Author: James P. Ronda
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Keywords: empire, astoria
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 1993-02-01
List price: $28.95
ISBN-10: 0803289421
ISBN-13: 9780803289420

In his 1836 account Washington Irving immortalized Astoria, but it has been a footnote to the history of western expansion—a doleful reminder of John Jacob Astor’s failed attempt to establish a fur-trading empire at the mouth of the Columbia from 1810 to 1813. Now James P. Ronda makes clear the importance of the Astoria venture in large and complex struggle for national sovereignty in the Northwest. Astoria and Empire is the first modern account and assessment of Astor’s enterprise and the first ever to unravel the tangled skein of Astoria’s international connections. "On t

Author: A.M. Sherwin
Publisher: Happy Media, LLC
Keywords: astoria, greetings, volume, choragus
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2007-02-01
List price: $19.98
ISBN-10: 0615138276
ISBN-13: 9780615138275

Greetings from Astoria is a must read for anyone who is in the internet business, working for a non-profit, naming a company, or on a golf course. It is equal parts business bible, civics lecture, golf yarn, and retrospective. Come sit around the campfire and listen to this song for staying up late, looking for the next big thing.

Author: Robert Viscusi
Publisher: Guernica Editions Inc.
Keywords: series, picas, astoria
Number of Pages: 300
Published: 2004-04-01
List price: $10.00
ISBN-10: 1550711008
ISBN-13: 9781550711004

An experiment in what the author terms "speculative history", this novel tracks the movements of a man haunted by the spirit of his deceased mother and dogged by the notion that Astoria - the Italian neighbourhood in Queens where his mother grew up in the 1920s - is the true capital of the world. In 1986, two years after his mother’s death, the narrator travels from Paris to New York to Rome, unable to escape the shadow of Napoleon, the historical figure he now associates with his mother. Weaving theory upon theory in an attempt to break the hold of these visions, he finds that she repre

Author: Washington Irving
Publisher: Cosimo Classics
Keywords: northwest, pacific, adventure, astoria
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2008-11-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1605202851
ISBN-13: 9781605202853

The wind now springing up, the Tonquin got under way, and stood in to seek the channel; but was again deterred by the frightful aspect of the breakers, from venturing within a league. Here she hove to; and Mr. Mumford, the second mate, was despatched with four hands, in the pinnace, to sound across the channel until he should find four fathoms depth. —from Chapter VII The storied wildness of the American West captured the imagination of Washington Irving as completely as did the cultured romance of Europe, and the native New Yorker had barely returned home, in 1832, from nearly two decad

Author: The Greater Astoria Historical Society
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Keywords: new, york, america, images, bridge, queensboro
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2008-03-19
List price: $21.99
ISBN-10: 073855488X
ISBN-13: 9780738554884

Opened in 1909, the Queensboro Bridge is the longest bridge spanning the East River. The bridge had an immediate and profound effect on the development of Queens from a largely rural area into a bedroom and working community. With its graceful symmetry, the bridge has long been a source of inspiration for artists, songwriters, and authors. Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel made it an icon for the 1960s with the song “The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin’ Groovy),” and more recently it was featured in the movie Spiderman. Through historic photographs, The Queensboro Bridge

Authors:Greater Astoria Historical Society, Thomas Jackson,
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Keywords: america, images, city, island
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2004-10-20
List price: $21.99
ISBN-10: 0738536660
ISBN-13: 9780738536668

Long Island City captures the unique flavor of a former city (1870–1898) nestled between Manhattan and Queens that retains its identity to this day. Created by consolidating Old Astoria Village, Steinway, Ravenswood, Dutch Kills, Blissville, Sunnyside, and the Long Island Rail Road terminal in Hunters Point, it has been an industrial dynamo since the Civil War. It is home to creative people and innovative ideas, the Steinway piano factory, the movie industry, the Information Age, and a growing list of museums and galleries. Minutes from midtown Manhattan, it is again a magnet for new generat

Authors:Washington Irving, James Ronda,
Publisher: Library of America
Keywords: captain, adventures, bonneville, library, america, astoria, prairie, three, irving, western, narratives, tour, washington
Number of Pages: 1024
Published: 2004-01-26
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 1931082537
ISBN-13: 9781931082532

America’s first internationally acclaimed author, Washington Irving, was also one of the first to write about its then far-western frontier. After seventeen years in Europe, the famous author of “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” returned to America and undertook an extensive three-month journey through present-day Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas. Describing scenery and inhabitants with an eye to romantic sublimity and celebrating the frontiersman’s “secret of personal freedom,” Irving published his account of that journey in 1835 as A Tour on the Prairies, an early and distinc