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1969

To Be Young, Gifted, and Black: An Informal Autobiography


Lorraine Hansberry - 1969
    Now, Hansberry tells her own life story in an autobiography that rings with the voice of its creator.

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings


Maya Angelou - 1969
    Her life story is told in the documentary film And Still I Rise, as seen on PBS’s American Masters.Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make the world right. Maya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town, Maya and her brother, Bailey, endure the ache of abandonment and the prejudice of the local “powhitetrash.” At eight years old and back at her mother’s side in St. Louis, Maya is attacked by a man many times her age—and has to live with the consequences for a lifetime. Years later, in San Francisco, Maya learns that love for herself, the kindness of others, her own strong spirit, and the ideas of great authors (“I met and fell in love with William Shakespeare”) will allow her to be free instead of imprisoned. Poetic and powerful, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings will touch hearts and change minds for as long as people read.

Papillon


Henri Charrière - 1969
    Sentenced to life imprisonment in the penal colony of French Guiana, he became obsessed with one goal: escape. After planning and executing a series of treacherous yet failed attempts over many years, he was eventually sent to the notorious prison, Devil's Island, a place from which no one had ever escaped . . . until Papillon. His flight to freedom remains one of the most incredible feats of human cunning, will, and endurance ever undertaken.Charrière's astonishing autobiography, Papillon, was published in France to instant acclaim in 1968, more than twenty years after his final escape. Since then, it has become a treasured classic -- the gripping, shocking, ultimately uplifting odyssey of an innocent man who simply would not be defeated.

Run Baby Run


Nicky Cruz - 1969
    This is the thrilling story of Nicky Cruz's desperate battle against drugs, alcoholism, and a violent environment, as he searched for a better way of life on the streets of New York City.

The Apostle : A Life of Paul


John Charles Pollock - 1969
    As you turn the pages, you'll sense Paul's motives, his aims and priorities; what mattered to him; and what he was willing to die for.

Huey Long


T. Harry Williams - 1969
    Yet, at the time of his death, he had become a serious rival to Franklin Roosevelt for the presidency. In this biography, the first full-scale analysis of Long, this intriguing and incredible man stands wholly revealed and understood.The eminent historian T. Harry Williams has created a work masterly in its scope and detail. This award-winning biography brings fresh life to the sensation-ridden years when Long became a figure of national importance. Huey Long was winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award.

Piaf


Simone Berteaut - 1969
    Written by Simone Beteaut, Edith Piaf's half-sister and lifelong partner in mischief when they sang for tips in the streets, squares, cafés, and military camps, while living in a succession of cheap, squalid hotels during Piaf's early years.

Paul: Apostle of the Heart Set Free


F.F. Bruce - 1969
    While Bruce's primary concern is to portray the life of the apostle Paul, he also examines the main themes of Paul's thought, set in their historical background and illustrated from his letters. Originally published in 1977, this new paperback edition of Paul will be used with profit by all who have an interest in the primitive church--from general readers to the most advanced biblical scholar.

Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters


John Steinbeck - 1969
    It was his way, he said, of "getting my mental arm in shape to pitch a good game."Steinbeck's letters were written on the left-handed pages of a notebook in which the facing pages would be filled with the text of East of Eden. They touched on many subjects - story arguements, trial flights of workmanship, concern for his sons.Part autobiography, part writer's workshop, these letters offer an illuminating perspective on Steinbeck's creative process, and a fascinating glimpse of Steinbeck, the private man.

The Boat Who Wouldn't Float


Farley Mowat - 1969
    Tired of everyday life ashore, Farley Mowat would find a sturdy boat in Newfoundland and roam the salt sea over, free as a bird. What he found was the worst boat in the world, and she nearly drove him mad. The Happy Adventure, despite all that Farley and his Newfoundland helpers could do, leaked like a sieve. Her engine only worked when she felt like it. Typically, on her maiden voyage, with the engine stuck in reverse, she backed out of the harbour under full sail. And she sank, regularly.How Farley and a varied crew, including the intrepid lady who married him, coaxed the boat from Newfoundland to Lake Ontario is a marvellous story. The encounters with sharks, rum-runners, rum and a host of unforgettable characters on land and sea make this a very funny book for readers of all ages.

