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When the Yellow Mocker Calls: Two Feather's Legacy, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 801min
In the South Carolina Hills, along the Savannah River Watershed, in the fall of 1829, 14-year-old, three-quarter Cherokee Sahani, whose Christian name is Charity, sets out on a journey with her 83-year-old maternal white grandfather to Fort Charlotte for what she thinks is a trip to trade the pelts he has accumulated in order to replenish their supplies. However, Charity soon discovers that her grandfather's objective in making this trip is to get her married off and settled somewhere. Since her beloved grandmother's passing several months earlier, her grandfather has worried about what would become of Charity should he, too, pass away. And, given his advanced age, he somehow senses that time is near; he does not want to die and leave young Charity alone and desolate. He and his wife reared Charity after her mother and father both died in a yellow fever epidemic when she was three years old. As they travel to Fort Charlotte, her grandfather tells her that before going to Fort Charlotte they will be making an overnight stop at his friend's house. And, that a year or so earlier, he and his long-time friend, Eli Gulledge, talked about what would happen to Charity should both he and his wife pass away and have arranged for Charity and Eli's son Henry to meet before that time comes to see if they will take a liking to one another. When Charity, who has never met Eli or his family, hears that, she threatens to act rude in order to make them not like her so that she can go back home with him, but her grandfather tells her that she cannot go back home with him and assures her that if young Henry doesn't take a liking to her, he is sure that some young buck down in Fort Charlotte will be looking for a wife. Faced with the stark realization that her life is changing and she has no control of that change, many thoughts run through young Charity's mind - she even contemplates running away, but doesn't want to leave her grandfather alone. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Christa Lewis. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/009181/bk_tant_009181_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Hudson's Bay Company: The History and Legacy of the Famous English Trading Company in Colonial America , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 68min
When Queen Elizabeth arrived in Lower Fort Garry, Manitoba in 1970, she was, like many foreign leaders, greeted with a reception and offered tokens by her hosts. What was different about this occasion, however, were the gifts offered: live elk and beaver. In the long-standing tradition of the Hudson's Bay Company, should the King or Queen arrive in the lands governed by the charter King Charles II granted in 1660, he or she would be presented with two elk and two beavers by Company officials. Only Queen Elizabeth and her father had the opportunity to take advantage of this part of the charter's clauses, but the royal houses of Britain had benefitted from the rule of the Hudson's Bay Company for hundreds of years beforehand. Britain had grown rich on the profits brought into the country from across the seas in North America. Ironically, however, the 300-year relationship between the British Crown and the Hudson's Bay Company may never have developed without the mistakes of the rival French government in relation to their own adventurers. After the Englishman Henry Hudson, under the aegis of the Dutch East India Company, sailed by Manhattan in 1609, he returned home with good news and bad news. Like the other explorers before him, he hadn't been able to find a water route to the Orient. He had, however, returned with maps (confiscated by the English) and beaver pelts. With that, it became clear that the region around the bay that would take Hudson's name was a very promising new territory for trade and settlement, which would become a serious bone of contention between the Dutch and the English for the rest of the century. In 1614, another Dutch East India merchant, Adriaen Block, entered through the narrows of the East River between Queens and Randall's Island, a difficult and dangerous passage that later sank numerous ships and that Block named Hell's Gate (Hellegat). The European world would know the name "Manhates" when Block returned to ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Scott Clem. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/080618/bk_acx0_080618_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Steel Traps : Describes the Various Makes and Tells How to Use Them Also Chapters on Care of Pelts Etc.
Steel Traps : Describes the Various Makes and Tells How to Use Them Also Chapters on Care of Pelts Etc.: ab 1.93 €- Shop: ebook.de
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Uncle Sam Can't Count
Uncle Sam Can't Count - A History of Failed Government Investments from Beaver Pelts to Green Energy: ab 13.99 €- Shop: ebook.de
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Face Forward,Jeremy
Jeremy Pelt: Face Forward Jazz-Kritikerlegende Nat Hentoff schrieb über den Mann: "Der Rhythmus von Jeremy Pelts Herz ist die Zukunft des Jazz". Große Worte, fürwahr, aber Jeremy beweist auf "Face Forward", dass nichts daran übertrieben ist! Der Trompeter schwebt auf einem dichten Klangteppich, der in ganz eigene Welten zu reisen scheint. Magisch. Jeremy Pelt (trumpet), Roxy Coss (sax), David Bryant (keyboards), Frank LoCrasto (Fender Rhodes), Chris Smith (bass), Dana Hawkins (drums), Fabiana- Shop: odax
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