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Broadcasting Stations of the World, Vol. 1: According to Country and City (Classic Reprint) (Paperback): Foreign Broadcast... Broadcasting Stations of the World, Vol. 1: According to Country and City (Classic Reprint) (Paperback)
Foreign Broadcast Information Service
R728 Discovery Miles 7 280 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Philately: Patriotic Envelopes (Classic Reprint) (Paperback): Lincoln Financial Foundation Philately: Patriotic Envelopes (Classic Reprint) (Paperback)
Lincoln Financial Foundation
R413 Discovery Miles 4 130 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
C. Hart Merriam Papers Relating to Work With California Indians, 1850-1974: Series E, Ethnographic Information (Classic... C. Hart Merriam Papers Relating to Work With California Indians, 1850-1974: Series E, Ethnographic Information (Classic Reprint) (Paperback)
Clinton Hart Merriam
R572 Discovery Miles 5 720 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
C. Hart Merriam Papers Relating to Work With California Indians, 1850-1974: Indian Welfare (Classic Reprint) (Paperback):... C. Hart Merriam Papers Relating to Work With California Indians, 1850-1974: Indian Welfare (Classic Reprint) (Paperback)
Clinton Hart Merriam
R603 Discovery Miles 6 030 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Politisches Journal Nebst Anzeige Von Gelehrten Und Andern Sachen, Vol. 2: Jahrgang 1807 (Classic Reprint) (Paperback):... Politisches Journal Nebst Anzeige Von Gelehrten Und Andern Sachen, Vol. 2: Jahrgang 1807 (Classic Reprint) (Paperback)
Gesellschaft Von Gelehrten
R679 Discovery Miles 6 790 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Register of the Commissioned and Warrant Offices of the Navy of the Confederate States, to January 1, 1863 (Classic Reprint)... Register of the Commissioned and Warrant Offices of the Navy of the Confederate States, to January 1, 1863 (Classic Reprint) (Paperback)
Confederate States of America Navy
R396 Discovery Miles 3 960 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Latin American News Digest: Nos. 356-378; October 1941 (Classic Reprint) (Paperback): United States Department of Agriculture Latin American News Digest: Nos. 356-378; October 1941 (Classic Reprint) (Paperback)
United States Department of Agriculture
R412 Discovery Miles 4 120 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Abraham Lincoln's Cabinet: William Seward; Excerpts From Newspapers and Other Sources (Classic Reprint) (Hardcover):... Abraham Lincoln's Cabinet: William Seward; Excerpts From Newspapers and Other Sources (Classic Reprint) (Hardcover)
Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
R666 R585 Discovery Miles 5 850 Save R81 (12%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Redwood City (Paperback): Reg McGovern, Janet McGovern, Betty S. Veronico, Nicholas A. Veronico Redwood City (Paperback)
Reg McGovern, Janet McGovern, Betty S. Veronico, Nicholas A. Veronico
R609 R552 Discovery Miles 5 520 Save R57 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Redwood Cityas slogan, aClimate Best By Government Test, a describes the fair weather at San Mateo Countyas seat, which was established in 1851 as the bayside terminus for the peninsulaas lumber industry. Wharfs located along Redwood Creek formed the basis of the townas commercial district, and in the 20th century, the cityas port expanded with new industries, such as the Pacific-Portland Cement Company, the Morgan Oyster Company, and Leslie Salt. Meanwhile, Redwood Cityas downtown area hosted many civic events, numerous theaters, and the regionas largest retail district. In the 1950s, the city grew along Woodside Road and, soon thereafter, when Redwood Shores was added to its boundaries, expanded north. Today Redwood City has come full circle with a revitalized downtown and a beautifully restored courthouse square.

