ilość książek w kategorii: 3194
The Mount Washington Cog Railway: Climbing the White Mountains of New Hampshire
ISBN: 9781540205667 / Angielski / Twarda / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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137,38 zł |
Harvesting the Chesapeake: Tools and Traditions
ISBN: 9780870336348 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This second, revised and expanded, edition of this popular collection, including 233 photos and sketches, represents the most comprehensive study of the Chesapeake Bay's fisheries, but it is far more. It records the pictures and recollections of the homespun tales of the hardy men and women who have lived and worked along the shores of the nation's largest estuary. Since the first edition was published in 1990, some of these tools and traditions have disappeared and are now part of Chesapeake Bay lore. Many of the implements and skills used by Chesapeake Bay watermen had their origins in the...
This second, revised and expanded, edition of this popular collection, including 233 photos and sketches, represents the most comprehensive study of t...
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142,39 zł |
The Visual Language of Wabanaki Art
ISBN: 9781626192331 / Angielski / Miękka / 142 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For centuries, the people of the Wabanaki Nations of the northeastern United States and eastern Canada used signs, symbols and designs to communicate with one another. As Native Peoples became victims of European expansion, the Wabanaki were separated by war, the search for work and intermarriage, as well as by hiding their identities to avoid persecution. In this diaspora, their visual language helped them keep their teachings and culture alive. Their designs have evolved over time and taken on different meanings, and they are now used on objects that are considered art. While their beauty...
For centuries, the people of the Wabanaki Nations of the northeastern United States and eastern Canada used signs, symbols and designs to communicate ...
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94,44 zł |
New North Church, Boston 1714-1799
ISBN: 9780806345833 / Angielski / Miękka / 142 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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101,01 zł |
Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts. In Four Volumes. Volume I
ISBN: 9780806349602 / Angielski / Miękka / 696 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 edition. Excerpt: ...children, all of his first union, and the baptismal record of the three who accompanied him from England has been found in the parish of Barkham: I. Mary, baptised December 19. 1645; married. Xovembcr 5, 1666, James Tisdale, of Taunton, and resided in that part of Middleboro which is now Lakeville, where she died September 9, 1713. The death of her husband occurred January 15,...
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the...
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343,91 zł |
Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts. In Four Volumes. Volume II
ISBN: 9780806349619 / Angielski / Miękka / 692 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 edition. Excerpt: ...children, all of his first union, and the baptismal record of the three who accompanied him from England has been found in the parish of Barkham: I. Mary, baptised December 19. 1645; married. Xovembcr 5, 1666, James Tisdale, of Taunton, and resided in that part of Middleboro which is now Lakeville, where she died September 9, 1713. The death of her husband occurred January 15,...
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the...
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343,91 zł |
Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts. In Four Volumes. Volume III
ISBN: 9780806349626 / Angielski / Miękka / 654 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 edition. Excerpt: ...children, all of his first union, and the baptismal record of the three who accompanied him from England has been found in the parish of Barkham: I. Mary, baptised December 19. 1645; married. Xovembcr 5, 1666, James Tisdale, of Taunton, and resided in that part of Middleboro which is now Lakeville, where she died September 9, 1713. The death of her husband occurred January 15,...
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the...
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343,91 zł |
Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts. In Four Volumes. Volume IV
ISBN: 9780806349633 / Angielski / Miękka / 650 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 edition. Excerpt: ...children, all of his first union, and the baptismal record of the three who accompanied him from England has been found in the parish of Barkham: I. Mary, baptised December 19. 1645; married. Xovembcr 5, 1666, James Tisdale, of Taunton, and resided in that part of Middleboro which is now Lakeville, where she died September 9, 1713. The death of her husband occurred January 15,...
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the...
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343,91 zł |
A Discourse Delivered In The First Church Church Of Dover, May 18,1873.: Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary Settlement of Dover, N. H.
ISBN: 9781494496715 / Angielski / Miękka / 34 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A sermon by the Rev. George Spalding of the First Church of Dover, N.H. celebrating 250 years as a settlement and city.
A sermon by the Rev. George Spalding of the First Church of Dover, N.H. celebrating 250 years as a settlement and city.
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26,83 zł |
New Jersey UFOs
ISBN: 9780764346224 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Discover "Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind" (human-initiated, conscious, and voluntary alien contact), hybrid relationships, near mid-air collisions with alien ships, and more, from heartfelt eyewitness accounts in New Jersey Read 26 contemporary, never-before-published, full-length stories and sagas of UFO experiences in the Garden State with ties to others around our planet. This collection is jammed with mind-expanding tales, including a young woman's relationship with an alien hybrid, an occurrence with a heart-shaped unidentified vehicle in the fog, and a romantic proposal from a...
Discover "Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind" (human-initiated, conscious, and voluntary alien contact), hybrid relationships, near mid-air collisions...
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81,34 zł |
UFOs Over Maine: Close Encounters from the Pine Tree State
ISBN: 9780764346231 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Journey through the Pine Tree state to the very cusp of believability and the truly bizarre to find out about Maine's contemporary UFO and alien activity. Discover tales of alien abductions, UFO confrontations with the military, strange lights in the sky, and other startling encounters. Read over 20 stories and review numerous sightings reported by Mainers between the years 2000 and 2013 of strange extraterrestrial encounters. Meet the Men in Black (MIB) as they threaten and frighten eyewitnesses. Visit the Allagash Wilderness Waterway where four men were abducted and transported to a UFO...
Journey through the Pine Tree state to the very cusp of believability and the truly bizarre to find out about Maine's contemporary UFO and alien activ...
