Notes Taken in Sixty Years (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Richard Smith Elliott

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1331456185 ISBN 13 : 9781331456186

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

A vivid memoir of America's rivers, engineers, and the workers who opened a nation’s waterways. This book collects sixty years of notes and reminiscences about the people, places, and projects that shaped the Mississippi and its great jetty system. Read it to glimpse frontier life, technical daring, and the everyday stories behind a defining era of American engineering.

The pages weave personal travel, river commerce, and the quiet courage of those who kept critical works moving through floods, disease, and long days on the water. You’ll encounter real names, rough-and-tumble river towns, and the practical decisions that turned a wild river into a reliable highway for a growing nation.

• Firsthand accounts of river engineering and the creation of the jetties at South Pass.


• portraits of engineers, clerks, captains, and laborers who kept the works advancing.


• vivid scenes from life along the Missouri River and the expanding western frontier.


• reflections on progress, public works, and the value of persistent, unseen labor.

Ideal for readers of American history, frontier memoirs, and historical engineering narratives.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

From John Buntan s Apology for his Book, taken from an edition of Pilgrim sPKOGRES s,y printed in 1775. As John died in 1688, these lines are probably 200 years old, and we must( give them a (hane(! to survive till A.D. 2084. More than twenty things, which I set down; This done, I twenty more had in my Crown; And they again began to multiply Like Sparks that from the Coals of Fire do fly. Nay, then, thought I, if that you breed so fast, Ill put you by yourselves, lest you at last Should prove ad infinitum. Yet I did not think To show to all the World my Pen and Ink In such a Mode; I only thought to make I knew liot what: Nor did I undertake To please my neighbour; no, not I; I did it mj own self to gi-atify. Thus I set Pen to Paper with Delight, And quickly had my Thoughts in Black and White. For having now my Method by the End, Still as I pull d, it came; and so I pcnn d Itdown; until it came at last to be For Length and Breadth the Bigness which you see. Well, when I had thus put my Ends togethtn Ishowed them others, that I might see whether They would condemn them, or them jiistif y: And some said, let them live; some, let them die; Some said, John, print it; others said, Not so; Some said it might do Good; others said No. Now I was in a Streight, and did not see Which was the best Thing to be done by me; At last I thought, since ye are thus divided, I print it will, and so the Case decided. For, thought I, some I see would have it done. Though others in that Channel do not run :T oprove, then, who advised for the best, Thus I thought fit to put it to the Test.
(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.

Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerat

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1331456185
• ISBN 13: 9781331456186
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 344
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Copytech (UK) Ltd, Trading as Printondemand-worldwide.com; gpsr@podww.com; ; 9 Culley Court; Orton Southgate; Peterborough; Cambridgeshire; PE2 6WA; Royaume-Uni
• Personne responsable: Easy Access System Europe Oü, 16879218; +358405003575; gpsr.requests@easproject.com; ; Mustamäe tee 50; Tallinn; 10621; Estonie