Coaching Tours [round Edinburgh] Or Romance of the Road

Coaching Tours [round Edinburgh] Or Romance of the Road
Title Coaching Tours [round Edinburgh] Or Romance of the Road PDF eBook
Author Jessie Margaret Edmondston Saxby
Publisher
Pages 92
Release 1896
Genre Edinburgh (Scotland)
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Personal Writings by Women to 1900

Personal Writings by Women to 1900
Title Personal Writings by Women to 1900 PDF eBook
Author Gwenn Davis
Publisher Burns & Oates
Pages 328
Release 1989
Genre Biography & Autobiography
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The Commercial Motor

The Commercial Motor
Title The Commercial Motor PDF eBook
Author
Publisher
Pages 932
Release 1922
Genre Aeronautics, Commercial
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Outlander

Outlander
Title Outlander PDF eBook
Author Diana Gabaldon
Publisher Dell
Pages 560
Release 2004-10-26
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0440335167

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A STARZ ORIGINAL SERIES Unrivaled storytelling. Unforgettable characters. Rich historical detail. These are the hallmarks of Diana Gabaldon’s work. Her New York Times bestselling Outlander novels have earned the praise of critics and captured the hearts of millions of fans. Here is the story that started it all, introducing two remarkable characters, Claire Beauchamp Randall and Jamie Fraser, in a spellbinding novel of passion and history that combines exhilarating adventure with a love story for the ages. One of the top ten best-loved novels in America, as seen on PBS’s The Great American Read! Scottish Highlands, 1945. Claire Randall, a former British combat nurse, is just back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon when she walks through a standing stone in one of the ancient circles that dot the British Isles. Suddenly she is a Sassenach—an “outlander”—in a Scotland torn by war and raiding clans in the year of Our Lord . . . 1743. Claire is catapulted into the intrigues of a world that threatens her life, and may shatter her heart. Marooned amid danger, passion, and violence, Claire learns her only chance of safety lies in Jamie Fraser, a gallant young Scots warrior. What begins in compulsion becomes urgent need, and Claire finds herself torn between two very different men, in two irreconcilable lives. This eBook includes the full text of the novel plus the following additional content: • An excerpt from Diana Gabaldon’s Dragonfly in Amber, the second novel in the Outlander series • An interview with Diana Gabaldon • An Outlander reader’s guide Praise for Outlander “Marvelous and fantastic adventures, romance, sex . . . perfect escape reading.”—San Francisco Chronicle “History comes deliciously alive on the page.”—New York Daily News

Scottish Border Country

Scottish Border Country
Title Scottish Border Country PDF eBook
Author Andrew Lang
Publisher
Pages 468
Release 1999-02
Genre Borders Region (Scotland)
ISBN 9781859585436

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Writing the Stage Coach Nation

Writing the Stage Coach Nation
Title Writing the Stage Coach Nation PDF eBook
Author Ruth Livesey
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 257
Release 2016-09-08
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0191082252

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Why is it that so many of the best-loved novels of the Victorian era take place not in the steam-powered railway present in which they were published, but in the very recent past? Most works by Dickens, Brontë, Eliot, and Hardy set action neither in the present nor in a definitively historical epoch but rather in a 'just' past of collective memory, a vanishing but still tangible world moving by stage and mail coach. It is easy to overlook the fact that Jane Eyre, Bleak House, and Middlemarch, for example, are in this sense historical novels, recreating places and times that are just slipping from the horizon of here and now. Ruth Livesey brings to the surface the historical consciousness of such novels of the 'just' past and explores how they convey an idea of a national belonging that can be experienced through a sense of local place. The journey by public coach had long been an analogy for the form of the novel as it took shape in the eighteenth century; smooth engineered roads and the rapid circulation of print was one means by which Britain was reimagined as a modern, peaceable, and communicative nation in the aftermath of the Napoleonic wars. But by the later 1840s the end of the stage coach was assured and that made it a highly charged figure of a lost national modernity. In its halts, relays, stops at inns, and crossing points, the stage and mail coach system offered a different experience of mobility and being-in-place—passages of flight and anchoring points—from the vectors of the railway that radiated out from industrial and urban centres. This book opens by examining the writing of the stage coach nation in Walter Scott's fiction and in the work of the radical journalists William Hazlitt and William Cobbett. Livesey suggests that in turning to the 'just' past of the stage coach imaginary, later novels by Dickens, Brontë, and Eliot reach out to the possibility of a nation knitted together by the affect of strongly felt local belonging. This vision is of a communicative nation at its liveliest when the smooth passage of characters and words are interrupted and overset, delivering readers and protagonists to local places, thick with the presence of history writ small.

The Carriage Journal

The Carriage Journal
Title The Carriage Journal PDF eBook
Author Thomas Ryder
Publisher Carriage Assoc. of America
Pages 56
Release 1987-06-01
Genre History
ISBN

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Title page The View From the Box They're Off-Chuckwagons Hit the Track I The Invention of Carriage Springs .. Bertram W. Mills Haflingers-The "Banty Belgians" All's Well That Doesn't End in a Well Three Generations of Coachbuilders The Netherlands Equestrian Center The Castle Museum, York, England · · · · · · · · · The North American Carriage Driving Championships The Sporting Break Postillion-1987 · · · · · · .. The "Sir Walter Scott" Charity Coach Run 1987 . Driving as a Subject for Artists Memories-Mostly Horsy Questions & Answers On Dishing and Staggering .. Hints for Restorers The Carriage Trade . Book Review Advertising