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64,38 zł |
Life and Death in the North Woods: The Story of the Maine Game Warden Service
ISBN: 9781608933310 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Being a game warden in Maine is not just a job, it's a way of life. This honest and entertaining book by a twenty-two-year veteran of the service tells the story of America's oldest game warden service. The stories told cover the risks wardens face dealing with poachers, rogue wildlife, and the elements, as well as the drama that surrounds every search and rescue operation.
Being a game warden in Maine is not just a job, it's a way of life. This honest and entertaining book by a twenty-two-year veteran of the service tell...
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69,56 zł |
Haunted Island: True Ghost Stories from Martha's Vineyard
ISBN: 9781608933525 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It's no surprise that remote Martha's Vineyard is home to a significant population of ghosts. There are the strange entities that just may have played a part in the notorious accident at the Chappaquiddick Bridge. There is the ghost of aristocratic Desire Coffin, called back from the Other Side by the power of music and the memory of lost love. And at one haunted inn, Room 8, accessible only by way of a cramped hidden staircase, is the focus of strange events including the total disappearance of one guest."
It's no surprise that remote Martha's Vineyard is home to a significant population of ghosts. There are the strange entities that just may have played...
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64,21 zł |
Yankee Destinies: The Lives of Ordinary Nineteenth-Century Bostonians
ISBN: 9781469613772 / Angielski / Miękka / 309 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book reconstructs important milestones in the lives of 2,808 white, native-born men who resided in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1860 or 1870. Selected systematically from the census for those two years, these men represent two cross-sections of those viewed by contemporaries as "typical" Bostonians.
Using a broad array of sources--manuscript census returns; tax assessments; city directories; birth, marriage, and death records for more than twenty states; cemetery records; newspapers; and family genealogies--Peter Knights traced these men not only back to their origins in hundreds... This book reconstructs important milestones in the lives of 2,808 white, native-born men who resided in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1860 or 1870. Select...
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243,50 zł |
Newport Baseball History:: America's Pastime in the City by the Sea
ISBN: 9781626194526 / Angielski / Miękka / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The City by the Sea boasts an ambitious baseball history dating back to the early days of America's favorite pastime. In 1897, the Newport Colts became the first professional baseball team to ever tie in a playoff series. By the 1900s, baseball was being played daily on open fields and diamonds throughout Newport. The city has sported six major ball fields, including Cardines Field, host to the oldest continuously running amateur baseball team in the country. Discover the humble beginnings of players like Newport native Frank Corridon, who allegedly invented the now outlawed spitball, and the...
The City by the Sea boasts an ambitious baseball history dating back to the early days of America's favorite pastime. In 1897, the Newport Colts becam...
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94,44 zł |
Connecticut Ghost Stories and Legends
ISBN: 9781540205582 / Angielski / Twarda / 146 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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141,68 zł |
The Miracle Braves of 1914: Boston's Original Worst-to-First World Series Champions
ISBN: 9781933599694 / Angielski / Miękka / 396 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Long before the Red Sox "Impossible Dream" season, Boston's now nearly forgotten "other" team, the 1914 Boston Braves, performed a baseball "miracle" that resounds to this very day. The "Miracle Braves" were Boston's first "worst-to-first" winners of the World Series. Shortly after the turn of the previous century, the once mighty Braves had become a perennial member of the National League's second division. Preseason pundits didn't believe the 1914 team posed a meaningful threat to John McGraw's powerful New York Giants. During the first half of that campaign, Boston lived down to such...
Long before the Red Sox "Impossible Dream" season, Boston's now nearly forgotten "other" team, the 1914 Boston Braves, performed a baseball "miracle" ...
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171,57 zł |
Classic New England Stories: Colorful Tales of a Place and a People, 2nd Edition
ISBN: 9781493007370 / Angielski / Miękka / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The rich history of New England is captured in enduring works by writers including Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Sarah Orne Jewett, Louisa May Alcott and more. From the icy waters of Vermont's Lake Champlain to the freezing tidal depths of coastal Maine; from New Hampshire's rocky hills to Connecticut's stone-walled roads, New England is a microcosm of the American landscape. In a country of proud regionalism, the Yankee spirit stands out in its variegated character and, of course, its rich history. This colorful tapestry of people and place has shaped the literature of New England....
The rich history of New England is captured in enduring works by writers including Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Sarah Orne Jewett, Louisa May...
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69,56 zł |
A Genealogical Register of the First Settlers of New England
ISBN: 9781596413191 / Angielski / Miękka / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work, the information for which was collected from ancient records, manuscripts, and printed works, consists of a genealogical register, first published in 1829, and contains an alphabetical listing of many of the first settlers, including dates of arrival, the location of settlement, date of birth, date of death, spouses and children, and often includes a biographical sketch of the individual. The author has also provided numerous lists, including Alphabetical Lists of Towns settled before 1692 in the several colonies of New England; Alphabetical List of the Governours, Deputy...
This work, the information for which was collected from ancient records, manuscripts, and printed works, consists of a genealogical register, first pu...
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149,10 zł |
A Storm of Witchcraft: The Salem Trials and the American Experience
ISBN: 9780199890347 / Angielski / Twarda / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Beginning in January 1692, Salem Village in colonial Massachusetts witnessed the largest and most lethal outbreak of witchcraft in early America. Villagers--mainly young women--suffered from unseen torments that caused them to writhe, shriek, and contort their bodies, complaining of pins stuck into their flesh and of being haunted by specters. Believing that they suffered from assaults by an invisible spirit, the community began a hunt to track down those responsible for the demonic work. The resulting Salem Witch Trials, culminating in the execution of 19 villagers, persists as one of the...
Beginning in January 1692, Salem Village in colonial Massachusetts witnessed the largest and most lethal outbreak of witchcraft in early America. Vill...
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137,38 zł |