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Author | : Peter Hessler |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 382 |
Release | : 2010-09-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0062028987 |
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A New York Times Notable Book Winner of the Kiriyama Book Prize In the heart of China's Sichuan province, amid the terraced hills of the Yangtze River valley, lies the remote town of Fuling. Like many other small cities in this ever-evolving country, Fuling is heading down a new path of change and growth, which came into remarkably sharp focus when Peter Hessler arrived as a Peace Corps volunteer, marking the first time in more than half a century that the city had an American resident. Hessler taught English and American literature at the local college, but it was his students who taught him about the complex processes of understanding that take place when one is immersed in a radically different society. Poignant, thoughtful, funny, and enormously compelling, River Town is an unforgettable portrait of a city that is seeking to understand both what it was and what it someday will be.
Author | : Thomas Keneally |
Publisher | : Nan A. Talese |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 2011-11-16 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0307800636 |
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Fleeing to Australia to escape the repressive life of British-controlled Ireland, Tim Shea is alarmed by his new home's equally stifling social order and its inclination towards prejudice. By the author of Schindler's List.
Author | : Bonnie Geisert |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 37 |
Release | : 1999-03-29 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0547562195 |
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During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, small towns sprouted up along the banks of America's rivers. Through a year of changing seasons the reader is transported to the days when people's livelihoods were directly connected to the river. The life of the townsfolk is shown to be an accumulation of events both large and small, from a joyous Halloween parade to the frozen river in winter to the threat of damaging springtime floods. Children and adults alike will pour over these pages of intricate etchings, noticing the changes and happenings of day-to-day, season-to-season life lived along a river. As they did in Prairie Town, the Geiserts have once again created a stunning tribute to small-town America as it once was and, to an extent, still remains today.
Author | : Bonnie Geisert |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 28 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Cities and towns |
ISBN | : 0395908914 |
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Describes, in brief text and illustrations, a year in the life of a river bank town and the many changes that occur throughout the seasons.
Author | : Laura Fischer |
Publisher | : Capstone Classroom |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781403442833 |
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An overview of everyday life in the cities of the central Mississippi River Valley between 1820 and 1870, when the river was the primary means of transportation.
Author | : Justin Endres |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 122 |
Release | : 2016-09-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1365317188 |
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Base Ball in a River Town seeks to answer how our national pastime started in New Albany. Who were its founders? Who got the ball rolling across the New Albany fields? The answers to these questions open a window into the past-the lively and booming post-Civil War New Albany. From steamships to railroads, the first team experienced the end of one era and the start of another. The growth of baseball in New Albany also mirrors the rise of baseball across the country. From its infancy to national past time in no time. Learn about the first pitch thrown at the first official game on September 29, 1866, and join that unbroken line of young Southern Indiana men and women who have embraced our national past-time.
Author | : Paul Stanton Kibel |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0262612194 |
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"Each case study in Rivertown considers the critical questions of who makes decisions about our urban rivers, who pays to implement these decisions, and who ultimately benefits or suffers from these decisions." --book cover.
Author | : Ada Douglas Littlefield |
Publisher | : Wentworth Press |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2019-03-05 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780530055183 |
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author | : Clesson S. Bush |
Publisher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2011-08-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1438440332 |
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The story of New Baltimore, New York, a small Hudson River town, and how outside pressures and local hard work have combined to forge a lasting community
Author | : Gerald Mortimer Capers |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : Cities and towns |
ISBN | : |
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This biography of a river town is significant to the national epic because the town, in its origins, its growth, its social, civic, and industrial life, has been closely related to its region and to the movements of national life. -- Jacket.