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Eyewitness to History
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by John Carey
Sales Rank: 284852
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List Price: $16.95
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Features
Cover Type: Paperback with 752 pages
Published by: Harper Paperbacks August 1, 1997
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0380729687
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0380729685
Book Dimensions:
9 x 5.8 x 1.5 inches
Weighs: 1.8 pounds
From Publishers Weekly
"This unusual 752-page anthology of eyewitness accounts invites readers to dine with Attila the Hun, gaze on daffodils with Dorothy Wordsworth, attend Gauguin's impromptu wedding to a Tonga girl and roam Africa with Stanley as he searches for Livingston," noted PW , calling it "endlessly fascinating."
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Library Journal
This fascinating collection includes nearly 400 firsthand accounts of events great and small, from the plague in Athens (330 B.C) to the fall of Marcos (1986). Editor Carey's standard for inclusion has been the quality of reporting, not the importance of the event. While most of the pieces record historic eventse.g., "The Death of Socrates, 399 B.C.," "Napoleon Enters Moscow, 14 September 1812," "The First Men on the Moon, 21 July 1969"others are simply charming"Green Children, 1150," "Kitten Overboard, 11 July 1754." A great browsing collectionthough perhaps not for bedtime since many of the accounts deal with war, execution, and diseaseand also useful for teaching history or journalism. Nancy C. Cridland, Indiana Univ. Libs., Bloomington
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Reader Reviews
Friends of mine who are serious students of history have always told me that it is important to read "primary sources" instead of just the analysis of historians. But as a non-historian, I don't usually have access to eyewitness accounts of historical events. This book gave me that chance. I felt more like a voyeur than a scholar, but basically my friends were right. History seems alive when told by those who were alive to see it.
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