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Author | : Thomas William Duncan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1036 |
Release | : 1959 |
Genre | : Historical fiction |
ISBN | : |
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The River is the Mississippi, enigmatic and treacherous. The Man is the American who conquered the West--the prototype of the restless, innocent and greedy nineteenth century dreamers who built the railroads and steamboats, who opened the Santa Fe Trail and despoiled the forests, who fought the Indians and each other. Here is the American Myth brought to life though men and women who matched the robust, ruthless age in which they lived. Caleb McSwasey dreamed of creating an empire in the wilderness. He ruled men but could not rule the woman of his choice. By guile and ruthlessness, Jim Buckmaster, the river hog carved a vast fortune out of virgin timber. He owned the river but not his conscience. Rolfe Torkelsen, heir to the river's treasure, finally balked at the price he would have to pay. A new era had begun. But the dark magic of one woman (there are many in this book) proved more powerful than any river hog or lumber baron. Esperanza von Zumwalt, in whom the blood of three races was fused in crucible, dominated two strong men, one who loved her and one who hated her. These are a few of the tall Americans in Thomas W. Duncan's prodigious novel of adventure and commerce, of love, war, peace and the making of a nation. Sweeping from Penobscot to Santa Fe, from the Wisconsin woods to Shiloh, Big River, Big Man is a novel with its roots in historical destiny. To read it is to capture the spirit and substance of an age -- Book jacket.
Author | : Thomas William Duncan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 484 |
Release | : 1959 |
Genre | : Mississippi River |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Martin Strel |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 227 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Amazon River |
ISBN | : 1599216493 |
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Martin Strel looks like your typical middle-aged bloke. He likes a laugh, a drink and the sight of a pretty woman. But put him in water and he turns into a swimming machine. In April 2007, after 66 days, he became the first person to swim the Amazon, 3,272 miles from the Peruvian Andes to the Atlantic shores of Brazil. This book tells his story. 2008.
Author | : Roger Miller |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 113 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780394553641 |
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Dramatizes the experiences of Huck Finn and Jim, a runaway slave, as they travel down the Mississippi River.
Author | : Charles Sprawson |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 20 |
Release | : 2009-12-01 |
Genre | : Amazon River Region |
ISBN | : 9781905978083 |
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Author | : Eugene S. Hunn |
Publisher | : University of Washington Press |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780295971193 |
Download Nch'i-wána, "the Big River" Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The mighty Columbia River cuts a deep gash through the Miocene basalts of the Columbia Plateau, coursing as well through the lives of the Indians who live along its banks. Known to these people as Nch’i-Wana (the Big River), it forms the spine of their land, the core of their habitat. At the turn of the century, the Sahaptin speakers of the mid-Columbia lived in an area between Celilo Falls and Priest Rapids in eastern Oregon and Washington. They were hunters and gatherers who survived by virtue of a detailed, encyclopedic knowledge of their environment. Eugene Hunn’s authoritative study focuses on Sahaptin ethnobiology and the role of the natural environment in the lives and beliefs of their descendants who live on or near the Yakima, Umatilla, and Warm Springs reservations.
Author | : Quiara Alegría Hudes |
Publisher | : Theatre Communications Group |
Total Pages | : 83 |
Release | : 2018-11-06 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1559369035 |
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“This is a fresh take on the American road story, filled with people and ideas we rarely get to see onstage…It offers two seriously rich roles for women, each with important things worth singing about…Miss You Like Hell is a powerful example of what musicals do best: explore the unprotected border where individual needs and social issues intermix.” —Jesse Green, New York Times A troubled teenager and her estranged mother—an undocumented Mexican immigrant on the verge of deportation—embark on a road trip and strive to mend their frayed relationship along the way. Combined with the musical talent of Erin McKeown, Hudes artfully crafts a story of the barriers and the bonds of family, while also addressing the complexities of immigration in today’s America.
Author | : V. S. Naipaul |
Publisher | : Vintage Canada |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2018-08-21 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0735277141 |
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In the "brilliant novel" (The New York Times) V.S. Naipaul takes us deeply into the life of one man — an Indian who, uprooted by the bloody tides of Third World history, has come to live in an isolated town at the bend of a great river in a newly independent African nation. Naipaul gives us the most convincing and disturbing vision yet of what happens in a place caught between the dangerously alluring modern world and its own tenacious past and traditions.
Author | : Gerard O'Brien |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2008-08-04 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1409218023 |
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The Zaire/Congo River, the second biggest and sixth longest river on earth; its course a vast 4,640kms of sluggish, meandering, island-studded mystery, broken in places by fearful rapids and falls, fringed by dense rain-forest, and inhabited by primitive tribes and wild animals. Few places can evoke the same images of dark brooding menace and danger, and few places can have justified such impressions, from the horrors of the Congo Free State, through the Stanleyville massacres, to the chaos and blood-letting of the post-Mobutu years.In 1984, Mobutu was at the height of his power and ruled Zaire with an iron fist. It was at this time that the author set off to follow the course of the river from its source to the mouth, alone, by dug-out canoe and on foot. His matter-of-fact narrative as he describes the perils and tribulations of the journey - which culminated in a spell in a Kinshasa prison - offers a fascinating insight into the life of the ordinary people under the regime of President Mobutu.
Author | : Matthew Mohlke |
Publisher | : Globe Pequot |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2007-10 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 9781599213583 |
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Presents the true story of Martin Strel, who swam the entire length of the Amazon River to draw attention to river pollution and the deforestation of the rainforest. Strel's guide describes the 3,274-mile swim that nearly killed Strel as he reached the finish line with his blood pressure at heart attack levels and his entire body filled with subcutaneous larvae. The account also tells of encounters with anaconda, dangerous currents, and river pirates.