North Of The Line
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North Of The Color Line
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Author : Sarah-Jane Mathieu
language : en
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Release Date : 2010-11-29
North Of The Color Line written by Sarah-Jane Mathieu and has been published by Univ of North Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-29 with Social Science categories.
North of the Color Line examines life in Canada for the estimated 5,000 blacks, both African Americans and West Indians, who immigrated to Canada after the end of Reconstruction in the United States. Through the experiences of black railway workers and their union, the Order of Sleeping Car Porters, Sarah-Jane Mathieu connects social, political, labor, immigration, and black diaspora history during the Jim Crow era. By World War I, sleeping car portering had become the exclusive province of black men. White railwaymen protested the presence of the black workers and insisted on a segregated workforce. Using the firsthand accounts of former sleeping car porters, Mathieu shows that porters often found themselves leading racial uplift organizations, galvanizing their communities, and becoming the bedrock of civil rights activism. Examining the spread of segregation laws and practices in Canada, whose citizens often imagined themselves as devoid of racism, Mathieu historicizes Canadian racial attitudes, and explores how black migrants brought their own sensibilities about race to Canada, participating in and changing political discourse there.
Walking The Great North Line
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Author : Robert Twigger
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2020-04-23
Walking The Great North Line written by Robert Twigger and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-23 with History categories.
Robert Twigger, poet and travel author, was in search of a new way up England when he stumbled across the Great North Line. From Christchurch on the South Coast to Old Sarum to Stonehenge, to Avebury, to Notgrove barrow, to Meon Hill in the midlands, to Thor's Cave, to Arbor Low stone circle, to Mam Tor, to Ilkley in Yorkshire and its three stone circles and the Swastika Stone, to several forts and camps in Northumberland to Lindisfarne (plus about thirty more sites en route). A single dead straight line following 1 degree 50 West up Britain. No other north-south straight line goes through so many ancient sites of such significance. Was it just a suggestive coincidence or were they built intentionally? Twigger walks the line, which takes him through Birmingham, Halifax and Consett as well as Salisbury Plain, the Peak district, and the Yorkshire moors. With a planning schedule that focused more on reading about shamanism and beat poetry than hardening his feet up, he sets off ever hopeful. He wild-camps along the way, living like a homeless bum, with a heart that starts stifled but ends up soaring with the beauty of life. He sleeps in a prehistoric cave, falls into a river, crosses a 'suicide viaduct' and gets told off by a farmer's wife for trespassing; but in this simple life he finds woven gold. He walks with others and he walks alone, ever alert to the incongruities of the edgelands he is journeying through.
North Of The Tension Line
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Author : J.F. Riordan
language : en
Publisher: Beaufort Books
Release Date : 2014-09-05
North Of The Tension Line written by J.F. Riordan and has been published by Beaufort Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-05 with Fiction categories.
Fiona Campbell is a newcomer to tiny Ephraim, Wisconsin. Populated with artists and summer tourists, Ephraim has just enough going on to satisfy her city tastes. But she is fascinated and repelled by the furthest tip of Door County peninsula, Washington Island, utterly removed from the hubbub of modern life. Fiona's visits there leave her refreshed in spirit, but convinced that only lunatics and hermits could survive a winter in its frigid isolation. In a moment of weakness, Fiona is goaded into accepting a dare that she cannot survive the winter on the island in a decrepit, old house. Armed with some very fine single malt scotch and a copy of Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, Fiona sets out to win the dare, and discovers that small town life is not nearly as dull as she had foreseen. Abandoning the things she has always thought important, she encounters the vicious politics of small town life, a ruthless neighbor, persistent animals, a haunted ferry captain, and the peculiar spiritual renewal of life north of the tension line.
The North Line
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Author : Matt Riordan
language : en
Publisher: Disney Electronic Content
Release Date : 2024-04-02
The North Line written by Matt Riordan and has been published by Disney Electronic Content this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-04-02 with Fiction categories.
In Matt Riordan’s debut novel, a college student in need of quick money finds work on an Alaskan fishing boat in the unforgiving Bering Sea. “The North Line is a ruggedly erudite story that combines the best of the individualism of Jack London with the introspective ruminations of Raymond Carver . . . not to be missed.” —S.A. Cosby New York Times bestselling author of All the Sinners Bleed “A frightening story of tough men pushed to the brink. The novel is captivating, occasionally funny, and startling. I couldn’t put it down.” —David Sedaris Even at the ragged edge of civilization, some lines should not be crossed. Everyone believes Adam to be something he’s not. Sometimes that’s because he’s told them a story. Sometimes he’s told himself one. But when Adam joins an Alaskan fishing crew that’s promising quick money, the dangerous work and harsh lifestyle strip away all fabrications and force a dark-hearted exploration of who he really is. On the unforgiving Bering Sea, Adam finds the adventure and authenticity of a fisherman’s life revelatory. The labor required to seize bounty from the ocean invigorates him, and the often crude comradery accompanies a welcome, hard-earned wisdom. But when a strike threatens the entire season and violence stalks the waves, Adam is thrust into a struggle for survival at the edge of the world, where evolutionary and social forces collide for outcomes beyond anyone’s control. In his riveting debut novel, Matt Riordan pairs personal experiences with a master storyteller’s eye in a piercing examination of the quest for identity in the face of tempests within and without.
Chicago North Western Coal Line Project Acquisition Of One Half Interest In 106 Mile Rail Line Rehabilitation And Construction
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1980
Chicago North Western Coal Line Project Acquisition Of One Half Interest In 106 Mile Rail Line Rehabilitation And Construction written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with categories.
Power Outage On Metro North S New Haven Line
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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine Infrastructure, Safety, and Security
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
Power Outage On Metro North S New Haven Line written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine Infrastructure, Safety, and Security and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Electric power failures categories.
North Dakota Saskatchewan Intertie Transmission Line
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1979
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The History Of Racine And Kenosha Counties Wisconsin
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1879
The History Of Racine And Kenosha Counties Wisconsin written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1879 with Kenosha County (Wis.) categories.
Annual Report To The City Council
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1883
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A Line In The World
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Author : Dorthe Nors
language : en
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Release Date : 2022-11-01
A Line In The World written by Dorthe Nors and has been published by Graywolf Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-01 with Travel categories.
A celebrated Danish writer explores the unsung histories and geographies of her beloved slice of the world. Me, my notebook and my love of the wild and desolate. I wanted to do the opposite of what was expected of me. It’s a recurring pattern in my life. An instinct. Dorthe Nors’s first nonfiction book chronicles a year she spent traveling along the North Sea coast—from Skagen at the northern tip of Denmark to the Frisian Islands in the Wadden Sea. In fourteen expansive essays, Nors traces the history, geography, and culture of the places she visits while reflecting on her childhood and her family and ancestors’ ties to the region as well as her decision to move there from Copenhagen. She writes about the ritual burning of witch effigies on Midsummer’s Eve; the environmental activist who opposed a chemical factory in the 1950s; the quiet fishing villages that surfers transformed into an area known as Cold Hawaii starting in the 1970s. She connects wind turbines to Viking ships, thirteenth-century church frescoes to her mother’s unrealized dreams. She describes strong waves, sand drifts, storm surges, shipwrecks, and other instances of nature asserting its power over human attempts to ignore or control it. Through a deep, personal engagement with this singular landscape, A Line in the World accesses the universal. Its ultimate subjects are civilization, belonging, and change: changes within one person’s life, changes occurring in various communities today, and change as the only constant of life on Earth.