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The only collection of photographs devoted to one of America's
natural treasures, Shenandoah: Views of Our National Park documents
one man's decades-long fascination with this uniquely beautiful
region in Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains. Hullihen Williams Moore
has been visiting Shenandoah National Park since the mid-1960s, but
it was after studying with Ansel Adams in 1979 that he began
seriously photographing it. Through fifty-one black-and-white
duotone photographic prints, Moore reveals the quiet beauty of
Shenandoah National Park. From grand vistas and waterfalls to the
delicate unfurling of new ferns, these photographs capture the
singular appeal that attracts 1.7 million visitors to the park each
year.
In two essays, Moore addresses the natural and human history of
the park as well as his own personal experience of it, including
the stories behind the individual images. The author has also
included a helpful appendix of technical details regarding the
photographs.
A limited edition accompanied by original photographic prints is
available from the artist at www.hullihenmoorephotography.com
Handbook of the Fijian Language
By Rev. William Moore
Contents
Preface
I-The key to the Language
II-The Alphabet
III-The Articles
IV-The Nouns
V-Adjectives
VI-Numerals
VII-Pronouns
VIII-Verbs
IX-Adverbs
X-Prepositions
XI-Conjunction
XII-Interjections
XIII-Useful words to be learnt first
XIV-Useful sentences on landing
XV-Household words, &c.
XVI-Words for garden, plantation, &c.
XVII-Words for boating and canoes
XVIII-Words for part of the human body
XIX-Words for relationship
XX-Words for naturalist and botanist
XXI-Words requiring care with AI
XXII-A short vocabulary
Preface
The first edition of this little book owed its appearance to a
request from HBM Consul (Captain HM Jones, VC) that I should
prepare a small "Handbook for Immigrants, more simple and less
expensive than our present books." In sending out the second
edition, I may say that I make no pretensions to originality,
except in plan. Although I have made preparations for greatly
enlarging and otherwise improving this little "Key," yet, in
deference to the opinion of others, it is now reprinted with only
some few corrections and additions, to meet a pressing want.
Excerpt from Chapter I
"A cava oqo?" What's this? You have the Key wherewith to open your
way into the language in the above sentence, pronounced in English
"Ah thava ongo?" If you can procure a native, do so by all means,
and, placing the Alphabet before you, ply him with your Key "A cava
oqo?" until you get the proper sounds. Be careful of B, C, D, G, Q,
and do not proceed until you have mastered your Alphabet. This
done, begin at once to note down everything around you. Pointing at
a stone, use your Key, "A cave oqo?" The answer will be, "A vatu."
"Oqo," this. "Oqori," that (near). "Ko ya," that (distant) Keep...
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Antislavery white clergy and their congregations. Radicalized
abolitionist women. African Americans committed to ending slavery
through constitutional political action. These diverse groups
attributed their common vision of a nation free from slavery to
strong political and religious values. Owen Lovejoy's gregarious
personality, formidable oratorical talent, probing political
analysis, and profound religious convictions made him the powerful
leader the coalition needed. Owen Lovejoy and the Coalition for
Equality examines how these three distinct groups merged their
agendas into a single antislavery, religious, political campaign
for equality with Lovejoy at the helm. Combining scholarly
biography, historiography, and primary source material, Jane Ann
Moore and William F. Moore demonstrate Lovejoy's crucial role in
nineteenth-century politics, the rise of antislavery sentiment in
religious spaces, and the emerging congressional commitment to end
slavery. Their compelling account explores how the immorality of
slavery became a touchstone of political and religious action in
the United States through the efforts of a synergetic coalition led
by an essential abolitionist figure.
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