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Shepherd of the Hills Country: Tourism Transforms the Ozarks, 1880s-1930s
ISBN: 9781557285744 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Modern tourism in the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas is concentrated around the area's glistening man-made lakes, its fish-filled streams and rivers, and in the entertainment mecca of Branson. But recreational excursions into this part of the country began over one hundred years ago as urban midwesterners, many of them captivated by Harold Bell Wright's novel The Shepherd of the Hills, sought the outdoors for spiritual and physical regeneration. Morrow and Myers-Phinney excavate the beginnings of commercial tourism in the region and follow it through six decades as... Modern tourism in the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas is concentrated around the area's glistening man-made lakes, its fish-filled streams... |
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A Gift of God: My Path to Priesthood
ISBN: 9780692358764 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) During the transforming years of the late 1960s and early 1970s, David Chamberlain and his fellow classmates at the Virginia Theological Seminary forged deep bonds with their faculty and with each other. As they wrestled with shifting social norms and made lasting memories, they deepened their understanding of God and began to understand what ministry was really about-all in the shadow of our nation's capital.
During the transforming years of the late 1960s and early 1970s, David Chamberlain and his fellow classmates at the Virginia Theological Seminary forg...
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The White River Chronicles of S. C. Turnbo: Man and Wildlife on the Ozarks Frontier
ISBN: 9781557285621 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) This highly readable folklore collection highlights the most representative and evocative tales in the twenty-five hundred pages of backwoods stories collected by Silas Turnbo toward the end of the last century. Turnbo and his informants, antebellum Ozarks natives, believed that the legends of the hunt were, as William Faulkner would write, "the best of all breathing and forever the best of all listening". With no apology, the first settlers on the southern frontiers became predators in their own environment. They embraced blood sport and sought its rewards at every turn. The chase,...
This highly readable folklore collection highlights the most representative and evocative tales in the twenty-five hundred pages of backwoods stories ...
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116,54 |