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Author : Harvey E. Oyer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN : 0981703607
Children's adventure stories based on actual people, places and events on the south Florida frontier during the late 19th century.
Author : Upton Sinclair
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780191624919
A searing novel of social realism, Upton Sinclair's The Jungle follows the fortunes of Jurgis Rudkus, an immigrant who finds in the stockyards of turn-of-the-century Chicago a ruthless system that degrades and impoverishes him, and an industry whose filthy practices contaminate the meat it processes. From the stench of the killing-beds to the horrors of the fertilizer-works, the appalling conditions in which Jurgis works are described in intense detail by an author bent on social reform. So powerful was the book's message that it caught the eye of President Theodore Roosevelt and led to changes to the food hygiene laws. In his Introduction to this new edition, Russ Castronovo highlights the aesthetic concerns that were central to Sinclair's aspirations, examining the relationship between history and historical fiction, and between the documentary impulse and literary narrative. As he examines the book's disputed status as novel (it is propaganda or literature?), he reveals why Sinclair's message-driven fiction has relevance to literary and historical matters today, now more than a hundred years after the novel first appeared in print.
Author : Robert Kagan
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780525521655
The author discusses why he feels America must not withdraw inward from an essential role played for decades: enforcing peace and order throughout the rest of the world
Author : John Lindsay-Poland
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2003-02-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0822330989
DIVFocuses on environmental, policy, and human rights dimensions of the activities of the U.S. military in Panama, analyzing the guiding mythologies and racial stereotypes behind the US's colonialism in the region./div
Author : William Carlsen
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780062407429
The acclaimed chronicle of the discovery of the legendary lost civilization of the Maya. Includes the history of the major Maya sites, including Palenque, Uxmal, Chichen Itza, Tuloom, Copan, and more. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Illustrated with a map and more than 100 images. In 1839, rumors of extraordinary yet baffling stone ruins buried within the unmapped jungles of Central America reached two of the world’s most intrepid travelers. Seized by the reports, American diplomat John Lloyd Stephens and British artist Frederick Catherwood—both already celebrated for their adventures in Egypt, the Holy Land, Greece, and Rome—sailed together out of New York Harbor on an expedition into the forbidding rainforests of present-day Honduras, Guatemala, and Mexico. What they found would upend the West’s understanding of human history. In the tradition of Lost City of Z and In the Kingdom of Ice, former San Francisco Chronicle journalist and Pulitzer Prize finalist William Carlsen reveals the remarkable story of the discovery of the ancient Maya. Enduring disease, war, and the torments of nature and terrain, Stephens and Catherwood meticulously uncovered and documented the remains of an astonishing civilization that had flourished in the Americas at the same time as classic Greece and Rome—and had been its rival in art, architecture, and power. Their masterful book about the experience, written by Stephens and illustrated by Catherwood, became a sensation, hailed by Edgar Allan Poe as “perhaps the most interesting book of travel ever published” and recognized today as the birth of American archaeology. Most important, Stephens and Catherwood were the first to grasp the significance of the Maya remains, understanding that their antiquity and sophistication overturned the West’s assumptions about the development of civilization. By the time of the flowering of classical Greece (400 b.c.), the Maya were already constructing pyramids and temples around central plazas. Within a few hundred years the structures took on a monumental scale that required millions of man-hours of labor, and technical and organizational expertise. Over the next millennium, dozens of city-states evolved, each governed by powerful lords, some with populations larger than any city in Europe at the time, and connected by road-like causeways of crushed stone. The Maya developed a cohesive, unified cosmology, an array of common gods, a creation story, and a shared artistic and architectural vision. They created stucco and stone monuments and bas reliefs, sculpting figures and hieroglyphs with refined artistic skill. At their peak, an estimated ten million people occupied the Maya’s heartland on the Yucatan Peninsula, a region where only half a million now live. And yet by the time the Spanish reached the “New World,” the Maya had all but disappeared; they would remain a mystery for the next three hundred years. Today, the tables are turned: the Maya are justly famous, if sometimes misunderstood, while Stephens and Catherwood have been nearly forgotten. Based on Carlsen’s rigorous research and his own 1,500-mile journey throughout the Yucatan and Central America, Jungle of Stone is equally a thrilling adventure narrative and a revelatory work of history that corrects our understanding of Stephens, Catherwood, and the Maya themselves.
