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1861) The captain and "the cannibal": an epic story of exploration, kidnapping, and the Broadway stage
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2015.
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xi, 377 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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"Sailing the uncharted waters of the Pacific in 1830, Captain Benjamin Morrell of Connecticut became the first outsider to encounter the inhabitants of a small island off New Guinea. The contact quickly turned violent, fatal cannons were fired, and Morrell abducted young Dako, a hostage so shocked by the white complexions of his kidnappers that he believed he had been captured by the dead. This gripping book unveils for the first time the strange...
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Publication Date
c2006
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This Vast Book of Nature is a careful, engaging, accessible, and wide-ranging account of the ways in which the White Mountains of northern New Hampshire--and, by implication, other wild places--have been written into being by different visitors, residents, and developers from the post-Revolutionary era to the days of high tourism at the beginning of the twentieth century. Drawing on tourist brochures, travel accounts, pictorial representations, fiction...
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Publication Date
c2006
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xii, 290 p.
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"Civil War memoir by a member of the Confederate Senate. Describing his travels between Richmond and Texas and analyzing the Confederate defeat, Williamson S. Oldham stresses the failure of the Congress to represent the sentiments of its citizens and the effects of CSA political and military measures on the country"--Provided by publisher.
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Publication Date
2012
Physical Desc
xii, 206 p. : ill., maps.
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The Hudson River Valley was the first iconic American landscape. Beginning as early as the 1820s, artists and writers found new ways of thinking about the human relationship with the natural world along the Hudson. Here, amid the most dramatic river and mountain scenery in the eastern United States, Washington Irving and James Fenimore Cooper created a distinctly American literature, grounded in folklore and history, that contributed to the emergence...
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Liverpool Latin American studies volume new ser., 2
Publication Date
2000
Physical Desc
xii, 167 p.
Description
The colonization of Spanish America spawned a literature in which prosaic accounts and official press releases were mixed with reports of real and imaginary travellers. These two case studies represent two types of imagining.
