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Journal of Jasper Danckaerts

1679-1680

By: Jasper Danckaerts,Peter Sluyter

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Journal of Jasper Danckaerts

1679-1680

By: Jasper Danckaerts,Peter Sluyter

The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Labadists; United States; New York (State); History / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775); History / United States / State

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Applewood Books

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1429000015

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9781429000017

Bred of Heaven

One man's quest to reclaim his Welsh roots

By: Jasper Rees

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Bred of Heaven

One man's quest to reclaim his Welsh roots

By: Jasper Rees

Jasper Rees has always wanted to be Welsh. But despite Welsh grandparents (and a Welsh surname) he is an Englishman: by birth, upbringing and temperament. In this singular, hilarious love letter to a glorious country so often misunderstood, Rees sets out to achieve his goal of becoming a Welshman by learning to sing, play, work, worship, think - and above all, speak - like one. On the way he meets monks, tenors and politicians, and tries his hand at rugby and lambing - all the while weaving together his personal story with Wales's rich history. Culminating in a nail-biting test of Rees's Welsh-speaking skill at the National Eisteddfod, this exuberant journey of self-discovery celebrates the importance of national identity, and the joy of belonging.

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304

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Profile Books

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1847654223

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9781847654229

The Journal of Jasper Danckaerts

By: Jasper Danckaerts

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The Journal of Jasper Danckaerts

By: Jasper Danckaerts

Jasper Danckaerts was the founder of a colony of Labadists along the Bohemia River, located in the present US state of Maryland. The narrative of his journey in 1679 and 1680 offers a description of the landscape and the lifestyle of inhabitants of the region in the late 17th century. The diary is one of the earliest description of the region that had been part of New Netherland, now New York, New Jersey and Delaware.

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421

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Jazzybee Verlag

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3849650383

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9783849650384

Fossil Collecting in the Mid-Atlantic States

With Localities, Collecting Tips, and Illustrations of More Than 450 Fossil Specimens

By: Jasper Burns

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Fossil Collecting in the Mid-Atlantic States

With Localities, Collecting Tips, and Illustrations of More Than 450 Fossil Specimens

By: Jasper Burns

A lovely and loving piece of work, both an introduction to the hobby of fossil collecting and a beautifully illustrated field guide, with the author's drawings of some 450 fossil specimens and descriptions of 46 specific sites in Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia where they can be found. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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220

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JHU Press

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0801841453

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9780801841453

A Brief History of the Tudor Age

By: Jasper Ridley

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A Brief History of the Tudor Age

By: Jasper Ridley

From the arrival of Henry Tudor and his army, at Milford in 1485, to the death of the great Queen Elizabeth I in 1603, this was an astonishingly eventful and contradictory age. All the strands of Tudor life are gathered in a rich tapestry - London and the country, costumes, furniture and food, travel, medicine, sports and pastimes, grand tournaments and the great flowering of English drama, juxtaposed with the stultifying narrowness of peasant life, terrible roads, a vast underclass, the harsh treatment of heretics and traitors, and the misery of the Plague.

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376

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Robinson

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1472107950

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9781472107954

Paddle

A long way around Ireland

By: Jasper Winn

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Paddle

A long way around Ireland

By: Jasper Winn

One summer, writer and musician, Jasper Winn set himself an extraordinary task. He would kayak the whole way round Ireland - a thousand miles - camping on remote headlands and islands, carousing in bars and paddling clockwise until he got back where he started. But in the worst Irish summer in living memory the pleasures of idling among seals, fulmars and fishing boats soon gave way to heroic struggles through storm-tossed seas ... and lock-ins playing music in coastal pubs. Circling the country where he grew up, Jasper reflects on life at the very fringes of Ireland, the nature and lore of its seas, and his own eccentric upbringing - sprung from school at age ten and left free to explore the countryside and its traditional life. Charming, quietly epic, and with an irresistible undertow of wit, Paddle is a low-tech adventure that captures the sheer joy of a misty morning on Ireland's coast. As the sun breaks through, you'll be longing to set off too.