Author : Rudyard Kipling
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1920
Category : Animals
ISBN : UOM:39015015357935
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Enchanted Lion Books
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Rain forest ecology
ISBN : 1592702309
Out of the morning mist a vast ocean of leaves appears. What lies beneath--the varied and teeming life of animals and plants--is vividly portrayed through the cycle of day and night in the jungle world. Considered Helen Borten's masterpiece,The Jungle was inspired by a trip to Guatemala in 1967, when few others were going there--let alone a woman--to seek out images and stories to share with children back in the US.
Author : Kelly Enright
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-10
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780813932439
Danger in the Congo! The unexplored Amazon! Long perceived as a place of mystery and danger, and more recently as a fragile system requiring our protection, the tropical forest captivated America for over a century. In The Maximum of Wilderness, Kelly Enright traces the representation of tropical forests--what Americans have typically thought of as "jungles"--and their place in both our perception of "wildness" and the globalization of the environmental movement. In the early twentieth century, jungle adventure--as depicted by countless books and films, from Burroughs’s Tarzan novels to King Kong--had enormous mass appeal. Concurrent with the proliferation of a popular image of the jungle that masked many of its truths was the work of American naturalists who sought to represent an "authentic" view of tropical nature through museums, zoological and botanical gardens, books, and film. Enright examines the relationship between popular and scientific representations of the forest through the lives and work of Martin and Osa Johnson (who with films such as Congorilla and Simba blended authenticity with adventure), as well as renowned naturalists John Muir, William Beebe, David Fairchild, and Richard Evans Schultes. The author goes on to explore a startling shift at midcentury in the perception of the tropical forest--from the "jungle," a place that endangers human life, to the "rain forest," a place that is itself endangered.
Author : Jonathan Evan Maslow
Publisher : Ivan R. Dee Publisher
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173005189394
Adventures in the scientific exploration of the American tropics, related by the prize-winning naturalist writer. Maslow recounts the exploits of thirteen pioneers--"inspired characters in mythopoetic settings. Call them Indiana Einsteins, and call us fortunate to have Maslow to tell their stories."--Kirkus Reviews.
Author : Waldo Frank
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1404645205
Author : Rudyard Kipling
Publisher : Random House
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781448155743
The Jungle Books tell the story of the irrepressible Mowgli, who is rescued as a baby from the jaws of the evil tiger, Shere Khan. Raised by wolves and guided by Baloo the bear, Mowgli and his animal friends embark on a series of hair-raising adventures through the jungles of India.
Author : Horacio Quiroga
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 77 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-12
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547602811
South American Jungle Tales by Horacio Quiroga transports readers to the heart of the South American jungle, where they encounter fascinating tales of adventure, mystery, and the wonders of nature. Quiroga's masterful storytelling brings the jungle to life, making it a cherished read for fans of exotic tales.
Author : Ron Snell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1359006693
Author : Erica Ferencik
Publisher : Pocket Books
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781982123567
In this “hypnotic, violent, unsparing” (A.J. Banner, USA TODAY bestselling author) thriller from the author of the “haunting, twisting thrill ride” (Megan Miranda, New York Times bestselling author) The River at Night, a young woman leaves behind everything she knows to take on the Bolivian jungle, but her excursion abroad quickly turns into a fight for her life. Lily Bushwold thought she’d found the antidote to endless foster care and group homes: a gig teaching English in Cochabamba, Bolivia. As soon as she could steal enough cash for the plane, she was on it. But the program was a scam. And bonding with other broke, rudderless girls in the local youth hostel wasn’t the answer. Falling crazy in love with Omar, a savvy, handsome local who’d left his life as a hunter in Ayachero—a remote jungle village—to try city life: this was the last thing Lily could have imagined. When Omar learns that a jaguar had killed his four-year-old nephew in Ayachero, he gives Lily a choice: stay alone in the unforgiving city, or travel to the last in the ever-more-isolated string of river towns in the jungles of Bolivia. Thirty-foot anacondas? Puppy-sized spiders? Vengeful shamans with unspeakable powers? None of it matters to love-struck Lily. She follows Omar to a ruthless new world of lawless poachers, bullheaded missionaries, and desperate indigenous tribes driven to the brink of extinction. To survive, Lily must navigate the jungle—and all its residents—using only her wits and resilience. “Gripping, breathtaking, and exquisitely told—Into the Jungle pulls you into another world, returning you forever transformed” (Wendy Walker, USA TODAY bestselling author).
Author : Waldo David Frank
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1977-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0836904532