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West
Francis Parkman
Author : Francis Parkman
Publisher : Modern Library
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2000-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780679642299
La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West by Francis Parkman Pdf
René-Robert Cavelier de La Salle (1643-1687), one of the most legendary explorers of the New World, is best known for claiming the entire Louisiana Territory for France in 1682. Two years later, he was given the order to colonize and govern the great expanse of territory between Lake Michigan and the Gulf of Mexico. He set out from France with four ships but never reached his destination. Landing somewhere in East Texas, he and his men were ravaged by disease, weakened by hard labor, even gored by buffalo as they tried to locate the mouth of the Mississippi River, which was obscured by the sandy sameness of the Gulf coastline. In 1687, on a third attempt to locate the river by an overland route, La Salle was murdered by his own men in the desolate country between the Trinity and Brazos rivers. His body was never found. First published in 1869, La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West is the vivid, richly detailed story of that final grim expedition, told by America's foremost historian.
The Discovery of the Great West
Francis Parkman
Author : Francis Parkman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Mississippi River Valley
ISBN : OCLC:1298901788
The Discovery of the Great West by Francis Parkman Pdf
Sibir
Farley Mowat
Author : Farley Mowat
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-18
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781551993928
Sibir by Farley Mowat Pdf
Here is a Siberia unheard of in the West. Once the most remote place of exile in all of Russia, Mowat describes it as a burgeoning land of opportunity and growth. Granted extraordinary freedom to visit places rarely seen by any westerner since 1917, Farley Mowat and his wife, Claire, travelled more than 29,000 miles over mountains, steppes, taiga and tundra to meet the people who have chosen to make Siberia their home and livelihood. With his classic exuberance and wit, Mowat brings to life a place and a people who share the top of the world with us – their hopes and aspirations, their humour, and their dedication to the dramatic awakening of Sibir, the Sleeping land.
The Discovery of the Great West
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0461413744
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The Great Ages of Discovery
Stephen J. Pyne
Author : Stephen J. Pyne
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780816541119
The Great Ages of Discovery by Stephen J. Pyne Pdf
For more than 600 years, Western civilization has relied on exploration to learn about a wider world and universe. The Great Ages of Discovery details the different eras of Western exploration in terms of its locations, its intellectual contexts, the characteristic moral conflicts that underwrote encounters, and the grand gestures that distill an age into its essence. Historian and MacArthur Fellow Stephen J. Pyne identifies three great ages of discovery in his fascinating new book. The first age of discovery ranged from the early 15th to the early 18th century, sketched out the contours of the globe, aligned with the Renaissance, and had for its grandest expression the circumnavigation of the world ocean. The second age launched in the latter half of the 18th century, spanning into the early 20th century, carrying the Enlightenment along with it, pairing especially with settler societies, and had as its prize achievement the crossing of a continent. The third age began after World War II, and, pivoting from Antarctica, pushed into the deep oceans and interplanetary space. Its grand gesture is Voyager’s passage across the solar system. Each age had in common a galvanic rivalry: Spain and Portugal in the first age, Britain and France—followed by others—in the second, and the USSR and USA in the third. With a deep and passionate knowledge of the history of Western exploration, Pyne takes us on a journey across hundreds of years of geographic trekking. The Great Ages of Discovery is an interpretive companion to what became Western civilization’s quest narrative, with the triumphs and tragedies that grand journey brought, the legacies of which are still very much with us.
The Discovery of the Great West (Classic Reprint)
Francis Parkman
Author : Francis Parkman
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0260134872
The Discovery of the Great West (Classic Reprint) by Francis Parkman Pdf
Excerpt from The Discovery of the Great West Of La Salle. A collection of extraordinary richness grew gradually upon his hands. In the course of my own inquiries, I owed much to his friendly aid; but his collections, as a whole, remained inac cessible, since he naturally wished to be the first to make known the results of his labors. An attempt to induce Congress to furnish him with the means of printing documents so interesting to American history was made in 1870 and 1871, by Henry Harrisse, Esq., aided by the American minister at Paris; but it unfortunately failed. 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.
