fect vagabond, living one day with a prince, riding the next on a load of flour with a miserable Jew, sitting down one day to a table covered with silver plate, and making a dinner the next out of salted cheese, raw turnips and ...
Author: George Kennan
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 9780295803364
Category: Social Science
Page: 296
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George Kennan (1845-1924) was a pioneering explorer, writer, and lecturer on Russia in the nineteenth century, the author of classic works such as Tent Life in Siberia and Siberia and the Exile System, and great-uncle of George Frost Kennan, the noted historian and diplomat of the Cold War. In 1870, Kennan became the first American to explore the highlands of Dagestan, a remote Muslim region of herders, silversmiths, carpet-weavers, and other craftsmen southeast of Chechnya, only a decade after Russia violently absorbed the region into its empire. He kept detailed journals of his adventures, which today form a small part of his voluminous archive in the Library of Congress. Frith Maier has combined the diaries with selected letters and Kennan’s published articles on the Caucasus to create a vivid narrative of his six-month odyssey. The journals have been organized into three parts. The first covers Kennan’s journey to the Caucasus, a significant feat in itself. The second chronicles his expedition across the main Caucasus Ridge with the Georgian nobleman Prince Jorjadze. In the final part, Kennan circles back through the lands of Chechnya to slip once again into the Dagestan highlands. Kennan’s remarkable curiosity and perception come through in this lively and accessible narrative, as does his humor at the challenges of his travels. In her introduction, Maier discusses Kennan’s illustrious career and his reliability as an observer, while providing background on the Caucasus to help clarify Kennan’s descriptions of daily life, religion, etiquette, customary law, and local government. In an Afterword, she retraces Kennan’s steps to find descendants of Prince Jorjadze and describes her work in coproducing, with filmmaker Christopher Allingham, a documentary inspired by Kennan’s Caucasus journey.
Gabriel Ferry. GABRIEL FERRY VAGABOND LIFE IN MEXICO Gabriel Ferry Vagabond Life in Mexico EAN 8596547017349 DigiCat, 2022. Front Cover.
Author: Gabriel Ferry
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN: EAN:8596547017349
Category: Fiction
Page: 247
View: 246
Vagabond Life in Mexico is a book by Gabriel Ferry. Excerpt: "Mexico is the most beautiful city ever built by the Spaniards in the New World; and even in Europe it would take a high place for splendor and magnificence."
DON TADEO CRISTOBAL , THE THIEVES ' LAWYER OF MEXICO .. D ADDITIONA CAPTAIN DON BLAS AND THE SILVER CONVOY THE JAROCHOS ... THE PILOT VENTURA ...... • PAGE 5 47 90 128 177 217 277 314 VAGABOND LIFE IN MEXICO .
Jim Christy’s life and adventures began on the mobbed-up streets of South Philadelphia. Over his 73 years to date, Christy has asserted his freedom of spirit as a vagabond adventurer, latter-day hobo, journalist, private eye, actor, musician, and artist, in over 50 countries around the globe, and still found time to write over 30 books. His early adventures as a street fighter and child tramp provide a unique socio-cultural history of Philadelphia in the 50’s and 60’s before the book moves on to recount his later exploits from some of the most remote and random corners of the world.
Josiah Flynt. JOSIAH FLYNT TRAMPING WITH TRAMPS : STUDIES AND SKETCHES OF VAGABOND LIFE Josiah Flynt Tramping with Tramps: Studies and Sketches of Vagabond. Front Cover.
Author: Josiah Flynt
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN: EAN:8596547132134
Category: Fiction
Page: 259
View: 819
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Tramping with Tramps: Studies and Sketches of Vagabond Life" by Josiah Flynt. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Release on 1880 | by Indiana. Department of Public Instruction
Sometimes he has some cleverness in singing , or dancing , or ventriloquism , or negro acting , and he gains a precarious living while roving about . This vagabond life of adventure is repre- sented as interesting and enticing ...
