Starvation Heights

Author : Gregg Olsen
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307238393
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Starvation Heights written by Gregg Olsen and published by Crown. This book was released on 2005-05-03 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this true story—a haunting saga of medical murder set in an era of steamships and gaslights—Gregg Olsen reveals one of the most unusual and disturbing criminal cases in American history. In 1911 two wealthy British heiresses, Claire and Dora Williamson, arrived at a sanitorium in the forests of the Pacific Northwest to undergo the revolutionary “fasting treatment” of Dr. Linda Burfield Hazzard. It was supposed to be a holiday for the two sisters, but within a month of arriving at what the locals called Starvation Heights, the women underwent brutal treatments and were emaciated shadows of their former selves. Claire and Dora were not the first victims of Linda Hazzard, a quack doctor of extraordinary evil and greed. But as their jewelry disappeared and forged bank drafts began transferring their wealth to Hazzard’s accounts, the sisters came to learn that Hazzard would stop at nothing short of murder to achieve her ambitions.

Author : Linda Burfield Hazzard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fasting for the Cure of Disease written by Linda Burfield Hazzard and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gregg Olsen
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 1400097460
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Starvation Heights written by Gregg Olsen and published by Crown. This book was released on 2005-05-03 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this true story—a haunting saga of medical murder set in an era of steamships and gaslights—Gregg Olsen reveals one of the most unusual and disturbing criminal cases in American history. In 1911 two wealthy British heiresses, Claire and Dora Williamson, arrived at a sanitorium in the forests of the Pacific Northwest to undergo the revolutionary “fasting treatment” of Dr. Linda Burfield Hazzard. It was supposed to be a holiday for the two sisters, but within a month of arriving at what the locals called Starvation Heights, the women underwent brutal treatments and were emaciated shadows of their former selves. Claire and Dora were not the first victims of Linda Hazzard, a quack doctor of extraordinary evil and greed. But as their jewelry disappeared and forged bank drafts began transferring their wealth to Hazzard’s accounts, the sisters came to learn that Hazzard would stop at nothing short of murder to achieve her ambitions.

Author : Gregg Olsen
Publisher : GuildAmerica Books
ISBN 13 : 9781568652832
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Starvation Heights written by Gregg Olsen and published by GuildAmerica Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the story of Dr. Linda Burfield Hazzard, who ran a sanatorium in Seattle where a British heiress died of starvation in 1911.

Author : Everest Media,
Publisher : Everest Media LLC
ISBN 13 : 166939235X
Total Pages : 49 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Summary of Gregg Olsen's Starvation Heights written by Everest Media, and published by Everest Media LLC. This book was released on 2022-04-26T22:59:00Z with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The Empress Hotel in Victoria, British Columbia, was the setting for the story. It was a world bustling and tranquil, with a musky sweet-smelling blend of extremes. The sisters, Dora and Claire, were the only unmarried women there. #2 The sisters, Ethel and Gertrude, had died from scarlet fever when they were young. Their father had died shortly after their mother. Their grandfather, Charles Williamson, had left them a fantastic fortune. #3 The sisters were drawn to the idea of being healthy and wealthy, and they spent their fortune on traveling to health institutes and hospitals. They eventually received a book from Dr. Linda Burfield Hazzard, which explained how every ailment is caused by dietary factors. #4 The fasting treatment, which was the subject of Dr. Hazzard’s book, depended on the fact that disease has its origin in impaired digestion. The sisters thought little of traditional doctors and their drugs. They were excited to try the sanitarium in the country west of Seattle.

Author : Andrew F. Smith
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312601816
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Starving the South written by Andrew F. Smith and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-04-12 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'From the first shot fired at Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, to the last shot fired at Appomattox, food played a crucial role in the Civil War. In Starving the South, culinary historian Andrew Smith takes a fascinating gastronomical look at the war and its aftermath. At the time, the North mobilized its agricultural resources, fed its civilians and military, and still had massive amounts of food to export to Europe. The South did not; while people starved, the morale of their soldiers waned and desertions from the Army of the Confederacy increased.....' (Book Jacket)

