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Author: David Joseph Weeks
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Published: 1995
Total Pages: 306
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom 1859 to 1880, Joshua Abraham Norton thought he was Emperor of the United States. Ann Atkin keeps 7,500 garden gnomes in her backyard. Brooklyn artist Peter McGough dresses and acts as if it were 1895. These are just a few of the eccentrics discussed by Dr. Weeks, the world's foremost expert on the subject.
Author: Edith Sitwell
Publisher: DigiCat
Published: 2022-08-16
Total Pages: 287
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKDigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "English Eccentrics" by Edith Sitwell. 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: Hal Rubenstein
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Published: 2016-11-29
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781614285816
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPublished in collaboration with the Dallas-based luxury boutique Forty Five Ten, THE ECCENTRICS features exclusive interviews with such icons as Iris Apfel, Edward Bess, and Dita Von Teese. Coupled with original photography by internationally renowned photographer RUVEN AFANADOR that captures the idiosyncrasies, characteristics, and personas of each subject, legendary journalist HAL RUBENSTEIN defines what sets these individuals apart, and, most importantly, what makes them eccentrics.
Author: Peter Somerville-Large
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Published: 1975
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780060139087
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Mark Bernstein
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Published: 1996
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781882203130
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs the nineteenth century turned, the small-town America in which Huck Finn fished was yielding to an age of industry; of a new form of energy, electricity; of a new toy, the automobile. It was a plastic age, as uncertain as our own, a time When the future was ready to be shaped. Grand Eccentrics is a group biography of a half dozen individuals-- Orville and Wilbur Wright, Charles Kettering, John H. Patterson, Arthur Morgan, and James Cox-- who explored those new possibilities. They collaborated, bankrolled each other's undertakings, founded and joined the same clubs, tried to run each other out of town. And in all of this, they did much to create the American 20th century, the America that is now yielding to the rise of the electronic technologies and a global marketplace, creating an uncertainty like that to which, a century ago, these men gave form.
Author: McGraw-Hill Education
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
Published: 1999-01-01
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9780890613238
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReading Level 6-8 and Interest Level 6-23
Author: Todd Longstaffe-Gowan
Publisher: Paul Mellon Centre
Published: 2022-04-26
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9781913107260
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA highly original examination of a series of unique gardens made by English eccentrics from the seventeenth to the early twentieth centuries In his new book, Todd Longstaffe-Gowan looks at a series of unique gardens made by English eccentrics in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Their unusual creators--from the superstitious antiquary William Stukeley (d.1765), to the pleasure-ground proprietor Jonathan Tyers (d.1767), and the bird-loving Lady Reade (d.1811)--built miniature mountains, shaped topiary, collected animals, excavated caves, and assembled architectural fragments to realize their gardens in a way that was, and sometimes still is, thought to be excessive. Bringing together garden and landscape history with cultural history and biography, English Garden Eccentrics examines what it is about the gardener and his or her creation that can be seen as eccentric and analyzes an area of garden history that has scarcely been previously explored: gardens seen as expressions of the singular character of their makers, and therefore functioning, in effect, as a form of autobiography. This lively and accessible book calls on gardeners today to learn from example and dare to be eccentric.
Author: Carlos Baker
Publisher: Viking Adult
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 640
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKBaker brings to life Emerson and his circle of friends--Hawthorne, Thoreau, Bronson Alcott, Walt Whitman, Abraham Lincoln, and others. the result is a vivid and textured mosaic of not just their interrelationships, but of their daily lives--what they ate, what they wore, what they did for entertainment, what was valued, what was not, and how they managed life. Photos.
Author: Benedict Le Vay
Publisher: Bradt Travel Guides
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9781841621227
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA delightful romp around the British Isles searching out the mad marquess, the eccentric earl, the barmy baron, and the daft duke and gathering a fair collection of crackpot inventors, weird adventurers and fascinatingly and not to mention insanely curious customs along the way. All of which make this rainy little island home to that remarkable breed of individual - the British eccentric.This expanded book still doesn't tell you where Stonehenge is, but it does tell you where ten spookier stone circles are where there will be no crowds, no admission charges and no parking problems... This is a book for the intelligent, humorous, curious tourist who doesn't go with the crowd. It is also a great armchair read that has been known to have readers weeping with mirth at the weird ways of the British.
Author: John Kuhn
Publisher:
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781933177120
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTexas Eccentrics, the debut book by Texas author John Kuhn, tells the stories of over one hundred unique Texans, both native and adopted, who have made names for themselves in fields as diverse as business, sports, art, and politics. These folks have done their part to create an "aura around the world of unabashed quirkiness," in the words of Adventure Guide to Texas author Kimberly Young. Because of them (and others like them from all corners of the Lone Star State), the fictional Texas eccentric has become a common sight in popular media, frequently appearing in American literature, television, and film. This book points out that those fictional characters are just plain boring compared to some of the real deal Texas eccentrics. Illustrated by Dennis Menese, Texas Eccentrics is a fun read, combining zany caricatures of the subjects with tales of their stranger-than-average exploits. Ross Perot, Howard Hughes, and Dennis Rodman are just some of the folks you'll read about here, along with lesser-known - but no less interesting - Texas eccentrics like Thomas Jefferson "Stout" Jackson and Jim "Silver Dollar" West.As you will learn in these pages, everything is weirder in Texas. In fact - as the author notes in his foreword - a Texan who can't name a crazy member of the family probably is the crazy member of the family. If that describes you or someone you know, then this is the book for you.Texas Eccentrics is the perfect read for a Texas history buff with a sense of humor. Or for a Texas humor buff with a sense of history. Either way.
