This fun little book is all about growing up in a remote corner of Canada during the 1950's. That part is nonfiction. Every thing that Grey does in the home setting, Alton Ontario, Canada, is factual. He hooks on bobsleighs, gets shot in the butt, finds a frozen body in a remote barn, rides ice floes, and more. But he is different from other kids and this takes him to another world where he finds the love of his life. After experiencing adventures on Delphi he meets his mentor, Apeluzar, who happens to be a wise ass dragon but also an intellectual. He returns home to Alton and takes up the...
This fun little book is all about growing up in a remote corner of Canada during the 1950's. That part is nonfiction. Every thing that Grey does in th...
The American nineteenth century saw a largely rural nation confined to the Eastern Seaboard conquer a continent and spawn increasingly dense commercial metropolises. This time of unprecedented territorial and economic growth has long been thought to find its most sweeping visual equivalent in the period's landscape paintings. But, as Matthew N. Johnston shows, the age's defining features were just as clearly captured in, and motivated by, visual material mass-produced through innovations in printing technology. Illustrated railroad and steamboat guidebooks, tourist literature, reports...
The American nineteenth century saw a largely rural nation confined to the Eastern Seaboard conquer a continent and spawn increasingly dense co...