Hemingway: a Life Story


Carlos Baker - 1969
    1969 HARDCOVER

J.Hudson Taylor: A Man in Christ


Roger Steer - 1969
    Driven by a deep concern for those without Jesus, and having an unshakable confidence in the faithfulness of God, Taylor moved to China at just 21.

Helen Keller


Margaret Davidson - 1969
    The bestselling biography of Helen Keller and how, with the commitment and lifelong friendship of Anne Sullivan, she learned to talk, read, and eventually graduate from college with honors.

RFK: A Memoir


Jack Newfield - 1969
    On the right he has been idolized by Rudy Giuliani and memorialized by Attorney General John Ashcroft, who renamed the Justice Department after him. On the left, his admirers say he represented the last hope of revitalizing the liberal tradition. But who was Robert Kennedy? To acclaimed reporter Jack Newfield, who worked closely with him during his last years, RFK was a human being far different from the myths that surrounded his name. "Part of him was soldier, priest, radical, and football coach. But he was none of these. He was a politician. His enemies said he was consumed with selfish ambition, a ruthless opportunist exploiting his brother's legend. But he was too passionate and too vulnerable ever to be the cool and confident operator his brother was." In this haunting and memorable portrait we see what kind of man died when Robert Kennedy was shot. And what kind of leader America lost.

Tomboy Bride: A Woman's Personal Account of Life in Mining Camps of the West


Harriet Fish Backus - 1969
    New foreword by Pam Houston and afterword by author's grandson Rob Walton are featured.It is a woman named Hattie's personal account of life in the mining camps of the American West, beginning with her marriage to George and concluding in 1964 when George died, literally in her arms. Tomboy Bride is divided into four parts: The San Juans; Britannia Beach; The Heart of Idaho; and Leadville, City in the Clouds. Tomboy Bride is an engaging from the very start, reading more like a novel than a biography.

The Price of my Soul


Bernadette Devlin McAliskey - 1969
    If its name was "Saint Somebody", they know you are a Catholic and you don't get taken on...'In vivid detail, she brings to life the situation which has focused world attention on the North of Ireland...the early marches, and then the shootings, the burnings, the barricades...how she went to America to help her people rebuild their homes...and how she feels today...

Darwin and the Beagle


Alan Moorehead - 1969
    1st Penguin trade 1971 edition paperback vg++ to fine book In stock shipped from our UK warehouse

My life and struggle; autobiography of Badshah Khan


Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan - 1969
    Narang. Badshah Khan was the leader of the Khudai Khidmatgar (also known as the Red Shirts) in NWFP.

Nixon Agonistes: The Crisis of the Self-Made Man


Garry Wills - 1969
    By considering some of the president's opinions, Wills comes to the controversial conclusion that Nixon was actually a liberal. Both entertaining and essential, Nixon Agonistes captures a troubled leader and a struggling nation mired in a foolish Asian war, forfeiting the loyalty of its youth, puzzled by its own power, and looking to its cautious president for confidence. In the end, Nixon Agonistes reaches far beyond its assessment of the thirty-seventh president to become an incisive and provocative analysis of the American political machine.

Our Kate: Catherine Cookson, Her Personal Story


Catherine Cookson - 1969
    This, her autobiography, makes plain how it is she knows her background and her characters so well. The Kate of the title is not Catherine Cookson, but her mother.OUR KATE is about living with hardship and poverty. The story is told from the viewpoint of a highly sensitive child, later the mature woman, whose zest for life and unquenchable sense of humor made Catherine Cookson a warm, engaging writer.

Common Sense Not Needed: Bringing the Gospel to the Mentally Handicapped


Corrie ten Boom - 1969
    In this book, she recounts something of what she learned and experienced while carrying on this work. It will be of interest and encouragement to those working in similar circumstances.

The Movies, Mr. Griffith, And Me


Lillian Gish - 1969
    

My Life with Martin Luther King, Jr.


