Jim Locke
163 books
History
439
William Bennett Munro - Chronicles of America Volume 04 - Crusaders of New France
The previous volumes in the Chronicles of America series placed Spain and England at the fore in the discovery and development of the New World. This book focuses on the role that France played in America's journey to...
5 hours 10 minutes
History
444
William Wood - Chronicles of America Volume 03 - Elizabethan Sea-Dogs
Citizen, colonist, pioneer! These three words carry the history of the United States back to its earliest form in 'the New World called America.' But who prepared the way for the pioneers from the Old World and what...
5 hours 9 minutes
History
478
Maud Wilder Goodwin - Chronicles of America Volume 07 - Dutch and English on the Hudson
Geography is the maker of history. The course of Dutch settlement in America was predetermined by a river which runs its length of a hundred and fifty miles from the mountains to the sea through the heart of a fertile...
5 hours 5 minutes
*Non-fiction
651
Sydney Fisher - Chronicles of America Volume 08 - The Quaker Colonies
The Quaker Colonies describes the Quaker emigration to the colonies in the sixteen and seventeen hundreds and at the same time its involvement in the evolution of Pennsylvania, Delaware and New Jersey. Throughout, the...
4 hours 59 minutes
History
508
Charles Morris - Chronicles of America Volume 06 - The Fathers of New England
This sixth installment in the series, as one would expect, deals with events in the northern settlements that were taking place at the same times as those in the southern. The opening passage explains: «The Pilgrims...
4 hours 22 minutes
