The Land Beyond the River
Author: Jesse Stuart
Publisher:
Published: 1973
Total Pages: 394
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Using the loopholes in the welfare system, a Kentucky family abandons its former state of poverty and begins a new life.
Author: Jesse Stuart
Publisher:
Published: 1973
Total Pages: 394
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Using the loopholes in the welfare system, a Kentucky family abandons its former state of poverty and begins a new life.
Author: Monica Whitlock
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2014-05-27
Total Pages: 382
ISBN-13: 146687239X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Along the banks of the river once called Oxus lie the heartlands of Central Asia: Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. Catapulted into the news by events in Afghanistan, just across the water, these strategically important, intriguing and beautiful countries remain almost completely unknown to the outside world. In this book, Monica Whitlock goes far beyond the headlines. Using eyewitness accounts, unpublished letters and firsthand reporting, she enters into the lives of the Central Asians and reveals a dramatic and moving human story unfolding over three generations. There is Muhammadjan, called 'Hindustani', a diligent seminary student in the holy city of Bukhara until the 1917 revolution tore up the old order. Exiled to Siberia as a shepherd and then conscripted into the Red Army, he survived to become the inspiration for a new generation of clerics. Henrika was one of tens of thousands of Poles who walked and rode through Central Asia on their way to a new life in Iran, where she lives to this day. Then there were the proud Pioneer children who grew up in the certainty that the Soviet Union would last forever, only to find themselves in a new world that they had never imagined. In Central Asia, the extraordinary is commonplace and there is not a family without a remarkable story to tell. Land Beyond the River is both a chronicle of a century and a clear-eyed, authoritative view of contemporary events.
Author: Loften Mitchell
Publisher: Pioneer Drama Service, Inc.
Published: 1963
Total Pages: 80
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →When the television production of Roots exploded on the educational scene, it brought about a tremendous interest in the history of Blacks in America. This play offers a different look at the same struggle for freedom. It is based on the true story of the integration movement in education. Although rich in gentle humor, the play builds to a violent and frightening climax. This outstanding play was selected by the Houghton Mifflin Company as part of their Afro-American Literature series.
Author: Ann Hagedorn
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2004-02-06
Total Pages: 362
ISBN-13: 0684870665
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Traces the story of John Rankin and the heroes of the Ripley, Ohio, line of the Underground Railroad, identifying the pre-Civil War conflicts between abolitionists and slave chasers along the Ohio River banks.
Author: Jack Casey
Publisher:
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780963988621
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Leif Enger
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9780871137951
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Davy kills two men and leaves home. His father packs up the family in a search for Davy.
Author: Yohanan Aharoni
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Published: 1979-01-01
Total Pages: 500
ISBN-13: 9780664242664
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Since its first publication in this country, Yohanan Aharoni's informative, fact-filled work has been a prime source in its field. Now considerably enlarged, and with both text and maps updated, this classic study offers an even more accurate description of the geography, history, and archeology of Palestine. The Land of the Bible is an essential textbook that will continue to serve both scholars and students for years to come.
Author: Richard Cahan
Publisher:
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780978545000
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →With more than 150 never-before-published duotone images, taken between 1892 and 1930, this collection explores the history of the Chicago River and the impact its reversal had on the watershed all the way to the Mississippi River. Offering the most complete description available of the river reversal, the stories told here provide a better understanding as to how it was done and why it was necessary, as well as how the water from the Chicago River is treated. The photographs were pulled from a glass plate photo collection taken by the Sanitary District of Chicago.