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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.

Caribbean Americans in New York City - 1895-1975 (Paperback): F Donnie Forde Caribbean Americans in New York City - 1895-1975 (Paperback)
F Donnie Forde
R605 R548 Discovery Miles 5 480 Save R57 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Caribbean Americans have been immigrating to the United States as freed persons since the end of the Civil War. However, it was not until the beginning of the twentieth century that they began to arrive en masse, settling mostly in the large cities along the Atlantic seaboard. With its reputation for racial tolerance and its reservoir of employment opportunities, New York City became a principal beneficiary of this immigrant influx. Caribbean Americans in New York City: 1895-1975 begins with the immigrants' arrival in the Big Apple and continues to record the story of how they designed their new lives. As is usually the case with any large-scale immigrant settlement, there inevitably developed prejudices and discriminatory practices against Caribbean Americans. This brought to the forefront some of the most gifted and articulate orators, such as Richard B. Moore and Hubert Harrison, and journalists, such as W.A. Domingo and J.A. Rogers. In general, however, the city provided prosperity, a sense of community, and a better way of life, and the stunning images contained in this book also include those of success stories Bob Marley, Colin Powell, Hugh Mulzac-the first black captain of an American ship-and Geoffrey Holder, who appeared on television for years in popular 7-Up commercials.

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.

The British Are Coming - The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777 (Paperback): Rick Atkinson The British Are Coming - The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777 (Paperback)
Rick Atkinson
R558 R528 Discovery Miles 5 280 Save R30 (5%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Chicago's Gold Coast (Paperback): Wilbert Jones Chicago's Gold Coast (Paperback)
Wilbert Jones; Photographs by Bob Dowey
R510 R419 Discovery Miles 4 190 Save R91 (18%) Out of stock

What was once described as an undesirable swampland has been transformed into one of the most beautiful and wealthiest neighborhoods in America. Chicago's Gold Coast neighborhood, developed in the late 1800s, was first called the Astor Street District. It was named after one of the first multimillionaires in the United States, John Jacob Astor--even though Astor never lived in Chicago. In 1885, Astor Street District's first mansion was built. Potter Palmer, a dry goods merchant and owner of the Palmer House Hotel, built his palatial, castle-like residence on the corner of Lake Shore Drive and Banks Street; inside the Palmer mansion were 42 lavishly furnished rooms, which required 26 servants to maintain. Many wealthy Chicagoans followed Palmer's lead and built mansions in the neighborhood. Several homes took up an entire city block and, as time progressed, the name Gold Coast was adopted. On January 30, 1978, the entire Gold Coast district was listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

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.

Captive of the Labyrinth - Sarah L. Winchester, Heiress to the Rifle Fortune (Paperback, Revised and Updated Edition): Mary Jo... Captive of the Labyrinth - Sarah L. Winchester, Heiress to the Rifle Fortune (Paperback, Revised and Updated Edition)
Mary Jo Ignoffo
R709 R636 Discovery Miles 6 360 Save R73 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Captive of the Labyrinth is reissued here to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the death of rifle heiress Sarah L. Winchester in 1922. After inheriting a vast fortune upon the death of her husband in 1881, Winchester purchased a simple farmhouse in San JosE, California. She built additions to the house and continued construction for the next twenty years. When neighbors and the local press could not imagine her motivations, they invented fanciful ones of their own. She was accused of being a ghost-obsessed spiritualist, and to this day it is largely believed that the extensive construction she executed on her San JosE house was done to thwart death and appease the spirits of those killed by the Winchester rifle. Author and historian Mary Jo Ignoffo's definitive biography unearths the truth about this reclusive eccentric, revealing that she was not a maddened spiritualist driven by remorse but an intelligent, articulate woman who sought to protect her private life amidst the chaos of her public existence and the social mores of the time. The author takes readers through Winchester's several homes, explores her private life, and, by excerpting from personal correspondence, one learns the widow's true priority was not dissipating her fortune on the mansion in San JosE but endowing a hospital to eradicate a dread disease. Sarah Winchester has been exploited for profit for over a century, but Captive of the Labyrinth finally puts to rest the myths about this American heiress, and, in the process, uncovers her true legacies.

