The Mammoth Book Of The West
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The Mammoth Book Of The West
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Author : Jon E. Lewis
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2012-03-01
The Mammoth Book Of The West written by Jon E. Lewis and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-01 with History categories.
Revised and expanded edition of Jon E. Lewis's ever-popular account of the American West. The book is at once a history and a compendium of western lore. It tells what life on the frontier was really like and gives a human portrait of the tough and sometimes violent way of life experienced by the early pioneers. The gunfighters and the cowboys, women, Indians and others, all have their part to play - and as well as the historical accounts there are intriguing anecdotes of everyday life on the plains, from how Montana cowboys warmed up their horses' bits, to the words of the Navajo medicine chants.
The Mammoth Book Of The West
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Author : Jon E. Lewis
language : en
Publisher: Constable
Release Date : 1996-01-01
The Mammoth Book Of The West written by Jon E. Lewis and has been published by Constable this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-01-01 with Frontier and pioneer life categories.
This work tells how the American West was formed and finally tamed. It depicts the pioneers, the cattle barons, the coming of the lawmen and the demise of the Plains Indians. It includes accounts of Western lore, from how Montana cowboys warmed their horses' bits to the Navaho medicine chants.
Mammoth Book Of The West
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Author : Jon E. Lewis
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999-01-01
Mammoth Book Of The West written by Jon E. Lewis and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-01-01 with Frontier and pioneer life categories.
The Mammoth Book Of The West
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Author : Jon E. Lewis
language : en
Publisher: Running Press
Release Date : 2001-07-08
The Mammoth Book Of The West written by Jon E. Lewis and has been published by Running Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-07-08 with History categories.
The lore and the legends, the lawmen and the bad men, the rise of the cattle barons and the tragic demise of the Plains Indians, the pioneers and the forty-niners, Little Big Horn and the Alamo, Calamity Jane and Crazy Horse -- from the Alleghenies to the Rockies the events that shaped the West and the people who tamed it are featured in this vivid anecdotal history, which draws upon firsthand testimony and contemporary documents to provide a compelling and comprehensive account of a land as it became a nation.
The Mammoth Book Of The Western
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Author : Jon E. Lewis
language : en
Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub
Release Date : 1991
The Mammoth Book Of The Western written by Jon E. Lewis and has been published by Carroll & Graf Pub this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Fiction categories.
A collection of western tales by such authors as Elmer Kelton, Max Brand, Zane Grey, Thomas Thompson, and Stephen Crane
The Mammoth Book Of Muhammad Ali
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Author : David West
language : en
Publisher: Robinson
Release Date : 2012-01-19
The Mammoth Book Of Muhammad Ali written by David West and has been published by Robinson this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-19 with Sports & Recreation categories.
From his gold medal at the 1960 Olympic Games to his defeat of Sonny Liston to claim the world heavyweight championship in 1964, the unforgettable 'Thrilla in Manila' against Joe Frazier and the 'Rumble in the Jungle' against George Foreman, 'The Greatest of All Time', Muhammad Ali, has captured the attention of the world. His conversion to Islam, his refusal to serve in the in the Vietnam War ('I ain't got no quarrel with them Vietcong') and his speaking tours in the 1960s have all contributed to his status as one of the most revered sporting figures ever. Here, drawn from books, specialist periodicals, newspapers, college magazines (covering his speaking tours) and the work of major literary figures such as Thomas Hauser is the biggest and best collection ever of writing on 'The Greatest'.
The Mammoth Book Of Westerns
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Author : Jon E. Lewis
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2013-07-04
The Mammoth Book Of Westerns written by Jon E. Lewis and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-04 with Fiction categories.
The Western, though a singularly American art form, is one of the great genres of world literature with a truly global readership. It is also durable despite being often unfairly maligned. Ever since James Fenimore Cooper transformed frontier yarns into a distinct literary form, the Western has followed two paths: one populist - what Time magazine famously billed 'the American Morality Play' - capable of taking many points of view, from red to redneck, but always populist, with a sentimental attachment to the misfit; the other literary - eschewing heroism, debunking with unsettling candour many of the myths of the West. It can sometimes be difficult to draw a sure line between the two forms, but both are represented in this outstanding collection which includes stories by Rick Bass, Walter Van Tilburg Clark, Larry McMurtry, Mari Sandoz, Christopher Tilghman, and Mark Twain, among many others.
The Mammoth Book Of Alternate Histories
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Author : Ian Watson
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2010-02-25
The Mammoth Book Of Alternate Histories written by Ian Watson and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-02-25 with Fiction categories.
Every short story in this wonderfully varied collection has one thing in common: each features some alteration in history, some divergence from historical reality, which results in a world very different from the one we know today. As well as original stories specially commissioned from bestselling writers such as James Morrow, Stephen Baxter and Ken MacLeod, there are genre classics such as Kim Stanley Robinson's story of how World War II atomic bomber the Enola Gay, having crashed on a training flight, is replaced by the Lucky Strike with profoundly different consequences. Praise for the editors: 'Mr Watson wreaks havoc with what is accepted - and acceptable.' The Times 'One of Britain's consistently finest science fiction writers.' New Scientist
The Mammoth Book Of Body Horror
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Author : Marie O'Regan
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2012-03-01
The Mammoth Book Of Body Horror written by Marie O'Regan and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-01 with Fiction categories.
A gripping collection which offers for the first time a chronological overview of the popular contemporary sub-genre of body horror, from Edgar Allan Poe to Christopher Fowler, with contributions from leading horror writers, including Stephen King, George Langelaan and Neil Gaiman. The collection includes the stories behind seminal body horror movies, John Carpenter's The Thing, David Cronenberg's The Fly and Stuart Gordon's Re-Animator.
The Mammoth Book Of Time Travel Romance
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Author : Trisha Telep
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2009-10-29
The Mammoth Book Of Time Travel Romance written by Trisha Telep and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-29 with Fiction categories.
Time travel romance is not the same thing as sci-fi romance, though some stories may be set in an imagined future; it is romantic fiction set in various different eras, usually from around the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. A woman may fall asleep in Central Park in the present to wake up in the arms of a Scottish laird in the sixteenth century. The Mammoth Book of Time Travel Romance contains 25 stories of adventure and love; settings include medieval Scotland, sixteenth-century England, the nineteenth-century 'Wild West'. Some stories are set in the present and a few in the future. Stories include an Elizabethan nobleman whisked into the present day, a troubled young woman who lands in the sixteenth century able to break a curse of lost love. Includes stories from: Nina Bangs, Jude Deveraux, Sandra Hill, Linda Howard, Lynn Kurland, Karen Marie Moning, and many more.