Shining Big Sea Water
Title | Shining Big Sea Water PDF eBook |
Author | Norman K. Risjord |
Publisher | Minnesota Historical Society |
Pages | 196 |
Release | 2009-06-25 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0873517512 |
A fascinating, fast-paced history of Lake Superior, from the time of the glaciers to the present, complemented by handy travelers' tips for historic destinations.
Shining Big Sea Water
Title | Shining Big Sea Water PDF eBook |
Author | Norman K. Risjord |
Publisher | Minnesota Historical Society |
Pages | 196 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780873515900 |
In Shining Big Sea Water, historian Norman K. Risjord offers a grand tour of Lake Superior's remarkable history, taking readers through the centuries and into the lives of those who have traveled the lake and inhabited its shores. Through lively, informative chapters, Risjord begins with the lake's cataclysmic geological birth, then explores the lives of native peoples along the shore before European contact and during the fur trade, showing how Superior functioned as a "blue-water highway" for Indians, early explorers, industries, and settlers. He outlines the development of such cities as Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan; Ashland, Wisconsin; and Two Harbors, Minnesota, and tells the fascinating histories of life-saving lighthouses and famous shipwrecks. In the final chapter, Risjord looks to the future, offering a clear-eyed account of the environmental and economic challenges faced by America's largest freshwater lake. Interspersed throughout the book are handy tips for travelers, highlighting historically significant sites that illustrate key pieces of Lake Superior's natural and human history, including national lakeshores in the United States and provincial parks in Canada. Norman K. Risjord is the author of several books, including A Popular History of Minnesota and Wisconsin: The Story of the Badger State. He is an emeritus professor of history at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
The Song of Hiawatha
Title | The Song of Hiawatha PDF eBook |
Author | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
Publisher | |
Pages | 220 |
Release | 1874 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
An Archaeology of the Soul
Title | An Archaeology of the Soul PDF eBook |
Author | Robert L. Hall |
Publisher | University of Illinois Press |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780252066023 |
The richness and the range of Native American spirituality has long been noted, but it has never been examined so thoroughly, nor with such an eye for the amazing interconnectedness of Indian tribal ceremonies and practices, as in An Archaeology of the Soul. In this monumental work, destined to become a classic in its field, Robert Hall traces the genetic and historical relationships of the tribes of the Midwest and Plains--including roots that extend back as far as 3,000 years. Looking beyond regional barriers, An Archaeology of the Soul offers new depths of insight into American Indian ethnography. Hall uncovers the lineage and kinship shared by Native North Americans through the perspectives of history, archaeology, archaeoastronomy, biological anthropology, linguistics, and mythology. The wholeness and panoramic complexity of American Indian belief has never been so fully explored--or more deeply understood.
By the Shining Big-Sea-Water
Title | By the Shining Big-Sea-Water PDF eBook |
Author | Burnett William (author) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1901 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781838384012 |
Cross of Snow
Title | Cross of Snow PDF eBook |
Author | Nicholas A. Basbanes |
Publisher | Knopf |
Pages | 481 |
Release | 2020-06-02 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1101875143 |
A major literary biography of America's best-loved nineteenth-century poet, the first in more than fifty years, and a much-needed reassessment for the twenty-first century of a writer whose stature and celebrity were unparalleled in his time, whose work helped to explain America's new world not only to Americans but to Europe and beyond. From the author of On Paper ("Buoyant"--The New Yorker; "Essential"--Publishers Weekly), Patience and Fortitude ("A wonderful hymn"--Simon Winchester), and A Gentle Madness ("A jewel"--David McCullough). In Cross of Snow, the result of more than twelve years of research, including access to never-before-examined letters, diaries, journals, notes, Nicholas Basbanes reveals the life, the times, the work--the soul--of the man who shaped the literature of a new nation with his countless poems, sonnets, stories, essays, translations, and whose renown was so wide-reaching that his deep friendships included Charles Dickens, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Julia Ward Howe, and Oscar Wilde. Basbanes writes of the shaping of Longfellow's character, his huge body of work that included translations of numerous foreign works, among them, the first rendering into a complete edition by an American of Dante's Divine Comedy. We see Longfellow's two marriages, both happy and contented, each cut short by tragedy. His first to Mary Storer Potter that ended in the aftermath of a miscarriage, leaving Longfellow devastated. His second marriage to the brilliant Boston socialite--Fanny Appleton, after a three-year pursuit by Longfellow (his "fiery crucible," he called it), and his emergence as a literary force and a man of letters. A portrait of a bold artist, experimenter of poetic form and an innovative translator--the human being that he was, the times in which he lived, the people whose lives he touched, his monumental work and its place in his America and ours.
The Big Sea
Title | The Big Sea PDF eBook |
Author | Langston Hughes |
Publisher | DigiCat |
Pages | 285 |
Release | 2022-08-01 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN |
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Big Sea" by Langston Hughes. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.