3 edition of Odyssey: journey through Black America found in the catalog.
Odyssey: journey through Black America
Earl Selby
Published
1971
by Putnam in New York
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Written in English
Edition Notes
| Statement | by Earl and Miriam Selby. |
| Genre | Biography. |
| Contributions | Selby, Miriam, joint author. |
| Classifications | |
|---|---|
| LC Classifications | E185.615 .S38 1971 |
| The Physical Object | |
| Pagination | 381 p. |
| Number of Pages | 381 |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL4467512M |
| LC Control Number | 79151216 |
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Homer's Odyssey is often referred to as the first travel narrative, creating the archetypal story of a lone wanderer, Odysseus, on a voyage filled with mythic perils, from terrifying monsters like. This globe-straddling journey is the follow-up to ’s well received Around India In 80 Trains, and sees her undertake a 45,mile (72,km) journey through Europe, Asia and North America.
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GET WEEKLY BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS: Email Address Subscribe. Tweet. KIRKUS REVIEW. The Selbys, husband and wife journalists, trave miles and interviewed black men and women, prominent and obscure, militant and moderate, young and old, rich and poor, with the aim of gathering ""living. Odyssey: Journey Through Black America (Peter Bensinger's copy, w/his signature & letter laid in) Bensinger, Peter) Selby, Earl & Miriam Published by NY: G.
Putnam, (). Journey through Central America: Panama, Costa Rica, Honduras, and Guatemala May 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. The trip continues km to the south over a paved road until you reach San Agustín. This scenic journey provides beautiful views of the extensive floodplains of the Magdalena River valley from metres above sea level all the way up to 1, m.a.s.l.
After a journey of approximately 6 hours, arrive in San Agustin and check in to the hotel. Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide, a new book about Frederick Law Olmsted by journalist Tony Horwitz, is difficult to classify.
It is a biography of Frederick Law Olmsted and a history of his America. It is also reportage from rural America and a thoughtful reflection on our times.
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Blue Highways Revisited: Written and photographed by Edgar I. Ailor III, and Edgar I. Ailor IV, Blue Highways Revisited is a year follow-up to Heat-Moon's original book.
The Ailors re-travel the routes of Heat-Moon and seek out the. On Aug. 22, the Voice of America and Norfolk State University hosted an international town hall to discuss the th anniversary of the first Africans' landing in North America. Originally. America, too, has blood on its hands, and “black odyssey boston’’ doesn’t let us forget it.
The play evokes such touchstone events and figures as the Middle Passage, the Underground. America's journey through slavery is presented in four parts. For each era, you'll find a historical Narrative, a Resource Bank of images, documents, stories, biographies, and commentaries, and a.
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It's only when we've fully taken this onboard, that we can say with any conviction that the journey our ancestors launched all those years ago, is complete." (Spencer Wells, ). The transport of black Africans to the Americas by slave ship became known as the Middle Passage because it was the middle leg of the Triangular Trade route used by the European merchants.
The African slaves were viewed as cargo by the merchants and were packed into the ships with no regard to their basic human rights.
The text is timely, as people are increasingly looking to learn about race and the Black experience in the United States through books, amid calls for .Spying on the South is also a penetrating and poignant study of Olmsted, whose destiny was forged by his Southern odyssey. Horwitz’s wise, intrepid, and often hilarious journey, through an outsized American landscape, is a masterpiece in the tradition of Great Plains, Bad Land, and the author’s own classic, Confederates in the Attic.February 5–May 5, The exhibition The African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship, showcases the incomparable African American collections of the Library of ying more than items, including books, government documents, manuscripts, maps, musical scores, plays, films, and recordings, this is the largest black history exhibit ever held at the Library, and the.