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277

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Sort of Books

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0956308678

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9780956308672

Blizzard - Race to the Pole

By: Jasper Rees

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Blizzard - Race to the Pole

By: Jasper Rees

In late 1911, the final year of the Edwardian age, a British naval captain and a Norwegian conqueror of the North-West Passage embarked on the most gruelling race ever run. Their aim was not only to lead the first expedition to the South Pole, but also to live to tell the tale. Six months later, Robert Falcon Scott and four of his party were dead, while Roald Amundsens victory had been wired around the world. A century on, the debate still rages. Was Scott unfortunate or incompetent? Was Amundsen a genius or lucky? In a unique television experiment, two teams led by the Norwegian explorer Rune Gjeldnes and the television anthropologist Bruce Parry, star of the BBC2 series Tribe, set out to recreate the famous race. Wearing the same type of clothing as their predecessors, surviving on the same diet, using the same equipment and travelling over the same distance, they seek to answer some of the burning questions. Blizzard is a dramatic chronicle of both the original epic, and its reconstruction. Jasper Reess narrative skilfully intertwines past and present as he brings to life an extraordinary cast of characters. They may be separated from their predecessors by nearly a hundred years, but the modern race teams soon discover that, in polar travel, nothing changes. Among the hardships they face are uncontrollable dogs, inedible food, invisible crevasses, unimaginable cold, all in an unending prairie of snow. Incorporating the gripping diaries of Parry and Gjeldnes, Blizzard paints an astonishing picture of comradeship in the face of physical danger and psychological torment in the most life-threatening habitat on earth.

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304

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Random House

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1446416232

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9781446416235

Lost in a Good Book

A Thursday Next Novel

By: Jasper Fforde

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Lost in a Good Book

A Thursday Next Novel

By: Jasper Fforde

The second installment in Jasper Fforde’s New York Times bestselling series follows literary detective Thursday Next on another adventure in her alternate reality of literature-obsessed England—from the author of The Constant Rabbit The inventive, exuberant, and totally original literary fun that began with The Eyre Affair continues with New York Times bestselling author Jasper Fforde’s magnificent second adventure starring the resourceful, fearless literary sleuth Thursday Next. When Landen, the love of her life, is eradicated by the corrupt multinational Goliath Corporation, Thursday must moonlight as a Prose Resource Operative of Jurisfiction—the police force inside the BookWorld. She is apprenticed to the man-hating Miss Havisham from Dickens’s Great Expectations, who grudgingly shows Thursday the ropes. And she gains just enough skill to get herself in a real mess entering the pages of Poe’s “The Raven.” What she really wants is to get Landen back. But this latest mission is not without further complications. Along with jumping into the works of Kafka and Austen, and even Beatrix Potter’s The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies, Thursday finds herself the target of a series of potentially lethal coincidences, the authenticator of a newly discovered play by the Bard himself, and the only one who can prevent an unidentifiable pink sludge from engulfing all life on Earth. It’s another genre-bending blend of crime fiction, fantasy, and top-drawer literary entertainment for fans of Douglas Adams and P. G. Wodehouse. Thursday’s zany investigations continue with The Well of Lost Plots.

