Journey On The James
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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.
Journey On The James
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Author : Earl Swift
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2002-04
Journey On The James written by Earl Swift and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-04 with History categories.
Swift, a staff writer for the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, presents a chronicle of three weeks in a 14-foot plastic canoe and 400 years in the life of Virginia. Fueled by humor and curiosity about the land, buildings, and people on the banks, he views Confederate forts and POW camps, ante-bellum mills, ruined canals, vanished towns, and the contrast between meadowlands, suburbs and skyscrapers of Richmond's New South downtown. Enduring dunkings, spiders, near arrest, channel fever, and high winds, he makes it to Chesapeake Bay. The book contains a few bandw photographs. c. Book News Inc.
Morning Journey
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Author : James Hilton
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2022-09-15
Morning Journey written by James Hilton and has been published by DigiCat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-15 with Fiction categories.
Morning Journey is a fictional romance by James Hilton. An actress and a director get intertwined in dramatic love. Excerpt: "He guessed she must have some other lawyer or lawyers somewhere, together with the usual outfit of agents, business managers, tax-consultants, and so on; he knew also how impulsively actors get themselves into a mess and how capriciously they can turn on those whom they pay to get them out. Maybe she was in a mood for such a change. He himself had tried to winnow down his clientele into those who were his personal friends and who, if they did get into trouble, would give him the pleasure as well as the task of extrication. He wondered if he would want Carey Arundel as such a client, even if she asked him. Possibly."
A Journey Worth Living
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Author : James Giles
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-05-31
A Journey Worth Living written by James Giles and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-31 with categories.
A Journey Worth Living is James Giles second book, The book covers James journey from mental illness in senior year in high school and freshman year in college to finishing a BA and an MBA with honors. From that world of depression, he becomes a well known college professor and is recruited by the CIA and the US Navy to be a spy and a Russian cryptologist. The Navy wants him to study to be an officer and cryptologist. He also ends up meeting President Reagan in 1984 during his re-election bid in NJ. This is an exciting story.
My Brother My Lord
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Author : Doris Broughton Heath
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2015-04-17
My Brother My Lord written by Doris Broughton Heath and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-17 with Fiction categories.
We know much about Jesus’s early life and his last years. But there are twenty years for which little, if anything, is known. Did he simply spend his adolescence as a carpenter’s apprentice in Nazareth? Is that what he meant when he referred to “his Father’s work”? Or was there more to those two decades? Author Doris Broughton Heath was intrigued by those missing years. She used her insatiable curiosity and quest for knowledge and truth to open the door to Jesus’s whereabouts during those years. Heath spent the last seven years of her life working on My Brother, My Lord: A Journey with James and Jesus from the Temple to the Tomb. She brings together Jesus and his older brother, James, and sends them on a journey to spread the Word of God. They visit new and exciting cities and discover diverse cultures as Jesus performs his first miracles. Although a work of fiction, she researched the history and biblical events known to have occurred during that time to add authenticity. After Heath died in 1991, My Brother, My Lord: A Journey with James and Jesus from the Temple to the Tomb sat untouched until her daughter, Linda Stevens, found it six years later and fulfilled her promise to her mother to have it published. Now you are invited to discover Heath’s imaginings of what happened during Jesus’s missing years. And perhaps come up with your own theories.
New Beginnings
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Author : Nicky James
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-05-15
New Beginnings written by Nicky James and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-15 with categories.
Life is beyond our control. It can bring joy, laughter and happiness, then turn around and rip your heart out of your chest without warning.Abel Matheson received a cold dose of life's reality six months ago when the man he loved most lost his fight against cancer.Free-spirited, easy-going Abel doesn't know how to cope with the rotting, festering grief growing inside him. What was once an easy life, has become a struggle to put one foot in front of the other.His grades are slipping, his job is suffering, money is tight, and the nightmares plaguing his sleep are relentless. Something has to give. He can't keep going like this.Desperate to end his suffering, Abel falls back on old habits. Self-destructive habits he knows are wrong.Every time he tries to stand, he ends up face-first in the mud.On the advice of a counselor, Abel makes attempts to find a support system to help him handle his grief. Unexpectedly, during his quest toward healing, Abel makes a connection with the most unlikely of people.His mind wants to rebel against the man who stands before him. Run far and fast in the other direction. But his heart forms a bond that annihilates his fear.Why this man of all people?Sometimes you find help and love where you least expect it.This book has been written as a follow-up to No Regrets.TRIGGER WARNING- self-harm, substance abuse, grief and loss, anxiety, depression
The River Where America Began
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Author : Bob Deans
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Release Date : 2008-12-16
The River Where America Began written by Bob Deans and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-12-16 with History categories.
From the establishment of the first permanent English colony at Jamestown in 1607 to the fall of Richmond in 1865, the James River has been instrumental in the formation of modern America. It was along the James that British and Native American cultures collided and, in a twisted paradox, the seeds of democracy and slavery were sown side by side. The culture crafted by Virginia's learned aristocrats, merchants, farmers, and frontiersmen gave voice to the cause of the American Revolution and provided a vision for the fledgling independent nation's future. Over the course of the United States' first century, the James River bore witness to the irreconcilable contradiction of a slave-holding nation dedicated to liberty and equality for all. When that intractable conflict ignited civil war, the James River served as a critical backdrop for the bloodiest conflict in U.S. history. As he guides readers through this exciting historical narrative, Deans gives life to a dynamic cast of characters including the familiar Powhatan, John Smith, Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, Benedict Arnold, and Robert E. Lee, as well as those who have largely escaped historical notoriety. The River Where America Began takes readers on a journey along the James River from the earliest days of civilization nearly 15,000 years ago through the troubled English settlement at Jamestown and finishes with Lincoln's tour of the defeated capital of Richmond in 1865. Deans traces the historical course of a river whose contributions to American life are both immeasurable and unique. This innovative history invites us all to look into these restless waters in a way that connects us to our past and reminds us of who we are as Americans.
James Joyce
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Author : Leon Edel
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1977
James Joyce written by Leon Edel and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with categories.
Adventures In Stationery
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Author : James Ward
language : en
Publisher: Profile Books
Release Date : 2014-09-11
Adventures In Stationery written by James Ward and has been published by Profile Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-11 with History categories.
We are surrounded by stationery: half-chewed Cristal Bics and bent paper clips, rubber bands to fiddle with or ping, blunt pencils, rubbers and Tipp-ex are integral parts of our everyday environment. So much so that we never think about where they come from, why they are the way they are - or what stories they might have to tell. But luckily, James Ward does and he's here to tell you all about the secret pull stationery exerts on our lives. After all, who remains unmoved by the sight of a pristine blu-tak slab, or the first unmarked sheet of a brand new notepad? And which of humanity's brightest ideas didn't start life on a scrap of paper, a Post-it, or in the margins of a notebook? Exploring the stories behind these everyday objects, Ward reveals tales of invention - accidental and brilliant - and bitter rivalry. He also asks the questions you never thought you had: Who is Mr Pritt? What does shatter-proof resistant mean? How many pens does Argos use? And what does design evolutions in desk organisers mean for society? This witty and entertaining book, packed with fascinating facts, will change the way you look at your desk, pencil case or stationery cupboard forever.
James S Journey
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Author : Asha Khalil
language : en
Publisher: Trafford
Release Date : 2006
James S Journey written by Asha Khalil and has been published by Trafford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with categories.
Houses that rotate, falling onto a star, a girl with no mouth, and landing in jail are only a few of the things that James faces on this involuntary journey!