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Author: Aletha Barrett May
Publisher: Swimming Kangaroo Books
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 165
ISBN-13: 1934041149
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfter Aletha Barrett's death, her daughter Janis Susan May, began working from her mother's notes and outlines to present a biography of a remarkable woman.
Author: Michael Layland
Publisher: TouchWood Editions
Published: 2013-10-01
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 1771510161
DOWNLOAD EBOOKShortlisted for the 2014 City of Victoria Butler Book Prize Shortlisted for a 2014 BC Book Prize Finalist for the Lieutenant-Governor's Medal for Historical Writing Just how, and why, did Vancouver Island get onto the map? How was knowledge of our immediate geography acquired and recorded? With 130 maps, dating between 1593 and 1915, this cartographic history tells the story of how Vancouver Island and the surrounding area came to be mapped. The book shows local cartographic milestones, marking progress in our knowledge through the island’s rich—although comparatively short—recorded history. However, the maps, by themselves and without context, cannot tell the whole story. The accompanying text reveals the motives, constraints, agendas, and intrigues that underpin their making. The narrative, roughly chronological, begins before the arrival of Europeans and concludes at the outset of the First World War and includes an introduction on the history and significance of map-making, as well as an afterword summarizing subsequent cartographic developments. Also included are an index, endnotes, a list of cartographic sources, and a glossary.
Author: Anne Marie Todd
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2022-10-25
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 0520389603
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis agricultural history explores the transformation of the Santa Clara Valley over the past one hundred years from America's largest fruit-producing region into the technology capital of the world. In the latter half of the twentieth century, the region's focus shifted from fruits—such as apricots and prunes—to computers. Both personal and public rhetoric reveals how a sense of place emerges and changes in an evolving agricultural community like the Santa Clara Valley. Through extensive archival research and interviews, Anne Marie Todd explores the concepts of place and placelessness, arguing that place is more than a physical location and that exploring a community's sense of place can help us to map how individuals experience their natural surroundings and their sense of responsibility towards the local environment. Todd extends the concept of sense of place to describe Silicon Valley as a non-place, where weakened or disrupted attachment to place threatens the environment and community. The story of the Santa Clara Valley is an American story of the development of agricultural lands and the transformation of rural regions.
Author: Ḥaydar-ʻAlí
Publisher: Kalimat Press
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9780933770119
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Robin Chapman
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2022-07-25
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 143967549X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Santa Clara Valley, with its rich soil and sunny weather, has been home to great diversity and great innovation long before it became known as Silicon Valley. California's first immigrants from Mexico were astonished by its beauty. "The land is moist and the hills have an abundance of rosemary and herbs, sunflowers in bloom, vines as plentiful as a vineyard," wrote one. From the movie stars of Hollywood's golden era who once came to play to billionaires who grew apricots for pleasure, the valley has hosted orchards, electric railroads, Army camps and even a love-struck poet. Join author and historian Robin Chapman as she uncovers the true tales of this ever-changing place.
Author: Michael Layland
Publisher: Touchwood Editions
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781771511773
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1842, when famed world explorer James Douglas first encountered the rugged natural paradise that would become Vancouver Island, he described it as "A perfect Eden." He was just one among many European explorers to experience the intense beauty of the Pacific Northwest, most of whom have left fascinating accounts of their encounters with the terrain and the peoples they found, their exploration and settlement of the land there. Interspersed with maps, illustrations, paintings, and photographs, these first-hand accounts create a captivating tale of discovery and exploration. Starting from before the first known European arrivals, the stories feature Spanish and British naval officers, traders seeking sea otter pelts, colonial surveyors, "Indian” chiefs, soldiers, settlers and adventurers, and end in 1858, when Douglas, by then Sir James, retired as governor of the two colonies -- Vancouver Island and British Columbia. The companion book to Michael Layland’s prizewinning The Land of Heart’s Delight: Early Maps and Charts of Vancouver Island, which traces the cartographic history of this remarkable region, A Perfect Eden paints a vivid picture of what the explorers saw, the people they met, the hazards they faced, and some mysteries, as yet unsolved.
Author: Jeffery Farnol
Publisher: DigiCat
Published: 2022-06-02
Total Pages: 127
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The Chronicles of the Imp" by Jeffery Farnol is a Victorian romance novel. The story revolves around Dick Brent who was an author and heiress Elizabeth. They both were considered a mismatched couple by Elizabeth's Guardian Lady Warburton. When the lady realizes the two of them are becoming too close, she takes Elizabeth far to tie her knot with a wealthy and suitable candidate, her Neighbor...
Author: Jeffery Farnol
Publisher: DigiCat
Published: 2022-09-16
Total Pages: 126
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKDigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "My Lady Caprice" by Jeffery Farnol. 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.
Author: Jeffery Farnol
Publisher: HOLISTENCE PUBLICATIONS
Published: 2024-02-21
Total Pages: 175
ISBN-13: 625664655X
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