Mobile and the Eastern Shore, Hardcover - Frye Gaillard

Reducere. To say that Mobile has a rich history is like saying Nashville has a few musicians. The port city has a rich heritage dating back to the 1700's. Th...

Reducere. In 1870 Benjamin Turner, who spent the first 40 years of his life as a slave, was elected to the U.S. Congress. He was the first African American f...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Frye GaillardFrye Gaillard has given us a deeply personal history, bringing his keen storyteller's eye to this pivotal time...

Reducere. Newly updated & expanded for the 2020s Much more than a traditional travel guide, "Eastern Shore Road Trips #1" is full of tales from days gone by ...

Reducere. Join award-winning writer Jim Duffy as he ventures out in search of the heart and soul of the storied Delmarva Peninsula--wandering along backroads...

Reducere. Calls for independence shook the wealthy gentry with their grand mansions in Chestertown and their patchwork of prosperous Kent County plantations ...

Reducere. DescriptionAfrican Americans, both enslaved and free, were vital to the economy of the Eastern Shore of Maryland before the Civil War. Maryland bec...

Reducere. "A master American novelist." --Vanity Fair Ned Ayres has never wanted anything but a newspaper career. His defining moment comes early, when Ned i...

Publisher: Schiffer Publishing LtdAuthor(s): Antelo Devereux Jr.Illustration(s): colour photosNumber of pages: 96Publication date: 2022Dimensions: ...

Reducere. Even as a child, plain, boyish Annie Revels had everyone's role in life figured out. Everyone's, that is, except her own. Her mother was sickly and...

Reducere. In the 1880s, New York railroad magnate Alexander Cassatt looked at a map of America's East Coast and decided that he could overcome a challenge of...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Delmarva Peninsula dangles close to the Baltimore-Washington-Philadelphia megalopolis, but it has always remained apart from the fas...

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. This popular history tells the story of Virginia's portion of the Delmarva Peninsula from the first recorded English landing to the opening of the ...

Reducere. They walk beside the murky waters of the Chesapeake Bay, linger among the fetid swamps and roam the manor halls. These are the tormented souls who ...

Reducere. This is the first volume of a planned series of Colonial Families of the Eastern Shore of Virginia. The first volume is devoted to the works of Mar...

Reducere. Nestled between the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean, and stretching from Hampton Roads to Assateague Island, Virginia's Eastern Shore is a di...

Reducere. DescriptionStrange lights float in the Pocomoke Forest, withering houses decay in lonely fields and spirits linger along the shores of the Chesapea...

Reducere. DescriptionSanta flies South from a Pole far away as Eastern Shore youngins keep watch for his sleigh . . .Surely even old Saint Nick gets sick of ...

Reducere. The eastern shore of Maryland, an area of flat lands, is filled with vast amounts of farmland and chicken houses. Among all these you will find man...

Reducere. Sea kayaking is booming in the Chesapeake region, and the state of Maryland is fully supporting paddlers in finding access and creating routes and ...

Reducere. When Harriet Tubman crossed the line to freedom in Pennsylvania, she left behind her home in Maryland, along with a life of enslavement. Her native...

Reducere. DescriptionAfrican Americans, both enslaved and free, were vital to the economy of the Eastern Shore of Maryland before the Civil War. Maryland bec...

Reducere. Mixing chronological narrative with a full ecological portrait, anthropologists Rountree and Davidson have reconstructed the culture and history of...

A sweeping history of civilisation through the lens of man-made barriers and what is defined by their imposition, graceful in its timeliness.

Reducere. WHO'S BURIED IN THE BACKYARD?Julia Reagan's dying wish sends her daughter to Maryland's Eastern Shore to save a decaying mansion and deal with angr...

DescriptionSherman Lead is the gripping story of a year flying the F-4 Phantom in combat during the Vietnam War, told through the eyes of a US Air ...

Reducere. DescriptionSanta flies South from a Pole far away as Eastern Shore youngins keep watch for his sleigh . . .Surely even old Saint Nick gets sick of ...

Reducere. 914From the time I was old enough to form my first memory, my childhood was already headed down the inevitable path of disfunction. With divorce in...

Reducere. As trees have roots, we have links with our ancestors. To a greater extent than we usually assume, their DNA and life experiences live in us, with ...

Reducere. Whether you're in the heart of the Eastern Shore or the Eastern Shore is in your heart... Characters visit familiar local restaurants, inns, shops,...

"Essential reading for understanding this country now and going forward." --Alexander Chee, author of The Queen of the Night When he agreed to cove...

Reducere. In 1843, the discovery of copper in Tennessee's far southeastern corner sparked a transformation in the isolated area known to geologists as the Du...

Reducere. The first Rothery book to explore ocean life: Pacific walrus, king penguin, narwhal, great white shark, squid, seahorse, moray eel, humpback whale,...

A complete retrospective of one of the most significant photographers of our time, including almost 50 images published here for the first time.

Reducere. This is a journal, if you will, most humbly offered with observation and lessons, experiences of times and places, mistakes made, and truths learne...

Francoise Heritier succeeded Claude Levi-Strauss as the Chair of Anthropology at the College de France in 1982. She was both an Africanist, author ...

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 ...

Accompanying an exhibition at The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace, from June 2018, this exploration of the history of Indian manuscripts from th...

Eastern Oregon's ambiguous borders stretch from the Columbia River Gorge in the north to the Nevada border in the south, straddling Idaho to the ea...

Reducere. This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base f...

DescriptionThe first birding guide to the beautiful, endemic-packed Himalayan nation of Bhutan was published in 1999. This is a new and completely ...

Reducere. Is one summer enough time to change everything?Anna Wright is always on her best behavior -- turning in homework assignments early, keeping her hea...

Reducere. The Mobile River presents the first-ever narrative history of this important American watercourse. Inspired by the venerable Rivers of America seri...

With the whole world at the touch of your finger - why ever leave the imaginary realm of your mobile phone? This book of short comedic vignettes mi...

Best-selling author Russell Shorto, praised for his incisive works of narrative history, never thought to write about his own past. He grew up know...

DescriptionA dazzling, inventive literary adventure story in which Captain Ahab confronts Captain Nemo and the dark cultural stories represented by...

In the tenth book in the multimillion-selling Killing series, Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard take on their most controversial subject yet: The Mob...

Reducere. For fans of The Hazel Wood, this middle grade novel takes the dark stuff of fairytales and crafts it into a powerful story of friendship and light....