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Author |
: Leonard S. Marcus |
Publisher |
: Dutton Juvenile |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2003 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0525469249 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780525469247 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (49 Downloads) |
Synopsis Storied City by : Leonard S. Marcus
Presents twenty-one walking tours of New York City, including more than one hundred sites of literary significance and featuring more than two hundred books about New York written for young readers.
Author |
: Charlie English |
Publisher |
: Penguin |
Total Pages |
: 434 |
Release |
: 2018-05-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781594634291 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1594634297 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (91 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Storied City by : Charlie English
“Timbuktu is a real place, and Charlie English will fuel your wanderlust with true descriptions of the fabled city’s past, present, and future.” –Fodor’s Two tales of a city: The historical race to “discover” one of the world’s most mythologized places, and the story of how a contemporary band of archivists and librarians, fighting to save its ancient manuscripts from destruction at the hands of al Qaeda, added another layer to the legend. To Westerners, the name “Timbuktu” long conjured a tantalizing paradise, an African El Dorado where even the slaves wore gold. Beginning in the late eighteenth century, a series of explorers gripped by the fever for “discovery” tried repeatedly to reach the fabled city. But one expedition after another went disastrously awry, succumbing to attack, the climate, and disease. Timbuktu was rich in another way too. A medieval center of learning, it was home to tens of thousands—according to some, hundreds of thousands—of ancient manuscripts, on subjects ranging from religion to poetry, law to history, pharmacology, and astronomy. When al-Qaeda–linked jihadists surged across Mali in 2012, threatening the existence of these precious documents, a remarkable thing happened: a team of librarians and archivists joined forces to spirit the manuscripts into hiding. Relying on extensive research and firsthand reporting, Charlie English expertly twines these two suspenseful strands into a fraught and fascinating account of one of the planet's extraordinary places, and the myths from which it has become inseparable.
Author |
: M. J. Rose |
Publisher |
: Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages |
: 296 |
Release |
: 2020-10-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781250241337 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1250241332 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (37 Downloads) |
Synopsis Stories from Suffragette City by : M. J. Rose
One City. One Movement. A World of Stories. Stories from Suffragette City is a collection of short stories that all take place on a single day: October 23, 1915. It’s the day when tens of thousands of women marched up Fifth Avenue, demanding the right to vote in New York City. Thirteen of today's bestselling authors have taken this moment as inspiration to raise the voices of history and breathe fresh life into their struggles and triumphs. The characters depicted here, some well-known, others unfamiliar, each inspire and reinvigorate the power of democracy. We follow a young woman who is swept up in the protests when all she expected was to come sell her apples in the city. We see Alva Vanderbilt as her white-gloved sensibility is transformed over the course of the single fateful day. Ida B. Wells battles for racial justice in the women's suffrage movement so that every woman's voice can be heard. Each story stands on its own, but together Stories From Suffragette City becomes a symphony, painting a portrait of a country looking for a fight and ever restless for progress and equality. With an introduction by Kristin Hannah and stories from: Lisa Wingate M.J. Rose Steve Berry Paula McLain Katherine J. Chen Christina Baker Kline Jamie Ford Dolen Perkins-Valdez Megan Chance Alyson Richman Chris Bohjalian and Fiona Davis
Author |
: Charlie English |
Publisher |
: William Collins |
Total Pages |
: 416 |
Release |
: 2018-05-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0008126658 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780008126650 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (58 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Book Smugglers of Timbuktu by : Charlie English
Two tales of a city: The historical race to reach one of the world's most mythologized places, and the story of how a contemporary band of archivists and librarians, fighting to save its ancient manuscripts from destruction at the hands of al Qaeda, added another layer to the legend. To Westerners, the name "Timbuktu" long conjured a tantalising paradise, an African El Dorado where even the slaves wore gold. Beginning in the late eighteenth century, a series of explorers gripped by the fever for "discovery" tried repeatedly to reach the fabled city. But one expedition after another went disastrously awry, succumbing to attack, the climate, and disease. Timbuktu was rich in another way too. A medieval centre of learning, it was home to tens of thousands of ancient manuscripts, on subjects ranging from religion to poetry, law to history, pharmacology, and astronomy. When al-Qaeda-linked jihadists surged across Mali in 2012, threatening the existence of these precious documents, a remarkable thing happened: a team of librarians and archivists joined forces to spirit the manuscripts into hiding. Relying on extensive research and firsthand reporting, Charlie English expertly twines these two suspenseful strands into a fascinating account of one of the planet's extraordinary places, and the myths from which it has become inseparable
Author |
: American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 1142 |
Release |
: 1916 |
ISBN-10 |
: UIUC:30112118413738 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (38 Downloads) |
Synopsis First-thirtieth Annual Report ... 1896-1925 to the Legislature of the State of New York ... by : American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society
Author |
: Cleveland (Ohio). Board of Education. Bureau of Educational Research |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 434 |
Release |
: 1927 |
ISBN-10 |
: MINN:31951000927107L |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (7L Downloads) |
Synopsis Course of Study: For the pupil by : Cleveland (Ohio). Board of Education. Bureau of Educational Research
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: |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 848 |
Release |
: 1920 |
ISBN-10 |
: CORNELL:31924079443382 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (82 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Far-Eastern Review by :
Author |
: |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 538 |
Release |
: 1922 |
ISBN-10 |
: NYPL:33433082015722 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (22 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Best Short Stories of ... and the Yearbook of the American Short Story by :
Author |
: Martha Foley |
Publisher |
: Mariner Books |
Total Pages |
: 492 |
Release |
: 1926 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015024638853 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (53 Downloads) |
Synopsis Best Short Stories by : Martha Foley
Includes the Yearbook of the American short story, 1978-1980.
Author |
: Leonard S. Marcus |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 154 |
Release |
: 2003 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1413108776 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781413108774 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (76 Downloads) |
Synopsis Storied City by : Leonard S. Marcus
Presents twenty-one walking tours of New York City, including more than one hundred sites of literary significance and featuring more than two hundred books about New York written for young readers.