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Ordeal by Hunger

The Story of the Donner Party

By: George R. Stewart

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Ordeal by Hunger

The Story of the Donner Party

By: George R. Stewart

“Compulsive reading—a wonderful account, both scholarly and gripping, of a horrifying episode in the history of the west.” —Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. The tragedy of the Donner party constitutes one of the most amazing stories of the American West. In 1846 eighty-seven people—men, women, and children—set out for California, persuaded to attempt a new overland route. After struggling across the desert, losing many oxen, and nearly dying of thirst, they reached the very summit of the Sierras, only to be trapped by blinding snow and bitter storms. Many perished; some survived by resorting to cannibalism; all were subjected to unbearable suffering. Incorporating the diaries of the survivors and other contemporary documents, George Stewart wrote the definitive history of that ill-fated band of pioneers; an astonishing account of what human beings may endure and achieve in the final press of circumstance.

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419

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HMH

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0547525605

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9780547525600

Storm

By: George R. Stewart

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Storm

By: George R. Stewart

A thrilling, innovative novel about the interplay between nature and humankind by the author of Names on the Land. With Storm, first published in 1941, George R. Stewart invented a new genre of fiction: the eco-novel. California has been plunged into drought throughout the summer and fall when a ship reports an unusual barometric reading from the far western Pacific. In San Francisco, a junior meteorologist in the Weather Bureau takes note of the anomaly and plots “an incipient little whorl” on the weather map, a developing storm, he suspects, that he privately dubs Maria. Stewart’s novel tracks Maria’s progress to and beyond the shores of the United States through the eyes of meteorologists, linemen, snowplow operators, a general, a couple of decamping lovebirds, and an unlucky owl, and the storm, surging and ebbing, will bring long-needed rain, flooded roads, deep snows, accidents, and death. Storm is an epic account of humanity’s relationship to and dependence on the natural world.

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305

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New York Review of Books

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1681375192

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9781681375199

Names on the Land

A Historical Account of Place-Naming in the United States

By: George R. Stewart

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Names on the Land

A Historical Account of Place-Naming in the United States

By: George R. Stewart

George R. Stewart’s classic study of place-naming in the United States was written during World War II as a tribute to the varied heritage of the nation’s peoples. More than half a century later, Names on the Land remains the authoritative source on its subject, while Stewart’s intimate knowledge of America and love of anecdote make his book a unique and delightful window on American history and social life. Names on the Land is a fascinating and fantastically detailed panorama of language in action. Stewart opens with the first European names in what would later be the United States—Ponce de León’s flowery Florída, Cortés’s semi-mythical isle of California, and the red Rio Colorado—before going on to explore New England, New Amsterdam, and New Sweden, the French and the Russian legacies, and the unlikely contributions of everybody from border ruffians to Boston Brahmins. These lively pages examine where and why Indian names were likely to be retained; nineteenth-century fads that gave rise to dozens of Troys and Athens and to suburban Parksides, Brookmonts, and Woodcrest Manors; and deep and enduring mysteries such as why “Arkansas” is Arkansaw, except of course when it isn’t. Names on the Land will engage anyone who has ever wondered at the curious names scattered across the American map. Stewart’s answer is always a story—one of the countless stories that lie behind the rich and strange diversity of the USA.

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559

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New York Review of Books

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1590172736

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9781590172735

The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Science Fiction

By: George Mann

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The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Science Fiction

By: George Mann

This encyclopedia is the most up-to-date, concise, clear and affordable guide to all aspects of science fiction, from its background to generic themes and devices, from authors (established and new) to films. Science fiction has evolved into one of the most popular, cutting-edge and exciting fiction geners, with a proliferation of modern and classic authors, themes and ideas, movies, TV series and awards. Arranged in an A-Z format, and featuring a comprehensive index and cross-referencing system, The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Science Fiction is also the most accessible and easy to use encyclopedia of its kind currently available.

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458

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Robinson

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1780337043

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9781780337043

Fire

By: George R. Stewart

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Fire

By: George R. Stewart

From the author of Storm, a breathtaking novel about a raging fire and the path of destruction and change it leaves in its wake. Spitcat, a raging forest fire in the Sierra Nevada of California, had a lifespan of merely eleven days, "yet its effects could be reckoned ahead in centuries." So writes George R. Stewart in this engrossing novel of a fire started by lightning in the dry heat of September, and fanned out of control by unexpected winds. The book begins with the origins of the fire--smoldering quietly at first, unnoticed, then suddenly bursting into a terrifying inferno, devouring trees and animals over acre after acre and leaving nothing but desolation in its wake. Firefighters and lookouts, forest rangers and smokejumpers—as well as animals in the forest, many of them the bewildered victims of the blaze, and all the varied trees and bushes there—are characters of this realistic story.