Darien and McIntosh County (Paperback, 1st ed): Buddy Sullivan Darien and McIntosh County (Paperback, 1st ed)
Buddy Sullivan
R464 R406 Discovery Miles 4 060 Save R58 (13%) Out of stock

From 1870 to 1920, McIntosh County, Georgia, was one of the most energetic communities on the southern coast. Its county seat, Darien, never had a population of more than 2,000 residents; yet, little Darien was, for a considerable time, the leading exporter of yellow pitch pine timber on the
Atlantic Coast. Burned to ashes during the Civil War, Darien
rose up and, with its timber booms and sawmills, took its place among the leading towns of the "New South" of the late nineteenth century. In this unique photographic retrospective of Darien and McIntosh County, over 200 images evoke generations past of dynamic, hard-working people. Pictured within these pages are timber barons, sawmill workers, railroad builders, and shrimp fishermen. They are depicted among views of the buildings and structures associated with an era that was the most active in the recorded history of the community, which dates back to the earliest days of the Georgia colony in 1736.

Hetch Hetchy (Paperback): Beverly Hennessey Hetch Hetchy (Paperback)
Beverly Hennessey
R605 R548 Discovery Miles 5 480 Save R57 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Lost Restaurants of Chicago (Paperback): Greg Bozo Lost Restaurants of Chicago (Paperback)
Greg Bozo
R617 R560 Discovery Miles 5 600 Save R57 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Hospital Sketches - An Army Nurses's True Account of Her Experience During the Civil War (Hardcover): Louisa May Alcott Hospital Sketches - An Army Nurses's True Account of Her Experience During the Civil War (Hardcover)
Louisa May Alcott
R731 Discovery Miles 7 310 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Unsustainable American State (Hardcover, New): Lawrence Jacobs, Desmond King The Unsustainable American State (Hardcover, New)
Lawrence Jacobs, Desmond King
R2,039 Discovery Miles 20 390 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The complexity of the American economy and polity has grown at an explosive rate in our era of globalization. Yet as the 2008 financial crisis revealed, the evolution of the American state has not proceeded apace. The crisis exposed the system's manifold political and economic dysfunctionalities.
Featuring a cast of leading scholars working at the intersection of political science and American history, The Unsustainable American State is a historically informed account of the American state's development from the nineteenth century to the present. It focuses in particular on the state-produced inequalities and administrative incoherence that became so apparent in the post-1970s era. Collectively, the book offers an unsettling account of the growth of racial and economic inequality, the ossification of the state, the gradual erosion of democracy, and the problems deriving from imperial overreach. Utilizing the framework of sustainability, a concept that is currently informing some of the best work on governance and development, the contributors show how the USA's current trajectory does not imply an impending collapse, but rather a gradual erosion of capacity and legitimacy. That is a more appropriate theoretical framework, they contend, because for all of its manifest flaws, the American state is durable. That durability, however, does not preclude a long relative decline.

Brooklyn and the Civil War (Paperback): E a Livingston Brooklyn and the Civil War (Paperback)
E a Livingston
R482 R447 Discovery Miles 4 470 Save R35 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

While Manhattan was the site of many important Civil War events, Brooklyn also played an important part in the war. Henry Ward Beecher "auctioned off" slaves at the Plymouth Church, raising the money to free them. Walt Whitman reported news of the war in a Brooklyn paper and wrote some of his most famous works. At the same time, Brooklyn both grappled with and embraced unique challenges, from the arrival of new immigrants to the formation of one of the nation's first baseball teams. Local historian Bud Livingston crafts the portrait of Brooklyn in transition--shaped by the Civil War while also leaving its own mark on the course of the terrible conflict.