Cascade Locks and Canal (Paperback): Friends of the Cascade Locks Historical Museum Cascade Locks and Canal (Paperback)
Friends of the Cascade Locks Historical Museum
R601 R549 Discovery Miles 5 490 Save R52 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Mosquito Fleet of South Puget Sound (Paperback): Jean Findlay, Robin Paterson Mosquito Fleet of South Puget Sound (Paperback)
Jean Findlay, Robin Paterson
R609 R552 Discovery Miles 5 520 Save R57 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Before the advent of roads in western Washington, steamboats of the Mosquito Fleet swarmed all over Puget Sound. Sidewheelers, stern-wheelers, and propeller-driven, they ranged from the tiny 40-foot Marie to the huge 282-foot Yosemite, and from the famous Flyer to the unknown Leota. Floating stores like the Vaughn and shrimpers like the Violet sailed the same waters as the elegant Great Lakes lady, the Chippewa, and the homely Willie. A few, like the Bob Irving and Blue Star, died spectacularly or, like Major Tompkins, shipwrecked after a short time, while others began new lives as tugboats or auto ferries; some even survive today as excursion boats like the Virginia V. From 1853 to modern car ferries in the 1920s, this volume chronicles the heyday of steamboating--a unique segment of maritime history--from modest launch to sleek liner.

Virginia in the Civil War (Paperback): Joseph A D'Arezzo Virginia in the Civil War (Paperback)
Joseph A D'Arezzo
R609 R552 Discovery Miles 5 520 Save R57 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Cemeteries of Seattle (Paperback): Robin Shannon Cemeteries of Seattle (Paperback)
Robin Shannon
R610 R553 Discovery Miles 5 530 Save R57 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A fascinating story exists just below Seattles surface, buried in the citys many historic cemeteries. Founded in 1872 on land acquired from Doc Maynard, Lake View Cemetery holds the remains of one of Seattles favorite sons, Bruce Lee, whose son Brandon Lee is buried beside him. Maynard is also buried here, along with most of the Seattle pioneers, including the Dennys, Borens, Maynards, Yeslers, and Morans. Princess Angeline, Chief Sealths daughter, was buried here in a canoe-shaped coffin, and Madame Damnables remains supposedly turned to stone. Evergreen-Washelli Cemetery, founded in 1884 by the Denny family, contains Judge Thomas Burke, known as the man who built Seattle; a Veterans Memorial Cemetery dating from the Civil War; and two cannons from the USS Constitution, famously nicknamed Old Ironsides. Mount Pleasant Cemetery, founded in 1883 in Queen Anne, is the final resting place of the labor martyrs of the Everett Massacre and William Bell, of Belltown fame. Remembrance benches for Nirvanas Kurt Cobain and Jimi Hendrixs memorial are also local landmarks.

Snoqualmie Pass (Paperback): John Kinnick, Chery Kinnick Snoqualmie Pass (Paperback)
John Kinnick, Chery Kinnick
R611 R554 Discovery Miles 5 540 Save R57 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Situated in the Cascades about 50 miles east of Seattle, Snoqualmie Pass is intersected by the most heavily used route connecting eastern and western Washington. In the 1800s, use of the old Native American trail by explorers, cattlemen, and miners created a need for a wagon road. A railway and highway followed, and Snoqualmie Pass quickly developed into an all-season recreational paradise with over a half million visitors annually. Known for easy access to snow sports and the Alpine Lakes Wilderness area, nighttime ski operations, and the world-famous terrain of Alpental, Snoqualmie Pass is also a community of neighborhoods with both full-time and part-time residents who share a unique mountain lifestyle.

Hood Canal (Paperback): Michael Fredson Hood Canal (Paperback)
Michael Fredson
R610 R553 Discovery Miles 5 530 Save R57 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Fjord-like Hood Canal channels beneath the snowcapped Olympic National Park, creating a summer paradise of warm days and inspiring scenery as well as a haven for marine life and watercraft. For eons, Twana Indians crisscrossed in canoes that sliced through water like salmon. The canals first tourist, Captain Vancouver, sailed a launch down the scenic route in 1792. For the next century, a mosquito fleet of tugboats, stern-wheelers, fishing boats, and barges ferried the men who came for logging or land. By 1889, lumberman and legislator John McReavy promoted Union City as Venice of
the Pacific. In the 20th century, canal use shifted from logging to recreation as wealthy Easterners, San Francisco expatriates, and artists founded hunting lodges, fishing resorts, and even an artist colony. The Navy Yard Highway introduced automobile tourism, and new resorts, including Alderbrook, soon dotted the shoreline. After World War II, families bought summer homes and ski boats. Now, in the 21st
century, kayaks and personal watercraft skim across the waters, and the canal is more popular than ever.