Release on 1880 | by Indiana. Dept. of Public Instruction
Sometimes he has some cleverness in singing , or dancing , or ventriloquism , or negro acting , and he gains a precarious living while roving about . This vagabond life of adventure is represented as interesting and enticing ...
... 'I suppose you have thought over what I said to you last Saturday. I hope that your return here is a sign that you are not lost to all sense of what is right. You cannot go on leading your present vagabond life; I am no longer as ...
Author: Émile Zola
Publisher: Mondial
ISBN: 9781595690470
Category: Fiction
Page: 276
View: 161
Pauline Quenu, the daughter of shopkeepers in the Parisian business district Les Halles, is taken in by relatives on the coast of Normandy following the death of her parents. There, she is confronted with a gout-plagued host, his avaricious wife, and their lazy son, a morbid hypochondriac, whom she is expected to marry.
Release on 1878 | by Connecticut. State Department of Education
Sometimes he has some cleverness in singing , or dancing , or ventriloquism , or negro acting , and he gains a precarious living while roving about . This vagabond life of adventure is represented as interesting and enticing ...
Author: Connecticut. State Department of Education
Release on 1878 | by Connecticut. State Board of Education
Sometimes he has some cleverness in singing , or dancing , or ventriloquism , or negro acting , and he gains a precarious living while roving about . This vagabond life of adventure is represented as interesting and enticing ...
Release on 1878 | by Connecticut. State Board of Education
Sometimes he has some cleverness in singing , or dancing , or ventriloquism , or negro acting , and he gains a precarious living while roving about . This vagabond life of adventure is represented as interesting and enticing ...
One tires in time of a vagabond's life . I have had enough , young as I am . I feel the need of rest and a home , " with all the longing of my heart in the words . “ How sadly you say that ! It must be glorious to wander around in ...
Sometimes he has some cleverness in singing , or dancing , or ventriloquism , or negro acting , and he gains a precarious living while roving about . This vagabond life of adventure is represented as interesting and enticing ...
Sometimes he has some cleverness in singing , or dancing , or ventriloquism , or negro acting , and he gains a precarious living while roving about . This vagabond life of adventure is represented as interesting and enticing ...
They all have a dare - devil character , and brave the principal's rod as one of the smallest dangers of life . * * * * sea . Another type of hero who figures largely in these stories is the vagabond boy ...
Release on 1890 | by Portland Public Library (Portland, Me.)
3328.3 Vagabond , The . Badeau , A. Vagabond heroine . Edwards , A. Vagabond life in Mexico . Ferry , G. Vagabondia . Burnett , F. H. Vail , T. H. The comprehensive church : Christianity and ecclesiastical union in the Protestant ...
Release on 1857 | by William Francis Patrick Napier
Mother , dearest mother , would to God I was rid of this vagabond life of a felon . Peace ! peace ! when shall we have peace ? 66 April 20th . Now for your Christmas letter . A year's pay to have seen aunt dance - the idea is delightful ...
The history of gipsy life in England and the measures employed against them is quite distinct from the history of English vagabond life , and far less important " ( 20 ) . Why must Aydelotte introduce his conclu- sion with the ...
Author: Bryan Reynolds
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801868084
Category: History
Page: 252
View: 883
Bryan Reynolds argues that early modern England experienced a sociocultural phenomenon which has been largely overlooked by historians. Examining plays, poems and pamphlets, he shows that, from the 1520s, a distinct criminal culture flourished.
This vagabond life of adventure is repremass of stilted , sentimental nonsense . ” sented as interesting and enticing ; and when the hero 4. “ We often hear and read ecclesiastical deprerises from the vagabond life to flash life ...
... Indian warfare , California desperado life , pirates , wild sea adventure , highwaymen , crimes and horrible accidents , horrors ( tortures and snake stories ) , gamblers , practical jokes , the life of vagabond boys , and the wild ...