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Author | : Martha R. Clevenger |
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Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
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In 1904, over 12 million people flocked to St. Louis to take part in that year's World's Fair. What was the spectacle like? What were the Fair visitors thinking as they gazed upon scantily clad Filipino tribesmen, arts & crafts from around the world, & mechanical marvels that promised a future of never ending prosperity & progress? INDESCRIBABLY GRAND: DIARIES & LETTERS FROM THE 1904 WORLD'S FAIR, readers will learn exactly what was on the minds of Fair visitors - in the words of the visitors themselves. INDESCRIBABLY GRAND reprints two diaries, two memoirs, & one group of letters from a diverse group of Fair visitors, revealing the wealth of sensation & emotion that overwhelmed them once they entered the fairgrounds. Featuring over one hundred period photographs, informative annotations, & an insightful introduction by Missouri Historical Society archivist Martha Clevenger, INDESCRIBABLY GRAND will be of interest to anyone interested in world's fairs or turn-of-the-century culture. $32.95 cloth (ISBN 1-883982-14-6), $22.95 paper (ISBN 1-883982-09-X). Order from Missouri Historical Society Press, P.O. Box 11940, St. Louis, MO 63112-0040.
Author | : Michael Loynd |
Publisher | : Ballantine Books |
Total Pages | : 417 |
Release | : 2022-06-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0593357051 |
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The feel-good underdog story of the first American swimmer to win Olympic gold, set against the turbulent rebirth of the modern Games, that “bring[s] to life an inspiring figure and illuminate[s] an overlooked chapter in America’s sports history” (The Wall Street Journal) “Once or twice in a decade, one of these stories . . . like Laura Hillenbrand’s Unbroken [or] Daniel Brown’s The Boys in the Boat . . . captures the imagination of the public. . . . Add The Watermen by Michael Loynd to this illustrious list.”—Swimming World Winner of the International Swimming Hall of Fame’s Paragon Award and the Buck Dawson Authors Award In the early twentieth century, few Americans knew how to swim, and swimming as a competitive sport was almost unheard of. That is, until Charles Daniels took to the water. On the surface, young Charles had it all: high-society parents, a place at an exclusive New York City prep school, summer vacations in the Adirondacks. But the scrawny teenager suffered from extreme anxiety thanks to a sadistic father who mired the family in bankruptcy and scandal before abandoning Charles and his mother altogether. Charles’s only source of joy was swimming. But with no one to teach him, he struggled with technique—until he caught the eye of two immigrant coaches hell-bent on building a U.S. swim program that could rival the British Empire’s seventy-year domination of the sport. Interwoven with the story of Charles’s efforts to overcome his family’s disgrace is the compelling history of the struggle to establish the modern Olympics in an era when competitive sports were still in their infancy. When the powerful British Empire finally legitimized the Games by hosting the fourth Olympiad in 1908, Charles’s hard-fought rise climaxed in a gold-medal race where British judges prepared a trap to ensure the American upstart’s defeat. Set in the early days of a rapidly changing twentieth century, The Watermen—a term used at the time to describe men skilled in water sports—tells an engrossing story of grit, of the growth of a major new sport in which Americans would prevail, and of a young man’s determination to excel.
Author | : William Henry Davenport Adams |
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Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1876 |
Genre | : Arctic regions |
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Author | : Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson |
Publisher | : BEYOND BOOKS HUB |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2023-08-29 |
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Author | : Robert Louis Stevenson |
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Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 1902 |
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Author | : Robert Louis Stevenson |
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Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 1911 |
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Author | : Robert Louis Stevenson |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2023-08-25 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3387001517 |
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Author | : Bjornstjerne Bjornson |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2020-08-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3752386517 |
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Author | : Robert Louis Stevenson |
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Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 1907 |
Genre | : English literature |
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Author | : Robert Louis Stevenson |
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Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 1895 |
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