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333

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New York Review of Books

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1681378485

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9781681378480

Europe's Last Red Terrorists

The Revolutionary Organization 17 November

By: George Kassimeris

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Europe's Last Red Terrorists

The Revolutionary Organization 17 November

By: George Kassimeris

Since the 1970s, Europe's last Marxist-Leninist terroriststhe Greek Revolutionary Organization 17 November have waged a violent campaign against US and NATO personnel, Turkish diplomats and members of the Greeks military and business elite. In May 2000 they assassinated a top British diplomat in Athens in a daring daylight attack. Yet no one suspected of belonging to the organization, let alone of being involved in its terror campaign, has ever been arrested. This is the first book to deal with revolutionary terrorism in Greece. Tracing the history of 17 November, Kassimeris demonstrates how it has persevered with a one-dimensional view of a world peopled by heroes and villains, that has precluded the emergence of a coherent ideology. Combining fanatical nationalism, contempt for the existing order, and the cult of violence for its own sake, 17 November has stubbornly refused to accept that its eclectic belief system is incompatible with modern democratic principles. Unlike Italy's Red Brigades or Germany's Red Army Faction, which both assailed "the capitalist state and its agents," 17 November hopes to create an insurrectionary mood that will propel the Greeks into revolutionary political action without disrupting society as a whole. As such, 17 November's terror campaign has been an audacious protest aimed at discrediting and humiliating the Greek establishment and the US government, but one that has never sought to develop widespread revolutionary guerrilla warfare.

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280

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NYU Press

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0814747566

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9780814747568

The California Trail

An Epic with Many Heroes

By: George R. Stewart

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The California Trail

An Epic with Many Heroes

By: George R. Stewart

In 1841 and 1842 small groups of emigrants tried to discover a route to California passable by wagons. Without reliable maps or guides, they pushed ahead, retreated, detoured, split up, and regrouped, reaching their destination only at great cost of property and life. But they had found a trail, or cleared one, and by their mistakes had shown others how to take wagon trains across half a continent. By 1844 a great migration was in progress. Each successive party learned from those who went before where to cross rivers and mountains, when to rest, when to forge ahead, and how to find food and water. Increased experience was translated into better wagon designs, improved understanding of climate and terrain, and better-supplied and -organized caravans. George R. Stewart's California Trail describes the trail's year-by-year changes as weather conditions, new exploration, and the changing character of emigrants affected it. Successes and disasters (like the Donner party's fate) are presented in nearly personal detail. More than a history of the trail, this book tells how to travel it, what it felt like, what was feared and hoped for.

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354

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803291434

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9780803291430

Pickett's Charge

A Microhistory of the Final Attack at Gettysburg, July 3, 1863

By: George R. Stewart

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Pickett's Charge

A Microhistory of the Final Attack at Gettysburg, July 3, 1863

By: George R. Stewart

Presents a history of the decisive battle at Gettysburg based on military and personal accounts.

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388

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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0395597722

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9780395597729

Voyages to Various Parts of the World

By: George Coggeshall

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Voyages to Various Parts of the World

By: George Coggeshall

Selected From His Manuscript Journal of Eighty Voyages. This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's literature.

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226

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Applewood Books

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142902173X

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9781429021739

The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System

By: Marshall Kirk McKusick,George V. Neville-Neil,Robert N. M. Watson

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The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System

By: Marshall Kirk McKusick,George V. Neville-Neil,Robert N. M. Watson

This book contains comprehensive, up-to-date, and authoritative technical information on the internal structure of the FreeBSD open-source operating system. Coverage includes the capabilities of the system; how to effectively and efficiently interface to the system; how to maintain, tune, and configure the operating system; and how to extend and enhance the system. The authors provide a concise overview of FreeBSD's design and implementation. Then, while explaining key design decisions, they detail the concepts, data structures, and algorithms used in implementing the systems facilities. As a result, this book can be used as an operating systems textbook, a practical reference, or an in-depth study of a contemporary, portable, open-source operating system. -- Provided by publisher.

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926

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Pearson Education

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0321968972

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9780321968975

The Opening of the California Trail

The Story of the Stevens Party from the Reminiscences of Moses Schallenberger

By: George R. Stewart

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The Opening of the California Trail

The Story of the Stevens Party from the Reminiscences of Moses Schallenberger

By: George R. Stewart

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1953.

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Univ of California Press

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0520349253

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9780520349254

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Ordeal by Hunger

Ordeal by Hunger

Storm

Storm

Names on the Land

Names on the Land

The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Science Fiction

The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Science Fiction

Fire

Fire

Europe's Last Red Terrorists

Europe's Last Red Terrorists

The California Trail

The California Trail

Pickett's Charge

Pickett's Charge

Voyages to Various Parts of the World

Voyages to Various Parts of the World

The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System

The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System

The Opening of the California Trail

The Opening of the California Trail

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