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436

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Penguin

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0142004030

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9780142004036

A Thursday Next Digital Collection: Novels 1-5

By: Jasper Fforde

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A Thursday Next Digital Collection: Novels 1-5

By: Jasper Fforde

Enter the first five novels in the New York Times bestselling Thursday Next series—over one million copies in print!—and follow literary detective Thursday Next as she adventures through her alternate reality of literature-obsessed England. “What keeps this series humming is Fforde’s lively engagement with books and the indefatigable woman he’s created to defend them.”—People “It’s easy to be delighted by a writer who loves books so madly.”—Janet Maslin, The New York Times The Eyre Affair: Hailed by the Wall Street Journal as “delightfully clever,” this riotous novel follows Detective Thursday Next as she tracks down the villain who plucked Jane Eyre from the pages of Brontë’s novel—and averts a heinous act of literary homicide. Lost in a Good Book: Thursday fights to save the love of her life, navigating the works of Kafka and Austen and even Beatrix Potter’s The Tale of Flopsy Bunnies. But when she discovers a new play from the Bard himself and finds herself the target of a series of potentially lethal coincidences, she realizes the stakes are far higher than she could have predicted. The Well of Lost Plots: Thursday is ready for a break. She heads to the depths of the Well of Lost Plots, where all unpublished books reside, to lose herself in a cliché-ridden pulp mystery. What was supposed to be a well-deserved reprieve turns into chaos as Thursday discovers the Well’s dark underbelly, a veritable linguistic free-for-all. To top it off, a murderer is stalking Jurisfiction personnel and nobody is safe—least of all Thursday. Something Rotten: It’s back to reality for Thursday—and fiction never looked so good. But as she travels with the dithering Danish prince Hamlet, she becomes wrapped up in an outlaw fictioneer’s plot for absolute power. Can Thursday find a Shakespeare clone to stop this hostile takeover? First Among Sequels: Thursday grapples with a host of problems in the Book World, but her biggest challenge is motivating her sixteen-year-old son, Friday, to follow his destiny as a member of the ChronoGuard. As she juggles the trials of motherhood and saving the Book World, Thursday finds she must face down her most vicious enemy yet: herself.

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2186

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Penguin

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1101525088

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9781101525081

Idaho Politics and Government

Culture Clash and Conflicting Values in the Gem State

By: Jasper M. LiCalzi

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Idaho Politics and Government

Culture Clash and Conflicting Values in the Gem State

By: Jasper M. LiCalzi

Examining politics in Idaho through the lens of ideology (i.e., conservative versus liberal) or partisanship (i.e., Democrat versus Republican) does not illuminate the more fundamental dynamics of the state’s political environment. Unlike other states that are divided on partisan or traditional ideological lines, Idaho tends to be divided between its libertarian and communitarian visions of the role of government and the place of the individual in society. In Idaho Politics and Government, Jasper M. LiCalzi examines the complex world of Idaho politics, where morality dominates but a heartily libertarian strain of individualism keeps lawmakers from falling into the liberal versus conservative dialogue prevalent in other states. After opening with the ultrasound bill failure as a recent example of Idaho’s political culture, LiCalzi traces the influence of individuals and party factions from the 1960s through the present before moving on to the inner workings of government itself, with all its institutions and extra-governmental extensions. He closes with another recent Idaho bill concerning the topics of child support and Sharia (Islamic) law, giving readers yet another glimpse of the workings of Idaho politics and the continuing clash between the community and the individual. Presenting a continuum of political views from an emphasis on the individual (personified by Thomas Jefferson) to a focus on community (personified by Alexander Hamilton), LiCalzi provides a new method for understanding political actions and situations in Idaho.

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179

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University of Nebraska Press

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0803286899

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9780803286894

Book's by Jasper Miles

Journal of Jasper Danckaerts

Journal of Jasper Danckaerts

Bred of Heaven

Bred of Heaven

The Journal of Jasper Danckaerts

The Journal of Jasper Danckaerts

Fossil Collecting in the Mid-Atlantic States

Fossil Collecting in the Mid-Atlantic States

A Brief History of the Tudor Age

A Brief History of the Tudor Age

Paddle

Paddle

Blizzard - Race to the Pole

Blizzard - Race to the Pole

Lost in a Good Book

Lost in a Good Book

A Thursday Next Digital Collection: Novels 1-5

A Thursday Next Digital Collection: Novels 1-5

Idaho Politics and Government

Idaho Politics and Government

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