Coretta Scott King - 1969
    Introduction by the author's children, Bernice, Dexter, Martin, and Yolanda King. 16-page photo insert.

Helen Keller: From Tragedy to Triumph (Childhood of Famous Americans)


Katharine Elliot Wilkie - 1969
    A biography, focusing on the childhood years, of the blind and deaf woman who overcame her handicaps with the help of her teacher, Annie Sullivan.

My Turn at Bat: The Story of My Life


Ted Williams - 1969
     An acclaimed best-seller, My Turn at Bat now features new photographs and, for the first time, Ted's reflections on his managing career and the state of baseball as it is played in the 1980s. It's all here in this brilliant, honest and sometimes angry autobiography -- Williams' childhood days in San Diego, his military service, his unforgettable major league baseball debut and ensuing Hall of Fame career that included two Triple Crowns, two Most Valuable Player awards, six batting championships, five Sporting News awards as Major League Player of the Year, 521 lifetime homeruns and a .344 career batting average. And Williams tells his side of the controversies, from his battles with sportswriters and Boston fans to his single World Series performance and his career with the declining Red Sox of the 1950s. My Turn at Bat belongs in the library of everyone who loves Ted Williams, baseball, or great life stories well-told. Red Barber proclaimed My Turn at Bat to be: "One of the best baseball books I've ever read." John Leonard of The New York Times said My Turn at Bat was "unbuttoned and wholly engaging...the portrait of an original who is unrepentant about being better than anyone else."

John Keats


Robert Gittings - 1969
    One of the great figures of Romanticism, Keats poured his tragically short and troubled life into creating poetry: in Robert Gittings's words, "With no other poet are the life and the works so closely linked". He offers insights into Keats's family background, his financial difficulties, illnesses and unhappy love affair with Fanny Brawne, interpreting evrey poem in the context of Keats's experience. Meticulously researched using original sources, this is the most complete picture of Keats that has ever appeared.Contents: ForewordPrologue to BiographyApprentice YearsYears of TrialThe Living YearThe Last YearEpilogue to LifeAppendices: The Jennings & Sweetinburgh Families Keats' Father Keats & Venereal Disease Keats' Use of BawdyIndex

The Lady and the Sharks


Eugenie Clark - 1969
    When people ask Dr. Eugenie Clark what they should do when they see a big shark underwater, she responds... "if it's over 40 feet long and has spots, jump on its back and get the ride of your life."

Frederick Douglass


Booker T. Washington - 1969
    CONTENTS Chronology Frederick Douglass, the Slave Back to Plantation-Life Escape from Slavery; Learning the Ways of Freedom Beginning of His Public Career Slavery and Anti-Slavery Seeks Refuge in England Home Again as a Freeman - New Problems and New Triumphs Free Colored People and Colonization The Underground Railway and the Fugitive Slave Law Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe and John Brown Forebodings of the Crisis Douglass's Services in the Civil War Early Problems of Freedom Sharing the Responsibilities and Honors of Freedom Further Evidences of Popular Esteem, with Glimpses into the Past Final Honors to the Living and Tributes to the Dead

The Italics Are Mine


Nina Berberova - 1969
    After the Revolution, and the persecution of intellectuals which followed, she was forced to flee to Paris, where she was to remain for 25 years. There she formed part of a group of literary Russian emigres that included Gorky, Bunin, Svetaeva, Nabokov and Akhmatova, and earned a precarious living as a journalist, barely surviving the hardship and poverty of exile. In 1950 she left France for the United States to begin a new life with no money and no knowledge of English. She is now a retired Professor of Russian Literature at Princeton, and has belatedly been acclaimed for the short novels she wrote in the 1930s and '40s.

