The Shetland Trader-Book One
Title | The Shetland Trader-Book One PDF eBook |
Author | Gudrun Johnston |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 60 |
Release | 2010-11-15 |
Genre | Knitted lace |
ISBN | 9780615414676 |
Big Horn Legacy
Title | Big Horn Legacy PDF eBook |
Author | W. Michael Gear |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Total Pages | 466 |
Release | 1996-06-15 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0812567242 |
It is 1850 in St. Louis and Abriel Catton receives the last will and testament of his father. He must reassemble his brothers and sisters to find the legacy his father left.
Forty Years a Speculator
Title | Forty Years a Speculator PDF eBook |
Author | Fred Carach |
Publisher | Dog Ear Publishing |
Total Pages | 176 |
Release | 2012-02 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 1457505649 |
Voyageurs
Title | Voyageurs PDF eBook |
Author | Margaret Elphinstone |
Publisher | Open Road + Grove/Atlantic |
Total Pages | 351 |
Release | 2014-10-07 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0802191517 |
A Quaker’s faith is tested during the War of 1812 in this “stunning work of historical fiction” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). Mark Greenhow, a naive and peaceful Quaker, lands on the shores of North America on the eve of the War of 1812, thinking only of finding the missing sister, a missionary whose adventurous spirit he has always admired. His pursuit begins by hitching a ride with the voyageurs who have canoed the rivers, transporting the tons of furs that feed the trade that has made the region a battleground of the French and British empires. Though Mark enters this brave new world with his conscience clean and his convictions sound, his encounters with a place and people he never could have imagined test his rigid upbringing. The backwoods of Canada have certainly led his sister astray; she has been excommunicated from the Society of Friends for running off with a non-Quaker. After her child is stillborn she runs again, deep into Indian country. On this increasingly desperate search, Mark finds himself among spies and domestic warriors, displaced natives, infidels, and the pious each engaged in their own battles to maintain their particular way of life. With Elphinstone’s crisp and effortless prose, coupled with her riveting, organic way with description, her fully drawn characters, and the history of the region, she “brings the landscapes and peoples of 1800s Canada back to thrilling life in her pacy, colorful and intelligent epic: the finest trip along these rivers since Brian Moore’s great Black Robe” (The Independent).
The Vikings and the Victorians
Title | The Vikings and the Victorians PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Wawn |
Publisher | Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
Total Pages | 458 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0859916448 |
Andrew Wawn draws together a wide range of source material, including novels, poems, lectures and periodicals, to give a comprehensive account of the construction and translation of the Viking age in 19th century Britain.
The Principles of Sociology
Title | The Principles of Sociology PDF eBook |
Author | Herbert Spencer |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 718 |
Release | 1910 |
Genre | Sociology |
ISBN |
The Book of Haps
Title | The Book of Haps PDF eBook |
Author | Kate Davies |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 120 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | Knitting |
ISBN | 9780957466630 |
"A hap is a Scottish dialect word for a simple shawl or wrap. Haps have a particular association with the Shetland islands... This book explores the story of the hap through five beautifully illustrated essays and thirteen stunning patterns." -- cover, page [4]