The Key Peninsula (Paperback): Colleen A. Slater The Key Peninsula (Paperback)
Colleen A. Slater
R609 R552 Discovery Miles 5 520 Save R57 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Key Peninsula is a scenic finger of land that stretches south between Case and Carr Inlets in Washington State. Few people lived there before 1850, although Native Americans fished and hunted from temporary villages. Several communities, each with a unique history, took root near the various bays and inlets of the peninsula, and by the 1890s, many areas bustled with schools, post offices, mills, churches, and stores. Logging, orchards, and chicken farms supported these early pioneers. Cut off from the mainland, the waters of Puget Sound provided transportation. The famous Mosquito Fleet carried products such as fruit, seafood, chickens, eggs, and butter to Olympia, Tacoma, and Seattle until the advent of the ferries and, later, the bridges. Many of today's "oldtimers" are just two or three generations distant from the original hardy settlers, but the area's residents are proud of the heritage of this unique place they call home.

Hidden History of East Texas (Paperback): Tex Midkiff Hidden History of East Texas (Paperback)
Tex Midkiff
R544 R503 Discovery Miles 5 030 Save R41 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Ferries of Puget Sound (Paperback): Steven J Pickens Ferries of Puget Sound (Paperback)
Steven J Pickens
R610 R553 Discovery Miles 5 530 Save R57 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Ferryboats have been a way of life on Puget Sound since settlers first arrived there. From the wooden Mosquito Fleet to the sleek art deco Kalakala, the ferries of Puget Sound serve as a cultural icon to visitors and locals alike. Running from Point Defiance to Sidney, British Columbia, the Washington State ferry system is the single largest tourist attraction in the state, with 28 routes and 23 million riders annually. Names like Vashon, Kalakala, and Chetzemoka still resonate with fondness and nostalgia long after they have gone, while ships built the year Lindberg flew solo across the Atlantic will soon be pensioned off and pass into the "Ghost Fleet." In this volume, travelers are invited to look back to the past and bid Puget Sound's "ancient mariners" a fond farewell.

Catholics in Washington D.C. (Paperback): Christina Cox Catholics in Washington D.C. (Paperback)
Christina Cox
R609 R552 Discovery Miles 5 520 Save R57 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Coralville (Paperback): Timothy Walch Coralville (Paperback)
Timothy Walch
R608 R552 Discovery Miles 5 520 Save R56 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Taos Pueblo & Its Sacred Blue Lake (Hardcover, Anniversary): Marcia Keegan Taos Pueblo & Its Sacred Blue Lake (Hardcover, Anniversary)
Marcia Keegan; Foreword by Stewart L. Udall, Frank Waters
R707 R599 Discovery Miles 5 990 Save R108 (15%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In the mountains of northern New Mexico above Taos Pueblo lies a deep, turquoise lake which was taken away from the Taos Indians, for whom it is a sacred life source and the final resting place of their souls. The story of their struggle to regain the lake is at the same time a story about the effort to retain the spiritual life of this ancient community. Marcia Keegan's text and historic photographs document the celebration in 1971, when the sacred lake was returned to Taos Pueblo after a sixty year struggle with the Federal government.

This revised and expanded edition celebrates the 40th anniversary of this historic event, and includes forwards from the 1971 edition by Frank Waters, and from the 1991 20th anniversary edition by Stewart L. Udall. Also contained here is new material: statements from past and current tribal leaders, reflections from Pueblo members, historic tribal statements made at the 1970 Congressional hearings and a 1971 photograph o

Remarkable Women of Hartford (Paperback): Cynthia Wolfe Boynton Remarkable Women of Hartford (Paperback)
Cynthia Wolfe Boynton; Foreword by Geena Clonan
R539 R499 Discovery Miles 4 990 Save R40 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Connecticut's capital has served as home to some of the most influential women in the state's history, but few know the stories of their lives and accomplishments. Nineteenth-century abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin became a catalyst for the Civil War. Ella Grasso was the first woman elected governor in the United States. Hannah Bunce Watson, publisher of the Hartford Courant, never skipped a single edition during the Revolutionary War. Through these and many more inspiring profiles, author and journalist Cynthia Wolfe Boynton chronicles the struggles and triumphs of some of Hartford's most remarkable women.