The Doctors Mayo


Helen Clapesattle - 1969
    The Doctors Mayo (Minnesota)

The Jail Diary Of Albie Sachs


Albie Sachs - 1969
    

Grant Series: Grant Moves South/Grant Takes Command


Bruce Catton - 1969
    Grant trilogy: Catton wrote the 2nd & 3rd volumes of this trilogy, following the publication of Captain Sam Grant in 1950 by historian & biographer Lloyd Lewis, making extensive use of Lewis's historical research, provided by his widow, Kathryn Lewis, who personally selected Catton to continue her husband's work. Grant Moves South (1960) shows the growth of Grant as a military commander, from victories at Forts Henry & Donelson, to Shiloh & Vicksburg. Grant Takes Command (1969) follows Grant from the Battle of Chattanooga in 1863 through Virginia campaigns against Robert E. Lee & the end of the war.

That Untravelled World


Eric Shipton - 1969
    

Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department


Dean Acheson - 1969
    He joined the Department of State in 1941 as Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs and, with brief intermissions, was continuously involved until 1953, when he left office as Secretary of State at the end of the Truman years.Throughout that time Acheson's was one of the most influential minds and strongest wills at work. It was a period that included World War II, the reconstruction of Europe, the Korean War, the development of nuclear power, the formation of the United Nations and NATO. It involved him at close quarters with a cast that starred Truman, Roosevelt, Churchill, de Gaulle, Marshall, MacArthur, Eisenhower, Attlee, Eden Bevin, Schuman, Dulles, de Gasperi, Adenauer, Yoshida, Vishinsky, and Molotov.

Nothing Is Impossible: The Story Of Beatrix Potter


Dorothy Aldis - 1969
    A biography of the woman who created Peter Rabbit as well as other stories read by children all over the world.

Beethoven: Biography of a Genius


George R. Marek - 1969
    He dedicated Beethoven's biography "To the memory of Arturo Toscanini". Portrait of Beethoven shown is complete without the camera "flash". Contents and list of illustration will be sent on request.

Father of Faith Missions: The Life and Times of Anthony Norris Groves (1795-1853)


Robert Bernard Dann - 1969
    His name is not usually mentioned alongside William Carey and Hudson Taylor, but Groves had a pioneering influence that went beyond his personal reach. He and his family followed God's call to Baghdad and India, leaving their comfortable English lives behind. Though he doubted his success as a missionary, Groves' character and ideas shaped the people who followed him as he followed Christ.Exhaustively researched, Father of Faith Missions is not merely about the life of one missionary but also a record of Groves influence on missionary initiatives and the Brethren movement. Drawing upon Groves own journals and letters in addition to copious scholarship, this book is both a journey into history and a reminder that God's faithfulness is as true now as it was then.

Amy Carmichael: Rescuer by Night


Kay Walsh - 1969
    What place is this? Where am I?'Jeya was only four years old and was terrified as she tried to peer about the dark and gloomy temple. Between the pillars was a huge stone body. She shivered when she saw its face. This, she knew, was Kali, the goddess of death and destruction.Why was Jeya there? Who would leave a little girl in the dark like that? Certainly not the God of love - he sent a woman to rescue these children from destruction - Amy Carmichael. And she had been a little girl herself once a little girl with long dark hair, and deep brown eyes. Once she had even begged God to make them blue - but he hadn't. And as Amy leaned over to pick little Jeya up and rescue her from a life of temple-slavery - she was very glad that God hadn't listened to her prayers. Blue eyes were not the eyes of India - but Amy's brown eyes were.

The Life in the Studio


Nancy Hale - 1969
    The daughter of artists details the lives of her parents and her struggle to find her own identity.

Frost The Poet And His Poetry


David A. Sohn - 1969
    

Queen of England: The Story of Elizabeth I


Helene Hanff - 1969
    A biography of Queen Elizabeth I, who, without husband or sons, successfully ruled England for 45 years and made it the most powerful kingdom on the globe.

A Single Summer with L. B.: The Summer of 1816


Derek Marlowe - 1969
    Possibly the most dramatic summer in history. Byron leaves England for ever with his physician Polidori, and settles on the shores of Lake Leman. He meets the Shelleys. Shelley is crazed with laudanum. Mary Shelley begins to write Frankenstein. Her half-sister, Clare, is pregnant by Byron, and pursuing him.Using only biographical fact, Derek Marlowe brilliantly evokes six months that radically change five people, Polidori most of all. Poor 'Polly' had his moments of glory, but by September he was writing, 'We have parted ... our tempers did not agree ... there was no immediate cause, but a continued series of slight quarrels.' An understatement. Between writing six major poems, Bryon had completely destroyed his doctor.

