North America category: 699 books
US ARMY Survival Manual FM 21-76
Department of The Army Field Manual
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
FM 21-76 SURVIVAL. 649 pages + 1 blank page with Black and White Illustrations and a section of color pictures. Teaches many skills to survive.
Some of the chapters are: Survival Actions, Pattern For Survival, Psychology for Survival, Survival planning, Basic Survival Medicine, Survival...
A French Girl On The Prairie
An unusual and fascinating true story set within French and American history.
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2012
In 1910, at only 12 years old Marie Delos leaves Paris for Montana with her mother, having arranged to meet up with a cousin. She tells the story of her incredibly hard life, in the middle of a spectacular and dangerous land. An unusual and fascinating narrative set within French and American history.
Firearms, Traps, and Tools of the Mountain Men
A Guide to the Equipment of the Trappers and Fur Traders Who Opened the Old West
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2010
This classic, scholarly history of the fur trappers and traders of the early nineteenth century focuses on the devices that enabled the opening of the untracked American west. Sprinkled with interesting facts and old western lore, this guide to traps and tools is also a lively history. The era of...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2012
*Includes pictures of Mayan buildings, art, hieroglyphics, numbers, and more. *Includes a Table of ContentsMany ancient civilizations have influenced and inspired people in the 21st century. The Greeks and Romans continue to fascinate the West today. But of all the worlds civilizations, none have intrigued...
by Sara Tuval Bernstein
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1999
"From its opening pages, in which she recounts her own premature birth, triggered by terrifying rumors of an incipient pogrom, Bernstein' s tale is clearly not a typical memoir of the Holocaust. She was born into a large family in rural Romania?and grew up feisty and willing to fight back physically...
by John Goddard
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Inside the Museums views Toronto’s heritage museums for the first time as a single community — linked by events, personalities, and function. In this special excerpt we visit one of the jewels in Toronto’s historical crown: Fort York. This fort was the famous site of the Battle of York in 1813...
by Various Authors, Benjamin Franklin
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2016
“The Oxford Book of American Essays” is a diverse collection of carefully-selected essays by notable and influential American writers and essayists. With contributions from such seminal figures as Washington Irvine, Francis Hopkinson, and Benjamin Franklin, this is a book that will appeal to all...
by J. Hector
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2013
This vintage book contains a collection of letters written by an American farmer on Nantucket island, Massachusetts in the late eighteenth century. Within the letters, the author describes to a friend in England his life as a farmer, while also explaining the manners and customs of the local inhabitants....
by William T. Vollmann
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2009
From the author of Europe Central, winner of the National Book Award, a journalistic tour de force along the Mexican-American border – a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award
For generations of migrant workers, Imperial Country has held the promise of paradise and the reality...
It Happened In Nevada
Remarkable Events that Shaped History
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2010
Written in a lively, easy-to-read style, this book features approximately 30 stories written for history buffs of all ages.
Coffin Ship
The Wreck of the Brig St. John
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2009
The tragic tale of the sinking of the famine ship, the St. John in Massachusetts Bay in 1849. The Great Irish Famine drove huge numbers of Irish men and women to leave the island and pursue their survival in foreign lands. In 1847, some 200,000 people sailed for Boston alone. Of this massive group,...
Native Diasporas
Indigenous Identities and Settler Colonialism in the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
The arrival of European settlers in the Americas disrupted indigenous lifeways, and the effects of colonialism shattered Native communities. Forced migration and human trafficking created a diaspora of cultures, languages, and people. Gregory D. Smithers and Brooke N. Newman have gathered the work...
Native American History
A Chronology of a Culture's Vast Achievements and Their Links to World Events
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2012
A NEW PERSPECTIVE ON NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY:
A CHRONOLOGICAL ACCOUNT OF ITS PLACE ON THE WORLD STAGE.
Native American History is a breakthrough reference guide, the first book of its kind to recognize and explore the rich, unfolding experiences of the indigenous American peoples as they evolved against...
by Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 5, 2012
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 5, 2012
Esta narrativa es la más interesante y fácil de leer de todas las "cartas de Indias" por ser la más extraña e irónica. Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca pensó viajar a América como muchos héroes antes de él y ganar su fortuna y su honra. Un fracaso tras otro -- de los que él nunca tiene la culpa...