John Robert Shaw

Name: John Robert Shaw
Brand: Ohio University Press
SKU: 9780821410189
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An Autobiography of Thirty Years, 1777-1807

Автор: John Robert Shaw

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Издател: Ohio University Press

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In the summer of 1807 more than a thousand subscribers from New England to Tennessee paid for the in...

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Автор

John Robert Shaw

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С твърди корици

Издадена

1992

страници

204

EAN

9780821410189

ISBN

0821410180

Enbook ID

04935086

Издател

Ohio University Press

Теглоt

458

Размери

149 x 230 x 21

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In the summer of 1807 more than a thousand subscribers from New England to Tennessee paid for the initial printing of The Life and Travels of John Robert Shaw: A Narrative of the Life and Travels of the Well-Digger, now resident of Lexington, Kentucky, Written by Himself. Shaw had come to Rhode Island as a British redcoat to put down the colonial rebellion. Through various quirks of fate, including being taken a prisoner of war, he ended up fighting with the Americans. Shaw was an exuberant spirit whose rowdy drinking bouts and related predicaments alternated with periods of wholehearted efforts at reform. His autobiography, written while he recuperated from injuries from one of several explosions (an occupational hazard for the frontier well-digger), is an articulate and entertaining record of the Revolutionary War era. A 1930 printing of Shaw's autobiography was rescued from the trash by an alert librarian in Kentucky in 1950. She passed the tattered copy on to journalist Oressa M. Teagarden, who became intrigued with Shaw's story and spent much of her free time over the next two decades, finding out more about the ebullient early American. On Teagarden's death, co-editor Jeanne Crabtree assumed the task of making Shaw's authentic and colorful view of early America available to a new generation of readers.

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