Trade Winds

Trade Winds

Author: Christina Courtenay

Publisher:

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 466

ISBN-13: 9781407465548

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Sweden, 1732. Strong-willed Jess van Sandt knows only too well that it's a man's world. She believes she's being swindled out of her inheritance by her stepfather and she's determined to stop it. When help appears in the unlikely form of handsome Scotsman Killian Kinross, Jess finds herself both intrigued and infuriated by him. In an attempt to recover her fortune, she proposes a marriage of convenience.


Trade Wind

Trade Wind

Author: M. M. Kaye

Publisher: Macmillan + ORM

Published: 2015-12-01

Total Pages: 750

ISBN-13: 1250090776

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An American missionary encounters disease, revolution, intrigue, and a renegade slave trader in a faraway land in this classic historical adventure. When Boston bluestocking Hero Athena Hollis travels to Zanzibar to visit her uncle, an American consul, she arrives filled with self-righteousness and bent on good deeds. She believes that slavery is wrong and is determined to do what she can to stop it. But she soon finds that maintaining her ideals is not so easy. Then she meets Rory Frost, a cynical, wicked, shrewd, and good-humored trader in slaves. What is Hero to make of him—and of her feelings for him? “Irresistibly romantic.” —Cosmopolitan


African Americans in Hawai'i

African Americans in Hawai'i

Author: D. Molentia Guttman

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2012-09-18

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 1439625212

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During the early 1800s, about two dozen men of African descent lived in Hawai'i. The most noteworthy was Anthony D. Allen, a businessman who had traveled around the world before making Hawai'i his home and starting a family there in 1810. The 25th Black Infantry Regiment, also known as the Buffalo Soldiers, arrived in Honolulu at the Schofield Barracks in 1913. They built an 18-mile trail to the summit of Mauna Loa, the world's largest shield volcano, and constructed a cabin there for research scientists. After World War II, the black population of Hawai'i increased dramatically as military families moved permanently to the island. Hawai'i has a diverse population, and today about 35,000 residents, approximately three percent, claim African ancestry.


Harnessing the Trade Winds

Harnessing the Trade Winds

Author: Blanche Rocha D'Souza

Publisher:

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13:

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Harnessing the Trade Winds is the outcome of a generation of research undertaken in Nairobi, Mombassa and Zanzibar in East Africa, and Mumbai and Goa in India. Of her work the author says: "In all my research I found that Arab and particularly European, sources of information downplayed the importance of Indian trade in the Indian Ocean which goes back at least three thousand years BC. [The book] attempts to rekindle in the Indian diaspora a justifiable pride in the achievements of its forebears in East Africa, and indeed other parts of the world. In East Africa they promoted the development of agriculture and industry and the globalization of trade stemming from their trading activities." "Blanche D'Souza's book is a most direct statement on 'brown man's' transcripts over thousands of years trade, labour and migrations for settlements against a pervading backdrop of Arab, British and Portugese rivalries in the Indian Ocean. In this wake Harnessing the Trade Winds adds to plural historical perspectives, in that the text upholds the value of diversity that shapes the identities and self-knowledge of the peoples of Asia and Africa. It challenges those who hold the political reigns and direct policy, on education as well as race relations." - Sultan Somjee, Former head of Ethnography at the National Museums of Kenya, founder of the Community Peace Museums Programme and Foundation, and the Asian African Heritage Trust in Kenya.


Silver Dreams

Silver Dreams

Author: L. L. Chaikin

Publisher:

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781565077560

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Lady Devora Ashby arrives in the West Indies prepared to resist her arranged marriage. In the midst of planning her escape, she makes shocking discoveries about herself and others, then vows to make a difference with her life.


Island Bride

Island Bride

Author: L. L. Chaikin

Publisher:

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780736900041

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Award-winning novelist Linda Chaikin brings her series to a rousing conclusion in the fast-paced trilogy with a grand finale complete with sword fighting, sea battles, and the quest for silver.


Winds of Time (The After Cilmeri Series)

Winds of Time (The After Cilmeri Series)

Author: Sarah Woodbury

Publisher: The Morgan-Stanwood Publishing Group

Published: 2012-02-29

Total Pages: 86

ISBN-13: 1465927603

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**ON SALE FOR A LIMITED TIME!** Meg had thought that taking a commuter flight from Pasco, Washington to Boise, Idaho would be a simple matter. But nothing is simple for Meg when it comes to travel, and especially not when she finds herself in the Middle Ages again instead of in a plane crash on a mountain side in Oregon. And when the pilot takes off without her in a quest to return to the twenty-first century, Meg will need every last bit of maturity and knowledge she gained in the sixteen years she spent in the modern world--to survive even a day in this one. Winds of Time is a short novel in the After Cilmeri series: A note from the author: This story was started many years ago, as part of Footsteps in Time. When it came down to it, however, the story didn't fit with what was happening with David and Anna, and had to be put aside. Happily, I am now able to share the story of Meg's return to the Middle Ages. Thus, Winds of Time takes place between Part 1 and Part 2 of Footsteps in Time. I think you will enjoy Winds of Time more if you read Footsteps in Time first. Diolch yn fawr (thank you)! -Sarah Complete series reading order: Daughter of Time, Footsteps in Time, Winds of Time, Prince of Time, Crossroads in Time, Children of Time, Exiles in Time, Castaways in Time, Ashes of Time, Warden of Time, Guardians of Time, Masters of Time, Outpost in Time, Shades of Time, Champions of Time, Refuge in Time, Outcasts in Time, Hidden in Time, Legacy of Time. Also, This Small Corner of Time: The After Cilmeri Series Companion.


The Warli People

The Warli People

Author: Hye-eun Shin

Publisher: Eerdmans Books For Young Readers

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 9780802854766

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A poetic depiction of ancient India The Warli people, who live in ancient India, work hard throughout the year. They plant seeds in the spring so that the summer monsoons will help the plants grow, and they harvest their crops in the fall and store the food for the long winter ahead. But despite the hardships they face, they also find time to celebrate life's joyous moments. This Trade Winds book highlights the day-to-day life in an agricultural society and offers historical information about one of the world's earliest civilizations.