Route 66 in Oklahoma (Paperback): Joe Sonderman, Jim Ross Route 66 in Oklahoma (Paperback)
Joe Sonderman, Jim Ross
R605 R548 Discovery Miles 5 480 Save R57 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Oklahoma is where East and West collide on Route 66, where
the rolling hills that reach across its borders from Missouri and
Arkansas give way to red earth and Big Sky Country. It is a land of
agriculture, oil, and Native America. Route 66 stamped itself into the
landscape here in 1926, extending from the state's northeast corner
through Tulsa and Oklahoma City to the Texas Panhandle in the
west. It was Oklahoma Highway commissioner Cyrus Avery, now
known as the "Father of Route 66," who originally championed a major
route stretching from Chicago to Los Angeles. Today, its pathway
in Oklahoma is rich with small-town ambiance and landmarks,
including many of the route's most popular attractions. From the
magnificent Coleman Theatre in Miami to the Oklahoma Route 66
Museum in Clinton, the Mother Road across the Sooner State is an
explorer's feast.

Fort DuPont (Paperback): Brendan Mackie, Peter K. Morrill, Laura M. Lee Fort DuPont (Paperback)
Brendan Mackie, Peter K. Morrill, Laura M. Lee
R586 R529 Discovery Miles 5 290 Save R57 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Fort DuPont is named in honor of Rear Adm. Samuel Francis Du Pont and located on the Reeden Point tract, land initially granted to Henry Ward in 1675. Fort DuPont originated during the Civil War as a heavily armed earthwork fortification. In 1864, Sgt. Bishop Crumrine wrote, "these guns command the channel and could blow to atoms any vessel rash enough to attempt to pass." In the decades to follow, the battery at Delaware City was gradually modernized into a formidable military post that remained active through World War II. Declared surplus, the site reopened in 1948 as the Governor Bacon Health Center. By 1996, over 300 acres were reestablished as Fort DuPont State Park.

Ocean City - Going Down the Ocean (Paperback): Michael Morgan Ocean City - Going Down the Ocean (Paperback)
Michael Morgan
R535 R495 Discovery Miles 4 950 Save R40 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Going Down the Ocean, A Brief History of Ocean City, Maryland will chronicle the long and colorful history of Maryland's premier ocean resort. Beginning with the visit of the explorer Giovanni da Verrazano, this book will examine the arrival of Asssateague's famous ponies, visits by Blackbeard and other pirates, the birth of Steven Decatur, and brave soldiers who fought in the Civil War. After Ocean City was founded in the late 19th century, the resort became a mecca for vacationers, who enjoyed the surf and sand along side the pound fishermen who worked their nets a short distance off shore. During the 20th century, Ocean City witnessed the arrival of the automobile, bootleggers, and German submarines. Following the Second World War, Bobby Baker, confidant to Lyndon Johnson, built a motel on the barren dunes to the north and helped ignite the condominium boom that saw Ocean City grow all the way to the Delaware line.

The Last Lynching in Northern Virginia - Seeking Truth at Rattlesnake Mountain (Paperback): Jim Hall The Last Lynching in Northern Virginia - Seeking Truth at Rattlesnake Mountain (Paperback)
Jim Hall; Introduction by Claudine L Ferrell Phd
R506 R414 Discovery Miles 4 140 Save R92 (18%) Out of stock
Time Trap two (Paperback): Richard Smith Time Trap two (Paperback)
Richard Smith
R412 Discovery Miles 4 120 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Jamie and Todd are horrified to learn that the grand plan, which they thought had been defeated, might be about to be implemented in 1775, America. Hector and Catherine have to go back in time and thwart Travis - an agent of the grand plan - who is hell bent on world domination. Jamie and Todd go with Hector and Catherine on a mission to 1775, to prevent a super gun from being used in the battle of bunker hill, during the American war of independence, but they have only days to stop history from being altered.

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