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Author : Mark Knudsen,Shawn Plank
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1999-02-27
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781418558925
Mark Knudsen is an adventurer who built an eighteen-foot flat-bottom johnboat and motored down the Mississippi River from Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico and lived the dream of many people.
Author : Lydia B. Miller
Publisher : Balboa Press
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781982219086
“He didn’t know it at the time, but from the first day his mama knew he existed in her womb, there had been a target on his back, and home would never be a safe haven for him.” Like That Old Man River is a heartfelt saga set in the Mississippi Delta in 1924 and centers around two families—one living in a small rural colored community known as Cainstown and the other a prosperous family living in the lap of luxury in the all-white sundown town of McAllister. Set against a historical backdrop of Jim Crow South, this emotional journey chronicles the life of a mulatto boy named River born as the result of a brutal rape to a psychopathic mother. Go along for the ride on this epic journey spanning forty-five years that chronicles River’s struggle not only to survive, but to rise above the circumstances of his life. You will find yourself rooting for him through the many plot twists and turns and will not be able to rest until you find out how the story ends. One thing is for sure—he, as well as other colorful characters described in this book, will stay with you long after you have read the last page.
Author : Paul Schneider
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780805098365
A fascinating account of how the Mississippi River shaped America In Old Man River, Paul Schneider tells the story of the river at the center of America's rich history—the Mississippi. Some fifteen thousand years ago, the majestic river provided Paleolithic humans with the routes by which early man began to explore the continent's interior. Since then, the river has been the site of historical significance, from the arrival of Spanish and French explorers in the 16th century to the Civil War. George Washington fought his first battle near the river, and Ulysses S. Grant and William T. Sherman both came to President Lincoln's attention after their spectacular victories on the lower Mississippi. In the 19th century, home-grown folk heroes such as Daniel Boone and the half-alligator, half-horse, Mike Fink, were creatures of the river. Mark Twain and Herman Melville led their characters down its stream in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Confidence-Man. A conduit of real-life American prowess, the Mississippi is also a river of stories and myth. Schneider traces the history of the Mississippi from its origins in the deep geologic past to the present. Though the busiest waterway on the planet today, the Mississippi remains a paradox—a devastated product of American ingenuity, and a magnificent natural wonder.
Author : Todd R. Decker
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199389186
"Who should sing Ol' man river? : the lives of an American song tells the almost eighty-year performance history of a great popular song. Examining over two hundred recorded and filmed versions of Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II's classic song, the book reveals the power of performers to remake one popular song into many different guises"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Billy Bryant
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781789125030
RECOLLECTIONS OF A FAMILY WHO LIVED THEIR LIVES AS SHOWBOAT ENTERTAINERS ON AMERICAN RIVERS. Children of the Ol’ Man River, which was first published in 1936, tells the colorful and witty life story of the Bryants, a poor family who found fortune aboard the Mississippi steamboat they built and performed on at the beginning of this century. In addition to chronicling his own family’s history, Bryant provides an excellent introduction to the importance and history of river travel and entertainment on the most famous of American rivers. For many years, colorful showboats traveled the Ohio and Mississippi rivers and their tributaries, bringing entertainment to eager audiences in communities large and small. Huntington was a regular stop for the showboats, which made their arrival known by the musical strains of a powerful steam calliope, audible for miles around. Hearing the music, people would make a beeline for the 10th Street river landing to have a look at the boat and see what time the show would start. Some of the boats were lavish floating palaces, while others were far from grand. Some traveled only for a summer season or two, others for years. Billy Bryant’s Showboat plied the inland waterways of the Ohio River watershed from before the First World War until 1942, bringing a blend of melodrama and vaudeville, laughter and therapeutic tears, into the lives of isolated people in rural communities along the way.
Author : Bob Burke,Joan Gilmore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1885596243
Author : Ernest Hemingway
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547117650
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Old Man and the Sea" by Ernest Hemingway. 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.
Author : Joachim Fromhold
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781312792319
A continuation of the history of the Old North Trail (New Mexico to Northwest Territories) for the period 1850-1870 (Part 2, 1860-1870), two decades of great change for the Indian Nations of the Canadian west. While this ushered in the high point of adaptation of Native society to the Ango-European culture, it also set the stage for the Anglo disposession of their lands, properties and rights and the marginalization which continues to this day.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-11
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781476619316
Calypso, with its diverse cultural heritage, was the most significant Caribbean musical form from World War I to Trinidad and Tobago Independence in 1962. Though wildly popular in mid-1950s America, Calypso--along with other music from "the island of the hummingbird"--has been largely neglected or forgotten. This first-ever discography of the first 50 years of Trinidadian music includes all the major artists, as well as many obscure performers. Chronological entries for 78 rpm recordings give bibliographical references, periodicals, websites and the recording locations. Rare field recordings are cataloged for the first time, including East Indian and Muslim community performances and Shango and Voodoo rites. Appendices give 10-inch LP (78 rpm), 12-inch LP (33 1/3 rpm), extended play (ep) and 7-inch single (45) listings. Non-commercial field recordings, radio broadcasts and initially unissued sessions also are listed. The influence of Trinidadian music on film, and the "Calypso craze" are discussed. Audio sources are provided. Indexes list individual artists and groups, recording titles and labels.
