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Author : A. B. Guthrie
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780395755198
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fair Land, Fair Land written by A. B. Guthrie and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1995-08-21 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel of the early-day West in the period between 1845 and 1870 in which Dick Summers, a conservationist, seeks retribution from his former countryman Boone Caudill and companionship with Teal Eye.

Author : Joseph Tirella
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 149300333X
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tomorrow-Land written by Joseph Tirella and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013-12-23 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Motivated by potentially turning Flushing Meadows, literally a land of refuse, into his greatest public park, Robert Moses—New York's "Master Builder"—brought the World's Fair to the Big Apple for 1964 and '65. Though considered a financial failure, the 1964-65 World' s Fair was a Sixties flashpoint in areas from politics to pop culture, technology to urban planning, and civil rights to violent crime. In an epic narrative, the New York Times bestseller Tomorrow-Land shows the astonishing pivots taken by New York City, America, and the world during the Fair. It fetched Disney's empire from California and Michelangelo's La Pieta from Europe; and displayed flickers of innovation from Ford, GM, and NASA—from undersea and outerspace colonies to personal computers. It housed the controversial work of Warhol (until Governor Rockefeller had it removed); and lured Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters. Meanwhile, the Fair—and its house band, Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians—sat in the musical shadows of the Beatles and Bob Dylan, who changed rock-and-roll right there in Queens. And as Southern civil rights efforts turned deadly, and violent protests also occurred in and around the Fair, Harlem-based Malcolm X predicted a frightening future of inner-city racial conflict. World's Fairs have always been collisions of eras, cultures, nations, technologies, ideas, and art. But the trippy, turbulent, Technicolor, Disney, corporate, and often misguided 1964-65 Fair was truly exceptional.

Author : Walter Macken
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780330303279
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Seek the Fair Land written by Walter Macken and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 1988 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book in a trilogy examining the adventures of several generations of one Irish family. Set amidst the Cromwellian Invasions, Seek the Fair Wind begins in 1641. Dominick McMahon, a merchant by trade, has little appetite for fighting, yet is forced to defend his town against Cromwell's army. From dark city streets to wild mountains, from vicious slaughter to triumphant faith, from selfish obedience to heroic opposition – this novel paints a vivid portrait of the struggles of the Irish people against the English. Along with The Silent People and The Scorching Wind, Seek the Fair Land is a fascinating examination of the history and events that fueled the fight for freedom in Ireland.

Author : Alfred Bertram Guthrie (Jr)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fair Land, Fair Land written by Alfred Bertram Guthrie (Jr) and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alastair Morrison
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501718800
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fair Land Sarawak written by Alastair Morrison and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An officer's first-person account of British colonial disengagement from Sarawak. Morrison explains the daily bureaucracy of colonial life from an inside perspective and details the changes that occurred during his years in Sarawak: the growth and expansion of Communist movements, the emerging modernization of various districts, and the formation of Malaysia.

Author : Alfred Bertram Guthrie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780395083932
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Big Sky written by Alfred Bertram Guthrie and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The West of the 1840's and its mountain men are depicted in a tale of adventure having to do with fur trapping, Indian fighting and the development of the land.

Author : Lucienne Boyce
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book To the Fair Land written by Lucienne Boyce and published by . This book was released on 2012-06-06 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1789 struggling writer Ben Dearlove rescues a woman from a furious Covent Garden mob. The woman is ill and in her delirium cries out the name "Miranda". Weeks later an anonymous novel about the voyage of the Miranda to the fabled Great Southern Continent causes a sensation. Ben decides to find the author everyone is talking about. He is sure the woman can help him - but she has disappeared. It is soon clear that Ben is involved in something more dangerous than the search for a reclusive writer. Who is the woman and what is she running from? Who is following Ben? And what is the Admiralty trying to hide? Before he can discover the shocking truth Ben has to get out of prison, catch a thief, and bring a murderer to justice. "A gripping, thrilling mystery." Historical Society Novel Reviews Discovering Diamonds Book of the Month, April 2021 "The story is a page turner...brings the period to life with excellent dialogue and fast paced action." Discovering Diamonds (Discovering Diamonds Book of the Month, April 2021 "A sharp, daring, original story of forbidden love, good and evil, betrayal and murder." Chez Maximka "Manages to maintain suspense to the end, as well as surprising the reader with some unexpected twists...full of historical mysteries, fascinating characters and peril." Northern Reader "An expertly crafted tale you won't want to put down!" Rev Rebecca Writes: Read, Write, Pray "An engrossing and well-written mystery...one of the most interesting and original pieces of historical fiction I have read in a long time." Ceri's Lil Blog ABOUT THE AUTHOR Lucienne Boyce writes historical fiction, non fiction and biography. Other books set in the eighteenth-century are the Dan Foster Mysteries: Bloodie Bones (Winner of the Historical Novel Society Indies Award 2016); The Butcher's Block; Death Makes No Distinction and The Fatal Coin. Books on the women's suffrage campaign include The Bristol Suffragettes and The Road to Representation: Essays on the Women's Suffrage Campaign, and contributions to Bristol and the First World War (Bristol Festival of Ideas, 2014); The Women Who Built Bristol (Tangent Books) 2018; and Suffrage Stories: Tales from Knebworth, Stevenage, Hitchin and Letchworth (Stevenage Museum, 2019).

Author : Patrick D. Smith
Publisher : Pineapple PressInc
ISBN 13 : 9781561642236
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Land Remembered written by Patrick D. Smith and published by Pineapple PressInc. This book was released on 2001 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the story of the MacIvey family of Florida from 1858 to 1968.

Author : Alexander Cordell
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1473603587
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rape of the Fair Country written by Alexander Cordell and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2014-07-24 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first volume in Alexander Cordell's classic trilogy of mid-nineteenth century Wales. Set in the grim valleys of the Welsh iron country during the turbulent times of the Industrial Revolution, this unforgettable novel begins the saga of the Mortymer family - a family of hard men and beautiful women, all forced into a bitter struggle with their harsh environment, as they slave and starve for the cruel English ironmasters. But adversity could never still the free spirit of Wales, or quiet its soaring voice, and the Mortymers struggle on even as the iron foundries ravish their homeland and cripple their people. Rape of the Fair Country launched the bestselling career of Alexander Cordell in 1959 and went on to sell millions of copies in seventeen languages throughout the world.

Author : William A. Owens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Fair and Happy Land written by William A. Owens and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the lives of the Cleaver and the Owen families, recounts the histography of the American frontier from the 17th century to the Civil War.