Mary Slessor: Servant to the Slave


Catherine MacKenzie - 1969
    Industry was booming but housing was sub- standard and life expectancy was low. Illness, disease and malnutrition killed many children before they reached the age of five. Mary was lucky - born into a poor family, abused by her father - she was still alive.Dundee was Mary's training ground for a far fiercer battle. Mary left the shores of Scotland while only in her early twenties to immerse herself in reaching the lost tribes of Calibar in West Africa. Her preparation in the slums of Dundee was the key ingredient to her success on the mission field - that and her tireless trust and belief in her Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. He was the reason she was there.Calibar today still remembers Mary Slessor, affectionately known as "Ma," her influence on that area of Africa was astounding.Superstition demanded that families kill twin babies and murder slaves and women at funerals - the Lord Jesus Christ that Mary Slessor brought to these people set them free from all that. They were set free from the law of sin and death.

God Struck Me Dead: Voices of Ex-Slaves


Clifton H. Johnson - 1969
    Gathered from the Fisk Social Science Institute's massive study during the 1930s on race relations, and originally published by the Pilgrim Press in 1969, this volume is a rich resource of liberation from those whose faith was borne and tested by the cruelest of human degradations - slavery. Includes a preface by Paul Radin, author and expert on primal religion.

Saturday at M.I.9: The Classic Account of the WW2 Allied Escape Organisation


Airey Neave - 1969
    The narrative is aimed at a general audience. Distributed in the US by Casemate. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Jennie: The Life of Lady Randolph Churchill, Vol 2


Ralph G. Martin - 1969
    But the Brooklyn-born Jennie was also the most fascinating and desirable woman of her age, the toast and the scandal of two continents throughout her long life.Volume II, THE DRAMATIC YEARS, tells the second half of her life with its many love affairs, two later marriages and numerous ventures. Through it all she remained if not a devoted mother, then one who encouraged the aspiration of her two sons, one of whom was destined to greatness."A captivating biography about a mid-Victorian `modern' woman who was villified, envied, loved, loathed--but never ignored." (The Cleveland Press)

The Throwaway Children


Lisa Aversa Richette - 1969
    

Great Slave Narratives


Arna Bontemps - 1969
    Three selected narratives exemplify an interesting, sometimes little-known area of American Negro history and writing.

A field of buttercups


Joe Hyams - 1969
    Three years later the Treblinka II extermination camp was opened and each day more than 5000 Jews were shipped in freight cars from Warsaw to its gas chambers. On August 5th, 1942 Korczak was offered the chance to save himself. He declined. Later, at Treblinka, he and the children were gassed to death. This book is a moving addition to World War Two archives.

A History of Greek Philosophy 3: The Fifth-Century Enlightenment


W.K.C. Guthrie - 1969
    A History of Greek Philosophy Volume III: The Fifth-Century Enlightenment - Part 1: The Sophists; Part 2: Socrates (1971)

The Honeycomb


Adela Rogers St. Johns - 1969
    

My Lives & How I Lost Them


Countee Cullen - 1969
    

The Ethnography of Franz Boas: Letters and Diaries of Franz Boas Written on the Northwest Coast...


Franz Boas - 1969
    

Newman the Oratorian: Oratory Papers (1846 - 1878)


John Henry Newman - 1969
    As Superior, Newman wanted his community to consist of responsible persons bound together by tact and discretion, obeying an unwritten law of love. He exercised endless patience in his desire to preserve this 'weaponless state' of the Oratory in spite of tensions, dissensions, opposition and even separation.Each paper has been transcribed from the original manuscripts in the Birmingham Oratory Archives, and has been provided with a succinct introduction and notes.The editor has, moreover, furnished a full-length introductory study on Newman's spirituality as a priest against the background of the Anglican Ministry (1824-45), since it is true to say that Newman learned to live as a priest while still an Anglican. Four major areas of his Anglican ministry - the Care of Souls, Preaching, the Eucharistic Ministry and Prayer - have been closely examined both in themselves and in their renewed appearance in Newman's life as a Catholic priest.The editor, Fr Placid Murray, is a Benedictine monk of Glenstal Abbey, Ireland.