His Very Best - Jimmy Carter, a Life (Paperback): Jonathan Alter His Very Best - Jimmy Carter, a Life (Paperback)
Jonathan Alter
R646 R606 Discovery Miles 6 060 Save R40 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

From one of America's most respected journalists and modern historians comes the highly acclaimed, "splendid" (The Washington Post) biography of Jimmy Carter, the thirty-ninth president of the United States and Nobel Prize-winning humanitarian. Jonathan Alter tells the epic story of an enigmatic man of faith and his improbable journey from barefoot boy to global icon. Alter paints an intimate and surprising portrait of the only president since Thomas Jefferson who can fairly be called a Renaissance Man, a complex figure-ridiculed and later revered-with a piercing intelligence, prickly intensity, and biting wit beneath the patented smile. Here is a moral exemplar for our times, a flawed but underrated president of decency and vision who was committed to telling the truth to the American people. Growing up in one of the meanest counties in the Jim Crow South, Carter is the only American president who essentially lived in three centuries: his early life on the farm in the 1920s without electricity or running water might as well have been in the nineteenth; his presidency put him at the center of major events in the twentieth; and his efforts on conflict resolution and global health set him on the cutting edge of the challenges of the twenty-first. "One of the best in a celebrated genre of presidential biography," (The Washington Post), His Very Best traces how Carter evolved from a timid, bookish child-raised mostly by a Black woman farmhand-into an ambitious naval nuclear engineer writing passionate, never-before-published love letters from sea to his wife and full partner, Rosalynn; a peanut farmer and civic leader whose guilt over staying silent during the civil rights movement and not confronting the white terrorism around him helped power his quest for racial justice at home and abroad; an obscure, born-again governor whose brilliant 1976 campaign demolished the racist wing of the Democratic Party and took him from zero percent to the presidency; a stubborn outsider who failed politically amid the bad economy of the 1970s and the seizure of American hostages in Iran but succeeded in engineering peace between Israel and Egypt, amassing a historic environmental record, moving the government from tokenism to diversity, setting a new global standard for human rights and normalizing relations with China among other unheralded and far-sighted achievements. After leaving office, Carter eradicated diseases, built houses for the poor, and taught Sunday school into his mid-nineties. This "important, fair-minded, highly readable contribution" (The New York Times Book Review) will change our understanding of perhaps the most misunderstood president in American history.

Wrestling in Akron (Paperback): Dale Pierce Wrestling in Akron (Paperback)
Dale Pierce
R608 R552 Discovery Miles 5 520 Save R56 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

From the time it was founded in 1825, Akron was a town on the move. Once known as the "Rubber Capitol of the World," it brought droves of new workers to downtown and the suburban areas. With expansion came a need for entertainment, and wrestling was there for the multitudes. From the contrast of high school amateurs on mats to snarling villains and heroes in the professional ring, the sport thrived. There were the early days of traveling carnivals, with circuit-riding wrestlers who would take on all comers from the audience, to secretive fights set by shifty promoters in railroad yards with onlookers placing bets. There were the glory days of the Akron Armory--offering the crowd a chance to see such luminaries as the cigar-chewing Killer Tim Brooks, the smiling Johnny Powers, or the devious Don Kent--and beyond after the famed arena closed.

Hotel Du Pont (Paperback): Joanna L. Arat Hotel Du Pont (Paperback)
Joanna L. Arat
R609 R552 Discovery Miles 5 520 Save R57 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Over the course of 100 years, the prestigious Hotel du Pont has welcomed future and former presidents, first ladies, world leaders, Nobel Prize recipients, royalty, music maestros, sports legends, and stars of stage and screen--earning its reputation as the premier hotel in the state of Delaware. The Green Room, one of the most elegant hotel dining rooms in the country, features traditional French cuisine. The Gold Ballroom and other ornate European-inspired rooms provide luxurious venues for public and private events. A nationally recognized art collection showcasing original paintings by Andrew Wyeth adorns the Christina Room's walls. A state-of-the-art conference center and a 1,250-seat theater add to amenities that make the Hotel du Pont a first-choice destination for business and social events. Often labeled the front door of DuPont, the hotel is strategically located in the company's world headquarters.

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