Author: Victoria Brooks
Publisher: GreatestEscapes.com Publishing
Keywords: famous, food, faces, places
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2004-06
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 096861373X
ISBN-13: 9780968613733
Great authors have always left their mark on their landscapes. In Famous Faces, Famous Places & Famous Food, Victoria Brooks travels the planet in search of them, illuminating their fascinating lives with the exotic, sometimes erotic ink of their chosen lands. This collection of biographical and culinary wanderlust includes her personal experience with the amazing and lively Arthur C. Clarke in terrorist-torn Sri Lanka, her heart-wrenching visit with the late literary beacon Paul Bowles in seedy Tangier, and a visit with mystery writer and steeplechaser Dick Francis in the banker’s h
Author: Maya Glass
Publisher: Rosen Publishing Group
Keywords: famous, american, history, people, first, adams, abigail, lady
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2003-09
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 0823941000
ISBN-13: 9780823941001
Introduces the life of Abigail Adams, the wife of President John Adams, who was much more independent than many women of her time, running a farm in her husband’s absence and speaking and writing about women’s rights.
Author: Maya Glass
Publisher: Rosen Publishing Group
Keywords: famous, american, history, people, first, adams, abigail, lady
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2003-06
List price: $10.00
ISBN-10: 0823941728
ISBN-13: 9780823941728
Introduces the life of Abigail Adams, the wife of President John Adams, who was much more independent than many women of her time, running a farm in her husband’s absence and speaking and writing about women’s rights.
Author: Enid Blyton
Publisher: Hodder Children’s Books
Keywords: five, famous, top, smuggler
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2001-07-19
List price: $7.52
ISBN-10: 0340796189
ISBN-13: 9780340796184
Can there still be smugglers at Smuggler’s Top? The Famous Five go to stay at the large old house, and discover lots of brilliant hiding places, even underground tunnels! Then they catch people signaling out to sea - who are they?
Author: Esther Singleton
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Keywords: famous, writers, paintings, described
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2004-04-16
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 1417909404
ISBN-13: 9781417909407
1902. With Numerous Illustrations. Essays written by such authors as F.A. Gruyer, John Ruskin, Cosmo Monkhouse, Carl Justi, F. G. Stephens, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Theopile Gautier and J. Buisson on works by Raphael, Crivelli, Van Eyck, Velasquez, Titian, Gainsborough, Carpaccio, Rembrandt, Reynolds, Rubens, Correggio and da Vinci.
Author: Charles H. L. Johnston
Publisher: Ayer Co Pub
Keywords: famous, ser, scouts, leaders
Number of Pages: 340
Published: 1910-06
List price: $23.00
ISBN-10: 0836926617
ISBN-13: 9780836926613
1910. Including trappers, pioneers, and soldiers of the Frontier. Their hazardous and exciting adventures in the mighty drama of the White conquest of the American continent. These are stories of men who, impelled by love of adventure and fascinated by wild nature, deserted the places where those of their kind clustered together in towns, cities and small settlements, to plunge into a country peopled by men of a hostile race. Sample contents: Lewis and Clarke, the first bold explorers to reach the Pacific by the northern route; General Sam Houston, the savior of Texas; Kit Carson, the Nestor o
Author: Eric Marcus
Publisher: Anova Books
Keywords: famous, expecting, worst, ruminations, quotations, observations, pessimisms, thoughts
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2007-03-01
List price: $8.95
ISBN-10: 1861059086
ISBN-13: 9781861059086
Bad things happen to everyone, and this collection provides just the right dose of irreverence to help you laugh at life and all its nasty surprises. Inspired by the author’s profoundly pessimistic grandmother, it offers wry, world-weary ruminations on a sampler of life’s themes, including: Health ("The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not." —Mark Twain); Love ("The surest way to be alone is to get married." —Gloria Steinem); and Money ("I have enough money to last the rest of