The Reluctant Admiral: Yamamoto and the Imperial Navy


Hiroyuki Agawa - 1969
    The individual is the Japanese admiral who, as architect of the Pearl Harbor raid and commander of the Combined Fleet throughout the first part of World War II, is one of the most widely known of Japanese wartime leaders. The organization is the Japanese Imperial Navy, whose "gentlemanly" traditions and outlook contrasted strongly with those of the Japanese army and whose failure to check the latter in its headstrong course makes one of the sadder episodes of recent history.Here, for the first time, Yamamoto emerges as the complex, sympathetic, and in many ways contradictory character that he was. A realist who foresaw the future importance of the airplane for the navy long before his contemporaries and who believed that Japan would inevitably be defeated in any war with America and Britain, he was also an inveterate gambler with an odd streak of superstition. A tough leader, he had at the same time a vein of sentimentality that would allow him to burst into tears at the funeral of a young subordinate. In public the very epitome of the dignified national hero, in private he often showed a schoolboyish playfulness that was sometimes endearing and occasionally embarrassing. He was always ready to express his views with a frankness uncommon in his day, yet he revealed in the end the same readiness as most of his fellow countrymen to accept passively "the call of duty."The author, refusing the temptation to indulge in speculation or "reconstruction," has gone straight to the original sources--accounts written by those who worked with Yamamoto; scores of interviews with men and women who knew him personally; above all, letters written by Yamamoto himself. The latter range from his more circumspect, semi-official communications to intimate letters addressed to his mistress or long-standing friends of both sexes, in which he bares his private doubts and pessimism. It is these personal documents and reminiscences that make the character so human and, ultimately, give such a moving quality to the account of his dramatic wartime death in the South Pacific.An intimate portrait of the man who planned the attack on Pearl Harbor and died a dramatic death in the South Pacific.

Ingmar Bergman


Robin Wood - 1969
    Illustrated with b&w film stills; includes Biography & Bibliography.NotesIntroductionParents & VictimsInnocence & ExperienceBroken DreamsLessons in LoveDoubts & FearsThe Isaksson FilmsThe TrilogyIntermezzoThe World Without, The World WithinFilmography

Life At The Limit


Graham Hill - 1969
    

Voyager: A Life of Hart Crane


John E. Unterecker - 1969
    

They Call Me Mister 500


Anthony Granatelli - 1969
    Book by Granatelli, Anthony

Once Caught, No Escape My Life Story


Norman P. Grubb - 1969
    This riveting account of his life includes a fascinating description of missionary life in the early 1900’s in the heart of Africa, his memories of World War I army days, and his little-known role in the development of the Christian Literature Crusade and Intervarsity Fellowship. Norman shares the three spiritual crises that shaped his life—his salvation, his identity in Christ, and his seeming loss of faith. How he forever settled his Galatians 2:20 identity by faith is critical to an understanding of his life and serve as a roadmap for all facing the same heart cry, and his interpretation of his final crisis is a superb and concise summary of what he came to call the total truth, expanded and developed in his later works and was to become the keystone of his theology for the rest of his life. In the foreword to Once Caught, No Escape, Norman says that he has written “straight out of my heart and mind,” and that he has surely done. He writes with unreserved honesty, self-deprecating humor, and profound insight. He was a man drenched in the scriptures, and totally dedicated to sharing the great truth of Jesus Christ—our savoir, indweller, and life. He laid down his life that many others might come to know who they are in Christ, and paid the intercessor’s price to do so. The book is aptly titled, for once God “captured” him, Norman was driven to share the truth he knew, no matter the cost.

