Haunts of the White City: Ghost Stories from the World's Fair, the Great Fire and Victorian Chicago, Hardcover - Ursula Bielski

Reducere. At the close of the nineteenth century, Chicago offered the world a glimpse of humanity's most breathtaking possibilities and its most jaw-dropping...

Reducere. DescriptionChicago's World's Columbian Exposition, popularly called the Chicago World's Fair, or the White City, was the largest and most spectacul...

Reducere. In History Comics: The Great Chicago Fire, writer Kate Hannigan and illustrator Alex Graudins tell the true story of how a city rose up from one of...

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Reducere. DescriptionAlthough Emmi has lived in Chicago for two years, she finds it hard to love her adopted city. As a German immigrant in the early 1870s, ...

Reducere. A Valancourt Yuletide tradition returns, this time with rare 19th-century tales from U.S. newspapers and magazinesThe Christmas ghost story traditi...

In Broken Icarus, author David Hanna tracks the inspiring trajectory of aviation leading up to and through the World's Fair of 1933, as well as the...

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Reducere. Al Capone and the 1933 World's Fair: The End of the Gangster Era in Chicago is a historical look at Chicago during the darkest days of the Great De...

Reducere. DescriptionA new anthology of twenty ghostly tales of Yuletide terror, collected from rare Victorian periodicalsSeeking to capitalize on the succes...

This is a book to be read by a blazing fire on a winter's night, with the curtains drawn close and the doors securely locked. The unquiet souls of ...

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Reducere. Originally conceived to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Columbus's discovery of America, the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 was one of t...

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Reducere. Twelve-year-old Ollie is struggling to get by as an orphan in 1871 Chicago. He finds work as a servant for the wealthy Burnham family, including ca...

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It's 1893, and Lorraine Williams can't wait to attend the Chicago World's Fair and see her idol, the Black opera singer Sissieretta Jones. But when...

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Reducere. Explore the social and cultural history of 100 of the world's most important cities. This illustrated history book provides a fascinating insight i...

Reducere. Nestled on the rocky coast of Massachusetts, Salem is a city steeped in history and legend. Famous for its witch trials, the storied North Shore se...

An anthology of essays by gay men who identify as Radical Faeries talking about the history of the movement and the personal influence it has had i...

Reducere. Description*Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the fires by witnesses and survivors *Includes bibliographies for further reading It had taken ...

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Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

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Reducere. DescriptionFalling in between the dark days of the Great Depression and World War II, the 1939-1940 New York World's Fair offered a refreshing pred...

Reducere. Every story, no matter how far fetched, has a nugget of truth in it.Just 18% of Americans admit to having seen a ghost, but we're all connected to ...

Reducere. The star-spanning story of humanity's colonization of other planets, Ursula K. Le Guin's visionary Hainish novels and stories redrew the map of mod...

Reducere. Nestled on the rocky coast of Massachusetts, Salem is a city steeped in history and legend. Famous for its witch trials, the storied North Shore se...

Reducere. DescriptionDisney's World's FairFor the 1964-65 New York World's Fair, the Disney company designed four paviliions, which later they reimagined for...

Reducere. Erik Larson, author of #1 bestseller In the Garden of Beasts, intertwines the true tale of the 1893 World's Fair and the cunning serial killer who ...

Reducere. From an acclaimed historian, the full and authoritative story of one of the most iconic disasters in American history, told through the vivid memor...