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Treasury of detailed, ready-to-color illustrations depicting typical scenes from 50 United States national parks: Grand Canyon, Everglades, Great Smoky Mountains, Mammoth Cave, Petrified Forest and 45 more. Informative captions describe distinguishing features of each park, flora and fauna, visitor activities available, more. Useful guide to major attractions of these splendid preserves. 50 black-and-white illustrations. 4 in color on covers.
Graphic overview of historic conflict in 45 dramatic illustrations.
Scenes from the battle of Britain, Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor,
battle of Stalingrad, Allied invasion of France, dropping of the
atomic bomb over Hiroshima, the battles of Iwo Jima and Nagasaki,
the fall of Berlin, and more. Informative captions.
Forty detailed, carefully researched illustrations depict Native
Americans from the 1840s to 1980s: Pima basket maker, Navajo
medicine man and braves, Hopi pottery makers, Acoma woman baking
bread, Pueblo flute player, modern Yuma woman and child, tribal
drum makers of the Taos pueblo, Zuni turquoise driller, and more.
Descriptive captions included.
Carefully researched, finely rendered scenes depict over 4
centuries of tribal life, including views of Pequot and
Massachusett hunters in the early 1600s, Ottawa warriors of the
17th and 19th centuries, an Iroquois woman pounding corn (1910),
Mohawk construction workers (1970), and more. 41 illustrations with
fact-filled captions.
38 illustrations of Seminoles, Mohawk, Iroquois, Crow, Cherokee, Huron, other tribes engaged in hunting, dancing, cooking, other activities.
Packed with details of frontier life, this book features 118
illustrations of dramatic historical events - building the
railroad, crossing the prairie, battling outlaws - as well as
explorers, bandits, lawmen and other real-life characters from an
adventurous era.
Thirty-nine carefully researched, excellently rendered
illustrations depict ancient burial platforms, the funeral of a
Choctaw chief, Natchez warriors of 1758, Seminole women preparing a
meal, Chickasaw warriors serving the Confederacy (1862), a modern
Mikawuki Seminole alligator wrestler and more.
Detailed, accurate renderings of 44 historic forts and citadels, among them Fort McHenry, Fort Jamestown, Fort Ticonderoga, Fort Sumter, Plymouth Fort, El Morro in Puerto Rico, Fort Niagara, Fort Laramie, and many others, including four Canadian sites. Fact-filled captions accompany illustrations, making this book a source of coloring fun, a useful reference, and a practical tour guide.
45 accurate, precisely rendered illustrations recapture highpoints of expedition. Captions identify action and provide background information.
Artist and avid sailor Peter Copeland re-creates significant
moments and events in the dramatic story of the first voyage and
the discovery of America in 41 superb drawings. Fully captioned
ready-to-be-colored illustrations include an enthusiastic Columbus
explaining his proposal voyage of discovery to Ferdinand and
Isabella; the embarkation of the "Nina," "Pinta," and "Santa
Maria"; life aboard ship; storms at sea; the fleet's arrival in the
New World; life and customs of Native Americans; and much more.
Wigmakers, glassblowers, hatters, 19 other colonial craftsmen, with their tools and products on facing pages. 44 illustrations and 22 descriptive captions.
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Nadine Gordimer
Paperback
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R398
R330
Discovery Miles 3 300
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