Charles Fletcher Lummis began his spectacular career in 1884 by walking from Ohio to start a new job at the three-year old Los Angeles Times. By the time of his death in 1928, the 3,500 mile "tramp across the continent" was just a footnote in his astonishingly varied career: crusading journalist, author of nearly two dozen books, editor of the influential political and literary magazine Out West, Los Angeles city librarian, preserver of Spanish missions, and Indian rights gadfly. Lummis both embodied and defined our vision of the West, and of America itself.
Could any amount of tyrany on the part of the ship's captain justify mutiny? Here is a tale as strange as any ever told: a story of love and hate, of sacrifice, of selfishness, of trust and jealousy. It is the human document of twenty-seven lives whom fate and Fletcher Christian set down in mid-Pacific on a little strip of land known as ... Pitcairn's Island.
Universally topical stories told through lively illustrations Suitable for teenage/adult learners Each story reflects the news topics, and is accompanied by activity based language follow up. ‘Interviews’ with people in the story add an extra dimension. A model version at two levels — (Elementary and Good Intermediate) allows the material to be used with a wide range of classes. Excellent for communicative practice, vocabulary building, listening and writing.
Secret Team - The CIA and Its Allies in Control of the United States and the World
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Secret Team - The CIA and Its Allies in Control of the United States and the World
"L. Fletcher Prouty is a man whose name will go down in history."—Oliver Stone The Secret Team, L. Fletcher Prouty's CIA exposé, was first published in the 1970s, but virtually all copies of the book disappeared upon distribution, purchased en masse by shady "private buyers." Certainly Prouty's amazing allegations—that the U-2 Crisis of 1960 was fixed to sabotage Eisenhower-Khrushchev talks,
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