Portage

Author : Carolyn Gilman
Publisher : St. Paul : Minnesota Historical Society Press
ISBN 13 : 9780873512701
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Grand Portage Story written by Carolyn Gilman and published by St. Paul : Minnesota Historical Society Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a history of 300 years of trade and tradition on Lake Superior's North Shore, with special interest in Grand Portage where the Grand Portage National Monument was established.

Author : Sue Leaf
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452945616
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Portage written by Sue Leaf and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2015-10-15 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When as a child she first saw a canoe gliding on Lake Alexander in central Minnesota, Sue Leaf was mesmerized. The enchantment stayed with her and shimmers throughout this book as we join Leaf and her family in canoeing the waterways of North America, always on the lookout for the good life amid the splendors and surprises of the natural world. The journey begins with a trip to the border lakes of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, then wanders into the many beautiful little rivers of Minnesota and Wisconsin, the provincial parks of Canada, the Louisiana bayou, and the arid West. A biologist and birder, Leaf considers natural history and geology, noticing which plants are growing along the water and which birds are flitting among the branches. Traveling the routes of the Ojibwe, voyageurs, and map-making explorers, she reflects on the region’s history, peopling her pages with Lewis and Clark, Jean Lafitte, Henry Schoolcraft, and Canada’s Group of Seven artists. Part travelogue, part natural and cultural history, Portage is the memoir of one family’s thirty-five-year venture into the watery expanse of the world. Through sunny days and stormy hours and a few hair-raising moments, Sue and her husband, Tom, celebrate anniversaries on the water; haul their four kids along on family adventures; and occasionally make the paddle a social outing with friends. Along the way they contend with their own human nature: they run rapids when it would have been wiser to portage, take portages and learn truths about aging, avoid portages and ponder risk-taking. Through it all, out in the open, in the wild, in the blue, exploring the river means encountering life—good decisions and missed chances, risks and surprises, and the inevitable changes that occur as a family canoes through time and learns what it means to be human in this natural world.

Author : George Steiner
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022666757X
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Portage to San Cristobal of A. H. written by George Steiner and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-01-30 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine, thirty years after the end of World War II, Israeli Nazi-hunters, some of whom lost relatives in the gas chambers of Nazi Germany, find a silent old man deep in the Amazon jungle. He is Adolph Hitler. The narrative that follows is a profound and disturbing exploration of the nature of guilt, vengeance, language, and the power of evil—each undiminished over time. George Steiner's stunning novel, now with a new afterword, will continue to provoke our thinking about Nazi Germany's unforgettable past. "Two readings have convinced me that this is a fiction of extraordinary power and thoughtfulness. . . . [A] remarkable novel."—Bernard Bergonzi, Times Literary Supplement "In this tour de force Mr. Steiner makes his reader re-examine, to whatever conclusions each may choose, a history from which we would prefer to avert our eyes."—Edmund Fuller, Wall Street Journal "Portage largely avoids both the satisfactions of the traditional novel and the horrifying details of Holocaust literature. Instead, Steiner has taken as his model the political imaginings of an Orwell or Koestler. . . . He has produced a philosophic fantasy of remarkable intensity."—Otto Friedrich, Time

Author : Loris C. Troyer
Publisher : Kent State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780873386005
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Portage Pathways written by Loris C. Troyer and published by Kent State University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As editor and executive editor of the Ravenna-Kent (Ohio) Record-Courier, Loris C. Troyer has been an influential figure in Portage County, Ohio, for over 60 years. Since retiring, he has written a weekly historical column. This book collects over 140 of his most memorable essays.

Author : Daniel Pogorzelski
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738552293
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Portage Park written by Daniel Pogorzelski and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Chicago, it has long been common knowledge that the neighborhoods have been overshadowed by the Loop's luster. Portage Park is one of these hidden gems, offering up a wealth of history, culture, and art. As the site of a lesser-known Chicago Portage, the largest retail district outside the Loop at Six Corners, the visual backdrop of movies such as My Life and The Color of Money, and the spot where both Abraham Lincoln and John Dillinger legendarily stayed and the sister of the czar of Bulgaria prayed, this corner of Chicago has seen its share of glitz and glory. Discover Portage Park's architectural treasures, whether it is in its place as a part of Chicago's "Bungalow Belt," its wealth of notable buildings spanning different genres and time periods, or its beautiful churches and grand movie palaces. An area diverse in culture, many peoples, beginning with Native Americans and going onto the Yankees, Irish, Scandinavians, eastern Europeans, and even a Tibetan lama, have made Portage Park their home, each adding their own unique contribution to the vibrant cultural landscape. The site of the largest concentration of Chicago's legendary Polish population, it is also the place where immigrants left the inner city's ethnic enclaves to take part in the American dream.

Author : Federal Writers' Project (Wis.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Portage written by Federal Writers' Project (Wis.) and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wastewater Treatment Facilities, City of Portage written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : J. Arnold Bolz
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9781452903804
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Portage Into the Past written by J. Arnold Bolz and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1961 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dennis Norman
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738523224
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Portage Township written by Dennis Norman and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has been over 40 years since the trinity of Crisman, McCool, and Garyton united to become Portage, Indiana. Located 50 miles from downtown Chicago on the shores of Lake Michigan, Portage Township has emerged as a growing residential, commercial, and industrial center. Portage became a town in 1959 and attained city status in 1967, but the region's history begins with the indigenous Wey Indians of the 1700s and the Potowotamie, whose land was sold in 1834. Pioneers then settled the land alongside immigrants. For many generations Portage has offered a new beginning to those who sought work, political asylum, or simply a better life.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grand Portage National Monument, Minnesota written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: