The Right Hand Shore
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The Right Hand Shore
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Author : Christopher Tilghman
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 2012-04-24
The Right Hand Shore written by Christopher Tilghman and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-24 with Fiction categories.
A masterful novel that confronts the dilemmas of race, family, and forbidden love in the wake of America's Civil War Fifteen years after the publication of his acclaimed novel Mason's Retreat, Christopher Tilghman returns to the Mason family and the Chesapeake Bay in The Right-Hand Shore. It is 1920, and Edward Mason is making a call upon Miss Mary Bayly, the current owner of the legendary Mason family estate, the Retreat. Miss Mary is dying. She plans to give the Retreat to the closest direct descendant of the original immigrant owner that she can find. Edward believes he can charm the old lady, secure the estate and be back in Baltimore by lunchtime. Instead, over the course of a long day, he hears the stories that will forever bind him and his family to the land. He hears of Miss Mary's grandfather brutally selling all his slaves in 1857 in order to avoid the reprisals he believes will come with Emancipation. He hears of the doomed efforts by Wyatt Bayly, Miss Mary's father, to turn the Retreat into a vast peach orchard, and of Miss Mary and her brother growing up in a fractured and warring household. He learns of Abel Terrell, son of free blacks who becomes head orchardist, and whose family becomes intimately connected to the Baylys and to the Mason legacy. The drama in this richly textured novel proceeds through vivid set pieces: on rural nineteenth-century industry; on a boyhood on the Eastern Shore of Maryland; on the unbreakable divisions of race and class; and, finally, on two families attempting to save a son and a daughter from the dangers of their own innocent love. The result is a radiant work of deep insight and peerless imagination about the central dilemma of American history. The Right-Hand Shore is a New York Times Notable Book of 2012.
The Navigator
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Author : Zadok Cramer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1821
The Navigator written by Zadok Cramer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1821 with Allegheny River (Pa. and N.Y.) categories.
Annual Report Of The Secretary Of War
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Author : United States. War Department
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1900
Annual Report Of The Secretary Of War written by United States. War Department and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1900 with categories.
Circulation In The Coastal Ocean
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Author : G.T. Csanady
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 1982-09-30
Circulation In The Coastal Ocean written by G.T. Csanady and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982-09-30 with Science categories.
For some time there has existed an extensive theoretical literature relating to tides on continental shelves and also to the behavior of estuaries. Much less attention was traditionally paid to the dynamics of longer term, larger scale motions (those which are usually described as circulation') over continental shelves or in enclosed shallow seas such as the North American Great Lakes. This is no longer the case: spurred on by other disciplines, notably biological oceanography, and by public concern with the environment, the physical science of the coastal ocean has made giant strides during the last two decades or so. Today, it is probably fair to say that coastal ocean physics has come of age as a deduc tive quantitative science. A well developed body of theoretical models exist, based on the equations of fluid motion, which have been related to observed currents, sea level variations, water properties, etc. Quantitative parameters required in using the models to predict e.g. the effects of wind or of freshwater influx on coastal currents can be estimated within reasonable bounds of error. While much remains to be learned, and many exciting discoveries presumably await us in the future, the time seems appropriate to summarize those aspects of coastal ocean dynamics relevant to 'circulation' or long term motion.
On The Tobacco Coast
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Author : Christopher Tilghman
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 2024-04-16
On The Tobacco Coast written by Christopher Tilghman and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-04-16 with Fiction categories.
The culmination of Christopher Tilghman's great Chesapeake saga, a story spanning four centuries of an American family. It is the Fourth of July 2019, and the Mason family is gathering at their historic Chesapeake farm, Mason’s Retreat. It isn’t everyone’s favorite party, but Harry Mason has once again goaded his wife, Kate, and their children into hosting a celebratory dinner. Their oldest, Rosalie, is having trouble with her marriage; the youngest, Ethan, is in the throes of a fitful first relationship. In between, Eleanor despairs over her stalled novel, a fictionalized memoir of the wife of the first Mason settler who landed there in 1659. Kate, recovering from a second round of chemotherapy, is at the center of this ritual of remembrance. Tart and candid, she asks her husband, “What crime against humanity did your family not commit on that land?” And so it is more or less inevitable that when the clan, joined by a cast of neighbors and cousins from France, sits down for dinner, the question of how they should think and feel about their past comes to the fore. Told with irony and deep insight, On the Tobacco Coast is Christopher Tilghman’s concluding meditation on the themes of his novels about this ancestral monument: the pride and shame in its long history, the persistence of family stories, race and privilege, the enigmas and customs of regions. It is a reflects on the state of America today, with its battles with its own history and efforts to reckon with the wrongs of the past while looking forward to an uncertain, more just future.
