A Passage Perilous
Author | : Rosa Nouchette Carey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1903 |
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Author | : Rosa Nouchette Carey |
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Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1903 |
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Author | : Naomi Jacob |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1948 |
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ISBN | : 9780091149901 |
Author | : Naomi Jacob |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1968-01-01 |
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ISBN | : 9780090893904 |
Author | : Rose Nouchette Carey |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2018-01-23 |
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ISBN | : 9780483707245 |
Excerpt from A Passage Perilous It is very foolish to be gazing at the landscape when you are nearing the edge of a precipice. All her life long Christian Fordham had expected something to happen. Even when she was a mere mite of a child, with a curly head just level with the table, her baby precocity had astonished her mother. Me wonders, she had remarked in her small chirping voice, me wonders what happenings baby's dot to-day. Baby's happen ings became quite a household proverb at the Vicarage, boarded up with other like sayings by fond and admiring parents. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author | : Rose Nouchette Carey |
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Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 1904 |
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Author | : Rosa Nouchette Carey |
Publisher | : Wentworth Press |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 2019-02-23 |
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ISBN | : 9780469456419 |
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Author | : Ethan Rarick |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2008-02-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0198041500 |
In late October 1846, the last wagon train of that year's westward migration stopped overnight before resuming its arduous climb over the Sierra Nevada Mountains, unaware that a fearsome storm was gathering force. After months of grueling travel, the 81 men, women and children would be trapped for a brutal winter with little food and only primitive shelter. The conclusion is known: by spring of the next year, the Donner Party was synonymous with the most harrowing extremes of human survival. But until now, the full story of what happened, what it tells us about human nature and about America's westward expansion, remained shrouded in myth. Drawing on fresh archaeological evidence, recent research on topics ranging from survival rates to snowfall totals, and heartbreaking letters and diaries made public by descendants a century-and-a-half after the tragedy, Ethan Rarick offers an intimate portrait of the Donner party and their unimaginable ordeal: a mother who must divide her family, a little girl who shines with courage, a devoted wife who refuses to abandon her husband, a man who risks his life merely to keep his word. But Rarick resists both the gruesomely sensationalist accounts of the Donner party as well as later attempts to turn the survivors into archetypal pioneer heroes. "The Donner Party," Rarick writes, "is a story of hard decisions that were neither heroic nor villainous. Often, the emigrants displayed a more realistic and typically human mixture of generosity and selfishness, an alloy born of necessity." A fast-paced, heart-wrenching, clear-eyed narrative history, A Desperate Hope casts new light on one of America's most horrific encounters between the dream of a better life and the harsh realities such dreams so often must confront.
Author | : Amiya Kumar Bagchi |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780742539204 |
In this innovative and ambitious global history, distinguished economic historian Amiya Kumar Bagchi traces the global history of human change and survival under the sway of capitalism since the voyages of Columbus. Writing with extraordinary range and depth, he offers a critical analysis of the history and human costs and consequences of development in Europe and North America, and in major regions such as India, China, Japan, and Africa. Bagchi critically characterizes the emergence and operation of capitalism as a system driven by wars over resources and markets rather than one that genuinely operates on the principle of free markets. His unflinching examination of the human toll--in the periphery as well in the core nations--includes not only economic processes and issues of inequality within and among nations, but also the intertwining of economics and war-making on a world scale. Bagchi's compelling vision will change the ways in which we think about many of the largest issues in the world history and development over the past 500 years.
Author | : Mary A. Dickerson |
Publisher | : |
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Release | : 1903 |
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Author | : B.J. Bayle |
Publisher | : Dundurn |
Total Pages | : 187 |
Release | : 2007-12-03 |
Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | : 1554885906 |
Shortlisted for the 2009 Red Maple Award and commended in Best Books for Kids & Teens After a shipwreck in 1809, Peter finds himself the victim of amnesia. The sea captain who finds the teenager gives him the only name he knows, while others derisively dub him Peter No-Name. Eventually, Peter finds employment in a Montreal tavern where he meets a French voyageur called Boulard who changes his life irrevocably. Boulard works for fur trader David Thompson, soon to become one of the world’s most famous explorers and mapmakers. Thompson is impressed with the teenager and enlists him in his obsessive quest to establish an overland "northwest" passage to the Pacific Ocean via the Columbia River. With Thompson, Peter embarks on an amazing series of adventures that brings him face to face with hostile Natives and exposes him to the hardships and life-threatening challenges of formidable mountains and primeval forests as the intrepid outdoorsmen canoe, ride, and sled across a continent still largely untouched by European civilization.