Potomac Turning

Author : Adwit Pundit
Publisher : Partridge Publishing
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781482883794

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Potomac Turning by Adwit Pundit Pdf

Potomac Turning is the story of four young individuals who discover themselves as they mature from the shared childhood of three of them in San Antonio, Texas, and as the fourth joins during their university days in Washington DC. These two men and two women, who come from different social and racial backgrounds, find their lives to become forever linked until the present day. Two other young individuals mould into the story as it progresses to Calcutta in the last phase. There are overtures even to Latin America. There is sexual discovery and experimentation as well as unrequited love. Descriptions of a Catholic school in Texas are poignant and reminiscent of possibilities. Georgetown in Washington DC, which serves as the backdrop as the students mature to young adults, is described with intimacy and familiarity. The passages about Calcutta, where the story moves rapidly towards finality, are extremely well-written and convey the flavor of that city and its people and the times. This is a highly recommended read for lovers of romance in exotic venues (Laurent Oliver, reviewer, Washington DC).

Author : Douglas E. Campbell,Thomas B. Sherman
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781304698728

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On the Potomac River by Douglas E. Campbell,Thomas B. Sherman Pdf

The Potomac River meanders in its 383-mile journey past natural settings of the forests, rocks and falls (Great Falls, Little Falls, Three Sisters Rocks, Mather Gorge), the convergence of other rivers into the Potomac (the Shenandoah River at Harpers Ferry, the Eastern Branch of the Potomac at Washington, D.C., now called Anacostia River) and the architecture of man-made points of interest (Mount Vernon, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Harper's Ferry, Fort Washington). Douglas Campbell (writer) and Thomas Sherman (artist) followed the entire length of the winding Potomac through its four distinct geographical areas: the Appalachian highlands of the westernmost portion of Maryland and the northern portion of West Virginia, Maryland's Cumberland Valley (called Shenandoah Valley in Virginia), the rolling Piedmont country beyond the Catocin mountains and the brackish Tidewater area where the waters become affected by the tidal pulls of the sun and moon.

Author : Wilson J. Vance
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4064066144302

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Stone's River: The Turning-Point of the Civil War by Wilson J. Vance Pdf

"Stone's River: The Turning-Point of the Civil War" by Wilson J. Vance Confederate enterprise, energy, and expectation were at their peak in 1862. No other year saw the South with so promising prospects, with plans of the campaign so bold, with such resources, both latent and developed. The armies were at their fullest strength, for the flower of her youth had not yet been destroyed in battle. Want and hunger had not yet begun to chill the hearts of her people.

Author : James D. Rice
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2009-03-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421402628

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Nature and History in the Potomac Country by James D. Rice Pdf

How environmental forces, and human responses to them, profoundly shaped both Native American and colonial life along the Potomac River. James D. Rice’s fresh study of the Potomac River basin begins with a mystery. Why, when the whole of the region offered fertile soil and excellent fishing and hunting, was nearly three-quarters of the land uninhabited on the eve of colonization? Rice wonders how the existence of this no man’s land influenced nearby Native American and, later, colonial settlements. Did it function as a commons, as a place where all were free to hunt and fish? Or was it perceived as a strange and hostile wilderness? Rice discovers environmental factors at the center of the story. Making use of extensive archaeological and anthropological research, as well as the vast scholarship on farming practices in the colonial period, he traces the region’s history from its earliest known habitation. With exceptionally vivid prose, Rice makes clear the implications of unbridled economic development for the forests, streams, and wetlands of the Potomac River basin. With what effects, Rice asks, did humankind exploit and then alter the landscape and the quality of the river’s waters? Equal parts environmental, Native American, and colonial history, Nature and History in the Potomac Country is a useful and innovative study of the Potomac River, its valley, and its people.

Author : United States
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1062 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1919
Category : Law
ISBN : MINN:31951T00244568Z

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The Statutes at Large of the United States from ... by United States Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Medical
ISBN : PSU:000061499737

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Ova-pollution in the Potomac by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform Pdf

Author : Charles Carleton Coffin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : History
ISBN : PRNC:32101041622661

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Drum-beat of the Nation by Charles Carleton Coffin Pdf

Author : Steven E. Woodworth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : United States
ISBN : UOM:39015037867333

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Davis and Lee at War by Steven E. Woodworth Pdf

Woodworth shows how the lack of a unified purpose and strategy in the East sealed the Confederacy's fate.

Author : Garrett Peck
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-21
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781614237877

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The Potomac River by Garrett Peck Pdf

The story of the Potomac is the story of America—take a historic hike with this fascinating guide. The great Potomac River begins in the Alleghenies and flows 383 miles through some of America's most historic lands before emptying into the Chesapeake Bay. The course of the river drove the development of the region and the path of a young republic. Maryland's first Catholic settlers came to its banks in 1634 and George Washington helped settle the new capital on its shores. During the Civil War the river divided North and South, and it witnessed John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry and the bloody Battle of Antietam. In this book, Garrett Peck leads readers on a journey down the Potomac, from its first fount at Fairfax Stone in West Virginia to its mouth at Point Lookout in Maryland. Combining history with recreation, Peck has written an indispensible guide to the nation's river.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-09
Category : Water resources development
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131578986

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Water Resources Development in Maryland by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Army. Corps of Engineers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1498 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Civil engineering
ISBN : UIUC:30112105113374

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Annual Report FY ... of the Secretary of the Army on Civil Works Activities by United States. Army. Corps of Engineers Pdf

Author : Herman Hattaway,Archer Jones
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 788 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : United States
ISBN : 0252062108

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How the North Won by Herman Hattaway,Archer Jones Pdf

Covers the essential factors which shaped the battles and ultimately determined the outcome of the Civil War.

Author : Harold C. Fleming,Virginia Fleming,Victoria Fleming
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780820336237

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The Potomac Chronicle by Harold C. Fleming,Virginia Fleming,Victoria Fleming Pdf

From the Kennedy administration through the end of the Reagan era, the Potomac Institute gave vital, behind-the-scenes support to countless public-and-private-sector initiatives related to equal opportunity, urban social problems, and race relations. Part history and part memoir of Harold C. Fleming, the institute's leader, The Potomac Chronicle tells for the first time how the institute served as a creative broker of talent, ideas, and resources among minorities, activists, and interest groups. Owing to Fleming's dedication, coolheadedness, and low-key approach, no other such organization was as well linked to—and as trusted by—both government policymakers and southern civil rights leaders. In the context of major national trends and events, The Potomac Chronicle tells of the institute's role in the Kennedy administration's civil rights policy debates, in helping the Defense Department set up what would become model guidelines for civil rights compliance by federal contractors, and in informing, educating, and reassuring Americans about Lyndon Johnson's Civil Rights Act. Other accomplishments discussed include the institute's involvement in forming the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, tying civil rights requirements to government programs and private practices in education, housing, and employment, and, in the years before it closed in 1988, helping defend affirmative action.

Author : William Swinton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 702 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038000043

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Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac by William Swinton Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1124 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11548275

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