West of West. Travels along the edge of America, Hardback - Laura Barton

A search for the meaning of the American West, told through extraordinary images by acclaimed photographer Sarah Lee

Reducere. Along the Edge of America, Paperback

Reducere. The sixty-three fiction writers and poets within this anthology delve deep into the many senses of place that modern West Virginia, the core of App...

Reducere. DescriptionVisit an American West that never was, but could have been. A woman in search of her fate, a people looking for a new place to call home...

Reducere. What would you do if you were on holiday and your better half said 'Let's not go back'?Would you stay?Would you stay if staying meant giving up eve...

When you have lost everything, what will you find? When Yui loses her mother and daughter in the tsunami, she wonders how she will ever carry on. Y...

Reducere. Travels in the Old Empires of the South-West Pacific East of Java, west of Tahiti and north of the Cape York peninsula of Australia lie the unknown...

Reducere. "Much more than a coming-of-age story, Badluck Way is an important meditation on what it means to share space and breathe the same air as truly wil...

William Bartram's journeys around North America in the late 18th century crossed through much of what was then Native American territory. In the 17...

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 town of Broad Run, West Virginia...Vance Archer and Marybeth Wilkins, a pair of adventurous seventh graders, have discovered an exciting act...

Reducere. One hundred and eighty years after Lewis and Clark's "Voyage of Discovery" (1804-1806), Dayton Duncan set out in a Volkswagen camper to retrace the...

Reducere. On 14 May 1804, one Captain Meriwether Lewis and his companion William Clark led a thirty-three-man expedition to the new lands of Louisiana. 8, 00...

Outlines a 'transatlantic renaissance', in which US and European leaders would work together to craft a new Atlantic Charter that would restore the...

The course of the Meander is so famously indirect that the river's name has come to signify digression. In this title, at every twist and turn of t...

Since Dracula's rise to power a shadow has swept across the nation, but nowhere is it darker than in the Deep South. Throughout the plantations, sw...

Publisher: Imray, Laurie, Norie & Wilson LtdAuthor(s): Gordon BuchananIllustration(s): col. Illustrations, col. mapNumber of pages: 62Publication d...

The ninth edition of Inland Waterways of France is the ideal guide for planning cruises in and through the most fascinating and diverse waterway ne...

Until 1893, Mary Kingsley lived the typical life of a single Victorian woman, tending to sick relatives and keeping house for her brother. However,...

Reducere. The Rise of the West, winner of the National Book Award for history in 1964, is famous for its ambitious scope and intellectual rigor. In it, McNei...

Narcissa Whitman and her husband, Marcus, were pioneer missionaries to the Cayuse Indians in Oregon Territory. Narcissa grew up in western New York...

Publisher: Imray, Laurie, Norie & Wilson LtdAuthor(s): Susan Kemp-WheelerIllustration(s): col. Illustrations, col. mapsNumber of pages: 256Publicat...

Reducere. Born a slave in eastern Tennessee, Sarah Blair Bickford (1852-1931) made her way while still a teenager to Montana Territory, where she settled in ...

Unpicking the ever-changing myth of the West in photography, from the 19th century to nowPublished for an exhibition at the Figge Art Museum in Dav...

Reducere. DescriptionScholars and enthusiasts of western American history have praised Elliott West as a distinguished historian and an accomplished writer, ...

Reducere. There's a reason why the Wild West is called as such. History will give you some pretty good (but lengthy) explanations. The purpose of this educat...

Duke in Danger - Laura West

DescriptionIn 1913, unmarried and alone at the age of thirty, Clara left Minnesota and headed to Montana to file a homestead claim on free land. Un...

Reducere. Highlights variations in representations of West Indian slavery by drawing on a range of testimonies, especially those of the enslaved themselves. ...

Reducere. Tom Carlson tells the story of Ernal Foster and the Foster family of Hatteras Village, who gave birth to what would become the multi-million dollar...

Reducere. The popular West Indian migration narrative often starts with the "Windrush Generation"in 1950s' England, but in Dying to Better Themselves Olive S...

A weight loss solution designed specifically for women in perimenopause and menopause. Taking an in depth look at the specific nutrition and exerci...

Publisher: University of Washington PressAuthor(s): Xiaolin DuanIllustration(s): 21 b&w illus., 3 maps, 6 tablesNumber of pages: 264Publication dat...

Illustrates how American ballet developed over the course of the twentieth century from an aesthetic originating in the courts of Europe into a sty...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Hamid DabashiIllustration(s): 3 b-w photosNumber of pages: 336Publication date: 2022Dimensions:...