Crofutt S New Overland Tourist And Pacific Coast Guide
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Author : George A. Crofutt
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1880
Crofutt S New Overland Tourist And Pacific Coast Guide written by George A. Crofutt and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1880 with Pacific States categories.
Mason S Retreat
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Author : Christopher Tilghman
language : en
Publisher: Picador USA
Release Date : 2012-04-24
Mason S Retreat written by Christopher Tilghman and has been published by Picador USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-24 with Fiction categories.
The Mason family returns to America from England where they try to recoup their economic losses by moving to Edward Mason's ancestral home in Maryland where he plans to take up farming.
Report Of The Chief Of Engineers
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Author : United States. Army. Corps of Engineers
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1893
Report Of The Chief Of Engineers written by United States. Army. Corps of Engineers and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1893 with Harbors categories.
Roads Of The Heart
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Author : Christopher Tilghman
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2004-07-13
Roads Of The Heart written by Christopher Tilghman and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-07-13 with Fiction categories.
With the deep emotion and insight of “a true storyteller” (Richard Eder, Los Angeles Times), Christopher Tilghman, the author of the acclaimed Mason’s Retreat and In a Father’s Place, has written a powerful new novel of men and women, fathers and families. Eric Alwin has gone to visit his elderly father, a once commanding and charismatic Maryland senator who has seen his public service soured–and his family broken–by a sex scandal. Realizing that his own unfaithfulness, his disaffection with his career and marriage, seem to be a continuation of a family pattern, Eric is astonished to find his father proposing a bold expedition. The ensuing trip through the Deep South and the American heartland becomes both a journey into the emotional truth of the Alwin family and a breakthrough into a new kind of resilience and understanding, and love. Along the way, Eric will know anew not only his mother, Audrey, but his sisters, Alice and Poppy, and his own wife and son. As he discovers the surprising secret behind the scandal that defined his father’s fate, he will also realize what he must do to shape a more authentic and coherent life for himself. Christopher Tilghman’s Roads of the Heart is a brilliant achievement by an author who, grappling with the strains and discords of contemporary American culture, achieves a special understanding of how family members love and lose and find one another every day.
Thomas And Beal In The Midi
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Author : Christopher Tilghman
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 2019-04-16
Thomas And Beal In The Midi written by Christopher Tilghman and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-16 with Fiction categories.
A young interracial couple escapes from Maryland to France in 1892, living first among artists in the vibrant Latin Quarter of Paris, and then beginning a new life as winemakers in the rugged countryside of the Languedoc Twenty-three years after the publication of his acclaimed novel Mason’s Retreat and six years after The Right-Hand Shore, Christopher Tilghman returns to the saga of the Mason and Bayly families in Thomas and Beal in the Midi. Thomas Bayly and his wife, Beal, have run away to France, escaping the laws and prejudices of post-Reconstruction America. The drama in this richly textured novel proceeds in two settings: first in Paris, and then in the Languedoc, where Thomas and Beal begin a new life as winemakers. Beal, indelible, beautiful, and poised, enchants everyone she meets in this strange new land, including a gaggle of artists in the Latin Quarter when they first arrive in Paris. Later, when they’ve moved to the beautiful and rugged Languedoc, she is torn between the freedoms she experienced in Paris and the return to the farm life she thought she had left behind in America. A moving and delicate portrait of a highly unusual marriage, Thomas and Beal in the Midi is a radiant work of deep insight and peerless imagination about the central dilemma of American history—the legacy of slavery and the Civil War—that explores the many ways that the past has an enduring hold over the present.