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Author: Mary Seacole
Publisher: DigiCat
Published: 2022-07-20
Total Pages: 157
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKMary Seacole (1805 to 1881) was an amazing woman, in many ways way ahead of her time. She was a free black woman born in Jamaica of Scottish and Creole descent. This is her autobiographical account of her colourful and brave life. She was named 'the greatest black Briton' in 2004 and also posthumously awarded the Jamaican Order of Merit.
Author: Mary Seacole
Publisher: Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing
Published: 2023-01-03
Total Pages: 185
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKMary Seacole was born in Jamaica in 1805 and was of mixed race. Her mother had cared for sick servicemen and Mary continued that humanitarian tradition in Panama before borrowing money to make the 4,000 mile journey to the war against the Russians being fought in the Crimea. There she treated the wounded of both sides of the conflict, both on the field of battle and in her own 'hotel.' This book is 'Mother Seacole's' (as she was known to the British soldiers) own account of her extraordinary life. It tells of a remarkable woman, who possessed astonishing determination and great humanity-which is all the more incredible since she was hampered by the bigotry and prejudice that were common against coloured people and women in general. At the end of hostilities she returned to England all but destitute and had to be assisted by those who remembered her great kindness during the war.
Author: Seacole Mary
Publisher: Hardpress Publishing
Published: 2016-06-23
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9781318879052
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUnlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Author: Rosemary Gray
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Published: 2017-01-26
Total Pages: 385
ISBN-13: 1509845992
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLondon: An Illustrated Literary Companion, compiled by Rosemary Gray, captures the varying moods of the great city over recent centuries, through diary entries, with quotations, poems, essays and extracts from great works written in its honour. It is beautifully illustrated with drawings and engravings from distinguished artists, including Gustave Doré, George Cruikshank, James McNeill Whistler and Hugh Thomson, and contains contemporary prints and photographs. Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.
Author: Janai Mestrovich
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Published: 2020-10-22
Total Pages: 48
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKPreschool - K. The magic box with costumes in Jackson's Fun Adventures delights children. A boy finds himself inside a new costume every day which leads him through many ways of exploring what it is like to be in different roles. He discovers through his imagination that he can be whatever he wants to be in life. This book is a fantastic self-esteem builder. Author, Janai Mestrovich, is known for her very fun approach in teaching children about themselves. As a pioneer and advocate for 38 years, focusing on children's rights to learn self-help skills at an early age, Janai has produced award-winning television kids' programs and been awarded by the State of Oregon for her prevention programs for young children. She is an Instructor at University of Oregon and Southern Oregon University. And a hoot of a Grandma!
Author: W. H. Auden
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 1995-08-08
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 0679761705
DOWNLOAD EBOOKW. H. Auden once defined light verse as the kind that is written by poets who are democratically in tune with their audience and whose language is straightforward and close to general speech. Given that definition, the 123 poems in this collection all qualify; they are as accessible as popular songs yet have the wisdom and profundity of the greatest poetry. As I Walked Out One Evening contains some of Auden's most memorable verse: "Now Through the Night's Caressing Grip," "Lullaby: Lay your Sleeping Head, My Love," "Under Which Lyre," and "Funeral Blues." Alongside them are less familiar poems, including seventeen that have never before appeared in book form. Here, among toasts, ballads, limericks, and even a foxtrot, are "Song: The Chimney Sweepers," a jaunty evocation of love, and the hilarious satire "Letter to Lord Byron." By turns lyrical, tender, sardonic, courtly, and risqué, As I Walked Out One Evening is Auden at his most irresistible and affecting.
Author: Mary Seacole
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Published: 2021-05-30
Total Pages: 241
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKWritten in 1857, Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands is the autobiography of a Jamaican woman whose fame rivaled Florence Nightingale's during the Crimean War. Seacole traveled widely before arriving in London, where her offer to volunteer as a nurse in the war was met with racism and refusal. Undaunted, she set out independently to the Crimea, where she acted as doctor and "mother" to wounded soldiers while running her business, the "British Hotel." Told with energy, warmth, and humor, her remarkable life story and accounts of hardships at the battlefront offer significant insights into the history of race politics. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Author: Douglas G. Greene
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2012-05-04
Total Pages: 454
ISBN-13: 0486114120
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFourteen extraordinary Victorian and Edwardian crime stories by Rudyard Kipling, Arthur Conan Doyle, Jacques Futrelle, G. K. Chesterton, and others — many never before published in book form.
Author: Naida Redgrave
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2019-09-05
Total Pages: 129
ISBN-13: 024137278X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMary Seacole is now known for her medical work in the Crimean war, and as a brilliant woman who combated the racial prejudice she experienced in her lifetime. But for a long time her story was lost. From growing up in Kingston, Jamaica as the daughter of a doctress to helping soldiers in the war, discover the details of the amazing life that Mary Seacole led in this beautifully illustrated book with real-life stories, timelines and facts.
Author: Lara Kriegel
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2022-02-17
Total Pages: 365
ISBN-13: 1108842224
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRescuing the Crimean War from the shadows, Lara Kriegel demonstrates the centrality of a Victorian war to the making of modern Britain.