Blake Records


G.E. Bentley Jr. - 1969
    This fascinating book collects all the known documentary records relating to Blake's long and productive life. Distinguished Blake expert, G. E. Bentley, Jr., editor of the first edition of Blake Records and Blake Records Supplement, brings together new and updated material on Blake's life, career, family, friends, and patrons. The result of decades of research, this book is comprehensive, accessible, and highly enlightening.

Bill Bright: Dare To Be Different


Kim Twitchell - 1969
    his name was Bill. Few would have thought that this scruffy little rancher's son would grow up to be a smart, confident, well spoken young gentleman.Nobody would have thought that he would grow up to head up one of the biggest missions that America, or the world had ever known.Campus Crusade was just the beginning though. Soon there were missions to students, the military, athletes and Hollywood actors - and then Bill was involved in making a film himself - a film about the one he loved above all else - Jesus.

Autobiographical Writings


Mark Twain - 1969
    Born on November 30, 1835, in Florida, Missouri, Samuel Langhorne Clemens first used the pseudonym Mark Twain while a journalist in Nevada in 1863. When his first major book, The Innocents Abroad, appeared six years later, he began what would become one of the most celebrated and influential careers in American letters. Autobiographical Writings will help readers know the author intimately and appreciate why, a century after his death, he remains so vital and appealing.This edition includes an introduction by R. Kent Rasmussen that summarizes modern scholarship on Twain.Mark Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens on 30th November 1835, in Florida, Missouri. In 1853 he left home, earning a living as an itinerant type-setter, and four years later became an apprentice pilot on the Mississippi, a career cut short by the outbreak of the Civil War. For five years, as a prospector and a journalist, Clemens lived in Nevada and California. In February 1863 he first used the pseudonym 'Mark Twain' as the signature to a humorous travel letter. A trip to Europe and the Holy Land in 1867 became the basis of his first major book, The Innocents Abroad (1869). His numerous subsequent books include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), A Tramp Aborad (1880), The Prince and the Pauper (1882), and his masterpiece, The Adventures of Huckleberry Fin (1885). He died on 21st April 1910.R. Kent Rasmussen is the author or editor of six books on Mark Twain and more than a dozen other books. He is best known for his award-winning Mark Twain A to Z (recently revised as the two-volume Critical Companion to Mark Twain) and The Quotable Mark Twain. He holds a doctorate in history from UCLA and currently works as a reference book editor in Southern California.

Having Been a Soldier


Colin Mitchell - 1969
    Within a few moths the Government had decided to disband the Regiment, and Mitchell had retired from the Army. This account of his Army life, which began in the Home Guard when he was fifteen, reveals him as a man of strong principles and ambitions, courage and intellectual accomplishment.

The Shepherd of the Ocean: An Account of Sir Walter Ralegh and His Times


Jack H. Adamson - 1969
    List of IllustrationsForewordAcknowledgmentsThe Land & the PeopleRalegh & the French Wars of ReligionInterlude in EnglandRalegh in IrelandUtopia in the New WorldThe Queen's LoverRalegh & the English NavyThe Land of the Virgin QueenRalegh & the ArmadaAnerican & Irish ColoniesThe Lovers' QuarrelDisgrace & the TowerThe Golden EmpireThe Fights at Cadiz & FayalRalegh as ParliamentarianThe End of an AgeThe Justice of the RealmThe King's PrisonerThe Final VoyageThe Death of Sir Walter RaleghSelect BibliographyIndex

Joan of Arc: Her Life as Told in "A History of the English Speaking Peoples"


Winston S. Churchill - 1969
    

The Swift Years: The Robert Oppenheimer Story


Peter Michelmore - 1969
    

Manet and His Critics


George Heard Hamilton - 1969
    These realists are capable of anything!"), some knowledgeable and some not. Mr. Hamilton's book assesses the range of these reactions, and the result is an illuminating study of the relation of Manet's painting and its principles to the contemporary practices of 19th-century French art.

A North-Side View of Slavery: The Refugee, Or, the Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada.


Benjamin Drew - 1969
    Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more.Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more.Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington LibraryDocumentID: SABCP01025900CollectionID: CTRG93-B770PublicationDate: 18560101SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to AmericaNotes: Collation: xii, 387 p