Books with author George Washington Sears

George Washington Cable (October 12, 1844 – January 31, 1925) was an American novelist notable for the realism of his portrayals of Creole life in his native New Orleans, Louisiana. He has been called "the most important southern artist working in the late 19th century, as well as the first modern southern writer."[1] In his treatment of racism, mixed-race families and miscegenation, his fiction has been thought to anticipate that of William Faulkner. He also wrote articles critical of contemporary society. Due to hostility against him after two 1885 essays encouraging racial equality and opposing Jim Crow, Cable moved with his family to Northampton, Massachusetts. He lived there for the next thirty years, then moved to Florida.

How is this book unique? Font adjustments & biography included Unabridged (100% Original content) Illustrated About Strange True Stories Of Louisiana by George Washington Cable George Washington Cable (October 12, 1844 – January 31, 1925) was an American novelist notable for the realism of his portrayals of Creole life in his native New Orleans, Louisiana. He has been called "the most important southern artist working in the late 19th century, as well as the first modern southern writer." In his treatment of racism, mixed-race families and miscegenation, his fiction has been thought to anticipate that of William Faulkner. He also wrote articles critical of contemporary society. Due to hostility against him after two 1885 essays encouraging racial equality and opposing Jim Crow, Cable moved with his family to Northampton, Massachusetts. He lived there for the next thirty years, then moved to Florida.

Among the manuscript books of George Washington, preserved in the State Archives at Washington City, the earliest bears the date, written in it by himself, 1745. Washington was born February 11, 1731 O. S. , so that while writing in this book he was either near the close of his fourteenth, or in his fifteenth, year. It is entitled "Forms of Writing", has thirty folio pages, and the contents, all in his boyish handwriting, are sufficiently curious. Amid copied forms of exchange, bonds, receipts, sales, and similar exercises, occasionally, in ornate penmanship, there are poetic selections, among them lines of a religious tone on "True Happiness". But the great interest of the book centres in the pages headed : "Rules of Civility and Decent Behaviour in Company and Conversation". The book had been gnawed at the bottom by Mount Vernon mice, before it reached the State Archives, and nine of the 110 Rules have thus suffered, the sense of several being lost...

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A few steps from the St. Charles Hotel, in New Orleans, brings you to and across Canal Street, the central avenue of the city, and to that corner where the flower-women sit at the inner and outer edges of the arcaded sidewalk, and make the air sweet with their fragrant merchandise. The crowd—and if it is near the time of the carnival it will be great—will follow Canal Street.

Legendary canoeing guide, conservationist in the 1800s, and one of the first proponents of the popular “ultralight” camping style, George Washington Sears (who used the pen name “Nessmuk”) was a true American mountain man. Using a 9 foot long, 10 ½ pound canoe, he successfully completed a 266 mile journey through the central Adirondacks. His classic treatise on American camping, Woodcraft, is definitive proof that he was the most capable and intelligent woodsman of his time.First published in 1900, and continuously in print ever since then, this is the ultimate book for hikers, campers, fishers, canoers, and anyone else who feels the call of the wild. With information on what to bring, how to build fires, how to fish with and without flies, and how to cook, this book remains relevant in our modern society. For anyone with even a passing interest in getting closer to nature, this is required reading. The forerunner of the ultralight camping movement and the precursor to all other books on camping and traveling through the wilderness, Woodcraft belongs on the bookshelf of every aspiring mountain person.Skyhorse Publishing is proud to publish a broad range of books for fishermen. Our books for anglers include titles that focus on fly fishing, bait fishing, fly-casting, spin casting, deep sea fishing, and surf fishing. Our books offer both practical advice on tackle, techniques, knots, and more, as well as lyrical prose on fishing for bass, trout, salmon, crappie, baitfish, catfish, and more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to publishing books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked by other publishers and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

