Walking History

This is a neglected history. Not a sweeping, definitive, exhaustive history of the world but something quieter, more intimate and particular. A single journey, picked out in 101 objects, through the fascinating, too-often-overlooked, manifold histories of women. Through the variety and nuance in all these objects, Annabelle Hirsch has created a new history – teeming, unexpected, witty and always illuminating.

James Meredith's 1966 march in Mississippi began as one man's peaceful protest for voter registration and became one of the South's most important demonstrations of the civil rights movement. It brought together leaders like Martin Luther King Jr. and Stokely Carmichael, who formed an unlikely alliance that resulted in the Black Power movement, which ushered in a new era in the fight for equality. The retelling of Meredith's story opens on the day of his assassination attempt and goes back in time to recount the moments leading up to that event and its aftermath.

Hard Border goes to the very roots of the Irish boundary where, after decades of division and conflict, a fragile peace has prevailed since the Good Friday Agreement of 1998. Post-Brexit, it will re-emerge as the only land frontier between the United Kingdom and the European Union. In his travelogue of the abandoned 50-mile route along the Ulster Canal, Darach MacDonald presents a close-up narrative history of Ireland.

Following open heart surgery, poet and writer Peter Carpenter was given one instruction - 'Walk, if you want to stay on this planet'. And so when his hero and inspiration David Bowie died in 2016, he knew what he had to do. The man who was to so many a companion and guide had left no shrine, no focal point of understanding. To reconnect with Bowie, he would take a walk into the past, to the streets, towns and places where David Jones became something more.

Carlotta can’t wait to wear her new dress on her first day of school. But when the moment finally arrives, she isn’t allowed to go. The year is 1957, and the people of Little Rock, Arkansas, don’t want Black students attending an all-white school and will do whatever it takes to keep them out. As hate and danger escalate, will Carlotta and her Black classmates, known as the Little Rock Nine, have the strength and perseverance to keep dreaming of a better world?

The world goes mad in 1914. And in the chaos, on the blood-soaked fields of the Ypres Salient, young humanitarian John Armitage meets a British nurse, Evelyne Grenville, a lady with admirable courage and a secret. Could they possibly make a difference, offering solace at the Western Front? Will Evelyne’s secret life bring calamity on them both? Their life journey takes you through 1930s Paris and its underground organizations, a British whodunit flavored for Downton Abbey fans, Hitler's Blitz, 1950s Chicago and even exotic Madagascar. Join them in their Walk to Paradise Garden.

Rye, 70 miles south of London, is a small town, rich in history, and numerous well-preserved historical buildings. The town is just the right size to go on a walking tour. This guide takes you to every important building and explains it and directs you to the next one.There are stories of French raids, piracy, murder, plague and Royal visits.The historical background is set out in brief history lessons to read on the tour or at home. There are over 100 photographs.

Best-selling author of Italian Ways Tim Parks follows the hair-raising journey of Italian revolutionary Giuseppe Garibaldi, 250 miles on foot from Rome to Ravenna, to look at Italy past and present.

On August 25, 1895, Ernest Alfred Hall was born into a pioneering Australian family that lived on a 313-acre property called "Cloverdale" near the hamlet of Beech Forest, south of the Otway Ranges, some 200 kilometres south west of Melbourne, Victoria. As a child, it seemed he would be destined for the life of a farmer in a country that was just realising its independence through Federation, yet his path was to be diverted by the cataclysmic events that befell Europe and the British Empire.

“¡Esta es solo tu interpretación!”. ¿Cuantas veces hemos oído este comentario cuando queremos tener una conversación sobre temas espirituales? ¿Cómo podemos responder? ¿Es personal toda interpretación de la Biblia? No. La interpretación de una obra literaria es tanto un arte como una ciencia. La Biblia es una obra literaria. Cuando utilizamos los principios literarios de interpretación al leer la Biblia, las posibles interpretaciones se reducen a un rango muy manejable.

