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Edgers, Don

 
9781434314178: An Island In Time II: Coming of age in the 1950's
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ISBN 10 : 1434314170 ISBN 13 : 9781434314178
Editeur : AuthorHouse, 2007

Synopsis

During the 1950s the world got its first glimpse of many amazing events, discoveries and people that have shaped the 21st Century and that are, for the most part, still with us, like: Disneyland, McDonalds, sugar cereals, filtered cigarettes, Rock 'n' Roll, shopping malls and credit cards! We were introduced to color TV, interstate highways, copy machines, computers and the Corvette. Man also conquered polio, Mt. Everest and running the four-minute mile. More important firsts were microchips, the hydrogen bomb, nuclear power, civil rights, jet planes, organ transplants, DNA, space exploration and two new states!This decade in the United States was like the advent of adolescence. We, in a sense, came of age in a Renaissance-like fashion as we experienced a metamorphosis in character, condition and appearance.Here is a recollection of what it was like for a boy to come of age on a small island in Puget Sound where life was insulated from the frenetic progress around it. Adolescents still fished with hand-lines from oar-powered row boats, went camping in unexplored places, learned to drive old cars on dirt roads and experienced the demise of the Island's ferry. The building of a bridge caused the Island to lose its privacy, charm and uniqueness. The little island and its inhabitants finally joined the 20th Century, only at a slightly slower speed than the outside world. But, as Mahatma Gandhi said, "There's more to life than increasing its speed."

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Présentation de l'éditeur

During the 1950s the world got its first glimpse of many amazing events, discoveries and people that have shaped the 21st Century and that are, for the most part, still with us, like: Disneyland, McDonalds, sugar cereals, filtered cigarettes, Rock 'n' Roll, shopping malls and credit cards! We were introduced to color TV, interstate highways, copy machines, computers and the Corvette. Man also conquered polio, Mt. Everest and running the four-minute mile. More important firsts were microchips, the hydrogen bomb, nuclear power, civil rights, jet planes, organ transplants, DNA, space exploration and two new states!This decade in the United States was like the advent of adolescence. We, in a sense, came of age in a Renaissance-like fashion as we experienced a metamorphosis in character, condition and appearance.Here is a recollection of what it was like for a boy to come of age on a small island in Puget Sound where life was insulated from the frenetic progress around it. Adolescents still fished with hand-lines from oar-powered row boats, went camping in unexplored places, learned to drive old cars on dirt roads and experienced the demise of the Island's ferry. The building of a bridge caused the Island to lose its privacy, charm and uniqueness. The little island and its inhabitants finally joined the 20th Century, only at a slightly slower speed than the outside world. But, as Mahatma Gandhi said, "There's more to life than increasing its speed."

Biographie de l'auteur

Don Edgers grew up and came of age in the 1940s and 1950s in Washington state's Puget Sound in Seattle and Fox Island. He graduated from Northwestern Military & Naval Academy, the University of Puget Sound and the University of Washington. Three years in the US Army was followed by 30 years of teaching high school.

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Éditeur
AuthorHouse
Date d'édition
2007
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1434314170
ISBN 13 
9781434314178
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
156
Coordonnées du fabricant
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