Early Recollections

Reducere. " These reminiscences] light up for whoever will read the earliest days of early English-speaking Texas." --J. Frank Dobie, from the foreword A fir...

Reducere. Personal recollections. Worn and faded black-and-white photographs. Journal entries from the first expeditions. Frayed letters from early rangers. ...

Reducere. "These are the memoirs of a black woman who was born a slave, who had the good fortune to gain her freedom early in the war, with the education and...

Reducere. Roundups, Trail drives, a lynching, mail-order romances, black-smithing, Indians, the blizzard of 1885-86, bunkhouse humor, Calamity Jane, cattle b...

Reducere. GURDJIEFF'S EARLY TALKS 1914-1931 In Moscow, St. Petersburg, Essentuki, Tiflis, Constantinople, Berlin, Paris, London, Fontainebleau, New York, and...

Reducere. Celebrity, art merchant, socialite, publisher, and writer, Ambroise Vollard (1867-1939) was one of the most extraordinary figures in 20th-century a...

DescriptionThe purpose of this illustrated volume of first-hand recollections is to increase appreciation in the world for Rudolf Steiner's artisti...

Drawn from personal recollections, historical records, and biographical research, Capitan Chiquito relates the little-known life and career of a le...

Reducere. In Recollections of My Life as a Woman, Diane di Prima explores the first three decades of her extraordinary life. Born into a conservative Italian...

Reducere. The fifteen Sioux (and one Cheyenne) who speak in Lakota Recollections of the Custer Fight witnessed Custer's Last Stand. Their testimony sheds lig...

Reducere. One of the greatest physicists of the 20th century recounts his journey from Hungary and the Nazi invasion to the creation of the first atomic bomb...

Reducere. First published in 1892, Early Life Among the Indians is the biography of Benjamin Armstrong, who in 1840 took up his residence in northern Wiscons...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: James L. NeibaurThe Charlie Chan film series from 1931-1949 went through three lead actors and two studios over 44 films wh...

Reducere. *Gold Medal Winner in the Sexuality / Relationships Category of the 2011 IPPY Awards* * Honorary Mention in the 2010 BOTYA Awards Women's Issues Ca...

My father and father in law were both members of the Greatest Generation. They were both in the Navy and served in the Pacific Theater. I know very...

Reducere. This unfinished autobiography by Rudyard Kipling offers a glimpse into the author's early life, and some of the periods he spent working on his mos...

Reducere. DescriptionBristol Bay in Southwest Alaska is one of the great commercial fisheries on earth. More than half of the world's sockeye salmon return t...

DescriptionFilmmaker. Author. Performer. Shopkeeper. Miranda July--the most impressive cross-disciplinary artist of her generation--is brought into...

Reducere. Sexual Voyage: Exploration of Sexual Thoughts brings to everyone sexually fantasy thoughts that manifest themselves in the old and young, male or f...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Joanna StrattonFrom a rediscovered collection of autobiographical accounts written by hundreds of Kansas pioneer women in t...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Photographer: Allen BeaulieuForeword by: Dez DickersonIntroduction by: Jim WalshPhotographer Allen Beaulieu worked with Prince from...

Reducere. DescriptionIn this poignant collection of oral histories, four Indian elders recount their life stories in their own quiet but uncompromising words...

Reducere. Standing Tree is the narrative of a sensitive old soul and energy healer. Mr. Stewart includes past-life recollections and historical commentaries ...

Reducere. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is ...

Reducere. In this refreshingly relatable memoir, David K. humanizes the experience of life with Duchenne muscular dystrophy. His many poignant recollections ...

Reducere. In 1821, at the age of seventy-seven, Thomas Jefferson decided to "state some recollections of dates and facts concerning myself." His ancestors, J...

The New York Times bestselling memoir of Joe Biden's extraordinary life and career prior to his emergence as Barack Obama's beloved, influential vi...

Reducere. "Great for fans of Vivian Gornick's Fierce Attachments and Rebecca Solnit's Recollections of My Nonexistence." -BookLife"Laurie Lisle's beautifully...

