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| Author | : John Williams |
| Publisher | : New York Review of Books |
| Total Pages | : 297 |
| Release | : 2011-03-30 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1590174240 |
Now a major motion picture starring Nicolas Cage and directed by Gabe Polsky. In his National Book Award–winning novel Augustus, John Williams uncovered the secrets of ancient Rome. With Butcher’s Crossing, his fiercely intelligent, beautifully written western, Williams dismantles the myths of modern America. It is the 1870s, and Will Andrews, fired up by Emerson to seek “an original relation to nature,” drops out of Harvard and heads west. He washes up in Butcher’s Crossing, a small Kansas town on the outskirts of nowhere. Butcher’s Crossing is full of restless men looking for ways to make money and ways to waste it. Before long Andrews strikes up a friendship with one of them, a man who regales Andrews with tales of immense herds of buffalo, ready for the taking, hidden away in a beautiful valley deep in the Colorado Rockies. He convinces Andrews to join in an expedition to track the animals down. The journey out is grueling, but at the end is a place of paradisal richness. Once there, however, the three men abandon themselves to an orgy of slaughter, so caught up in killing buffalo that they lose all sense of time. Winter soon overtakes them: they are snowed in. Next spring, half-insane with cabin fever, cold, and hunger, they stagger back to Butcher’s Crossing to find a world as irremediably changed as they have been.
| Author | : Adrian Greaves |
| Publisher | : Hachette UK |
| Total Pages | : 352 |
| Release | : 2012-06-28 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1409125726 |
A new and complete history of Zululand, and its destruction at the hands of the British in 1879. This book is not only a complete history of the Zulus but also an account of the way the British won absolute rule in South Africa. In the early decades of the nineteenth century, Shaka Zulu established a nation in south-east Africa which was to become the most politically sophisticated and militarily powerful black nation in the entire area. Although the Zulus never had any quarrel with their British neighbours, the rulers of the Cape Colony could not conceive of them as anything but a threat. In 1879, under dubious pretences, the British finally crossed the Buffalo River, and embarked on a bloody war that was to rock the very foundations of the British Empire. The story is studded with tales of incredible heroism, drama and atrocity on both sides: the Battle of Isandlwana, where the Zulus inflicted on the British the worst defeat a modern army has ever suffered at the hands of men without guns; Rorke's Drift, where a handful of British troops beat off thousands of Zulu warriors and won a record 11 VCs; and Ulundi, where the Zulus were finally crushed in a battle that was to herald some of the most shameful episodes in British Colonial history. Comprehensive, vast in scope, and filled with original and up-to-date research, this is a book that is set to replace all standard works on the subject.
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| Total Pages | : 132 |
| Release | : 1992 |
| Genre | : Railroad accidents |
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| Total Pages | : 124 |
| Release | : 1990 |
| Genre | : Railroad accidents |
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| Author | : Loren D. Estleman |
| Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
| Total Pages | : 233 |
| Release | : 2014-09-29 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 080614775X |
"The Wister Trace: Second Edition" will be a work of literary criticism consisting of the twenty-nine original essays on classic western novels found in the first edition and additional essays of commentary and criticism on such authors as Larry McMurtry, Cormack McCarthy, Willa Cather, Jane Smiley, St. Clair Robson, Dorothy Johnson, Margaret Coel, Tony Hillerman, Richard Wheeler, and Don Coldsmith. The new edition will consist of at least 25% new material. This new edition serves as a unique and informative critique of western fiction authors and offers a much updated version of the original"--
| Author | : United States. Interstate Commerce Commission |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 722 |
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| Genre | : Railroad accidents |
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| Author | : Trevor J. Hughes |
| Publisher | : CRC Press |
| Total Pages | : 449 |
| Release | : 2022-12-19 |
| Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
| ISBN | : 1000830713 |
This interesting book offers an analysis of man-made catastrophes and asks why they continue to occur. 87 catastrophes or near-catastrophes, including high profile cases such as the Bhopal gas disaster, Grenfell Tower, Shoreham Air Show crash, Brumadinho dam collapse and Fukushima Daiichi, are described together with the reasons why they occurred and why over 50 different safety management approaches and techniques failed to prevent them. Featuring 63 eye opening stories from the author’s own personal experience and over 200 pitfalls in safety management approaches, this title is illustrated by 24 hypothetical cases in which the reader is asked to consider the approach they would take. Safety management techniques discussed include operating practices, personnel selection and emergency response. Safety management approaches including safety governance in organisations, along with the role of government and local authorities using the instruments of the law are extensively discussed. The work concludes with imaginative and creative ways forward with the aim to make considerable progress and to potentially eliminate man-made catastrophes for good. This title will be an ideal read for safety managers and engineers, community leaders in civic duties or labour union roles and professionals tasked with stopping and mitigating the impacts of man-made catastrophes, along with non-technical readers who are curious and concerned.
| Author | : New York (State) |
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| Total Pages | : 1052 |
| Release | : 1926 |
| Genre | : Session laws |
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| Author | : Pennsylvania. Courts |
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| Total Pages | : 958 |
| Release | : 1923 |
| Genre | : Law reports, digests, etc |
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| Author | : Virginia Frances Schwartz |
| Publisher | : Scholastic Canada |
| Total Pages | : 229 |
| Release | : 2013-02-01 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1443124656 |
An inspiring tale of fugitive slave who finds freedom in Canada, but still struggles to find a real home. Eleven-year-old Solomon is a fugitive slave on a dangerous journey north to Canada, and to freedom. His young life has seen many losses: his mother was sold in a slave auction when he was a baby; his father escaped from the plantation and hasn't been seen in five years; and now his grandfather, who has been injured during the last leg of their journey to freedom, and is forced to stay behind.Solomon continues with their group leader, but his feelings of loss and isolation haunt him, as he attempts to forge a new home in Canada. It soon becomes apparent that racial prejudices know no borders, and while Solomon works hard and begins to experience some newfound freedoms, he faces discrimination and segregation and lives with the ongoing fear of being caught by slavecatchers and dragged back to the South. With all of these barriers facing him, Solomon must find the strength — the same strength that brought him north, the same strength that gives him hope of finding his father — to persevere and understand the true meaning of freedom.
