800 Year Journey To America
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800 Year Journey To America
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Author : John Bryant Sr
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016-07
800 Year Journey To America written by John Bryant Sr and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07 with categories.
Matej S Journey To America
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Author : Donald F. Chmelka
language : en
Publisher: Author House
Release Date : 2002-11-19
Matej S Journey To America written by Donald F. Chmelka and has been published by Author House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-11-19 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Matej's Journey to America is a creative-nonfiction chronicle exploring the forces that drove our immigrant ancestors to new lands. After Adam and Eve's eviction from Eden, man slowly scattered with a great dispersion occurring about 2700 BC as the Lord confounded the tongues of presumptuous Babylonians building a tower to heaven. Among the afflicted was an Aryan slave named Chmelka who was growing hops (chmel in the new Slavic language) to flavor beer for his Semitic masters. As the Slavs fled northward toward unknown Czech lands, other tribes migrated in all directions. According to The Book of Mormon, the righteous Jared took a Semitic clan from Babel across the mountains, deserts and oceans to a New World . . . later named America. Another Semitic clan that passed through Babylon 850 years later included a young Abraham, destined to be the patriarch of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. He introduced the concept of a single God revered by all his religious descendants, but despite their many commonalties, each of these three great religions seem convinced it has the only correct formula for salvation, justifying incredible atrocities with God always on its side. The descendants of the first Chmelka struggled as great civilizations developed and fell through the turmoil and bloodshed of the Dark Ages. Marco Polo awakened Europe in the late 13th century to the riches of the Far East, giving rise to explorers like Christopher Columbus who stumbled onto the North American Continent in 1492. The Protestant Reformation began to divide the Holy Roman Empire at the time, adding to the bloodshed as Austria, Prussia and France fought for domination in Europe. Meanwhile, Spain, England and France were colonizing and competing for control in the New World that was becoming home to an increasing number of European emigrants looking for a better life. The American Colonies fought for independence and then began to absorb all lands from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Thomas Jefferson purchased the immense Louisiana Territory from Napoleon in 1803, after which mountain men opened the West to homesteaders, miners and ranchers. My great-great-grandfather Matej was born as the Rocky Mountain fur trade boomed in 1825, and grew up on a 13-acre farm in Moravia where the Chmelkas had been serfs since Charlemagne was crowned the first Holy Roman Emperor a millennium earlier. Matej became a Dragoon in the Austrian Imperial Army and helped put down a revolution in Prague in 1848 the year gold was discovered in California but war spread and life worsened for European peasants. Gold, homesteads and wild Texas longhorns free for the taking lured thousands of oppressed Europeans to America on steamships and railroads now making long-distance travel feasible. After Prussia defeated the Austrian Empire including Bohemia and Moravia and then France, Matej's family escaped its misery and immigrated to Nebraska in 1871. They found a difficult life with grasshoppers, drought, hail and fires destroying crops . . . spurring Matej's fourteen-year-old son to join a Texas cattle drive and then dodge Indians and gunfighters for fourteen years in the Wild West. New technologies in farm equipment, transportation and communications made America the envy of the world in 1902 when Matej died and was buried near the prairie church he helped build. Matej's Journey to America honors him and his fellow immigrants ordinary men and women generally lost in history for the legacies and opportunities they gave us in our great land of freedom.
Did Ancient Chinese Explore America
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Author : Charlotte Harris Rees
language : en
Publisher: Light Messages Publishing
Release Date : 2014-04-23
Did Ancient Chinese Explore America written by Charlotte Harris Rees and has been published by Light Messages Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-23 with History categories.
A Chinese classic, the Shan Hai Jing, reportedly from 2000 BC claimed travels to the ends of the earth. However, today many, while accepting the antiquity of this account, believe it was just mythology. But was it?Testing the hypothesis that the Shan Hai Jing described actual surveys of North America, Charlotte Harris Rees, author of books about early Chinese exploration, followed an alleged 1100 mile Chinese trek along the eastern slope of the US Rocky Mountains. The Chinese account should have been easy to disprove. In the travelogue Did Ancient Chinese Explore America? Rees candidly shares her initial doubts then her search and discoveries. She weaves together history, subtle humor, academic studies, and many photographs to tell a compelling story.
Journey On The James
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Author : Earl Swift
language : en
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Release Date : 2014-12-19
Journey On The James written by Earl Swift and has been published by University of Virginia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-19 with History categories.