Reducere. Throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s, a radical cultural scene emerged in cities across the globe, finding expression in the galleries, nightc...

Reducere. The stunning memoir of Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winner Gil Scott-Heron, The Last Holiday has been praised for bringing back to life one of...

Reducere. DescriptionEvery year thousands of people visit the San Juan Islands off the coast of Washington State. With a copy of Exploring Coast Salish Prehi...

Reducere. Born and raised in Greenville, Mississippi, within the shelter of old traditions, aristocratic in the best sense, William Alexander Percy in his li...

Reducere. Whether you're digging into a slice of cherry cheesecake, burning your tongue on a piece of fiery Jamaican jerk chicken, or slurping the broth from...

Reducere. A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the YearIt was the year after Chappaquiddick, and all spring Carmel McBain had watery dreams about the...

'An indescribable, aching, futile longing for myself' The young Danish aristocrat Malte Laurids Brigge has been left rootless by the early death of...

Reducere. DescriptionNow It Can Be Told comprises of Philip Gibbs recollections regarding the First World War, in which he served as an officially commission...

"We all know Jean Rhys. But now, out from under the shadow of her more famous contemporary, comes Eliot Bliss. Bliss: an early twentieth century, w...

An unprecedented behind-the-scenes view into the life of Anthony Bourdain from the people who knew him best When Anthony Bourdain died in June 2018...

Reducere. An unprecedented behind-the-scenes view into the life of Anthony Bourdain from the people who knew him best When Anthony Bourdain died in June 2018...

In this meditative and haunting memoir, renowned cultural critic Jonathan Dollimore recounts a life spent dedicated to understanding the delight an...

Reducere. E. Hoffmann Price was one of H. P. Lovecraft's most lively and dynamic colleagues. They first met in New Orleans in 1932, and for the remaining fiv...

Reducere. What makes HEROES unique is that author Ralph Wimbish puts himself into many of his stories, a perspective we do not often see in sports writing to...

DescriptionRose Wylie (born 1934) trained as an artist in the 1950s, but it was her re-engagement with painting in the early 1980s, after a period ...

Reducere. This is the first detailed study of Paul McCartney's Wings on tour in the 1970s. It covers every single concert from the University Tour of 1972, e...

For the first time in paperback, a powerful and raw glimpse behind the scenes of the Black Panther Party Making Revolution is Don Cox's revelatory,...

This account of the life of Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel follows his beginnings in the Lower East Side of New York to his role in the development of the...

"John Brennan" (Madame Sidney Gifford Czira) was a woman of the twentieth century, and along with her five sisters, the Giffords, she contributed t...

Reducere. Regarded by many as the most luminous example of Mark Twain's work, this fictional biography of Joan of Arc was purportedly written by Joan's page ...

With an Introduction and Notes by Professor Stephen Arkin, San Francisco State University. Katherine Mansfield is widely regarded as a writer who h...

Description"Eight years in the White House went by so fast. That's why I'm so grateful that Lawrence was there to capture them. I hope you enjoy hi...

Reducere. In this classic portrait of Jews in the South, Eli N. Evans takes readers inside the nexus of southern and Jewish histories, from the earliest immi...

Reducere. This classic anthology of poems by Sam Walter Foss encapsulates his love of nature and of the slow pace of rural living.As a working poet of the la...

Reducere. David Perry was an American soldier who fought in the Revolutionary War, which resulted in the founding of the United States - this autobiography r...

Reducere. Joseph Lopez Lopez wrote his memoirs by hand on lined notebook paper in 1978. These pages were "bound" into a gray folder. Copies were given to eac...

Reducere. A personal account of a life lived on the Canadian prairies from the 1940's until 2020. Starting with recollections of earliest memories on the fam...

Reducere. This is a historical novel based on recollections of members of the Hanna family and their collection of family photographs. I put my words into th...

Reducere. At war for the Emperor with the horsemen of the CuirassiersAmong students of the Napoleonic Wars there has long been an enthusiasm for the memoirs ...

Reducere. E. C. Abbott was a cowboy in the great days of the 1870's and 1880's. He came up the trail to Montana from Texas with the long-horned herds which w...