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Jacob de Zoet, having arrived in Nagasaki Harbor's Dejima in 1799, has intentions to make a fortune in five years and return home to Holland to win the hand of his finacée, but he meets the disfigured daughter of a samurai doctor and finds his plans changing and his life in danger.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
970L
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English
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Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. This elegant edition features an afterword by Dr. Keith Carabine, specialist in American literature and former chair of the Joseph Conrad society. One night on the Thames, Charles Marlowe tells his fellow sailors the vivid and brutal tale of his time...
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In "Heart of Darkness, Captain Marlowe must wend his way up the African Congo to recover the missing Colonel Kurtz in one of the greatest steamship adventures ever told. As Marlowe's ship Nellie scrapes along the Congo, the voyage into the human soul, like the morass of steaming foliage along the banks, becomes increasingly dark and perilous. In addition to the Marlowe tales "Heart of Darkness and "Youth, this new volume includes Conrad's classic...
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Publisher
University of Arizona Press
Pub. Date
[1986]
Language
English
Description
Gladwell Richardson was born on Sept. 4, 1903 in Alvarado, Texas. He divided his childhood between Oklahoma and Arizona. Gladwell was self-taught and attended two institutions of higher education. He worked on the Houck Trading Post from 1918-1920 when he joined the Marines in San Francisco and soon released because of this age. A few months later he joined the Navy with his parents consent where he served in the states and the South Pacific. After...
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Popular volume no. 15
Publisher
Southwest Parks and Monuments Association
Pub. Date
[1976]
Language
English
Description
Looks at the history of Navajo rugs, describes how the rugs are made, and discusses the influence of trading posts.
14) Thirteen moons
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Description
At the age of twelve, under the Wind moon, Will is given a horse, a key, and a map, and sent alone into the Indian Nation to run a trading post as a bound boy. It is during this time that he grows into a man, learning, as he does, of the raw power it takes to create a life, to find a home. In a card game with a white Indian named Featherstone, Will wins a mysterious girl named Claire. As Will's destiny intertwines with the fate of the Cherokee Indians,...
16) Fort Dance
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Series
Rocky Mountain Company volume 2
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English