Storied City
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The Storied City
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Author : Charlie English
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2017-05-02
The Storied City written by Charlie English and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-02 with History categories.
“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.
Storied City
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Author : Leonard S. Marcus
language : en
Publisher: Dutton Juvenile
Release Date : 2003
Storied City written by Leonard S. Marcus and has been published by Dutton Juvenile this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Children categories.
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.
Storied City
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Author : Leonard S. Marcus
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Storied City written by Leonard S. Marcus and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Children categories.
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.
The Sightseers
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Author : Robert Westfield
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-05-25
The Sightseers written by Robert Westfield and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-25 with categories.
"They come at you at five hundred miles per hour. That's how it starts..." Near the end of a long spring tourist season, an exhausted Jack Cort meets his next group for four jam-packed days in the Big Apple. Hoping this "combo" of visitors from Seattle and rural Georgia will be like any other, he watches with panic as the trip rapidly spins out of control. From hostility in Little Italy and a miscommunication at Grand Central to a disturbing discovery in Times Square and physical blows in a downtown cemetery, Jack will come to learn that the baggage these people brought from home wasn't limited to what they packed. From the award-winning author of Suspension, comes a wholly original comic novel. Join these 35 sightseers on the bustling sidewalks of New York City as they try their best to meet the challenge of our modern world-interacting constantly, and much too quickly, with people they only partially understand.
The Book Smugglers Of Timbuktu The Quest For This Storied City And The Race To Save Its Treasures
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Author : Charlie English
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Release Date : 2017-05-04
The Book Smugglers Of Timbuktu The Quest For This Storied City And The Race To Save Its Treasures written by Charlie English and has been published by HarperCollins UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-04 with History categories.
‘An exemplary work of investigative journalism that is also a wonderfully colourful book of history and travel’ Observer, Books of the Year ‘A piece of postmodern historiography of quite extraordinary sophistication and ingenuity... [written with] exceptional delicacy and restraint’ TLS
Intersecting Diasporas
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Author : Suzanne Manizza Roszak
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2021-01-01
Intersecting Diasporas written by Suzanne Manizza Roszak and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
Intersecting Diasporas examines literary expressions of allyship between Italian America and other diasporic communities in modern and contemporary US fiction. Rewriting the Anglo-American genre of the "Italian novel," authors like James Baldwin, Bernard Malamud, Carolina De Robertis, and Chang-rae Lee have disrupted misconceptions of Italian and Italian American identity while confronting Italians' own complicity with white racism. Likewise, Italian American authors from John Fante to Tina De Rosa have written in solidarity with Black, Chicanx, Filipinx, Jewish, Romani, and Irish diasporic communities on US shores, unsettling stereotypes and dissecting Italian America's history of flawed allyship across diasporas. Suzanne Manizza Roszak traces these gestures of literary solidarity; considers how they relate to the writers' critiques of toxic masculinity, antiqueerness, and socioeconomic injustice; and proposes interdiasporic allyship as a practice of reconciliation and healing.
The City Of The Living
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Author : Wallace Earle Stegner
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1969
The City Of The Living written by Wallace Earle Stegner and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969 with categories.
Apartment Stories
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Author : Sharon Marcus
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2023-11-10
Apartment Stories written by Sharon Marcus and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-10 with History categories.
In urban studies, the nineteenth century is the "age of great cities." In feminist studies, it is the era of the separate domestic sphere. But what of the city's homes? In the course of answering this question, Apartment Stories provides a singular and radically new framework for understanding the urban and the domestic. Turning to an element of the cityscape that is thoroughly familiar yet frequently overlooked, Sharon Marcus argues that the apartment house embodied the intersections of city and home, public and private, and masculine and feminine spheres. Moving deftly from novels to architectural treatises, legal debates, and popular urban observation, Marcus compares the representation of the apartment house in Paris and London. Along the way, she excavates the urban ghost tales that encoded Londoners' ambivalence about city dwellings; contends that Haussmannization enclosed Paris in a new regime of privacy; and locates a female counterpart to the flâneur and the omniscient realist narrator—the portière who supervised the apartment building.
A History Of The Four Georges And Of William Iv
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Author : Justin McCarthy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1885
A History Of The Four Georges And Of William Iv written by Justin McCarthy and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1885 with categories.
A History Of The Four Georges And Of William Iv By J And J H Mccarthy
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Author : Justin McCarthy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1884
A History Of The Four Georges And Of William Iv By J And J H Mccarthy written by Justin McCarthy and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1884 with categories.