Memoir & Biography

ISBN: 9780872332867
Published by : Bauhan Publishing
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ISBN: 9780872332584
Published by : Bauhan Publishing
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Sydney M. Williams, Jr., joined the American army in 1944 and served in the 10th Mountain Division in Italy until his release in 1945. All during that time he wrote letters home to his beloved wife, Mary. This collection includes correspondence wi... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9788869771811
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Literature
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Writing a biography about Pessoa is a seemingly impossible task. The great Portuguese poet did not have just one life, but his existence virtually exploded in over a hundred different personalities. Only by placing oneself close to Pessoa, only by... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780819576842
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Series: The Driftless Connecticut Series & Garnet Books
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Henry ‘Opukaha‘ia (ca. 1792–1818), Native Hawaiian, and Itankusun Wanbli (ca. 1879–1900), Oglala Lakota, lived almost a century apart. Yet the cultural circumstances that led them to leave their homelands and eventually die in Connecticut have str... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780996748032
Published by : International Polar Institute
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In the ’40s and ’50s many men from Denmark traveled to Greenland to work. Here they met Greenlandic women—which more than once resulted in pregnancies. Many of these men then returned to Denmark, which meant that the children grew up as illegitima... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781512601664
Published by : University Press of New England
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Of all the many biographies of Theodore Roosevelt, none has presented the twenty-sixth president as he saw himself: as a man of letters. This fascinating account traces Roosevelt’s lifelong engagement with books and discusses his writings from chi... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780872332522
Published by : Bauhan Publishing
Francelia Clark finds and follows two of the oldest trails in New Hampshire’s Monadnock region into history—on horseback. Along the way she studies the cellar holes and rock remains of houses, wells, and walled cow paths, as well as old journals, ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781512600513
Published by : University Press of New England
Edna Edith Sayers has written the definitive biography of T. H. Gallaudet (1787–1851), celebrated today as the founder of deaf education in America. Sayers traces Gallaudet’s work in the fields of deaf education, free common schools, literacy, tea... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780887486241
Published by : Carnegie Mellon University Press
Mickey Rourke and the Bluebird of Happiness contains selections taken from Simone Di Piero’s notebooks going back thirty years. His notebooks offer evidence of a poet’s inner life and have been for him a kind of mute conversation partner. They tes... .... Learn More