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An intimate portrait of Patrick O’Brian, written by his stepson Nikolai Tolstoy.
The earliest known ancestor of the Pride/Pryde family was George Pryde of East Lothian, Scotland. He was born in 1779 and married Elizabeth Pettierue. They became the parents of five children, one of whom was John Marshall Pryde (b.1811). He immigrated to America with his father in 1828 and they settled first in the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia. In 1834 he married Mary Ann Knowles and they eventually moved to Morristown, Tennessee. John and Mary Ann were the parents of fourteen children. Descendants live throughout the United States.
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Rich in archival detail and offering a ground-breaking analysis, this book presents a radically new interpretation of British politics and policy failings during the Great Famine. The Irish famine of the 1840s is the biggest humanitarian crisis in the United Kingdom's history. Within six years of the arrival of the potato blight in Ireland in 1845, more than a quarter of its residents had unexpectedly died or emigrated. Its population has not yet fully recovered since. Historians have struggled to explain why the British government decided to shut down its centrally organised relief efforts in 1847, long before the famine ended. Some have blamed the laissez-faire attitudes of the time for an...
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"Examines the efforts of Independence, Missouri, to preserve and balance competing elements of the city's history: as the hometown of President Harry S. Truman; as the site where Joseph Smith established the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints; and as the historic gathering place for western emigration"--Provided by publisher.
The first novel Patrick O’Brian ever wrote about the sea – and the precursor to the famous Aubrey-Maturin series.