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Most of his books were written for young readers, including several volumes of Zig-Zag Journeys, the Knight of Liberty, In the Boyhood of Lincoln, Great Composers, The Patriot Schoolmaster, Songs of History, The Wampum Belt; or, The Fairest Page of History (about William Penn and his 1682 treaty with the Lenape people), Poems and Ballads, and ...
Journey, a novel by James Michener published in 1989, was expanded from a section originally cut from his large novel Alaska (1988). The book depicts five men, one of whom being an English Lord (Lord Luton), who journey from Great Britain through Canada to Dawson, Yukon in 1897-99 to participate in the Klondike gold rush .
Chronicles the failed 1988 presidential campaign of democratic candidate Michael Dukakis.Didion takes as her central image a campaign stop in which Dukakis, for the benefit of news cameras, tossed a baseball with an aide on the tarmac of an airport runway, an event duly reported as news by a number of journalists "all of whom believed it to be a setup and yet most of whom believed that only an ...
The story is told from the perspective of Say, who narrates his grandfather’s immigration between Japan and the United States. [1] Say’s grandfather subsequently moves back to Japan. [ 2 ] Released by Houghton Mifflin , the book was positively received by critics and reviewers, and Say received the Caldecott Medal for illustration in 1994.
A journey planner, trip planner, or route planner is a specialized search engine used to find an optimal means of travelling between two or more given locations, sometimes using more than one transport mode. [1] [2] Searches may be optimized on different criteria, for example fastest, shortest, fewest changes, cheapest. [3]
The Following Story (Dutch: Het volgende verhaal) is a 1991 postmodern novel by the Dutch writer Cees Nooteboom. Translations into German ( Die folgende Geschichte ) and French ( L'histoire suivante ) also appeared that year. [ 1 ]
Tiya: A Parrot's Journey Home is a book written by Swami Samarpanananda. The narrative follows the journey of a parrot as it meanders through various lands, seeking to transcend its own limitations. The narrative follows the journey of a parrot as it meanders through various lands, seeking to transcend its own limitations.
Enrique's Journey: The Story of a Boy's Dangerous Odyssey to Reunite with his Mother was a national best-seller by Sonia Nazario about a 17-year-old boy from Honduras who travels to the United States in search of his mother. It was first published in 2006 by Random House.