Author : John F. Paugstat
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781662425455
Der Kliene Lump contains a series of true anecdotes about the winsome ways of a boy who experienced rare freedoms and "extravagances" in a harsh era defined by The Great Depression and World War II. The boy's family of seven was unique in heritage, faith, lifestyle, character, and appearance. Less than an acre of land, a primitive house, an outhouse, and five dinky buildings, which sheltered a menagerie of animals, defined their habitat. His mother wore a prayer covering and plain dress that belied her fiery temperament. She referred to her son as Der Kleine Lump (The Little Rascal; at times, The Scoundrel). When the author, John Paugstat, viewed the anecdotes as a composite picture, he saw a boy who, when nurtured by faith, family, and society, rose above the Woes of Poverty and enjoyed the Wows of Privilege and Adventure. The author would like to have been that boy, and so he was--resulting in anecdotes true to the limits of his memory. John Paugstat has degrees from the Universities of California and Cincinnati. He wrote articles on various subjects; he taught and spoke at conventions, corporate, and church-related functions. He has five patents, two published books, and three in development.
Author : Oscar Hammerstein (II)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Musicals
ISBN : OCLC:973655527
Author : Myrna Katz Frommer,Harvey Frommer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781589799172
In this deliciously revealing oral history of Broadway from World War II through the early 1980s, more than one hundred theater veterans—including Carol Channing, Hal Prince, Donna McKechnie, Hal Holbrook, Andrea McArdle, and Al Hirschfeld—deliver the behind-the-scenes story of the hits, the stars, the feuds, and the fiascoes. Along the way there are evocations of the great comedians and dramatic actors who had that indefinable magic that made them stand out above the rest. With verve, love, and passion, this book gives us the story of more than half a century of great theater—from the inside out.
Author : Peter Matthiessen
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1998-09-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780679735649
One of the few American writers ever nominated for the National Book Award for both fiction and nonfiction presents the second novel in his Watson trilogy. Lucius Watson is obsessed with learning the truth about his father. Who was E. J. Watson? Was he a devoted family man, an inspired farmer, a man of progress and vision? Or was he a cold-blooded murderer and amoral opportunist? Were his neighbors driven to kill him out of fear? Or was it envy? And if Watson was a killer, should the neighbors fear the obsessed Lucius when he returns to live among them and ask questions? The characters in this tale are men and women molded by the harsh elements of the Florida Everglades—an isolated breed, descendants of renegades and pioneers, who have only their grit, instinct, and tradition to wield against the obliterating forces of twentieth-century progress: Speck Daniels, moonshiner and alligator poacher turned gunrunner; Sally Brown, who struggles to escape the racism and shame of her local family; R. B. Collins, known as Chicken, crippled by drink and rage, who is the custodian of Watson secrets: Watson Dyer, the unacknowledged namesake with designs on the remote Watson homestead hidden in the wild rivers; and Henry Short, a black man and unwilling member of the group of armed island men who awaited E. J. Watson in the silent twilight. Only a storyteller of Peter Matthiessen’s dazzling artistry could capture the beauty and strangeness of life on this lawless frontier while probing deeply into its underlying tragedy: the brutal destruction of the land in the name of progress, and the racism that infects the heart of New World history. A story of epic scope and ambition, Lost Man’s River confronts the primal relationship between a dangerous father and his desperate sons and the ways in which his death has shaped their lives.
Author : Soli Jacques
Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781618978424
The hurts of childhood extend into adulthood, and can have far-reaching effects. To Cherish Harm is the autobiographical story of a severely abused child, bloodied by a disturbed alcoholic mother. Unable to distinguish a destructive relationship from a loving one, the girl matures into a lonely and confused teenager. She runs into the arms of one of her mother?s ?friends? seeking safety and comfort, only to find that she has embraced a hellish relationship of violent sexual perversity, one that is physically abusive and nearly kills her. Mistaking destructive relationships for love, the girl grows into a woman who has learned To Cherish Harm. With hope and vision, can her ?little girl? dreams nourish her need for love and take her life down a new path?
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1266 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1922
Category : Country life
ISBN : PRNC:32101079523328