Conquering the Rivers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Conquering the Rivers write by Edith S. McCall. This book was released on 1984. Conquering the Rivers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Conquering Gotham
Conquering Gotham - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Conquering Gotham write by Jill Jonnes. This book was released on 2007-04-19. Conquering Gotham available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “Superb. [A] first-rate narrative” (The Wall Street Journal) about the controversial construction of New York’s beloved original Penn Station and its tunnels, from the author of Eiffel's Tower and Urban Forests As bestselling books like Ron Chernow's Titan and David McCullough's The Great Bridge affirm, readers are fascinated with the grand personalities and schemes that populated New York at the close of the nineteenth century. Conquering Gotham re- creates the riveting struggle waged by the great Pennsylvania Railroad to build Penn Station and the monumental system of tunnels that would connect water-bound Manhattan to the rest of the continent by rail. Historian Jill Jonnes tells a ravishing tale of snarling plutocrats, engineering feats, and backroom politicking packed with the most colorful figures of Gilded Age New York. Conquering Gotham will be featured in an upcoming episdoe of PBS's American Experience.
River of Ink
River of Ink - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook River of Ink write by Paul M.M. Cooper. This book was released on 2016-01-26. River of Ink available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In thirteenth-century Sri Lanka, Asanka, poet to the king, lives a life of luxury, enjoying courtly life and a sweet, furtive love affair with a palace servant, a village girl he is teaching to write. But when Magha, a prince from the mainland, usurps the throne, Asanka's role as court poet dramatically alters. Magha is a cruel and calculating king--and yet, a lover of poetry--and he commissions Asanka to translate a holy Sanskrit epic into the Tamil language spoken by his recently acquired subjects. The poem will be an olive branch--a symbol of unity between the two cultures. But in different languages, in different contexts, meaning can become slippery. First inadvertently, then deliberately and dangerously, Asanka's version of the epic, centered on the killing of an unjust ruler, inspires and arouses the oppressed people of the land. Asanka must juggle the capricious demands of a king with the growing demands of his own political consciousness--and his heart--if he wishes to survive and imagine a future with the woman he loves. The first novel from a remarkable young writer, River of Ink is a powerful historical tale set in the shadow of oppression--one with deep allegorical resonances in any time--celebrating the triumph of literature and love.
Riverman
Riverman - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Riverman write by Ben McGrath. This book was released on 2022-04-05. Riverman available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “This quietly profound book belongs on the shelf next to Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild.” —The New York Times The riveting true story of Dick Conant, an American folk hero who, over the course of more than twenty years, canoed solo thousands of miles of American rivers—and then disappeared near the Outer Banks of North Carolina. This book “contains everything: adventure, mystery, travelogue, and unforgettable characters” (David Grann, best-selling author of Killers of the Flower Moon). For decades, Dick Conant paddled the rivers of America, covering the Mississippi, Yellowstone, Ohio, Hudson, as well as innumerable smaller tributaries. These solo excursions were epic feats of planning, perseverance, and physical courage. At the same time, Conant collected people wherever he went, creating a vast network of friends and acquaintances who would forever remember this brilliant and charming man even after a single meeting. Ben McGrath, a staff writer at The New Yorker, was one of those people. In 2014 he met Conant by chance just north of New York City as Conant paddled down the Hudson, headed for Florida. McGrath wrote a widely read article about their encounter, and when Conant's canoe washed up a few months later, without any sign of his body, McGrath set out to find the people whose lives Conant had touched--to capture a remarkable life lived far outside the staid confines of modern existence. Riverman is a moving portrait of a complex and fascinating man who was as troubled as he was charismatic, who struggled with mental illness and self-doubt, and was ultimately unable to fashion a stable life for himself; who traveled alone and yet thrived on connection and brought countless people together in his wake. It is also a portrait of an America we rarely see: a nation of unconventional characters, small river towns, and long-forgotten waterways.
Conquest of the Country Northwest of the River Ohio 1778-1783
Conquest of the Country Northwest of the River Ohio 1778-1783 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Conquest of the Country Northwest of the River Ohio 1778-1783 write by William Hayden English. This book was released on 1896. Conquest of the Country Northwest of the River Ohio 1778-1783 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