THE CABLE STORY BOOK. Selections for School Reading, with the Story of the Author's Life. Edited by Mary E. Burt and Lucy Leffingwell Cable. This volume is from 1899. No illustrations are included in this Kindle version. The Cable Story Book has been prepared in response to a revival of interest in Mr. Cable's works among his early admirers, as well as to the newly awakened enthusiasm of a younger audience and the urgent demand from various sources for selections from his books for school-readers. Southern life and Southern history have never heretofore been well represented in school reading. The Adirondacks, the Catskills, and the Hudson have become enchanted regions to school students through the works of Washington Irving, John Burroughs, and Charles Dudley Warner. Hawthorne has created an American Wonderland in New England. Longfellow has brought Grand Pre and all Acadia into the schoolroom through Evangeline, and he has interpreted Indian life to us through Hiawatha; but the great balmy South, with its "endless colonnades of cypresses, — long motionless drapings of gray moss, — and constellations of water-lilies," has been a matter of dry geographical statistics, and not the land of song. To read Cable is to live in the South, to bask in its sunshine, eat of its figs and pomegranates, and dream its dreams. No other writer has so recorded its pulse-beats. This book comes to fill a great gap, to furnish the interpretation of a wide district of our country before unrepresented in our schools. For these reasons the stories are pre-eminently profitable school reading. Then, Cable's way of placing what is vital in character before the child's mind (I might better say the child's heart), at the same time that he bends down the boughs of the magnolia or orange-tree to regale him with its sweet odors, is transcendent. The child breathes in the very atmosphere of the South, but, what is of more significance, he breathes in the virtue and nobility of the writer. In no case have I ever edited a book for schools where I have felt more deeply the importance of the work. It has been a matter of the most enthusiastic pride with me. This book is one that I love. A country is sweet and beautiful and worthy of our patriotic devotion only as far as it is the home of noble souls. Those of our writers who have portrayed its natural beauty and illuminated what is heroic in its commonplaces, in a way to endear the very ground to our feet, deserve the first recognition in our schools. I have spoken only of the needs of the schools of our own country; but I have often observed in book-stores and at book-stalls in England and Scotland that of the few American writers who receive acknowledgment there, Mr. Cable's books always stand side by side with Hawthorne's, Longfellow's, Burroughs', and Howells'. As I travelled through those countries last summer, wherever I went I met constant mention and praise of Mr. Cable's stories as he had read them among all classes. Chapters: - The Children's New Orleans - The Story of Bras-Coupe - Jeanah Poquelin - New Orleans before the Capture - Gregory's Island - The Story of the Author's Life

Saturday, April, 1852. There was a fervor in the sky as of an August noon, although the clocks of the city would presently strike five. Dazzling white clouds, about to show the earliest flush of the sun’s decline, beamed down upon a turbid river harbor, where the water was deep so close inshore that the port’s unbroken mile of steamboat wharf nowhere stretched out into the boiling flood. Instead it merely lined the shore, the steamers packing in bow on with their noses to it, their sterns out in the stream, their fenders chafing each other’s lower guards. New Orleans was very proud of this scene. Very prompt were her citizens, such as had travelled, to remind you that in many seaports vast warehouses and roofed docks of enormous cost thronged out so greedily to meet incoming craft that the one boat which you might be seeking you would find quite hidden among walls and roofs, and of all the rest of the harbor’s general fleet you could see little or nothing. Not so on this great sun-swept, wind-swept, rain-swept, unswept steamboat levee. You might come up out of any street along that mile-wide front, and if there were a hundred river steamers in port a hundred you would behold with one sweep of the eye. Overhead was only the blue dome, in full view almost from rim to rim; and all about, amid a din of shouting, whip-cracking, scolding, and laughing, and a multitudinous flutter of many-colored foot-square flags, each marking its special lot of goods, were swarms of men—white, yellow, and black—trucking, tumbling, rolling, hand-barrowing, and "toting" on heads and shoulders a countless worth of freight in bags, barrels, casks, bales, boxes, and baskets. Hundreds of mules and drays came and went with this same wealth, and out beyond all, between wharf and open river, profiled on the eastern sky, letting themselves be unloaded and reloaded, stood the compacted, motionless, elephantine phalanx of the boats.

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"Woodcraft" is dedicated to the Grand Army of "outers", as a pocket volume of reference on - woodcraft. For brick and mortar breed filth and crime, With a pulse of evil that throbs and beats; And men are withered before their prime By the curse paved in with the lanes and streets. And lungs are poisoned and shoulders bowed, Is the smothering reek of mill and mine; And death stalks in on the struggling crowd - But he shuns the shadow of oak and pine. NESSMUK "Field" sized imprint of what most agree to be the definitive edition of "Woodcraft" - the twelfth edition, published by Forest and Stream in 1900, a decade after Nessmuk passed away at the ripe old age of 69 years. Unlike other reissued editions of this historic book, this one is is presented in convenient 5x8 size for easy inclusion into the pocket or daypack. Using the original illustrations and layout, this precisely reprinted edition of Woodcraft is a worthy addition to the bookshelf of any serious hiker, backpacker, outdoor guide or bushcraft practitioner - the "outers" of the 21st century.