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Tocqueville's Discovery of America by Leo Damrosch
epub |eng | 2019-04-27 | Author:Leo Damrosch

( Category: History & Theory April 15,2020 )
They Went Whistling by Barbara Holland
epub |eng | 2009-04-04 | Author:Barbara Holland

Renegades She was, according to West Virginia State Historian Virgil Lewis, “a maid with fair complexion, hazel eyes, a perfectly developed form, a sweet disposition, a mind strong and vigorous, ...
( Category: Women April 14,2020 )
The Revolution Where You Live by Sarah Van Gelder
epub |eng | 2017-04-14 | Author:Sarah Van Gelder

Entering Whitesburg, Kentucky, you are greeted by these sculptures. Smith ran me through the history of Appalshop. In 1969, during the War on Poverty, the federal Office of Economic Opportunity ...
( Category: Political April 14,2020 )
The Starship and the Canoe by Kenneth Brower
epub |eng | 2020-04-14 | Author:Kenneth Brower

25 The Most Beautiful Thing in the World One evening George was sniffling as he fixed dinner. He set the food out for us and left without eating anything. I ...
( Category: Scientists April 13,2020 )
On the Road by James Naughtie
epub |eng | | Author:James Naughtie [Naughtie, James]

CHAPTER 7 TWO RACES OF A LIFETIME In many places across America, in cities and small towns and hamlets, on planes and trains, in bars and diners, I can hardly ...
( Category: Memoirs April 13,2020 )
Leave Only Footprints by Conor Knighton
epub |eng | 2020-04-07 | Author:Conor Knighton [Knighton, Conor]

14 FORGIVENESS (Dry Tortugas, Petrified Forest) “The setting of a leg is no crime that calls for forgiveness.” On December 22, 1865, Sarah Frances Mudd wrote those words in a ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers April 9,2020 )
Edge of the Map by Johanna Garton
epub |eng | 2020-04-14 | Author:Johanna Garton

DISAPPOINTED MORE BY THE POLITICS than their climbing performance on K2, Chris and Charlie returned to Colorado. Asked about the experience later, Chris said, “I used to feel I had ...
( Category: Mountain Climbing April 7,2020 )
The Devil and Mr. Casement by Jordan Goodman
epub |eng | 2019-01-14 | Author:Jordan Goodman

( Category: Travelers & Explorers April 7,2020 )
True Story of Women Peace Train by litha musyimi-ogana
epub |eng | 2018-08-16 | Author:litha musyimi-ogana

( Category: Travelers & Explorers April 6,2020 )
Dreaming of Elsewhere by Esi Edugyan
epub |eng | | Author:Esi Edugyan [Henry Kreisel Lecture Series]

II This brings me to the kind of belonging with which I have been most concerned recently, that of citizenship. The Oxford English Dictionary defines a citizen as, “an inhabitant, ...
( Category: Canadian April 5,2020 )
Counter Culture: The American Coffee Shop Waitress by Taylor Candacy
epub |eng | 2014-09-26 | Author:Taylor, Candacy [Taylor, Candacy]

Sammi DeAngelis, Seville Diner - East Brunswick, New Jersey 2005 Although some waitresses confessed to trying to outsmart their managers, many respect management and choose to follow the rules. Sammi ...
( Category: Photo Essays April 5,2020 )
Letters 1945-59 by William S. Burroughs
epub |eng | 2012-08-09 | Author:William S. Burroughs [S. Burroughs, William]

To Allen Ginsberg Dec. 30, 1954 [Tangier] Dear Allen, Enclose first chapter of current novel. Reading it over I get an impression of something very sinister just under the surface, ...
( Category: Letters April 5,2020 )
One Foot in Laos by Dervla Murphy
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Dervla Murphy [Murphy, Dervla]

By noon next day I was back in Xam Nua, seeking a bicycle mechanic to overhaul Hare’s increasingly unreliable brakes. The young man who spent half an hour on the ...
( Category: Women in History April 5,2020 )
Old Lady on the Trail- Triple Crown at 76 by Mary E Davison
epub |eng | 2018-10-21 | Author:Mary E Davison [Davison, Mary E]

Once in a Lifetime? The 2011 hike on the AT was a strenuous hike, definitely the most difficult part of the trail, although the entire AT was challenging. I am ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers April 5,2020 )
Why Can't I Use a Smiley Face by Roosh V
epub |eng | 2013-03-07 | Author:Roosh V [V, Roosh]

The Casino I told my dad that I was itching to play some blackjack. We had been to Atlantic City a couple times before many years earlier. He doesn’t go ...
( Category: Memoirs April 4,2020 )

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