Testament to Union

Testament to Union
Author: Kathryn Allamong Jacob
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 220
Release: 1998-10-13
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780801858611

This book tells the stories behind the many District of Columbia statues that honor participants in the Civil War. Organized geographically for easy use on walking or driving tours, the entries list the subject and title of each memorial along with its sculptor, medium, date, and location. 92 photos.

Sailing to Australia

Sailing to Australia
Author: Andrew Hassam
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1994
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780719045462

Between 1788 and 1880 some 1.3 million free emigrants arrived in Australia from the British Isles. It was a huge transition, both geographically and culturally, and one way of dealing with this appears to have been to write a diary. The surviving diaries offer snapshots of the lives of and experiences of many ordinary people who emigrated.

Colonial Lives Across the British Empire

Colonial Lives Across the British Empire
Author: David Lambert
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2006-11-23
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0521847702

A series of portraits of 'imperial lives' to rethink the history of the British Empire in the nineteenth century.

Missing

Missing
Author: Karin Alvtegen
Publisher: Canongate Books
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2010-08-31
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 184767688X

Can murder and mercy go hand in hand? In The Grand Hotel, a homeless woman charms a businessman into paying for dinner and a room. When his dead body is discovered the following morning she becomes the prime suspect. When a second person is killed in similar circumstances, Sybilla, having left her comfortable middle-class upbringing for the anonymity of the streets, becomes the most wanted person in Sweden . . . Missing is a gripping, multi-faceted thriller; more than a murder-hunt, it is also something more profound : an individual's journey to self-awareness and hope.