My Discovery of England
Stephen Leacock
Author : Stephen Leacock
Publisher : New York : Dodd, Mead
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1922
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : HARVARD:32044079410395
My Discovery of England by Stephen Leacock Pdf
My Discovery of England is a classic humorous England travelogue by the great Canadian humorist, Stephen Leacock. Mr. Leacock is one of those rare individuals who can see a humorous side in everything--and make others see it too. That is why this story of his tour through England is so delightfully refreshing. Stephen P. H. Butler Leacock, FRSC (30 December 1869 - 28 March 1944) was a Canadian teacher, political scientist, writer, and humourist. Between the years 1915 and 1925, he was the best-known English-speaking humourist in the world.[1] He is known for his light humour along with criticisms of people's follies.[2] The Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour was named in his honour.Stephen Leacock was born in Swanmore, a village near Southampton in southern England. He was the third of the eleven children born to (Walter) Peter Leacock (b.1834), who was born and grew up at Oak Hill on the Isle of Wight, an estate that his grandfather had purchased after returning from Madeira where his family had made a fortune out of plantations and Leacock's Madeira wine, founded in 1760. Stephen's mother, Agnes, was born at Soberton, the youngest daughter by his second wife (Caroline Linton Palmer) of the Rev. Stephen Butler, of Bury Lodge, the Butler estate that overlooked the village of Hambledon, Hampshire. Stephen Butler (for whom Leacock was named), was the maternal grandson of Admiral James Richard Dacres and a brother of Sir Thomas Dacres Butler, Usher of the Black Rod. Leacock's mother was the half-sister of Major Thomas Adair Butler, who won the Victoria Cross at the siege and capture of Lucknow.Peter's father, Thomas Murdock Leacock J.P., had already conceived plans eventually to send his son out to the colonies, but when he discovered that at age eighteen Peter had married Agnes Butler without his permission, almost immediately he shipped them out to South Africa where he had bought them a farm. The farm in South Africa failed and Stephen's parents returned to Hampshire, where he was born.[4] When Stephen was six, he came out with his family to Canada, where they settled on a farm near the village of Sutton, Ontario, and the shores of Lake Simcoe.[5] Their farm in the township of Georgina in York County was also unsuccessful, and the family was kept afloat by money sent from Leacock's paternal grandfather. His father became an alcoholic; in the fall of 1878, he travelled west to Manitoba with his brother E.P. Leacock (the subject of Stephen's book My Remarkable Uncle, published in 1942), leaving behind Agnes and the children. Stephen Leacock, always of obvious intelligence, was sent by his grandfather to the elite private school of Upper Canada College in Toronto, also attended by his older brothers, where he was top of the class and was chosen as head boy. Leacock graduated in 1887, and returned home to find that his father had returned from Manitoba. Soon after, his father left the family again and never returned.[6] There is some disagreement about what happened to Peter Leacock; some suggest that he went to live in Argentina, [7] while other sources indicate that he moved to Nova Scotia and changed his name to Lewis. In 1887, seventeen-year-old Leacock started at University College at the University of Toronto, where he was admitted to the Zeta Psi fraternity. His first year was bankrolled by a small scholarship, but Leacock found he could not return to his studies the following year because of financial difficulties. He left university to work as a teacher--an occupation he disliked immensely--at Strathroy, Uxbridge and finally in Toronto. As a teacher at Upper Canada College, his alma mater, he was able simultaneously to attend classes at the University of Toronto and, in 1891, earn his degree through part-time studies. It was during this period that his first writing was published in The Varsity, a campus newspaper.
Lewis and Clark on the Trail of Discovery
Rod Gragg
Author : Rod Gragg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Lewis and Clark Expedition
ISBN : 1401600751
Lewis and Clark on the Trail of Discovery by Rod Gragg Pdf
Few events in American history have shaped the nation like the Lewis and Clark Expedition. It opened the American West for settlement. It redrew the map of the United States. It identified an array of native peoples, spectacular places, fascinating creatures, and extraordinary flora unknown in "civilized" America. It defined the American nation as a land stretching from coast to coast-and it launched the spread of population in a mighty frontier migration unlike anything ever witnessed in America before or since. Lewis and Clark on the Trail of Discovery contains 19 chapters, detailing the expedition chronologically. A "museum in a book," this fascinating volume contains re-creations of original documents such as diary entries, letters, maps, and sketches-all meticulously reproduced so that the reader can actually handle and examine them. Among the documents included in the book are: The actual letter of credit Jefferson wrote to Lewis committing the U.S. government to pay for the expedition. The code Thomas Jefferson provided to Lewis for sending secret messages. Clark's sketch of the technique some Indians used to flatten their heads, a sign of prestige. Clark's letter of gratitude to Sacagawea, a Shoshone teenager who helped the expedition. A newspaper account of the expedition's return to St. Louis.
