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Author
Series
Jamestown 350th anniversary historical booklet volume no. 17
Publisher
University Press of Virginia
Pub. Date
1970, c1957
Physical Desc
91 p. : ill. 21 cm.
Language
English
82) One for all
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1655 sixteen-year-old Tania is the daughter of a retired musketeer, but she is afflicted with extreme vertigo and subject to frequent falls; when her father is murdered she finds that he has arranged for her to attend Madame de Treville's newly formed Académie des Mariées in Paris, which, it turns out, is less a school for would-be wives, than a fencing academy for girls--and so Tania begins her training to be a new kind of musketeer, and to...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
286 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Description
"How did a single manhunt spark the modern era of multinational capitalism? Henry Avery was the seventeenth century's most notorious pirate. The press published wildly popular--and wildly inaccurate--reports of his nefarious adventures. The British government offered enormous bounties for his capture, alive or (preferably) dead. But Steven Johnson argues that Avery's most lasting legacy was his inadvertent triggering of a new model for the global...
84) The pirate king: the strange adventures of Henry Avery and the birth of the golden age of piracy
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
xix, 265 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Taking readers on a thrilling high-seas adventure through the Golden Age of Piracy, this untold story of Henry Avery of Devon, crowned "the pirate king" for pulling off the richest heist in pirate history, brilliantly reveals his exploits, his survival and his secret double life.
Author
Series
The blackthorn key volume 6
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
506 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Christopher, Tom, and Sally engage in a dangerous cat and mouse game with the Raven as Christopher attempts to finally unmask him.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this stimulating and original investigation of the decisive battles ofthe English Civil War, Malcolm Wanklyn reassesses what actually happened on the battlefield and as a result sheds new light on the causes of the eventual defeat of Charles I. Taking each major battle in turn - Edgehill, Newbury I, Cheriton, Marston Moor, Newbury II, Naseby, and Preston - he looks critically at contemporary accounts and at historians' narratives, explores the...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
This groundbreaking account of the seventeenth century battle sheds new light on the actions taken by commanders, including the future Duke of Marlborough.
On July 6th, 1685, royalist forces put an end to the Monmouth Rebellion at the Battle of Sedgemoor. For centuries, the official account of this battle reflected an unmitigated success for the victors. But the truth was far more dramatic, and at times tragic, as John Tincey demonstrates...
On July 6th, 1685, royalist forces put an end to the Monmouth Rebellion at the Battle of Sedgemoor. For centuries, the official account of this battle reflected an unmitigated success for the victors. But the truth was far more dramatic, and at times tragic, as John Tincey demonstrates...
Author
Language
English
Description
A compliation of names and brief biographical facts about the ancestors of the members in Associated Daughters of Early American Witches, those individuals accused of witchcraft prior to 1700, along with brief appendicies listing names of individuals accused after 1700 and names of individuals the compiler found to be misspelled or to be someone else.
Author
Language
English
Description
This is the story of the most significant devotional author of the seventeenth-century in his first full English language biography. Using previously unknown letters as a few of the resources, this story aims to recreate the theological, sometimes magical, and social worlds of Johann Arndt.
Arndt was, regarded by his peers and successive generations as either the most significant Reformer, since Luther, or an uneducated and dangerous, element within...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 47 min., 5 sec.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
In the fascinating Great artist series, we investigate some of the best artists in history - examining their influence, style and what exactly made them so unique. In this double package we examine two Dutch masters who forever stamped their ability on European art; Rembrandt, an extraordinary portraitist and visual diarist of life, and Vermeer, master of light and colour, recognised as one of the great painters of the Dutch Golden Age.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
How the death of a childless monarch sparked a bloody conflict that raged across Europe and beyond.
The War of the Spanish Succession, fought between 1701 and 1714 to decide who should inherit the Spanish throne, was a conflict on an unprecedented scale, stretching across most of western Europe, the high seas, and the Americas. Yet this major subject is not well known and little understood. James Falkner's absorbing new study fills...
The War of the Spanish Succession, fought between 1701 and 1714 to decide who should inherit the Spanish throne, was a conflict on an unprecedented scale, stretching across most of western Europe, the high seas, and the Americas. Yet this major subject is not well known and little understood. James Falkner's absorbing new study fills...
93) Worcestor, 1651
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Battle of Worcester on 3 September 1651 was the final decisive engagement of the English Civil Wars. In this fascinating guide, Malcolm Atkin sets out in a graphic and easily understood way the movements of the opposing armies of Cromwell and Charles II as they approached Worcester and gives a detailed and gripping account of the deadly combat that followed. He also describes of the fate of 10,000 Scottish prisoners and retraces the route of Charles...
94) The miniaturist
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 162 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A woman moves to live with her new husband in seventeenth century Amsterdam, but soon discovers that not everything is what it seems.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
This is what we long for: the profound pleasure of being swept into vivid new worlds, worlds peopled by characters so intriguing and real that we can't shake them, even long after the reading's done. In his earlier, award-winning novels, Dominic Smith demonstrated a gift for coaxing the past to life. Now, in The Last Painting of Sara de Vos, he deftly bridges the historical and the contemporary, tracking a collision course between a rare landscape...
Author
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xv, 278 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Teresa Aguilera y Roche, wife of New Mexico governor Bernardo López de Mendizábal, was the only woman from New Mexico ever tried by the Inquisition for the crime of secretly practicing Jewish rituals. Doña Teresa's arrest, trial, and eventual exoneration shed light on the social fabric of seventeenth-century Santa Fe as well as the dangers of non-conformity on even the farthest frontiers of Spanish America. Accusing the governor and his wife of...
Publisher
MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
343 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
The Dutch Republic in the 17th century was home to one of the greatest flowerings of painting in the history of Western art. Freed from the constraints of royal and church patronage, artists created a rich outpouring of works that circulated through an open market to patrons and customers at every level of Dutch society. The closely observed details of daily life captured in portraits, genre scenes and landscapes offer a wealth of information about...
100) Call of the wraith
Author
Series
The Blackthorn key volume 4
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Christopher Rowe is shipwrecked in Devonshire, where children are disappearing and a ghost is suspected, but even Tom and Sally's arrival may not cure his amnesia in time to help.
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