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Author | : John Boynton Priestley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 1955 |
Genre | : Indians of North America |
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In this wise, witty and highly original book, Mr. and Mrs. Priestley record their impressions and opinions after a recent visit to the American Southwest. In the course of their separate excursions, Jacquetta Hawkes took the high road to Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico to explore the ancient culture of the Pueblo, Navaho and Zuni Indians, their arts and crafts and their immemorial rites. J.B. Priestley took the low road to Dallas and Ft. Worth to investigate the glaringly new cities, the material prosperity and the neon-lighted, mass-produced world which exist there--but as Mr. Priestley points out, are not confined to Texas or, for that matter, even to the United States. The differences between these two ways of life--the earliest and the latest on this continent--and the inferences to be drawn from their uneasy coexistence are strikingly presented in this delightful collaboration. In provocative contrast to the modern world which Mr. Priestley describes with wit and candid good humor, are the ancient Indian ceremonies, the desert landscapes, the communities of Santa Fe and Los Alamos of which Miss Hawkes writes vividly and significantly. The authors' purpose, which was to observe man--on the one hand in a primitive society such as still exists in New Mexico, and on the other in the booming technocracy of the mid-twentieth century--is well served by an archaeologist who is also a poet, and a novelist who is as well a student of man as a social animal. Journey Down a Rainbow, made up of the Priestley's spontaneous and frank exchange of ideas and impressions, will give Texans, and their fellow Americans alike, a fresh eye for the Southwest as a source of our prehistoric roots and as the prime example of the modern world in the making. The book is sure to disturb as well as entertain its readers.
Author | : John Boynton Priestley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 237 |
Release | : 1957 |
Genre | : Indians of North America |
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Author | : John Boynton Priestley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 1900 |
Genre | : New Mexico |
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Author | : John Boynton Priestley |
Publisher | : London : Heinemann-Cresset |
Total Pages | : 237 |
Release | : 1957 |
Genre | : Indians of North America |
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Author | : Christie Hsiao |
Publisher | : BenBella Books, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 2013-11-11 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1939529247 |
New York Times Bestseller Yu-ning thinks her perfect life on Rainbow Island will never end—until a nasty dragon called the Obsidigon returns from beyond the grave. Now her beloved island is in flames, her best friend has been kidnapped, and the island’s Sacred Crystals have been stolen. To make matters worse, she must venture into the dark corners of the world to uncover secrets best ignored, find a weapon thought long destroyed, and recapture seven sacred stones—without being burned to a crisp by a very angry dragon. With the help of her master teacher, Metatron, Yu-ning embarks on a dangerous journey to overcome not only the darkness attacking her home, but also the scars of sadness that mark her own heart. And while most people just see a normal kid, Metatron—and a few other unlikely allies—pledge their lives to the dark-eyed little girl with a magic bow and a crooked grin.
Author | : Roger Fagge |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 2011-12-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1441104801 |
An intellectual biography, following the development of Priestley's thought from his engagement with social themes to his subsequent disillusion in the post-war period.
Author | : George Comeaux |
Publisher | : Createspace Indie Pub Platform |
Total Pages | : 26 |
Release | : 2009-12-01 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9781439210727 |
A Rainbow Journey is an inspirational verse of affirmation for a special mentor, relative, or friend, especially members of “The Greatest Generation.” An Elder invites a Protégé on an allegorical trip to a rainbow, imparting a life lesson on each band of the rainbow. Weary at the end of the journey, from his “patience, sacrifice, and perseverance,” the Elder confesses, “I never touched a rainbow.” The protégé responds: “You touched me!” and interprets the meaning of the Rainbow, blessing the Elder for showing him the colors of “Peace, Pardon, and Love!” Watercolor illustrations by Mary T. Bodio beautifully enhance the forty-eight verses. The last illustration is a Full Circle Rainbow, seen only above the clouds from an airplane or high altitude vista.
Author | : Alan Bullock |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 966 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 9780393046960 |
Nearly four thousand entries cover terms in all disciplines contributed by experts in each field, with suggestions for further reading.
Author | : David M. Wrobel |
Publisher | : UNM Press |
Total Pages | : 331 |
Release | : 2013-10-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0826353711 |
This thoughtful examination of a century of travel writing about the American West overturns a variety of popular and academic stereotypes. Looking at both European and American travelers’ accounts of the West, from de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America to William Least Heat-Moon’s Blue Highways, David Wrobel offers a counter narrative to the nation’s romantic entanglement with its western past and suggests the importance of some long-overlooked authors, lively and perceptive witnesses to our history who deserve new attention. Prior to the professionalization of academic disciplines, the reading public gained much of its knowledge about the world from travel writing. Travel writers found a wide and respectful audience for their reports on history, geography, and the natural world, in addition to reporting on aboriginal cultures before the advent of anthropology as a discipline. Although in recent decades western historians have paid little attention to travel writing, Wrobel demonstrates that this genre in fact offers an important and rich understanding of the American West—one that extends and complicates a simple reading of the West that promotes the notions of Manifest Destiny or American exceptionalism. Wrobel finds counterpoints to the mythic West of the nineteenth century in such varied accounts as George Catlin’s Adventures of the Ojibbeway and Ioway Indians in England, France, and Belgium (1852), Richard Francis Burton’s The City of the Saints (1861), and Mark Twain’s Following the Equator (1897), reminders of the messy and contradictory world that people navigated in the past much as they do in the present. His book is a testament to the instructive ways in which the best travel writers have represented the West.
Author | : Gill Plain |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 441 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1107119014 |
Examines debates central to postwar British culture, showing the pressures of reconstruction and the mutual implication of war and peace.