Author : Gregg Olsen
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307237303
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Deep Dark written by Gregg Olsen and published by Crown. This book was released on 2005-03-01 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A vividly detailed, heartbreaking tale about a dark, alien place, the people who loved working there and a town that has never been the same. He brings to life the hot, dirty, treasure-hunt environment where danger was a miner's heroin." —Seattle Times “Investigation at its best.” —Tucson Citizen On May 2, 1972, 174 miners entered Sunshine Mine in Kellogg, Idaho, on their daily quest for silver. From his office window, safety engineer Bob Launhardt could see the air shafts that fed fresh air into the mine, which was more than a mile below the surface. Sunshine was a fireproof hardrock mine, full of nothing but cold, dripping wet stone. There were many safety concerns, but fire wasn’t one of them. So when thick black smoke began pouring from one of the air shafts, Launhardt was as amazed as he was struck with fear. When the alarm sounded, less than half of the dayshift was able to return to the surface. The others were too deep in the mine to escape. Scores of miners died almost immediately, but in one of the deepest corners of the mine, Ron Flory and Tom Wilkinson were left alone and in total darkness, surviving off a trickle of fresh air from a borehole. The miners’ families waited and prayed, while Launhardt refused to give up the search until he could be sure that no one was left underground. In The Deep Dark, Gregg Olsen looks beyond an intensely suspenseful story of the rescue and into the wounded heart of Kellogg, a quintessential company town that has never recovered from its loss.

Author : Douglas Monroy
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520920775
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rebirth written by Douglas Monroy and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This sweeping, vibrant narrative chronicles the history of the Mexican community in Los Angeles. Douglas Monroy unravels the dramatic, complex story of Mexican immigration to Los Angeles during the early decades of the twentieth century and shows how Mexican immigrants re-created their lives and their communities. Against the backdrop of this newly created cityscape, Rebirth explores pivotal aspects of Mexican Los Angeles during this time—its history, political economy, popular culture—and depicts the creation of a time and place unique in Californian and American history. Mexican boxers, movie stars, politicians, workers, parents, and children, American popular culture and schools, and historical fervor on both sides of the border all come alive in this literary, jargon-free chronicle. In addition to the colorful unfolding of the social and cultural life of Mexican Los Angeles, Monroy tells a story of first-generation immigrants that provides important points of comparison for understanding other immigrant groups in the United States. Monroy shows how the transmigration of space, culture, and reality from Mexico to Los Angeles became neither wholly American nor Mexican, but México de afuera, "Mexico outside," a place where new concerns and new lives emerged from what was both old and familiar. This extremely accessible work uncovers the human stories of a dynamic immigrant population and shows the emergence of a truly transnational history and culture. Rebirth provides an integral piece of Chicano history, as well as an important element of California urban history, with the rich, synthetic portrait it gives of Mexican Los Angeles.

Author : Helen Fisher
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982142693
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Faye, Faraway written by Helen Fisher and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-01-26 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heartfelt and irresistible—“a lovely, deeply moving story of loss and love and memory made real” (Diana Gabaldon, #1 New York Times bestselling author)—this enchanting debut follows a woman who travels back in time to be reunited with the mother she lost when she was a child. Every night, as Faye puts her daughters to bed, she thinks of her own mother, Jeanie, who died when Faye was eight. The pain of that loss has never left her, and that’s why she wants her own girls to know how very much they are loved by her—and always will be, whatever happens. Then one day, Faye gets her heart’s desire when she’s whisked back into the past and is reunited not just with her mother but with her own younger self. Jeanie doesn’t recognize grown-up Faye as her daughter, even though there is something eerily familiar about her. But the two women become close friends and share all kinds of secrets—except for the deepest secret of all, the secret of who Faye really is. Faye worries that telling the truth may prevent her from being able to return to the present day, to her dear husband and beloved daughters. Eventually she’ll have to choose between those she loved in the past and those she loves in the here and now, and that knowledge presents her with an impossible choice. If only she didn’t have to make it....

Author : Jeff Davis
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1402745451
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Weird Washington written by Jeff Davis and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each fun and intriguing volume offers more than 250 illustrated pages of places where tourists usually don't venture. These unique travel guides are chock-full of information about oddball curiosities, ghostly places, local legends, and peculiar roadside attractions.