In 1958 Martin Luther King Jr. was stabbed in the chest by a deranged woman at a Harlem book signing. His recovery and three-hour conversation with the Black mystic Howard Thurman changed the course of Civil Rights history. This audiobook explores this conversation and the decades of revolution, community building, and lived experiences that preceded it.

유럽의 문화수도 역할을 했던 이탈리아, 프랑스, 스페인을 걸으며 사람들이 눈여겨보지 않던 곳, 잘 내비쳐지지 않는 인간의 숭고함을 발견해내는 신간 『유럽 인문 산책』이 은행나무에서 출간되었다.

The final book in the trilogy about inquisitive American author Joel Stratte-McClure's twenty-year walk around the Mediterranean Sea explores the coast, countryside and regional cultures in Greece, Turkey, Cyprus, Lebanon, Israel, Egypt and Tunisia. Walking in the footsteps of Alexander the Great, the intrepid author makes his way around the sea while musing about life, literature, art, the environment, Greek gods and goddesses, history, alcoholism and, of course, the meditative act of walking. The travel narrative, which describes attempts to find the lost tomb of Alexander the Great, ...

Como muchos socialistas del siglo XX, Ernesto Benado creyó que el capitalismo agonizaba. Tuvo que pasar por el exilio, la prisión y la caída de los muros antes de constatar que el desarrollo económico es impredecible y que el conocimiento de la conducta humana, cuando se aplica a miles de millones de seres, no es una disciplina científica. Esta eliminación de la certeza ha servido de argumento para que muchos socialistas se hayan transformado en amantes de los bienes, del dinero y hayan tratado de cambiar de objetivos a lo largo de sus vidas.

Spaniards, un paseo por la historia de España en inglés cuenta la apasionante historia de España en inglés a través de los ojos de 40 personajes españoles cruciales en la historia de España. Personajes como Trajano, Pizarro, Santa Teresa de Jesús o Manuel Azaña presentan las dificultades, intrigas y luchas de sus tiempos de una manera sencilla, interesante y entretenida.

When journalist Taran Khan arrives in Kabul, she uncovers a place that defies her expectations. Her wanderings with other Kabulis reveal a fragile city in a state of flux: stricken by near-constant war, but flickering with the promise of peace; governed by age-old codes, but experimenting with new modes of living. Her walks take her to the unvisited tombs of the dead, and to the land of the living - like the booksellers, archaeologists, filmmakers and entrepreneurs who are remaking this 3,000-year-old city.

The story of extraordinary women who lost their way - their sense of self, their identity, their freedom - and found it again through walking in the wild. A feminist exploration of the power of walking in nature, following in the footsteps of Gwen John, Georgia O'Keeffe, Frieda Lawrence, Clara Vyvyan, Simone de Beauvoir, Daphne Du Maurier and Nan Shepherd.

Greenpoint, Brooklyn has recently become one of the most attractive places to live in New York City. Greenpoint however, has a long and fascinating history. One of the first places in America to industrialize, Greenpoint's factories attracted immigrants from Ireland, Italy, Poland, and many other places. Its rich history is characterized by many colorful characters, including famous artists, actors, and even notorious criminals. Discovering Greenpoint, Brooklyn on Foot allows the reader to trace that vibrant history through a series of themed walks that reveal the many aspects of the ...

In 1864 William Tecumseh Sherman led a throbbing, hooting, violent river of 62,000 soldiers through the heart of the American South, looting, pillaging, trailing plunder, stealing animals, and dazing civilians. More than a hundred years later, Jerry Ellis, inveterate traveler, storyteller, and adventurer, set off to walk from Atlanta to Savannah using Sherman's route as his guide.

Highlighting the careers of well-known inventors, this exploration of failure amid greatness reveals the lesser-known and most fascinating facts about their careers, their wackier hobbies, and their big flops alongside great successes. Thomas Edison, for example, not only revolutionized the world with the light bulb but also designed a concrete piano, a nonoperational helicopter made from box kites and piano wire, and a machine to speak to the dead.