From its beginnings as a trickle of icy water in Virginia's northwest corner to its miles-wide mouth at Hampton Roads, the James River has witnessed more recorded history than any other feature of the American landscape -- as home to the continent's first successful English settlement, highway for Native Americans and early colonists, battleground in the Revolution and the Civil War, and birthplace of America's twentieth-century navy. In 1998, restless in his job as a reporter for the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, Earl Swift landed an assignment traveling the entire length of the James. He hadn't been in a canoe since his days as a Boy Scout, and he knew that the river boasts whitewater, not to mention man-made obstacles, to challenge even experienced paddlers. But reinforced by Pilot photographer Ian Martin and a lot of freeze-dried food and beer, Swift set out to immerse himself -- he hoped not literally -- in the river and its history. What Swift survived to bring us is this engrossing chronicle of three weeks in a fourteen-foot plastic canoe and four hundred years in the life of Virginia. Fueled by humor and a dauntless curiosity about the land, buildings, and people on the banks, and anchored by his sidekick Martin -- whose photographs accompany the text -- Swift points his bow through the ghosts of a frontier past, past Confederate forts and POW camps, antebellum mills, ruined canals, vanished towns, and effluent-spewing industry. Along the banks, lonely meadowlands alternate with suburbs and power plants, marinas and the gleaming skyscrapers of Richmond's New South downtown. Enduring dunkings, wolf spiders, near-arrest, channel fever, and twenty-knot winds, Swift makes it to the Chesapeake Bay. Readers who accompany him through his Journey on the James will come away with the accumulated pleasure, if not the bruises and mud, of four hundred miles of adventure and history in the life of one of America's great watersheds.
The Bald Eagle The Improbable Journey Of America S Bird
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Author : Jack E. Davis
language : en
Publisher: Liveright Publishing
Release Date : 2022-03-01
The Bald Eagle The Improbable Journey Of America S Bird written by Jack E. Davis and has been published by Liveright Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-01 with Nature categories.
Best Books of the Month: Wall Street Journal, Kirkus Reviews From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Gulf, a sweeping cultural and natural history of the bald eagle in America. The bald eagle is regal but fearless, a bird you’re not inclined to argue with. For centuries, Americans have celebrated it as “majestic” and “noble,” yet savaged the living bird behind their national symbol as a malicious predator of livestock and, falsely, a snatcher of babies. Taking us from before the nation’s founding through inconceivable resurgences of this enduring all-American species, Jack E. Davis contrasts the age when native peoples lived beside it peacefully with that when others, whether through hunting bounties or DDT pesticides, twice pushed Haliaeetus leucocephalus to the brink of extinction. Filled with spectacular stories of Founding Fathers, rapacious hunters, heroic bird rescuers, and the lives of bald eagles themselves—monogamous creatures, considered among the animal world’s finest parents—The Bald Eagle is a much-awaited cultural and natural history that demonstrates how this bird’s wondrous journey may provide inspiration today, as we grapple with environmental peril on a larger scale.
Sketches Of America A Narrative Of A Journey Of Five Thousand Miles Through The Eastern And Western States Of America
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Author : Henry Bradshaw Fearon
language : en
Publisher: Hardpress Publishing
Release Date : 2012-01
Sketches Of America A Narrative Of A Journey Of Five Thousand Miles Through The Eastern And Western States Of America written by Henry Bradshaw Fearon and has been published by Hardpress Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01 with categories.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
My American Journey My Years In Poetry And Bush S America Collide
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Author : The Klute
language : en
Publisher: Brick Cave Books
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My American Journey My Years In Poetry And Bush S America Collide written by The Klute and has been published by Brick Cave Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Poetry categories.
Performance poet Bernard Schober, aka The Klute, documents his performance poetry written and performed during the Bush presidency. Most of it is a hilarious study of America, and it's politics.
A Journey In The Back Country In The Winter Of 1853 4 Volume 2
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Author : Frederick Law Olmsted
language : en
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Release Date : 2022-10-27
A Journey In The Back Country In The Winter Of 1853 4 Volume 2 written by Frederick Law Olmsted and has been published by Legare Street Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-27 with History categories.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Sketches Of America A Narrative Of A Journey Of Five Thousand Miles Through The Eastern And Western States Of America Etc 3 Ed
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Author : Henry Bradshaw Fearon
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1819
Sketches Of America A Narrative Of A Journey Of Five Thousand Miles Through The Eastern And Western States Of America Etc 3 Ed written by Henry Bradshaw Fearon and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1819 with categories.
Sketches Of America A Narrative Of A Journey Through The Eastern And Western States With Remarks On Mr Birkbeck S Notes And Letters
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Author : Henry Bradshaw Fearon
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1818
Sketches Of America A Narrative Of A Journey Through The Eastern And Western States With Remarks On Mr Birkbeck S Notes And Letters written by Henry Bradshaw Fearon and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1818 with categories.