On the Dirty Plate Trail: Remembering the Dust Bowl Refugee Camps, Paperback - Sanora Babb

Reducere. Runner-up, National Council on Public History Book Award, 2008The 1930s exodus of "Okies" dispossessed by repeated droughts and failed crop prices ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Sanora BabbForeword by: William KennedySanora Babb experienced pioneer life in a one-room dugout, eye-level with the land t...

Reducere. The short stories in this collection range across cultures and settings from the Great Plains to California, from Los Angeles' Chinatown to the Cen...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Sanora BabbIntroduction by: Douglas WixsonAn autobiographical novel, long out of print, continues Sanora Babb's story as be...

Reducere. It is 1933. As a beat-up truck travels down a road away from Arkansas, seven-year-old Molly May Dowden can only hope a better future awaits her par...

Reducere. Traversing six national parks (Arches, Canyonlands, Capitol Reef, Bryce, Grand Canyon, Zion), a national recreation area, a national monument, and ...

Reducere. Where you come from isn't who you are Ten-year-old Pearl Spence is a daydreamer, playing make-believe to escape life in Oklahoma's Dust Bowl in 193...

Reducere. Set in the 1930s Oklahoma, this American Horse Tale is the story of a young girl who makes the difficult decision to leave her family and move to C...

* ``A complete visual package.`` --Booklist, starred review On a clear, warm Sunday, April 14, 1935, a wild wind whipped up millions upon millions ...

Reducere. The 1930s Dust Bowl was the greatest ecological tragedy in the United States. Through a combination of drought and fierce winds, America's Great Pl...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCNumber of pages: 248Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 158 x 234 x 18Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): ...

Reducere. The Civil War was just days old when the first enslaved men, women, and children began fleeing their plantations to seek refuge inside the lines of...

Reducere. Based on a true story, Lilacs in the Dust Bowl is an inspirational family saga about love and heartache during the Great Depression. In 1929, when ...

Reducere. In May 1936 Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace wrote to Caroline Henderson to praise her contributions to American "understanding of some of...

Reducere. In the mid 1930s, North America's Great Plains faced one of the worst man-made environmental disasters in world history. Donald Worster's classic c...

Reducere. In The Great Depression: Experience the 1930s From the Dust Bowl to the New Deal, readers ages 12 to 15 investigate the causes, duration, and outco...

Reducere. When the dust storms of the 1930s threatened to destroy U.S. farming and agriculture, Hugh Bennett knew what to do. For decades, he had studied the...

Reducere. When the dust storms of the 1930s threatened to destroy U.S. farming and agriculture, Hugh Bennett knew what to do. For decades, he had studied the...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCNumber of pages: 248Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 163 x 264 x 21Cover type: HardbackEditor(s): Lorrie (Univ...

Publisher: UCL PressAuthor(s): Nerea Amoros ElorduyIllustration(s): 65 Illustrations, colorNumber of pages: 218Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 21...

Reducere. Before the drought of the early twenty-first century, the dry benchmark in the American plains was the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. But in this eye-open...

Reducere. ``A thrilling, cinematic story. I loved every minute I spent with these bold, daring women whose remarkable journey is the stuff of American legend...

Reducere. Searching for gold in the American West was not for the faint of heart. To reach the fabled gold fields of California, prospectors penetrated the b...

Since the 1990s, Mirzeler has travelled to East Africa to apprentice with storytellers. Remembering Nayeche and the Gray Bull Engiro is both an acc...

Now available in paperback, the original English-language translation of O Cadhain's raucous masterpiece Mairtin O Cadhain's irresistible and infam...

Reducere. DescriptionFifty years ago, John Steinbeck's now classic novel, The Grapes of Wrath, captured the epic story of an Oklahoma farm family driven west...

It is 1943, and Captain Mike Blackwood, Royal Marine Commando, is a survivor. Here, tradition is not enough, and Mike Blackwood must find within hi...

Reducere. Easy recipes and whimsical illustrations share the beauty of food and culinary history from around the globe with young readers in this cookbook wi...

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. EVERY FOOD AT THE DINNER TABLE COMPETES FOR THE TITLE OF SUPERHERO ON YOUR PLATE.WHICH FOOD WILL CLAIM THE TITLE?From avocado to kiwi and around to...

DescriptionThe first history of the American hiking community and its contributions to the nation's vast network of trails In the mid-nineteenth ce...

Discover how to explore and deepen your connection to nature with a rich array of do-anywhere meditations. Meditations on the Trail offers a rich a...

Reducere. Dust II Onyx: A Melanated Tarot, is a deck created by multimedia artist Courtney Alexander. The cards feature 78 mixed media collage paintings acce...

Publisher: Austin Macauley PublishersAuthor(s): Nathan WoolfordIllustration(s): 0Number of pages: 324Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 156 x 234 x ...

Publisher: Hephaestus BooksAuthor(s): Hephaestus BooksIllustration(s): black & white illustrationsPublication date: 2011Dimensions: 237 x 183 x 1Co...

Reducere. A five-star masterpiece from best-selling author Robert Vaughan. When sixteen-year-old Matt Logan and his friend Danny Duggan run away from an orph...

DescriptionPulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer Viet Thanh Nguyen called on 17 fellow refugee writers from across the globe to shed lig...

Reducere. David Thompson is a hero in Canada, yet has remained largely unknown in the United States. Between 1801 and 1812, this fur trader, explorer, and ca...

Reducere. The one and only time Billy the Kid made the front page of the New York Times was when Cold West detective Steve Sederwall re-opened the century ol...

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 ...

Publisher: The Islamic Texts SocietyAuthor(s): Gai EatonNumber of pages: 254Publication date: 2000Dimensions: 229 x 153 x 18Cover type: Paperback /...