Marblehead Lighthouse on Lake Erie: Ohio's Historic Beacon, Hardcover - James Proffitt

Reducere. When the Marblehead Lighthouse first lit its flame in 1822, it drew on whale oil. The beacon flickered through lard, kerosene and LED lights over t...

Reducere. Residents of Beacon, New York, are justifiably proud of a community that is rich in history and promise. In this exquisite collection of images, lo...

Reducere. For over a century, Ohio and Pennsylvania families have made an annual trek to a special spot on the shores of Lake Erie. This tiny piece of Northe...

Reducere. DescriptionFor over a century, Ohio and Pennsylvania families have made an annual trek to a special spot on the shores of Lake Erie. This tiny piec...

Reducere. Enchanting, mysterious, and deeply romantic, The Lighthouse follows a young woman's breathtaking journey far from home to discover where she truly ...

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 ...

Reducere. The Great Lakes, with the rivers, canals, and channels that connect them, form one of the busiest waterways in the world. Lighthouses were needed t...

Reducere. Escape to Birch Harbor, Michigan, in this sequel to USA Today bestselling author Elizabeth Bromke's House on the Harbor, where small-town drama set...

Reducere. Most people think of Lake Erie, the shallowest and second smallest of the Great Lakes, as a sun-drenched, nearly tropical retreat. But it is so muc...

Reducere. The great lakes have seen many ships meet their end, but none so much as Lake Erie. As the shallowest of the Great Lakes, Lake Erie is prone to sud...

Reducere. DescriptionThe first Fire Island Lighthouse was constructed in 1826 after numerous shipwrecks along the barrier island. A replacement tower built i...

Reducere. "Mr. Visidi, you realize there is no credible account of a shark attack in the roughly 4, 000 year-life of Lake Erie. There are no sharks in Lake E...

On September 10, 1813, the hot, still air that hung over Lake Erie was broken by the sounds of sharp conflict. Led by Oliver Hazard Perry, the Amer...

Reducere. The Great Lakes fur trade spanned two centuries and thousands of miles, but the story of one particular family, the Cadottes, illuminates the histo...

Extensively researched and supplemented with archival and underwater photographs and illustrations, Shipwrecks of Lake Erie Volume One is the only ...

During the late 19th century, a small group of Frenchmen from the fort at Detroit settled north along the shore of Lake St. Clair at the mouth of t...

Reducere. The first Fire Island Lighthouse was constructed in 1826 after numerous shipwrecks along the barrier island. A replacement tower built in 1858 inco...

Reducere. Known to native peoples for centuries as a sacred place and hunting ground, the ninth largest of Minnesota's 10, 000 lakes remained unchanged until...

Reducere. The epic rendering of a Black woman's journey through slavery and liberation, set in 17th-century colonial Brazil; the return of a major voice in A...

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 ...

'A fascinating tale of what it felt like to be a woman under the Third Reich and of one family's long hidden secrets, ' Elisabeth Gifford When Maya...

Reducere. Winner, 2020 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay An impassioned call for recognizing and preserving the ecological wonders of...

Publisher: Monthly Review Press, U.S.Author(s): James YoungNumber of pages: 248Publication date: 2017Dimensions: 147 x 225 x 23Cover type: Hardback...

The vast lingering remnant of an ice age that came to a close more than 10, 000 years ago, Lake Michigan has shaped the history of the settlements ...

Reducere. Description"I thought it must be the fairest picture the whole earth affords, " wrote Mark Twain of Lake Tahoe. Countless other visitors have agree...

Reducere. Six kids on the run must face a villain who threatens the future of human existence . . . but winning comes at a high price.Six children have escap...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Holly JamesNumber of pages: 48Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 312 x 245 x 13Cover type: HardbackIl...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Brian D. RattyLighthouses and their Keepers have gone the way of the blacksmith and the milkman. Nevertheless, the weathere...

Reducere. The hiking trails of western Pennsylvania offer both novice and experienced hikers a tempting variety of natural terrain and human history. Now vet...

Challenges narrow perceptions of Blackness as both an identity and lived reality to understand the diversity of what it means to be Black in the US...

Reducere. The engrossing epic novel--a #1 bestseller in Norway--of a young woman whose fate plays out against her village's mystical church bells As long as ...

Reducere. Settling in an isolated desert valley, Salt Lake City's Mormon pioneers laid out a city grid and constructed permanent structures to create their v...

Reducere. No safe harbours for steamboats or sailing vessels could be found along an isolated 70-mile stretch of eastern Lake Ontario, dominated by the irreg...

Their revolution would ignite a continent... An epic novel set during one of the most savage and dramatic moments in European history.

Reducere. In the tradition of epic novels like Exodus and Cast a Giant Shadow, Isaac's Beacon is a sweeping historical tale based on the real events of Israe...

Reducere. Against the wilds of sea and wood, a young immigrant woman settles into life outside Duluth in the 1890s, still shocked at finding herself alone in...

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 ...

Reducere. In the summer of 1936, fourteen-year-old Maxwell Breeze was playing in the waters of the Erie Canal in Brockport when a dog jumped into the canal a...

Reducere. DescriptionOn May 13, 1928, ten prominent men of Brockton, Massachusetts, headed off on a fishing trip to Moosehead Lake in Maine. After traveling ...

Reducere. DescriptionGeorge Washington first proposed the idea of a canal connecting the Great Lakes to the Ohio-Mississippi River System in 1784. Inspired b...

Three train wrecks occurred in three different years: 1962, 1969, and 1994. There had been different train accidents that happened throughout the y...

From the bestselling author of The Ragged Edge of Night comes a powerful and poetic novel of survival and sacrifice on the American frontier.Wyomin...

Publisher: Beacon PressAuthor(s): Gayl JonesNumber of pages: 504Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 143 x 221 x 56Cover type: Paperback / softbackRed...

Reducere. How do people confront a series of catastrophic and transformative events that threaten the very existence of their way of life? How does a culture...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Joann RossLose yourself in the magic, charm and romance of Christmas in the Pacific Northwest as imagined in JoAnn Ross's h...

Reducere. Billy Walker is a North Carolina boy whose Hollywood star is beginning to shine. His rough past is in the rearview. Now seeing the world from the b...

Reducere. Split Rock Lighthouse is a Minnesota icon: a handsome structure perched atop a cliff on Lake Superior's North Shore, gorgeous in every weather, a l...