Robert Campbell: 53 books

From 1836... These first-person accounts of a trapper's life in the Rockies were letters written by Robert Campbell to his brother. They were first published as a serial in the National Atlas and Tuesday Morning Mail (Philadelphia), Nov 1 - Dec 6, 1836 giving eastern Americans a view onto the wild...

A Narrative of Colonel Robert Campbell's Experiences in the Rocky Mountain Fur Trade from 1825 to 1835 is an interesting memoir from the time of booming fur trade out of Missouri and farther west.

Raymond Chandler hat ihn erfunden, Humphrey Bogart hat ihn unnachahmlich gespielt: Privatdetektiv Philip Marlowe. Nun wird die Kultfigur der Krimi-Literatur in dieser einzigartigen, von Christian Dörge zusammengestellten und herausgegebenen Anthologie zu neuem Leben erweckt in 23 Kriminal-Geschichten...

Before Alaska became a mining bonanza, it was a scenic bonanza, a place larger in the American imagination than in its actual borders. Prior to the great Klondike Gold Rush of 1897, thousands of scenic adventurers journeyed along the Inside Passage, the nearly thousand-mile sea-lane that snakes up...

Two novellas, “I Am a Freight Train” and “The Fields Are Ripe for Harvest,” compose “The Byrds of Victory” -- the stories of Preacher Byrd, who fights in the South Pacific during World War II and returns to his small Texas Panhandle hometown to work as a blacksmith-welder and to join black...

The Education controversy has been a saddening one. So little has there been of mutual understanding, so much of deep-seated, if not determined, suspicion and bitterness. Now there is a pause for a time; a pause of an uneasy and anxious character. There are, after all, important questions...

In the late summer of 1630, 23-year old Li Bing writes the provincial level imperial examinations, the first step towards entering the Chinese civil service. He is tormented by a dream of 18 red-crowned cranes, and as he awaits his exam results he seeks out insights from those around him to help him understand his dream. In the end, he learns more than he imagined.

Despite the restrictions on their work and actions, the economists of the Soviet period produced a great deal of bold and important work. With the erosion of the old Stalinist controls, economists in the Soviet Union themselves became very interested in the history of their profession, not least in...

Evil’s Aviary is a mind-bending trip through history and time. It challenges the imagination while exploring the ultimate battle of Good vs. Evil. The author taps into the journey of Kendall Peterson, a mother, ex-wife, and executive. She quickly discovers that her home has become a conduit for...

Political intrique between two officials has the potential to upset the plans of two young people to get married, before the young scholar has to set out for the imperial capital. In the process, he learns more about his heritage from his grandfather, and a dark secret comes to light.

Bing travels from Hangzhou to Beijing along the Grand Canal to sit the metropolitan level civil service examinations. He plans to stop at Kaifeng to learn more about his heritage. The voyage is full of surprises.

In Beijing, Li Bing continues his quest to enter the imperial civil service.

Robert James Campbell Stead (4 September 1880 - 1959) was born at Middleville, Ontario. His first book, The Empire Builders and Other Poems was published in 1908 and for the next 23 years, until 1931, he continued a steady flow of novels, short stories and books of verse, which enriched the portraiture...

American Grace is a major achievement, a groundbreaking examination of religion in America. Unique among nations, America is deeply religious, religiously diverse, and remarkably tolerant. But in recent decades the nation’s religious landscape has been reshaped. America has experienced...