Two Continents, One Culture
Two Continents, One Culture

Author: Elizabeth Hirschman

Publisher: The Overmountain Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9781570723018

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This in-depth analysis examines how and why Southern culture was forever changed when Scotch-Irish immigrants flooded the Appalachian Mountains in the 1700s. Geographical similarities between Southern Appalachia and the Highlands of Scotland and Ireland are discussed, as well as the parallels and differences of the two cultures in four basic areas—music and dance, agricultural practices, fighting and hunting techniques, and technological innovativeness. More than 300 years of the communities' ideology is explored based on data culled from ethnographic observation, interviews at various heritage sites, historic accounts, archived letters, and other textual documentation.

THE REFUGEES – A Tale of Two Continents (Historical Novel)
THE REFUGEES – A Tale of Two Continents (Historical Novel)

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle

Publisher: e-artnow

Published: 2017-06-26

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 8026877624

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The Refugees revolves around Amory de Catinat, a Huguenot guardsman of Louis XIV, and Amos Green, an American who comes to visit France. The novel depicts Louis XIV's marriage to Madame de Maintenon, retirement from court of Madame de Montespan, the revoking of the Edict of Nantes and the subsequent emigration of the Huguenot de Catinats to America. Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes. The Sherlock Holmes stories are generally considered milestones in the field of crime fiction. Doyle is also known for writing the fictional adventures of Professor Challenger and for propagating the mystery of the Mary Celeste. He was a prolific writer whose other works include fantasy and science fiction stories, plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction and historical novels.

Warrior on Two Continents: Thaddeus Kosciuszko
Warrior on Two Continents: Thaddeus Kosciuszko

Author: David J. Abodaher

Publisher:

Published: 1968

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13:

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A biography of the Polish Patroit and champion of freedom who fought in the American Revolution and then spent the rest of his life fighting for Polish independence.

Scouting on Two Continents
Scouting on Two Continents

Author: Frederick Russell Burnham

Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing

Published: 2016-07-26

Total Pages: 389

ISBN-13: 1786259583

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All England cheered this modest American. He acquired his scouting lore warring against Apaches in Arizona. After hunting gold in the Northwest and the Klondike he rode deep into the savage territory of Africa to slay the M’Limo, treacherous Matabele high priest. During the Boer War he performed many thrilling exploits as chief of Scouts. He was honored in the friendship of Lord Roberts, Theodore Roosevelt, Cecil Rhodes, and Dr. Jameson and received the highest honors of the British Empire. In this book he tells in full detail the fascinating story of his thrilling and varied career. “In real life he is more interesting than any of my heroes of romance”—SIR RIDER HAGGARD “I have seldom been as much taken with a narrative”—REAR ADMIRAL WM. S. SIMS, U.S.N. “I have read it all with enthralled interest”—THEODORE ROOSEVELT “England was never made by her statesmen; England was made by her adventurers.”—GENERAL GORDON.

First Across the Continent
First Across the Continent

Author: Noah Brooks

Publisher: VM eBooks

Published: 2016-07-11

Total Pages: 341

ISBN-13:

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The people of the young Republic of the United States were greatly astonished, in the summer of 1803, to learn that Napoleon Bonaparte, then First Consul of France, had sold to us the vast tract of land known as the country of Louisiana. The details of this purchase were arranged in Paris (on the part of the United States) by Robert R. Livingston and James Monroe. The French government was represented by Barbe-Marbois, Minister of the Public Treasury. The price to be paid for this vast domain was fifteen million dollars. The area of the country ceded was reckoned to be more than one million square miles, greater than the total area of the United States, as the Republic then existed.