Brave Companions

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For more than two decades, McCullough has fascinated readers with portraits of exceptional men and women who not only have shaped the course of history but whose stories express much that is timeless about the human condition. From Harriet Beecher Stowe to a young Theodore Roosevelt, the subjects possess a sense of purpose that make for unforgettable reading.

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Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Author : David McCullough
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Release : 2022-09-20
File : 256 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781668003541


Summary Of David Mccullough S Brave Companions

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 In 1804, a visitor from abroad came to visit President Thomas Jefferson. He was a naturalist, an astronomer, a geographer, a geologist, a botanist, and an authority on Indian antiquities. He was at home in any subject. #2 Humboldt’s trip to see Jefferson was one of the great scientific journeys of all time. His travels were through Spanish America, but his accomplishments were largely overshadowed by the popular impact of the Lewis and Clark expedition. #3 Humboldt and Bonpland’s expedition was unprecedented, and they were free to explore any or all of Spain’s largely unexplored American colonies. They landed in Venezuela in July 1799, and their excitement was enormous. #4 The explorers spent three months exploring and mapping the coastal plain, collecting sixteen hundred plants. They witnessed a total eclipse, an earthquake, and a spectacular meteor shower. They traced the Orinoco to its source, something no one had done before.

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Genre : History
Author : Everest Media,
Publisher : Everest Media LLC
Release : 2022-04-16T22:59:00Z
File : 45 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781669386049


The Unbelievable Fib 2

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SPECIAL PREVIEW! It’s been a year since friends ABE and Pru joined Mister Fox’s Fantasy Investigation Bureau--otherwise known as the Unbelievable FIB--to save their hometown from an invasion of Viking gods and giants. Life has been incredibly ordinary ever since. But that’s all about to change when the Norse Allfather, Odin, appears with terrible news: Baldur, his favorite son, has been murdered. It’s the first step in a fated chain of events that leads to Ragnarok--the end of the world. Fans of Thor, Rick Riordan’s Magnus Chase, and classic Norse myths will cheer as ABE and Pru outrun trolls, explore Asgard and the Viking underworld, and try to outsmart the Queen of the Dead herself to change fate, save the world--and survive seventh grade.

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Genre : Juvenile Fiction
Author : Adam Shaughnessy
Publisher : Algonquin Books
Release : 2016-06-13
File : 305 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781616207045


A Dictionary Of The English Language

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Genre : English language
Author : Samuel Johnson
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Release : 1805
File : 936 Pages
ISBN-13 : NYPL:33433070243393


Hunters On The Track

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Captains of whaling vessels were experienced navigators of northern waters, and William Penny was in the vanguard of the whaling fraternity. Leading the first maritime expedition in search of Sir John Franklin, he stood out not just for his skill as a sailor but for his curiosity about northern geography and his willingness to seek out Inuit testimony to map uncharted territory. Hunters on the Track describes and analyzes the efforts made by the Scottish whaling master to locate Franklin's missing expedition. Bookended by an account of Penny's whaling career, including the rediscovery of Cumberland Sound, which would play a vital role in British whaling a decade later, W. Gillies Ross provides an in-depth history of the first Franklin searches. He reconstructs the brief but frenetic period when the English-speaking world was preoccupied with locating Franklin, but when the means of that search – the ships chosen, the route taken, the evidence of Franklin's traces – were contested and uncertain. Ross details the particularities of each search at a time when no fewer than eight ships comprising four search expeditions were attempting to find Franklin's tracks. Reconstructing events, relationships, and decisions, he focuses on the work of Penny as commander of HMS Lady Franklin and Sophia, while also outlining the events of other expeditions and interactions among the officers and crews. William Penny is respected as one of the most influential and innovative figures in British Arctic whaling history, but his brief role in the Franklin expedition is less known. Using primary sources, notably private journals from each of the expeditions, Hunters on the Track places him at the forefront of a critical chapter of maritime history and the geographical exploration that began after Franklin disappeared.

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Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Author : W. Gillies Ross
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Release : 2019-07-18
File : 519 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780773558335


Manly Leaders In Nineteenth Century British Literature

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From the 1790s to the 1840s, the fear that Britain had become too effeminate to protect itself against the anarchic forces unleashed by the French Revolution produced in many British writers of the period a desire to portray strong leaders who could control the democratic and commercial forces of modernization. While it is commonplace in Romantic studies to emphasize that Romantic writers are interested in the solitary genius or hero who separates himself from the community to pursue his own creative visions, Daniela Garofalo argues instead that Romantic and early Victorian writers are interested in charismatic males—military heroes, tyrants, kings, and captains of industry—who organize modern political and economic communities, sometimes by example, and sometimes by direct engagement. Reading works by William Godwin, William Wordsworth, Jane Austen, Lord Byron, William Hazlitt, Thomas Carlyle, and Charlotte Brontë, Garofalo shows how these leaders, endowed with an inherent virility rather than simply inherited rank, legitimize hierarchy anew for an age suffering from a crisis of authority.

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : Daniela Garofalo
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Release : 2009-01-01
File : 226 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780791478783


Orlandus 2 V

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Genre : Chivalry
Author : Kenelm Henry Digby
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Release : 1876
File : 420 Pages
ISBN-13 : HARVARD:32044098623630


The History Of Spain And Portugal In Two Volumes From The Historians History Of The World

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Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

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Genre : Fiction
Author : Henry Smith Williams
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Release : 2023-10-13
File : 930 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9783387300550


Wellington S Men Remembered Volume 2

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Wellington's Men Remembered is a reference work which has been compiled on behalf of the Association of Friends of the Waterloo Committee and contains over 3,000 memorials to soldiers who fought in the Peninsular War and at Waterloo between 1808 and 1815, together with 150 battlefield and regimental memorials in 24 countries worldwide.?

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Genre : History
Author : Janet Bromley
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Release : 2015-03-25
File : 726 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781848847507


Synonymisches Handw Rterbuch Der Englischen Sprache F R Die Deutschen

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Genre : English language
Author : H. M. Melford
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Release : 1841
File : 464 Pages
ISBN-13 : BSB:BSB10582220