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After the main character is beaten and humiliated in front of his new wife and townsfolk, he sets out to cure himself of cowardice. Along the way he learns his worth and this makes a very good story……続きを見る

Curwood loved the outdoors and is known for his conservation efforts. This adventurous story of a woman in peril begins "It was all new - most of it singularly dramatic and even appalling to the wom……続きを見る

This classic tome belongs on the bookshelf of anyone and everyone with an interest in Great Lakes freighters and vessels and in the origin and functioning of the Great Lakes shipping trade. The mate……続きを見る

Excerpt: "The air was mellow with the warmth of the young spring sun. Locusts whirred in rhapsody. Bluebirds throbbed their love songs joyously. The drone of insects, the shimmer of hear, were in th……続きを見る

Curwood loved the outdoors and is known for his conservation efforts. This is a story about a girl that goes on a journey of adventure weaved with many fateful coincidences. She solves a mystery, ge……続きを見る

Curwood loved the outdoors and is known for his conservation efforts. A novel of love and adventure in a French-Canadian pioneer village on Lake Superior in the 1890s. (Goodreads) 続きを見る

Excerpt: "It was evening, on the promenade deck of an ocean liner. The sea was like glass and the swell hardly perceptible. Land was in sight, a vague uneven line rising mist-like on the horizon. Be……続きを見る

Excerpt: "When one is in the Garden of the Gods one should be, I suppose, in Elysian humor. My mood, to the contrary, for private reasons of my own, was thunderous. I lay on my elbow among the kinni……続きを見る

While on a hunt for a giant grizzly bear, hunter James Langdon discovers a personal revelation. Written by the esteemed author and conservationist James Oliver Curwood, The Grizzly King: A Romance o……続きを見る

Another will written romantic western thriller adventure novella by William MacLeod Raine with lots of will developed interesting characters. The story line is set in Arizona on the Mexican border w……続きを見る

Excerpt: "It was a dismal, sodden morning, with heavy clouds banked in the western sky. Rain had sloshed down since midnight so that the gutter in front of me was a turbid little river. A chill wind……続きを見る

An intimate and revelatory dive into the world of the beaverーthe wonderfully weird rodent that has surprisingly shaped American history and may save its ecological future. From award-winning writer……続きを見る

'A smile can get you far, but a smile with a gun can get you further.' - Al Capone Featured in Vice A man of singular influence in the American underworld, Johnny Rosselli's career flourished for ha……続きを見る

A Times History Book of the Year The voyage of the Mayflower is one of the seminal events in world history. But the story did not end with her arrival on the frozen coast of New England in 1620. In ……続きを見る

'Crisp and witty' Charles Moore, Spectator 'A brilliant survey of the occupants of the Oval Office' Daniel Johnson, Article 'Witty and succinct with splendid caricatures' Tibor Fischer, Critic A spi……続きを見る

Whether you know him as El Amigo, the Banana Man, the Gringo, or simply Z - whether you even know him at all - Sam Zemurray lived one of the greatest untold American stories of the last hundred year……続きを見る

Excerpt: "Nowhere else in the world has such a determined and successful effort been made to carry the mails by airplane as in the United States. Not since the Armistice have aviators in any part of……続きを見る

Excerpt: "During recent years there has been a very happy tendency to change the nature of geographical teaching from a monotonous memorising of the names of natural features to a subject of living ……続きを見る

From Missouri - The story of a young school teacher who comes out West from Missouri, because of a series of letters from a Mr. Owen, who says there is a job there for her. The Riders of the Purple ……続きを見る

In this engaging book, Eric Van Young traces the political, economic, and social development of Mexico through the crucial one hundred years of its remarkable transition from a relatively prosperous……続きを見る

On April 16, 1947, a devastating series of explosions at the docks in Texas City, Texas, killed 576 people, injured more than 3,000, and almost destroyed the soul of an entire town. RISE UP, a novel……続きを見る

A new and unique framework for understanding the history of the foreign policy of the United States. The United States is now nearly 250 years old. It arose from humble beginnings, as a strip of mo……続きを見る

In 1528, Pánfilo de Narváez, a smart and courageous - but reckless - Spanish conquistador, landed near Tampa Bay and took 300 of his men on a quest to find gold. They disappeared. Eight years later,……続きを見る

“This book is a detailed, well-researched history of how a community of Puerto Ricans came to be in the heart if America. Puerto Rico owes a debt of gratitude to the author and should declare Dr. Ta……続きを見る

Between 1861 and 1865, a civil war took place in the United States. Two sides of the country, the North and the Union, fought against and in favor of slavery, but above all, because of their differe……続きを見る

A new and unique framework for understanding the history of the foreign policy of the United States. The United States is now nearly 250 years old. It arose from humble beginnings, as a strip of mo……続きを見る

Exam board: SQA Level: Higher Subject: History First teaching: September 2018 First exam: Summer 2019 Fresh stories, fresh scholarship and a fresh structure. Connecting History informs and empowers ……続きを見る

A new understanding of how the West came to be For over 35 years, the dominant histories of the American West have been narratives of horrific conflicts. Framed in terms of empire building, these hi……続きを見る

Sie verdammen die "MeToo"-Bewegung als bigottes Kunstprodukt aus Hollywood, bezeichnen Schwangerschaftsabbrüche als Mord und verteidigen traditionelle Rollenverteilung als Option echter Freiheit: Ko……続きを見る

Cane is a 1923 novel by noted Harlem Renaissance author Jean Toomer. The novel is structured as a series of vignettes revolving around the origins and experiences of African Americans in the United ……続きを見る