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Books with author Barbara James

  • The wind that shakes the barley: A novel of the lives and loves of Robert Burns

    James Barke

    Paperback (Fontana Collins, March 15, 1956)
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  • Animal Rights

    Barbara James

    Hardcover (Hodder Wayland, Sept. 30, 1998)
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  • Yankee Ships and Yankee Sailors: Tales of 1812

    James Barnes

    Hardcover (Palala Press, Dec. 4, 2015)
    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
  • Doctor Snowball: A Negro Farce in One Act; For Three Male Characters

    James Barnes

    Hardcover (Forgotten Books, Feb. 6, 2018)
    Excerpt from Doctor Snowball: A Negro Farce in One Act; For Three Male CharactersTo Let - Furnished (has a good dude character) The Obstinate Family (one of the funniest of farces) More Blunders Than One (comic Irish character) The stage-struck Yankee (funny straight through)About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
  • Yankee Ships and Yankee Sailors

    James Barnes

    Paperback (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, March 30, 2018)
    Yankee Ships and Yankee Sailors By James Barnes
  • Yankee Ships and Yankee Sailors: Tales of 1812

    James Barnes

    Hardcover (Macmillan Co, March 15, 1898)
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  • Doctor Snowball: A Negro Farce in One Act; For Three Male Characters

    James Barnes

    Paperback (Forgotten Books, Feb. 6, 2018)
    Excerpt from Doctor Snowball: A Negro Farce in One Act; For Three Male CharactersTo Let - Furnished (has a good dude character) The Obstinate Family (one of the funniest of farces) More Blunders Than One (comic Irish character) The stage-struck Yankee (funny straight through)About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
  • Yankee Ships and Yankee Sailors

    James Barnes

    Paperback (RareBooksClub.com, Sept. 13, 2013)
    Excerpt: ... flame that leaped from the Armstrong's side, arose a great shout from the spectators. The bow of the pinnace was stove in, and she pitched forward into the water like an angry bull brought to his knees by a rifle shot. Men absolutely boiled out of her. The moonlit water was dotted with black objects; some threshing with their arms, others silent and motionless. There came a rattling reply of small-arms from the boats, and the long nines answered them. The action was on in earnest. No one can gainsay the courage that was displayed by the attacking force. They were Englishmen; it is not necessary to say more. The firing became incessant. The men on the Armstrong had scarce time to reload their guns. They would snatch up a pistol here and a musket there and fire out at the water that was crisscrossed with the red flashes of the answering shots. More than once a boat had reached the side. On two occasions men had sprung to the bulwarks, and clung to the boarding-nettings until shot away. Every now and then the Long Tom would let go a half-bucketful of grape and scrap iron, hurling death into the boats. Every one of the privateer's crew seemed gifted with four arms. From one point of attack to another they chased about the deck. It seemed as if she numbered three times her complement. Bill Copeland was fighting like a demon. Twice had he run along the top of the bulwarks, exposed to every aim. Suddenly he saw that one of the boats had worked around to the starboard side. Giving the alarm, and followed by a half-score of the after-guard, he ran across to meet this unexpected danger. One of the men who followed him caught up a twenty-four-pound solid shot in his arms as he ran. Another followed his example. Both shot crashed through the bottom of the boat, and a volley was poured down into them. But three or four of the men had already reached the chains. "There was a figure crawling up below him." Copeland sprang to the bulwarks with his cutlass in his...
  • Yankee ships and Yankee sailors: tales of 1812

    James Barnes

    Paperback (University of California Libraries, Jan. 1, 1906)
    This book was digitized and reprinted from the collections of the University of California Libraries. It was produced from digital images created through the libraries’ mass digitization efforts. The digital images were cleaned and prepared for printing through automated processes. Despite the cleaning process, occasional flaws may still be present that were part of the original work itself, or introduced during digitization. This book and hundreds of thousands of others can be found online in the HathiTrust Digital Library at www.hathitrust.org.
  • Yankee Ships and Yankee Sailors: --Tales of 1812

    James Barnes

    Hardcover (Palala Press, Sept. 3, 2015)
    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.